NAN Donna, a local Coffs Harbour Aboriginal grandmother, finally has a place to call her own thanks to the support of not-for-profit housing provider, Community Housing Ltd (CHL). After years on the social housing waitlist, Nan Donna was one…
ROBERT and Margaret Chapman, long-term benefactors of Coffs Harbour Health Campus, have ended the year’s gifting by donating a $14,091 trauma bed to the Emergency Department. Having generously supported paediatric medicine and the operating theatre in the past, they…
NAMBUCCA Heads High School student Charlotte Battiston has written and self-published her first book. Fourteen-year-old Charlotte, who writes under the pen name Charlie Batt, has written a children’s/young adult fantasy which was published mid-December. Titled ‘Imagine: A Wild Civilisation’,…
HAVE you ever seen a painting in an art gallery and thought “I wonder what that is all about?” If so, here is an opportunity to get to the ‘art’ of it. The Nambucca Valley Art Appreciation Group aims…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE waiting to be tested for COVID-19 last Friday, a lovely young lass behind me, socially distancing, who had recently returned from Germany chatted to me. She made me aware she was completing her…
IMAGINE starting a business as part of your sea change to find most of your customers quickly consider your business to be a vital service. That is what happened when retired registered nurse Deb Burleigh and former golf pro…
GEORGE Gosson was born in Macksville 1902 and was too young to join brother Frank in the War. He was working in forestry in Gympie when the Second World War broke out. In June 1940 at the age of…
FRANK Gosson was born in Kempsey in 1895 and lived there with his parents, four brothers and two sisters before they moved to Macksville where brother, George, was born. After leaving school Frank worked as a labourer. When war…
ANOTHER Mid North Coast author lands in the burgeoning Local Authors section of Coffs Harbour Book Warehouse thanks to manager Julie Holgate’s keen interest in our region’s writers. “I’m really keen to support local authors and we have a…
LIKE so much of Eastern Australia the Mid North Coast has recently been hit by prolonged periods of rain and winds. Just as the wet has played havoc with so many of the state’s river systems and low lying…