Illawarra Hawks coach Rob Beveridge has plenty to be happy about at the moment.
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His Illawarra Hawks are on the rise and currently sit second on the National Basketball League ladder.
The Hawks take on the Perth Wildcats in a New year’s eve blockbuster at the WIN Entertainment Centre on Saturday night.
There will no doubt be fireworks on the court before everyone adjourns to watch the foreshore fireworks to welcome in 2017.
Yet there is an even greater and more important reason for the coach to be happy.
After a long stint apart he now has his family together in the Illawarra, finally.
Rob’s wife Suellen and children Jaydon, Annie and Noah made the move to Wollongong from Perth last week.
The family got together for some lovely images taken by Illawarra Mercury photographer Sylvia Liber at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens on Wednesday.
They are now residents of the Illawarra and after a long stint of living apart, the family is one again.
Beveridge said in his Bevo’s Playbook column that living away from his family for so long had “unquestionably been the most difficult period of my coaching career”.
Coach Beveridge is also one of the contenders for the 2016 Illawarra Mercury sportsperson of the year.
The winner of the competition is announced on Saturday morning in our printed edition and online at www.illawarramercury.com.au.
There is a people’s choice competition on our website which finishes on Thursday and will also be announced on Saturday.
JUST COMPLETE STUPIDITY
If you speed on the road at the moment you not only risk your life, you risk your license.
Double demerit points have been in place since December 23 and run all the way through to Monday, January 2. Seemingly some people don’t care.
Every day police email through a list of some of the worst offences recorded each day as part of Operation Safe Arrival.
On Wednesday it included an act in our region of complete stupidity. A man was fined for driving across the Sea Cliff Bridge while a 12-year-old boy stood through the sunroof and filmed on his mobile phone.
You sir, are a complete idiot. At the time of writing this 377 people have been killed on New South Wales roads this summer. It’s far, far too many.
