Ballina Information Blog

Ballina Shire Council resolved at its Meeting today (28 May 2009) to waive tipping fees for green waste delivered to the Waste Management Centre up until and including Sunday 7 June 2009. Council Clean-Up – Streets and Parks: Council is also currently cleaning debris from streets and parks. Staff will be moving through all areas [...]

Don’t be alarmed if you don’t see dolphins in the Richmond River — they’ve just gone for a ‘holiday’ Dolphins living in our coastal rivers have been forced out to sea because of poor water quality in our river systems following the recent flooding. Southern Cross University dolphin researcher Dr Christine Fury (pictured), from the [...]

Ballina Shire residents are being urged to get behind MS Awareness Week  from June 1–7 to support around 40 people affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in the Ballina area. Chief Executive Officer of MS Australia–ACT/NSW/VIC, Bill Younger, said MS was a disease that mostly affected young people and that the impact on the community was [...]

Lion Bob Morgan, a member of the East Ballina Lions Club, was congratulated by District Governor John McCrae for having achieved 40 years of  continuous dedicated community service as a member of Lions. From 1966-72 Bob worked in Government administration in Papua New Guinea and it was during this time that he joined the Madang [...]

Southern Cross K12 teacher Steve Watts (pictured) is organising the State School Surfing Championships in Ballina on June 4. “We have a new crop of exceptional young surfers coming to this contest including many local surfers,” Steve said. Former School Surfing champions are heading up world contests, includingy Adam Melling, a former Southern Cross student. [...]

Ballina Shire is likely to feel the after-effects of last week’s big storm for some time to come. The Richmond River and beaches are floodwater-brown in colour, complete with associated debris and health threats due to what’s in the run-off. Beach erosion is severe, with Shelly Beach among the hardest hit. Our pictures show the [...]

Getting a car park in Lennox Head’s main street is set to become a little easier in coming weeks with the introduction of timed parking, according to Ballina Shire Council. Lennox Head will join other towns in the region which have introduced this parking mechanism to increase availability by utilising spaces more efficiently. “Timed parking [...]

The Our Kids Calendar 2009 was joined this year with a Christmas CD featuring the talent of over 100 students in the Northern Rivers Region singing Christmas Carols. Along with participating in the CD, each school involved was in the running to win $500 for their music department. The winner was the school which sold [...]

May is Autism Month, and in celebration, the Aspect Far North Coast Centre will be holding their annual Family Day on 23 May from 10am–1pm at Summerland House with No Steps in Alstonville. Funded by the Good Guys Ballina, supporters of the Aspect Far North Coast Centre since May 2007, the Family Day offers local [...]

Volunteers from local State Emergency Service (SES) units in the Northern Rivers Region are on standby with more than 80 personnel deployed from Sydney, the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra/South Coast to assist in the area. A deepening trough off the southern Queensland coast, with a series of embedded lows, is expected to move slowly [...]