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School garden sprouts new enthusiasmThursday, 02 September 2010
Students from Banora Point High School’s Learning Support Unit dig having their own garden.
The garden started with the help of parents and teaching staff about 12 months ago and now involves about 30 students with disabilities and learning difficulties. Parent volunteer Pamela Bianchi said students had shown great enthusiasm for the...Read More |
Mayor backflips on claim over sackingThursday, 02 September 2010 Tweed Mayor Warren Polglase has been forced to retract claims used to justify a controversial decision to axe Greens councillor Katie Milne from the council’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee (AAC).
The backflip comes after AAC members questioned Cr Polglase over claims made in a mayoral minute accusing the committee of failing to deliver on its...Read More |
Dragon Club members paddle onThursday, 02 September 2010
Back from China: Brenda and Dougal Cumming Thom, with Jacqui Turner and Shauna Hughes
Just a month after competing against the best paddlers in the world, four Mt Warning Dragon Club members are back on the water and aiming to do it all again.
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| Vital protection order to save tree on holdThursday, 02 September 2010A plan to seek an interim heritage protection order to save a commemorative fig tree at Chinderah has been put on hold pending an inspection by a qualified arborist.
Tweed Shire Council held an extraordinary meeting on Monday to consider the protection order after local arborist Brett Hamlin and residents prevented contractors from removing the... Read More |
Mandy NolanSleep... perchance to dream.Thursday, 02 September 2010 I haven’t had a full night sleep now since the beginning of 2009. I’ve been a mother for 15 years so I’m used to the whole death-of-self concept.
I’ve been dead now for over a decade. I...Read More | EditorialLiving historyThursday, 26 August 2010 Tweed Shire Council’s environmental credentials really are a joke if such a magnificent old landmark tree as the one at the Chinderah Tavern is chopped down.
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| Mandy NolanSex Lies and Pharmaceuticals... O O O Oh my God!Thursday, 26 August 2010OK, ladies, prepare yourself for some big news, almost half of you have a disease. Thanks to brand new research funded by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer (the people who put pork back on the fork... Read More | EditorialHooked on hearsayThursday, 19 August 2010What is it about fishing sanctuaries, which protect our fish stocks, that can stir some people into a frenzy? Or to be more accurate, why do conservative politicians, including the local Libs and... Read More |
