Invited to the Richmond Valley

Monday 2nd September at 6pm Casino Community & Cultural Centre 35 Walker Street, Casino New South Wales 2470

By Bruce Lyle

All Richmond Valley ratepayers and residents are invited to the “Meet the Candidates” evening with the view to learn more about all the candidates in the upcoming Local Govt elections being held on September 14th 2024. Richmond Valley ratepayer Bruce Lyle (pictured) said after being asked many times who was running this time and advised he could not recognise many of the candidates. He felt it pertinent to fnd out more about each Group and the individual candidates, so as to make an informed decision, we all want to have the best representatives for ratepayers during the next 4 years of local governance. I suggest everyone comes to this evening to hear the candidate plans “straight from the horse’s mouth”.. I put a post up on Facebook to gauge the appetite of voters to learn more of our candidates, this was met with a deluge of replies and texts in support of the “Meet the Candidates’ evening to be held in Casino. This event will be following a similar structure to that of the recently held and informative Kyogle Candidates night. Both voters and candidates are keen for this to proceed, which is fantastic. I felt there was ample support from the community to hold this and have conversed with The Casino Chamber of Commerce. Working together to present the evening, we hold the same aim of holding a very neutral information-based event that will be chaired by Ms Jenny Dowell, herself a former Mayor of another Local Government area and a wealth of local governance knowledge. Ms Dowell very aptly chaired the Kyogle event and has accepted the role to oversee our proceedings on the 2nd September. Ms Dowell said it will be a structured evening with candidates given time to introduce themselves to the voters and we hope to have questions from attending ratepayers that are very topical for the Richmond Valley community. We are very lucky & thankful for Jenny to avail herself at such short notice for the beneft of all Richmond Valley Ratepayers. Please note that ALL candidates will receive formal invitations to participate, many have made it clear they will be attending.

Proceedings will commence at 6pm sharp, please be a tad early to gain your seat, if you have further questions, please feel free to contact The Casino Chamber of Commerce.

By Tim Howard

The Grafton community has been invited to a sneak peek at its new $263.8 million hospital redevelopment next month.

A series of information session to explain more about the hospital redevelopment are planned for September 11 and 12 in Grafton Shoppingworld.

Minister for Regional Health Ryan Park said the community would share the government’s excitement at the announcement.

“We are excited to share more about this important project with the Grafton community, at the upcoming information sessions,” he said.

“The Grafton Base Hospital Redevelopment will deliver modern treatment spaces to support contemporary models of care and