Ballina Information Blog

Ballina Shire businesses are being asked to allow their staff to wear boardshorts to work for a day.
“2007 has been named the Year of the Surf Lifesaver and marks the centenary of the surf life saving movement, and on Friday October 19, Surf Life Saving will be celebrating our 100th Birthday, and we are asking [...]

Anyone considering university study in 2008 can find out all about course options and how to apply at Southern Cross University information sessions being held throughout the North Coast this month, including Ballina on September 26.
The sessions will be held in Ballina, Lismore, Murwillumbah, Byron Bay and Tweed Gold Coast, and will provide information on [...]

Local piper Graham Broadhead will be among those performing at this year’s Retravision Northern League grand final at Kingsford Smith Park, Ballina, on Sunday, September 16.
Graham, also known as G’Bro, is well-known to Ballina Shire residents as editor of the weekly newspaper, The Advocate.
But he hasn’t always been a newspaperman. Graham’s first job was as an [...]

You know that summer isn’t far away when the call goes out for junior surf lifesaving sign-on days.
Both Ballina Shire clubs, Ballina Lighthouse-Lismore and Alstonville-Lennox Head, will begin the 2007-08 Nippers season with sign-ons this weekend and over the next few weeks.
Ballina sign-on dates are:
Sunday 9 Sept 10am-noon at Shelly Beach Clubhouse.
Sunday 16 Sept 10am-noon [...]

Three horses arrived at the Ballina racetrack from Randwick racecourse only days before the outbreak of equine influenza which closed the Sydney track and has since created havoc with the racing and thoroughbred breeding industry.
But thankfully for the Ballina Jockey Club, the horses all tested negative to the virus when checked, club president Gary Kliese [...]

Ballina Mayor, Cr Phillip Silver, today announced that following advice from the Ballina Jockey Club, this year’s Ballina Cup would be postponed from the scheduled date of Thursday 13 September to a date to be announced.
“The Ballina Jockey Club has advised that due to the uncertainty that currently exists in respect to the equine influenza [...]

Ballina Seagulls won the right to host the Retravision Northern League grand finals with a 31-24 win over minor premiers Mullumbimby in the major semi-final at Mullumbimby today.
Spearheaded by a Man of the Match performance by halfback Willie Hammond and two-try efforts from centre Brenton Cochrane and fullback Jamie Quinn, the Seagulls overturned a 44-14 [...]