The country’s largest regional road project is helping local Rural Fire Service brigades save money to spend on essential firefighting equipment by donating items from decommissioned work site compounds on the Woolgoolga to Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade.Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said items like tables, gazebos, bollards and whiteboards would make a much-needed difference to local fire…

Some 5 million Australians have experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months and the number of people seeking food relief from charities is increasing. It is the human reality behind these figures that drives the network of local, state and national Foodbank staff, volunteers and partners to do the amazing work they do in providing food for 815,000 Australians…

Grafton Senior Citizens recently held a general meeting, first since March, with an attendance of 41 and 21 apologies. After the usual trading table downstairs, our meeting was held in the larger area upstairs, where physical distancing was possible.To inform all members of this upcoming meeting, a newsletter was prepared, and distributed to all as a letterbox drop, or post…

We have an excellent cat team, but our dog volunteers are intermittent due to many factors mainly Covid. I have had to take my business operations hat off and pick up water buckets, food buckets, poo buckets and all sorts of other buckets to do the dogs. The boys doing the renovating were busy elsewhere so we did not progress…