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Library lover’s day
Mullum CWA
Byron Bay Library is celebrating Library Lover’s Day with a Biggest Book Club on Friday, 14 February at 2.30pm. Get together to chat about books while raising money for bushfire relief. Come by yourself, or bring your whole book club! Entry by gold coin donation and the local CWA will be serving cake and other refreshments. Bookings essential on 6685 8540.
Mullumbimby branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) meets Wednesday, 12 February, 10am at the CWA rooms. Bring a plate for a light lunch. New members welcome. Info: Jenny 0427 847 282.
Seniors fun Fridays Fun Fridays for seniors (60+) at Marvell Hall, Marvell Street East, Byron Bay. Mahjong and 500 at 1.30pm, afternoon tea at 3pm. Enquiries: Nancy 0498 480 373.
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End-of-life choices Exit International is a voluntary euthanasia group who meet quarterly. The next meting will be on 13 February. Meetings are held at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit Members. Further information on our website www.exitinternational.net or phone local coordinator Catherine 0435 228 443.
The Northern Rivers Parkinson’s Support Group will meet on Friday, 14 February at Level 1, Crowley Education Building, 154 Cherry Street, Ballina. $5 per person (includes morning tea) RSVP Moya 0427 042 607. The coffee catch-up is on Friday 13 March, 10am at Summerland House Farm (Aruma). This is a relaxed social get-together. Please RSVP Yvonne 0429 946 146.
Mullum flood meeting A public meeting looking at the North Byron Flood Study and its recommendations for Mullumbimby is being held on 12 February at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services auditorium, from 6 till 8pm. The meeting is being run by the Mullumbimby Residents Association who say they will discuss key recommendations and options in the study to so that residents can prepare submissions to Council. Submissions close on 21 February.
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Byron Shire Chemical Free Landcare’s next working bee will be on Saturday 8 February, 8am until 12 noon, at New Brighton. Meet at the first curve, on the left, at North Head Road. Park your car and walk to the beach. The site is towards the south. The Saltwater Creek project needs donations of palm fronds or garden prunings. Call Nadia on 0478 272 300.
at Brunswick Heads Bowling Club. Apologies to Maureen on 0408 294 973 or mlightfoot@internode.on.net no later than the Monday before. Casual members please advise if you are attending. Friendship morning is Thursday, 20 February. The following VIEW luncheon is at Mullumbimby on 12 March.
One Roof Byron
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Mayor’s morning tea
Join Byron Bay’s free exercise networking group. It is open for all business people. Meet at Clarkes Beach Park carpark every Friday morning at 7.30am to walk or run the lighthouse loop. More information call Sharon on 0400 609 916.
Byron Seniors Festival with Mayor’s Morning tea at the Byron Theatre on 18 February, from 10.30am to 1.30pm. Free entry. For more information email: seniors@byroncentre.com.au or call 6685 6807.
Retirement investment A free finance seminar is running on retirement reality and investment choices at the Byron Bay Library on Wednesday, 19 February, 10.30am. Presented by the NSW Department of Human Services as part of the NSW Senior’s Festival 2020. Bookings on 13 63 57 or email fis.seminar.bookings@ humanservices.gov.au.
Dementia carers club Caring for someone with Dementia? Join our monthly Northern Rivers Carers Coffee Club on the second Monday of every month. Our next meeting is on Monday, 10 February at a café in Mullumbimby, 10.30–12noon. Call or text Karen on 0412 911 613 or email Karen at: dementiafriendly@ byronrespite.com.au for the location. Bring your questions, bring your concerns, let other carers know what works for you, meet new friends and expect to get great support.
No fixed address? Lost your housing in the last 12 months? One Roof Byron is looking for local residents interested in joining a long-term accommodation program in this shire. Enquiries: call or text Jenny 0422 455 735, 2–5pm on Monday, Wednesday or Friday.
Ballina coastcare Join us for morning tea to celebrate Ballina Coastcare’s 30th Anniversary on Thursday, 19 March,10.30am. Meet at the North end of Flat Rock car park. RSVP by Tuesday, 19 February via email: cathyjbyrne@gmail.com or phone or SMS Cathy on 0408 668 287. Please provide a direct phone number for wet weather arrangements. Find out more at: www.ballinacoastcare.org/ourstory.
Get Active Expo The Get Active Expo and registration day at the new Ballina Indoor Sports Centre (BISC) is a free community event that gives sporting clubs the chance to connect with local families and help kids to find out what sports are on offer in Ballina Shire. Fun activities and demonstrations will keep kids entertained. Tour the new sports centre. Register for the Active Kids voucher and receive $100 toward
sport registration. To find out more about Active Kids visit service.nsw.gov. au. Register your club for the Expo by email to communityspaces@ballina. nsw.gov.au or telephone 6681 0599. CWA Bangalow Interested women are welcome Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am–1pm and the second Monday evening of each month 5–7pm in the Bangalow CWA rooms for craft and friendship. Rooms are open daily Monday– Saturday 9am–noon.
Probus club Next meeting of Hastings Point, Tweed Coast Probus club will be at Tricare, Tweed Coast Rd, on Tuesday,18 February at 10 am. Speaker, Scott Jones, on a natural solutions to divert everyday food waste away from landfill. Enquiries: Jean 02 6670 4072.
Family history The Richmond-Tweed Family History Society meetings will take place at Players Theatre, 24 Swift Street, Ballina, 2–4pm on the first Saturday in each month. The first meeting is 1 February, with speaker Jane Griffin on My First Family Member in Australia.
Soap Aid saving lives Soap Aid is a not-for-profit organisation recycling and sending critically needed soap to communities facing major hygiene challenges. Please drop in your partly used household or holiday rental soap to Kim at Raine & Horne, 39 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay. Call 0499 839 566. All quantities welcome. www.soapaid.org.
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Pachyderm’s nose (9,5) Young eel (5) To sit on in the loo (6,4) Make a mark on, cause admiration (7) 5. Make a zigzag movement, cut through (7) 6. In the bible, he spilled his seed on the ground (4) DOWN 7. Younger female sibling (3,6) 1. Drunk and disorderly: the Naples case (9,5) 8. Insincere grief, hypocrisy (9,5) 2. Revel about Apodes offspring (5) 13. Carnivore (10) 3. To a single: Invitation to dine at The 15. Miniature universe (9) Redback’s Retreat! (6,4) 18. Small fish, often canned (7) 4. Journo’s introduction to produce a 19. Identification label (4,3) favourable effect. (7) 5. One ship in short cut to crossover (7) 22. Unusual, improper (5) 23. Tie up a boat (4) 6. Masturbator has tiny erection! (4) 7. Young American sibling teases first Last week’s solution N320 queen (3,6) G R E E N P E A C E P I M P A S O L U C R 8. Old Cicero rages and rips into P A P E R C L I P S C O M A hypocrisy (9,5) E Y T E B T N G 13. Carnivore self-destructs over gas fire (10) T H U N D E R S T O R M J A A C C A 15. Note little one from 8 down abroad I C O A L M I N E R H E L O T on Monday – it’s a small world! (9) E M E O E A A I 18. Mrs Lyons of the Royal Agricultural B A S E R N A R C I S S U S Society goes back to fish (7) R E I P K T T 19. Entrance staff returns ID (4,3) E A S T C O A S T L O W A S A R E V F A 22. Strange route – quite improper in K R I S D E P R E S S I N G fact (5) E O I S K N E 23. Tie up Othello (4) R I N G S L E E P Y H E A D
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Neighbourhood Centre
Drug support groups
Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday–Thursday 9am–4pm and offers a range of services and activities. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy art, music, games, great food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.
Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the Shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings call1300 652 820 or text your postcode to 0488 811 247. www. na.org.au. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meeting held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.
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Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents and/or Dysfunctional Families (ACA) help & recovery group meets in East Lismore every Friday 10–11.30am corner 215 Dibbs St and Wyrallah Rd in small Quakers hut next to Community Hall.
Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@gmail.com.
Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Wednesday 10–12noon at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details.
First quarter 2 Feb Full moon 9 Feb Third quarter 16 Feb New moon 24 Feb Day of Sun Sun Moon month rise set rise 1 S 0616 1942 1219 2 S 0616 1941 1312 3 M 0617 1941 1407 4 T 0618 1940 1504 5 W 0619 1940 1604 6 T 0620 1939 1704 7 F 0621 1938 1802 8 S 0621 1938 1858 9 S 0622 1937 1949 10 M 0623 1936 2035 11 T 0624 1935 2117 12 W 0625 1935 2156 13 T 0625 1934 2235 14 F 0626 1933 2313 15 S 0627 1932 2353 16 S 0628 1931 17 M 0628 1931 0035 18 T 0629 1930 0121 19 W 0630 1929 0211 20 T 0631 1928 0303 21 F 0631 1927 0358 22 S 0632 1926 0454 23 S 0633 1925 0550 24 M 0633 1924 0644 25 T 0634 1923 0737 26 W 0635 1922 0829 27 T 0635 1921 0921 28 F 0636 1920 1012 29 S 0637 1919 1104
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12.41pm 6.33pm 9.17am 2.32am Moon High tide, set height (m) 0156 1.21; 1353 1.30 0002 0259 1.23; 1444 1.20 0035 0412 1.28; 1550 1.12 0112 0520 1.37; 1705 1.09 0155 0618 1.48; 1815 1.10 0243 0712 1.61; 1915 1.15 0339 0800 1.73; 2009 1.21 0441 0848 1.84; 2058 1.28 0547 0933 1.92; 2145 1.35 0656 1018 1.95; 2232 1.40 0805 1101 1.94; 2319 1.44 1145 1.86 0913 1019 0008 1.45; 1229 1.73 1124 0100 1.45; 1313 1.56 1228 0159 1.44; 1402 1.38 1331 0308 1.44; 1501 1.22 1433 0426 1.46; 1616 1.11 1532 0539 1.52; 1741 1.08 1628 0640 1.59; 1849 1.11 1720 0731 1.64; 1942 1.16 1807 0815 1.68; 2025 1.22 1848 0855 1.71; 2102 1.27 1926 0930 1.71; 2137 1.31 2000 1002 1.70; 2210 1.34 2031 1032 1.67; 2242 1.37 2102 1102 1.62; 2315 1.38 2131 1131 1.55; 2350 1.39 2202 1201 1.46 2234 0029 1.38; 1234 1.36
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Low tide, height (m) 0739 0.65; 2026 0.48 0847 0.71; 2116 0.49 1010 0.74; 2214 0.49 1138 0.70; 2313 0.45 1249 0.61 0008 0.39; 1344 0.51 0100 0.31; 1430 0.40 0149 0.23; 1515 0.30 0237 0.15; 1557 0.23 0324 0.11; 1639 0.19 0413 0.11; 1721 0.18 0501 0.16; 1803 0.20 0554 0.26; 1845 0.25 0651 0.38; 1930 0.31 0759 0.51; 2018 0.38 0919 0.61; 2115 0.44 1050 0.64; 2220 0.48 1214 0.60; 2330 0.47 1317 0.53 0030 0.44; 1404 0.46 0121 0.39; 1443 0.40 0204 0.35; 1516 0.37 0243 0.32; 1548 0.35 0317 0.31; 1617 0.34 0351 0.32; 1645 0.34 0425 0.35; 1714 0.35 0500 0.40; 1743 0.37 0538 0.47; 1813 0.41 0620 0.55; 1845 0.45
Times are Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data from Bureau of Meteorology.
Respite Service Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires. Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.
Alateen meeting Alateen meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-year-olds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place. 1300 ALANON 1300 252 666 www. al-anon.org.au
Breast Cancer Support The Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay gets together from at the Byron Community Cabin on Carlyle Street, next to the tennis courts, from 12.30pm–2.30pm, every 3rd Wednesday of the month. More info on Facebook: Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay, or call 0431 207 453.
Library fun Baby Bounce session Mullumbimby – Tuesday 11.30am, Brunswick Heads – Friday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Wednesday 10am. Storytime for toddlers and pre-school children Mullumbimby – Momday, 10am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.
Support after suicide StandBy provides support to people who have lost someone to suicide. They provide free face-to-face and telephone support and are accessible 24/7. Follow-up contact is available for up to one year. Find out more at: www. standbysupport.com.au or call 13 11 14. If you, or someone you are with, are in need of immediate support please call an ambulance or police on 000.
Social sporting groups Mullumbimby: Tuesday Ladies Group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new players 9.30am every Tuesday next to Heritage Park, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058. Tuesdays: 10.30am. Byron: Drumming with Gareth Jones at Byron Theatre; Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell 12 till 1pm. Wednesdays: Choir with Kim Banffy, 10–11am; Ukulele 11.30–12.15. Suggested donation of $10. No bookings needed, information seniors@byroncommuntycentre. com or call 6685 6807. South Golden Shores Community Centre every Monday at 10.30. Phone 0435 780 017. Bangalow Bowlo Sundays at 3pm. All welcome. Enquiries Margot 0412 394 932. Byron Bay Croquet at Croquet Club next to the Scout Hall at the Byron Rec Grounds every Monday at 3.30pm. Ring 0477 972 535. Pottsville Fun Croquet Club at Black Rocks Sportfield. Beginners and visitors welcome. Game starts 9.30am Tuesday and 2pm Thursday. $5 per game. Enquiries 0413 335 941.
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