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Surf safety is important everywhere

12/11/2024 by The Coonamble Times

PHOTO : Children from last year’s Surf to Bach training learn the important acronyms for FLAG to keep themselves in the water. Photo: supplied.

Surf Life Saving (SLS) NSW is helping keep regional and rural kids afloat with their Beach to Bush educational program. 

In the coming weeks, Warren Sterling from the Merriweather Surf Club along with his teammate Louise Lambeth from the Newcastle Surf Club will be traveling through Central West NSW to teach children about the role of lifeguards and the unique dangers of inland waterways as part of the Ingenia Holiday Park Beach to Bush session.

On 4 November, they reached the Nyngan Primary School before traveling to Coonamble, Tooraweenah, and Mendooran in the coming days…

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