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FEB 2018 MagazineFree FAMILY • LIFE • STYLE THE PARTY EDITION // BACK TO SCHOOL TIPS // COLUMNISTS // WHAT'S ON // WIN! BRISBANE / GOLD COAST / BYRON BAY Team haven PUBLISHER/OWNER: Keeley O'Connor [email protected] EDITOR: Belinda Glindemann [email protected] Dentists, for life ART DIRECTOR: Emma Mardaine From the publisher... At Maven Dental Group we understand that [email protected] Another summer holiday is behind us, and sometimes life just happens. DIGITAL/ADMIN: hello 2018! Ironically our first issue this year Bec Watts features back to school and party vibes (not So when the need arises for a little maintenance [email protected] to be inferred that us parents had a big party ADVERTISING SALES: or repair, or you’d just like to treat yourself, we’ll once we dropped the kids off at school on their [email protected] first day back #wewish). 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