Ballina Information Blog

Due to damage to the Southern Cross K-12 School gymnasium, the Lismore Symphony Orchestra concert will now take place at Ballina High School multi-purpose hall, Swift St, Ballina. Still 2.00pm Saturday, 20 June. Could you promote this for us please as we need to get the message out. Thanks. Penny Kempler.

My name is Lorraine and I live in Sydney. A very dear friend of mine lives in your lovely town of Ballina. Her name is Bev Cooper and she is 50 years old. Bev had survived breast cancer and was told last christmas Eve in December 2008 that she had secondary bone cancer, the cancer [...]

A free Cycling Proficiency Workshop will be held in Ballina this Saturday to encourage more people to get on their bikes, leave their cars at home, and take advantage of this healthy, low-cost and environmentally friendly transport alternative. The Department of Environment and Climate Change-funded workshop will be run by an accredited AustCycle Instructor at [...]

The Ballina-Byron Family Centre is one of five local family organisations which will receive $517,620 in Australian Government funding over the next year. The centre has been granted $84,270, and Ballina-Byron Family Centre Manager, Trish Milgate, said she was over the moon that the funding would allow the Fella’s Family Project to continue. “This Fella’s [...]

Ballina MP Don Page says there are no real surprises in the NSW State Budget, with $170m being allocated for continued work on the Ballina Bypass and $25m for planning and pre-construction of the Tintenbar to Ewingsdale section of the Pacific Highway. “The Ballina Bypass is budgeted to cost $640m altogether and to be completed [...]

Arts Northern Rivers is pleased to announce that it will be running a free workshop in Grafton, Murwillumbah and Lismore next week on how and where to apply for arts grants. The workshop will be run by arts funding experts Annette Eassie, who is the Funding Manager from Regional Arts NSW in Sydney, with Lois [...]

In a first for the Ballina Shire, professional abseilers will be used to kill the noxious weed bitou bush and help restore native Kangaroo grass on the cliff faces of Lennox Headland. James Brideson, Natural Resource Extension Officer for the Ballina Council, said that because of the 64m-high steep cliff-face, environmental regeneration work is very [...]

Shelly After Now that the rain has eased up and the sun is shining, Ballina Info today had a close look at the erosion damage to Shelly Beach at East Ballina following the wild seas and winds last month. Long-time locals say they never seen it like this! All the sand has gone from in [...]

There’s a big weekend ahead for Riding for the Disabled — the Ballina and District Centre is celebrating its 30th Anniversary. It was on 7 June 1979 that the first riding session was held at the Boulder Beach Riding Ranch at Skennars Head – there were one riding instructor, eight riders, two horses and a [...]

Members of the Northern Rivers HOG (Harley Owners Group) are going for a drag on Saturday, June 6. They will dress up in drag for a dinner-dance at the Ballina Seagulls Rugby League Club before their Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend charity ride on Sunday, June 7. The aim of the weekend is to raise funds [...]