Ballina Lions Club and The Northern Star newspaper are organising the 7th annual Fun-Run-Walk for 2012. It will be held at the Missingham Bridge Reserve, Sunday morning June 10, 2012 starting at 9am. All proceeds this year will go to Biala Special School, but this year there is something new: Would you like to raise [...]
A combined choir, including members of St Andrew’s Choir Lismore, and Spiritsong, will be performing a meditation in words and song, under the expert direction of Warren Whitney in Ballina on Sunday. The meditation will express the range of emotions associated with the sorrows and despair of the crucifixion and the hope of the resurrection. [...]
Ballina athlete Jay Meaney has been selected to represent Australia at the World Junior Championships in Spain in July after an outstanding performance at the Australian Junior Championships in Sydney from March 15-18. Representing Queensland, 17-year-old Jay won two gold medals and a bronze. He won the Under-18 400m in a personal-best time of 47.67 seconds. [...]
Ballina Shire Council’s General Manager, Paul Hickey is encouraging community-based and not-for-profit groups operating in Ballina Shire to register their details in Council’s online community directory. “The directory has recently been established as a key point of contact for all of these eligible groups which provide important and broad-ranging services for our shire residents and [...]
Bunnings says its new warehouse on the Big Prawn site at West Ballina will create 70 new jobs for local residents. The Warehouse will be located at the corner of the Pacific Highway and Horizon Drive, West Ballina, NSW, and is set to open early 2013. Bunnings will invest more than $30 million in the [...]
Parents are being encouraged to look at ways to reinvigorate their child’s journey to school as an effective response to preventable diseases like diabetes and obesity. And there are numerous road safety benefits as well. “The majority of students live within two kilometres of the school gate,” said Ballina Council’s Road Safety Officer, Jodie Hewett. [...]
A new market, the North Coast Kids and Babies Market, will begin at Lennox Head in May. Market-goers are invited to come along to purchase necessities or to sell your own pre-loved goods. There will be more than 40 stalls of pre-loved, new and locally hand-made items, including cots, prams, high chairs, car seats, scooters, [...]
The Garage Sale Trail – Australia’s largest and most successful real world community-based marketplace – is back on Saturday 5 May, 2012 and this year ‘Everything’s For Sale’. On Saturday 5 May, join the Garage Sale Trail ambassadors Michael Caton, Angus Stone, Dave Rastovich, Tracey Spicer and thousands of other Aussies nationwide who will be [...]
Record crowds have visited the Northern Rivers Community Gallery’s current exhibitions during their first week on display. The program currently features five including Sew Inspired, The Knitted Garden, The Tea Cosy Show, Liaison and The Loose Threads. A spectacular showcase of quilting, embroidery, knitting, crocheting and painting – the exhibitions are colourful, quirky, beautiful and [...]
Ballina Shire sports fields will be safer with Ballina Shire Council receiving a $90,000 grant for lighting under the Federal Government’s Safer Suburbs program. Minister for Home Affairs Jason Clare made the announcement last Friday day at Saunders Sports Field – home of the Ballina Soccer Club – with local member Janelle Saffin and Ballina [...]
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