Lifestyle coverage
Festive Season
THE Salvation Army has launched its annual Christmas Appeal in the New England North-West to help the Salvos help those in the local community struggling during the Christmas season. Salvation Army Moree program manager Jason Poutawa said the festive season was a time for giving. “The Christmas season is a great time of year to [...]
Pally Premiere
Would you like to spend your weekend riding a dirt bike up and down steep rocky mountains and being slapped in the face with lantana, or swinging a six-metre bullock whip that looks like a large brown snake and threatens to take out your eye if you make one wrong move? What about jumping on [...]
Our Community
FORMER Moree resident Connie Mather smiles and blames a mid-life crisis for her decision to become a registered nurse 23 years ago – now she’s back home working at Whiddon residential aged care facility doing what she does best. Connie is Whiddon’s new residential service manager and began duties last month after returning to the [...]
Remembrance Day
MOREE Plains Shire Council will close a section of Balo Street for one-and-a-half hours on Monday, November 11, as Moree RSL Sub-Branch honours Remembrance Day on the steps on Moree War Memorial Hall. Balo Street will be closed to traffic between Heber and Gwydir Streets from 10am until 11.30am on Monday. The 11th hour of [...]
Moree Riders Club
IT was hot, muggy with the threat of storms about – but that didn’t stop nearly 50 kids arriving en masse to try out Moree’s new cycling venue at the old velodrome site on Thursday afternoon. Rebooted and rebranded as Moree Riders’ Track under the governance of Moree Riders’ Club, the venue launched the first [...]
Our Community
A group of young aggies bowled Moree over when $100,000 was raised at the Gold Rush Ball in September. The same group of young aggies now invite community members to be bowled over again at the Young Aggies AGM and Christmas party at Moree Services Club on November 29. Committee president Sophie Venz said barefoot [...]
Gone Fishin’
FISHING clubs across the north-west are urged to lodge applications for the next round of Recreational Fishing Trust Grants announced today. There will be $5 million available for fishing clubs, community groups and other organisations to run projects which improve and promote recreational fishing in their local area. For the first time, applicants in this [...]
Moree Care
MOREE Care seeks volunteers for its Meals on Wheels and community transport services to help deliver meals and provide local and regional transport for clients. CEO Michelle Harrison said Moree Care, established in 1995 when in-home aged care, meals on wheels, disability care and community transport were placed under one umbrella, desperately needs drivers. “We [...]
Moree Riders Club
THE Moree Riders Club will hold its inaugural come-and-try day at its new venue on Thursday, November 7. Club president Steele Sutton invites cyclists of all ages and abilities to call down to the old velodrome site – rebranded Moree Riders’ Track – from 5pm. Come-and-try days will be held every Thursday this month – [...]
Art Exhibition
GALLERY owner Gig Moses is overjoyed to bring award-winning artist Katie Wyatt back to Moree for the official launch of her solo exhibition, Botanical Horizons, at The Moree Gallery on Thursday, November 14. “Following a series of successful exhibitions during the past 10 years, I’m thrilled to welcome Katie back to The Moree Gallery,” Gig [...]
