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Ssnake sseason sstarts
Thursday, 20 August 2009
WIRES reptile co-ordinator Michael McGrath has had a busy couple of weeks. The unseasonally warm weather has brought the snakes out and Michael has been moving them out of the way of the nervous humans. Full Article
Organic Roadshow comes to Lismore on Wednesday
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Food producers who are finding it tough in the current climate, be that weather or finance related, may benefit from the Biological Farmers of Australia Organic Roadshow which comes to Lismore next Wednesday, August 26. Full Article
Love thy neighbour
Thursday, 20 August 2009
A quick flick through this week’s Echo will show that three of our news stories involve legal action and we don’t actually have a dedicated court reporter. Full Article
Winsome, lose some... the day the music died
Thursday, 20 August 2009
The doors have been shut and the locks changed on Lismore’s historic Winsome Hotel. A sign out the front says “Attention Music Lovers – Dallas has officially killed the music”, Full Article
Court gives retired farmer fair crack of the whip
Thursday, 20 August 2009
David Simpson is smiling again after a noise complaint regarding his whips was thrown out of court. Full Article
Senator Faulkner to play quiz master at Coraki fundraiser
Thursday, 20 August 2009
As Melva Thompson can attest, it’s often not a case of what you know but who you know – although in this case, it’s a bit of both. Full Article
Possible legal action to stop rally
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Opponents to the Repco rally were still considering applying for an injunction to stop the event when The Echo went to print on Wednesday afternoon. Full Article
For the love of a good family
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Geoff Hannah’s friends all wondered what he was going to wear when the NSW Governor, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, unveiled his latest creation at Southern Cross University recently. Full Article
Battling memories of war
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Major Graeme Davis can remember the monsoonal rains, the shouting of his comrades and the Viet Cong, the roar of artillery and M60 machine gun fire and the faces of the men he never saw again. They are memories he would rather forget. Full Article
On the road again
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Peter Neilson’s 1935 Ford Roadster (pictured) was found in a shed at South Gundarimba in the mid 70s and was lovingly restored in the 90s. He believes it was first sold in Lismore. Full Article
Group celebrates as Cadbury and KFC go palm oil free
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Lismore’s Anasuya Claff from the Palm Oil Action Group (POAG) was celebrating this week after news that Cadbury New Zealand and Cadbury Australia have bowed to public pressure and will remove palm oil from its chocolate. Full Article
The ghost of 4WDs past causes havoc
Thursday, 20 August 2009
A Southern Cross University study has found that 4WDs seem to be having a significant impact on ghost crabs on South Ballina Beach. Full Article
New Indigenous scholarship at SCU
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Southern Cross University has announced a new $15,000 scholarship for Indigenous students living in remote and regional areas. Full Article
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Non-profit organisations who are supported by volunteers can apply for grants of up to $5000 to purchase equipment and cover petrol costs. Full Article
It’s virtually school
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Education through virtual classrooms could be the way of the future for a group of Northern Rivers high schools. Working together, the Lismore Community of Secondary Schools (LCOS) have installed virtual classroom video technology into standard classrooms in three schools. Full Article
Hypothetically, we should have a bill of rights
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Speaking at a lecture at Southern Cross University recently, Geoffrey Robertson QC recalled how he enjoyed family holidays in Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour as a child, but had never ventured as far north as Byron Bay, which abounded with “stories of hippies and psychics and other aliens”. Full Article
Take an outback trek for charity
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Peter Arthur from McKees Hill said there is not one stand-out thing that’s fun about the annual Trek Quest – because everything’s fun! Full Article
Power plays over future energy supply
Thursday, 20 August 2009
The good folk of Tenterfield and thereabouts need the help of us coasties. Full Article
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