BATEMANS BAY: The largest-ever group of students graduated on Tuesday in Batemans Bay from the University of Wollongong, including the first to gain a PhD from the regional campus. Photo: Mark Newsham.
MILTON: Milton Public School student Teyani Elmaleh (front) pictured with her friend Molly Clarke and step-sister Nirvana Nesic-Short with the full money box she is giving to local boy Kiarn Roughley, who is battling leukaemia in a Sydney Hospital.
PAMBULA: Lumen Christi Catholic College students enjoyed an excursion to Pambula’s Oaklands Keira Thane, left, Paige Poso, Emily Walker, Bianca Boag, Tamara Goff and Charlotte Fraser all loved the pony.
COOMA: Cooma’s Salvation Army Captain Louise Nicholson is encouraging local residents to help bring some happiness to those in need this Christmas season by donating to the Salvation Army food and toy drive.
PAMBULA: Pambula volunteers Meals on Wheels back: Max Andrew, left, Susan Stephenson, Stan Cox, Peter Terry (absent Sue Terry) and Garry Stephenson with front: Ivy Brown, left, Carolyn McColl, Maureen Andrew, Diana Patterson and Jenny Robbins.
MERIMBULA: Christmas glamour … Audrey Taylor, left, Val Fryers, Gwen Scorgie and Joan MacLeod enjoying the Merimbula VIEW Club Christmas breakup.
MORUYA: Moruya Ambulance Station’s Geoff Simpson (left) has retired after 37 years as a paramedic. He is pictured with NSW Ambulance Southern Sector Duty Operations Manager Steve Owen.
MERIMBULA: Graduating in their particular fields of study at the University of Wollongong’s Bega campus graduation ceremony Miranda Shearer, left, Merimbula, Megan Olsen, Pambula, Georgia Brown, Pambula, Shanice Briones, Pambula, Charlotte Cheadle, Merimbula, and Kylie Gibson, Wolumla.
BATEMANS BAY: Former St Peter’s Anglican College captain Thomas Walsh has been accepted into the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA).
EDEN: School leaver and Eden Fishermen’s Recreation Club gap year trainee Isobel Gillespie of Rocky Hall, is one of many year 12 students waiting on their ATARs, due out on December 18. She is pictured here with with club secretary Jo Carter.
MERIMBULA: Ollie and Debbie Barratt had a jolly time at the annual Santa Paws event for pets in Merimbula.
EDEN: Eden Whalers (AFL) club stalwarts Harry Weatherman and Paul Kirkby with the AFL clubs loyalty discount card, which was launched at late night shopping this week.
EDEN: Retailers prepare for late night shopping when Santa comes to town and the main shopping precinct is closed to traffic and open for shopping and community celebrations until late.
EDEN: A 15-year-old female driver and her four teenage passengers are lucky to be alive after the car crashed on the Nethercote Falls link road on Saturday night. The driver will appear in Bega Children’s Court at a date to be determined.
MERIMBULA: After 411 days straight in Westmead Children's Hospital, Lisa and Alayne Drowley return home for Christmas aboard a Little Wings charity flight piloted by Adrian Nisbet.
CANDELO: Chef Steve Jackson, with his Hard-Core Carnivore food van, is changing the way people think about festival fare. Photo: Peter Smith.
EDEN: Eden Marine High School’s end of year presentation awards night were held on Tuesday.
BEGA: Bega Preschool's Tadpoles class look forward to jumping into the bigger pond of Kindergarten next year.
KIAMA: Kiama Downs Surf Club Nippers Christmas party. Santa with nippers Jade Wright, 5, Sienna Spence, 10, Kade Ovenden, 8, and Riley Gent at the end of their season. Picture DYLAN ROBINSON
BEGA: University of Wollongong Bega campus graduands gather for a group photo before their graduation ceremony at the Pambula-Merimbula Golf Club.
NAROOMA: Aunty Recheal Daley (front left), with her daughter Tathra Daley, artist Bethany Thurtell, author Phoenix Van Dyke and Tashe Long, facilitator of the Narooma Schools and Community Centres Project, at the book launch of “Aunty Recheal becomes a Train Driver” at Narooma Public School.
BEGA: Bega sexual health nurse Fiona McKenna shares information and awareness of HIV/AIDS with a World Aids Day red ribbon stall.
NOWRA: Australian Paper mill Drier operator Ken Bradley and machine assistant Adam Whitaker are hopeful Australian-made paper will receive support from federal MPs.
BEGA: Zoe Hibbert and Jack Gauci test out the new drink fountain at the official opening of Littleton Gardens' stage one redevelopment.
NOWRA: Aboriginal elder Graeme Connolly stopped work at a Shoalhaven Heads development site yesterday to highlight he need to protect significant sites.
BEGA: A One Billion Rising flashmob dance takes over Littleton Gardens to speak out against violence against women.
COOMA: NSW Rural Fire Service Chief Superintendent Ken Hall presents Cooma Rural Fire Service brigade member Vern Dunning with the Commissioners Commendation for Service. Mr Dunning is also Cooma’s Citizen of the Year. (Photo: Monaro Team NSW Rural Fiere Service.
NOWRA: Ernie Dumpleton is concerned that issues of access and communication will combine to increase bushfire danger in the Budgong area.
NAROOMA: Acting Narooma unit commander Eric Hibbett, senior skipper Ross Constable and volunteer Stan Swarbrick at the old falling down pontoon at Mill Bay. The process to install a new pontoon already purchased has begun with a new rescue boat arriving in March.
COOMA: The best dressed couples at the weekend's Cooma Races were Carmen Thomson with Charlie Morring from Bibbenluke-Bombala and Kirsty Patten with eight-months-old Emilio Brazulaitis of Cooma.
TILBA: The local girls’ dance group impressed the crowd at the Yuin Back to Country Celebration at Tilba, with Gulaga Mountain in the background.
KIAMA: Kiama's Dennis Koks shared his memories of life in South Africa and seeing Nelson Mandela.
NAROOMA: Jayden Willis, Isabella Holdsworth, Jenni Bourke, Lizzy Kamevaar, Taleha Ardler, Tommy Driscoll, Abby Stokes, Tailem Brown, Will Middlemiss, Anne Spires and Jackson Kelly were surrounded by paint tins as they painted the mural on the Kianga toilet block.
NAROOMA: Pictured in the Philippines, a long way from the home in Narooma, is ADF combat engineer Robert Rose who together with his front loader is helping to clean up after the devastating cyclone.
KIAMA: Kiama's Mark Robertson, Barry Mather and John Daniel took part in the Kiama Woodworking Group's annual exhibition.
ALBION PARK: Wollongong City Council in conjunction with Shellharbour City Council hosted a celebration of the contribution of our Community Transport volunteers. The celebration was timed to coincide with International Volunteer Day. Pictured are Albion Park volunteer Lesley Quimby with Berkley volunteer Don Cruikshank.
BALI: Ulladulla friends in Bali during schoolies; Maya Tonkin-Cook (left), Jasmine Pyemont, Brianna Payten, Courtney Green, Lyndsay Sadler and Sophie Johnston. The group was having a great time until Courtney Green had to be hospitalised after her drink was spiked.
KIAMA: Member for Throsby Stephen Jones is an ambassador for the Shellharbour of Relay For Life after his brother passed away from melanoma last year.
ULLADULLA: Leofel Sobrevilla had made many friends while working in Ulladulla since September. Leo drowned last Tuesday afternoon at Burrill Beach. His death was a further blow for the local Fillipino community who have been sending support to relatives in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
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