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[email protected] [email protected] Available early Tuesday at: http://www.echo.net.au VOLUME 22 #41 TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008 22,700 copies every week IRONY MEANS WHAT IT SAYS Printed on 100% recycled paper Photos page 25 Lights out for 2008: A Blues Fest odyssey Earth Hour Jann Gilbert Byron Shire Council is urging I set sail among a sea of people, all residents to participate in Earth intent on the same course. They’re Hour 2008 by switching off their heading for a musical Mecca, to lights and other energy consuming dance and writhe, experience the devices between 8pm and 9pm on ecstasy (with or without artifi cial March 29. assistance) and commune with Mayor Jan Barham said reducing their favourite (or soon to be) greenhouse emissions is a shared melodious demi-god. responsibility and local residents This year it’s a different path but can help make a difference. ‘How- many of the same feet, and plenty ever, I encourage Shire residents to of new ones or the re-initiated, go beyond the Earth Hour event religiously tread it. and make ongoing changes by Programs are studied, along with becoming more conscious about the sky that is hung with high, dark energy use on a daily basis.’ clouds. Despite the prevalence of Last year Council was one of the gumboots, and Mecca’s rainy rep- fi rst non metropolitan councils to utation, the heavens hold back and support Earth Hour, and this year many devotees bear witness to a Welcome to Country that’s set many more have joined in.