Ballina Information Blog

It’s on again! A year seems to go so quickly, but for the whole year, the girls at Alstonville Wollongbar Quota Club have been working towards their 10th Annual Arts and Craft Fair. The Fair will be held on Saturday and Sunday, 28th and 29th August, 2010 -  as always, the last weekend in August [...]

Three weeks ago Friends of the Koala issued a release about Leon, a healthy 3-4 year old male koala whose world had been shattered by roadworks associated with the Alstonville bypass. On Sunday 8 August Leon was released in the Coolgardie Scrub. Finding an appropriate release site for Leon involved considerable consultation involving ecologists, Department [...]

Alstonville Showground will the venue for the Northern Rivers K9 Sports Club’s annual Dog Agility and Jumping competitions on July 31 and August 1. The event will bring more than 80 dogs from Sydney, south-east Queensland and the Northern Rivers to Alstonville. Over the weekend they will be competing for the awards of Best Performing [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page has called on the Minister for Primary Industries to confirm that the Alstonville Centre for Tropical Horticulture will be retained. The threat of closure was first made in NSW Labor Government’s 2008 mini budget. “In the follow-up to that devastating announcement I lodged a petition containing over 1000 signatures supporting [...]

An Antiques and Collectables Fair will be held in Alstonville on Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16. Organised by Alstonville Rotary Club, it will be at the Alstonville Leisure and Entertainment Centre on Commercial Road. A vast array of quality antiques, books and collectables from around the world will be presented by dealers from [...]

The Alstonville Wollongbar Cup has been resurrected and will be held by the Ballina Jockey Club on Friday, April 16. The Alstonville Wollongbar Chamber of Commerce has joined with the club to host the TAB meeting, which will be sponsored by the local businesses. The Cup race is being sponsored by the Pioneer Tavern at [...]

Alstonville junior tennis player Jack Clarke is one of 32 of the State’s most promising young tennis stars selected to participate in the inaugural Medibank Challenge at the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre on Friday 15th January. Jack will contest the Under-10 boys event. The event coincides with the 2010 Medibank International Sydney Sydney Men’s Singles [...]

It’s show time in Alstonville this weekend, with organisers saying the 121st Alstonville Show, to be held on Friday and Saturday, is shaping up as the biggest for many years, despite the recent dry conditions. Record entries have been received in many classes, and the ring events on Friday and Saturday are action-packed, with dog [...]

Construction of the $90 million Alstonville Bypass is not only building for the future, but a significant discovery is giving local heritage buffs a greater understanding of early European settlement on the Alstonville Plateau. Federal Member for Page Janelle Saffin today visited Reed Constructions’ site office to get a full briefing on an archaeological find [...]

After Barry posted the Dust Storm in Ballina story, we have had a few responses from readers of our blog. One of our Ballina.Info readers, Rose from Alstonville, has sent us a few photos of the dust storm over Alstonville.