NAMBUCCA Valley Red Cross is celebrating a milestone for Lesley Smith, its longest-serving member. On 9 October, its local Emergency Services Team will mark 30 years of service to the Red Cross and her community. Over her three decades of volunteering with Australian Red Cross, Ms Smith has responded to numerous evacuation and recovery emergencies. […]
LICENSED venues across the Mid North Coast Police District have joined forces to bar troublesome patrons from every licenced venue across the region under an expanded multi-venue barring policy. The unified initiative sees the Nambucca, Hastings, and Macleay Liquor Accords working in direct partnership to ensure troublemakers barred in one town can no longer simply […]
Small moments, Big impact will be a celebration of everyday moments in aged care. Photo: magnific
IT’S time for aged care workers around the country to strike a pose, because Ageing Australia is looking to showcase photographs of the best in the sector. So many people contribute in positive and amazing ways to the care of older Australians, and Ageing Australia is holding a Humans of Aged Care photo competition to […]
TAKING action is second nature to Peter Elzer. The 71-year-old Coffs Harbour-based conservationist, formerly known as ‘KoaLaMan’, has campaigned for many years for the protection of Pine Creek State Forest and the establishment of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP). He has previously held a 12-day hunger strike outside Parliament House and, last year, walked […]
There was a full house for the club’s 30th birthday celebrations earlier this year at Macksville Ex-
Services Club. Photo: Facebook.
NAMBUCCA Country Music Club organisers have made the difficult decision to cease operations as a not-for-profit and the organisation has moved under the banner of the Macksville Ex-Services Club (MESC). Outgoing president Kerri Garvie and long-serving club stalwart June Pettiford resigned from their positions and chose not to stand for re-election at the club’s annual […]
Nambucca District Rescue Squad members during hands-on drills. Nambucca District Rescue Squad members during hands-on drills. THE COVID pandemic and associated lockdowns changed the face of many business models, workplaces, and even volunteer organisations. The Nambucca District Rescue Squad was disbanded during the first COVID lockdown and this led to the squad ceasing operations. Some […]
The two-day meeting called for forests to be valued for their own sake. Photo: Bob Brown Foundation.
COFFS Coast environmental groups were represented at a two-day meeting last week that aimed to end native forest logging. Australian national environment and climate groups and regional and grassroots forest organisations met to collaborate on a national campaign to protect native forests by ending logging, clearing and conversion. Tim Cadman, Ashley Love and Meredith Stanton […]
Hearnes Lake is one of the catchments being monitored. Photo: Brett Vercoe.
LOCALS have known that Hearnes Lake and other Coffs Coast catchments have contained evidence of toxic chemicals at unsafe levels for quite a while. In 2021 Hearnes Lake Catchment Management Group, under the auspices of the Sandy Beach Action Group (SANDBAG) used a $9,000 Council Environmental Levy grant to collect water samples from waterways flowing […]
I AM continually amazed that so many residents of Australia’s Mid North Coast are yet to visit Broughton Island. I recently returned from a few days, fishing, swimming and wandering around the island, which I believe to be a ‘jewel in the crown’ of this beautiful region. Despite the many times I have visited the […]
MUSIC lovers from across the Mid North Coast were treated to two memorable afternoons of song and celebration when the Bowraville Theatre Singers took to the stage for their latest production, ‘Harp Song’, alongside special guest Claire Patti. Held on Saturday, 13 June and Sunday, 14 June, both performances at the Bowraville Theatre sold out […]
