Pittwater Life May 2022 Issue
MEET MACKELLAR CANDIDATES NEW PLAN WILL DOUBLE EFFORTS TO CLEAR NARRABEEN LAGOON MONA VALE AMENITY THREAT / ‘FANCY FRY’ RECIPES TO TRY THE WAY WE WERE / SHIRLEY PHELPS / SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD...
MEET MACKELLAR CANDIDATES
NEW PLAN WILL DOUBLE EFFORTS TO CLEAR NARRABEEN LAGOON
MONA VALE AMENITY THREAT / ‘FANCY FRY’ RECIPES TO TRY
THE WAY WE WERE / SHIRLEY PHELPS / SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD...
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Vale Tom Kirsop<br />
<strong>Pittwater</strong> is mourning the passing of environmentalist, coastal<br />
conservation campaigner and Surfrider Foundation Australia<br />
founder Tom Kirsop on Easter Sunday, aged 92.<br />
Tom took up surfing in his<br />
late 40s and surfed well into his<br />
80s – he was a past President of<br />
the North Narrabeen Boardriders<br />
Club, assuming the role at age 65.<br />
Tom established the Surfrider<br />
Foundation in Australia,<br />
following a chance meeting<br />
with folk associated with its US<br />
operation while surfing in Fiji in<br />
1991. He set up three branches<br />
in Sydney – Southern Beaches,<br />
Eastern Beaches and Northern<br />
Beaches, serving as Chair of the<br />
latter.<br />
In the 1990s he campaigned<br />
against the Narrabeen/Collaroy<br />
seawall and collaborated on the<br />
2002 ‘Line In The Sand’ protest<br />
that saw the former Warringah<br />
Council abandon the proposal.<br />
Surfrider Gardens on Narrabeen’s Ocean Street was dedicated<br />
to Tom and his wife Margaret on December 17, 2019 – on Tom’s<br />
90th birthday.<br />
*Tom Kirsop’s inspirational <strong>Life</strong> Story appeared in our February<br />
2020 magazine – read more at pittwaterlife.com.au/digital<br />
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