THE Coffs Harbour Women’s Health Centre has been selected as one of 20 Australian Government-funded sites to establish a specialised Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinic. Healthy North Coast, the local not-for-profit organisation delivering the Australian Government’s Primary Health Network Program,…
THE Coffs Coast Pipes and Drums band is preparing to attend the Maclean Highland Gathering at Maclean over the Easter weekend. “While the band is not competing, the members attend the 8.30am street march on Easter Saturday morning, play near…
SONGMAKERS, a national high school music mentoring program, was enjoyed by students of Coffs Harbour Senior College and Bellingen High on 28 and 29 March. Through the program the youngsters are given the opportunity to “mix it” with some of…
THE community of Little Arrawarra is urging the City of Coffs Harbour (CoCH) to pay attention to the activities going on at the Arrawarra Holiday Park, which is currently being used to house hundreds of berry pickers in donga-style accommodation.…
DEAR Jasminda, MY husband has a very irritating ringtone on his phone. It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. Is it wrong of me to ask him to change it? Olive K. Dear Olive, A personalised ringtone…
DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING Andrea Ferrari’s fine article about Milly Formby’s courageous and epic flight around the Oz coastline, may I point out something very harmful that migrating coastal birds bring to Australia. While migrating down the Asian…
DEAR News Of The Area, HAVING just gone online to look at the stage two design of the Coffs Harbour Boat Ramp I can just imagine how unhappy the boaties are going to be when it’s complete. For example did…
DEAR News Of The Area, FURTHER to Roger Tindale’s letter regarding the state of waste management overseen by the Coffs Council. Out here in Woolgoolga we had for many years a Waste Transfer Station manned voluntarily on weekends by local…
WITHOUT a doubt, Easter is a time that we all enjoy indulging in the sweeter things – chocolate and hot cross buns! It’s important to remember that these seasonal delights are potentially deadly for our pets. Cocoa contains several compounds…
DEAR News Of The Area, BRAVO to the courageous activist who captured footage of pigs writhing and gasping for oxygen in gas chambers in Australian slaughterhouses (ABC TV 7:30, 27 March). Gassing is the common manner in which pigs are…