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Jenny Davison2024-01-23T11:24:36+10:30Obituary: Pasqualina (Pat) Campagna, Died 10th May 1990 Coober Pedy Times 6-6-1990 page 7 Mentions: Husband Tom, children Ricky and Laura, sister Joyce, Pastor Deane Clee
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Jenny Davison2023-12-15T21:07:06+10:30GI 70045 Geoff Byrnes' recollections of the summer of 1959-1960. Mentions Donald, Beverly and Michael Byrnes, the Kempe family at Macumba and Dick Nunn at Anna Creek
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Jenny Davison2023-11-23T20:10:47+10:30Article "We'd really love to see you in Coober, cobber", by Valerina Changarathil from The Advertiser May 16 2015. Written in the year of Coober Pedy's centenary, the Mayor, Steve Staines tells of the opportunities and challenges of the town
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Edi Brandli2023-10-31T20:04:26+10:30GI-13008 Article "Coober Pedy 5723" from the Weekend Australia Magazine 16/17 May 2015 Mentions Dave Sawyer (Swampy)
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Jenny Davison2023-08-31T14:17:48+09:30Article "Opal Capital of Australian Outback" by Kenny Moore, photographs by Penny Tweedie - National Geographic October 1976 Mentions Danny Serdar, Josef Boucek (alias Machine gun Joe), Alice Burke, James Hutchison, Faye Nayler, Trevor and Kate Weatherill, David Genat, Tony Starke, Fred Horie, Tom Kruse, Craig Cameron, Owen Daw, Farid Khan, Jim Ledgard, Harold Binke. GI 80030
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Sue Britt2023-07-17T14:01:00+09:3030 Years after Student Bus Crash near Coober Pedy, Survivors Plan Documentary, Coober Pedy Regional Times, 23/6/23 45 students and 4 teachers from Mount Lilydale Mercy College were on board. Local responders included Andy Sheils (pictured), Janet Brewer, Veronika Witham, Nora McDonald, Lloyd Hetzel, and Grant Drummond.
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Jenny Davison2023-02-11T21:44:46+10:30Article "Jack Norton revisits" CPT June 1987 by Peter Caust Re. visit to Coober Pedy by George Robert "Jack" Norton after almost 70 years. Jack stayed with Len & Judy Absalom. Jack recalled how he and Archie Burnett drove the first vehicle a Ford, from William Creek to Coober Pedy in 1918 starting a freight and passenger service. The miners called it "Wilful Murder" Also mentioned: Doug McDouall, Sam Ervine and Tom Brady
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Jenny Davison2022-11-18T10:50:21+10:30Article from a magazine re Australian "Coat of Arms" made on a hillside by Steve Matusiak
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Jenny Davison2022-11-14T15:11:23+10:30Coober Pedy Opal Miners "Hall of Fame" Honour Board Listing Inductees from 2004 - 2007
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Jenny Davison2022-11-13T12:04:02+10:30Country Connection article "Destinations - A great year for fossickers" by Doreen Chamberlain - July-September 1989 (Inflight with Kendall Airlines magazine) Includes advertisements mentioning "Toms's Tours", The Big Winch hosted by Gabriele & Claus, "Star Opal" with Robert & Helen McCormack, Umoona Opal Mine & Museum and Opal Motel GI 90023