Ballina Information Blog

The Ballina Gallery Café opened in Ballina last week with a commitment to maintain a small environmental footprint and provide great food and service.   Mandy Andrews, one of the business owners, contacted the North East Waste Forum for assistance while the café was still in the planning phase.  “It is great to see local businesses take [...]

Former Australian fast bowler Len Pascoe is the guest speaker at this year’s Tintenbar-East Ballina Cricket Club Sportsman’s Dinner. Pascoe played 14 Tests for Australia, taking 69 wickets at an average of 26. He also was part of World Series Cricket, playing nine ‘Supertests’ and taking 34 wickets at an average of 29.5 He played [...]

Quality community health care starts with only a few dollars. Scope Cub of Ballina are selling tickets at $2.00 per ticket to raise funds to help to obtain for our region a P.E.T (Positron Emissions Tomography Scanner) for earlier and more direct detection of cancer, heart and brain disease. Throughout  March and  April,between 8.30am to 4pm, you [...]

The Member for Ballina, Don Page, has raised in Parliament his serious concerns about the loss of health services in the Ballina Electorate. “In particular I am very concerned about the doctor shortages and the loss of the mobile breast screen vans in Ballina and Byron Bay,” Mr Page said. “It is becoming increasingly clear [...]

Ballina Shire families can expect to receive their cash bonuses from this week. The Federal Government announced yesterday that the bonuses would be paid from March 11. “These payments will support families and local businesses across the country. Stimulus payments like these are a responsible way to quickly boost consumption in order to immediately reduce [...]

Ballina-Byron U3A (University of the Third Age) is celebrating its 15th birthday. U3A is neither a university in the modern sense of the word, nor limited to those in their third age (retirement). Its classes are open to anyone with time on their hands who wish to learn something new. At the U3A this can [...]

Police from the Ballina Crash Investigation Unit have appealed for witnesses to a fatal collision in which a two-year-old child was killed last month to come forward. About 4.15pm on Saturday, 14 February, a two-car collision occurred on Angels Beach Drive at East Ballina in heavy rain. The crash involved a green Toyota Corolla travelling [...]

The construction of what will be one of the most important facilities in the Ballina Shire is almost complete. Major building work on the new Ballina Community Services Centre, which is located at Treelands Reserve on the Bangalow Road next to the Ballina Central shopping centre, Ballina, is finished and offices are currently being fitted [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page has lodged in the NSW Parliament petitions containing well over 1000 signatures in support of retaining the Tropical Horticultural Research Centre at Alstonville. “I call on the NSW Labor Government to take note of the strong community opposition to their decision to close the Horticulture Research Centre,” Mr Page said. [...]

Ballina has a new ‘funny man’ — John Edwards, who impressed judges and fans at Pandanus Lounge to win Byron Bay’s second Raw Comedy heat on Monday night. The winner of heat one, on 16 February, was Paul McMahon, of Brunswick Heads. Both comedians have a distinctive new voice that set them apart from the [...]