Archive for March, 2008

Exhibition marks opening of Heritage Festival

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Ballina Shire Council Council will officially launch the local section of the National Trust’s Annual Heritage Festival on Friday April 4 at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery with the opening of the ‘The Hills Look Down to the Sea: A glimpse at the European heritage of the Ballina Shire’ exhibition, at 10.30am.
The council is again this […]

Man charged over murder of Alstonville woman

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Police have arrested and charged a man with the murder of a woman, found dead at Alstonville this morning.
About 3.40am today, police from Richmond Local Area Command attended a house in Deegan Drive, where they discovered the body of a 48-year-old woman.
She had sustained injuries to her upper body.
A crime scene was secured at the […]

Child Support Agency to hold information session

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The Child Support Agency (CSA) is holding a free Community Information Session on 9 April 2008 at 6:30pm for separated parents in Lismore and the surrounding region.
“Representatives from Centrelink, Medicare Australia, Legal Aid, the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Family Relationship Centres and other local community service providers have been invited,” Page MP Janelle Saffin said.
“This information session […]

Page backs Premier on political donations

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s recent comments that he is prepared to look at political donations reform has received support from an unlikely quarter.
Ballina MP Don Page says he has again reaffirmed his support for the abolition of all political donations from developers, associations and unions.
“The current public perception is that corporations and organisations can buy […]

Crawford picks up another Cricketer of the Year award

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

 
Tintenbar-East Ballina captain Brett Crawford, above, has confirmed his status as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game locally after winning his fourth Far North Coast L J Hooker League Cricketer of the Year award.
Crawford polled16 votes to win the award from Alstonville batsman Greg Potter (14), Lennox Head’s Mark Denmeade (13), Cudgen’s Michael […]

Nationals MPs call for cattle tick crisis meeting

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The North Coast Nationals MPs Don Page, Thomas George, Steve Cansdell and Geoff Provest, are calling for a tick crisis meeting following an outbreak of deadly cattle disease in Alstonville and Burringbar this week.
Clarence Nationals MP Steve Cansdell said the meeting should be held in the region’s beef capital Casino as soon as possible.
“We want […]

Tony Zann’s weekly fishing report

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says the river has been fishing really well for whiting and flathead with quite a few bream around as well.
A few blackfish also starting to appear around the walls. Some school jew up-river around Pimlico to Wardell. Mud crabs are starting to move upstream again but still a few around […]

Weekend surf report

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It’s flat this morning but there is real promise for the weekend.
There’s a nice offshore and the forecast for Saturday is south-west to south-east winds, and a westerly is predicted for Sunday.
All we need is a spike in the swell.
Marine weather: W/SW 5/10 knots, tending SE. Sea: About 1 metre. Swell: S/SE about 1.5 metres. […]

Schools have a week to apply for computer funding

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The Member for Page, Janelle Saffin, is reminding secondary schools they have until the end of next week to apply for funding in the first round of the National Secondary Schools Computer Fund.
Ms Saffin says the Rudd Labor Government is investing $1 billion over four years in the Digital Education Revolution, to improve secondary school […]

ASR celebrates another turtle rehabilitation

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Members of Australian Seabird (and Sea Turtle) Rescue celebrated another successful sea turtle rehabilitation this week in Byron Bay.
The magnificent Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) was found by Ballina Shire Council employee James Brideson, stranded and distressed in thick polluted storm foam on Angels Beach on January 11. Suffering from severe Float Syndrome, “Angel” was […]



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