CAPE YORK & TORRES STRAIT

ATSI leaders program

APPLICATIONS are now open for aspiring young leaders who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander to participate in this year’s Queensland Indigenous Youth Leadership Program. Applications for the program, in its 15th year, close April 15. For details, visit www.qld.gov.au/atsi

New medicos arrive

NEW doctors have started work in the Torres Strait, Northern Peninsula Area and Cape York regions. Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service executive director of medical services Dr Tony Brown said they replaced staff who were moving on.

Library times change

THE Cooktown Library’s lunch time closure has changed. It will now close for lunch from 12.30pm-1.30pm (previously 1.15pm-2pm). The library opens 10am-5pm weekdays, and 10am-12.30pm Saturdays. For info visit www.cook.qld.gov.au/ community/libraries

Screening success

HEALTH authorities have successfully undertaken a screening program on Cape York’s Northern Peninsula Area for a contagious bacterial skin infection that can lead to kidney disease if untreated. Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service northern director of medical services, Dr Marlow Coates, said the screening program for Acute Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (APSGN) was very successful with about 80 per cent of the most at-risk – children and young people between ages of 1 and 17 – being screened.

University bound

AURUKUN high school graduate Waynead Wolmby has been accepted by Griffith University to study a Bachelor of Design Art and Contemporary Art. The teen, who works at the Aurukun store, was a finalist in Aurukun’s Junior Citizen of the Year. Aurukun Shire Council has congratulated Mr Wolmby on his achievement.