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FIRIES DO BATTLE Fire and Rescue officers from across NSW battled it out in front of scores of spectators at the Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) Firefighter Regional Championships at Cessnock over the weekend. Eighteen teams, including one from the Rural Fire Service, competed in 11 events over the weekend which saw the Dorrigo Brigade claim the regional championship title, narrowly defeating 2012 champions, Kelso.
Irrepressible pooch continues to inspire a positive message
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Adam Davies and partner James Heads, with Geoff the Jack Russell
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e is already a bona fide celebrity in parts of the Hunter and now Geoff, the Jack Russell terrier, is on his way to worldwide fame as the star of a new iBook penned by his owner. Geoff, who, due to a spinal injury, gets around in the canine equivalent of a wheelchair, is the subject of
‘Geoff and his Two Dads in… Tomato Trouble’, the first in a series of iBooks for iPad. The books follow Geoff as he finds himself in all sorts of mischief, only to be saved by his loving owners, Adam Davies and his partner, James Heads, who is originally from Maitland. The book is the result of two years of hard work for Mr Davies and Mr Heads, who funded the project through crowd funding website, Kickstarter.
The iBook features interactive illustrations, read-along highlighted text, voice narration and original symphonic soundtrack. Although it has been released through the App Store at the height of the marriage equality debate, Geoff’s owners said they never intended the book to be a political platform. “We just wanted to make a book about Geoff,” agreed Mr Davies. “We recognise and understand the importance of equality and all that
sort of stuff but we’re not fanatical people. “I do think it is important that kids are taught tolerance and about as many different walks of life as possible. “Geoff isn’t handicapped at all, there is no big deal about him having two dads, it’s just a nice simple story.” A portion of the sales of ‘Geoff and his Two Dads in… Tomato Trouble’ will be donated to the It Gets Better Project.
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