"KEEP Keen, Stay Clean, Believe, Achieve": Lionel Wood has followed his own slogan to become Dubbo's Young Citizen of the Year.
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The city honoured the 21-year-old for his work helping young Indigenous people to avoid drugs and crime.
Mr Wood's "Keep Keen" slogan was among six selected across NSW for the Make Art Make Change program.
A mentor with the NSW Police Academy, he was also recognised for his efforts against domestic violence as a White Ribbon Day ambassador.
"My mum was a domestic violence victim and that was my main push behind my doing the campaign," Mr Wood said.
Marion Wood said she was very proud of her son and already wondering where to hang his framed certificate.
"I've got to make room on the wall because my husband does artwork but I'll make room, don't you worry," she said.
Graeme Board - breast cancer advocate, stalwart of the show society and a former rugby club president - was named Dubbo's 2014 Citizen of the Year.
"I've been very fortunate in that my family has allowed me to be a part of whatever I've wanted to be," he said.
A member of the Dubbo Show Society for 20 years and its president for eight, Mr Board was then elected president of the Dubbo dragon boat club in 2010.
Mr Board sought to raise breast cancer awareness after being diagnosed with the disease in 2006.
"He is the first one to offer help or support, one of the hardest workers, and the last to leave at the end of the event," his citation read.
Mr Board said Australia was "the best country in the world, no doubt about it".
"Australians are blessed," he said.
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