22 Jul 10 | POKER: On Saturday July 17 the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club and the Australian Poker Leauge hosted a poker tournament at the club.
22 Jul 10 | Classes at the Lightning Ridge Gymnastics Club start again this Friday. General Gym will be held from 3.30pm to 5pm. Kindy Gym will be held from Saturday July 24 between 10am and 11am and Levels will resume on Monday July 26 from 3.30pm to 5pm.
22 Jul 10 | Last weekend representatives from Lightning Ridge were among those who travelled to Nyngan to take on the Outback League in the Country Energy Far West Representative Challenge.
22 Jul 10 | In the first game back after the break the Magic took on the Dragons and the atmosphere was not what is usually is as the teams prepared to go into the final rounds of the competition.
22 Jul 10 | During the break our representative players spent respective weeks at carnivals.
22 Jul 10 | Repairs to the mural on the water feature in the Lightning Ridge Improvement and Beautification Committee’s (IBC) Gem Gardens are part of the makeover that is underway in preparation for a visit from an assessor from the Keep Australia Beautiful and Country Energy Bush Spirit Award.
22 Jul 10 | Fundraising efforts for Lana’s Warriors, a rugby league team that is being developed locally to participate in the 40th annual NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout, have been going full steam ahead.
22 Jul 10 | The LRMA and GGSMA will be meeting with the new Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources, Paul McLeay, next week. The meeting, arranged for us by local member Kevin Humphries, will also include a representative from the Jewellers Association of Australia.
22 Jul 10 | A fire, which destroyed a camp at Canfells on Sunday evening, is only the third residential fire to take place in Lightning Ridge this winter.
22 Jul 10 | SNIPPETS: We’ll break from the My Own Boss series for a couple of weeks.
22 Jul 10 | Diabetes has been described as a complex disease which can affect the entire body.
22 Jul 10 | The Ridge Medical Centre is currently relying on locum relief to fill the gap created by Dr Obi Ekeocha’s departure earlier this month.
15 Jul 10 | Free training will be available for new and potential volunteers in Lightning Ridge today.
15 Jul 10 | Last Sunday’s meeting of the Lightning Ridge Pistol Club saw a good turnout of more than 10 people.
It was a beautiful day. The weather conditions were perfect for the Standard and Service/Unrestricted matches that were held.
15 Jul 10 | The men commenced their club championships on Saturday July 10 with a very disappointing number of players.
They play four rounds for the event so Saturday was the first. The second was played on Sunday.
Alan Huskinson is leading A grade with scores of 70 and 70 off the stick.
15 Jul 10 | DARTS: Welcome to another week of darts news.
Eight people turned up to play on Sunday. Thanks to all of you for your continued support.
15 Jul 10 | Round six of the Barwon Darling Cup was held on Saturday July 3.
15 Jul 10 | GRAWIN GOLF:On Sunday July 11, the Grawin golfers went to Glengarry to play the second round of our annual interclub challenge.
15 Jul 10 | The Walgett, Lightning Ridge, Grawin and Collarenebri Youth Centres have all been hosting vacation care programs during the July school holiday period and attendance numbers at all centres have been high.
15 Jul 10 | Last week’s official NAIDOC celebrations were very successful.
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