Octogenarian pedals for charity
Written by The Tweed Shire Echo   
Thursday, 02 July 2009




An 85-year-old Tweed Heads man is planning to ride more than 1500km from Brisbane to Cairns to raise money for charity.
Avid cyclist Jack Griffin aims to complete the journey in 18 days with regular rest stops to tune into his favourite television show The Bold and the Beautiful.

 
Council makes panel selection

Thursday, 02 July 2009

article thumbnai Tweed Shire Council has wholeheartedly embraced controversial new planning panels by appointing two unknown planning experts with ties to Queensland to make the area’s major planning decisions. At an extraordinary meeting yesterday afternoon, councillors selected Dr Ned Wales, a Bond University urban planning assistant professor, and Brisbane...
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Migaloo sighted off the Tweed Coast

Thursday, 02 July 2009

article thumbnail A humpback whale breaches off Tweed Heads last weekend, one of many which have started their annual northerly migration along the coast. Photo Carol and Tony Hunt, Aquatic Blue Charters Inset: Migaloo pictured off the Tweed Coast yesterday. Photo Dan Howard, oceanartwork.com  
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Hastings Point’s future debated

Thursday, 02 July 2009

article thumbnail   Left to right: Uve Knop, Ernie Mann, Tess Brill and Vic Brill at the workshop. Photo Jo Kennett Residents and landowners of Hastings Point met to have their say in the future of their coastal village during a locality plan workshop last weekend. Tweed Shire Council officers Jane Lofthouse and Danny Rose spoke about estuary...
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New students settle in

Thursday, 02 July 2009

article thumbnail The students arrived a few days ago from Dalian University in northeast China which has an articulation agreement for SCU Convention and Event Management students, allowing them to complete part of their studies at Southern Cross University.  
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EditorialA betrayal that will haunt

Thursday, 02 July 2009

article thumbnail Tweed Shire councillors have sold out their constituents big time by going down the crooked path of joining the process of appointing members to the controversial ‘joint’ regional planning...
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EditorialRally-ho

Thursday, 25 June 2009

article thumbnail The government’s controversial special legislation smoothing the road for the taxpayer-and-ratepayer funded world rally motor-sport circus was rammed through both houses of state parliament this...
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Mandy NolanKnit Picking

Thursday, 25 June 2009

article thumbnail Just yesterday I received a package from my blind Nanna. In the absence of vision, she’d employed a woman down the street to knit a cardie set for my newborn. We’re talking booties, Amish style...
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EditorialWaste not want not

Saturday, 20 June 2009

article thumbnail Federal and state governments squandered a golden opportunity recently to do something simple for the environment by encouraging the recycling of cans and bottles through a container deposit...
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BackburnerBackburner July 2, 2009

Thursday, 02 July 2009 | The Tweed Shire Echo

article thumbnai   Federal politics has got a tad more exciting with the fake Treasury email scandal. Backburner’s man in Canberra has an interesting spin on the case, reckons Treasurer Wayne Swan found out that the nerdy-looking bureaucrat at the centre of the affair, Godwin Grech, was the serial leaker...
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Sports NewsGetting the jump on the Murwillumbah Cup

Saturday, 20 June 2009

article thumbnai With only days to go before the annual Murwillumbah Cup, a surprise upset at the Gold Coast’s Bundall racecourse on Saturday, saw last month’s Murwillumbah Cup Prelude winner, Bugsytwoshoes, finish among the also-rans in the $12,000 Smartskip Open Handicap.   Bugsytwoshoes went out a short...
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Live MusicLive Music June 25, 2009

Thursday, 25 June 2009

article thumbnail Top trio for gallery European-based classical music trio, the New Holland Trio, will perform at the Tweed River Art Gallery on Sunday, June 28, from 6.30pm in a special presentation by the Tyalgum Festival Committee and Friends of the Tweed River Art Gallery. The concert has been supported...
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