A night crusade inside the Tent of Promise.
A night crusade inside the Tent of Promise. A team member explains the tent’s Bible Panorama. THE Tent of Promise is an old-time revival experience currently travelling the length and breadth of Australia. It will be at the Bellingen Showground from 13-16 November, where visitors can view a 30 metre-long Bible panorama showing the chronology […]
MP Gurmesh Singh, Mayor Nikki Williams and Orchid Society President Neville Anderson with members and volunteers. The winning floor display by Coffs Harbour Orchid Society. ORGANISERS say the 23rd Australian Orchid Council International Conference and Show, hosted by the Woolgoolga District Orchid Society (WDOS) in October, was a “magnificent success”. Combining a mammoth orchid show […]
Last year’s Coffs Coast Woodworker’s exhibition.
Last year’s Coffs Coast Woodworker’s exhibition. This turned lidded bowl is a competition prize. THE Coffs Coast Woodworker’s (CCW) annual exhibition will be held at the North Coast Botanic Garden in the Display Conference Room from 28-30 November. A diverse range of crafted items will be on show. “Whether it be charcuterie boards, turned bowls, […]
Lion’s Club Coffs Harbour will run the Women’s Shed BBQ fundraiser.
THE Coffs Harbour Women’s Shed Project Committee is inviting the local community to a BBQ fundraiser supporting Warrina Domestic & Family Violence Specialist Services on Friday, 7 November. Running from 10:00am to 2:00pm on the front lawn at 41 Gordon Street, Coffs Harbour, the event will feature a relaxed morning tea and community barbecue, with […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Nationals have rejected ‘Net Zero’, the policy they signed up to when Barnaby Joyce was their leader. Net Zero has become a totemic symbol, a two-word slogan the Nationals hate. But Net Zero is much more than a slogan – it’s an ambitious investment, energy, jobs, industry and environment […]
RENTAL vacancy rates across NSW remain critically low, deepening the housing crisis and leaving tenants competing for limited homes. New analysis from the Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW) shows that in September, many regions recorded vacancy rates below two percent. The Mid-North Coast sat at 1.6 percent, while Coffs Harbour was at 1.5 percent. […]
THE City of Coffs Harbour, together with the Australian and NSW governments, have combined their funding resources to improve the resilience of O’Keefe Drive in the south Coffs Harbour industrial area. A Transport for NSW spokesperson said through combined disaster recovery funding from the Australian and NSW Governments, O’Keefe Drive is now much better able […]
DEAR News Of The Area, Tuesday, 11 November is Remembrance Day. It is also the 50th anniversary of the sacking of the Whitlam government but I digress. I remember my father who joined the air force, learnt to fly Spitfires, and got shot down over Italy. Two weeks later, in a Bologna hospital, after having […]
A drone shot of the upgraded Short Cut Road.
AN UPGRADE to Short Cut Road, which serves as a key freight route linking the Raleigh Industrial Estate to surrounding local roads and the Pacific Highway, is now complete. The $1.6 million project was delivered through a partnership between the NSW Government’s Fixing Country Roads Program, which contributed $1.4 million, and Bellingen Shire Council, which […]
Maintenance Coordinator North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, Rick Ackland. Photo: Cheryl Cooper.
NORTH Coast Regional Botanic Garden manager Rick Ackland will speak at the next meeting of the Coffs Harbour branch of the Australian Plants Society (APS). Just back from the Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ) annual congress in Canberra, Mr Ackland will share highlights and “lightbulb” moments from the three-day event. The meeting […]
