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There’s Brown and there’s green and there’s Brown

IT’S not often we see his dander up, but our placid photographer Silas Brown came hurrumping into the office from a benign fashion assignment in Fyshwick, darkly muttering about seeing a lawyer.

Que? He’d taken one of the Canturf signs on Dairy Road personally.

Silly boy, we said, it’s former Greens leader Senator Bob Brown they’re tickling. Oh, he wryly says, that explains the other one about Kevin Rudd, then. Right on, snapper.

 

Apps shocks the industry

WARREN Apps, top banana at the Fyshwick branch of the international advertising agency Grey Group has shocked the industry to take an equity share partnership in the smaller local agency Coordinate.

His sudden departure had new national CEO Luke Waldren breathless to Canberra clients with a “we-haven’t-met-before” email and the promise of a reassuring phone call to “provide a sense of where to from here!”

Rhys Morrison is charged with keeping Canberra’s Grey wheels turning and no mention of a successor.

Meanwhile, there’s one account Apps won’t be working on at his new job: Coordinate will be spruiking ACT Labor’s October election campaign. Grey is the booking agency for the Canberra Liberals’ campaign.

 

Underground bash

MEANWHILE competing agency Zoo (whose boss Clinton Hutchinson is doing the Vinnies’ CEO Sleepout again this year) is holding a fundraiser to fight homelessness in the basement of its Kingston HQ at 57 Wentworth Avenue, 6.30pm-8.30pm, Tuesday, June 19.

Called “Help from the Underground”, it’s free to anyone who registers (only 300 places), with a donation option to Vinnies at the door. “We’re hoping people will donate generously on the night for this great cause,” says Clinton. “We’ll have music and hip hop dancers as well as the fashion parade.”

He’s being helped by a host of local companies including, Monarch Builders (building a catwalk and a stage), Public (donating grog and making soup that will be sold for $5) and Sound Connections (sound and lighting). All proceeds to Vinnies.

Register at facebook.com/helpfromtheunderground or zooadvertising.com.au/helpfromtheunderground

Free burgers launch Grill’d

THE much-anticipated Grill’d Healthy Burgers at Franklin Street, Manuka, is due to open on Monday, June 18. And to get things rolling, the first 50 burgers that day are free. Not that that needs to overly excite readers of “CityNews” because we’ve got five X $50 Grill’d gift vouchers to give away. Enter here.

 

Happiness is... a Moon Bear in a Chinese sanctuary.
The bear facts

MOON Bear heroes from Canberra gathered at Teatro Vivaldi last week and raised more than $6000 to help save these endangered Asiatic Black Bears.

The 60 attendees at the afternoon tea heard guest speaker Jill Robinson, founder and executive director of the Animals Asia Foundation, talk about progress towards outlawing bear bile farming, where in China, the bears are trapped in cages no bigger than their own bodies and bile extracted from their gallbladder for use in traditional medicines.

Teatro Vivaldi owner Mark Santos donated $35 from each $40 ticket purchased for the afternoon tea to the cause, the fifth year he has done so.

 

Council goes West

CHAIRMAN of the National Australia Day Council Adam Gilchrist has announced Graham West will take up the position of CEO in September.

West has more than 15 years experience in Government, including 10 as a Member of NSW Parliament, three of which were as a Minister responsible for a variety of portfolios including Juvenile Justice, Youth, and Gaming and Racing.

He is currently the CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW).

The appointment follows the departure of long-time CEO Warren Pearson in February.

Based in Canberra, the NADC leads a network of State, Territory and local committees in presenting Australia Day celebrations and the Australian of the Year Awards program.

 

 

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