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THE Frankston Dolphins Football Club has a new president.
Board member David Friend has been appointed to the role. He takes over from club-champion Peter Geddes, who finished up in December.
Mr Geddes oversaw the club during a period of renewed optimism for the Dolphins. He was part of the team that worked to reinstate the club to the VFL after it was booted out of the competition in 2016, and took over as president in 2017.
In 2020 the club announced that it was able to pay off its debt after going into voluntary administration in August 2016 owing about $1.5 million.
FORMER journalist Peter Geddes came to Bellingen with his family in the early 70s. He was part of the town s hippie history - when the Age of Aquarius children came to the region, buying up defunct dairy farms and sending shockwaves through sleepy country towns with their alternative lifestyles. Peter established The Good Food Shop across the road from the pub where you could buy things like brown rice and yoghurt which would have been considered alternative in those days. Peter Geddes and his family came to came to Bellingen in 1972 He began documenting those times as the new generation bought old farms, built homes, planted gardens, held markets and festivals and lived what many believed was a dream lifestyle.