Coffs-based Yazidi woman wins Heywire true story competition Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 18, 2024 MAYADA, a young Yazidi woman living within her community in Coffs Harbour, has won a place in the 2025 ABC Heywire competition after entering her story of escaping her ISIS captors in Syria. Heywire is a true story competition from the ABC which calls young people in regional, rural and remote
Exhibition Hall opens at Coffs Showground Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 15, 2024 THE renovated Coffs Harbour Showground Exhibition Hall is ready for occupation and will officially open this weekend. The Management Board is inviting all past and present board members and staff, the construction team, licensees, lessees, and any interested public, to the Grand Opening on Saturday, 14 December, at noon. Advertise with News
Coffs City Orchestra’s concerts and carols Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 15, 2024 COFFS Harbour City Orchestra’s recent concerts at the Race Club drew in the crowds with audiences enjoying the programs of inspiring and uplifting music. “The Race Club generously provides this venue free of charge each year for our orchestra and as always our intention was to donate to a worthy charity
Banded South Island Pied Oystercatcher a record achiever Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 15, 2024 WHEN Coffs Harbour birding enthusiast Ellany Whelan snapped a photo of a shorebird early one morning at Old Bar beach, she had no idea the picture would open up the fascinating details of the bird’s travel itinerary of the past eight years. A member of both the Bellingen Birders group and
Seven new cops for the Coffs Coast Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 15, 2024 SEVEN new probationary constables have begun their duties in the Coffs/Clarence Police District after new officers attested at last Friday’s ceremony at the Goulburn Police Academy. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh welcomed the new police officers to the Coffs Coast and joined them for a walk-through of Coffs Harbour’s
Coffs Coast a cacophony of cicada song Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 13, 2024 CICADAS are enjoying a very big year in 2024 with their incessant daytime cacophony kicking off before the kookaburras and fizzling out after the frogs set-up their night time croaks. News Of The Area asked cicada expert Prof David Emery, what the song and dance is all about. Advertise with News of
Local consortium sets sights on raising $100k for Bellingen’s hospital Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 13, 2024 “IT all depends on you” is the clarion call to the community from a consortium of groups formed to raise $100,000 for Bellinger River District Hospital. It’s an ambitious goal, but the group’s members are driven by the hospital’s “wish list” of much needed equipment. Advertise with News of The Area today.
Coffs Harbour Snappers RUFC run 100km for Redkite Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 11, 2024 ON a day filled with emotion, superhuman effort, humbling support and passion, the Coffs Harbour Snappers RUFC pulled off their 100km run around the Coffs Coast - raising almost $18,000 for Redkite. On Saturday morning at 4am, a core group of runners set off from The Jetty with support cyclist Jackson
Lifeguards in dispute with City of Coffs Harbour over rosters, staffing Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 11, 2024 COFFS Harbour lifeguards say their services are stretched to the limit, putting the lives of beachgoers at risk and threatening their own health and wellbeing. The United Services Union (USU), on behalf of the lifeguards, has filed proceedings against their employer, City of Coffs Harbour Council, in the NSW Industrial Relations
Frank Kennedy: environmentalist with the community in mind Coffs Coast Coffs Coast - popup ad Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 8, 2024 A MAN of integrity and love for the land, Frank Kennedy passed away at Mater Christi Aged Care on Monday 25 November, aged 80. A Requiem Mass was held at Our Lady of the Way Chapel at Marian Grove in Toormina, on Friday 29 November. Advertise with News of The Area today.