Coffs Harbour weather, funeral notices, horoscopes and more all in one place.
Coffs Harbour weather, funeral notices, horoscopes and more all in one place.
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Monday. It is important that the week should start on a positive, so go and tell a stranger that you ‘love their work’ in a non-creepy way.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy with a max of 24. Very high (90%) chance of showers, most likely during this afternoon and evening. The chance of a thunderstorm during this afternoon and evening. Light winds becoming southerly 15 to 20 km/h in the middle of the day then becoming light in the early afternoon.
LISTEN TO THIS
Radiohead – Karma Police. Another one of those classic song/classic video combinations.
HOROSCOPES
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PUZZLES AND GAMES
Sudoku, crosswords and cryptic crosswords all in one place.
FUNERAL NOTICES
Cyril James Dodd
March 16 2021, passed away surrounded by love and family and Springwood Terrace Aged Care Community. Brisbane. Dearly loved husband of Betty (dec’d). Much loved father and father-in-law of Kaylene and Stephen, Mark and Gina, Peter (dec’d), Suzanne and David and Julianne.
Loved stepfather of Robyn and Ross, Helen, Peter and Andree. Loved and fondly remembered by Isla Dodd. Loving, kind grandfather and great grandfather of all their children, rest in peace poppy. Aged 89 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Cyril’s funeral service to be held in the chapel of Hogbin Drive Crematorium and memorial gardens, Stadium Drive, Coffs Harbour on Monday March 29 commencing at 11.30am. Cyril’s funeral service will be live streamed on Keith Logue and Sons Facebook page.
Bruce Staunton Parsons
March 23 2021, peacefully at Raleigh/Urunga Masonic Village, late of Urunga, formerly of Bellingen. Much loved husband of Jenny (dec’d). Loving father and father-in-law of Julie and Shane and Terry and Kim. Adored pop of Tia, Katie, Aaron and his 9 great-grandchildren. Dear brother of Colin (dec’d) and Graham. Aged 85 Years. Will be sadly missed and always remembered.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Bruce’s funeral service to be held in St. Barnabas Anglican Church, Urunga on Tuesday March 30 at 10.00am, thence for private cremation at Hogbin Drive crematorium, stadium drive, Coffs Harbour.
Joseph Jeffrey ‘Joe Boy’ Goodrum
March 16 2021, suddenly at home late of Toormina. Loved son of Jeffrey (dec’d) and Betty. Loving Brother of Denice, Michelle and Tanya. Beloved uncle of his extended families.
Aged 54 years. Forever missed.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Joe Boy’s funeral service to be held in the chapel of Hogbin Drive Crematorium and memorial gardens, Stadium Drive, Coffs Harbour on Tuesday April 6 commencing at 11.30am. Joe boy’s funeral service will be live streamed on Keith Logue and Sons Facebook page.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
The architects vying for coveted jetty foreshores gig: Construction works on the jetty foreshore transformation are slated to begin by mid-2021 – here’s the architects who have been shortlisted.
Coffs policeman guilty of sharing intimate photos:A Coffs Harbour police officer has been convicted and fined for unlawfully distributing intimate images of a woman without her consent.
New Bishop Druitt College team in NCF draws criticism from Coffs clubs: ‘Gobsmacked’: Decision to allow private school-backed teams met with dismay from clubs as administration says it was well within its rights to keep plans secret.
Coffs Harbour’s Screenwave International Film Festival goes big in 2021: With a ‘culturally starved’ community hungry for entertainment, the pandemic may have provided the perfect platform to take festival to the next level.
Stuarts Point evacuations ordered after septic tanks overflow causes biohazard: Scientists left to work out plan of attack as residents trudge out of town and undergo decontamination.
Alleged ice dealer’s bid for freedom: The alleged meth dealer’s myriad of health issues has seen his bid for freedom granted, despite him being arrested twice in two weeks.
ON THIS DAY
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving
1549 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded
1901 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia‘s first parliamentary election
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”
1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria
1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi‘an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China’s 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever
‘Completely rocked’: Community refuses to give up on missing teen
Dozens of volunteers, aided by drones, have scoured an area of northern NSW as the parents of a missing teenager continue to pound the pavement in a desperate bid to find answers.
Honouring Jason: Five years after the NZ volcano tragedy
As the sun rose in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty on Monday families of those who died in the White Island Volcano eruption five years ago met to commemorate their loved ones including the family of Coffs Harbour man Jason Griffiths.