GUSTY winds and choppy seas could not sour spirits on Easter Sunday, 9 April, as the annual ‘Anything that Floats’ Race was held on South Pindimar beach by the Pindimar Bundabah Community Association (PBCA). At 10:30am, four teams of raft-racers…
SING-ALONGS have a fresh face at Woolgoolga Red Cross Friendship Afternoon Teas (FATS) with the launch of a new song book. On Friday March 30, the monthly Friendship Afternoon Tea attendees were handed the fresh song book, which received a…
IDEAL conditions and a commitment to finding pace and rhythm early paid off for Isabella Henderson who led home a team of 161 swimmers from The Armidale School (TAS) in the 2000m Beachside Radiology Coffs Ocean Swim on Sunday 26…
IT WAS mise en place in motion at the TAFE NSW Coffs Campus commercial kitchen where the Certificate III baking apprentices were producing batches of various varieties of hot cross buns on Tuesday 28 March. For the uninitiated, mise en…
A STRANGE feathered friend surprised local Coffs Coast birders last week, giving them a very unusual sighting for our area. On Wednesday 22 March Ellany Whelan and Cheryl Cooper were walking and peering as birders do, and suddenly saw the…
MICROLIGHT Milly, Amellia Formby, flew into South Grafton Airfield last week for speaking engagements on the Coffs Coast on her year-long circumnavigation of Australia’s coastline. Working for BirdLIfe Australia, the zoologist, children’s book illustrator and pilot is bringing awareness to…
ON WEDNESDAY April 12 from 9am to 3pm, the Boambee East Community Hall will be filled with the clicking of knitting needles powering away for a purpose. The community is invited to come along and do their bit at a…
LANDCARE has partnered with St John Paul College, Coffs Harbour in an educational project for Year 10 students centred around stewardship of our natural environment. Some 150 St John Paul College students, hosted onsite at Boambee Headland by Landcare and…