Ballina longboarder Melissa Combo, pictured, finished second in the open women’s event at the Hyundai Malfunction Surf Festival last weekend. Tweed Heads surfer Chelsea Williams, 24, (Kingscliff,NSW) wiped away the disappointment of finishing second in last year’s event, downing Melissa, Rosie Locke (Cooroy,Qld) and Nava Young (Angourie, NSW) to claim her third LQS women’s title [...]
School captains from Alstonville, Ballina, Byron Bay, Southern Cross and Mullumbimby High Schools recently visited NSW Parliament House in Sydney as part of the Government Secondary Schools Leadership Program. The Member for Ballina, Don Page, hosted Grace Skehan, Luke Myles, Jack Jeffery, Allison Koellner, Ivy D’Orsogna, Elliot Johnson, Georgia Playford, Jasmia Bavaresco, Angeline Daniels and [...]
Page MP Janelle Saffin has announced $722,000 for the University of Sydney Dental School to construct a dental teaching clinic in Ballina. Ms Saffin said the funding will allow the University to expand its rural placements in Ballina. “Dental services in our region have been under-resourced for years, and I lobbied strongly for this joint [...]
Lennox Head surfer Stuart Kennedy won the biggest event of his emerging career in Tasmania today, taking out the prestigious Association of Surfing Professionals 6-Star Rated O’Neill Cold Water Classic. Twenty-year-old Kennedy is on his first serious year as an ASP World Qualifying Series competitor and the former Australasian Pro Junior Champion of 2008 could [...]
After 30 month’s research and conversations with thousands of road users Sunday March 28 marks the launch of NSW road safety initiative Driver Survivor Inc. at Kingsford Smith Park – Ballina. The morning commences at 10:00am with NSW Ambulance Service Chaplain the Reverend Graeme R Davis and Police Chaplain the Reverend Ron Law conducting a [...]
Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek and Member for Page Janelle Saffin today inspected two projects that will deliver a total of 19 new affordable homes in Ballina. Under the first project, Capital Insight has received $4.4 million in funding through the Stimulus Plan to build nine one-bedroom and six two-bedroom units at 119-123 Burnet Street, [...]
A research project is looking for hear from Ballina Shire locals with any information on fish kills in the Richmond River, particulary prior to the 1980s. The most recent fish kills have been in 2001 and 2008. Both came after a summer flood, and both saw the river closed to all forms of fishing for [...]
Volunteer lifesavers of the Ballina Lighthouse and Lismore Surf Life Saving Club will come a-knocking this weekend in the club’s annual doorknock fund-raising campagin. The club is asking the residents of Ballina for their support on Saturday, March 27. Volunteer surf lifesavers and supporters will be asking the local community to dig deep in order [...]
The 10 local families who built the Ramada Hotel & Suites Ballina Byron and collectively own 85 of the 115 rooms at the hotel have spoken in defence of the application for extension of use. “In keeping with Ballina’s award-winning Town Centre Development Control Plan, we are applying to extend the use of 94 of [...]
Ballina girl Sarah Moore was one of 110 Youth Ambassadors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in Canberra this week, lobbying for funding for type 1 diabetes research. Page MP Janelle Saffin met Sarah and her mother, Denise, in her Parliamentary office on Thursday morning and then joined them at the Kids in the [...]
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