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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | The Byron Shire Echo

Voyeurs back row, from left in black, fashion designer Galit Massuri, model Celeste Bellinger, designer Myee Harlow. Middle from left, models Jarrah Johnson and Lydia Ryder. Then from the Byron Community Centre, J’aimee Skippon-Volke, designer Georgie Evans, and bottom of picture, Byron Bay Model Management’s Ashley Geoghegan. All are participating in the community’s event incubator. Photo Jeff ‘Haughty Couture’ Dawson.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | The Byron Shire Echo

Activist Dean Jefferys makes his point in the Bay last Friday. Photo Jeff ‘Blubbery Figures’ Dawson. Rob Dalton from Whale Watching Byron Bay and Dean Jefferys from Byron Whale Action Group are two Australians passionately opposed to Japan’s plan to kill 50 Humpback whales as part of its ‘scientific research’ program. To express that opposition Whale Watching Byron Bay hosted a whale watching tour last Friday from The Pass.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | The Byron Shire Echo

Author Rak Razam peruses his book, Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey, among the succulents.  Byron Shire is renowned for its healers and spiritual community, but the time-honoured role of the shaman is also on the rise locally as well as globally, according to Mullumbimby author Rak Razam.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | Eve Jeffery

Author Chad Kolcze with his skating mates, Strider the spider, Maiso the action mouse and Carlie the cockroach. When the humans go away, the creatures will play, and friends Maiso the action mouse, Carlie the energetic cockroach and Strider the cautious spider get up to some fun and games and rad skating when no one is home. Skate Sessions is the first book in the ‘Byron Bay Locals’ series written by author Chad Kolcze.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | Victoria Cosford

Twelve years in the planning, the Bangalow Pool finally looks likely to happen. With the feasibility study completed, it is now time, according to Michael Malloy, Vice President of the Pool Trust, to approach Council. A final version of the Plan has been drafted for a four lane, 25 metre indoor heated pool flanked by a gym.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | Michael McDonald

The effects of climate change will come soon enough but it is not yet time to abandon Belongil Spit to the sea. The policy of ‘planned retreat’ is sensible in the long term but a few storms and tide...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | The Byron Shire Echo

Utegate was never going to be a hit with the wider public – with a name like that how could it? Unsurprisingly audiences dropped right off inside a week, and the show appeared to close when...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | Erik Adams

With a population expected to hit nine billion by the year 2050, the force of our collective consumption is the front line of the multi-pronged ecological/ health/food/energy/climate and economic...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 | Mandy Nolan

A Day in the life of a breastfeeding Mum Having an eight week old baby is like a lesson in zen. The tiny tyrant who looks up from my breast with those intense baby whale eyes teaches me how to cut...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Jo Jo back on the Go Go The much loved and divinely talented Jo Jo Smith makes her way to warmer waters this week with two appearances at the Mullumbimby Bowling Club. A consummate performer with a voice that is soulful, powerful and passionate. Her voice has been described as a ‘Banquet For The Soul ‘. Jo Jo performs original tunes and favourite covers with an awesome lineup of A1 musicians. Featuring Steve Russell on piano, Greg Lyon on bass, Dave Sanders on drums, Geoff Wright on guitar, Tony Buchanan on sax and flute, the gorgeous Leigh Carriage on backing vocals and a special guest appearance by Leigh James. In Lord of the Rings it takes one ring to bring them all, and one ring to bind them, well here in the world of interpretive jazz it takes one woman, and that would be Jo Jo Smith. A very precious evening indeed! Wednesday...
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