HAVING its genesis in Nambucca Heads but now a monthly staple in Bowraville, a gathering known as the Blokes Brekky is doing wonders for the wellbeing of men in the community. At 7:00 am on the first Saturday of each month men show up at the Anglican Hall in Young Street,

  NAMBUCCA RSL Club has been successful in gaining $2,007,800 under the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants program for a project that reaffirms and equips it better as the region’s Emergency Evacuation Centre during fires and floods. This will provide economic relief to the club and allow further re-investment of funds into

  INCLEMENT weather couldn’t dampen the spirits of Scotts Head residents last Saturday. Approximately 100 people attended the ‘Save Our Village’ rally held at the Recreation Hut Scotts Head Reserve. The feelings of Scotts Head residents were made very clear by signage on the approach to the village. Many of those gathered on the

  STATEWIDE on Tuesday 15 February nurses and midwives walked off the job to demand that the staffing crisis in public hospitals be resolved. Across NSW the strike action took place in 150 public hospitals and health services. Life-preserving services were maintained in public hospitals and health services throughout the strike, which was

  PARENTS and carers of teenagers are being invited to join a free webinar series run by headspace that gives support strategies to help them navigate the ups and downs of teenage mental health. As the National Youth Mental Health Foundation, headspace is working hard to provide support to families and friends

  OzGREEN’S Resilient Communities Volunteer Facilitators are ready to commence training and locations have been selected for the 2022 roll out of the program. During February facilitators will be mentored through the program readying them to deliver to their groups from March. The Resilient Communities groups will run monthly from March - October

  NAMBUCCA Heads Men’s Shed (NHMS) is working with the Community Power Agency to investigate possible options for renewable energy that will help to strengthen local not-for-profit organisations, lower their electricity bills and make them more sustainable into the future. Funding for this work has been generously provided by the Foundation for

  WORKERS in designated industries including manufacturing, agriculture, transport, and emergency services have been given an exemption from current public health orders which mandate self-isolation if you become a close contact of a Covid-19 case. A new exemption to the Public Health (COVID-19 Self-Isolation) Order (No 4) 2021 has been made which

  IMAGINE starting a business as part of your sea change to find most of your customers quickly consider your business to be a vital service. That is what happened when retired registered nurse Deb Burleigh and former golf pro Steve Hitchcock began a business known as Possum’s Tuckerbox operating out of

  CRYSTAL Vowels, Scotts Head mum of Avalon, 12 and Sandon, 10, who is passionate about giving her kids the opportunities they seek out, took the kids to Coffs Harbour for the annual KOBBAS Skatefest in early December. “This was the first skate competition we had attended, and it did not disappoint,”