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ON Friday September 1, the Rotary Club of Sawtell’s famous trivia fundraiser is back and set to test your knowledge and question your wits in the good cause of bringing in dollars for projects close to the club’s heart. Monies raised go towards the Rotary Club of Sawtell’s schools program to buy books for local...
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STILL National Still Life Award, the biennial art prize to be exhibited in Yarrila Gallery Coffs Harbour later this year, has announced its finalists for 2023. Korora Bay artist Peggy Zephyr is amongst them. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882....
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TENDER loving care was the order of the day on Sunday 30 July as Korora Landcare marked National Tree Day planting about forty coastal acacias and callistemons, allocasuarinas and acacias on a site it has been restoring. “This year we met at one of our newer worksites, Hills Beach Coffs Coastal Regional Park,” Simon Proust,...
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ARTISTS in the Garden this Sunday 6 August, is all about Basquiat. “For this month’s meeting the focus is on the gifted American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artists in the Garden director Tammy Mills-Thom told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...
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It was summer almost half a century ago when I got into that Volkswagen van and began my trip across the country with Peter, a photographer friend. I was officially doing so as a reporter for a small San Francisco news service, having been sent out to tap the mood of the nation in a politically fraught moment. The Vietnam War, with all its domestic protests and disturbances, was just ending. North Vietnamese troops would soon enough enter Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital; the president of the United States, Richard Nixon, was then trapped in an escalating scandal called “Watergate.” And here was the odd thing. I felt trapped, too. In some way, I felt lost. As I put it... Read more
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 6, 2023
by Tony Wikrent
Climate and environmental crises
Is A Mega Ocean Current About to Shut Down?
[Scientific American, via Naked Capitalism 7-30-2023]
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Commentary:
“Never forget that the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature”. Global Boiling – Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay Many of us have grown up with the story of …
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