Early Childhood Centre
Attention all parents. The Early Childhood Clinic relocated from Byron Community Health to Bangalow Community Health, 35 Granuaille Road, Bangalow, on Tuesday 29 June. Clinic hours remain the same: 9am to 12 noon drop in. Appointments, 1.30 to 4pm, can be made on 6685 6254. Parking available. Sandy Steel
Coorabell Hall AGM
The Coorabell Hall Committee AGM will be held at the hall on Monday 19 July at 7.30pm. New members welcome – you don’t have to be a Coorabell resident, just someone who values our iconic Hall and loves local events. Come along and meet some people who live in your area. For info please call 6687 1307 or email coorabellhall@gmail.com. Wendy Grey
Garden Club
At our next meeting on Wednesday 7 July our members are looking forward to a presentation called ‘Gardens of Passion’; gardens visited by Shirley Nelson in Southern Spain, Portugal and Morocco. After our well-attended excursion to Pine Grove Bromeliad Nursery (see page 14) another one to the Gold Coast and Tweed Orchid Fair is planned for 6 November. The garden of Helen and Bryan White in Brooklet was a wonderful venue for a monthly Social Visit. Their beautifully sited and manicured five acre garden is a testament to their skill and hard work. Photos of all our activities can be viewed on the web site: bangalowgardenclub.org.au Helen Johnston
Red Cross AGM
The AGM of the Bangalow Red Cross will be on Friday 2 July at 9.30am in the RSL Hall, Bangalow, followed by morning tea. All welcome. More info, Dot (6687 1246) or Carol (6628 8681). Carol Will
Writers Group
The Bangalow Writers Group will hold its coffee morning on Thursday 15 July at 10am at the Harvest Cafe, Newrybar for an informal, wide-ranging chat about writing. Our regular meeting is on Thursday 1 July at 9.45am at Heritage House, Deakin Street, Bangalow. All welcome to join us for a friendly and supportive place to share the writing journey. Inquiries Ruth Cotton (6686 3008) or James Hudson (6628 5061).
Bowlo News
We are having a major fundraiser for the Bowlo on Sunday 15 August from 9.30am. All monies raised will be going to the club and lighting for the bowling green so you can play bowls at night time. Activities include barefoot bowls. Cost $15. Live entertainment – Brock and Friends, face painting for the kids, sausage sizzle, seafood raffles, monster cake stall. Lots of prizes. So get a team together for bowls or come and buy a cake and enjoy the live entertainment to support the club so we can continue to support you. Anybody wishing to donate cakes, scones, etc, will be gratefully accepted – they can be dropped off on the morning or the day before.
Mental As Anything & Stylus will be playing on Friday 30 July at 8pm. Tickets $32 from the Bowlo, Barebones and All Music & Vision in Byron Bay, Ballina and Lismore. Courtesy bus available. All enquiries call the Bowlo on 6687 1235.
Don’t forget Lucky Lock Wednesday night 6.30pm. As this goes to press the draw was up to $850.
Knock-off hours, Mon-Fri, schooners $3.80 and middies $2.50.
Free Movie Afternoon starts in July on Sundays from 3pm. Bring the kids to watch a kid’s movie and one for the grown ups. Drinks and snacks available. Bistro News: $10 lunch available, Mon-Fri 12pm-2pm. Xmas in July, on Sat 24 from 6pm. Cost $35pp for a three-course dinner. Bookings essential, 6687 0494. Caroline Nolan
DES information available
The recent campaign for DES (diethylstilboestrol) Awareness Week, 1-7 June, raised awareness of the anti-miscarriage drug, DES, given to women during pregnancy from 1938 to 1971 (and sometimes beyond). Women given DES and their children of that pregnancy are at higher risk of certain types of cancer and reproductive problems. It is important that people with known or suspected exposure to DES are aware of the vital special care they need. Support group contact: DES Action Australia-NSW (02) 9875 4820. Website: www.desnsw.blogspot.com
Carol Devine, Coordinator
Lions Club
Recent activities of the Bangalow Lions Club included their annual Curry Night. Although attendance at the A&I Hall was a little down on last year’s event, the evening provided a successful fund-raiser for the club. Also, the Lions Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal raised a healthy $4000 for that organisation. Thanks for the public support from Bangalow citizens for these events. Members manned the 17 June barbeque at the Pyjama Breakfast for the BCCC, and Newrybar PS Fireworks Night on 19 June. A dinner at the A&I Hall on 22 June marked the change-over of the club’s 2009-2010 chairmanship of Neil Sowerby to that of incoming 2010-2011 Chairman Bob Deards. In July, Lion Mark Gasson, who is also CEO of The Uncle Project, is undertaking to ride across Australia, west to east, on a monster Ducati motor-bike – from Steep Point WA via Mount Magnet to Kalgoorlie across the Nullarbor Plain to Ceduna SA then on to Port Augusta, Broken Hill, Armidale with the finishing line at the Byron Bay Lighthouse. Mark’s epic journey has a double-edge as a fund-raiser for The Uncle Project, and spreading the word with various Lions Clubs on the route. Kevin Palmer
Music Festival tickets
A limited number of single tickets for each of the nine concerts which will comprise the 2010 Bangalow Music Festival will be on sale at $45 per concert from Barebones. The full Festival program can be seen at www.southernxsoloists.com. The Festival is on 13/14/15 August.
Don’t miss world class musicians such as the Australian String Quartet, The Seraphim Trio, The Graeme Jennings Quartet, pianists Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg and the brilliant Marist Brothers Saxophone Quartet.
Two highlights will be Werner Andreas Albert conducting the Bangalow Festival Chamber Orchestra and the return of world-renowned violinist, Ilya Konovalov.
Another highlight will be Magnificat, the Festivals finale concert, performed in St Kevins Catholic Church, by the Brisbane Chamber Choir under the direction of Graeme Morton. Michael Malloy
Book Launches
Search for Mother
Local author, Valerie Albrecht will be discussing and signing her new book at Bookworms & Papermites Saturday 24 July from 8am. Valerie has just returned from a three-month US launch and speaking tour. She says, “It seems I’ve lived with a longing to unravel and connect with the who and why of mother: the mother we have, the mother we long for, the mother we become and the mother we long to be. From this longing and my work with birthing women around the world I began to write Search for Mother – and from the writing came the finding... Valerie is a birthing yoga teacher, massage therapist, hypnotherapist and writing teacher. www.theoceansofenergy.com 0406 052 339
Boys’ Home to Broadway
This story of local resident Kevin Palmer’s rise from a childhood spent in a boys’ home to traveling the globe with the biggest names in stage and screen is an inspiration for anyone who has ever wanted to follow a dream. Left orphaned in early childhood, he was put into the care of a Salvation Army boys’ home. He went to work at the age of 15 before entering drama school at 22, eventually meeting up with luminaries such as Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Dame Judi Dench, Barry Humphries and Judy Davis.
Born in Brisbane in 1934, Palmer is of Aboriginal, English and Swedish ancestry but did not discover his Indigenous heritage until well into his teenage years. Palmer retired in 2002 and now lives in Bangalow.
Boys’ Home to Broadway is available from July in bookshops and online at www.magabala.com for $26.95. It will be officially launched at the Byron Bay Writers Festival on August 8. Launched in 1987, Magabala Books is a not-for-profit Aboriginal Corporation, based in Broome, that aims to promote, preserve and publish Indigenous Australian culture.