THE TWEED SHIRE The Volume 1 #16 Thursday, December 11, 2008 Gathering Advertising and news enquiries: A new regular feature showcasing Phone: (02) 6672 2280 our thriving arts community Fax: (02) 6672 4933 Pages 18-19 [email protected] [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT

Free speech Motoring rally under attack – McCready under scrutiny

Ken Sapwell Mr Gladwin said residents were at a loss to understand why the cars Tweed Shire Council’s general man- could not be based on the foreshores ager Mike Rayner is under fire on at Salt where drivers and their teams a new front over his support of the were staying or at the Murwillumbah World Rally Championships which showgrounds which was at the centre critics say was given the boot by an- of the rally route. other state government on economic Marine Parade resident, Max Hop- grounds. per, denies his proximity to an area Th e Kingscliff Residents’ Associa- of the park which he says will be tion has raised concerns over what it turned into pits inspired his letter to sees as a potential confl ict of interest councillors to move the event to open between Mr Rayner’s appointment as land away from builtup areas such as a director to the rally board while he Kingscliff which already has traffi c is in charge of a council dealing with problems. its DAs. Kevin McCready believes the right to free speech should be protected. His views against religion and its teaching in It has also objected to the failure of Protest fears schools came under attack not only in The Echo’s letters columns but on the street. Photo Jeff ‘No Redemption’ Dawson the former administrators to consult He says as someone who once lived Luis Feliu As a result, many letters on the an atheist, which I’m not... they ac- the community before giving organis- close to Gold Coast Indy racing, he subject were received by Th e Echo, cuse me of being intolerant, which ers the go-ahead to use the Kingscliff fears the scale of this event will spark Condong resident Kevin McCready, including one from Mr McCready I’m not. foreshores as their base for the fi rst of a protest similar to the McIntosh Park an unsuccessful Greens candidate expanding on his views. ‘These people have the right to fi ve rallies over 10 years, starting next stoush when residents took on the for the Tweed Shire Council, has hit Th is week, he told us that he had say and believe what they want but September. council to save their park from the back at critics ‘crucifying’ him for his been accosted several times on the I don’t think they have the right to Association president Peter Glad- ravages of Indy. stance against religion and its teach- street and in his local supermarket pollute young inquiring minds with win said Mr Rayner informed resi- ‘If our newly elected council does ing to children. over his views. junk or any sort of rubbish at all.’ dents only two days before the coun- nothing else, it should refuse to allow Mr McCready, who narrowly cil elections that an area of foreshore the use of this or any other parkland missed out on the seventh and fi nal between the northern caravan park in the shire,’ the retired council redis- spot on Council at September’s elec- ‘I don’t think they have the right to pollute and the bowls club would be home to tribution chief commissioner from tions, featured in a story in Th e Echo about 60 competition cars and their Victoria urged. on November 27 headed ‘Teaching young inquiring minds with junk.’ back-up teams. He also suggested they examine religion is child abuse’. Mr Rayner, who the council ap- whether the state government had Th e political activist had written pointed as unpaid director to the legally bound the council to use rate- a draft submission for the Austra- ‘They told me I should keep my However, Mr McCready said that board last month, has apologised to payers’ funds and council resources lian Human Rights Commission’s mouth shut, that I was deliberately he was heartened by a call from ‘a very residents for not telling them sooner, and services to support the rally and (AHRC) public discussion on Free- stirring up trouble and that I myself prominent person’ in the shire who saying that strict confi dentiality re- disclose any cash and kind obliga- dom of Religion and Belief in the 21st was intolerant,’ he said. ‘supported me and what I said... I was quirements prevented him. tions. Century in which he said that prac- ‘I’ve had a few calls too, one from a quite pleased and surprised’. But he denies that his invitation to Mr Hopper says the West Austral- tices by religious groups which were cult member who wanted to abuse me He said he also ‘appreciated’ a call join the board has created a confl ict, ian government cancelled the cham- antithetical to human rights should be and tell me I was wrong and trying to from ‘a religious person’ who ‘sup- saying he will play no part in assess- pionships’ contract in 2006 aft er con- banned, including teaching children prove to me, in their own contorted ported my right to free speech’. ing DAs which are being lodged for cluding that the event did not provide that God existed, which he termed logic, that I was a liar. I really think ‘We should all accept one another’s the event. enough bang for the bucks it received ‘child abuse’. I’ve been stereotyped... people have beliefs, with agreement of what’s rea- A council spokesman said that ‘his from government coff ers. ‘To abuse a young mind by teach- this idea of what an anti-religionist is sonable, and protect one each other’s involvement with the wider board In a press release he uncovered ing hypothesis as fact is wrong,’ he and they think it fi ts me. rights to free speech’. will ensure benefi ts to the Tweed are on the internet, the West Australian wrote. ‘They’ve also stereotyped me as continued on page 2 maximised rather than missed.’ continued on page 2 Catalogue Out Now! Number 1For GARMIN See our under $20 & NUVI250 Christmas SKU ME06440 $40 Gift ideas

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Where do you get your copy? Free speech If you don’t receive The Echo at home or the weather Calendar showcases Uki is too bad for house to house delivery, pick up a under attack copy of your Echo from the following places: from page 1 Banora Point: Banora Point Shopping Mullumbimby: Echo offi ce Village, Tweed Heights Shops Murwillumbah: Echo offi ce, Visitor Mr McCready said that Burringbar: Real estate agent and Centre, Sunnyside mall stand ‘sooner or later in society’ service station Pottsville: Supermarket, bottleshop, Byron Bay: Echo offi ce, Visitors Centre, newsagent people have to conduct a wide- newsagent, Community Centre South Tweed Industrial Estate: Casa ranging discussion on religion Cabarita Beach: Beach Bar, SLSC and Del Cafe, Dolphin Juice Café, Eat Me and beliefs and ‘what are the cafe, newsagent Cafe Casuarina/Salt: IGA, Salt Bar, Stokers Siding: Store limits in what you teach your bottleshop Terranora: Supermarket kids?’ Chinderah: Art Gallery, pub, Tumbulgum: Post Offi ce store ‘For example people gener- newsagent Tweed City: Information desk ally agree you can’t teach kids Coolagattta – Griffi th Street and Tweed Heads – Minjungbal Drive: The Esplanade: Three newsagents, South Tweed Bowls Club, Tweed to be racist Nazis and you can’t Visitor Info Centre, 7-11 Supermarket, Tavern, Community Centre/Library Coolangatta Sands and Coolangatta teach your kids to be child Hotel, Surf Club, Coolangatta Senior Tweed Heads – Wharf Street: Ivory abusers. Citizens Club, Twin Towns Tavern, Hospital main foyer, Tweed Heads Bowls Club, newsagent, Twin ‘I’d be arguing we should be Condong: Store Towns having a discussion on what Fingal Head: Sheoak Shack Tyalgum: Store are the limits and what is ac- Hastings Point: General store, service Uki: Store, pub station West Tweed: Seagulls, Cellarbrations, ceptable,’ he said. Kingscliff : Bowls Club, Library/ Broadwater Village Retirement Park, His submission on the sub- Community Centre, two newsagents, Spar Supermarket, Kennedy Drive Mooball: Pub and cafe Newsagent ject was held over and not dis- cussed at the Greens’ meeting If you miss your printed copy of The Echo get it online at last week. www.tweedecho.com.au ■ See Letters, page 10

Uki village calendar’s month of March boy, seven-year-old Jimmi, of Darwin, was photographed ATTENTION ALL MEN by competition entrant Cameron Pitcher when the youngster visited Uki. Having problems getting and maintaining an erection, Th e Uki Community Technol- ogy Centre (CTC) has once World motor rally under scrutiny or suffer from incontinence? again produced the Uki Village This could be the help you’ve been waiting for Heritage Calendar. continued from page 1 ern Rivers every second year, Th e calendar showcases the government announced it was Mr Rayner said it would boost ™ finalists of the 2008 photo ending its contract with Con- the local economy and show- Dr Roberts Energiser competition held in associa- federation of Australian Motor case the Tweed as a tourist tion with the Uki Heritage Riv- Sports (CAMS) in 2006 because destination to a worldwide TV An effective method that can give you back erwalk project. of concerns over the economic audience. Th is is the second year that viability of the event. AN ACTIVE SEX LIFE the calendar has been pro- Then state tourism minis- 50m viewers without visits to clinics, injections, gels, tablets or sprays duced and Chris Lee from the ter Mark McGowan said the He said the event last year CTC is very pleased with this rally did not deliver suffi cient attracted a viewing audience of year’s production. return to taxpayers. He said it 50 million people in 180 coun- 90 DAY FREE TRIAL OFFER ‘The calendars are selling cost WA taxpayers $5.9 mil- tries and would bring ‘immeas- A highly successful solution fast,’ said Chris. ‘If we run out lion to stage and generated $9.3 urable exposure’ to the Tweed before Christmas then we may million, representing a $1.60 and Northern Rivers area. have to print more which is return for every $1 spent. ‘Th e council will also work 100% DRUG FREE great because the money helps In comparison, a recent with the Confederation of Aus- For a FREE comprehensive 12 page report call our fund the Buttery.’ Ironman endurance event tralian Motor Sports (CAMS) confi dential customer line today Copies of the calendar are returned $5.2 million on the to ensure its schools and youth Cost of a Free recorded available from the CTC offi ce government’s investment of programs are implemented in local call message 24 at the Old Buttery building $300,000, or $14.70 for every the Tweed community, to capi- nationwide 1300 136 755 hours 7 days on Kyogle Road. For more $1 spent. talise on the event in promot- information phone 02 6679 In announcing that the ing road safety, team work, dis- ™ 5399 or visit ctcuki@bigpond. championship would be staged cipline and socially responsible Dr Roberts Energiser net.au. over rural roads in the North- conduct of sport.’ 2 December 11, 2008 Th e Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News Ancient dune damaged by hoons Luis Feliu

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Award to Tweed journo Kingcliff students learn leadership Alex Mitchell Eve Jeff ery aging her during her prepara- tions. ‘My friends think it will A National Press Club achieve- After much hard work and be good for me and boost my ment award for 2008 has been planning, four students and confidence and I have made presented to Murwillumbah- two teachers from Kingscliff new friends during our or- born journalist Eric Walsh. High School are setting out on ganisation to go down. I prob- Th e presentation of the Gol- both a physical and develop- ably wouldn’t have spoken to den Gong award for exceptio- mental journey to be part of an Wynona in the past because we nal service to public aff airs was amazing experience and bring didn’t belong to the same group made at a dinner at the club’s back what they learn to other of friends but we have become headquarters in Canberra last students in the area. close working together. We all week. Th e group is among a gath- have become friends. It will ‘EJ’ Walsh, a former political ering of more than three thou- be great being down there all correspondent with the Daily sand Indigenous people from together. We are all part of a Mirror and the National Times, across the world in Melbourne team.’ press secretary to former Prime Eric Walsh thanking the to meet with Australian policy Jake Finn, from year 7, and Minister Gough Whitlam and National Press Club for his makers and discuss the key is- Kyle Shilling, from year 9, are an infl uential lobbyist for the award in Canberra last week. sue in closing the gap – educa- looking forward to the speak- past 30 years, began his career Photo Sandy Spiers tion – with the aim of making Kingscliff High School principal Alan Tolley (left), teachers Ka- ers and people from other on the old Tweed and South inroads into aligning formal rina Glasser and Colin Appo with Lion Paul Crompton and the cultures at the conference. Th e Coast Daily in the 1950s. McMahon, Whitlam, Fraser, and traditional Indigenous students Kyle, Jake, Wynona and Keeliah who will be travelling boys together presented to the He attended the Little Flower Hawke, Keating and Howard education methods. to Melbourne for the 2008 WIPC:E Kingscliff Lions Club a sum- primary school at Tumbulgum eras. Th e World Indigenous Peo- mary of what the conference before boarding at St John’s He also recalled some of the ples’ Conference: Education 2008 Knowledge Committee. great job. Th e really have or- would hold for them and so College, Woodlawn, run by the Canberra Press Gallery’s great (WIPC:E) was held this week ‘Very few gatherings of educa- ganised this all themselves and impressed the Lions meeting Marist Brothers. characters including the late and included keynote speeches tors can claim that they directly that is a big achievement.’ that the club generously do- His late father, also named Jim Quirk who was raised in from some of the world’s lead- represent tens of thousands of Wynona Gordon, who is just nated $2000 to their cause. Eric, was licensee of the Chin- the Tweed Valley before joining ing experts in Indigenous edu- years of practice. Th is is what fi nishing her year ten studies, is Th e six fl ew to Melbourne derah Hotel and the Kings- the Sydney Daily Mirror in the cation, with presenters hailing WIPC:E off ers. the eldest of the students trav- last Sunday and will return this cliff Hotel and Eric Jr, now 70 1960s. from Botswana to Bangladesh Colin Appo is the Aboriginal elling south and quite clearly Saturday. In all, about $15,000 years old, combined his media Introducing Mr Walsh, Insi- and Taiwan to Toronto. Aus- Education Offi cer at Kingscliff someone the other kids look was needed to fund the trip career with part-ownership of de Canberra editor Rob Chal- tralian speakers will include High. ‘Th is is a culturally in- to for leadership within the and the students did most of the Riverview Hotel in Balmain mers, who is the grandfather of Indigenous educator Chris clusive program,’ he said be- small group. Wynona hopes to the fundraising themselves. and the Bellevue in Paddington the gallery, declared the 2008 Sarra and Social Justice Com- fore the group headed off on gain a greater understanding ‘We are very thankful. A lot and EJ’s Restaurant in Canbe- recipient was one of the best missioner Tom Calma. their adventure. ‘These kids of the concept of Indigenous of people helped us with every- rra and then Macquarie Street, informed and best connected ‘WIPC:E is a stage on which have demonstrated leadership education and to learn leader- thing,’ said Kyle. ‘I am looking Sydney. political operators in Canberra the Indigenous world can already by organising fundrais- ship skills. forward to the conference and In his acceptance speech, and marvelled at the scale of showcase and celebrate both ers like raffl es and sausage siz- Keeliah Frost, from year 8, also getting a week off school.’ Walsh entertained the large his formidable parliamentary, culture and education in one zles. Th ey have given up a lot said most of her friends have For more information about audience with anecdotes from public service, media and bu- place at one time,’ said Dr Mark of their free time to make this been very enthusiastic about the conference visit: www. the Menzies, Holt, Gorton, siness networks. Rose, Chair of the WIPC:E happen and they have done a the trip and have been encour- wipce2008.com.

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4 December 11, 2008 Th e Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News Hydro pool opens Judge reserves rates case decision Ken Sapwell the Council misrepresented cial rate variations is just one ($9.1m) Tweed Heads master the true extent of rate hikes of the factors considered dur- plan ($13m) and coastal parks A judge has reserved his deci- by claiming they would cost ing the assessment process and and sport facility upgrades sion in a landmark court case at most only $1 a week ex- the minister is not necessarily ($16m). which could have far-reaching tra during the life of the plan, bound by the community’s re- A growing number of resi- impacts on the pockets of both when other experts calcu- sponse. dents, mostly self-funded re- Tweed Shire Council and its lated that the true cost was At stake in the case is the fu- tirees sitting on diminishing ratepayers. closer to around $5 to $8 a ture of the council’s $133-mil- nesteggs, are hoping the judge Justice Biscoe will decide week extra. lion infrastructure program will put an end to the remain- early next year whether to de- The minister and the de- which includes big-ticket items ing fi ve years of the plan and clare null and void a series of partment argue that evidence such as the Murwillumbah order increases to revert to record rate increases adopted of community support for spe- swimming pool and car park the normally sanctioned CPI under Tweed Council’s contro- levels. versial seven-year rate plan in Some say they are only just 2006-2007. Big hikes in property values realising that their rates, al- Seventy-eight year old William Murray enjoys the fi rst dip in Tweed Heads ratepayer and Despite the economic areas where values have fallen ready set to almost double over the TRAC’s hydro pool last Friday. accountant Terry Sharples be- downturn, property values in might pay less while those in the plan’s seven years, could go Last Friday saw the long await- Th e hydrotherapy pool is a gan the case 15 months ago, most Tweed coastal areas are more upmarket estates where much higher than the offi cially ed opening of the new hydro- specialised pool to benefi t peo- naming the Minister for Local expected to show dramatic in- values have soared might end sanctioned 9.5 per cent if land therapy pool at the new Tweed ple with disabilities, the aged Government, the Department creases when new valuations up paying more. valuations go up as expected Regional Aquatic Centre and those undergoing rehabili- of Local Government and the are issued next month. Real estate sources say that next year despite the economic (TRAC ) in Murwillumbah. tation. Council as respondents in his A Lands Department property hot-spots are likely downturn. A large group of dignitaries The pool is 15 metre by 8 application to the Land and spokesman said the valuations to include Fingal, Casuarina, Watchdog groups say that and guests gathered among the metre was funded jointly by Environment Court. are the fi rst since the property Kingscliff and the fast-growing under the plan about half the indoor pools of the centre, of- Council, the Department of Mr Sharples has alleged that boom of 2005 and will be village of Pottsville. shire’s ratepayers who are on fi cially opened late last month, Infrastructure, Transport, the Council used a loaded based on values as of July 1 CB Richard Ellis’ Tweed the lowest possible rate will see to celebrate the new complex. Regional Development and a questionnaire and misrepre- this year. valuer Graeme Smith said their rates grow from $536 to MC for the opening cer- mammoth fundraising effort sented the results of residents’ Tweed Shire Council bases since 2005 vacant land sales at $950, while the next biggest emony was Patrick Knight, by Rotary which raised $45,000 submissions and a telephone its rates on the value of indi- Banora Point’s new Flame Tree group will see theirs grow from Tweed Shire Council’s director to assist with the project. survey to indicate to the min- vidual residential blocks and Park estate had risen by about $750 to $1300. of engineering and operations As well as the initial fun- ister that ratepayers generally will use the new valuations to 20 per cent, while older parts If the case is lost they plan and Aunty Kath Lena gave a draising and the donation of supported the plan. assess its rates in June next of the suburb had gone up to put more pressure on candi- welcome to country. $5000 in hydrotherapy pool Council’s general manager, year. just 10 per cent. dates to honour their pledges Guest speakers for the event equipment at the opening, the Mike Rayner, and several other A council spokesman said He said on the Tweed Coast to undertake an early review were Richmond MP and Min- club has pledged to continue senior staff denied the claims that higher valuations did at Casuarina only three blocks of the plan. ister for Ageing Justine Elliot, supporting this important during a fi ve-day hearing last not necessarily translate into had sold in the past year, but Senior council staff have Ambassador for Ageing Noe- project. month and in final submis- higher rates because the dollar land values had increased in maintained from the outset that line Brown, Tweed Shire mayor For more information about sions given to the court last rate was adjusted to maintain the past three years between the plan is needed to keep pace Joan van Lieshout and the Ro- the hydro pool phone the week before Justice Biscoe re- the same rating base. 25 and 30 per cent. with a population predicted to tary Club of Mount Warning TRAC on 02 6670 2750 or visit: served judgement. But the adjustment might Pottsville’s Seabreeze estate grow from 80,000 to 120,000 AM’s Janette Glynn. trac.tweed.nsw.gov.au. Mr Sharples also says that mean that people living in saw a 20 to 25 per cent rise. over the next eight years. The week in Council factory built homes and cabins Council reporter Ken vidual councils set the pay rates have worked so hard to get this for their chiefs. badly needed skateboard park Sapwell gives his take A state government’s annual off the ground,’ she said. on the week report revealed that Mr Rayner, ■ ■ ■ ■ who the former administrators Millionaire developer Peter Tweed Shire councillors may appointed in May 2006 aft er his van Lieshout has hosed down well be scratching their heads predecessor quit mid-contract, speculation that his attempt to over the double standards ap- was last year given a $25,000 resurrect the Murwillumbah plying to their remuneration pay increase to take his salary branch of the Liberal Party is and that of their now highest to $234,000. part of long-term plans to ease paid general manager, Mike It seems guidelines beat tri- his wife and Tweed mayor into Rayner. bunal fi ndings all round. Th e a federal seat. The NSW Remuneration Federal Remuneration Tribu- ‘Joan is fully dedicated to her Tribunal, which determines nal has decided Cabinet minis- duties as mayor and has not the pay rates of mayors and ters should get just $210,000. even considered standing for councillors, has decided the ■ ■ ■ ■ federal politics,’ said Mr van Tweed is best compared with The Tweed Heads Ratepay- Lieshout, who recently adver- similar fast-growing North ers Association is calling on tised for new members to stop Coast councils such as Byron the Council to use some of the branch from folding. Bay and Coff s Harbour. the unexpected largesse from ‘Our aim in trying to save But according to a council PM Kevin Rudd to make the the branch is to ensure that we spokesman, the government’s long-stalled skateboard park at are in the best possible position + New architectural designs Senior Executive Service has is- South Tweed a reality. to challenge sitting Federal La- sued guidelines suggesting that Th e association has written bor member Justine Elliot at + Quality inclusions because of staff sizes and other to councillors urging them to the next election.’ factors, the Tweed’s general keep faith with local young- Mr van Lieshout revealed + Superior structural integrity manager’s pay should be more sters who initiated the project he was optimistic that the Libs in line with bigger councils. almost fi ve years ago but have would not be facing a three- + Eco-friendly products and materials They include councils like watched in dismay as promised corner contest, saying he be- Wollongong and Newcastle funding from various sources lieved the Nationals would not + Guaranteed construction times where councillors receive failed to materialise. be contesting their old seat. a maximum allowance of General manager Mike He said he and his wife $22,680, compared to their Rayner has listed the $110,000 only joined the Liberals a few + Delivered Australia wide Tweed colleagues who get a stage two of the project as months before she won a coun- maximum top-up of $15,120 among those which could be cil seat under the party’s ban- contact us on: a year. funded by Mr Rudd’s $1.3 mil- ner, but he had always been a Neither the Local Govern- lion handout to the shire for party supporter. 1300 794 960 ment and Shires’ Association infrastructure works. He said up to 18 people had or the NSW Remuneration Association spokesperson indicated they would attend www.imagedesignerhomes.com.au Tribunal could shed any light Ronni Hoskisson says, ‘It is a sign-on at Murwillumbah’s on the guidelines, saying that time we all stopped betraying Escape Gallery on December as far as they were aware indi- the trust of the youngsters who 22 at 7pm. www.tweedecho.com.au Th e Tweed Shire Echo December 11, 2008 5 Local News Ben moving up in the world Speaking to the dead just a part of life Eve Jeff ery Madeleine Doherty

With a height of 2,228 metres, Carmel Wright speaks to the Australia’s highest peak Mount dead… and the dead speak Kosciuszko is short by world back. standards, which is why Cabar- Sceptics abound but that is ita-born climber Ben Kane, 27, of little concern to the Bano- can spend up to eight months ra Point woman who for the of the year in a variety of des- past 11 years has worked as tinations including Nepal, Ar- a medium and a clairvoyant gentina and Pakistan. giving readings, appearing in Ben is a professional climb- clubs and writing for national er who works for Field Tour- magazines. ing Alpine, a company which Surrounded by a forest of silk was established in Western plants and fl owers in her home, Australia and now has a US Carmel (pictured) spoke frank- based offi ce for coordinating ly about her transition into the expeditions in the Himalayas, spirit world. Pakistan’s Karakorum and the Her work as a medium deals South American Andes moun- with those who have lost a loved tain ranges. one and deals mainly with par- ‘Typically most expeditions ents whose child has suicided as are high altitude mountain- well as with police and families eering,’ says Ben who is on a where there has been a murder break between treks. ‘I was re- or a missing person. cently on Cho Oyu in Tibet, Getting to be a medium was at 8,201m it’s the sixth highest a tough journey, Carmel said. the victim because the murder ‘When I passed the infor- mountain in the world, but the ‘It was 11 years ago that I dis- is unsolved, Carmel said the mation on to the daughter she company off ers lower altitude covered I was a medium and murdered woman has told her said, “Th at’s amazing because mountaineering and remote a clairvoyant. I was hearing who did it and where the evi- my mother didn’t speak a word treks.’ voices and thought I was going dence is that the police need to of English – she was German” Ben works as an expedition mad. It was horrendous but I solve the case. but the information about the guide whose main role is to get Ben Kane at home in Cabarita this week. Photo Jeff ‘Social just went with it,’ she said. ‘Two men committed the hankies was correct,’ Carmel the expedition team members Climber’ Dawson Th e transition took place and murder. One has since passed said. to the summit and back safely. Carmel found herself able to on but the other one is still out Guiding Carmel through He also organises expedition eff ect of high altitude is a loss expanded from there. ‘I went communicate with spirits of there and he took the jewel- her work is her friend and now logistics and works as a liaison of appetite. Most people will on a trip to New Zealand about people who had died. lery off the dead woman’s body spiritual guide Cathy who died with clientèle before an expedi- struggle to eat the required fi ve years ago. Only when I saw ‘The spirits choose you. which the police didn’t know,’ in 1997. tion, preparing and informing amount of calories and so the the mountains up close did the As humans we operate on a she said. ‘Cathy told me about the them to give them the best pos- body wastes away. I lost 12kg desire to climb them come to lower frequency than the spirit Carmel refrains from con- journey as she passed from this sible experience. on my previous expedition. me. I was greatly intrigued by world so for me to be able to tacting the dead unless a family life and what happens when ‘I like to help climbers achieve Muscular strains, blisters, sun- them, and climbing them is a understand what they were member requests her to. people cross over. She said she their goal safely, without undue burn and dehydration also are great way to experience their saying the spirits raised my Another hurdle that medi- had found the wisdom and was risk to themselves, myself and common problems. You really environment,’ he said. frequency and lowered theirs,’ ums overcome is that of lan- not frightened as guides and others on the mountain,’ says get to know your own limits ‘During the climb, the mo- she explained. guage. angels come to take you across,’ Ben who stresses the impor- when you push yourself that ment is very intense. Th ere are It took 12 months for the ‘Th e dead speak in English to Cathy said. tance of safety. ‘I’ve assisted in hard. It’s very awakening.’ times when I feel elation, or transition to be complete. me but the spirits communicate While religion doesn’t come a couple of rescues and seen Ben got the bug for explor- anxiety, or even fear.’ Since then Carmel has been in the language of the medium into her work Cathy does be- severe frostbite up close. One ing as a child and his horizons In fact Ben studied for an en- giving clairvoyant readings so if I was French they would lieve in God, saying she could tirely diff erent career path and but her work as a medium has talk to me in French. not do her work without him. A fabulous shop of has a Bachelor of Popular Mu- brought her the satisfaction of ‘I had an interesting case She also believes that we sic from the Queensland Con- knowing she is helping people where a daughter wrote to me should not judge people and Patchwork & Haberdashery servatorium. But being a tour ‘heal’ aft er a loss. asking for me to contact her their spiritual beliefs. Wide range of quality fabrics from $10 guide has taken precedence for One of her most memorable dead mother. She sent me her ‘Everyone needs something, him now. cases involves the murder of mother’s fi rst name and a pho- it may be diff erent but it de- Classes Ben’s next adventure is to a woman in Mackay 34 years to. The mother talked to me pends on their life’s journey as • Patchwork • Quilting Argentina in January to lead a ago. including specifi c information to what they accept spiritually,’ • Craft • Embroidery couple of trips on Aconcagua, While not wanting to name about some handkerchiefs. Carmel said. Next to Victory Hotel, the highest mountain in the MOOBALL (02) 6677 0200 southern hemisphere and one www.moomoostitches.com.au of the ‘seven summits’. Painting against climate change If you would like to contact Ben or Field Touring Alpine Children from the Tweed are battle the negative effect the pressed their ideas on envi- Moo Moo Stitches visit: www.fi eldtouring.com. being urged to show their population is having on the ronmental issues. Th e winner support for the fight against environment. of the 2008 competition was climate change by expressing Th e Asia-Pacifi c winner will 14-year-old Gloria Ip from themselves through art. receive a trip for themselves China. With a trip to an interna- and a parent/guardian to an in- Closing date for entries is tional children’s environmen- ternational children’s environ- January 15 and the pictures tal event in 2009 on off er for mental event in 2009 as well as must be in A4 or A3 format. the winning regional entry, the cash and other prizes. Do not include any words 18th International Children’s An overall global winner or descriptions in the paint- Painting Competition on the and two second places will be ings. Paintings that show a par- Environment is a global con- chosen from the regional fi- ticular person, an organisation test organised by the United nalists. or a brand name will not be ac- Nations Environment Pro- Th e winning artworks and cepted, nor will paintings that gramme (UNEP) and Bayer other selected paintings will have been shown or accepted in AG. be exhibited at World Environ- other competitions. Full name, As climate change continues ment Day, the United Nations age (day, month, year) and full ❤ Gifts to be high on the agenda across Headquarters in New York, address including phone and the globe, the theme for the international exhibitions and email must be listed on the from the 2009 competition is, ‘Climate on the websites of Bayer and back of the painting. Th ere is heart Change: Our Challenge’, with UNEP. no restriction on the painting Shop 119, Tweed City Shopping Centre children between fi ve and 13 Since 1991, over 190,000 materials used. encouraged to paint pictures children from more than 100 For more information 54 Minjungbal Drive TWEED HEADS SOUTH depicting human actions in countries have submitted art- visit www.unep.org/tunza/ Phone: 07 5523 0983 and around the home to help work in which they have ex- children/inner. 6 December 11, 2008 Th e Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News When Cr Polglase met Gaddafi … Th e Echo looks at Councillor Warren Polglase’s roller coaster ride through life and local government politics. Madeleine Doherty

Tweed Shire councillor Warren Polglase, 67, has been reading the tea leaves and forecasts ma- jor changes in the council in 12 months time. ‘Th ere’s nothing to be afraid of,’ Warren said with a know- ing smile while refusing to elaborate. For a man who is a third generation farmer from South Australia and the Riverina he has learnt to be resilient, rolling with the punches as he sits and waits for the right moment to make his move. His political career started in the Riverina in 1980/81 when as ‘dirt farmer’ he lead the battle against the ‘colonials,’ or pasto- ralists as they called themselves, over irrigation. MULLUM HIRE is a party hire specialist, servicing the entire Th e issue saw him elected to Northern Rivers area from Tweed to Grafton to Tenterfi eld. the Murray Shire Council and We can supply marquees from 15-240sqm, for wedding, taking up the deputy president parties, corporate events and special occasions. position aft er a short appren- Councillor Warren Polglase has had a colourful life which included a role as agricultural expert ticeship. to Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi . Cr Polglase good humouredly pulled out his Libyan attire from his We offer competitive rates and free onsite inspections. We have chairs, tables, PA systems, light shows, cutlery He spent seven years on the offi ce at Noble Lakeside Estate for the photo. The Libyan attire was worn by the seven Australian glassware and helium balloons. council before opting for a sea agricultural experts who helped Gaddafi move his country from goat farmers to crop growers in change with his wife Karlene 1978. Photo Jeff ‘Lost Patrol’ Dawson We hire a large range of catering equipment including mobile (his childhood sweetheart), coolrooms, bain maries, spit bbqs, urns and many other other items. heading north to the Tweed bargy in local politics. Point as regrettable. believes she has a lot to learn. We have a large range of coloured napkins, bamboo plates, cane where he joined family mem- In 1978 Warren went to Libya ‘That development was ap- He enjoys politics and com- fi bre plates,timber cutlery and biodegradable plastic cups. bers in the ownership and man- to help Colonel Gaddafi . proved under the prior council munity involvement but the agement of the Homestead and The then Federal Govern- and the developers, with ap- greatest reward is ‘when people Let us help you make your day and night! Hacienda caravan parks. ment sent a team of seven farm- proval and in good faith, spent prosper.’ 73 Station Street, Mullumbimby. 02 6684 3003 ‘I wasn’t a novice [politically] ing specialists, including War- hundreds of thousands of dol- when I arrived on the Tweed,’ ren, to help Libya convert from lars, then the council moved the he said. goat farming to crops. goal posts. It’s unjust,’ he said. ‘Th e Tweed needs opportuni- ties. I did a lot of work getting ‘Gaddafi off ered us a budget of $200 million Salt and Pepper developments to get the job done in a year. off the ground and look at the You’ve never seen money like it.’ great outcome. ‘Before that happened there FOR ALL was meeting at Kingscliff of Just as a water issue launched ‘We sat down with Gaddafi about 300 people against the his council career in the Riv- and he wanted to do in one year whole thing but many of those Quarry Products erina it was water that saw what the rest of the world had people now make money from him elected to the Tweed Shire taken seven years to do. But he those developments. I’m pro- Council 14 months aft er arriv- off ered us a budget of $200 mil- development because it leads to ing in the Tweed. lion US to get the job done in jobs,’ he said. ‘Council wanted to introduce a year. As a newly elected council- a pedestal levy [a toilet charge] ‘You’ve never seen money like lor Warren is one of the odd and I knew our caravan park it,’ Warren said. ones out who has refused to at- tenants couldn’t aff ord the fi ve He stayed five months in tend the briefi ng meetings with dollars a week per toilet the Libya working in the Sahara, council staff and councillors council wanted to charge,’ he travelling through the desert at prior to the council meetings. said. night and camping through the ‘I won’t go on principle. Th e ‘Knowing about water vol- day to avoid the heat. discussions need to be in open umes from my life as a farmer I ‘Th ey looked aft er us really council. There were no such met with council to put forward well, even off ering to cook our meetings when I was mayor but another plan based on a user- meals, but aft er the fi rst meal, I did have meetings with fellow Wishing all customers and pay system, but I was thrown something like sheep eyes, we councillors. out. Th e only way to beat the decided to do our own cooking,’ ‘I think it’s improper that community a Merry Christmas bastards was to get someone on he said. the briefi ngs continue,’ he said to council.’ The Aussies gained respect referring to the fi ndings of the and safe and happy New Year from Warren was that someone because they followed the lo- Daly Inquiry. and was elected in 1988/89. cal customs, even wearing the He was left smarting aft er the the team at Reedy Creek Quarries For the next three years he local garb. inquiry that led to council’s sack- tried for the mayoral position ‘It was a very interesting ex- ing because some councillors, s!GGREGATES s2OADBASE but it was always Max Boyd’s perience,’ Warren said. including Warren, were seen to name that was drawn out of the Almost as interesting as the be too close to developers. s&INE#RUSHED2OCK s&ILL-ATERIALS bucket to take the throne. position he now fi nds himself ‘You know before the inquiry s#RUSHER$UST s$RAINAGE-ATERIALS Once on council he managed in – on Tweed Shire Council – the NSW Minister for Roads to get the toilet levy replaced in the minority, which is not a Carl Scully came to Tweed and QUOTATIONS & ENQUIRIES with the user-pay system ‘that position that Warren will want told me, “If you don’t get your is now being adopted all over to be in for too long. council in line we’ll have you TUMBULGUM, TWEED HEADS NSW Australia,’ Warren said. He sees the new council- out of here.” Th ere is more to Warren than lors lacking in a lot of local ‘Well I’m still here and he’s his farm-boy roots, AFL years government knowledge and gone,’ Warren said. in South Australia and argy- feels the latest decision on As far as the current mayor, PH: 02 6676 6131 the height limits at Hastings Joan van Lieshout goes, Warren www.tweedecho.com.au Th e Tweed Shire Echo December 11, 2008 7 Comment Between chaos and shemozzle hen federal parlia- And then on Th ursday, total one knew the numbers were tion. So two questions have to ment fi nally rose last disintegration over the gov- there to pass the bill. In the be resolved immediately. W week, the govern- ernment’s infrastructure fund. circumstances, abstaining was First, is it a coalition or not? Volume 1 #16 December 11, 2008 ment departed looking quite Th e coalition’s offi cial position, perfectly reasonable. Are the Nationals inside the remarkably governmental. determined some time ago Well, maybe, but the num- tent, or like their own senate Not only were Kevin Rudd and confi rmed on the day of bers for just about every vote leader Barnaby Joyce, outside Media matters and his Labor colleagues very the crucial vote, was to move in the senate are predeter- it? Th ey can’t go on having it comfortably ahead in the opin- amendments to the legislation, mined; very few counts come both ways, and most of the The so-called mainstream press is doing it hard this year. The ion polls, they had won every but if these were rejected by as a surprise, and last year, Liberals are sick of them try- economic downturn hits all businesses, but spare a thought for important fi ght they had got the government, to let it pass: when the government held an ing to. If the policies of the two the poor shareholders of Fairfax and News Limited. Both compa- into on the fl oor of the house. blocking a huge stimulatory absolute majority, none at all parties are as incompatible as nies are shedding journalists – and the resources journalists need To most people, this would spending program with the did. However, Minchin usu- they seem, divorce is the only to produce good stories – at a rapid rate in the eff ort to cut costs be irrelevant: the proceedings economy grinding to a halt was ally managed to postpone his answer. But if the Nats want and maintain profi ts. Classifi ed income is migrating to the inter- of parliament are seen, when rightly seen as untenable poli- piddle and cappuccino for long the benefi ts of front bench op- net, and as the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai showed, citizen they are noticed at all, as a se- position jobs, they will have to reporting by blog, twitter and mobile phone easily outpaces the ries of playground squabbles conform. Th ey complain that traditional news media. with no application to the rest Libs senate leader Nick Turnbull doesn’t listen to their The only exception to the general newspaper shrinkage is in of Australia. But in the arcane concerns; true, but he doesn’t local, independent giveaways, such as the one you hold in your world of politics, parliament is Minchin chose to lead his listen to anyone else’s either. hands. This is an area for growth and the Tweed Shire Echo has the stage on which politicians troops from the toilet and coff ee Welcome to the club. certainly been greeted with great enthusiasm in the community. are made and broken. Which leads to the second In a very short space of time it has established itself as essential A single bad week in the shop, where he spent his time question: are the Libs ready reading for those who want to make sense of local politics, fi nd chamber can have a devastating while the vote was taken. to let go of the John Howard out what the other half is up to, or just enjoy an entertaining read. eff ect on the morale of the los- legacy or not? Some still seem It has not been easy to start a new venture when the business ing party, and can seriously de- unwilling to break the habit of environment is lacking in confi dence, and we could be doing stabilise its leadership. Malcolm by Mungo MacCallum a lifetime and reject his failed better (couldn’t we all?). But the bottom line is that we are here to Turnbull must be very grateful policies on industrial relations, serve, and here to stay. Of course the struggle between news- that he does not have to front tics. Coalition senators were enough to put in an appear- federalism and even climate papers in this region is fi erce, but The Echo’s strategy has always up again until February. therefore supposed to vote ‘aye’ ance. change. Th is is dumb politics, been to attend to the quality of our content so that more eyeballs Last week was a complete when the bills returned to the So: had his sudden incon- but it has the support of the pass over our pages than those of our competitors, and that trans- shemozzle with the opposition senate on Th ursday night. tinence and java addiction Howard huggers in the Mur- lates into better value for our advertisers. performing two major back- In the event, just five did anything to do with the fact doch press, which the recal- Incidentally, the battle for the advertising dollar means that downs and unable to decide so: all of them front bench that he has always been, and citrants seem to believe gives there are some exceptional bargains now available locally. just what form the coalition Liberals and all (it was noted proudly remains, a leader of it some validity. Th ey should Companies that take an ad with The Echo get all sorts of off ers of the Liberal and National sourly by others) unwavering the anti-Turnbull push within have watched The Howard from competing papers, including twice the space for half the parties was supposed to take; supporters of Malcolm Turn- the party? Should the anarchy Years on ABC TV to realise price, with a ‘news’ story about the business thrown in. Their old on Th ursday night it appeared bull. Two Liberals and all the of Thursday night be inter- how out of touch their atti- loyal customers who are not getting this rate should book with that the choice was between Nationals voted no, a clear preted as a studied challenge tudes have become. us quickly before the off er expires! But seriously, if you want the a can of worms and a dog’s act of defiance. And all the to Turnbull’s authority? Turnbull was elected as local economy to thrive we encourage advertisers to bypass the breakfast. other Liberals abstained, giv- Well, no, it shouldn’t. Firstly leader to drag the party into corporate press, which exists to siphon money out of the area, Th ere had already been splits ing the ‘Don’t know or don’t Turnbull hasn’t got any author- the present. So far he has been and concentrate on dealing with homegrown businesses like the and defections over the treat- care’ movement a majority so ity: if he had, the events just only partially successful and Independent Weekly and The Echo. ment of timber plantations as overwhelming it looked peril- described would never have the wins he has had have come carbon sinks, resulting in one ously like consensus. Was this taken place. But secondly, there at the cost of resentment, dis- Meanwhile last week the Lismore Northern Star announced ‘APN National, Fiona Nash, losing the Liberal version of a politi- is only one other contender for aff ection and, as we have seen, gets the Echo.’ Judging by our email, readers were confused, so her front bench position. cal Th ird Way? the party leadership, and that open disunity. Obviously he we emphasise that the only Echo APN ‘gets’ is the Northern Rivers Then the coalition aban- Interestingly among the is Tony Abbott; and while the needs to change his style of Echo, circulating in Lismore Shire, whose purchase had been in doned what had previously dominant faction was none Liberals may be confused, di- leadership, which may prove been described as its immov- other than the Liberal leader in rectionless and verging on the to be very diffi cult. train since June and delayed by an ACCC investigation into the able, principled opposition to the senate, Nick Minchin, who desperate, they are not yet sui- Still, it’s worth adding to his eff ects of APN’s potential print monopoly in the area. The ACCC the private school funding bill on this occasion chose to lead cidally deranged. Turnbull is already extensive list of new (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) is not re- and admitted that perhaps it his troops from the toilet and safe for the foreseeable future. year resolutions. If he fails to nowned for getting between multinationals and their prey, and so was not too much to accept coff ee shop, where he spent his But he is, somehow, going do it, he may continue as Lib- the sale has gone through. that private schools should re- time while the vote was taken. to have to assert himself. Even eral leader, but he will never We are sad to see a community paper falling into the hands of veal their private income and This was okay, he explained if the chaos of last week is at- become prime minister. Actu- an overseas-controlled company that already owns much of the agree to a national curriculum to bemused journalists later, tributed to stuff -up rather than ally he probably won’t anyway, print media in northern NSW and Queensland. That would be in return for very large sums of because aft er all it was only a conspiracy, it hardly indicates but at least a change of style reason enough to mourn the loss of the Northern Rivers Echo as an taxpayer funding. Mickey Mouse vote – every- a united and confi dent opposi- would give him a chance. independent voice, but there is a further consideration: the risk of innocent misunderstanding. Of course APN has no intention of creating any brand confusion, but when an ad rep says ‘The Echo,’ the Lismore publication is not the fi rst paper that springs to most DHI:DE6I=H people’s minds. Consequently please remember that in any advertising package IG:6IBDG:I=6CNDJI=>C@### off ered by APN, ‘The Echo’ refers to the Northern Rivers Echo. The Tweed Shire Echo and its sister publication the Byron Shire Echo s JOINT PAIN s SCIATICA s ARTHRITIS have nothing to do with any other paper. We did help found the s HEADACHES s SPORTING INJURIES s RSI Northern Rivers Echo, but it was owned by local Lismore people s BACK, NECK, SHOULDER, DIGESTIVE, POSTURAL, who sold out when they became tired of the eff ort required to PREGNANCY AND RESPIRATORY RELATED ISSUES keep it running. Buy 10 pieces Tomas There are now only two genuinely independent Echo titles, and Rudi Leszczynski they cover the Tweed and Byron shires. and be rewarded... Gerhardt M.Ost., B.App. B.Sc., D.O Sc.(Osteo), Dip. – David Lovejoy, Echo publisher Health Sc.(MT)

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That’s now been buried by ence impaired by joining the Wide Bay, which he has occu- appraisal from Channel Nine’s B tional Party MP by a Malcolm Turnbull. Turnbull’s ‘big smoke’ Liberals. leadership team. pied for the past 18 years, and political editor Laurie Oakes: country mile. He has earned National MPs, both federal With his troops in disarray, While Joyce is on the outside improve the size of his super- ‘Anderson, to me, epitomised that status by voting against and state, have lost seats to In- Turnbull held an urgent meet- of the tent with a watering can annuation. Another seat which the Mogadon-man takeover of the Coalition, aka the Liberal dependents over the past two ing with Joyce to offer him a in his hand he remains a desta- Joyce could capture at a canter politics in Australia. Party, a total of 21 times during decades because they have not place in the shadow cabinet. bilising influence on the Na- is Maranoa, held by another ‘It can’t be healthy for our his three years as a senator. been willing to take the Joyce veteran, Bruce Scott, but he democratic system that poli- His guiding principle is approach. State of Affairs isn’t going anywhere voluntar- ticians are afraid to chance straightforward: he puts loyalty But the senator’s outback wis- ily either. their arms, afraid to say any- to his constituents in rural and dom and commonsense is ap- His votes against the The trouble for Truss and thing spontaneous, afraid to regional Queensland above loy- parently infectious. In the clos- Coalition have boosted Scott is that the Nationals, par- be themselves. Voters, in my alty to the Coalition leadership. ing days of federal parliament ticularly in Queensland, are view, are crying out for some His votes against the Coali- last week, National senators his electoral standing… chasing a new political identity, straight talk.’ tion have boosted his electoral broke ranks with the Coalition renovating their policies, redis- The Nationals are at a cross- standing way beyond rusted- leadership on two occasions – to with Alex Mitchell covering their bush constitu- roads: they can rescue the ex- on Nationals and given him vote against tax breaks for new ency and looking for leaders isting organisation by putting growing popularity among carbon sink forests and against He made a similar offer in Sep- tionals and the Coalition itself. who will aggressively pursue Joyce in the leadership; howev- people who respond to politi- the Rudd Government’s seizure tember when Joyce became the The ideal solution is for him an agenda for country people. er, if they decide to dump him cians who are straight-talkers. of the $2 billion telecommuni- Nationals leader in the Senate. to take a lower house seat at a The rot in the Nationals because of ‘disloyalty’, he will By voting according to his cations fund for Labor’s infra- The former accountant and by-election next year and move started during the leadership go off and form a breakaway beliefs and those of his elec- structure plans. sheep farmer refused the of- into the leadership currently of Tim Fischer, recently ap- organisation taking most of the tors, Joyce has inadvertently The fund was a concession fer both times, saying that occupied by the helplessly un- pointed by the Rudd Govern- rank and file with him. exposed the abject crawlers in by Howard to the Nationals his job was to review govern- impressive Warren Truss. ment to become Australia’s Watching Barnaby has sud- his own party who have spent to secure the full privatisation ment legislation in the upper But 60-year-old Truss seems first ambassador to Rome. It denly become more interesting their political lives marching of Telstra and had become a house – clearly inferring that blissfully content to hold on to accelerated under John An- than watching primetime TV. Letters to the Editor Fax: 6672 4933 Nightcap Village DA? No way! Buy one 200g yoghurtSee ourand website get another for participating FREE! stores. Email: [email protected] Just present this ad. GANIC DAIRY PR Deadline: Noon, Tuesday I am writing on behalf of the outside the tiny village of Uki. sidering its close proximity to OR OD TY UC LI T Letters longer than 200 words A S Caldera Environment Centre, One hundred and thirty of Nightcap National Park. The U may be cut; letters already regarding the article on the these dwellings are proposed DA also states that four and a Q published in other papers will not Nightcap Village Development. to be three storeys high. There half thousand car movements be considered; pseudonyms not Jim Warburton mentioned our is also the unacceptable risk per day will result from this acceptable. Please include your full name, address and phone number. organisation, therefore perhaps of the sewerage system over- development. The increased implying that our organisation flowing into the Tweed River carnage of local wildlife is just TA E ST NC approves of this development. in peak flood times. In fact, one of many problems that will E THE DIFFERE Sexton Hill controversy Jim Warburton holds no offi- Nightcap Action Group activ- result from this huge rise in In December 2005 the RTA cial position with our group, ist John Donvito informs me traffic. posted an 18 page rejection although he is a member. that the Development Applica- In light of these points and of the Tweed Chamber of The Caldera Environment tion states that excess sewage many others, the Caldera En- Commerce Option C tunnel Centre has many issues with will be diverted into the river vironment Centre wishes to design for the Sexton Hill up- Nightcap Village, chiefly re- at peak flood times. distance itself from the views grade. This so infuriated cer- garding the huge strain on There are many more major expressed by Jim Warburton. tain members of the project’s infrastructure which would problems that we see with this Natalie Hollingsworth Community Liaison Group result from 420 new dwellings development, especially con- Caldera Environment Centre that they formed the Commu- nity Highway Group (CHG) residents will have greatly re- Conspiracy theory of Richmond at the next fed- and produced and widely duced traffic noise problems I am not a person who nor- eral election. Mr Polglase and distributed a book, the ‘Com- compared to today’s noise lev- mally writes to media outlets, Tweed Nationals chairman BARAMBAH ORGANICS munity Led Traffic Solution els. Nor does the design keep however I believe some com- Murray Lees have known this WORLD CHEESE AWARDS 2008 T (07) 3278 1544 Crow's Ash Brie - Silver Medal F (07) 3278 1744 Option C’. all the problems of the original ment must be made regarding since Cr van Lieshout stood in Fig Tree Paddock Double E [email protected] In this book the CHG took hill. The gradients situation is the new Tweed Shire Council. the council election and there- Cream Brie - Bronze Medal Pottsville Beach – Foodworks, Pottsville Waters Shopping Centre on the role of a ‘highway design addressed in the EA (Chapter From the outset it was clear fore have sought to undermine Magic Mountains Health Foods – Brisbane St, Murwillumbah authority’ and refuted, with 6) and on page 20 and 21 of that there was friction between Cr van Lieshout ever since. Cr For more stockists see www.barambahorganics.com.au some interesting logic, almost the RTA’s Banora Point Sub- Joan van Lieshout, the Liberal van Lieshout is on the record every point of the RTA’s rejec- missions Report. candidate who was elected by as stating this herself in a pre- tion of their Option C ‘tunnel’. Finally the RTA received 59 her peers as mayor, and former vious issue of The Echo. They also rejected the RTA’s submissions in response to its mayor Warren Polglase from Simply put, this means that Scalp, Neck & preferred Option B ‘cutting’ EA; 32 of these followed the the National Party, who want- the National and Liberal Par- design making wild claims CHG’s criticisms. ed to regain the position. Sub- ties are having an internal Facial Massage like ‘local traffic would be The RTA Banora Point Sub- sequently we have Mr Polglase dispute as to who will be the gridlocked as it tried to reach missions Report is now post- refusing to take part in any conservative candidate for the Great for tight scalps, stiff necks and releasing the commercial and business ed on its site. Every criticism council committee processes seat of Richmond at the next the lines on the face created by stress areas of South Tweed.’ made by the CHG and its 32 and the mayor herself having federal election, instead of fo- The February 2008 Environ- followers has been rejected held two closed-door meetings cusing on the job at hand as Gift vouchers available mental Assessment (EA) of with a simple explanation. An with developers. The actions of our elected local government $6FDOS1HFN )DFLDO0DVVDJHLVRQHRIWKHPRVW the RTA’s now Modified Op- example being pages 82 to 85 Cr van Lieshout clearly breach representatives. SOHDVXUDEOH PDVVDJLQJ WHFKQLTXHV RI DOO 3HUIRUPHG tion B ‘cutting’ design proved which confirms that Techni- the guidelines on how council Maurice King E\ QDWXURSDWK 6XH .LUD LWFDQUHOHDVHWKH DIIHFWVRI beyond doubt that almost all cal Paper No 4, ‘Hydrology,’ conducts business with devel- Bray Park VWUHVVDQGHPRWLRQV  of the CHG’s claims about is not flawed as John Sweeney opers as set out in the inde- 5HIOH[SRLQWVRQWKHIDFHQHFNDQGVFDOSFRQQHFWWR the Option B ‘cutting’ were has claimed in his letter to The pendent Bulford Report on the Polio funds WKH RUJDQV RI WKH ERG\ 0DVVDJLQJ WKHVH SRLQWV FDQ wrong. KHOSUHOHDVHQHJDWLYHHQHUJ\VWRUHGLQWKHRUJDQV Echo on November 27. previous council. Rotary Club of Murwillumbah  For example, the EA proved $
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 elling of future traffic flows I commend the Submissions ibility, Cr van Lieshout is us- to match the $100 million on local streets to 2030. The Report as it is a good read for ing her prominent position as grant from Gates Founda-  design does not radiate more reasonable people. mayor to be the springboard tion, to fund the final effort to       noise. The noise contours Laurie Ganter for standing as the Liberal eradicate polio from the world.        show a very large number of Tweed Heads Party candidate for the seat continued overleaf www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo December 11, 2008 9 Letters continued from page 9 Every club worldwide is par- ticipating, and here in Mur- Stone Age superstition vs blind scientific dogma willumbah over the last two weeks, Murwillumbah Cen- ■ Kevin McCready is correct Did you see the brilliant doco Yes, Kevin, unfortunately to turn the innocent into pillars We actually share many tral has conducted activities to (The Echo, November 27), on SBS about the manipulative we have had many fanatics of salt! common objectives, most raise a share of the total. Mumbai is just another chap- creationist/intelligent design throughout history, who have Bill Norman notably love of the environ- A special polio eradication ter in the endless horror of all fraud? tried to impose their own Farrants Hill ment and a determination to fundraising day on Saturday, religions. Ever since the dawn A great insight on religious views on others by force or in- confront injustice worldwide. November 29, with entertain- of time the leader of a tribe has manipulation in politics is a timidation. ■ I write in response to Mr Mc- We differ in our motivations, ment, sausage sizzle, cake stall invented a god to manipulate book by Marion Maddox, God Denying individuals (in- Cready’s views on religion ex- however. Mine is grounded and more, raised over $900 and the tribe, the leader being the under Howard – the rise of the cluding children) the right to pressed in The Echo (Novem- in the Gospel of Jesus Christ the club raffled a Christmas only one that can speak to or religious right in Australian the information they need to ber 27 and December 4). – which I believe to be totally hamper over two weeks, with see the god. politics. It explains how How- make up their own minds on This is the first time I have positive. Kevin’s declarations, the winner drawn last Saturday When the leader goes off to ard brought the evangelical Re- whether they want to believe felt the need to express my in contrast, spring from an after another special effort. conquer and pillage the neigh- publican Party poison to Aus- in something or not can come opinion to an article in a pa- atheistic vocation that verges The support from the public bouring tribe and spread his tralia and now controls almost not only from the fanatical per. I also thank God that Mr on nihilism. Yet atheism is no in the area has been great, and religion, he appoints a priest every coalition forum, institute religionists but also from the McCready was not elected. less a system of belief than is over $8,000 has been raised on to do his bidding and laws are and society and preselection. fanatical atheists. Insulting spiritual people religious faith and no more ca- the raffle for the polio eradica- introduced to be obeyed under It has seen these incompetent I gather your own belief is is nothing less than stupid. pable of scientific proof. tion campaign. Thanks to the pain of death. evangelicals lose 22 state and in the worship of the infallible One can only imagine what Atheists do not have to be many people who have sup- Go anywhere in the world federal elections in a row under (99.999%) scientists who tell it would be like to be trapped negative, nor do they have to ported our fundraising we have and you will find an invented Howard; he deservedly lost his us this world originated from inside this soul, it must be deny the possibility that men met our target for this year. religion that will be forced on own seat in the greatest humili- nothing, rather than from the torture! Mr McCready is not and women of faith may still be (The winner of the raffle was and indoctrinated into their ation in Liberal Party history. original source of everything. 99.999 per cent but 100 per a force for good. My whole life T Hill of Murwillumbah, who children, leaving them com- And now we see the demise These same infallible sci- cent incorrect! has been dedicated to build- was very pleased to receive pletely brainwashed. In Iran of the Republican Party in the entists think they know it all He has no clue about reli- ing bridges between different the hamper in good time for you will be Muslim, India Hin- USA that was overrun and until, as history shows, a new gion, his examples only show cultures and different religions. Christmas.) du, the west Christianity, etc. torn in half by the incompetent scientist comes along and dis- his lack of understanding and I have ‘preached’ tolerance to Peter Sochacki These religions breed pover- evangelicals. proves their theory. his narrow mindset. half a million students (and President, Rotary Club of ty and ignorance and have held If you would like to see how Some of us do get over this Now, about his future! He has also planted thousands of Murwillumbah Central back every endeavour man has the Christian religion was in- type of know-it-all arrogance done himself a grave disservice trees!) undertaken throughout his- vented, have a look at the Zeit- as we become older and wiser, expressing his beliefs publicly. I love the song by Roy Bailey Independent voice tory, the burning of books a geist doco part one on YouTube others never do. In your case, I Only a loony would want to (who like me was a professor Thank you for giving the Tweed favorite pasttime of the reli- where all the irrefutable facts suspect it may be time for the be in this man’s company. To of geography) which runs: ‘I a publication which would be gious. Even today they prevent are laid bare. Greens to start looking for an- have him stand as a represen- ain’t afraid of your Yahweh, I infinitely more appealing than research in medicine. Remem- Rod Hall other number two candidate tive for our community? What ain’t afraid of your Allah, I ain’t the Daily News even if you ber how corpses had to be dug Bilambil Heights for the next council election. a thought! I cannot help but afraid of your Jesus, I’m afraid charged us a dollar for it! up at night so students could Just for the record, I am not a wonder what happened to him of what you do in the name of Please keep up the good learn dissection and anatomy, ■ Kevin McCready now tries follower of any religious faith. in the past. your God. Rise up to the high- work. We have been starved of how they obstructed Edward to justify his call for children Mark R Catchpole All we can do is pray for him er power, free us from the ego an independent voice for too Jenner and Louis Pasteur? not to be taught about God by Pottsville and one day, maybe one day, of the hour, the ones who say long. Religion is simply supersti- listing the actions of various his eyes will be opened and he they know it are the ones who John Tyman tion and ignorance and should fanatical religious groups as his ■ The response of the religious will look upon creation/intel- will impose it on you.’ Uki be taken from our classrooms. main argument. to any questioning of their be- ligent design and know there is Sadly Kevin’s ‘religionists’ liefs is predictable. Turn the a God that loves him too. are not the only ones who be- other cheek? Love thy neigh- Gary Rogers lieve they know it. I admire his bour? Never! It is all irration- Murwillumbah passion but I wish he could be al anger, with no thoughtful more tolerant… and more for- counter argument. ■ I could not agree more with giving of those who taught him I would no more expect my Mr McCready. Religion should in his youth. Christian friends to listen to be left out of school. If parents Rev Dr John Tyman rational argument for athe- want to teach religion to their Uki ism than for Mungo to shave children, they should send off his straggly beard and vote them to Sunday school or ■ It’s Kev McCready’s language, Liberal. Religion comforts the teach them at home. not his science, that’s at fault. masses, ever more so as death It is time that the school The good life is mainly a ques- approaches. system taught children funda- tion of linguistics, especially The cornerstone of Mr Mc- mental values based on com- getting one’s definitions of ab- Cready’s argument is whether mon decency rather than reli- stractions right. we adults have the moral right gious intolerance. For example, In the Wisdom lexicon one’s to indoctrinate children with respect for people regardless of ‘god’ is one’s most important absurd theories about world their faith, sexual orientation, relative, as perceived from one’s history, human behaviour and social position, etc. own subjective point of view. biology, falsely claiming these Children should not be Many people worship füh- theories as fact. taught to believe that they are rers, or great men, who can I should have thought the different from, and often su- be either alive or dead, and, answer was obvious and equal- perior to, other groups in our although stupid, that is fair ly that Mr McCready deserves society, as part of their formal enough. praise for his courage in raising education. Others worship lord-gods, r? the issue. Here is a remarkable Claire Harrison such as Allah or Jehovah, that Wis rme politician who foreshadows Kingscliff are really reified abstractions, h it was wa WorkChoices and the GST be- which is equally stupid but is fore his election! ■ I write in response to the also their god-given right. It is indisputable that both depressingly negative pro- The most sensible god to Didn’t think so! The fridge is only just chugging along and the freezer the Christian and Muslim reli- nouncements of Kevin Mc- worship is the ever-living, cy- has almost packed it in and you can’t afford to buy a new one. Buy gions have inspired wars which Cready published in recent clically changing cosmos of second hand and you could seriously risk buying a lemon and then have killed millions, and that editions of your paper. I say whom we’re organic consub- there’s the expensive electricity and repair costs….. leaders like George Bush al- ‘depressing’ because I am al- stantial parts and whose single ways invoke God in support of ways saddened by manifestos law is the golden rule of karma; Why Buy? Just RENT!! their murderous causes. that are bitterly one-eyed and which is especially appealing But Mr McCready need totally negative. to grass-roots greenies such as Mr Rental offers FREE 24 hour delivery and installation, easy not be too concerned. There As a long-time friend of deep ecologists and me. payments, 24 hour service guarantee and great package deals with is a clear relationship between Kevin’s I know him to be a man Doug Ogilvie one simple phone call. poor education and religious of the highest moral principle Bilambil Mr Rental also rents electrical appliances, computers, fi tness gear zeal. As our children become but whose manner of presenta- educated they will reject all tion is too often self-defeating. ■ Letters on this topic also re- and furniture. Call the team at Mr Rental Tweed on 1800 880 778 forms of baseless indoctrina- To contribute to ‘the common ceived from Lynne McAuley, to arrange quick delivery of your fridge or freezer & keep your cool!! tion – and that includes belief good’ he surely needs to be Murwillumbah and Sumukhi in gods so vicious and petty as more positive. Dasi, Bray Park. 10 December 11, 2008 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Christmas Shopping Have yourself a merry little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Happy golden days of yore. A SMARTER CHOICE Let your heart be light Faithful friends who are dear to us From now on, Gather near to us once more. our troubles will be out of sight Th rough the years FOR SOLAR HOT WATER Have yourself a merry little Christmas, We all will be together, Make the Yule-tide gay, If the Fates allow From now on, Hang a shining star upon the highest bough. our troubles will be miles away. And have yourself a merry little Christmas Here we are as in olden days, now.

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New colours in the Bay! The Gathering Arts and culture feature Tree Faerie mediums such as song, dance, proper place within our culture body decoration, sculpture and as a form of communication he Gathering, painting as well and the many and education. like the ceremonial and varied modern, electronic The Gathering is calling gatherings of ancient and digitalised forms as well. out to the arts and culture indigenous culture, This is a way to share our community to get in touch isT the bringing together all beliefs, thoughts, ideas and with The Echo to share their aspects of our modern multi passions within our ‘tribe’ and personal art quest or artform is a beautiful space dedicated culture. with other tribes as well – the with our readers in 2009. Still @ the centre The Echo’s fortnightly feature aim of the Gathering is to We will be expanding to your art, inspiration and creativity: will endeavour to create a make art, both message and on the thoughts, ideas and core structure to be inclusive entertainment, accessible to manifestations of artists in the framing & canvas stretching of all people and all art forms everyone. area and hope to cover the – sourcing traditional art We wish to restore art to its broadest spectrum available. wide giclee-printing & laminating he art of the with other tribes as well. date back more than 40,000 art exhibitions & workshops Australian aboriginal Ceremony is the underlying years. begins with the motivation of indigenous art Like other rock art found NOW supplying the finest quality creation of the and contains many signifi cant throughout the world, the world.T These people stood elements which are all part of images refl ect the lives and art materials from all over the world on the earth and looked at a complex whole. cultures of the people, the its treasures, its dreams and Song and dance were artwork has always been the sky and recreated what exchanged often at large about telling a story, mapping they saw in documented and ceremonial gatherings. To or marking a territory, or performance art. dance is to be knowledgeable connecting with the land and Australian indigenous art is about the stories of the the ancestors who created it. Waywood Gallery www.the-centre.com.au the oldest ongoing tradition of ancestors and dancing, unlike Some of the subject matter art in human history and has painting and singing, is learnt of these paintings includes Byron Bay’s mixed media atelier is in the Arts & Industry Park – 3 Centennial Circuit always been an important part at an early age. kangaroos, people and even (2nd street on the left at the BP Ozigo entrance) – phone: 66 85 58 08 Still @ the centre of Aboriginal life as a means not only to express creativity and style but as a way to The artistic spirit has been allowed breathe life and longevity freedom to move and expand into into their cultural heritage by passing their knowledge, arts, every aspect of our daily life and the rituals and performances from symbols, song and dance of this form of one generation to another. communication are an integral part of Share in the Indigenous art demonstrates the love that why many of us choose to live here. creation of your Aboriginal people have of the own original land. Aboriginal art depicts apparently mythological sculpture! Ceremony is and was a spiritual and natural life as well creatures shaped like a cross large part of indigenous life as everyday happenings. For between humans and birds. and ceremonial performances this reason, Aboriginal art has Drawings depicted symbols, were seen as the core of been described as acting as designs and people in a cultural life bringing together a history book for Australian spiritual manner. all aspects of their culture – aboriginal cultures. While much of the art song, dance, body decoration, The earliest known forms done on rocks has been sculpture and painting and of Aboriginal expression were washed away, cave paintings became a way of sharing their rock carvings, body painting have managed to survive a beliefs within their tribe and and ground designs, which lot longer.

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A report by the Cultural created a spiritual backdrop from the source. Julie Hutchings “A Balancing Act” “A Ministers’ Council – Statistics for all forms of art in the area, The Artist Trail was launched Working Group in 2007 which manifest on a daily basis last Friday and hopes to make suggested that today, over in the studios, garages, sheds, art and artist accessible to a quarter of Australia’s kitchens, gardens and the halls everyone. byronfineart indigenous population are and community spaces of the The types or art pieces GALLERY involved in creative arts, Shire. available are glass, painting, with almost twice as many The artistic spirit has been sculpture, fashion design, HELEN CASEY Indigenous females as males. allowed freedom to move and jewellery and a host of others DIRECTOR Byron Arcade 13 Lawson Street Byron Bay The heart beats on. expand into every aspect of as well. Tel/Fax 02 6680 8433 The local indigenous people, our daily life and the symbols, For more information about the Arakwal and Bundjalung, song and dance of this form of the Artists Trail visit www. www.byronfi neart.com.au have a rich cultural and artistic communication are an integral byronartisttrail.com.   heritage and today more and part of why many of us choose more people get a chance to to live here. experience what has been The legacy has been left, it ■ For more information about is now up to us to continue The Gathering and advertising Contemporary Aboriginal the custom and join with the enquiries contact Pedro on Art and Craft traditional 6685 8222 or pedro@echo. net.au.                Artworks by:      Mesha Sendyk,         Nola Littlejohn Wyrallah Ware      TRUE ART & MEDIA            6684 8018 *UY7HYR 4\SS\TIPTIP:[Z !    "      )Y\UZ^PJR/LHKZ7O   www.byronbayartdiary.com # $%"&'   ' ((  ) ' ^^^TPUHTPUHNHSSLY`JVT "     "!"

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1. That dry comedian Chris Langham (left) is one of the stars of The Thick Of It (ABC, Friday 9.40pm), which has been described as Yes, Minister on steroids. 2. The cast of Red Dwarf take a call. The cult science fi ction comedy series is sacred to ABC2 programmers, who schedule three episodes a week: Sunday 12.30–1.30pm and Monday 8pm. No arguments here. 3. SBS (Wednesday 10pm) screens Blueberry, a long, slow, introspective western with the added attraction of Eddie Izzard chewing the scenery as a 1 2 3 mad Prussian..

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 1.00 The Food Lovers’ Guide To 9.00 The Morning Show 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today Australia (G) Repeat. 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower 8.30 Puzzle Play 11.00 Danoz And Guthy-Renker (G) 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Pandemic (M,a) Repeat doco on the 11.30 2008 Men’s Australian Open Golf 9.00 9am With David And Kim 12.00 The Ellen Degenere Show 12.30 How To Divorce Without Screwing 4.30 A Place In Greece (G) Repeat. Avian fl u virus. – Live 11.00 Ten Morning News 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. Up Your Kids (PG) 5.00 Unlikely Travellers (G) Repeat. 3.00 Bush School (G) outback school. Rpt 5.00 Home Improvement (G) Repeat. 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.30 Jennifer Byrne Presents War 5.30 Battle Of The Brains (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Entertainment Tonight (PG) Stories (G) Repeat. 6.00 Compass: Out of Darkness (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.00 Prime & Seven News 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.30 The Kingdom Of Paramithi 2.00 Trial And Retribution (M*,at) Final. Repeat. 5.30 Andre Rieu (G) doco from the 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (PG) 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 The Shak 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.35 Coach Trip (G) Netherlands. Final. 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 4.00 The Elephant Princess 4.30 Antiques Roadshow Bletchley. 4.50 RollerCoaster 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 6.00 Global Village: Gibraltar/Provence Summer (G) 4.30 Judge Judy (G) 5.30 Temptation (G) quiz show. 6.05 Pilot Guides: Zambia And Malawi 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 8.30 Movie: Madagascar (PG,a, 2005) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 7.00 ABC News 8.00 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09 Live – 7.30 Wall Street Warriors (PG) Part 2 of 6 Cartoon with Ben Stiller, Chris Rock. 6.00 The Bold And The Beautiful (G) 7.00 A Current Aff air 7.30 The 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien Dandenong vs Townsville. doco series. 10.10 Movie: Swimfan (M,v,s, 2002) Stars 6.30 Neighbours (G) Final. 7.30 Australian Geographic – Best Of 8.00 Kylie Kwong: Guangzhou (G) cui- 10.00 Soundtrack To My Life: Katie 8.00 Counter Culture: Sweden (G) Part 2 Jesse Bradford, Kate Burton, Jason 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. Australia (PG) Tasmanian wilderness sine journey through China. Melua (G) of 6. Repeat. Ritter. 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat double 8.30 Movie: The Last Samurai (M,v, 8.30 Marian Again (M*,v,at) Final. 10.30 Planet Rock Profi les: Coldplay 8.30 As It Happened: Hitler’s Museum 11.45 Movie: Carrie (M,h,a, 2002) Stars episode. 2003) Stars Tom Cruise, Ken 9.40 The Thick Of It (MA*,cl) political (M*,cl) (PG) doco from Germany. Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson. 8.30 Numb3rs (M) Repeat. Watanabe, Billy Connolly.

FRIDAY 12 FRIDAY drama. 10.55 Freshmen On Campus (PG) Repeat. 9.30 World News Australia 2.35 Room For Improvement (G) Repeat. 9.30 Law And Order (M) 11.40 Movie: Jagged Edge (AV, 1985) 10.10 ABC News 11.15 Close 10.00 My Boyfriend The Sex Tourist 3.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Orange Roughies (M) Stars Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges. 10.20 Rose and Maloney (M*,sr) Repeat. (M,a,n,s) part 1 of 2 doco. 11.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 1.45 Movie: Wes Craven Presents They 11.30 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday. 10.55 Movie: About The Looking For Seven QLD program same as above except: 12.30 Late Show With David Letterman (M,h,a,cl, 2002) Stars Laura Regan, 10.00 Larry The Lawnmower 10.30 2008 Men’s And The Finding Of Love (M,s,a,cl, Australian Open Golf – Live 4.00 Go Go Stop 4.30 1.55 Video Hits Up-Late (PG) Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry 2005) Comedy from Germany. Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight 2.00 Infomercials (PG) 3.35 Entertainment Tonight (PG) 12.50 Movie: Permanent Vacation (M,cl,a, Prime HD program same as above except: 4.00 30 Days (PG) series return. 4.00 Guthy-Renker (G) 1980) Stars Frankie Faison, Jim 11.30 Break It Down 12.00 Room For Improvement 5.00 Religion to 6am. 4.30 Good Morning America Jarmusch. 12.30 Sons And Daughters 12.45 Movie: Dance, Girl, Dance (G, 1940) 2.15 The Last Maneater: Killer 2.10 WeatherWatch Overnight Tigers Of India 3.15 Power Rangers Mystic Force 3.40 Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 10.10 Inside Al Quaeda 11.10 Final 24: River Phoenix 5.00 rage (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (G) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Infomercials 11.00 The Kumars At No. 42: Hasselhoff / 3.00 rage (G) Repeat. 1.00 Carmen (G) Opera from Italy. 6.30 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Video Hits First (G) 7.30 Kids’ Programs Wanamaker (G) Final. 5.00 rage: Guest Programmers The 3.35 This Is Civilisation (G) Part 3 of 4 11.00 Motorsport Fujitsu series. 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 12.00 Boarding Pass travel show. 11.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. Grates (G) Repeat. series on examining art 12.00 2008 Men’s Australian Open Golf 12.00 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (PG) 12.30 The Hills (PG) LA lifestyle drama. 12.00 Dynasties: Anthony Family (G) 6.10 Black Books: Manny’s First Day 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer – Live. 12.30 Video Hits Presents: Your Party 1.00 2008 Rock Eisteddfod Challenge 12.30 Best Of Australian Story Repeat. (PG) Repeat. 5.30 A Fork In The Mediterranean: 5.30 Sydney Weekender (G) Guide To Summer (PG) (G) music. Final. 1.00 The Shearers (PG) 4 part series. 6.35 Robin Hood (PG*, v) Repeat. Spain, Barcelona (G) Repeat. 6.00 Seven News 1.00 Hunter Hunted: Mangrove 3.00 Movie: Clash Of The Titans (PG,st, Repeat. 7.20 Rex The Runt (PG) Animated. 6.00 Classical Destinations : Paris (G) 6.30 Britannia High (PG) series based on Maneaters (PG) 1981) Stars Harry Hamlin, Ursula 1.30 Bowls: NSW Open 2008 – Men’s 7.30 U2: Vertigo Live From Chicago (G) 6.30 World News Australia a performing arts school. 2.00 Totally Australia (G) Andress, Claire Bloom. 2.30 Basketball: WNBL 2008/09 8.30 Movie: Road To Utopia (G, 1945) 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) doco series. 7.30 Dance Machine (PG) dancing com- 3.00 Australian SuperX supercross. 5.30 Angels Of Mercy (G) Westpac Dandenong vs Townsville. Stars Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, 8.30 Iron Chef (G) Repeat. petition series. 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight Rescue Helicopter. 4.00 Soccer: W-League – Melbourne Dorothy Lamour. 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) entertainment. 8.30 Movie: The Santa Clause (G, 1994) 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News Victory vs Queensland Roar Live. 10.00 Movie: Holiday Inn (G, 1941) Stars 10.00 Movie: The Woodsman (MA, 2004) Stars Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Mary Gross 6.30 Big Cat Diary (G) Repeat. 6.30 Funniest Home Video Show – 6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat. Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire. Stars Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick. 10.30 Movie: The Waterboy (M,cl, 1999) 7.30 Movie: Back To The Future II Summer Series (G) 6.30 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) 11.35 Close 11.30 SOS (G) Stars Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Harry (PG,cl,v, 1989) Stars Michael J Fox, 7.30 Wife Swap USA (PG) all new. 7.00 ABC News 12.35 Drawn Together (MA,s,v) Animated Winkler. Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson. 8.30 McLeod’s Daughters (M) double 7.30 Mountain With Griff Rhys Jones: comedy series. 12.15 Movie: In The Bedroom (M,v,cl, 9.50 Ice Road Tuckers (PG) episode. The Pennines (G) 1.00 Stripperella (MA,s) Animated. 2001) Stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy 10.30 Orange Roughies 8.40 Saturday Lotto 8.30 ABC News 1.25 The Insiders Guide To Love Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei. 11.30 Movie: Days Of Thunder (M,cl,sr, 10.30 Canal Road (M,s,d,v,cl) fi nal. 8.35 The Bill (M*,v) (M,v,s,cl) part 1 of 7 drama series. 2.50 Room For Improvement (G) 1990) Stars Tom Cruise, Nicole 11.30 Movie: Pledge (M,a,v,cl, 2001) Stars SATURDAY 13 SATURDAY 10.10 ABC News Repeat. 3.30 Home Shopping Kidman, Robert Duvall. Jack Nicholson, Benicio De Toro, 10.15 Last Detective (PG) Repeat. 2.15 WeatherWatch Overnight 1.30 Infomercials) Patricia Clarkson, Lois Smith. 11.25 rage (M) 4.00 Religion (G) 1.50 Movie: Whipped (MA15+,s,cl, 1999) Stars Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Seven QLD program same as above except: Judah Domke. 11.00 2008 Men’s Australian Open Golf – Live 4.30 3.20 All Of Us (PG) Motorsport 3.50 David Campbell ‘Good Lovin’ (PG) Prime HD program same as above except: 4.00 Danoz and Guthy-Renker 12.00 Toons At Noon 2.00 Movie: Alley Cats Strike! (G, 2000) 3.30 The Need For Speed – Bikes 4.30 Gear 5.00 Better Homes And Gardens Summer 5.00 rage 7.00 T Rex: Born To Boogie Evening 6.25 World News in various languages. 6.00 Religion 6.00 Religion 6.00 Danoz And Guthy-Renker 6.30 Kids’ Programs Concert (G) Repeat. 10.00 Insight Summer Season: Stolen ID 6.30 Crefl o A Dollar 7.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Sharkey’s Friends Repeat. 9.00 Q&A debating the big issues. 8.05 Paul Kelly: Live Apples (G) Repeat. (PG) Repeat. 7.00 Trapped new kids’ series 7.30 Totally Wild 7.30 TVP Direct (G) Repeat. 9.05 The Guitar Show (G) with Bob 11.00 Cycling: UCI Track Cycling World 7.30 Weekend Sunrise Final. 8.00 Video Hits First (G) 8.00 Sunday News 10.00 Shacks (G) the Tasmanian shack. Broman, Steve Morese, Harry Manx. Cup (G) Melbourne. 10.00 Kochie’s Business Builders (G) 10.00 Video Hits (PG) 8.30 Bio-Magnetics 10.30 The Story Of God: Life The Universe 9.30 Pop[b]session: Session 5 (G) Final. 12.00 Compak Attack: Drag Racing Qld. 10.30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting (G) Rolex 12.00 I Fish (G) 9.00 Wild Life Man Featuring David And Everything (PG) Repeat 10.30 The Who: Live At The Isle Of Wight 1.00 Speedweek middle sea race. 1.00 Young Achievement Australia Ireland in search of a bull shark. 11.30 Songs Of Praise (G) Repeat. 1970 (G) Repeat. 2.00 FIA World Rally Championship ‘08 11.00 Typhoon Island (G) wildlife Taiwan. Awards 2008 (G) 10.00 George Lopez (PG) 12.00 Best Of Landline 12.00 London Live (G) Music. Repeat. 3.00 Football Asia 12.00 2008 Men’s Australian Open Golf 1.30 Goin’ Ballistyx (PG) 10.30 Going Places (PG) Repeat. 1.00 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) double episode. 3.30 UEFA Champions League – Live. 2.30 Infomercial (PG) 11.00 2008 US Open Surfi ng California. 1.30 Message Stick (G*) 1.30 Planet Rock Profi les: The Hives (G) Magazine Sport. 5.30 Border Patrol (PG) 3.00 Toyota Star Maker – Stairway To 12.00 Formula 1 Superboats 2.00 The Catalpa Rescue (PG) prison Repeat. 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 6.00 Seven News Success country music talent search 12.30 Cronulla International Cycling escape, WA. Repeat. 2.00 WOMADelaide 2007: Backsliders 5.00 The World Game football. 6.30 Outback Wildlife Rescue (G) all new 4.00 Country Matters (G) rural Australia. Grand Prix Live. 3.00 Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (G) (G) Repeat. 6.00 Thalassa: Port of Massawa, Eritrea series. 5.00 Ten News With Sports Tonight 2.00 WWE Afterburn wrestling. 5.00 Mario Lanza: Singing To The Gods 2.30 Schools Spectacular: The Best of 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 Hot Property (G) 6.00 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Movie: The Blue Butterfl y (PG, (G) Repeat. 25 Years Final. 7.30 The Roman Empire: Lost Worlds 7.30 Seven Wonders Of The Industrial 6.30 America’s New Top Model (PG) 2004) Stars William Hurt, Pascale 6.00 At The Movies Summer Special 4.30 jtv Live: Midnight Jugernaut’s One (PG) Final. World (PG,cl,a) The Line. 7.30 Don’t Forget The Lyrics (G) Bussieres, Marc Donato. Final. Night Stand (PG) Repeat. 8.30 I Am Bob (PG) comedy about Bob 8.30 Holby Blue (M,v) drama. 8.30 Movie: Die Hard 2 (M, 1990) Stars 5.00 Garden Gurus Bay Of Plenty Special 7.00 ABC News 5.00 Classic Albums: The Band (G) Rpt. Geldof. 9.40 A Touch Of Frost (M,v,s) Repeat. Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedeila. 6.00 Evening News SUNDAY 14 SUNDAY 7.30 School Spectacular 2008 (G) music 6.00 ABC Fora 8.50 Rough Science : Clean (G) repeat. 11.45 The Benny Hill Show (PG) Repeat. 11.05 Californication (MA15+) Comedy. 6.30 Battlefronts (PG) garden makeovers 9.00 The Girl In The Cafe (M*,cl, ) Repeat 7.00 The Museum (G) Repeat. 9.20 2008 FIFA Club World Cup 12.25 Home Shopping 11.40 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart – 7.00 You Are What You Eat (PG) 10.35 Compass: Geraldine Brooks 7.30 Brideshead Revisited (G) double Adelaide United vs Gamba Osaka Seven QLD program same as above except: Global Edition (MA15+) 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG,sr) Rpt. 11.05 Dickens In America (G) Repeat. episode. 11.45 Kurt Wallander (M,v,a) Final. 11.00 2008 Men’s Australian Open Golf – Live 4.30 12.10 The Offi ce (PG) 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG,sr) drama 11.35 Mr Harvey Lights A Candle (M*at) 9.15 Shakespeare: Much Ado About 12.45 If The Dead Could Speak (M,v,cl) Typhoon Island. 12.40 Video Hits Up-Late 8.30 Movie: National Lampoon’s 1.00 Movie: Heart Of A Child (G, 1958) Nothing (PG) Rpt. One of the BBC’s drama series from Argentina. Repeat Prime HD program same as above except: 1.00 Infomercials (PG) Christmas Vacation 2 (PG, 2003) Stars Jean Anderson, Donald modern versions of Shakespeare. 1.40 Weatherwatch Overnight 10.00 Dateline NBC 11.00 Weekend Sunrise 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) Stars Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn. 1.15 Movie: Geronimo (PG,v, 1962) 2.45 Movie: 10.15 Movie: Friday After Next Pleasance, Richard Williams. Stars Billie Piper, Damian Lewis. Breakfast With Einstein (G, 1998) 4.15 The Amazing (M,cl,s,d, 2.15 Movie: The Locket (PG, 1946) Stars 10.45 First Tuesday Book Club With Race (double episode) 8.30 This Is Your Laugh 9.30 2002) Stars Ice Cube, Mike Epps. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day. Jennifer Byrne Knights Of Prosperity 10.00 Scrubs 10.30 Louis 12.10 Movie: Power And Beauty (M,cl,s, 4.00 Psychic Investigators (PG) Repeat 11.40 Close Theroux: Under The Knife 2002) Natasha Henstridge Manufacturers of: Curtains, Blinds, Bedspreads, Upholstery, Soft Furnishings Now available in Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads and the Coast All work guaranteed Free measure & quote Free in home advisory service Shop 18/1 Corporation Circuit, Tweed Heads South 0417 666 896 or 07 5523 3926 www.katiescurtains.com 14 December 11, 2008 Th e Tweed Shire Echo www.tweed.echo.net.au 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 1.00 The Cell (PG) stem cell technology 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today 2.30 Growing Up On-Line (PG) Repeat. 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower 9.00 9am With David & Kim Summer Series (PG) 11.00 Best Of Landline Repeat. 10.00 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Pickles (G) doco from Israel. Rpt. 11.30 Seven News 11.00 Ten News 11.00 Time/Life (G) 12.00 Midday Report 4.30 Best Of Gardening Australia (G) 4.30 The Journal 12.00 Movie: Mary Christmas (G, 2002) 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 11.30 Danoz 12.30 Incredible Journeys With Steve Repeat. 5.00 The Crew (G) student video Stars Cynthia Gibb, John Schneider. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) Leonard (PG) Final. 5.00 Message Stick (G*) Repeat. production. 2.00 Beyond Tomorrow (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (G) 10.30 The View (PG) talk show. 1.30 Atlantic Edge (G) Repeat. 5.35 Don’t Drop The Coffi n (G) Repeat. 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy. Repeat. 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 2.00 The Damnation Of Harvey 6.05 Collectors (G) Final. 6.00 Global Village (G) Milano. 4.00 Go Go Stop 4.00 Outback 8 Kid’s travel to the 3.00 Entertainment Tonight (PG) McHugh (PG) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 6.30 World News Australia 4.30 Seven News Australian Outback. 3.30 The Kingdom Of Paramithi 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Top Gear (PG) 5.00 Home Improvement (G) 4.30 Judge Judy (G) 4.00 The Shak Repeat. 4.55 RollerCoaster 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 8.30 Swift And Shift Couriers (M,cl,a,s) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 5.00 Ten News 4.30 Antique Roadshow Ormskirk. 6.05 Monarchy: Rule Britannia (G) 8.00 Red Dwarf (G) Repeat. comedy series. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.00 The Bold And The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Temptation (G) 7.00 ABC News 8.30 It’s Adam And Shelley (M*,sr) com- 9.00 South Park (M,a) Repeat. 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (PG) 6.30 Jamie At Home (G) Repeat. 6.00 Evening News 7.30 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien edy show. 9.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Rich List (G) 7.00 Friends (PG) 7.00 A Current Aff air 8.00 Face Painting With Bill Leak (PG*) 9.00 Mind, Body And Kick Ass Moves 10.00 Shameless (M,a,cl,s) Comedy. 8.30 Bones (M) double episode. 7.30 How To Look Good Naked (PG) 7.30 Two And A Half Men (PG,sr) Tily Devine (PG) 11.15 Movie: Dead & Breakfast (MA,cl,v,h, 10.30 Scrubs (PG) 8.30 Army Wives (M,at) drama series. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG,sr) 8.30 Celebrity: Dominick Dunne 9.30 Death Note (M*,v) drama 2004) Stars Vincent Ventresca, Ever 11.00 Kath & Kim The American Series 9.30 The Ex-List (M) drama series. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (M) 10.00 The 80 Year Old Children (PG ) 10.00 Spaced (M*,cl,v,du) Repeat. Carradine. (PG) 10.30 Out Of The Blue (PG, at) drama set Repeat. MONDAY 15 MONDAY genetic disease – Progeria. 10.30 Snow Patrol Live At Somerset 12.45 Movie: Joint Security Area (M,v, 11.30 Last Comic Standing (M) in the beach resort of Manly. 8.45 Lotto 10.50 ABC News House (PG) Repeat. 2000) Thriller from South Korea. 12.30 Home Shopping 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 9.30 Fringe (M) drama 11.05 Over My Dead Body (M*,n) human 11.20 Close 2.45 WeatherWatch Overnight 11.45 Late Show With David Letterman 10.30 Survivor (PG) Seven QLD program same as above except: tissue trade. 6.30 Today Tonight 12.30 Judge Judy (PG) 12.20 The Baron (PG) Repeat. 12.00 MDA (M*,at) drama. Prime HD program same as above except: 1.00 Infomercials 1.20 The Priests (PG) 12.55 Movie: 21 Days (PG, 1940) Stars 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Sons And 4.00 Religion to 6am. 1.30 Guthy Renker and Danoz Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh. Daughters 12.45 Movie: A Dangerous Profession 3.30 Good Morning America 2.10 Movie: Forget Me Not (G, 1937) (PG,v, 1949) 2.15 Las Vegas: City Without Limits 5.00 Early Morning News 3.15 Power Rangers Mystic Force 3.40 Powerpuff Stars Beniamino Gigli, Joan Gardner Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 10.30 Final 24: John Belushi 3.25 Bowls: NSW Open 2008 - Women’s 11.30 Urban Legends 12.00 Dr Danger 12.30 Gear 1.00 Brainiac – Science Abuse. 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today drama from Lebanon. 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower 8.30 Puzzle Play 11.00 Danoz And Guthy-Renker 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.55 Don Matteo (PG) Drama series from 11.30 Seven News 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.30 The New Inventors (G) Final. 4.30 Little Angels (G) Repeat. Italy. 12.00 Movie: Angel In The Family (PG,h, 11.00 Ten Morning News 1.00 The View (PG) talk show. 1.30 Reef Dreams (G) Repeat. 5.00 Stress Buster (G) Repeat. 3.00 The Lifestyle Experts (G) fi nal2 2004) Stars Ronny Cox, Tracey 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 2.00 The Damnation Of Harvey McHugh 5.35 Friends For Dinner (G) Repeat. 3.30 The Closet Tales Of Australian Needham, Natasha Wagner. 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 The Gamblers: The Track (G) Fashion: Akira (PG) Final. 2.00 Beyond Tomorrow (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat. 3.30 The Kingdom Of Paramithi 4.55 RollerCoaster Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 4.00 The Shak Repeat. 6.10 Thes River Cottage Treatment (G*) 6.35 Coach Trip (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.00 Go Go Stop 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 Antiques Roadshow Dorking. grow-it, catch-it and cook-it. 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy series. 4.30 Seven News 4.30 Judge Judy (G) 5.30 Temptation (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks (G) 5.00 Home Improvement (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 7.30 The 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien 8.05 Father Ted (PG) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 7.00 A Current Aff air 8.00 The Museum (PG) 8.30 Hamish Macbeth (PG) Repeat. 7.30 The Nest (PG) Part 5 of 6 doco series. 6.00 Seven and Prime News 6.30 Jamie At Home (G) Repeat. 7.30 Police Ten 7 (PG,cl) 8.35 Party Animals (M*,cl) political drama 9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat. Repeat. 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (PG) Rpt. 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 8.00 Sudden Impact (PG) series on traffi c 9.30 Hustle (PG) drama. 10.55 MDA (M*cl) Repeat. 8.30 The Return Of The Bible Plagues 7.30 Ugly Betty (PG) 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. accidents. 10.25 ABC News 11.50 Close (PG) Part 3 of 5 doco from Germany 8.30 Eli Stone (M) . 8.00 Rules Of Engagement (PG) Repeat 8.30 Movie: Ocean’s Twelve (M,cl, 2004) 10.35 Iconoclasts: Paul Simon And Lorne 9.30 World News 9.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG) 8.30 NCIS (M) double episode. Stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Michaels (PG) Repeat. 10.00 Hot Docs: How Vietnam Was Lost 10.30 Prison Break (Mv,) 9.30 In Plain Sight (M) legal drama series Roberts, Matt Damon.

TUESDAY 16 TUESDAY 11.20 Movie: The Bespoke Overcoat (PG, (M,v,a,cl) Repeat. 11.30 Dirty Sexy Money (M) 10.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) drama set in 11.00 Survivor (PG) 1955) Stars David Kossof (short fi lm) 11.25 Movie: The Gaze (MA,cl, 2004) 12.00 Room For Improvement (G) the beach resort of Manly. 11.50 Girls Of The Playboy Mansion (M,n) 12.00 Movie: Time Lock (G, 1957) Stars Drama from Morocco and Norway. 1.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 12.00 E R (PG) Repeat. Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall. 1.00 Sentenced To Marriage (M,a) repeat Seven QLD program same as above except: 11.45 Late Show With David Letterman 1.20 Tony Bennett – Swinin’ Christmas 1.10 Movie: The Challenge (G, 1938) Stars doco on Israeli women. 6.30 Today Tonight 12.30 Judge Judy (PG) (G) Music. Robert Douglas, Luis Trenker 2.00 WeatherWatch Overnight Prime HD program same as above except: 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight (PG) 2.25 Movie: Mexican Spitfi re Sees A Ghost 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Sons And 4.00 Religion to 6am. 2.00 Guthy-Renker Daughters 12.45 Movie: Count The Hours (PG,v, (G, 1942) Stars Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, 1953) 2.15 Shark Attack – The Red Triangle 3.15 3.00 Danoz (G) Buddy Rogers. Power Rangers Mystic Force 3.40 Powerpuff Girls 3.30 Good Morning America 3.35 Island Life: Christmas Island (G) 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 10.30 Alias 11.30 Urban Legends 5.00 Early Morning News Repeat. 12.00 Final 24: John Belushi 1.00 The Legion 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 1.00 Movie: My Teacher, Mr Kim (PG, 9.00 The Morning Show 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 6.00 Kids’ Program 9.30 Business Today 2003) Comedy from South Korea. 11.00 Larry The Lawnmower 8.30 Puzzle Play Summer Series (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs 3.05 Aerosol (G) Repeat. 11.30 News 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) 11.00 Danoz and Bio-Magnetics (G) 12.30 National Press Club Address: Joel 4.30 Auto Stories (G) Repeat. 3.20 The Stork (G) no dialogue. 12.00 Movie: Secret Santa (G, 2003) Stars 11.00 Ten Morning News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) I Klein; New York City Schools 5.00 A Seaside Parish (G) 3.30 Football Stars Of Tomorrow Jennie Garth, Steven Eckholdt. 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 1.00 First Cricket Test – Australia vs Chancellor 5.35 Time Team (G) Repeat. 4.00 The Journal 2.00 Beyond Tomorrow (G) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. South Africa Day 1 Live 1.30 Stuff (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) six week bus trip of 4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.30 The Cricket Show (G) 2.00 The Damnation Of Harvey McHugh Europe. 5.30 Is Your House Killing You? (G) Rpt. 4.00 Go Go Stop 3.00 Infomercial (PG) 4.00 First Cricket Test – Australia vs (PG) Final. 7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 6.00 Global Village: Ruins Of Olympia/ 4.30 Seven & Prime News 3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) South Africa Day 1 Live 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. Harpsichord Maker (G) 5.00 Home Improvement (G) Repeat. 4.00 Totally Wild 6.00 Evening News 4.55 RollerCoaster 8.05 Roller Derby Dolls (PG) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 4.30 Judge Judy (G) 6.30 First Cricket Test – Australia vs 6.05 Art Museums Of The World (G) Rpt. 8.30 Spendaholics: Miriam Isherwood 7.30 Food Safari: German (G) 6.00 Prime & Seven News 5.00 Ten News South Africa Day 1 Live 6.30 Nigella Express (G) cooking. 9.30 Victoria’s Empire (PG) comedian 8.00 The Biggest Chinese Restaurant In 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (PG) 6.00 The Bold And Beautiful (G) Repeat. 8.30 CSI: Miami (M) Repeat. 7.00 ABC News Victoria Wood’s world voyage. Final. The World (PG) food series. 7.30 Air Crash Investigations (PG) 6.30 Jamie At Home (G) Repeat. 8.45 Lotto 7.30 The 7.30 Report 10.25 Muscrat Lovely (M*) Repeat. 8.30 The Long Way Down: Rome, Italy 8.30 Las Vegas (PG) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. 9.30 E R (M) 8.00 My Family (PG) 11.20 Close to Tobruk, Libya (M,cl) part 3 of 10 9.30 AC/DC: Legends Of Rock (M) 7.30 The Simpsons (PG) Repeat. 10.30 Gossip Girl (M) high school teens. 8.30 Wallace And Gromit (G) doco of a world motorcycle trip. 10.00 The Unit (M) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement (M,cl, sr) 11.30 Temptation (G) quiz show. 9.00 Grumpy Old Women (PG) Repeat. 9.30 World News Australia 11.00 Prison Break (M) 8.30 House (M) Repeat. 12.00 All Of Us (PG) Final. 9.40 Seven Periods With Mr Gromsby 10.00 Movie: Blueberry (M,a,v,n, 2004) 12.00 Sons And Daughters (G) 9.30 Rush (AV15+) Repeat. 12.30 Mad TV (M) Repeat.

WEDNESDAY 17 WEDNESDAY (PG) Repeat. Stars Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis. 12.30 Danoz, Expo and Guthy-Renker 10.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) drama set in 1.30 Entertainment Tonight (PG) 10.00 The Robinsons (M*,cl,sr) Repeat. 12.10 Movie: Monsieur N. (M,a,s,v, 2003) Manly. 2.00 Guthy-Renker And Danoz 10.45 ABC News Thriller from France. 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 3.30 Good Morning America 10.45 Cracker (M*,v) Final. 2.20 Weatherwatch Overnight Seven Qld program same as above except: 11.45 Late Show With David Letterman 5.00 Early Morning News 11.40 Movie: The Jungle Book (PG, 1942) 6.30 Today Tonight 12.30 Infomercials (PG) Repeat. NBN program same as above except: Stars Sabu, Joseph Calleia. Prime HD program same as above except: 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 12.00 First Test – Australia vs South Africa ‘Live’ 1.30 Movie: Mohawk (PG,1956) Stars 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Sons And 2.30 The Cricket Show 3.00 First Test – Australia Scott Brady, Rita Gam. Daughters 12.45 Movie: Great Day (PG,a, 1946) vs South Africa ‘Live’ 5.00 News 5.30 First Test – 2.15 The Big Uneasy 3.15 Power Rangers Mystic Australia vs South Africa ‘Live’ 7.30 Two And A Half 2.55 Koori Court/Broken Bonds (G*) Rpt Force 3.40 Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin Yang Yo! 11.00 Men 3.25 National Press Club Address Repeat Lost 1.00 The Grid All cricket on NBN this summer will be broadcast in HD

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat. 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.30 World News in various languages. 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Larry 6.00 Ten Early News 5.30 Today 5.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat. 9.00 Asia Pacifi c News 1.00 Australian Biography: Ted Egan (PG) The Lawnmower 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Business Today 1.30 The Fabulous Flag Sisters (PG) 11.30 Movie: All I Want for Christmas (G, 9.00 9am Summertime (PG) Summer Series (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 10.00 Kids’ Programs Repeat. 2007) Stars Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchak, Gail 11.00 Ten Morning News 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker (G) 12.30 Cricket In The 50s (G) Repeat. 4.30 The Choir II: Boys Don’t Sing (G) 2.30 Junction House Blues (PG) Repeat. O’Grady, Robert Mailhouse. 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) Repeat. 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.30 Inventions From The Shed (G) Rpt. 5.35 ABC Fora 3.30 If Only (G) Repeat. 2.00 Beyond Tomorrow (G) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat. 1.00 First Test – Australia vs South 2.00 Parkinson (G) Repeat. 6.35 Coach Trip (G) six week bus trip of 4.00 The Journal 3.00 Moonlighting (PG) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Africa Day 2 Live. 3.00 Kids’ Programs Europe. 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 4.00 Go Go Stop 3.00 Infomercials (PG) 3.30 The Cricket Show 4.55 RollerCoaster 7.00 Zoo Days (G) Britain’s largest zoos 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 4.30 Seven News 4.00 The Elephant Princess kids’ series. 4.00 First Test – Australia vs South 6.05 Planet Earth: Desert (G) Repeat. 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat. 6.00 Global Village: Exccentriiiks 5.00 Home Improvement (G) 4.30 Judge Judy (G) Africa Day 2 Live. 7.00 ABC News 8.00 Creature Comforts (G) Repeat. 6.30 World News Australia 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Evening News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.10 Wallace And Gromit (G) Repeat. 7.35 Rex In Rome (PG) crime series from 6.00 Prime & Seven News 6.00 The Bold And Beautiful (G) Repeat. 6.30 A Current Aff air 8.00 Two Men In A Tinnie (PG) Repeat. 8.40 Grumpy Old Women (PG) Repeat. Italy. 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (PG) 6.30 Jamie At Home (G) Repeat. 7.00 First Test – Australia vs South 8.30 Exposed: City Life (G) fi nal of series 9.10 Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby 8.35 Inspector Rex (M,v,a) crime series 7.30 Ugly Betty (PG) 7.00 Friends (PG) Repeat. Africa Day 2 Live. on human behaviour. (PG) Repeat. from Austria. Repeat. 8.30 Eli Stone (M) 7.30 Don’t Forget The Lyrics (G) 8.30 Cold Case (M) all new. 9.35 Mad Hot Ballroom (PG) Final. 9.35 Modern Toss (MA*,cl) cartoon books 9.30 World News Australia 9.30 The Amazing Race (PG) 8.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M) 9.30 The Closer (M) crime series. 10.30 ABC News for adults. 10.00 Movie: Ushpizin (PG, 2004) Comedy 11.30 Man’s Work: Bush Fire (M) 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) Repeat. 10.30 Close To Home (M) crime series. 10.35 Live From Abbey Road Music. 10.00 The Graham Norton Show (M) from Israel. 11.50 Room For Improvement (G) Repeat. 10.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) drama set in 11.30 Temptation (G) 11.30 Wildside (M*,cl,v) Repeat. 10.30 Ideal (MA*,du) 11.40 Movie: Subterra (M,s,v,a 2003) 12.20 Scrubs (PG) Manly. 12.00 Movie: Things You Can Tell –Just 12.20 Movie: Magnifi cent Doll (PG, 1946) 11.00 Kung Faux (M*,cl,v) Drama from Chile. 12.50 Danoz, Expo and Guthy-Renker 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight By Looking At Her (M,a,s, 2000) THURSDAY 18 THURSDAY Stars Ginger Rogers, Burgess Meredith 11.20 Close 1.40 Weatherwatch Overnight Seven Qld program same as above except: 11.45 Late Show With David Letterman Stars Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz. 1.55 Movie: Lydia (PG, 1941) Stars Merle 6.30 Today Tonight 12.30 Infomercials (PG) 2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia Prime HD program same as above except: Oberon, Joseph Cotton. [s] = Sex [cl] = Coarse language 4.00 Religion to 6am. 3.30 Good Morning America 3.30 Les Ridgeway (G*) Repeat. 12.00 Room for Improvement 12.30 Sons And 5.00 Early Morning News [a] = Adult themes [sr] = Sexual references Daughters 12.45 Movie: The Saint Strikes Back 4.00 The Glass House (M*,sr,cl) Repeat. [n] = Nudity [mp] = Medical (PG,v, 1939) 2.15 Catching The Comet 3.15 Power NBN program same as above except: [du] = Drug use procedures Rangers Mystic Force 3.40 Powerpuff Girls 4.05 Yin 12.00 First Test – Australia vs South Africa ‘Live’ [dr] = Drug references [st] = Supernatural Yang Yo! 10.30 Return To Limbang 1.00 Brainiac – 2.30 The Cricket Show 3.00 First Test – Australia vs Science Abuse 5.00 5.30 Programs are correct at the time of going to [v] = Violence themes South Africa ‘Live’ News A Current Aff air 6.00 7.30 press but beware – all stations like tinkering [*] = Could off end [ie] = Issues about SBS advises viewers that programming between 6pm Most Prime programs between 6.30pm and 11.30pm All Ten programs between 5pm and 11pm (approx) First Test – Australia vs South Africa ‘Live’ euthanasia Two And A Half Men with things at the last minute. 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DEC 11 – DEC 17 ALL YOUR LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT From Europe to Murwillumbah...

Mama, Bob & Mr Lang We have a double pass to giveaway to Ku Promotions’ January 4 show at the When he was just a teenager pus of the Conservatorium of Mullum Civic Hall featuring Murwillumbah student James Music and did a Bachelor of Mamadou Diabate, Bobby Higgins stumbled across his Popular Music – we basically Singh and Jeff Lang. Tix parents Motown collection. It had this multi million dollar are valued at $30 (or $35 if ignited a passion for soul and studio facility at our disposal you get them at the door) funk that would never leave and free use of it. Although I Email mandypow@echo. him, and set him on his musical don’t think it was until after net.au with subject header path. It wasn’t long before he I left uni that my work was ‘summer tix’. For those found his way to Jamiriquai, really releasable.’ who want to buy their tix god of modern retro funk. It James returns to play a gig in advance so they don’t was his 14 year old wish to one at the Sushi Yam, kicking off miss out – Barebones, Bangalow; Murwillumbah day play a gig and support a Saturday session. He will be Music; Mullum Books; All his hero – and guess what, he playing solo and performing Music and Vision in Ballina, did. But it happened in a most acoustic covers of soul and Byron and Lismore. unconventional manner. funk. James has only just returned I asked him what funk most from supporting Jamiroquai inspired him. and Brand New Heavies on ‘Mainly jazz funk like Al their European tour. Jame’s Green and Curtis Mayfi eld, Gold Coast based band Nude and Brothers Jonson... and Continuum was picked from more obscure stuff .’ a host of others, but James This latest acoustic jaunt is hadn’t even entered the com- part of a whole new creative petition. cycle for Higgins who recently James Higgins at Sushi Yam Murwillumbah Saturday 7.30pm ‘One of our fans in Germa- split from his writing partner. ny entered the competition ‘She was my life partner as on our behalf, you just had have hoped.’ ‘The fi rst album had a very because I couldn’t write mu- well, so the change is kind to send in your web address The band has developed an housey electronic sound with sic – so I picked up a guitar of happening as we speak, and they pick their favourite impressive following thanks a lot more of a club oriented and keyboard and taught it’s only been a few months, to the interest by Jamiroquai’s feel and with this album myself. I went to my par- Mick McHugh at The Sheoak band from that and you got but since I’ve gone solo, (she band members. we are going for a fully live ents and told them I hated Shack at Fingal on Saturday the support. We got picked.’ was the lead singer) and now Fortunately James and his ‘By chance we got con- sound. We are writing it at trumpet and wanted to quit I am, so things are changing band were in Europe at the tacted by the drummer from the moment, and will be and asked them to buy me a for me, and I have found my time on their own European Jamiriquai and he got in recording in the next 12 Casio keyboard – and then voice and that’s why I am do- tour. touch with us and got us into months.’ I taught myself. When I was ing these gigs – I’m doing as ‘We were actually plan- their fan base and they have It’s all going swimmingly about 14 or 15 I started to much vocal work and acous- ning to go to that gig and we embraced us lovingly, in 12 well for this boy who originally work at Coles in Murwillum- tic performance as I can.’ wanted to meet Jamiroquai. months time we are going started out on a trumpet. bah and then used the mon- Catch James Higgins at So we ended up doing the over for 12 months.’ ‘I hung in the music room ey to set up my own home Sushi Yam in Murwillumbah support and it all worked out The band is currently work- at school – I played trumpet studio. I left school and and on Saturday evening from George Smilovici at even better than we could ing on their second album. fi rst and got bored with that studied at Gold Coast Cam- 7.30pm. Currumbin RSL Side Splitting Comedy on Thursday at 7.30pm

18 December 11, 2008 Th e Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au able to aff ord to make a CD. Year’s Eve this year? Well party Comedy at the Currumbin put together some never- Now bands can record for the into 2009 in Las Vegas-style at RSL on Thursday with Bart before-seen songs and skits, price of a laptop and release Seagulls! This New Year’s Eve, Freebairn as support and me, as well as the most requested albums all around the world for Wednesday 31 December Mandy Nolan as MC! routines, highlights and free. It’s fantastic for musicians from 9pm dst, the Stardust Mandy Nolan Men in red tights magical moments from their and music lovers. We don’t care Room will be transformed into extraordinary career. They are about money, as long as we a Las Vegas showroom, com- Christmas shows abound, and TERRORISTS NOW TARGETING MINI-BARS one of Australia’s most highly can write songs and play them, plete with musicians, dancers, you can get in the spirit and awarded groups, stacking up that’s all we want.’ The Genes magicians and illusionists, the catch The Four Kinsmen at It was with horror last week travelling with kids. To them, a remarkable 27 MO Awards, that I read about the plight of this tiny fridge is like fi nding give it up at The Victory Hotel world’s best celebrity imper- The Gold Coast Arts Centre including a Gold MO for Variety travellers held hostage at the the Holy Grail. It’s the sugar on Saturday 1pm-3pm. sonators and the Superstars Friday and following Thursday Performers of the Year. Book- Taj Mahal and Oberoi Hotels in stash that diabetic dreams are Show Band! Featuring a cast of evening at 6pm. George, Rob- Mumbai. I emailed my friend, made of. Your own personal Folky fun more than 20, Viva Las Vegas is ert, Graham and Scott have ings 5588 4000. comedian Jonathan Atherton, refrigerated receptacle for Mick McHugh has been incredible, dazzling and mys- who now lives and works holding chocolate and softdrink. described as ‘an Irish Cat tifying world-class entertain- between India and Singapore I have three kids, so by the time Stevens’, ‘wearing his heart ment, which has played to sold to check that he hadn’t suff ered they’ve had one drink each and on his sleeve’ and his shows as out arenas around the world. an untimely upgrade. He replied one delicious snack, my holiday ‘uplifting and positive’. he’s cur- Stardust Room at Seagulls Tick- that 5 star hotels were out of his budget is blown. The mini-bar is rently promoting his EP A Long ets: $44.90 league and most of the abodes to the world of travel what the Way From Home and Father- where he was accommodated apple tree was to the garden hood Festival released EP Dad, Comedy: would be vastly improved by of Eden. One bite and you’ll be both launched in 2008. You can George is back catch one of his Tweed Shire the odd spot of terrorism. I taking a rogering at the desk by Internationally renowned appearances when Mick takes imagined being confi ned to my a bloke called Sebastian with comedian, Cuban born George his Folky Fun to The Sheoak room, like the chap from the bad skin and a stupid badge. It Smilovici, has performed in Shack, Fingal Head 7pm on Hunter Valley who had to live was the same in Paradise, God every arena possible, from Saturday. For dinner bookings off wine samples and chocolate was on reception and Adam giant sporting stadiums to phone 07 5523 1130. Max Judo at The Cabarita Beach Bar Friday from the mini-bar. You’d end took the hit. ‘That apple’s gonna intimate clubs as headliner up fat, pissed and freaked out. cost ya buddy. If you haven’t Andi and George and alongside the likes of Joe This was the ultimate act of got cash you are gonna have to Cocker, Talking Heads, Neil terrorism. Hotel guests were leave this 5 star eco resort I call Band up The Sphinx Sedaka, Joan Rivers, Michael forced to eat from the mini-bar. The Garden of Eden and move The Andi and George Band Winslow. Most would agree If you made it out alive you’d be to a caravan park.’ Adam and is an independent Australian that George’s appeal is hit up with a mini-bar bill that Eve weren’t really in a position band which has been together universal. Since topping the would have you re-mortgaging to rush out to the local fruit for three years. It has grown Australian and NZ music charts, your home. Hotel mini-bars and veg store and staple gun a from an acoustic roots/folk and USA comedy charts with seem to operate in an economy replacement apple to the tree duo into a 12 piece funk/soul/ his hilarious hit monologue ‘I’m all of their own. On a recent before house cleaning turned folk/reggae outfi t, made up of tuff ’ he has not stood still. His hotel stay I got slogged $8 for up to report the loss (at that friends who share the same soulful voice, musical prowess a small bottle of still water. point in history, God was using love of life and music. on the Spanish guitar and his At three in the morning with snakes). For a start, that was From humble beginnings wide ranging repertoire from chronic dry mouth you ain’t the only apple tree. Last time in Canberra, the band has fl amenco to jazz make him reading the charge sheet. It’s I shared a room with the evil been travelling regularly up unique as a comic entertainer. Fatter than Nusrat at the Beach Hotel Byron on Thursday extortion. There you are in the mini-bar I went out and bought the East Coast and have just He headlines Side Splitting cool air-conditioned comfort replacements. Not just enough started breaking into the of your room, a little bit tipsy to replace what we’d consumed, festival circuit in 2008. The duo and you think, I’ll just have but extra stock. Using their are the singer/songwriters that a chockie, and maybe fi nish product charge rates, when I front this high energy crew, but off with a scotch. That’s a $30 checked out, they owed me each accomplished musician in endeavour. It’s even worse $300. the band brings their own indi- vidual fl avour, which combines Blind Lemon makes who individually have been the original folk music with big performing in various bands for music you want to band sound. Each live show is up to forty fi ve years. Halcyon diff erent, and the groove gets see Dayz features the big hits of all ages and shapes moving! the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Blind Lemon have a repertoire Sphinx Rock Cafe, Mt Burrell the Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimmy that ranges from classic songs on Saturday. Hendrix, Van Morrison, The Ani- by Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix mals, The Beach Boys, Chuck and Willie Dixon to the hits of To the Max Berry, John Lennon, the Travel- modern blues stars such as Fresh off their successful eight ling Wilburys and many other John Poppers (Blues Traveller), show Queensland tour with great music legends. Adults Eric Clapton and Johnny Lang, Melbourne act Dukes of Wind- $10 per head (which includes gives Blind Lemon a veritable sor, Max Judo are ready to rock a hamburger) and free entry for arsenal of rockin’ blues tunes the Cabarita Beach Bar on Fri- children. Bring a tent, camper which keeps any crowd enter- day playing songs off their up or bedding and don’t risk drink tained all night. Solid rhythms coming album Good Tonight. driving. For bookings please pump along with rockin guitar 2008 has been nothing short phone Tony Warren on 0412 and wailing harmonica to give of busy with tours to the US, 211 187. Blind Lemon a contagiously recording debut album with energetic sound. Their goal is It’s all in the Genes renowned producer, Caleb clear from each performance; James alongside various The Genes have released their to present the music they love sold-out shows with the likes new single 2001 and Album No with verve and fl air, and they of surfi ng icon, Tom Curren 7, their 7th studio album. The succeed. They take blues hos- and being nominated for Genes have been playing their tages on Saturday at Cabarita ‘Band of the Year’ at the 2008 original blues, Indy folk since Beach Sports Club from 8pm. national Deadly awards held 1990. Singer/songwriter Nolan at the Sydney Opera House. Welcome to the Angell explains: ‘We are very Max Judo are set for a busy Revolution excited about this album, and few months ahead with shows the fi rst single 2001 is some- at the Woodford Folk Festival, Take a musical trip back thing a bit diff erent for me as it Sydney events and the release through the fun, carefree days is the fi rst truly autobiographi- of their debut Australian album of the 60s-70s music revolu- cal song I’ve written. In 1990 in early 2009. Show kicks off at tion this Saturday night, at the when we started doing gigs 8.30pm. Pigabeen Hall on Pigabeen we could only aff ord to make Road, from 7-11pm with four track recordings onto NYE: make your Halcyon Dayz. The new band cassette, and we would give is the brain child of lead singer/ them away at all our gigs. Then plans! guitarist Tony Warren and in- CDs came in big and we had Have you worked out what cludes fi ve talented musicians to get a record deal just to be you are going to do for New www.tweedecho.com.au Th e Tweed Shire Echo December 11, 2008 19 Four Holidays Vaughn, but together they Amazing what a different work surprisingly well as Kate local events and entertainment hairstyle can do. Reese and Brad, an unmarried couple gig guide Witherspoon, an accomp- living the life of Reilly in a swell CONNECTIONS 7PM JONES lished actress with lauded apartment in San Francisco. FRIDAY 12 DANCE ON ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT performances as country Vaughn, a comic actor inclined ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM BURRELL 1-5PM ANDI & singer June Carter and to bully a scene to death, UPSTAGE GEORGE BAND Thackeray’s Becky Sharpe is appreciably restrained, 6PM TRIVIA, MATT ■ ■ to her credit, appears here paying his lines their due and BUGGY S A L T B A R , K I N G S C L I F F BEACH HOTEL, BYRON with a fringe covering that enabling the rest of the fine ■ GREENHILLS ON TWEED, 8.30PM DARREN 4.30PM LISA HUNT 8PM steepling forehead of hers. cast some breathing space. M’BAH 8PM JO’S MARLOW DJ’S EGO & GRAVY It helps transform her into a To avoid the Christmas chore WIZARDS OF JAZZ ■ T W I N T O W N S , ■ HOTEL GREAT suave city professional who of dealing with their families ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR CHAMPIONS 9PM BEN NORTHERN, BYRON knows exactly what she wants (you can choose your friends, 8.30PM DJ CLAPPED AMOR BREEZES 5.30PM CALLING ALL CARS & and looks a million bucks in a as the saying goes), Kate and OUT PLUS MAX JUDO TWO OF A KIND 2PM HERE COMES THE BIRDS little black dress as she goes Brad have booked a trip to Fiji, ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS RUSSELL SPROUT 9PM ■ THE RAILS, BYRON movie CLUB 7.30PM BUSTER’S DUELLING 6.30PM RAGGA JUMP about getting it. It must have where they will stay at a luxury been harrowing for her to get resort for the duration. Trouble CHRISTMAS HOP WITH PIANOS HARBOUR ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK reviews around in the heels needed is, their flight is grounded by THE CRUISERS LOUNGE 10AM HARRY 3.30PM JAM BROTHERS to get anywhere near the fog and when interviewed ■ SALT BAR, KINGSCLIFF LYNN 6.30PM GOOD 7PM FORD BROTHERS with John Campbell shoulders of gigantic Vince by a news reporter they are 8.30PM PRESTON TRAIN VIBRATIONS sprung by the rels who see ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS ■ COOLANGATTA & TWEED MONDAY 15 Due to last minute them on TV. (Who hasn’t CLUB 8PM THE REAL HEADS GOLF CLUB 7PM ■ TWIN TOWNS, BREEZES cancellation, hot trio been caught out lying about DEAL STOWAWAY 4PM JAYNE HENRY where you’ll be?) So the four ■ SEAGULLS, ■ G O L D C O A S T A R T S 7.30PM SPIN HARBOUR holidays in question are the CONNECTIONS 7PM CENTRE 7PM, JAZZ IN LOUNGE 1PM WALTER THE visits they are obliged to make JUNGLE VIBE BAND THE BASEMENT: WILLIAMS 7PM DANCE to their parents, both sets ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SANDIE WHITE WITH CLUB BLUESWINGERS now separated and with new KAFFENE THE HARRY LYN ■ THE RAILS, BYRON Are available for partners. It is a straightforward ■ TWIN TOWNS, CHAMPIONS QUARTET SHOWROOM, 6.30PM MATT SEABERG 9PM JOHN O’SHEA 7PM & 9PM PRINCESS device used to run a number of TUESDAY 16 NEW YEARS EVE good gags about relationships ■ TWIN TOWNS, BREEZES PISSY PANTS THE and embarrassments from the 1.30PM SUSIE J & THE GREEDY CHEESE EATING ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB Any volume – no hassles past. What eventually becomes ACE 5.30PM UPSTAGE BITCH AND OTHER 12-2PM JAYNE HENRY Phone Greg Baker 0418 484 086 apparent to Kate and Brad is 9PM BUSTER’S NAUGHTY DOG TALES ■ SEAGULLS, LIVE LOUNGE that the lives of their loopy, DUELLING PIANOS ■ TWEED RIVER ART MUSIC 5.30PM 9PM annoying, tactless, over- HARBOUR LOUNGE 11AM GALLERY 7PM RACHEL DON WHITAKER breeding families are grounded LINE DANCING RUSSELL STONE ‘CANARY IN A ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF LIVE @ SUSHI YAM in a strange reality that HINTON 7PM DENNIS COALMINE’ EXHIBITION 7PM TRIVIA nevertheless offers more than WARREN – AN EVENING OPENING ■ TWIN TOWNS, BREEZES 13th December the self-centred ways of the OF JAZZ ■ UKI CAFE 6PM BILL 1PM ROCKING TWIN prodigal offspring – they are ■ GOLD COAST ARTS JACOBI TOWNS WITH ROUTE 66 Saturday Night not intimate enough for Brad CENTRE, 8PM COMEDY ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 8PM ACOUSTICITY to have confided that his given IN THE BASEMENT: BAY 9.30PM DIRECT ■ HOTEL GREAT HJH=>IG6>C6C99>CC:G name was Orlando. It’s a salient MIKE BENNETT, MATTY INFLUENCE NORTHERN, BYRON BZcjd[ndjgX]d^XZ lesson a lot of us might heed MARR & MC TERRY ■ C H A N N O N H A L L 1 0 A M CALLING ALL CARS & 8dbZVcYZc_dni]ZH]dl at this time of year. Brevity is HANSEN ARTS THEATRE, SMALL & PRECIOUS HERE COMES THE ;JAANA>8:CH:9 the soul of wit and this good SHOWROOM, 6PM THE OPENING WITH THE BIRDS humoured, cuddly movie does FOUR KINSMEN 7PM JAZZTONES ■ THE RAILS, BYRON not suffer by finishing sooner HINTERLAND DANCE ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 6.30PM JOSH RAWIRI than you expect. Robert Duvall ACADEMY PRESENTS BAY 9.30PM DIRECT ■ BYRON ENTERTAINMENT ?VbZh=^\\^ch enjoys himself no end as FAITH, TRUST & PIXIE INFLUENCE CENTRE 5.30-8PM THE ;jc`n6Xdjhi^XHdja Brad’s ornery old father – the DUST ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN BAIP & CIRCUS ARTS ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR & BYRON, MAX JUDO =dhiZYWn near demolition of his house CHRISTMAS PARTY when Brad attempts to install GRILL 7PM SOULMAN ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 2PM Bd]^c^8dm a satellite dish is a masterpiece ■ UKI CAFE JAM NIGHT YOU CAN’T ALWAYS WEDNESDAY 17 of klutz humour – and, though ■ BEACH HOTEL BYRON GET WHAT YOU WANT: GHKE ;dgbdgZ^c[de]dcZ%)&.+,%*('$%'++,'--%, she is no longer the murderous 9.30PM JAYWAH SAM CUTLER BOOK ■ SEAGULLS, LIVE LOUNGE baton-twirling teenager that ■ HOTEL GREAT LAUNCH 6.30PM DAN MUSIC 1.15PM – 3.15PM she was in Badlands, it’s a NORTHERN, BYRON RUMOUR & THE DRIFT DON WHITAKER pleasure to see Sissy Spacek NATHAN KAYE AND THE ■ TWIN TOWNS, BREEZES again. The baby vomit jokes are DREAMSEEDS SUNDAY 14 8.30PM THE REAL DEAL beauties. ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 7PM ■ VICTORY HOTEL 1-3PM THE SOUL SHAKERS THE GENES THURSDAY 18 ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR, ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, SATURDAY 13 2PM THE FEBS 6-9PM TREVOR WHITE ■ C A B A R I T A B E A C H S P O R T S ■ SEAGULLS, 3-7PM ■ SEAGULLS, LIVE LOUNGE CLUB 8PM BLIND COUNTRY LINE MUSIC 5.30PM – 9PM LEMON DANCING CRAIG SHAW ■ UKI TOWN HALL, 7.30PM ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM ■ TWIN TOWNS, BREEZES OKA MICHAEL KING 8.30PM THE REAL DEAL ■ S U S H I Y A M , ■ SALT BAR, KINGSCLIFF MURWILLUMBAH 7.30PM 1.30PM SOULMAN ■ GOLD COAST ARTS JAMES HIGGINS ■ TWIN TOWNS, BREEZES CENTRE, SHOWROOM, ■ P I G A B E E N H A L L 7 - 11 P M 12.30PM ROBERT KEITH 6PM THE FOUR HALCYON DAYZ 7.30PM BUSTER’S KINSMEN ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR DUELLING PIANOS ■ CURRUMBIN RSL - 7.30PM 8PM FATHOM HARBOUR LOUNGE SIDE SPLITTING ■ N T H B U R L E I G H S L S C 7 P M 1.45PM PETE DAVIS COMEDY: GEORGE AKASA 6.30PM OZ LATIN SMILOVICI, BART ■ S E A G U L L S , P I A N O B A R BROTHERS FREEBAIRN, MC MANDY 4-7PM TONY KRUGER ■ UKI CAFE KATHERINE NOLAN GIG GUIDE DEADLINE 12pm tuesday [email protected] ph. 6672 2280 fax. 6672 4933 20 December 11, 2008 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au tweed arts with Judith White [email protected] Favourite place winners Bill Scott has won this year’s Tweed Shire photographic competition for people with because of the economic graphic self-portraits is coming art galleries attract the better- disabilities, with his work My downturn. Latest figures indi- to town. A life in lithographs off. But MGNSW chief executive Move. Entrants Adam Suttie, cate that takings at the major opens on Friday December Maisy Stapleton reports: ‘We Jessica Dodd and Bart Hawkins auction houses worldwide are 12 at the Tweed River Art Gal- have found that a lot of the also received prizes. An exhibi- down between 30% and 50%. lery, at the same time as the population with incomes be- tion of the entries remains on So it’s good to see artists Border Art Prize show we told low the average level are going show at Tweed Heads Library from our own region finding you about last week. to galleries and spending a lot Group Show opening on until next Wednesday, Decem- ways to get their work out The exhibition includes 31 of time there. Moreover, once Party bus Saturday December 13 from ber 17. there. Murwillumbah painter Robinson works produced they get hooked they come Given those attendance 3pm onwards, when Echo The 2008 theme is My Craig Parnaby is one who’s in Paris on the historic press back time and time again.’ figures, it’s a fair bet that one of readers are invited to join them Favourite Place and subjects beating the trend. You may at Atelier Bordas, and they The research was conducted the biggest Christmas parties in celebrating the end of the ranged from familiar sites to remember that some weeks are from three series – Self- in 2007-8 in the Hunter and in the Tweed will be the gallery ago we told you about his plan workshop year. intimate domestic spaces. Area portrait, Farmyard and Parody. Western Sydney areas, but it’s Friends’ party, timed to coin- to take works to the popular The group exhibition is librarian Jo Carmody launched They include a study for his not unreasonable to think that cide with this Friday’s exhibi- fair Art Sydney, which enables entitled SamizdaRt, a play on the exhibition at a movie- Self-portrait with stunned mullet the trends identified may well tion openings. Attendance is artists to sell direct to the pub- the Russian word samizdat. themed Red Carpet party at that won the Archibald some be similar elsewhere. The key certain to exceed parking ca- lic. Well, he sold the lot! Watch Meaning ‘underground’, it was the Civic Centre on December years ago. findings of the report are as pacity, so the gallery has asked this space in the new year for used to refer to clandestine 3 for the International Day of There’s a whimsical aspect to follows: us to let you know that they are details of his first local show… literature circulating under the People with a Disability. There the self-portraits but Robinson ‘Visitor demographics show organising a free bus shuttle The classic way for artists to old Stalinist regime. was entertainment by jazz himself has been at pains to that a large proportion of visi- with Higgins Bus Service from sell is through private galler- CPM members have risen to singer Andrea Szabo, Toskars – stress their serious side. tors are not necessarily high the old Murwillumbah Railway ies in major cities. It can work station near the roundabout on Tweed Oscars – were awarded ‘These works are really a se- income earners, nor are they the challenge of the title. The to participants and the event well if the gallery hits the right Friday December 12. The serv- works in SamizdaRt address market and times are good, but ries of self revelations that have achieving the highest levels of was supported by the Lions ice will run from 6pm onwards, ‘the Other’. According to the metropolitan dealers usually been too easily judged on the education, or working fulltime. Club and volunteers. with festivities due to begin at group’s spokesperson Babette take a hefty commission, often surface,’ he wrote when they t

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PWFS here’s a reminder of two free turn. Locally, there are several Christmas party and members’ site www.cpmprintstudio.com carol concerts you can join in: options that don’t involve high represented in both regions.’ Saturday December 13, commissions. One that’s fea- Record attendances Clockwise from left: Carols at Salt Central Park from sible for some artists is to join Tweed River Art Gallery is William Robinson Self 7pm with Frankie J Holden. a cooperative gallery. Curious now officially the most-visited portrait for town and Thursday December 18, Art at Chinderah operates regional gallery in New South country, 2004, colour Carols at Kingscliff Lions Club successfully on this principle, Wales. Figures recently released lithograph. Collection Park from 7pm with Cudgen as does the gallery attached to for 2007-8 show that our gal- of the University of and Kingscliff Public School the workshop at Tweed Unlim- lery attracted 70,000 visitors, Queensland, purchased students and guest artists And- ited Arts, Banora Point. And up from 55,000 the previous 2006. rea Szabo and Paul Ensbey. there are many cafés, studios year and well ahead of other Robert Guenther and son A reminder too for fans and other outlets where artists’ institutions, including some of the ABC TV program work is displayed. Here at The Kayah at the Red Carpet long-established places. Great party for the photographic Spicks’n’Specks that the live Echo we’re always happy to news to conclude the 20th pass on news of other ventures, competition My favourite show based on the series anniversary! place. comes to Twin Towns Services too – so if you’re part of one, do The informative Tweed Club on December 19 and 20. get in touch. Friends’ newsletter Artifacts Artist Craig Parnaby For this one you have to book. reports that a recently-pub- William Robinson, Self Tickets cost $54.90 from 1800 lished study by Museums and portrait with stunned mullet, 014 014 or (07) 5536 1977. Life of Robinson Galleries NSW (MGNSW) has 2004, colour lithograph. Bill Robinson is the most cel- found that the demograph- Collection of the University Art market news ebrated artist to have painted ics of gallery attendance have of Queensland, purchased The international art market is in the region in recent years, changed significantly in recent 2006 now seriously in the doldrums and now a show of his litho- years. It’s a popular belief that www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo December 11, 2008 21 eating out guide to all the best restaurants and cafés in the northern rivers

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The Dordogne region – claimed to be the best place to which constitute Modern Life: a hot chocolate-spurting TRANSFORMATION OF ALBERT otherwise named Perigord eat in all of France. there is an innocence and a ‘surprise’ dessert, a positively The Gold Coast hinterland is one of Australia’s Noir – is in the southwest of It is possible to have a little too romance we fi nd compelling. sinful seemingly bottomless fastest growing wine regions and rapidly France, an area renowned much foie gras, Belinda learned Listening to Belinda’s account bowl of potato gratin. There for spectacular medieval – although she loved the whole made me sag with the may be pyjama-clad children becoming well-known for its vineyards and castles and villages, for the experience and especially the longing to simply go – until I in a corner parked before a boutique wineries. One such winery central prehistoric paintings in the small villages with their several remembered that the $10,000- television set and a kitten with to the area is Albert River Wines, set in the Lescaux Caves – and for a bakeries, butchers and pastry odd required for the week’s a bell around its neck skittering residential cooking school picturesque Albert River Valley high on a shops run mostly as family course was slightly outside across the ample fl oor... In called La Combe en Perigord. businesses. This is what so my range, and this before the Byron Bay, The Petit Snail hill with spectacular views of Tambourine It was from this school that many of us seek in overseas air fare. Luckily, there are a wellknown cookbook author has been steadily acquiring Mountain. Having recently undergone a major travel because it is something few French restaurants in this and ex-television chef the fans in the few months it has transformation, it is well worth a visit, off ering we, growing up in Australia, particular region where I can divine Belinda Jeff ery recently been open, with its regularly have never had. Steeped in pretend. Rumour has it that wine-tastings, a fi rst-class restaurant and two returned, having spent a week changing menu, its cosy tradition, these are places yet another is about to open historic venues for guests. To book a table or there as guest chef teaching interior, the irrepressible which seem almost untouched a group of eight people. La in Mullumbimby – which gives ‘Chauby’ who may break out for further information ring 07 5543 6622. by the progress and change Combe en Perigord is the rise to the suspicion that, in the spontaneously into song as she cyclical way of food faddism, brainchild of Wendely Harvey bears your meal to the table. French food is fi nding favour BLACKBOARD’S BEST DISH and Robert Cave-Rogers, Which, if you’re lucky, could again. Plunged into the green At Ballina’s Rivafest recently, the best dish an Australian-British couple well be beef marrow presented

of Tintenbar is a big old barn of snippets who established it in 1996 as as four conical little bones was won by ex-Tetsuya chef Dennis Baker a building attached to a church a base for their cultural and upstanding on a plate with the called Che Bon run by a young of Blackboard at the Beach, Lennox Head. culinary programs. Throughout melting fat inside to extricate the year international chefs French couple who haven’t Judged by Simon Thomsen, reviewer for the and smear on to garlic-rubbed arrive to conduct week-long been here long enough not Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living section croutons – gorgeous peasant classes interspersed with trips to commit the odd endearing stuff you might fi nd in a village and co-editor of the Good Food Guide, the to farmers’ markets, medieval grammatical error (‘Oh Victoria, village fairs, vineyards, duck you will be interesting in somewhere in France. I have winning dish was Juniper Berry-Crusted farms, restaurants, walnut mills our wine-tastings...’). They yet to Sunday-lunch at Jean- Kangaroo Loin with Potato and Radicchio Claude at the Mallanganee and foie gras farms. This is a off er up French country Salad and Beetroot Relish. region whose truffl es, walnuts, cooking served with lashings Lookout west of Casino. All in wild mushrooms, prunes of warmth, whimsy and all, when the Gallic urge strikes, and foie gras are considered generosity: fabulous house- there’s no need for me to even unrivalled; it has even been cured salmon and duck confi t, consider a passport... 22 December 11, 2008 Th e Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au TAURUS: Breaking astro news on by and focus your precious this week, going down the Cryptic Crossword 016 has your boss planet Venus time and energy on your own drama road won’t help. Be your STARS entering the sign of unusual seasonal star performance. own best friend by restraining friends, future plans and doing VIRGO: It’s important to keep yourself from saying something things differently. Moderation the home base serene this week, that you know once uttered will and restraint aren’t usually your so give negative thoughts the be impossible to take back. favourite virtues – but you could flick before they space invade CAPRICORN: This F-word week always demonstrate a different your mind. Aim at being an oasis (frenetic, frazzled, fraught side of yourself at this week’s of Virgo calm in this season of and flustered) needs you to festive smorgasbords, right? goodwill – our most tense and administer the c-word. Yes, calm GEMINI: Your latest plans may stressy, knotted and stroppy Capricorn cool. Think straight, WITH LILITH hit seemingly insurmountable time of year. stay clear, tread carefully, be snags, but there’s always plenty LIBRA: Your leading lady Venus strong and no matter how much ANOTHER VERBALLY VIVAC- more ideas where those came in kinky Aquarius activates Libra’s effort it takes, stay connected IOUS WEEK WITH HIGH from. This week offers a chance quirkier side, but avoid the kind with friends, family and ACCIDENT RATINGS AND AN to enhance or upgrade your of quirky that leaves everything associates. ASTRAL WEATHER PATTERN service or product, so talk it up to a last minute pre-Christmas AQUARIUS: Even if you haven’t EXHIBITING WIDESPREAD for all you’re worth. As if anyone tizz of hurrying, flurrying and been good lately, the Christmas IMPATIENCE AND TEMPER could stop you… scurrying. Make plentiful fairy drops the gift of Venus in FLARES. SURPRISE NEWS CANCER: When this week’s playdates of course, but tick Aquarius in this week’s stocking. OR UNEXPECTED CHANGES people press buttons, and they something off the to-do list each Your popularity really rockets day as well. COULD TOSS A FIRE CRACKER will, make peace quickly and and now it’s time to indulge AMONG THIS WEEK’S move on. Don’t weigh your heart SCORPIO: Now the festive yourself with a little lavishness: CHRISTMAS PLANS… down with past crimes, there’s treadmill’s under way it won’t experiment with a new look, a too much of that already in the let up till the fat man clambers style change or exotic holiday. ACROSS DOWN ARIES: Surrendering to someone world. Get with the generous, down the chimney, so until then PISCES: Take things easy during 1. Nuts and biscuits with 1. Offspring supports large else’s way of doing things could fi reworks (8) giving and receiving spirit of the the less stressful demands you the last half of this week when descendant (8) be surprisingly pleasant this 9. Stays in bed when festive program instead. make on yourself the easier this astral aspects are unhelpful. As 2. Experts remove pal from misdeed follows fi b (4,2) week and certainly less effort. LEO: This week’s over-supplied week will be. Set reasonable your life cycle moves into its 10. News mentioned palaces (4) If late week friction looks like with those who think they goals and don’t push yourself to next phase, regard anything that antelope’s relatives (4) 3. Picture I see inside bursting your bubble, don’t let know how to run the universe do the impossible. looks like loss as clearing the 11. Where you may fi nd a department briefl y (6) it – you bounce back quickly telling you all about it – don’t SAGITTARIUS: When the space for something new. And scavenger after feeling down 4. Ray’s hat fashioned into from minor setbacks, so regard they know Leos give the orders? Sun/Mars/Mercury trifecta in remember to be extremely kind (2,3,5) smokers’ accessory (7) all setbacks as minor. Let incessant waffle just drone Sagittarius hits some turbulence to yourself… 12. Chaperone carried in 5. Councillor Capone joins Jessie’s Cortina or the other the German chap (8) Ford? (6) 14. Give weapons to musical 6. Painter out, perhaps, for groups that can be worn on notoriety (10) the sleeves (8) 7. Leaned over and gave a 15. Initially King, not Ted, was gratuity (6) all tangled up (7) 13. One treated casually by 17. Every second picnic ails hospital, content to wait your tooth (7) after being told to leave (10) 20. Barnacle chewed Unusual Plants & Locally Crafted Garden Ornaments by tightrope walker or 16. Shackles in Spanish links accountant? (8) (8) 22. Hand-operated guide 18. Brief stint as substitute 48 Acacia Street, Byron Arts & Industry Estate 6685 5134 or 0429 622 983 book (6) from time to time (2,3,3) 23. Leave money (7,3) 19. Suggest writing about 24. Commanding Offi cer Ed Post Offi ce (7) returns with set of rules (4) The death this week at 87 of Wade was one of the most 21. It’s unprincipled when Bob Wade, New Zealand’s most CHESS by Ian Rogers likeable, knowledgeable and eth- 25. Con took Ann inside big influential chess export, has gen- ical characters in the chess world gun (6) spoken after morning (6) Play at Seagulls Club, Thursdays 6–10pm 22. Can actress Doris give a erated a river of tributes to one and his return to New Zealand 26. Suitable hobbies for of the great characters in world As chief British junior trainer magnificent chess library in in 2006 for the Queenstown sailors or vessels (8) distress signal? (6) chess. for many years, Wade nurtured London, he showed me his Classic, after a 58 year absence, Last week’s solution 24. Complain about fi sh Though only ranked as a generation of players – Miles, remarkable card index, where was a celebrated event. being right inside an International Master – he Speelman, Nunn, Short – who every game of importance had Wade’s many other achieve- refused to allow his name to be cap (4) took England to silver medals at been written up by hand and ments include: player at seven put forward for an Honorary a series of Chess Olympiads in catalogued. Chess Olympics for both Grandmaster title – Wade was the 1980s. In pre-computer days, this was England and New Zealand, a key figure behind the rise of However it was Wade’s work a Herculean task but it turned OBE, and author and co-author British chess in the 1970s and with Fischer which was most Wade’s collection into a price- of many fine books – most nota- 80s and Bobby Fischer’s win of important but least well known. less resource, one which Fischer bly The Games of Bobby Fischer the world title in 1972. On my first visit to Wade’s had seen on a visit to London and Soviet Chess. and decided to utilise before his However, for the younger world title match in 1972. generation Wade will be best Fischer wrote to Wade, asking remembered as a driving force him to post Fischer the file with behind the internet magazine all Boris Spassky’s games – a file The Week in Chess. that Wade had augmented to For almost a decade TWIC, © Lovatts Publications near-completeness through his through editor Mark Crowther, great contacts in the USSR. has been publishing online After Fischer had promised every important game played in Send your letters and feedback to to return the files intact Wade the world. Crowther, mentored obliged, the only time he had by Wade, has managed to cre- [email protected] or fax 6672 4933 allowed any part of his card ate the ultimate electronic ver- And check out our website – index to leave his home, and sion of Wade’s card index, with www.tweedecho.com.au The late doyen of British when Fischer beat Spassky Wade the games available to all gratis. chess, R G Wade, OBE was duly chuffed. Wade’s legacy is in good hands.

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Cudgen ladies Club Triples get beach buzz what’s happening in the surf down to feverish finals Rock – Corindi. The 200 year masters was shared by Forster and Byron Bay. At the ‘Ocean Assault’ se- ries held at Tugun the -15 year men’s team had some good re- sults. With the contest run over 2 rounds, Callum Smith had a 1st and 2nd in the Taplin relay. The club has been fortu- nate to gain Matthew Rigney, a transfer from Coolangatta, who is the current Australian -19 year surf belt champion. Competing in the open belt he gained 3rd on Saturday and 2nd on Sunday. Finalists included Blake Congratulations to Cudgen Leagues Ladies Sharon Lee Hinks, Francis, Ben Ross, Oliver Il- Judy Martin and Liz Fleming (s), winners of the Club Selected Kingscliff High students Keiren Lloyd and Jarrod White paired up to represent the school in the lingworth in the -15 year tap- Triples Final played last Thursday and to runners up Joy Ash- Australian Surfing Junior Titles in WA on the weekend. They surfed superbly to do everything lin and surf, Ben James -19 ford (s), Isabel Nipperess and Ann Revie, who played so well but win the final – Officially, they placed 2nd behind Victorian surfers Mitch Baker and Todd year board, and taplin relay throughout the Triples event. Photo Tree Faerie. Rosewall but that was only due to a very controversial interfence call against White in the final with Dylan Klein and Mat- which saw him penalized half of his second wave score. Without the penalty the boys would Eve Jeffery kick off my shoes and join thew Rigney. Jarrad Cain was in, the sleepy relaxing fish- have finished 1st –– but that’s sport, still a great effort. Photos Steve Robertson / Surfing Australia a finalist in the open iron man What better way to while away swimming-up-and-down-in- TIDE TIMES in close finishes. The masters both days and the taplin relay an afternoon than to sit beside a-tank vista soothed my weary Cudgen Surf Notes on Saturday. PHASES OF THE MOON 120 year crew had a similar a patch of green grass in the mind. Capricorn Full Moon 11th Jan 1.27 pm The club conducted a well at- Katie Smith was also a final- shade, watching bowls gently Meanwhile the Club Select- Last Quarter 18th Jan 12.46 pm result over Coffs Harbour on New Moon 26th Jan 5.56 pm tended 2 rounds of the North Sunday and the reserve grade ist in the -15 year female surf, lolling their way from one end ed Triples were hard at work, First Quarter 3rd Feb 9.13 am Coast Boat Series last weekend. saw wins to Yamba on Saturday board and iron woman. of your field of sleepy vision to feverishly fighting it out for FRI High 8.18 am 1.8 Sunrise 5.41 am 12th 9.04 pm 1.2 Sunset 7.37 pm Thirteen clubs with over 30 and Coffs Harbour on Sunday. This weekend the represent- the other. this year’s championship hon- Low 1.44 am 0.3 Moonrise 7.21 pm ative in the F.N.C. team will This is exactly what I had the ours, the ladies getting a good 3.07 pm 0.6 Moonset 4.34 am crews were represented from Wauchope-Bonny Hills won SAT High 9.11 am 1.9 Sunrise 5.41 am Forster to Cudgen. both rounds of the 23 year and contest the NSW Inter-Branch chance to do last week when I workout in perfect bowling 13th 10.00 pm 1.2 Sunset 7.38 pm Low 2.37 am 0.3 Moonrise 8.28 pm The ‘A’ crew was successful open women and the 23 year championships at Catherine visited the Cudgen Ladies on conditions. 4.01 pm 0.0 Moonset 5.38 am in the finals on both days in men. Woolgoolga took out the Hill Bay which is the southern their bowls day. I can do nothing else but rec- SUN High 10.04 am 1.9 Sunrise 5.42 am 14th 10.55 pm 1.2 Sunset 7.38 pm ahead of Minnie Water-Woolli 19yr mens division from Red end of Newcastle Branch. Though it was tempting to ommend the sport to all. Low 3.31 am 0.3 Moonrise 9.27 pm 4.54 pm 0.0 Moonset 6.49 am Mon 9th Feb – 09, Delegates Meeting Tweed Heads Tweed Heads Tourers School Sport MON High 10.58 am 1.9 Sunrise 5.42 am SPORT RESULTS Mur–bah, 9.30 am. Sunday 15th Feb – 09 Tweed Heads Men Last Sunday the Tourers played at home Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School 15th 11.49 pm 1.2 Sunset 7.39 pm BOWLS Low 4.26 am 0.3 Moonrise 10.16 pm Sunday Social and BBQ 9.15 for 9.30 start. 50/08 Championships: with the Ladies invited. Lindisfarne had an unprecedented four 5.47 pm 0.0 Moonset 8.02 am Burringbar Bush Ticks Good luck to Rosalie and Darby leaving Mixed Pairs: Marjorie Crane, Mark Next Sunday 14 December is the Christ- students competing in the Pacific School TUE High 11.51 am 1.8 Sunrise 5.42 am Thanks to the men’s club for a great for their well planned holiday on the 14th Howarde d. Jenny Ware, Paul Fargher mas Party morning bowls and if you Games in Canberra last week. 16th Sunset 7.40 pm day last Saturday and a most enjoyable Dec, take care and we will see you back 21/20 on extra end; Rolita Quinlan, John haven’t got your name in it’s too late as All four returned home with bling! Low 5.23 am 0.3 Moonrise 10.58 pm 6.39 pm 0.1 Moonset 9.13 am evening celebrating Christmas. Raffle about Nov – 09. Millington d. Margaret Gunton, Ken Cal- catering arrangements have been made. Kahlia Walsh Yr 8 – 9th in 100 m Breast- WED High 12.43 am 1.3 Sunrise 5.43 am winner were: T Allard, B Sleptoe, C Allard, KINGSCLIFF MENS BOWLS. vert 18/17; Val Young, Alan Davis d. Jean Note that until 11 January 2009 there is stroke, 4th in 50 m Breaststroke, Silver 17th 12.44 pm 1.7 Sunset 7.40 pm J Grob, T Allard, N O’Neil, M Philip, and L Thursday winners on Green 1 were Keith and Bill Finney 20/17; Barbara Makin, no official games arranged to be played. medal in medley relay. Low 6.21 am 0.4 Moonrise 11.34 pm Proudlock. Prichard, Keith Berger and George Pri- George Mynott d. Lauren Wilson, Mitch GOLF Daniel Bulmer – Yr 12, Bronze medal in 7.30 pm 0.2 Moonset 10.20 am THU High 1.38 am 1.3 Sunrise 5.43 am Burringbar Men’s Bowls Club chard; Green 3 winners were Jack Dal- Jackson 23/15; AnnMarie Hardey, Tony Chinderah Veterans Social Golf 800 m and Bronze medal in 1500 m. 18th 1.38 pm 1.6 Sunset 7.41 pm Saturday 6th December 30 bowlers mayer, John Ritchie, Peter Murphy and Willemsen d. Heather Mason, Ian Wild- Results for Thursday 4/12/08 – Stroke Madison Fitzpatrick Yr 6, Gold – Hockey Low 7.22 am 0.4 Moonrise enjoyed a very hot afternoon results T Ross Julius while winners of the losers man 17/16; Pat and John Griffiths d. Lucy Winner ‘A’ grade – Chad Philp – net 55 – – and she was NSW captain. 8.18 pm 0.3 Moonset 11.23 am Standfield and E Roberts def C Allard were Ralph Sharman, Rod Wilkinson and and Col Turner 17/14; Doreen and George new handicap 10. Runner up – Dudley Angus King, Year 5 Gymnast – His team, Eastern Standard Time. Heights in metres. and R Stevens M Allard L Proudlock and Brian Ryder. Saturday winners on Green Kendall d. Sylvia and Dennis Lusby 19/12; Wallis – net 57 – new handicap 9. the Gold Coast Gymnastics Club, came Courtesy of NSW Tide Charts, Manly Hydraulics T Allard def S Alholm R Chapman and D 1 were Bob Beattie, Trevor Hills and Har- AnnMarie Hardey, Tony Willemsen d. Ed- Winner ‘B’ grade – Geoff Lennon – net 1st in the Vault, 2nd in the Floor and Laboratory, NSW Dept of Commerce Proudlock Fand D Clingan def M and T vey Kemp; Green 3 winners were Michael ith Weston, Harry Mercer 32/6. 57 – new handicap 17. Runner up – Keith 3rd on the Rings and 3rd overall. Angus Giacomimi T Gibbons and L Philip def C Scott and Tony Wonka while winners of Mixed Fours: Bernice Bryant, AnnMarie Simpson – net 58 – new handicap 18 came 11th in Australia and he is just 11 Allard and D Dixon J and S Robson def L the losers were Keith Styles, Keith Pri- Hardey, Tony Willemsen, Graham Richards Winner ‘C’ grade – Judy Thackray – net years old. MONTHLY MARKETS and B Andrew E Graham L Philip and R chard and Ron Heales. Tuesday morning d. Ric Ware[sub. Mark Howarde], Jenny 54 – new handicap 23. Runner up – Kath SHOOTING 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6684 4437 Grob def H Philip N Philip and R Howard pairs winners were Bruce Munn and Alan Ware, Pamela Reedy, Paul Fargher 27/11; Gordon – net 55 – new handicap 22 Murwillumbah Pistol Club : Week 1st Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market Winning rink was M Allard L Proudlock Lynch; runners up were Ken Banks and Hazel Bardsley, Joy Dodsley, Ron Taylor, Ball rundown to net 59 ended 7th December, 2008: Air Pistol 0414 777 432 and T Allard losing rink C Allard and R Don Langtry while plate winners were John Reardon d. Bridie Carey, Norma Bell, Next event – 11/12/08 – Christmas party – Men – A Bobowski 572 J Bliss 568. Air 1st Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets Stevens. Bill Rae and Roy Dunn. Nomination sheet Clive Weston, Alan Stephen 20/13. and 9 hole stroke Pistol – Ladies – S Doyle 438. Standard 0417 759 777 Following the game president Lex con- is up for Tweed Valley Shield played on Social Results – Sunday 30 Nov: Monday 8/12/08 – Stroke Pistol – T Uren 570 M Curtis 567 J Curtis 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market gratulated winners of the champion- Mondays starting 19 Jan. Also for Sum- Green 1: Lorraine Robins, Bill Davies; Winner ‘A’ grade – Gus Pearson – net 56 560 D Dowling 552 J Lumsden 542 P Gil- 0417 759 777 ship events for the year Singles Cham- mer Nines played on Saturdays starting runner up: Tom Osborne, Marina Jar- (c/back) – new handicap 7. Runner up – lette 541 R Gospel 537 G McMahon 536 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 pion; Steve Robson, Pairs; Steve Robson 7 Feb. Mens Christmas Party will be held rick, Diane Mathews, Ken Calvert. Green Bob Dickie – net 56 – new handicap 6. R Fleming 526 R Rees 526 P Gospel 510 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 and Rex Howard, Triples; Jim Boyle, this Saturday 13 Dec. 2: Nancy and Robert Young; runner up: Winner ‘B’ grade – Frank Aaron – net 58 R Bebendorf 498 D Gazzard 483. Sport 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 James Boyle and Ray Chapman and The Pottsville Men Brenda and John LeBouef. – new handicap 13. Runner up – Vince Pistol – A Unwin 567 J Traves 539 R Smith Fours won by Doug Clarke, Ron Young, Week Ending 07/12/2008 Tues 2 Dec: Winners – Men Kinnane – net 59 – new handicap – 17. 537 G Andronicus 535 J Hoctor 532 A 2nd Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 Bill Hayes and Ray Donnelly. KG Philip Wednesday the 3rd December Ken Withington, Graham Saunders, Ram- Winner ‘C’ grade – Maree Platt – net 63 – Berry 525. Rifle No. 5. M Thomas 599 G 2nd Sun The Channon (02) 6688 6433 presented the KG Philip shield to Steve Winners with Highest Winning Score say MacDonald, Terry Patton; runner up: new handicap 23. Runner up – Stan Alex- Hargrave 598 D Keene 598 B Welsh 597 B 2nd Sun Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Robson who has enjoyed a great year. were D. Clark, R. Appleton and J Hefferen. Ian McLean, Rex Dell, Ralph Armstrong, ander – net 64 – new handicap – 23 Wenban 597 G Callaghan 597 J Leidreiter 2nd Sun Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Other winners were: Participation and Winning Rink went to B. Brown, T Fuller George Craig. Ball rundown to net 60 596 J Lumsden 596 R Blair 596 M Luxton 2nd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 Points award was shared by M Cox and and F Fielding. Consolation Prize went to Winners – Ladies Next event : 15/12/08 – Ambrose (last 595 N Luxton 594 J Guinery–Smith 593 J R Grob third S Robson Touchers. Comp S Lofts, F Moore and G Reading. Brenda LeBouef, Ruth Reiter, Bridie event for 2008) Wise 592 J Blair 592 P Gospel 591 3rd Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market was won by R Chapman, Runner up; M Saturday the 6th of December Carey, Dorothy Turner; runner up: Josie During Xmas break a ‘Ball’ competition SURF LIFE SAVING 0414 777 432 Cox and R Stevens. junior bowler of the Winners with Lowest Winning Margin Ryan, Sue Jackson, Alice Plowright, Esme will be held on Monday and Thursdays. Cudgen 3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 ear was won by Bruce Andrew. The club were: R Sherwood, C Mullins and K Coyte. Carter. First event in the New Year, January 5. Club results 7/12/08 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets would like to thank sponsors Burring- Winning Rink went to M Brady, T Fuller Wednesday December 3: Murwillumbah Golf Club Nominated Time Swim: 0417 759 777 bar Quality Meats, General Store Post and A Durrington. Consolation Prize went Green 1: Gordon Holthouse, Geoff Dixon + Sunday 30th Nov Women’s Winner 1. Joanne Colja, 2. Paul Capper, 3. Charlie 3rd Sun Ballina 6687 4328 Office and Philips Garages, also Barry to R Bryant, G Booth and D Moir 24; runner up: Jim Bryant, Mark Howarde S.Gorton 30 pts Member P.Curry 39pts Buchanan 3rd Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market Marshall Garage and CAM Excavations. REMINDERS. + 20. Green 2: Max Reiter, John Reardon + N/Pin 2nd P. FlemingB/R/Down to 34 pts Handicap Board: 0417 759 777 The monthly meeting is on Saturday ‘Barefoot Bowls’ every Sunday at 2.00pm, 21; runner up: Brian Lamb, Bill Beach + 15. Monday 1st Dec Winner A. Grade A. Fra- 1. Lynton Hurt, 2. Jackson Kenny, 3. 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 commencing at 10.30am and we have beginners welcome. For enquires and Green 3: Harold Moy, Ted Williams + 11; ser 69 nett c.b Runner up C. Hulme 69 Phil Klein. 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 a visit arranged from Nimbin this Sat- bookings for bowls call the Pottsville runner up: Arthur Collins, Jim Croghan + nett B. Grade B.B olt 6 nett Runner up 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 urday (mufti dress) this is a mixed bowls Beach Sports on 6676 1077. 9 on c/b. Green 4: Bill Hagen, Peter Young, G. Miller 69 Wednesday 3rd De. A Grade 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 9026 afternoon in conjunction with the Bush Pottsville Women Ray White, Col Moses + 16; runner up: Winner A. McLean 41 pts B. Grade Win- ticks. The sheet is on the board. 4th Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 Thursday, December 4: Ivan Mackay, Ken Schmidt + 15. ner G. Miller 45 pts Vet G. Thorburn 39 Cudgen Leagues Ladies Lucky Bowler: R Booth. Winning Rink: G Friday December 5: pts c,b N/Pin 2nd E. Kerr 17th S. Steen 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 Thursday 4th Ladies Social results – Win- Moore, M Jackson, H Woodbridge. Raffle: Green 1: Don Shoobert, Jack Barnes, Bob B/R/Down to 37 pts c.b Friday 5th Dec 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta ners, Rnk3, Clarice Blake, Eileen Burke, E Macdonald. Wike; runner up: Frank Dawson, Peter Members Winner R. Bartrim 41 pts B.R. (07) 5533 8202 Colleen Wein. Raffle, Sadie Townsend. Updates:. Dec 11: Presentation Day. Dec Adams, George Brooks. Green 2: Brian Down to 38 pts SLSC PATROLS 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 Mon 15th – Social Mixed Triples, 1pm. 18 Break Up Day – bowls and Christmas Varley, Les Wurth, Les Hughes; runner up: Saturday 6th Dec Individual.Stroke in Cudgen 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 Nomination sheet on notice board for lunch – wear a Christmas T–Shirt. Bryan Osborne, Ian Irvine, Peter Gold- 4 Grades A.Grade Winner P.Fahy 66 5th Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 District Championship Pairs, Singles, Tuesday morning mixed bowls – mufti. smith. Green 3: George Green, George nett and G.Bartlett 67 net. B.Grade Saturday 13/12/08 5th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 Triples, Fours, entries close for all events Come along for a morning of fun. Kendall, Tony Houghton; runner up: Harry Winner N.Fogo 66 nett and W.Mander AM ‘Crabs’ Jo Colja (Capt) Thurs 19th Feb – 09. Visitor Info: Fri 1.30 pm mixed pairs. Thurs Lyon, Gary Clarkson, Graham Jones. 68 nett C.Grade Winner P.Faux 68 nett PM ‘Sea Horses’ Rod McCarthy (Capt) FARMERS MARKETS Dates for Diary – Ladies Social Bowls Women’s Social Bowls 9 am. Order lunch Satuerdy December 6: and K.Stevens 70 nett D.Grade Winner Resume, Thurs 15th Jan – 09, 12.30 for and enjoy our warm and friendly club. Green 1: Brian Varley, Jim A. Smith; runner Each Sat 8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 M.O’Grady 66 nett c.b and A.Person 66 Sunday 14/12/08 1pm start. All Members please note Each Thu 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137 For new bowlers, should coaching be re- up: Dennis Lusbu, Fred Peel. 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Our GARAGE SALES and Museum wish to advise it’s Sisters, Alex Flockhart, Peter Tan- Murwillumbah Probus Club valued team of volunteers receive WANTED TO RENT last day open for the year is Friday, ner, Gillian Hayllar and the children will meet at the bowls club on ongoing training and professional ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this December 19. Open again Sunday, from Cudgen and Kingscliff Public December 15 at the changed time support. If you want to find out section must be paid by credit card or in ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this Schools, and of course Santa. Infor more about how you can make a person at time of placement. January 11, 2009. Next year’s of 10.30am. Christmas luncheon section must be paid by credit card or in opening days: Tuesday, Thursday, to Gillian Hayllar on 66 745 874 or will follow immediately and those difference in a young family’s life, POTTSVILLE WATERS 2 h’holds. Sat 13 person at time of placement. Friday (11am-4pm) Sunday (1pm- 409 381 987. attending who have not put their contact Yvonne on 07 55248711. Dec, not before 7am. 1/39 Andrew Ave. 4pm). For info call 0755 368 625. names down must advise Jack POSITIONS VACANT Family Centre Peacock by Friday, December 12. Craft fun TRACTOR REPAIRS Family history WARNING The Family Centre Term 1 2009 Phone 6672 1353. Cost is $12 for We are taking bookings now for The Department of Fair Trading has Tweed Gold Coast Family History course program is now available members and partners and $15 Christmas Story and Craft Fun, Rural Machinery Repair Service warned people to be very careful about and Heritage’s research room will go to www.thefamilycentre.org. for guests. Tuesday, December 16 from 10am- responding to advertisements offering close Saturday, December 13 at au. We are taking bookings now 11.30am. Come and share some TRACTOR work at home. Readers should be noon for the Christmas break and for Christmas Story and Craft Fun, Home visits Christmas stories and songs with wary if asked to pay money upfront for reopen 10am Tuesday, January Tuesday 16 December 10.00 – Volunteer Home Visiting Service your 2-5 year olds. Make cards gifts REPAIRS employment opportunities and never 13, 2009. 11.30am. Come and share some is recruiting now for volunteers to and decorations to take the stress Repairs, Parts and Restorations send money to a post office box. to all Makes and Models, Christmas stories and songs with start in 2009. Would you enjoy shar- out of this time and have a whole on-site service available. Pre- QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED CHEF Carols on the coast your 2-5 year olds. Make cards gifts ing your parenting experience with lot of fun while you are at it. Loca- purchase inspections. Tractors required for busy restaurant 3 nights pw. Kingscliff Lions Club - Carols by the and decorations to take the stress new parents and families? Do you tion: Kingscliff Playground Marine sold on consignment for clients. Hastings Point. Phone Peter or Helen Coast, will be held on Thursday, out of this time and have a whole have a couple hours to spare? Do Parade. Bookings essential contact Unwanted tractors removed 66762010. Immediate start. December 18, from 7pm-8.45pm lot of fun while you are at it. Loca- you know someone who may be Michelle at The Family Centre 07 at no charge. at Lions Club Park, Marine Parade, tion: Kingscliff Playground Marine interested? The role involves: sup- 5524 8711. Cost $5 per family. WE HAVE TRACTORS FOR SALE Isecki Isuzu Bolens G242 Diesel 2WD 25HP Tractor with large WORK WANTED PETS turf tyres and mid mount EMERGENCY NUMBERS mower. Excellent cond. $6500 ECHO ACCOUNTS POLICY: Ads in this ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare section must be paid by credit card or in League NSW. Phone 66844070 Please stick this by your phone person at time of placement. TRACTOR SAFETY Salt Village, Kingscliff NSW EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE ...... 000 BIRTHDAYS AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah ...... 131 233 SCHEME Position available: HANDYMAN MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL ...... 6672 1822 Have an approved R.O.P.S. SOUS CHEF MAN WITH UTE safety frame fitted to your Phone Matt 0427172684 EMERGENCY ...... 6672 0230 tractor. It’s cheaper than a Minimum 2 years fi ne dining Who’s a TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...... 07 5536 1133 experience required. funeral. Phone us now. TUITION FIRE BRIGADE Workshop Charltons Rd, forty boy, Kingscliff ...... 6674 1271 Federal. Phone Bill for service. Contact Tiffany LEAP. Learning Enhancement Advanced dining@fi ns.com.au Program. Specialised Kinesiology for then? Murwillumbah ...... 6672 8305 02 6688 4143 Ph: 02 6674 4833 learning difficulties. Proven results. Reg. Tweed Heads ...... 07 5536 2222 Practitioner Sandra Davey. Ph 66846914 Tweed Rural Fire Service ...... 6672 7888 LEARN TO SEW AND CREATE Easy POLICE NON EMERGENCIES 24/7 ...... 131 444 classes. Kids & Adults. Ph 0405499701 Tweed Heads ...... 07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ...... 6672 9499 WARNING WWW.TEACHINTERNATIONAL.COM Kingscliff ...... 6674 9399 TEACH STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ...... 132 500 It has been pointed out to us that a display ad run in Well paid ENGLISH jobs, great Banora Point ...... 07 5524 1349 lifestyle! The Echo on November 27 under Positions Vacant OVERSEAS Murwillumbah ...... 6670 2460 TRAVEL – WORK – ADVENTURE! was a scam and readers are warned to be wary of .ODEGREEOREXPERIENCEREQUIRED Tweed District ...... 6672 4093 Cert III & IV INTEACHINGENGLISHTO such job offers. The ad asked for ‘Honest account SPEAKERSOFOTHERLANGUAGES(TESOL) LIFELINE ...... 131 114 2ECRUITMENTSERVICE*OB'UARANTEE
GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE ...... 07 5598 0222 processor or sales manager’ for two hours a week. FREE RESOURCE BOOK for prompt course enrolment! TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE ...... 07 5536 9333 The contact people, we are told, are professional Free info session– January 12 & 27, February 2 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ...... 1800 656 463 scammers ‘phishing’ for bank account details. Next course February 18 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) ...... 07 5536 5135 5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay Police and email authorities have been alerted. 6680 8253 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES) ...... 6628 1898 To fi nd out more about this particular scam visit Happy birthday WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ...... 6672 4789 Sebastian CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ...... 07 5534 1266 http://www.joewein.de/sw/fraud-alpenantique-com.htm from The Echo crew! SEA WORLD ...... 07 5588 2222 www.tweedecho.com.au The Tweed Shire Echo December 11, 2008 27 Backburner

Maybe mayor Joan van Lie- shout should forgive col- leagues Warren Polglase, Phil Youngblutt and Kevin Skinner for their uninhibited views on her performance and bequeath them her now unused stick-on car navigation aid. Readers will recall last week’s saga about three men in a car who bun- gled the use of one of their new council-issued mobile phones, leaving their colourful and juicy take on a just completed council meeting on someone else’s answering service. It ap- pears their angst over the mayor’s decisive vote to save Hastings Point overwhelmed Cows with attitude: Echo scribe driving along Kyogle Road just past Bray Park the other day saw their sense of direction as they what he thought were two cows doing a circus act. The optical illusion, he found, came from a tooled down the highway in mound of dirt in the middle of the herd which the cows were standing on. Go, Buttercup! Kevin’s blue Jaguar en route for Lismore. A sizeable slice whose previous film attempts three-storey undercover car- Party senators to reject tax of the extended candid-phone have been confined to a big-hit park next to it, rather than just breaks for planting new forests conversation degenerates into YouTube nude video, say the for the swimming pool com- or so-called carbon sinks. The a Three Stooges-like discussion theme of their next produc- plex. The reader feels it’s not the renegade senators joined the over how to best get back on tion will combine a bit of The white elephant some knockers Greens to vote against the tax track after becoming inexpli- Castle mixed with a Muriel’s think it is, but a valuable piece deductions, arguing that the cably lost around the hilly and Wedding-type sequel which of public infrastructure for measures will see trees grow unfriendly wilds south of the could put Porpoise Spit, aka the shire, given the whingeing on prime ag land, cutting food Tweed. While our hapless trio Tweed Heads, back under the over the years about the lack of production and destroying ru- anxiously try to recall whether international spotlight. shaded, secure public parking ral communties. Senator Nash Overall Drive they revealed anything more ■ ■ ■ ■ in the town. retains her role as duty senator Pottsville Waters serious than a hopeless sense The council staffer who made ■ ■ ■ ■ for the Tweed. Ph: 02 6676 0888 of direction and a blunt assess- the unpopular decision to delay Last week The Echo published a ■ ■ ■ ■ ment of the mayor’s perform- the opening of the multi-storey story about Murwillumbah and There was a time not long ago ance, they can probably now car park for two weeks until a Kingscliff TAFEs urging locals when loyal employees were New season New menu empathise with her insistence telephone was installed in the to study locally. The story listed honoured with a gold watch on Our restaurant is open 7 days for lunch on a built-in navigation system lifts can rightfully feel smug. the courses available at Kingsc- achieving a milestone. Ray Hall and dinner with delicious dishes to suit for her mayoral car to replace His decision proved prescient liff TAFE next year but forgot Tyres in Murwillumbah went everyone. Choose from our regular the el-cheapo dashtop model when on the day of the gala to mention that Murwillumbah a step further recently when seasonal menu or exciting blackboard that kept on disconnecting. pool opening and the lift finally TAFE is also offering courses 52-year-old staffer Michael specials. All meals are freshly prepared in ■ ■ ■ ■ declared telephonically linked, in Arts and Media, Business, Butler of Clothiers Creek was the restaurant kitchen using the freshest While it may not quite rank a couple of over-excited young Community Services, General given a motorcycle for his 20 quality ingredients and lots of fresh with the other famously leaked patrons stopped the lift in its Education, Information Tech- years of service to the family- local produce. phone chats, what’s now being tracks after jumping inside its nology, Primary Industries and run company. Michael said he Getting together for a Christmas Party amusingly referred to as the confines. After a call attended Natural Resources. For more ‘couldn’t believe it’ when boss Skinnergate Tapes, in recogni- by police and lift mechanics the info call Murwillumbah cam- Ray Hall offered him a brand We can cater for you. We have a range of options and budgets available to suit everyone. Bar Snack Platters from $5pp or a set amount, tion of an all-thumbs techno- hot and flustered duo was soon pus on 6672 0800, Kingscliff new Suzuki 250 road-trail bike substantial Finger foods from $10pp, 1, 2 or 3 course meals logical encounter of the worst able to be freed and headed off campus on 6674 7200 or visit valued at $7,000. The Tweed from $15pp. Small or large groups day or night event. Book Early. kind, will be preserved for to find the hydrotherapy pool www.nci.tafensw.nsw.edu.au. Heads Motorcycle Enthusiasts posterity. Hastings Point resi- and no doubt give thanks to a ■ ■ ■ ■ Club member said he had just Monday night Parma night @ $10 dents, who are making a doco very self-satisfied bureaucrat. Nationals senator Fiona Nash rebuilt the engine on his older Chicken or veal parmigiana with chips and salad dine in only. on their 12-year fight to win ■ ■ ■ ■ reckons she will now be able Suzuki bike and could not af- Blackboard specials available everyday. Week day lunch the same planning controls for An Echo reader kindly pointed to spend more time on the ford to register it so asked his specials @ $7.50 Monday – Friday, new pizza menu dine in or their small village as Fingal out that, yes, the new Tweed Tweed following her abrupt boss for a loan to do so. Ray takeaway. Freshly made crispy bases with fl avour packed wholesome and Pottsville, believe some Regional Aquatic Centre at sacking as shadow minister replied, ‘What’s say I buy you toppings. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights ‘courtesy bus’ local pick of the more colourful excerpts Murwillumbah cost over $16 for water resources. Liberal a new one and register it for up and take home conditions apply. Everyday ‘all day coffee and will provide a perfect back- million, but what many people leader Malcolm Turnbull axed you?’ Backburner doesn’t ex- cake’ only $6.50 – homemade cake and espresso coffee. ground soundtrack for when don’t realise is that the bulk of her position after she crossed pect every boss to respond like the final credits roll. The locals, the cost was for building the the floor with other National that but wouldn’t it be good...

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