The Weeks News In Review. Week Ending Friday July 30th.
Two men were injured in a truck accident on the Coraki Woodburn road near the Bungawalbin bridge around 7.30 on Monday morning.
On Wednesday night the East Lismore Bowling club was robbed. It is alleged two people who were armed, smashed their way through a glass panel, confronted the female bar attendant and stole the day's takings. Richmond Local Area Command police arrested four people in relation to the crime and will hold them in custody until they appear in court on September 21. THe CEO of the NSW Cancer Institute Professor David Currow warned north coast women about a scanner which could be used as an alternative to mammograms. He said it was not worth the gamble as there had been a constant reduction in the number of deaths from breast cancer since the mammograms were introduced in the early 1990's. A Renewable Energy Forum is planned for Sunday at the Bangalow A & I hall. The Lismore city council welcomed the vigorous debate sparked by the draft local environment plan and the executive director of sustainable development Brent McAlister told the community to contact the council if they had any questions. The Far North Coast Law Society issued a warning about do it yourself Wills Kits after Choice magazine found some of the kits contained inadequate information . Hundreds of north coast school children took part in Schools Tree Day ahead of Sundays National Tree Day. Rous Water offered ten new rebates for residents who buy and install water saving products for their homes. Australian Property Monitors spokesman Mathew Bell says he's pretty sure we've seen the bottom of the property cycle.Whilst property prices were down in Byron Bay they were up in Lismore and Tenterfield.
Check this space again next Friday for an update of the weeks Local News headlines .
The NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos was in Lismore to open the 10th anniversary conference at Southern Cross University of the Early Referral into Treatment Program, a drug rehabilitation program for non violent offenders that was developed out of the NSW drug summit.
A NRMA suvey revealed that 91% of voters in Page believed that the condition of their roads and petrol prices are more important issues than health and taxation at the moment.
Ballina police investigated the robbery of a fast food delivery man as he attended a premises in Cherry street .
A 65 year old man was airlifted by the Westpac Life saver rescue helicopter to the Lismore base hospital after he fell three metres from a tree near Tabulam.
The National Parks and Wildlife service asked the public to take care, after damage was done on the Richmond River Nature Reserve at South Ballina with four wheel drives.
The track had to be temporarily closed while the damage was repaired.
A summons was issued in the Land and Environment court by advocate, environmentalist and Lismore resident Al Oshlak to have the decisions of Rous Water and the Ballina Shire Coucnil to construct and operate five fluoride plants in the Lismore Ballina and Richmond valley areas invalidated.
Three north coast politicans rolled up their sleeves and worked in local business during the week as part of the Pollies for Small Business Program/ The member for Lismore Thomas George worked at George Gooleys Menswear and Budds Mitre Ten Murwillumbah, The member for Ballina Don Page worked at the Summerland House with No Steps and the Balcony at Byron Bay and the Member for Page Janelle Saffin worked with the Minister for Small Business Craig Emerson at the Abellissimo kitchen shop in Ballina .
Richmond Local Area Command Detectives arrested and charged a 24 year old man in Goonellabah over the ram raid at Target Goonellabah back in January. The offenders rammed a car into the entrance of the store and took off with a selection of home entertainment and electrical goods.
Lismore city council offered an incentive to get businesses to take part in their new business survey. They are offering $30,000 worth of prizes including airline tickets and advertising packages.
The member for Richmond Justine Elliot announced a proposal to build a National Surfing Australia centre at Casuarina Beach.
The Minister for Primary Industries Steve Whan has announced that his department has appointed a new livestock officer of beef products to service the north coast region .Mr Whan says Trevor Rose who has 20 years experience in the rural sector.
Sport and exercise Science student at Southern Cross University, Eli Cook, won a NSW Sport and Recreation Indigenous Scholarship.
The Active Kyogle Project is running a competition to encourage exercise using dogs as personal trainers. Participating dogs will be given a pedometer so their human walking partners can record the amount of walking they do in the challenge period.
Three men in their twenties appeared in Lismore local court after they allegedly robbed the East Lismore Bowling club.
The Richmond Valley Council announced August 7th as the opening date for the Evans Head Aquatic Centre.
North Coast based train lobby group Trains on our Tracks say the north coast has been overlooked again by the federal government with the $700 million of funding for the passenger rail service at Redcliffe in North Brisbane.
The Country Organiser for the NSW Teachers Federation called for the State Government to remove all unflued gas heaters on the north coast. Earlier in the week the government made a decision to remove and replace the heaters as they were found to adversely affect the health of a large proportion of school children including those with asthma.