The Northern Rivers Community Gallery is presenting an exhibition of four leading Northern Rivers Artists, Heika Braha, Mimi Dennett, Hele Ellis and Sharon Steel, who will each fill their respective gallery spaces with current expressions of intrigue and visual delight. The exhibition begins on Wednesday 28 April with the official launch on Saturday 1 May [...]
A man will appear in court next month charged over an alleged home invasion and assault at East Ballina yesterday morning. About 5.50am (Tuesday 27 April) a 43-year-old man attended a home in Barwen Street, East Ballina, and knocked on the front door. It is alleged when the door was answered by the female occupant, [...]
Ron ‘Shorty’ Connors was ‘no different to the boys and girls of today — he loved his surfing, especially at the Point’. Those words came from Shorty’s dad Cyril at the opening of the Ron ‘Shorty’ Connors Memorial Stairs at Lennox Point on Saturday. The stairs’ construction was a collaborative effort by the Department of [...]
Ballina MP Don Page voiced his support in Parliament for the Ballina Hockey Club’s project to develop a new hockey complex in Ballina. “The Ballina Hockey Club is leading the way in the development of the Ballina Hockey Complex, which will include a new synthetic turf playing field as well as a clubhouse, spectator grandstands, [...]
The management of three Crown land caravan parks on the North Coast was today transferred to the NSW Government. Minister for Lands Tony Kelly said Warwick Watkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA), has formally accepted the handover from Ballina Shire Council. “The handover took place at Lake Ainsworth Caravan [...]
North Coast Area Health Service (NCAHS) will be running a series of free Pandemic H1N1 (Swine Flu) Influenza Vaccination Clinics at Ballina Hospital during April and May. Everyone is encouraged to protect themselves and their families by being vaccinated against pandemic influenza. Globally there have been almost 16,000 deaths associated with pandemic influenza, with 191 [...]
Ballina Shire families are invited to attend a fun-filled and educational day out and kids can meet firefighters from the NSW Fire Brigades (NSWFB) at the McDonald’s Fire Brigades Kids Day on Sunday 2 May. Firefighters from Ballina Fire Station will visit the McDonald’s Ballina restaurant to hand out free Brigade Kids CDs and give [...]
Two traffic blackspots in Ballina Shire are to be remedied after Federal Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese and Page MP Janelle Saffin announced the Australian Government will provide $133,256 to fix two dangerous blackspots. The approved projects in the Page electorate are: Wardell Road at curve immediately north of Amber Place, Meerschaum Vale: $73,000 [...]
The Ballina Electorate Council has announced the re-endorsement of Don Page as the Nationals candidate to stand at the next State election. Mr Page has been Member for Ballina since 1988. “Don Page has been a long-standing local State Member who has a strong record of standing up for the constituents of the Ballina Electorate [...]
Volunteer surf lifesavers will take down the red and yellow flags for the last time on Ballina Shire beaches when the NSW patrol season officially ends on Monday 26 April, 2010. The 09/10 season was another busy one with more than seven million people visiting NSW beaches. Drowning deaths continue to be a major concern [...]
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