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Da approved: An artist’s drawing of the new Supa IGA supermarket approved yesterday for Wollongbar.

Supa IGA for Wollongbar

WOLLONGBAR will soon get a supermarket three times the size of its existing one, after a Supa IGA store was approved by the Ballina Shire Council yesterday.

Lismore
Resident Fred Hyland, reading the poem A Soldier Died Today at a pre-Anzac Day service at Ballina Ex-Services Home. . Picture: DOUG EATON

Emotional poem remembers them

AS Fred Hyland read the last few lines of the poem, A Soldier Died Today, at a pre-Anzac Day service yesterday, the crowd was completely silent.

Lismore
Gloria O’Neill shows off the giant passionfruit growing on a vine in her backyard garden at Wollongbar. The fruit, weighing around half a kilogram at present, is pictured with an average-sized passionfruit. . Picture: Cathy Adams

Super-sized passionfruit

THERE must be something in the water at John and Gloria O’Neill’s Wollongbar property – there’s a passionfruit the size of a mango growing at their place.

Lismore
Marathon effort: Katrina Limbert, of Uralba, arrives in Ballina after participating in the Paddle for Life. Picture: Doug Eaton

Kayakers raise rivers of cash

IT WAS a difficult end for those involved in this year’s Paddle for Life fundraising event, as kayakers battled against the tide in a bid to get back to land.

Lismore
Drivers at risk after spills

Drivers at risk after spills

AN OIL spill on Teven Road and a diesel fuel spill on Rotary Drive in Lismore had drivers on high alert and kept emergency service crews busy yesterday morning.

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