Video: We popped in to All Decor recently to check out their rug collection

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Uploaded by Everything Geraldton on 2017-03-03.

We popped in to All Decor recently to take a look at their rug collection.

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If you'd like your business featured in a short video on Everything Geraldton, get in touch.

Surveillance footage of bedroom window smashed with baseball bat

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This is video surveillance of a couple of people who smashed a family's bedroom window at 12:45 Sunday morning with a baseball bat, causing about $500 damage.
The home owners are asking for the public's help in identifying the people involved. 
"This has really shaken us up."
If you know who was involved, please call Geraldton Police on 9923 4555. 

Uploaded by Everything Geraldton on 2016-12-22.

This mentorship program is having a very positive effect on kids

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This story is fantastic! Kids from very different walks of life are being changed in positive ways through this innovative program, where students from a local private school work alongside students from a more disadvantaged area.

Kids from very different walks of life are being changed in positive ways through this innovative program, where students from a local private school work alongside students from a more disadvantaged area.

Video: Geraldton Windsurfing Triple Crown 2016

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1st Round of the West Australian Triple Crown State Title series. Was A great weekend full of action, we had 20-30 knots and 1-2 m swell Results where: WEEKEND WARRIORS: 1st Justyna Sniady 2nd Lachlan Lidbury 3rd Anthony Dunn 4th Tom Knight OPEN: 1st Hendrix Stone 2nd Ben Severne 3rd Mathias Moerman 4th Michael Kain Next event is Greenhead 3-12-2016

Check out these awesome highlights from Geraldton's annual windsurfing event last weekend which is now part of a triple crown state title series.
 

This Geraldton woman is sailing around the world, and just scored a new million dollar yacht

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Elayna Carausu, born and bred in Gero, teamed up with Riley Whitelum from SA a few years ago. They started documenting their adventures sailing around the world on YouTube, and grew a large following.  

They've been funded by fans through a platform called Patreon, and now they've landed a sponsorship deal that will see them get a new catamaran in Feb. Have a look at the video above, or the long version below, and subscribe to their YouTube channel if you'd like to follow along. 

Watch the highway fragment apart just from being driven on

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Watch the road on NWCH near CSBP get torn up just from this truck driving on it. This occurred yesterday, and is near the area where the road started melting recently. Thanks Brenton for the footage.

Watch the road on NWCH near CSBP get torn up just from this truck driving on it. This occurred yesterday, and is near the area where the road started melting recently. 
Thanks Brenton for the footage.

City Health Geraldton vandalised - Do you recognise these people?

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"Last week City Health Geraldton was vandalised, on Monday 10/10 @5.30 in the afternoon. And then early TUES 11/10 @5am a staff members bike was stolen."
Do you recognise the offenders in this footage? 
Please contact police (9923 4555) if you have any information or call the practice on 99214433.

A story on an Aboriginal community from the view of a foreigner

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We recently had American film maker and travel writer , Gareth Leonard, visit our School, Pia Wadjarri Remote Community School in the Mid West Education District. We are only a bit over three hours from Geraldton, our main shopping centre, and near the Murchison Settlement.

He was interested in seeing a positive story about Aboriginal communities after hearing lots of negative stories

Here is the film he produced.

- Kevin McKenna

Powerful video of women in Geraldton discussing Body Image

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ABC Midwest: "A movie about embracing our bodies has inspired a group of regional women in Geraldton to strip off and showcase theirs."

A movie about embracing our bodies has inspired a group of regional women in Geraldton to strip off and show case theirs. The ‘Body Image Movement’ is a growing and recognised movement thanks largely to Taryn Brumfitt's movie – ‘Embrace’. The movie explores the social impact of body image and the epidemic of body shaming within our culture. A group of women recently got together in Geraldton and dressed down to their underwear and posed in front of cameras in the hope to inspire and encourage others to embrace and love their bodies. Ranging in ages and backgrounds, the group of women not only braved a cold rainy day in their underwear, but they also openly shared their stories of struggles and insecurities with their own body image. One of the organisers of the photo shoot, Kate Tonkin said, “Even if know one sees our photos or video from today, just the conversations we’ve had among ourselves have just been amazing. ‘These are conversations that just don’t normally happen.” Ms Tonkin said. Working as a food consultant and helping people improve their food choices, Ms Tonkin has seen her share of women who struggle with their body image. “I see so many women who hate their bodies and I saw the Embrace movie and I loved it. So I wanted to re-create something on a local scale.” She said. Ms Tonkin says she know what it’s like to hate her own body. “I was working overseas in my twenties and I got really overweight and I hated my body. I’ve always been really conscious of being really short and stocky and not what I wanted to be. When I was overseas I spent a few months being bulimic thinking that was the answer but it wasn’t. I know now anyone who has an eating disorder it comes from a place of hate and not from a place of love. At this stage in my life I hated food and I hated myself. It’s a terrible place to be.” Today Ms Tonkin is in a much better place and accepts her body for what it is. “Having kids was probably a really big thing to change the way I feel about myself. It’s been a really gradual acceptance of this is me, this is who I am. I’m not going to surgically alter my body. It’s a matter of being happy with what I’ve got and I think that’s what kids really helped me to do, just to help me be really happy.” The group arranged to showcase some of the women’s stories in front of a live audience at the local cinema where the ‘Embrace’ movie was being screened. Related stories : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-15/adelaide-documentary-maker-taryn-brumfitt-tackles-body-shaming/7633078 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-23/taryn-brumfitt-challenging-our-ideals-about-the-perfect-body/6335174

Thanks Dongara Police - "They were waiting on the highway for him"

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"A community thank you to the Dongara Police. We are driving to Perth and some maniac was aggressively tailgating us at 110km speed within a metre or two of our bumper (and then proceeded to tailgate those in front of us). We were about 30km north of Dongara so I called ahead and notified the police about the car. They were waiting on the highway for him and had pulled him over as we passed. Fantastic response time!"