Ballina Information Blog

The search for a missing surfer off the North Coast will continue today. About 4.30pm on Sunday (28 January), a 34-year-old German national was surfing with friends at Seven Mile Beach at Lennox Head when he went missing. Police have been told the man became detached from the group and was last seen about 5pm. [...]

Ballina’s Blake Bambrook, who completed Year 12 at Ballina High last year, was honoured with an invitation to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden last December. Here is his account of the trip … Five weeks of your life can go by so quickly that the memories of that period can easily fade into a [...]

Holidays are over and for returning high school students it will be their new School Liaison Police Officer who will greet them in 2007. In 2006, the NSW Government announced the creation of 40 School Liaison Police, which has led to their launch at local high schools as of tomorrow. NSW Police says that SLP [...]

Surf conditions in the Lennox Head-Ballina and Evans Head region this weekend look set to follow the usual summer pattern — the swell is small and the forecast is for south-east to north-east winds right through until Monday. There’s seems little hope of a major increase in the swell, so check the beach breaks early [...]

Parents are being reminded to ensure their children are fully vaccinated before they start school next week. “Pre-schoolers are at particular risk because their four-year-old vaccinations are the ones that are most commonly forgotten,” said Dr Sue Page, GP, manager of the Northern Rivers Division of General Practice’s immunisation project. “These vaccines protect children from [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page today announced that six local sporting projects had received a total of $48,285 in funding under the Department of Sport and Recreation’s 2006/07 Capital Assistance Program. Mr Page said the popular sports grants scheme assisted with the establishment and enhancement of facilities across a range of recreational activities. The successful [...]

Assistants in Nursing and Enrolled Nurses considering a career as a registered nurse are being offered a unique opportunity to enrol directly in a Bachelor of Nursing degree at Southern Cross University this year. Dr John Stevens, head of the Department of Nursing and Health Care Practices, said not many Assistant in Nursing (AIN) graduates [...]

Lennox Head-Alstonville Surf Lifesaving Club juniors continued their outstanding form at the Country titles at Port Macquarie today, finishing runners-up to Cudgen Headland in the pointscore. Cudgen totalled 309 points, Lennox was on 236.5, followed by Warilla-Barrack Point 224.5. Cudgen won the overall pointscore with 760, ahead of Warilla-Barrack Point (732.5) and local club Port [...]

Lennox Head-Alstonville Surf Lifesaving Club proved to be the surprise packet on day one of the NSW Country championships at Port Macquarie today. Lennox Head Alstonville finished the day leading the junior pointscore, was fifth in the senior pointscore, and third in the overall pointscore. Club members Luke Mortimer (Under-15), Haydon Thomas (Under-14) and Michael [...]

The reasonable conditions of mid-week have gone, and it looks like a weekend of poor quality surf in the Ballina-Lennox Head region. The swell today is less than a metre, it’s all over the place and there’s a strong north-easterly. The north-easterlies are predicted to continue through until Monday, so there’s little hope of any [...]