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Vol 28 No 7
Celebrating 27 years
HOSPITAL
EQUIPMENT
Old Mona Vale beds
serve a new future
DALEY DREAD
Stokes slams
Labor leader’s
attack on Beaches
PLUS
Council’s Ranger
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COVER: Read about the plan to have the Palm Beach
isthmus designated one of the world’s first Urban Night
Sky Parks (p8); Mona Vale Road widening works have
commenced – how will they affect you? (p10); want to make
a difference and work locally? – Council is recruiting seven
new Rangers to its team (p12); learn about Council’s new 20-
year vision for the Beaches and how it will affect Pittwater’s
planning codes (p20); learn what’s happening on the new
season sporting front (p36); and read how no-longer-in-use
Mona Vale Hospital beds are being repurposed (p44).
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also this month
Editorial 3
Pittwater Local News 6-27
Life Stories: ‘Ecopreneur’ Marnie Ogg 28-30
Art Life 32-34
Sporting Life 36-37
Surfing Life 38-39
Special Promotion: Get Along To Ettalong 40-42
Health & Wellbeing; Hair & Beauty 44-51
Money 52-53
Law: The Skill Behind Aldi’s Business Model 54-55
Showtime; Clubs & Pubs; Tasty Morsels 59-62
Food 64-66
Pittwater Puzzler Crossword 67
Gardening 68-70
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law and our essential maps.
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