THE Muttonbird Island Nature Reserve Shearwater Rescue Program, a partnership between WIRES, National Parks and Wildlife Service and Dolphin Marine Conservation Park, is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to lend a hand with collection and release of stranded shearwaters. Advertise…
AN Easter Craft Workshop which promises to be an ‘EGGstravaganza’ takes place on Saturday 9 April at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden. The event will be a fundraiser for the Children’s Environmental Education Garden project. Advertise with News…
PLANTATIONS retirement village in Woolgoolga presents its second Arts and Crafts Exhibition, to be held over Easter weekend, 14 – 17 April. The show and sale will be open to the public on Saturday 16 April from 10am –…
HANABETH Luke joined Emerald Beach locals for ‘Politics in the Sand’ on Sunday, March 20 for a surf and ‘meet and greet’. Ms Luke is a Senior lecturer in Science and Regenerative Agriculture at Southern Cross University who announced…
LAST WEEK Greg Collison, Group Facilities Co-Ordinator at Pacific Coast Shopping Centres, announced that 1000kg of books from the Coffs Central Shopping Centre would be given to the Lismore Library. The books, which are donated by the public to…
MOTORING on with her project to create an overnight shelter for the homeless in Coffs Harbour, Doris Cowan has been well supported by the local community with donations of goods galore. “In fact we have been given so much…
AFTER being postponed because of COVID-19 last year, the Newry Art Auction will be held at the Bellingen Showground Pavilion on Saturday, 9 April. Ten artworks available in the live auction can be viewed at newryartauction.wordpress.com. Advertise with News…
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE a feeling that the chickens are coming home to roost in Australia. Free money, enormous debt. Excluding our older generation who have experienced harder times, we are becoming fat and lazy, having…
DEAR News Of The Area, ONE answer is to make readily available more of the vast quantity of our home grown vegetables and fruit which never reach the supermarket shelves, because it is not the ideal shape, size or…
DEAR News Of The Area, I’M another who’s concerned about the so-called ‘Independents’ popping up to run for federal parliament. One surefire way of telling that they’re likely to be party-aligned, is when they sidestep the two big elephants…