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Let the dogs run free

LET THE DOGS RUN: East Ballina residents (from left) Carol Piggott, Elizabeth Fletcher, Sue Johnston, John Fletcher, Merrilyn Roche and Jim Roche are calling for an off-leash period for dogs on Angels Beach.

DOGS should be able to run around and enjoy the beach, too, says a group of dog owners from East Ballina.
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Kmart backs down on Anzac trading

NOT OPENING: Kmart withdrew its application with the State Government for morning trading on Anzac Day as the Advocate was going to print last week.

The retail giant said it would withdraw its controversial application to trade before 1pm on Anzac Day in NSW.

 

Anzac Day: no change

WHILE some RSL sub-branches will be changing the time for the annual parade on April 25 due to church services, there won’t be a change of time in Ballina.

 

Poultry dumped at rest area

CHICKEN RUN: A Ballina resident is trying her best to get someone to help the poultry dumped at the roadside rest area at Wardell.

THE roadside rest area on the Pacific Highway at Wardell is looking more like a barnyard, with chickens and roosters on the loose.

 

Cats, kittens need homes

BALLINA-based Northern Rivers Animal Services is holding a kitten and cat adoption day on Saturday, March 13.

 

It all adds up for Alstonville

CHAMPS: Alstonville Public School came first in Australia in an online maths competition.

THE kids at Alstonville Public School have once again shown they are whizzes at maths.

 

Red Cross in fundraising drive

CALLING YOU: Ballina Red Cross branch members (from left) Heather Smith, secretary Ginny Silver, Helen Rytmeister, president Lucy Lomax, Josiane Hunziker, Dawn Thackeray, Norma Smith and Jackie Walsh.

MEMBERS of the Ballina branch of the Red Cross will be out in force this week and next, collecting for the annual Red Cross Humanitarian fundraiser.

 

Focus on re-use and recycling

MAKE YOUR OWN: You can make your own piece of art from recycled materials, like this piece currently on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, in an art workshop.

RECYCLING and reusing items in materialising artworks will be the focus of free art workshops to be held at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina.

 

Indigenous art award now open

INDIGENOUS artists from the NSW North Coast area are encouraged to enter their work in the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal m Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

 

Trading on Anzac Day?

STAY SHUT: The local veteran community is disappointed that Kmart lodged an application with the NSW Government to open for trade before 1pm on Anzac Day this year.

EVEN if the State Government rejects an application by Kmart to open before 1pm on Anzac Day, local veterans are disappointed.

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Police talk half-naked woman down

Police talk half-naked woman down

PRIMARY school students were asked to leave their playing fields on Wednesday after a partially naked woman in an apartment block was seen straddling a window.

 

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Mum 'devastated' at wheelchair bashing

Mum 'devastated' at wheelchair bashing

THE mother of a Canadian wheelchair-bound man punched, stomped and beaten with a metal bar at a Sydney railway station says she is "devastated".

 

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World News

Sailor missing after Chile quake

Sailor missing after Chile quake

AN Australian sailor missing off the coast of earthquake-ravaged Chile was on board a yacht whose captain has previously sailed without a radio.

 

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