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Below. Alan Johnson, Greg White, Warren Skinner, Geoff Johnson & Merv Mercer.
with Carole Beros from Le Dāin Designs
Right. Pink Silks Committee members
Above. Mel Felton, Nicole, Liz Mitchell, Sam Dawson and Tracey Hickson at Pink Silks
Above. Chris Shute and Melly Dee, President’s Day BBQ, C.ex Coffs Sports, Touring and Classic Car Club
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Above. Aaron Logue and Bianca Ling
Above. Aiste Raquc-Kaite, Jess and Liss Mason
Last of the summer months, and the stars are definitely shining brightly on the Coffs Coast! Our very own local star, Russell Crowe, brought an exciting splash of New York to the Coffs Coast just recently. he musical partnership of Russell, UK actress and songstress Samantha Barks, along with Alan Doyle proved to be nothing short of sensational! Rave reviews were voiced from audience, who were treated to the entertainment provided by the dynamic group at the Indoor Garden Party events. The series of sell-out shows, which have previously been performed in London, were held at The Coffs Harbour Jetty Memorial Theatre. A bevy of talented performers joined them on stage, for a performance certainly not to be missed. Russell has also been spending time with family and friends at the family property at Nana Glen, with whispers of laying down tracks for a new album. Exciting times for our Coffs Coast! Staying on sparkling stars ... it’s that time of year when our local talented dancers compete in the ever popular ‘Dancing with the Coffs Coast Stars’. The event is staged at the Coffs C.ex and gets packed to the max every single year. This event is a night of nonstop entertainment and attracts many local identities and dance instructors. This annual fundraiser is for the Cancer Council and is on 1 February. Nearly fully booked, so grab a ticket while you can! After the silly season, a massive cleanup was in order at the Beros residence! Teenagers aplenty, along with a few (shall we say) relaxed adults had left the place in a rather a dishevelled state ... I was told to calm down when I bolted around trying to round up my sheep to help me get the joint back in order. I was promised a ‘Magic Cleaning Pixie’ would clean the windows and have a cleaning frenzy - never happened before, so I ignored this and carried on moaning that I hadn’t even obtained my tickets to see our local stars dance. There were certainly stars in store; I 62 coffs coast focus.
shall elaborate later ... Another successful Sawtell Summer session Night on First Avenue. With a combination of a mass of enthusiastic fun loving tourists and the ever expanding groups of locals, the night was absolutely buzzing. Masses of entertainment and all the stores and eateries blitzing it. Next event will be on Thursday 13 February, just before Valentine’s Day (hint, hint!) The night will have a fashion street show provided by all the fabulous boutiques on First Avenue ... woohoo! We have had lots of cars and motorbikes and blokey stuff; this section of the night is for the ladies! Editor Melly Dee and her fiance Chris Shute attended the C.ex Coffs Sports, Touring and Classic Car Club's annual President's Day BBQ hosted by President Peter Titmus and his wife, Margaret Clare. After the hectic festivities, one of the best ways to relax is to enjoy a sunday afternoon at the beautiful Gardenmania Nursery at Boambee. This event on the first Sunday of every month is proving to be an extremely popular day. The next one is on Sunday 2 February. We attended the last one and totally enjoyed ourselves. There is entertainment to soothe the mind and soul, which provided by local artists such as Nathan Hardy, Angus and The Mielcrodo duo. There is nothing to do except enjoy the peace and serenity of the beautiful surrounds alongside the lily pond and under the shade of the ancient fig trees. Just pack a picnic, grab a blanket and enjoy the day. Gardenmania stages this delightful event free of charge and even provides all the visitors with a 20% discount voucher for the nursery. Who said enjoying yourself is expensive on the Coffs Coast! I donned the biggest and pinkest hat I have ever worn, gathered up the girls and set out for the Coffs Harbour Racing Club Pink Silks Day. It was certainly hot, but that didn’t deter
the biggest crowd ever for this charity racing flubber!) Such a beautiful venue for such an event. Funds raised on the day will be donated amazing festival. Don't miss out. to women’s health organisations and cancer Also on Australia Day, our Coffs Harbour research. Tanya Johnson and Vicky Hunter City Council Australia Day Committee have from the Pink Silks organising committee had organised a fabulous day out with Comcommented that this year the response was munity Celebrations and Ceremony at the amazing. Over the last seven years, the event North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens. The had raised over $270,000! This is a favourite day commences at 10am with a flag raising Race Day for our group of ladies, and it has ceremony, including Australia Day Awards and to be noted that the club itself puts Citizenship ceremony. Enter the Aussie in such an enormous effort to Hat Competition and enjoy a help make this day such a variety of entertainment huge success. Great team that’s in store. EntertainTanya Johnson effort, great day out! ment ranges from dancr te and Vicky Hun For a guy that has a ing from the Julie Ross s lk from the Pink Si ee talented father who Dance Studios, Debra itt m organising com at th is an amazing Jazz Lee Kidz Biz Concert, d te en had comm se on sp re musician, it was no Aussie games from the e th this year e th r ve O g. in surprise that Mason local Girl Guides and az was am the s, ar ye n Rack would become a face painting. ve se st la over songwriter/ musician. Going back to event had raised Mason and his band $270,000!” discussing stars … I was performed recently at the not only to be the enterSeaview Tavern and rocked tainment for my family, but the house! Friends of ours had also proved wrong for once. I had seen them perform and had an amaztaken The Son down to Sydney to visit ing time. With his outstanding vocals, the grandparents and had arrived home guitar and Weissenborn lap slide guitar, to be completely awestruck! The Husband he wooed the crowds playing Blues, Alt-rock had literally turned into ‘The Cleaning Pixie’: and Roots originals. There really is no excuse lawns were mowed, garage was … well (semi) to get out and enjoy oneself. There literally is tidied, vacuumed carpets and assorted UPOCs something for everyone! had been fixed! (by the way, that stands for The beautiful Beachside Opal Cove Resort is unidentified pieces of C##P)! I felt really mean; definitely one of the best places to be on the I was an ungrateful nut-bag! But punishment Australia Day Weekend. Cre8 Coffs Coast Arts was in order, as I skipped out onto a sparkling Festival is being staged at the resort. It will fea- porch through what I thought was an opened ture a smorgasbord of local and home-grown sliding door, ’THE MAGIC CLEANING PIXIE’ artists and performers. Such a choice, it will be had even washed the windows, and I just hard to choose - some of the choices on offer about knocked myself out! range from poetry, Afro-Cuban Salsa Dancing, Here is to seeing stars in all the wrong Gumbaynggirr culture and language to Radio places! Rock Star Basics and hula hooping (sounds Carole, like a fabulous way to get rid of the festive Le Dãin Designs.
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