Indigenous writer Mel Brown to discuss ‘Shades of Me’ memoir in Coffs Harbour Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 12, 2024 INDIGENOUS writer Mel Brown will discuss her memoir, ‘Shades of Me’, in Coffs Harbour later this month, sharing how the journey to understand her culture gave her the strength to find her place in the world. Growing up white, Mel always felt there was another shade to her soul. Advertise with News
Dr Sally Gray talks flamingos, frocks and fashion in Coffs Harbour Coffs Coast Coffs Coast by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 12, 2024 A MOMENTOUS fashion movement making its way through the 1970s and just into the ’80s, centred around Sydney’s Flamingo Park Frock Salon, was the subject of ArtsNational Coffs Coast’s June presentation. It was the shop’s founding era, and the designers who forged it, which speaker Dr Sally Gray presented to the
Yandaarra Aunty Grace Roberts Memorial Community Award winners announced Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 12, 2024July 12, 2024 DES Ahoy, a senior health worker with Galambila Aboriginal Health Services in Coffs Harbour, won the top title in the Yandaarra Aunty Grace Roberts Memorial Community Awards presented at Yarrila Place on Monday 8 July. Receiving the Grace Roberts Memorial Community Development Award, Des Ahoy was a popular winner. Advertise with News
The Big Screen with Lindsay Hall Camden Haven Coffs Coast Highlight Section Myall Coast Nambucca Valley Port Stephens by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 12, 2024 WHEN Majestic Cinemas shuttered their business in February, company director Kieren Dell cited the “perfect storm” of factors that were rendering traditional cinemas increasingly unfeasible businesses. The effect of three years of social distancing wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with an exponential increase in streaming services for home entertainment and
Sheriffs walk off the job over staffing crisis, poor pay Coffs Coast Highlight Section Nambucca Valley by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 11, 2024 SHERIFFS from Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Macksville walked off the job last week, joining colleagues from courthouses in Gosford to the Queensland border and inland to protest against staffing levels and poor pay. In Coffs Harbour, eight sheriffs protested. North Coast Public Service Association organiser Michael Smart described the response from
Stargazing: The man who owns the Moon Camden Haven Coffs Coast Highlight Section Myall Coast Nambucca Valley Port Stephens by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 IN 1969 we landed on the Moon. The astronauts proudly stuck an American flag into the ground. Were they staking a claim to the dusty rock? No, and it wouldn’t have been possible anyway. Just two years earlier, a United Nations treaty had been created to prohibit any nation owning
Something ‘Loverly’ is coming to Coffs Harbour Coffs Coast Whats VIBIN by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 10, 2024 SHE was the Australian soprano hand-picked by Dame Julie Andrews to play Eliza Doolittle in the 60th-anniversary production of My Fair Lady, now Anna O’Byrne is coming to Coffs Harbour with a show of her own. In Becoming Eliza, at the City of Coffs Harbour’s Jetty Memorial Theatre on 20 July,
Kangaroo Bus hops in to the Coffs Coast Coffs Coast Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 7, 2024 THE Kangaroo Bus is coming to town, bringing ease of access to government services and transactions to Aboriginal communities in regional NSW. The bus is a dedicated Service NSW Mobile Service Centre providing drivers licence and vehicle registration renewals, Seniors Card applications, driver testing and more. Advertise with News of The
John Townsend Golf Classic a winning day for 104.1 CHY FM Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 7, 2024 CRACKING good fun, an enthusiastic turnout and gorgeous weather combined to make this year’s 104.1 CHYFM John Townsend Golf Classic a winning day. Held at Coffs Harbour Golf Club on Friday 28 June, the golf day is a major fundraiser for the not-for-profit youth radio station. Advertise with News of The Area
Grant success is a big step towards new pathway for Dorrigo Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - July 7, 2024 PATHWAYS from the local high school to the Dorrigo township will be improved through funding from the NSW Government’s Get NSW Active program. “Transport NSW, under the Get NSW Active grants program, has awarded Bellingen Shire Council $358,527.44 to connect and improve the pathway network from Dorrigo High School to the
