24 Jun 10 | The Lightning Ridge Redbacks will come off two byes in a row to take on the Goodooga Magpies at Goodooga this Saturday in the sixth round of the 2010 Barwon Darling Cup.
24 Jun 10 | DARTS: Welcome to another week of darts news.
This weekend we had a rather poor showing of only eight players so we played in pairs.
24 Jun 10 | Under 8’s Orange
In their first game the Under 8’s Orange played the Under 8’s Black. It was a thrilling game with both teams scoring try for try. There were lots of terrific tackles and outstanding off-loads. It was a very close match, which kept the crowd entertained. Joey McIntosh was named player of the match for the Orange team for supporting his teammates and tackling well.
24 Jun 10 | Both the men and the women held a monthly medal round last week. Sally Williams won the women’s and Wolf Moosmueller won the men’s. Congratulations to both of those players. They will be eligible now to play in the medal of medal competitions towards the end of the year.
24 Jun 10 | POKER: A whopping 58 people turned up to the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club on Tuesday evening for a cash game.
24 Jun 10 | The annual Opal Festival is just six short weeks away and a lot is planned for the four days during which it will take place - Thursday July 29 to Sunday August 1.
24 Jun 10 | Despite the fact they didn’t receive a flood of entries, Amanda Colwell and Jamie-Lea Hodges from Outback Arts were very pleased with the quality of the artworks which were entered in the Outback Arts inaugural exhibition, ‘Water Marks’.
24 Jun 10 | As advised last week Industry & Investment (I&I) NSW are no longer collecting compensation on behalf of the landholders and miners.
24 Jun 10 | Following its release from auspice by the Yawarra Meamei Women’s Group, the Lightning Ridge Neighbourhood Centre has become incorporated.
24 Jun 10 | Local lady, Angie Newman, has been selected as one of 10 finalists in the Bodytrim Top 10 Weekend and as a result, has a chance to win $10,000.
24 Jun 10 | A break and enter took place at the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
24 Jun 10 | Walgett Shire Council has taken out the Small Council (under 15,000 ratepayers) Category for Youth Engagement at the National Awards for Local Government held in Canberra last week.
17 Jun 10 | PISTOL CLUB: This weekend visitors from far and wide gathered in Lightning Ridge for the pistol club’s annual Opal Open.
17 Jun 10 | Some of the most important things you need when carving opal are the four Ps: practice, precision, patience and passion.
17 Jun 10 | Volunteers with the Lightning Ridge State Emergency Service (SES) Unit say that the SES is the first place people seeking adventure, community involvement, new skills and fun should look to.
17 Jun 10 | Lightning Ridge will play host to a group of 20 students from Griffith University in Brisbane who will arrive in town on Friday to spend a week capturing the essence of the town photographically.
17 Jun 10 | Last Thursday evening a crowd of about 50 people gathered to see Mayor Ian Woodcock open Helene Buchanan’s exhibition, entitled Oil and Water au Natural, at the Ridge Artspace.
17 Jun 10 | The Lightning Ridge Neighbourhood Centre recently received a donation of $4200 from the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club under the CDSE scheme.
17 Jun 10 | The Department of Industry and Investment has decided it will no longer collect and disburse compensation on behalf of the landholders and miners. Not only will the department not collect compensation, it is planning on refunding the compensation already paid since January 2010 back to the miners.
17 Jun 10 | On Wednesday morning members of the Lightning Ridge Rotary Club presented Colleen Langley, whose home on Harlequin Street was damaged by fire two weeks ago on Friday, with a cheque for $300.
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