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Dressing up for charity, year 12 students from Mullumbimby High School will be stopping vehicles and people on Wednesday September 25. They will be raising money for the Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre between 6.30 and 8.30am throughout the town. While they have told their teachers they will definitely be the butt of a few pranks throughout the morning everyone is reminded to be on their guard and donate generously – Arrgghhh!. Q Q Q Q
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Byron Bay’s Beach Hotel is once again on the market. Melbourne-based Impact Investment Group who purchased the hotel only last year decided to capitalise on the record low-interest-rate environment and divest the hotel in conjunction with longtime Byron residents and operators the van Haandel family, with expectations of a $100+ million sale. Q Q Q Q
Talk about taking lifechanging action! Malawi Female Chief Comes To Power, Annuls Over 1500 Child Marriages, And Sends Young Girls Back To School: https:// bit.ly/2kPyRUP. Q Q Q Q
Join the School Strike 4 Climate rally this Friday from 10am starting at the Rec Ground in Byron. Q Q Q Q
Byron Shire Council’s Environmental Health team has taken out one of the top gongs at the 2019 NSW Food Surveillance Champion Awards in recognition for the outstanding work of staff when it comes to food safety. Q Q Q Q
Weather extremes? Nah, couldn’t be climate
Time t’ natter pirate! Avast ye hornswaggling, 8-bit scallywags! Set sail for the stream o’ Pirate Bay and re-booty their D-aRRR-Ms back to bit torrents afore Captain Levi an’ Woodstock send the Byron Shire to DVD Jones’ locker! Or worse yet, back to analog and a bottle o’ rum! Get off yer landlubber, barnacle bottoms and parley the filthy sons of biscuit eaters this Thursday September 19 – for it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! change... It is predicted in the Independent that ‘The coldest winter in three decades could follow closely on the heels of the highestever UK temperature, recorded as 38.7C at Cambridge University Botanic Garden on 25 July.’ Q Q Q Q
Santos Organics has donated a total of $16,475 to Reforest Now, a local rainforestregeneration organisation, through their grants and donations program. Through Santos’s funding, Reforest Now has been able to set up a new native rainforest nursery in Mullumbimby. Reforest Now Australia: www.reforestnow.org.au.
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Ever used a smiley face? It was created in 1963 by graphic designer Harvey Ball, who got paid the enormous sum of $45 for his invention.
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