By DAMON CRONSHAW, Lake Macquarie Reporter TINGIRA Heights resident David Ashard has invented an electronic lifejacket that he says will save lives. The lifejacket inflates automatically when a person sinks. His plan has the support of Toronto’s Cathy Simon, whose daughter Courtney drowned in Lake Macquarie in a boating incident two years ago. Mr Ashard designed the lifejacket after watching a television report about a young couple who lost their child in a pool accident. ‘‘I decided that day, about three […]
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