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Flying high: Region remembers a friend

Lillian Altman

THE region is mourning a beloved Lake Boga icon, Catalina loving larrikin, pilot and storyteller. Richard James ‘Dick’ Peel has died, aged 87, after battling a short illness. Dick was born on November 4, 1932, to parents Thomas Richard Alfred Peel and Winifred Trinham. He grew up on a vineyard in Tresco, attending Tresco Primary […]

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