25 Feb 10 | The two-person ambrose game on Sunday, February 21, attracted 14 players. The winners with a great score of nett 67 were Noel Underwood and David Schafer. Congratulations to both of them.
25 Feb 10 | Gymnastics classes will start on tomorrow (Friday) at the Sports Centre with general gym and rythmic gymnastics being introd-uced.
25 Feb 10 | DARTS: With the humidity so high it was a great relief to be in the Bowling Club playing darts this week.
We all played three rounds.
25 Feb 10 | POKER: This week at the bowling club a total of 39 players turned out to try their luck in the poker match and the $10 a side sweep that pooled at $330 with club vouchers.
25 Feb 10 | The Lightning Ridge Police Bush Safari (LRPBS) held their Annual General Meeting last Thursday where they distributed the funds they raised throughout 2009.
25 Feb 10 | Work along the trench in Pandora Street is on schedule to be completed today after the contractors successfully finished laying more than a kilometre of piping from the towns main bore pipe to the indoor pool centres plant room.
25 Feb 10 | The Australian Opal Centre has found itself no longer between a rock and a hard place after discovering they may have had to turn away a $40,000 grant they received from the Federal Government in late 2009.
25 Feb 10 | The children are celebrating Chinese New Year, the year of the Tiger.
25 Feb 10 | The congregation of the Lightning Ridge Community Church is celebrating this week after David Piper was welcomed to town on Sunday as Assistant Minister to Pastor Mike Keith. Joining the team David will provide support with ceremonies and activites that the church undertakes.
25 Feb 10 | Secondary students from the Lightning Ridge Central School eagerly lined up to receive their Government-paid laptops on Tuesday, welcoming the change to their education that will prepare them for the ever growing digital world that they are living in.
18 Feb 10 | DARTS: Lightning Ridge dart players travelled to Hebel on Saturday to play the first leg of the Battle Of The States. We had 10 players each.
18 Feb 10 | Alan Huskinson had a good week of golf, winning both the Saturday and Sunday competitions. Scores were down to the normal this week but I believe there is a bit of grass on the course which our players are not use to. Our mower is working over time and having trouble trying to keep the grass down as are a lot of people around town.
18 Feb 10 | The Balonne Barwon Junior Rugby League will stage a general meeting this Saturday in Dirranbandi to confirm the dates for the season 2010 kick off.
18 Feb 10 | Saturday saw six teams from the Ridge head off to Narrabri to compete in the ‘Friendship Cup’.
18 Feb 10 | This week’s cricket was our first since the Christmas break.
18 Feb 10 | Country Energy has completed a $165,000 upgrade to the electricity network in Lightning Ridge improving the supply of essential services and ensuring a safe and robust power grid.
18 Feb 10 | NATIONAL OPAL
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18 Feb 10 | Air service delivery to Collarenebri will now be a lot easier, with the community and local council banding together to complete a new sealed aerodrome that may even operate in poor conditions.
18 Feb 10 | A tribue to my Mum
18 Feb 10 | Snippets: The community remembers the late Winn White, a gracious lady who was actively involved in her church and particular organisations until failing health kept her mostly at home.
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