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From work experience to editor

18/05/2025 by The Coonamble Times

Photo: Wally Hume, Janelle Whitehead, Kathy Izatt, John Lough, Lisa Nicol, John Hardy and Sue Parsons were on staff at the Coonamble Times in 1985.

It was a fallback option for a work experience placement that brought Janelle Whitehead to the Coonamble Times in what would become a 20-year phase of her career.

"I came as in 1976 as a Year 10 work experience student from Coonamble High School," she said.

"I wanted to go to the vets, that was my dream job, but our Careers Teacher Genise . . .


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