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Connecting Communities
Woolies site in North Byron Plaza, Jonson Street, Byron Bay from 16 till 28 November between 1Oam–4pm.
Connecting Communities is an initiative of the Conscious Elders group of Possum Creek. Together with Bangalow Basics, Conscious Elders are hosting a lunch at Heritage House Bangalow to bring together the many groups who are working towards supporting people who are isolated or lonely, particularly as we emerge from COVID19 restrictions. Damon Gameau will be the guest speaker, and a representative from each group will be given a few minutes to speak about the work of their organisation – with groups learning from each other’s experiences. Numbers are limited for this event on Sunday, 8 November. However, if you are a person or group involved in supporting lonely or isolated people and would like to be involved please contact Ruth on 6687 1648.
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Pop-up book sale Friends of Libraries are holding a special pop-up book sale instead of this year’s Book Fair. To raise funds for local libraries, a wonderful selection of books will be on sale near the former
The Suffolk Park Progress Association will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Monday, 23 November at 7pm at the Suffolk Park Community Hall. COVID Safe measures will be in place, and numbers will be limited. For enquiries email: sppa.secretary@gmail.com.
BV VIEW Club Brunswick Valley VIEW Club will meet on Thursday, 12 November at 10.30am for luncheon at Billinudgel Hotel. Numbers are limited so please book with Wenda on 0449 563 580 or email wjhunt@yahoo.com.au no later than the Monday before. The VIEW club supports seven disadvantaged students in The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. Members have recently supplied Ocean Shores Public School and Brunswick Heads Public School with 80 colourful library bags made by the members. Info: president Margaret Alderton 0429 966 894.
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Mullumbimby District Neighbourhood Centre MDNC services that are running include: Community support/emergency relief: Food parcels, meals, assistance with electricity and Telstra bills. Listening Space: free counselling. Staying Home, Leaving Violence program. Integrated Domestic & Family Violence program. Financial Counselling: outreach available Thursdays & Fridays Financial Counselling: free service funded by the government, offering advocacy & assistance to find options to address debts. Information, referral and advocacy. To enquire about accessing any of these services call 6684 1286 or fill out an online enquiry form.
Byron Community Centre Homeless Breakfast: 7:30–9am Wednesday. Homeless Showers: Monday and Wednesday 10am–12pm (book in at breakfasts). Women’s Support and Counselling: Friday 1–3pm, Community Cabin Carlyle St. Free Phone Counselling: Call 0415 322 064 10am–2pm. Seniors
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With Mercury out of retrograde – yeah! – we get to enjoy more of Scorpio season’s chakra excitation and sexy fanfare……
Computer Club: Friday 9am–11am, Community Cabin Carlyle St. Seniors drumming, yoga, ukulele, art and drama: 66856807 for booking and time details. Volunteer Hub referral service: Call 66856807. Byron Community Pantry: free food box delivery to locals who are financially or physically unable to shop. Call/text your order to 0482 787 552. For more info call 66856807 or visit www.byroncentre.com.au
Low-cost or free food Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges. 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.
Tax Help Tax Help is now running at the Byron Community Centre every Friday from 1pm. Please phone through to reception on 6685 6807 with your contact details to make an appointment.
First Fleeters The Northern Rivers Chapter of the Fellowship of First Fleeters will meet on Sunday, 22 November from 11.15am at the Cherry Street Sports Club in Ballina. This will be our Christmas get together so all are very welcome. Contact Roddy Jordan on 6687 5339 or email: hollysbuddy1@bigpond.com to attend.
Mullumbimby CWA Mullumbimby Country Women’s Association (CWA) next branch meeting is at 10am on Wednesday, 11 November at the CWA rooms (on the corner of Tincogan and Gordon Streets). New members are very welcome. More information: 0427 847 282.
Prostate Cancer The Northern Rivers Evening Prostate Cancer Support Group will meet on Wednesday 4 November, 7pm till 9pm at Lismore Workers Club, Keen Street, Lismore. Men diagnosed with prostate cancer, and their partners or carers, are most welcome to attend. Enquiries, Bob Johnson 6622 5792.
CWA Bangalow is collecting donations of sanitary and personal care goods (e.g. dental and hair care, hand sanitiser, insect repellent) for Share the Dignity. This program supports girls and women in difficult or vulnerable situations. Donations can be left 12–27 October at the Byron Library, Bangalow Newsagent and CWA rooms in Bangalow, in boxes clearly marked ‘Share the Dignity’. CWA makes up bags of these goods for distribution through local neighbourhood and community centres.
Free guided relaxation
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.
Free lunch-time Yoga Nidra community class at Brunswick Heads, every Thursday 12.30–1pm (Wheel of Life Studio). A guided deep relaxation practice done from a lying position referred to as a ‘yogic sleep’. No experience required, just turn up. Contact Matt on 0430 008 293 or hello@sravan.com.au.
Byron Bay Croquet Club has resumed play with COVID-19 awareness. Play days are Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, or by arrangement. Enquiries from new players welcome. Free lessons. Call Max for more information 0431 906 536. Pottsville Fun Croquet Club has resumed at The Black Rocks Sports Fields (end of Overall Drive) Pottsville. We commence play at 8.30am, Tuesday and Thursday. Please arrive 15 minutes before play starts. or information ring our Club Captains Pat on 0427976436 or Jean on 0431606376.
Mullum CWA opens up The CWA Rooms in Mullumbimby (Tincogan & Gordon Sts) will be open with refreshments and stalls each Friday morning from 9am to noon. Call in for a cuppa and browse the home cooking, plants, books, glassware, and more. Info: Jenny 0427 847 282.
Yoga and meditation A free yoga and meditation day, for volunteers in the Byron Shire, is offered on Thursday 29 October, at Byron Community Centre, 9am till 4pm.
TAURUS: With Mercury back on track, situations that have hit speed bumps pick up traction again. Although, as what you wanted seems to become available, the question is: do you really still want it? This week offers a celestial window of opportunity to deeply, honestly examine where you go from this point forward. GEMINI: With your ruling planet on the move again, something important finally becomes blindingly obvious in a light-bulb, ‘eureka!’ moment. So ask yourself: ‘Is this the right time for the course of action I’m considering? What, above all, do I really want?’ Keep doing this for as long as it takes…
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Ballina Shire Meals on Wheels are running technology help sessions for over 65’s on Tuesday mornings. A volunteer works one-on-one to assist seniors to learn how to better use their devices – mobile phones, tablets and
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Byron Bay RSL Sub-Branch wish to collate the names of ex-service members who have served overseas in combat/ peace keeping roles in conflicts including Korea and post Vietnam, including Somalio, Namibia, Timor Leste (East) Timor, Bouganville, Iraq & Afghanistan. Ex-service members and their families from the Byron Shire area who wish to be included in this list, and on a planned honour board, should send their details to Jim Rogers. Phone 0412679870 or email jimrog48@gmail.com.
ARIES: As Scorpionic themes vie for attention, questions of where you invest time/energy/money, who you invite into your life, how you deal with power dynamics, and are you being stubborn about something all take centre stage. Know that surrendering doesn’t have to mean giving up. It could mean letting go of what doesn’t work.
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laptops. These 25min sessions are free of charge, but we would appreciate any donations for the service provided. Bookings are essential. To make a booking, or for information contact Kristen on 0419 679 719. We follow COVID Safe practices.
Mullum Magic Toastmasters Practice public speaking and develop leadership skills in a fun, supportive environment, at the Mullum Magic Toastmasters Club. New members and guests heartily welcomed. It is held every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday, from 7 till 9pm at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall, 55 Dalley Street Mullumbimby. Contact Ashni on 0439 843 657 for more information, or just turn up.
One Roof Byron raffle One Roof Byron’s prestige bike raffle draw was scheduled for 10 April at Mullum markets but was postponed owing to COVID-19 measures. Please keep your tickets and we will notify of a new raffle draw date.
End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at quarterly meetings at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit members. More information on www. exitinternational.net or phone Catherine 0435 228 443.
CANCER: As Mercury ends its retrograde, what has been, for some, a challenging cycle of control issues, finger pointing and dealing with victim mentality, lets up for the rest of the year. Yes, it’s easier to get a read on people, but wait till next week when Mars stops stirring the drama pot before acting. LEO: Rowdy retrograde Mars brewing up a storm inside you is almost over, so don’t blow it by losing your cool and burning bridges. If this week’s combustible conversations are argumentative and demanding, hot and provocative – tranquilo! Hold your fire. Choose your battles. Edit before uttering, then aim for clear, concise communication. VIRGO: Mercury’s final retrograde for 2020 is done and dusted, and moving forward in your money and work sector this week, which could produce a revenue-stimulating idea or opportunity. And say that’s not the case, then what can you do about it? If spending less doesn’t appeal, think about ways you’d enjoy earning more.
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1. Picasso’s style of art (6) 4. Soluble salts (8) 9. Bid in bridge contract (2,5) 11. Within the law (7) 12. Interior, score in archery (5) 13. Valuable secretion from whales (9) 14. Vote taken by one not present (2,8) 16. Against, contrary (4) 19. Usual standard or benchmark (4) 20. Those who live in the Big Apple (3,7) 22. Child’s footpath game (9) 23. Fury, rage (5) 25. Military man (7) 26. Emergency worker (7) 27. Swells, expands (8) 28. Dinner course (6)
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1. If level of fitness… (9) 2. …rises, no bill – stick (5) 3. Least innovative – most like Four Corners! (8) 5. Cliché: try beef stew by Lawson or Oliver, perhaps (9,4) 6. A thousand found in rows of carnivores (6) 7. Cheer in hypnotic spell – forbearance (9) 8. Thoroughfare? Okay, but they’re Last week’s solution N358 eyesores (5) E G O M A N I A S T A O O R T 10. Tear up DNA file, shred – they say it P A U L I N E H A N is not pretty (5-8) Y N S T T 15. Car pool is found in a high place (9) S E T T L E I D E A A A N S 17. Preparing for cruise, Ann took out B R A I N S T O R M rebate for damages (9) N E A 18. Legal case? Manage a rehearsal (5,3) E D I T A S C E N S 21. Writer has cheat sheet in second E O H I English (6) L A M P O O N S A S D R T S 22. Cultivate around the South – and P L E A S E E X P L watered (5) A A E R E 24. More courageous punter! (5) S N A R E S N O N S
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LIBRA: Mercury’s headed direct again, and in your sign, balancing the sensible, survival-oriented side of your scales with the take-a-wild-exciting-risk-whichmightn’t-work-but-what-the-heck side. But does it have to be all one or the other? How about getting them to dance together; making it a bit of an each-way bet?
CAPRICORN: If you’ve been beavering away quietly at something during Mercury retrograde, its forward move recalibrates your personal GPS. So direct focus this week onto one major project or task and you’ll be able to get a surprising amount done. Think launch date sometime after Mars goes direct in mid-November.
SCORPIO: Although it won’t be without challenges (what is these days?), this week brings increased clarity to the remainder of your birthday month. So pause and observe. Let realisations settle. Keep discussions calm, cool and objective. Next week, when red planet Mars accelerates again, is a better time for take-off.
AQUARIUS: This week strongly supports the air-clearing convos recommended after Mercury retrogrades in general, and the recent one in particular. And opens a celestial crack in current existential bottlenecks to slide through into a few days of easy communication and smooth operating. Smart Aquarians won’t waste this invitation…
SAGITTARIUS: With a pair of formidable Mercury/Saturn squares, this week’s not quite out of the woods yet in the communication zone, so be very clear about arrangements, agreements and expectations. It’s a stellar time though for hanging out with your like-minded tribe, even if you don’t feel like making the effort.
PISCES: If you’re feeling pressured or pushed to make a decision before you’re ready, let others rush this week while you take whatever time you need. Do all the homework and research and factcomparisons you think necessary before next week brings a more auspicious astral wind beneath your wings.
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