THE BYRON SHIRE Volume 25 #07 Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Mullumbimby 02 6684 1777 Byron Bay 02 6685 5222 Fax 02 6684 1719 editor@echo.net.au adcopy@echo.net.au www.echo.net.au 21,000 copies every week
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Rusted-on type gets the Wilde touch BYS to go mobile Victoria Cosford
Byron Youth Service has every reason for jubilation. Thanks to the securing of a 2010 Proceeds of Crime Act Community Grant, it will be able to fund a mobile youth outreach service for the Shire. Byron Bay is an all-year-round high-traffic tourist town hosting festivals and school-leavers’ celebrations, backpackers and holiday-makers and with its reputation as a party town attracts high-level use of both drugs and alcohol. In turn the region has extremely high levels of crime-related issues which both affect the local community’s sense of safety and jeopardise the small businesses and local economy which chiefly rely on a positive tourism image.
Turning the tide
that survived the original outbreak. The disease was transmitted by human hands, touching a surface contaminated with virus two months earlier.’ Dr Allworth says he cannot stress enough the importance of vaccination in preventing the spread of the disease and he says that dog owners need to be prepared for the possibility
‘Turning the Tide on Local Youth Crime’ is the name of the BYS project the aim of which is to provide an early intervention service for young people on Friday and Saturday nights and at peak times during events like festivals and Schoolies. Given the regional and localised nature of youth crimes around the Shire a mobile service in the form of a vehicle manned by volunteers is the preferred model of delivery – and this will now be possible due to the $127,400 grant. The project has the full support of BUDDI – the Byron Underage Drinking and Drug Initiative – whose volunteers will build on the impressive job they did at the Schoolies Safety Hub last year. It will also include a peer education component whereby BYS and BUDDI intend to work with a small number of young people who have been through the juvenile justice or criminal system, supporting and training them to talk to other young people who are at risk of also getting into trouble with the law. According to BYS Director Di Mahoney, ‘Many young people don’t realise that having a criminal conviction
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On shore leave, last Sunday, to sell war bonds and award prizes to winners of the Brunswick Heads Show and Shine Hot Rod show, Mae Wilde posed with one of the least shiny entrants, this character-full Bread Sled delivery van. Wilde came ashore paddling a standup board in high heels! Certainly a first for Brunswick if not the world. Photo Jeff ‘Rustworthy Character’ Dawson
Parvovirus still a danger to dogs across the Shire Eve Jeffery
Dog owners are being reminded to stay on the lookout as the Ocean Shores area has risen to be in the top ten outbreak parvovirus areas Australia-wide this year. The most recent victims were all unvaccinated and were diagnosed two months after the initial ourtbreak. One animal
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was treated at Mullum and the other two at Billinudgel, the most recent case due to transmission on human hands. ‘Two more cases have been diagnosed since the intial outbreak,’ says vet Dr Matt Allworth. ‘One had contact with the environment of one of the original three survivors, the other lived in Ocean Shores but it’s uncer-
tain where it contracted the disease. Both these dogs survived with hospital support.’ Dr Allworth says that another case had been diagnosed, a concern being the lack of canine exposure. ‘One more case was diagnosed,’ says Matt. ‘This one had no direct contact with any infected dogs, but was handled by a human who visited the house of a dog
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