Ballina Information Blog

Former rugby league international Mark Edmondson and former NRL judiciary commissioner Jim Hall, along with NRL Titan players, will be the special guests at the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League 2010 season launch this Friday night at the Ballina RSL Club. The family friendly event will also have the winners of the inaugural Ballina RSL [...]

The Member for Page, Janelle Saffin, has announced a further $50,000 in Federal Government funding to support local organisation Heartfelt House in running programs for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. “I have seen first-hand the great work being done by Vicki Hamilton at Heartfelt House and it is clear that her programs are meeting [...]

5am: Reveille. 5.25am: Fall-in at RSL Memorial, Grant Street. 5.30am: Dawn Service (RSL memorial, Grant Street). 6.30am: Breakfast at RSL Club (Ballina RSL Sub-Branch members, ex-service and serving personnel only). 8.45am: Buses depart for pilgrimage to the cemetery. 9.15am: Commemoration at the cemetery. 10am: March assembly at Court House, corner of River and Martin Streets. [...]

Ballina Shire residents have been urged to take advantage of the Federal Government’s extension of the eligibility for free seasonal flu vaccine to cover those most at risk of complications from the flu.  The flu vaccine remains free for those aged 65 years. It has been extended to cover Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders aged [...]

Ron ‘Shorty’ Connors was one of the great local surfers of the lates 1960s and early 1970s, but a brain tumour cut short his life at age 26. However, his old surfing mates have not forgotten him, and on Saturday, April 24, he will be honoured with the opening of the Shorty Connors Memorial Stairs [...]

Ballina’s Relay For Life is on November 6 and 7 and the organising committee needs volunteers to make it even bigger and better than last year. Rory Janssens, Project Coordinator, is inviting all locals become involved in the organising committee. “I would like to encourage all interested people to be part of the organising committee. [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page has welcomed the announcement of a new PET/CT Scanner for the Lismore Base Hospital.  “This will be an enormous benefit and valuable resource for the community. This is a good example of bipartisan support by local members, both Federal and State, to get a positive outcome,” Mr Page said.  “It’s [...]

Ballina Rugby Club kicks off its season this weekend with a home game against Southern Cross University. The club has welcomed a new president, Al Barrett, and new coaches for 1st grade Mick McGregor and John Doktor, 2nd grade Brent Horan and Lincoln Raudonikis, with under 19s being coached by Josh Piercy. Mick Koellner will [...]

Some of the region’s best young bands will take to the stage as part of the Ballina Shire’s Youth Week celebrations. The event will be held at the Ballina Amphitheatre (next to the Skate Park) on Sunday 11 April 2010 and will run from 1pm-4pm. Seven local bands will be performing on stage from 1pm [...]

Twenty loggerhead turtle hatchlings are in care at Australian Seabird Rescue (ASR) in Ballina following the hatching of a turtle nest at South Golden Beach last Sunday. General manager of ASR, Keith Williams, said onshore winds prevented the hatchlings from escaping the surf, and all those hatchlings currently in care washed up on the beach [...]