THE PASSION for performance over 50 years of song and dance, piano, instrumental and drama, was celebrated by Coffs Harbour Eisteddfod Society members past and present at Jetty Memorial Theatre on Saturday 9 July. “The 50th celebrations event was a…
DYING to Know Day, set for Woolgoolga Community Gardens on Sunday 7 August, will provide the space within which the community can ask both profound and ordinary questions about the subject of death and dying. Passing, preparing to pass and…
ON SUNDAY 17 July Coffs Regional Community Gardens members and visitors tackled a working bee followed by a social lunch where the garden’s pizza oven was fired up. “We were so lucky with the warm sunny day, and we welcomed…
THE BELLINGEN Lions Club is this year continuing its long association with the annual Free Firework Display. Ken Books, Secretary Bellingen Lions Club Inc, told News Of The Area, the club was promising “a better display than ever” this year.…
THE DEVELOPMENT of a contentious fifteen campsite ‘primitive’ caravan park in Red Rock has been recommended for approval, in an emotive council meeting last week. The proposed campsite, located on Red Rock Road drew significant public interest from the small…
PATHFINDERS Pumpkin Run came to Coffs earlier in the month hosting a soup kitchen at the Uniting Church in Gordon Street for families in need. The Pumpkin Run project pairs two parts of the not-for-profit Pathfinders’ vision: community engagement and…
JOHN Mills OAM, one of Australia’s longest-serving registered pharmacists, has died. A veteran of the pharmaceutical industry for more than 63 years, the Newee Creek resident – who owned and operated John Mills Pharmacy in Nambucca Heads for 20 years…
THE VALLA Beach Community Resilience Team (VBCRT) was established eighteen months ago following an initiative by the Red Cross to prepare vulnerable communities in the event of flood or fire. Last year, information leaflets were distributed to every residence in…
TIME2TALK Nambucca Valley in conjunction with RUOK? has announced that the RUOK? Conversation Convoy will be stopping in the Nambucca Valley on Friday 29 July. The aim of the Conversation Convoy is to make every day RUOK? Day by encouraging…
EVEN before the Federal Government released its State of the Environment report earlier this week, local conservationists were alarmed by recent statements about koalas by NSW National Party Members of Parliament. “Claims by elected representatives that they are benefiting and…