IMMERSING teenagers in the underwater university of the ocean, the four-day in-residence Rymarine initiative of the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour Daybreak has just held its 2022 event. The purpose of the program is to familiarise fifteen to seventeen year…
TRYING something new to engage with the community, the team from Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre (CHNC) is heading down to the Twilight Food Markets at Park Beach Reserve on Friday 28 October 2022. “We thought it was a positive bit…
FEDERAL Member for Cowper Pat Conaghan this week welcomed The Nationals leader David Littleproud and Deputy Leader Senator Perin Davey to the Cowper electorate as part of the party’s ‘Regional Listening Tour’. The tour is aimed at listening and learning…
BETWEEN 5 and 27 November the Coffs Coast Festival of Motor Sport will be presented by Coffs City Rotary Club in various venues between Kempsey, Coffs Harbour and Grafton. C.ex Coffs Sports Touring and Classic Car Club has been invited…
VOLUNTEERING is in a precarious position nationally with volunteer numbers declining since COVID. Locally, Volunteering Coffs Harbour is calling for support. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02)…
ZONTA Club of Coffs Harbour team has been busy this month assembling birthing kits, manning a Bunnings BBQ fundraiser, and planning for the organisation’s 25th Anniversary dinner on Friday 28 October. Zonta members, with students from Bishop Druitt College, Coffs…
WOOLGOOLGA Red Cross members and volunteers have received recognition this month as they continue their schedule of volunteering at events. The NSW Red Cross AGM held earlier in October in Sydney is seen by members as an opportunity to hear…
CHARLIE Smith, aviation and motorsports legend of Coffs Harbour, passed away on Saturday afternoon, 15 October, aged 94. Charlie’s son Ian Smith told News Of The Area, “Dad was a lifelong aviator, a car racer, a town councillor at the…
PRINCIPALS and teachers rallied outside the office of Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh on Wednesday, October 12, in protest at the NSW Government’s submission to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission for a new three-year award that the Federation says…
ON 23 December, Coffs Harbour resident Peter Elzer will begin a 2022km journey on foot from Melbourne to Seventeen Seventy (north of Bundaberg) in an attempt to ‘Stamp Out Racism’. In preparation for his mammoth task, Peter Elzer took a…