Dubbo Photo News 17.03.2022

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LOVING LEGACY MARCHING FOR MELANOMA

By JEN COWLEY BY the time your day ends today, at least one of your fellow Australians will have died from melanoma. The disease claims one life every six hours in this country, an estimated 1300 people every year across the nation. In 2021, Carrie Ann Beggs was among them. She was just 43 when

melanoma took her life, but a promise her family made to use her death to try to save others the same fate means she lives on in a loving legacy. This month is Melanoma March, and the Beggs family is bravely continuing to fight the battle their precious girl began when she was diagnosed in 2018 with a condition that’s often referred to as “Australia’s

national cancer”. Carrie Ann’s mum, Ann, shares her story ahead of Dubbo’s Melanoma March on Saturday 26. Also sharing their family’s story of loss to the insidious disease is the family of Lionel McGuire, who also died from melanoma in 2021.

FULL STORY ›› PAGE 24

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GROW YOUR MIND

By TIJANA BIRDJAN

UNFORTUNATELY, bullying and poor behavioural patterns are a universal issue that is carried from kindergarten to the latter years of adulthood with a lack of recognition and solution. From wellbeing centres, mental health resources to higher levels of quality education – the prominent issue of positive wellbeing and bullying is yet to be implemented from a young age. In support of National Day Action against Bullying and Violence on Friday, the community should take the opportunity to stand together against bully-

ing and violence. South Dubbo Public School wellbeing officer Amy Welbourne (nee Mines) previously worked at Headspace and has experience in seeing the impacts of bullying on young adults. “I came to the primary school with the sole purpose of earlier intervention,” Mrs Welbourne said. She shared that programs like Headspace are extraordinary for young people but raised the suggestion of implementing strategies to children earlier in their development. The Grow your Mind program is directed to educate stu-

dents on neurology within the brain and teach them to articulate their emotions and behavioural patterns. South Dubbo Public School is pioneering the program in Dubbo and encourages other primary schools to implement the program. Students from kindergarten to year six are taught neuron terminology which are associated with animals, she continued saying “children know that their prefrontal cortex refers to the wise owl which helps them problem solve and to be a betDubbo South Public School students (L-R) Ollie Karakash, Henry Kelly, Maliah ter friend”. Bloomfield, Abel Williams, Macey Carpenter, Mason Brandis, Nabiah Fatimah and ›› CONTINUED: P2 Eugene Park. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS

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