Wollumbin High School Band members rehearse minutes before the live video linkup across Australia where all school bands played the same song at the same time. Photo Luis Feliu

Music education has come a long way, and technology has played its part.

At 11.30am (AEST) last Thursday, the Wollumbin High School Band performed the theme song Come Play Your Part simultaneously with school bands across Australia in a first-ever video linkup of around 2,000 schools.

Photo: Ray Morrissey with wife Fay and friend Pam at home in Hastings Point this week.

An 80-year-old pensioner convicted of assaulting a policeman during a scuffle over the use of a police siren at Pottsville village shopping centre in February last year has won his appeal against the charges.
 

Murwillumbah garden enthusiast Ron Nelson bears an uncanny resemblance to federal opposition leader Tony Abbott and he’s been told that quite often. But, unlike the reinstalled opposition leader, green thumb Ron prefers gardening to bike riding as a pastime and is looking forward to this Saturday’s annual flower and garden expo. He is pictured in the thick of a fresh display of cliveas in the colourful Murwillumbah garden of Twin Towns and District Garden Club secretary John Bennett.

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 project, which has helped them gain valuable skills including composting, worm farming, seed saving and propagation.

 If you can provide funding assistance or garden expertise call Pamela on 07 5513 0563. Photo Jeff Dawson

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 objectives to support Tweed’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

Members also ‘raised concerns’ about Cr Milne’s removal from the AAC and the appointment of Cr Joan van Lieshout as an alternative delegate in the shock shake-up following the mayoral minute which was delivered last May.

 

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.