Local piper Graham Broadhead will be among those performing at this year’s Retravision Northern League grand final at Kingsford Smith Park, Ballina, on Sunday, September 16. Graham, also known as G’Bro, is well-known to Ballina Shire residents as editor of the weekly newspaper, The Advocate. But he hasn’t always been a newspaperman. Graham’s first job was [...]
Name: Melanie Doriean. Occupation: Currently Labor Candidate for the seat of Ballina and otherwise a project officer in the Department of Education and Training. Do you have any hobbies? I love reading, discussing ideas, walking, singing in a local choral group, spending time with my family. How long have you lived in the Ballina electorate? [...]
Name: Ben Smith (aka Smithy). Occupation: IT consultant and small business owner. I love being in small business, small business is the backbone of our community and we have some of the best small business operators in NSW here I think! Very enthusiastic, forward thinking people. Do you have any hobbies? I walk every day; [...]
Ballina Info profiles John Bailey, the Greens candidate for the seat of Ballina in the March 24 State election … Name: John Bailey, Greens candidate for the state seat of Ballina (which covers both the Ballina and Byron Shires). Occupation: Writer. Recent publications include The White Divers of Broome on pearl shell diving, The Lost [...]
Continuing Ballina Info’s profiles of local people. Here we look at former rugby league player Greg Fryer, pictured … It’s a long way from the Sydney Cricket Ground and the 1969 Sydney rugby league grand final to Chicken Mania in River Street, Ballina, but that’s the path that Greg Fryer’s life has taken. In between [...]
Continuing our series of profiles on Ballina people. Here we report on Ballina barber Cathy Walshe-Munro … Back in the 1960s, Ballina kids got their short-back-and-sides haircut from Ballina barber Jack Walshe in his Wigmore Arcade shop — and they got a free packet of chewing gum thrown in to the deal. These days kids [...]
Welcome to the first of our Ballina Info profiles on local people. We thought we would kick off the profiles with the man who represents us in State Parliament, Member for Ballina Don Page . . . Name: Don Page. Occupation: Member of Parliament, macadamia grower. Do you have any hobbies? Tennis, cricket, rugby, [...]
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