Philippa Clark
Three Byron Bay teens have hiked from Cape Byron to Brooms Head, raising over $3,300 for brain cancer research and awareness.
Kai Ferguson, Sam Burden and Noah Brink, all 17, walked the 130 km route in four days to fundraise for the Mark Hughes Foundation.
‘My family’s had separate cases of brain cancer on my mum’s side of the family,’ Sam Burden said. ‘The research is pretty underfunded in Australia, so I thought the Mark Hughes Foundation would be a pretty good cause.’ The boys sweated through their four day trek. Supplied: Kai Ferguson.
The boys admitted, however, that the trek was far more difficult than they expected.
Philippa Clark
The Health Services Union has called on Lismore City Council to reconsider a decision to cancel free all-day street parking at Lismore Base Hospital.
The free parking scheme for staff and visitors is set to end this Monday 18 January, with the re-introduction of paid parking along Hunter and Dalziel streets and time-limited parking along Weaver and McKenzie streets and Laurel Avenue.
The HSU called the decision a ‘big ugly road-block’ to providing a speedy COVID testing service. ‘I am flabbergasted that Lismore City Council would crab-walk away from its clever decision to offer free street parking during the COVID-19 pandemic,’ said HSU Secretary Gerard Hayes. ‘This decision just punishes local residents who do the right thing and visit the hospital for vital COVID tests – and who are already struggling with hours long delays, wearing masks during high temperatures and social distancing pressures.’
A national ballet company is calling for people with dementia, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s to submit videos for the chance to feature in new dance productions.
Scottish Ballet is asking people worldwide to send a 20-second clip, with the footage to be used in three new dance films as part of the multi-artform project Haud Close.
Inspired by the ballet company’s film Haud Close Tae Me, created by filmmaker Eve McConnachie in 2017 and featuring poetry from Scots Makar Jackie Kay, the project will involve working remotely with care home residents and people living with above conditions to create the films.
Marta s legacy: Scotland s national ballet launches world-wide search for participants for unique film project AMID the relentless gloom of the pandemic it touched the hearts of millions all over the world, including Spanish actor Antonio Banderas. A video of former New York Ballet prima ballerina Marta Gonzalez performing with her hands to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake in a Valencian care home went viral in November last year, the memory of her movements seemingly unhindered by advanced dementia. Now, Scotland’s national ballet is launching a project aimed at those with dementia which aims to spread joy in the most challenging of times.