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27 Jul 10 | THE Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) and National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) are urging all people who live in rural and remote Australia to fill out a five-minute online survey about access to health services in their communities.
27 Jul 10 | OLIVER Simpson’s candy was looted recently, but fortunately, 11-year-old Oliver’s story has a happy ending.
A year ago, Oliver decided to start a business where candy machines were placed inside five pubs around the local area: Candelo, Tathra and Wolumla Pubs, The Three Willows Pambula and the Commercial Hotel in Bega.
Oliver was yet to experience a setback before his machine at the Wolumla Hotel was stolen and found wrecked on Wolumla-Candelo Road.
23 Jul 10 | IT WILL be an occasion full of nostalgia at the Bega RSL tonight.
A large crowd is expected to attend the last ever gig before the auditorium is pulled down to make way for the new Woolworths development, and tales tall and true will no doubt flow.
23 Jul 10 | SMOKERS in the Bega Valley Shire will soon have fewer places to take a puff after the introduction of council’s no smoking policy at this week’s meeting.
However, the passage of the policy was not smooth, with several questions asked.
According to a report, during the advertising period council received 30 submissions and over 790 people viewed council’s online information.
23 Jul 10 | IT HAS been a long time coming, but the Bega Bypass has received the green light.
Federal Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, Regional Development and Local Government Anthony Albanese yesterday announ-ced the doubling of the federal government’s commitment to $68 million with another $17 million from the state government.
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20 Jul 10 | MARY Nugent and her husband Garry had a very different introduction to Bega.
It was 1972 and in the middle of the big flood.
They were stopped at the north side of the old Bega Bridge and told they couldn’t enter the town as all the roads were closed.
20 Jul 10 | VETERANS and their families are encouraged to take part in the many activities happening across the country during Veterans’ Health Week, according to Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel Alan Griffin.
20 Jul 10 | PLANET Ark is offering an eco getaway valued at $1000 to the author of Australia’s most inspired tree tale.
Planet Ark is encouraging Bega residents to contribute to its Australian Tree Stories campaign – a collection of personal, nostalgic and amusing stories about special trees in people’s lives.
20 Jul 10 | BEGA sport coach and official Michael Haigh is on a mission to get local children active.
Mr Haigh is continuing his great work in the free Active-After-School-Communities (AASC) program by ensuring children in Quaama don’t miss out of sporting opportunities and the fun of being physically active after school.
20 Jul 10 | THERE have been many ideas floated about what form a refurbished or rebuilt town hall should take and a meeting last week heard another.
Chaired by local musician and businessman John Cursley, the meeting heard a proposal that council buy the old Kings Cinema and develop it into a dedicated performance space while leaving the town hall to be renovated with meeting rooms and the like.
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16 Jul 10 | WITH lots of projects on the go in our community, nominations have been pouring in from local groups wishing for a share of the BDN and South East Fibre Exports Community Wishing Well.
16 Jul 10 | FOR all those who were doubtful that the Woolworths project was still in the balance, here is a couple of reassuring photos.
This week workers brought in the temporary toilets while a huge crane also unloaded the first sections of fencing that will go up around the construction site.
16 Jul 10 | THE compensation offers made to women allegedly mutilated by disgraced former doctor Graeme Reeves have been described as insulting.
About 30 offers of up to $12,000 have been made to the women, all of which have been rejected.
16 Jul 10 | THE proposal to re-establish the sports ground at Kalaru has taken another step.
Bega Valley Shire Council has received a grant of $44,500 from the NSW Department of Sport and Recreation for works at Evans Park, a ground where rugby league was played until the early 1950s.
16 Jul 10 | WHILE the recent World Cup captured the attention of soccer fans everywhere, a local section of the soccer world has been beset by problems.
Over the last couple of weeks, the Bega Devils club has been rocked by persistent thieves on not one or two, but three occasions.
13 Jul 10 | CAROLINE Long of Bega’s Staying Home Leaving Violence said she was pleased that Community Services has committed a total of $8 million funding to the Staying Home Leaving Violence program until 2013.
“This program started as a pilot in Bega and was so successful that it is now being rolled out across the state,” she said.
13 Jul 10 | STEPHANIE Dyson was a much loved Bega resident who died earlier this year after a long battle with illness.
Stephanie worked for eight years as an artist educator in the Art in the Garage project that provides a supportive art studio for artists with a disability and is part of Tulgeen Disability Services Access program.
13 Jul 10 | BEGA Valley Shire Council has a plan to encourage more women to stand at the next council election.
The matter was first raised several weeks ago by Cr Liz Seckold.
Cr Seckold moved that council should ask the State and Federal Local Government Associations to include in their national conference agendas a request to the relevant Federal and State Ministers to encourage greater participation of women in local government.
13 Jul 10 | RECENT amendments to the Companion Animals Act mean that dogs are now allowed in outdoor dining areas in certain circumstances.
Bega Valley Shire Council’s senior ranger Peter Miles said the Act now allows dogs in outdoor dining areas that usually are on public footpaths and use temporary structures to delineate the area.
13 Jul 10 | IT WILL be something that is brought up again and again during Matilda Rose Dack’s life: the day she entered the world.
Not that she knew much about it at the time, but Matilda will doubtless hear stories on plenty of occasions for many years.
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