MEDOWIE Christian School experienced a world of cultures this week, when they hosted a mini Olympics for all students from Kindergarten to year 6. Each student was allocated a different country, and encouraged to dress in the colours of their…
AGE is certainly no barrier to fun, and there’s no better group to demonstrate that than the Medowie Senior Citizens Association. The group meets every first and third Tuesday of the month, at 10am in the Medowie Community Hall. They…
WHEN Port Stephens mother of two, Kim Oakhill, experienced the loss of a friends’ child in 2014, she wanted to do more for the family than just send flowers. Kim told News Of The Area, “Flowers are a lovely gesture,…
LITTLE Lucas Pickett has endured, experienced and conquered more in his first year of life, than most will experience in a lifetime. When parents Saul and Michelle attended their twenty-week scan, they were hit with the news that Lucas was…
MEDOWIE has a new group of tap dancing talent, after a group of students doing their tap exams last week achieve a 100% pass rate. All students who completed their exams in this round are students of the Dance ‘n…
ONE of the significantly important days on our calendar when we honour the sacrifices of our servicemen and women takes place this week. Vietnam Veterans Day is 18 August and the Medowie RSL sub branch invites you a special service…
ROYAL Australian Air Force Base Williamtown has outlined the planned flying program for fast jets on the Salt Ash Air Weapons Range (SAAWR) for the last three months of 2016. The F/A-18 Hornets will return to the range on 29…
MEDOWIE has it’s very own MMA Light Heavyweight fighting champion amongst its ranks, with our own David Morley taking the championship last week in Canberra. David ‘Fingers’ Morley is a kickboxing trainer at the Project Health and Fitness Gym…
AS the Vietnam Day of Remembrance for 18 August approaches, News Of The Area took the opportunity to focus on a Medowie Vietnam Veteran. In 1968, a then seventeen-and-a-half year old Brian Boughton prepared to leave home and head…
THE staff at Coles Medowie have banded together once again to help others, by competing in last weekend’s ‘City2surf’ in Sydney. Fourteen staff members of Medowie Coles registered for the popular event, and hired a bus to travel down in…