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Woolgoolga and the Northern Beaches JANUARY 2020 issue #5 HAPPYHAPPY NEWNEW YEAR!YEAR! Friday 3rdrd JanJan Wednesday 8thth JanJan Every Wednesday Live Music Mega Trivia Night $5 schooners from 6.30pm Free entry (Carlton(Carlton productproduct only)only) and Meat Raffles and prizes from 5pm-7pm 7 Tasman Street, Corindi Beach Phone 6649 2622 Welcome to Woo pi News www.woo pinews.com.au - woo [email protected] - 0410 052 601 - ABN: 27 728 512 311 Welcome to the year 2020 those that may be struggling. the street to say they had watched the show and that’s why they were here. Does that mean we can see more The weekly Fluro Friday meet up has accurately and clearly now? I hope grown immensely over the past 12 The Community Surfboard and Street so. I hope what we will see is the months and is changing people’s lives. Art was a hit. I think of all the diff erent continuance of community harmony. If you ever feel like you want to join in projects and events around town, this The past 12 months in Woopi has shown please come and meet the group at the has been the most well received. It what an amazing community we are. beach on Fridays at 6.30am or at the certainly shows us to be a fun, inclusive Coming together and helping each Beachouse Café at around 7.30. Just go community. During 2020 we are hoping other during the fires, the diff erent up to anyone wearing bright colours to keep bringing you more great street groups collaborating to house people and they will make you feel welcome. art and really turn Woolgoolga into a and animals, collect blankets and The Fluro Friday Tribe invite you all unique and interesting town to visit. clothing, food for the evacuees and for down to Woolgoolga Main beach on Curryfest, Blues and Berries and Eat our brave firefighters. Winning the Best Australia Day (Sunday, January 26) Street are positive, tourism building, Community in Australia at the R U OK? for a Fluro Fun Inflatable Floating community driven events, all brought Awards confirmed we are caring about Day. Bring your blowups, standups or to us by Another Tasty Event. We are so mental health and suicide prevention. anything that floats and enjoy a Woopi lucky to have this business in our town, The interested and supportive crowd Summer Sunday together. run by locals Carl and Sherry who put and the meaningful conversations that Woopi starred in an episode of ABC a lot of eff ort into creating exciting and were had when the R U OK? Trust the Backroads this year which has brought always evolving events. Signs tour came to town cemented many new visitors to our area. The that we are achieving positive results Visitors Information Centre recorded in our quest to bring awareness to and a spike in inquiries after the episode educating ourselves on how to help screened. People were stopping us in Elaine McInnes and her best furry friend Poppy are always ready to get into the Ollie and Tahlia - the Kindness Crusaders with some of the gifts they collected to mood for any occasion - bringing lots of donate to other young people for Christmas smiles to lots of faces on the way Located in the heart ofof WoolWoolgoolgagoolga QualitQualityy products, well known brands, affordable 56 BBeacheach StreetStreet - 00400400 778989 446666 2 – WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 5 – JANUARY 2020 Welcome to Woo pi News The Mitre 10 Carols by the Sea and the Shop Local Shop Woopi campaign has added some fun to the festive season. The Woolgoolga and Northern Beaches Chamber of Commerce will continue the shop local campaign all year. It is vital to the success and continuation of businesses in our area that we shop local whenever we can. The Healthy Town Project was a great success, implementing a lot of new initiatives in town including Healthy Town Month, a month of free healthy activities held last May. We are looking at doing that again this year, dependent on sponsors and funding. All of these events and activities couldn’t happen without the generosity of local sponsors Wear your brightest colours, bring your blowups, standups or anything that floats and enjoy so when you can, please a Woopi Summer Sunday at the Fluro Fun Inflatable Floating Day. January 26 support the businesses whose logos you see on promotions. possible to donate to children who may not have the same Woopi News started opportunities as them. They publishing in September, are a pretty special couple of this is our fifth edition. If young ladies. Expect to see you’ve missed any you more of them. can view them online at www.woopinews.com. Here’s to 2020 being another au. The positive response fabulous and positive year for we have received has Woolgoolga and the Northern been overwhelming and Beaches. We hope you have heartwarming. We hope a good one. to be able to increase our print run and page numbers during the year. “With over 60 years in the Kindness has been everywhere in our town, travel industry, our goal is we had our Random Acts of Kindness Cards with to make your next holiday coff ees being paid forward, chocolates being passed extraordinary” out, flowers presented to Lisa and Brad. strangers, lawns mowed, gutters cleaned, shopping PS don’t forget to tell them Open 9am to 5pm Weekdays you saw it in Woopi News and carried and so much more. 9am to 12noon Saturday The Kindness Crusaders, Don’t forget to recycle your Ollie and Tahlia have been edition, if you’re not saving it, 1/5 Market Street, Woolgoolga busy. These girls and their please pass it on to someone super supportive mums else or take it back to the Tel: 6654 8114 have off ered so many acts of shop you picked it up from. kindness, finishing the year Share the love. Thank you. Email: [email protected] by collecting as many gifts as Cover: Pete, Wendy and Brett. WOOPI NEWS – WOOLGOOLGA AND THE NORTHERN BEACHES – ISSUE 5 – JANUARY 2020 – 3 Woo pi News - Fresh FM 87.6 Something new and technical idea on running a station like this but he Fresh is in the air has a wealth of knowledge Fresh FM 87.6 regarding music, loving it After a chance meeting since he was a kid. whilst waiting for some He has several facebook takeaway at Mick Hundles’ music groups he administers Indian restaurant, in with over 60,000 followers Woolgoolga’s Top Town, and he is just about ready to Safety Beach Resident publish a book detailing his Michael Krilich has now knowledge and passion for teamed with the owner music. So he sounds like the of Fresh FM, Major Sidhu right bloke for the job. and is bringing Fresh FM He has already introduced Woolgoolga’s Own radio a number of three hourly for Michael to work with and “I listen to 87.6 Fresh FM – station back to life. programs covering diff erent they are hoping to take it Woolgoolga’s Own”. So, if you For the past few years genres 60s-70s, 70s-80s, online. At the moment the would like to hear your voice Fresh FM has been used Country, Jazz, plus Chill reach is not much further on radio give Michael a call relaxation for late at night. for a popular Sikh prayer than the Woolgoolga town 0403 555 594 or email fresh. broadcast between 4.30am The Sikh Prayer show is still centre, but it’s worth tuning [email protected] and 7am. 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