Premium Content Zenith Virago has been named the 2021 Byron Shire Citizen of the Year. Byron Shire Mayor, Simon Richardson, made the announcement tonight at the council s Australia Day Awards, held at the Cavanbah Centre. Zenith has had a profound impact on our community in so many ways and it really is an enormous honour to present her with the Citizen of the Year award, Cr Richardson said. Zenith is a pioneer and leader in her approach to dying; to helping people prepare for death and guiding them, and their families, through the end of life process which is frightening, uncertain and sad.
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The actions of Reflections Holiday Park in reshaping the foreshore of Brunswick Heads have once again been questioned, following the removal of the Housie Shed walls and relocation of community art.
Organisers of the Brunswick River Festival, that ran from 1990 to 1995, were concerned over the relocation of the community art they facilitated, that had been on the Housie Shed wall.
The festival was a three day cultural and community event that brought the community together, with Indigenous culture, art, music and theatre over the October school holidays.
One of the founding members of the festival, Donny McCormack, said, ‘Following the 1993 festival, we worked with Mullumbimby High School art students and Indigenous artists to create a piece of artwork to decorate the Housie Shed for the community’.