Ballina Information Blog

Lennox Head author Susan Perrow has returned home after a three-month tour of Europe, the US and Canada to promote her new book, Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour.
Published in the United Kingdom by Hawthorn Press, Susan says her book brings together the fruits of her work in story-making.
“It is richly illustrated with lively anecdotes drawn [...]

If you see hundreds of people on holding hands on Ballina’s North Wall on Sunday, June 1 – the first day of winter — don’t worry, they haven’t gone barmy!
Nor will it be a giant love-in.
Those people will be taking part in a human chain of support as part of a fund-raising activity for the Ballina [...]

Unseasonal northerly winds today have flattened out the swell to less than a metre.
The weekend forecast is for more of the same, with a strong west to south-westerly change on Sunday.
A low pressure system will develop off the southern coast of NSW on Sunday — here’s hoping it will generate some swell.
There’s also been a [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page has called on local residents to let Planning Minister Frank Sartor hear loud and clear that his proposed ‘compulsory acquisition’ powers are completely unacceptable to our local community.
“Local residents can make a difference by writing or emailing Minister Sartor to tell him that we won’t accept our land being taken [...]

The Federal member for Page, Janelle Saffin, says the fast-tracking of the Alstonville Bypass is good news for the local community.
In Tuesday’s Federal Budget, the Government announced $13.6 million in advanced funding for the project in 2008-2009 so work could start a year earlier than scheduled.
Federal Labor’s election commitment was for $90 million to be [...]

The Medibank Junior Development Series (JDS), the largest tennis tournament series for juniors in NSW, heads to Ballina this weekend.
Local junior tennis players will head to Ballina Tennis Club on Sunday May 18 to compete in the Ballina JDS event.
Encompassing over 80 round-robin tournaments throughout the year and an average of 100 participants at each [...]

Saturday May 10 saw the 14th Annual Byron Bay Triathlon held on a glorious afternoon, and Ballina Triathlon Club members performed well.
The ever growing event attracts more than 1000 world-class athletes as well as age-group participants.
The 1500m swim in a clear and calm ocean bay led into the 40km bike ride out to Lennox Head [...]

 
Family, friends and fellow surfers gathered at Lennox Head last Saturday to bid one final farewell to Ballina shark attack victim Peter Edmonds.
Peter, 16, of Wollongbar, died after being attacked at North Wall, Ballina, on April 8.
Last Saturday Peter’s ashes were scattered into the ocean.
After a brief ceremony on the beach at the Lennox Head [...]

The winter pattern is really kicking in, with south-west to southerly winds, crisp, clear mornings and good waves.
The swell has hovered between three and six feet over the past week or so, and today it’s a solid four to five feet — big enough for the point breaks.
A high pressure system in southern Australia is [...]

Breakers Bootcamp is taking part in the 2008 Kokoda Challenge - a cross country team event signifying the experience of Australian troops on the Kokoda track during World War II. The Kokoda Challenge is Australia’s ultimate team event, combining endurance and mateship, as teams of four trek 96kms in 39hours. 96 km represents that actual [...]