Wee Waa
  • mental health campaign

Push-up challenge for a good cause

Mental health awareness was in the spotlight last week with R U OK? Day and World Suicide Prevention Day both marked on Thursday, September 10 this year. R U OK? Day might only happen once a year, but it is a reminder that every day is a good day to start a conversation that could change a person’s life. The public awareness campaign encourages people to talk about mental health in a bid to reduce the number of suicides in Australia. This year has produced many challenges including COVID-19 restrictions, which have limited people’s connection to one another. And so, […]

Sep 16, 2020

  • School news

Wee Waa High School beauty student shines

Inspired by her beauty therapist cousin, Heidi Knight, Wee Waa High School Year 11 student, Sarah Hamilton has known for some time that beauty therapy was the career for her. Sarah is studying a Certificate III in Retail Cosmetics – Beauty as a part of her school-based traineeship. This involves her working one day per week at local beauty salon Visage in Narrabri. “The choice of salon was easy for me,” said Sarah. “Heidi is a talented beauty therapist and I think she runs a good business, so she was a natural choice when it came to where I’d like […]

Sep 15, 2020

  • we're coming home

NSW kids can come home from Queensland boarding schools

Following weeks of appeals to the Queensland Premier Member for Barwon Roy Butler has today received the good news that NSW kids at Queensland boarding schools will be able to come home. “Over 400 NSW kids attend boarding schools in Queensland, many of them coming from remote and regional NSW where we’ve had no cases of COVID, these kids and their families were tied up in politicking,” said Mr Butler. “Today’s news means that parents will be able to go to Queensland and collect their kids for the school holidays, on return to Queensland they won’t be required to quarantine […]

Sep 8, 2020

  • POLITICS

Nationals tour Wee Waa region

NSW National Party politicians toured the Wee Waa region last week meeting with residents at the Wee Waa Bakery, business owners in the main street and farmers as well as Namoi Water representatives at Richard and Carmel Schwager’s property ‘Fernleigh’. The politicians included Upper House MLC Sam Farraway, Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh and Member for Dubbo, Dugald Saunders. The group also met with parents and teachers from Wee Waa and Narrabri High Schools to discuss securing courses such as agricultural science and ensuring students can continue to get a good education locally. “It was great to be able […]

Sep 8, 2020

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