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Lismore CBD Magazine - September Issue - Spring 2021 | Vol 1 No 3
COVER Lismore Garden Centre 14
Things to do in Spring. Spring is awesome. Spring means warmth.
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Spring has Sprung | IMAGE Lismore Garden Centre
Farmers First Network | Conceived by Farmers, Built by Innovators and Improved Together.
The Strong Australia Networks made up of people whom all want a stronger and better Australia. The Network was created by the Business Council of Australia to better engage with regional communities, and work on solutions to some of the challenges faced by our regions.
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Impacts of Climate Change in Australia
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Lismore Botanical Gardens
Volo Modular - A new sustainable and modular affordable housing estate has launched in Lismore in Northern NSW, the first of its kind in the region. Building for the community estate Vue Eco Village in Goonellabah is due to begin in December 2021.
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VOLO Modular Development in Lismore
Get to Know Darlene Cook Lismore Country Labor candidate for Mayor. I love the rich diversity of people who call Lismore home: our city and village dwellers, our farmers and our rural land sharing communities: all bring a shared vision of the future we want to live in.
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Meet Darlene Cook Councillor and MAYORAL Candidate
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Lismore Business Awards 2021 winner for Outstanding New Start up Hanging Rock Flowers. Offering Australian natives and proteas that are grown fresh on their local farm. With a range of unique gemstone jewellery, beautiful wood products, native themed gift lines and cards. For lovers of flowers this is a must to visit.
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Lismore Business Awards | Winners and Entrants 2021
Lismore Business Awards 2021
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Hanging Rock Flowers - WINNER | Outstanding New Business Start up
Lismore Business Awards have been announced ahead of a live awards ceremony in November. This year more than ever, local businesses are looking to our awards for certainty, community and positivity amid the most challenging operating environment.
MUSIC, ARTS & BOOKS
Our regular feature on Hear the Music and See the Arts. This issue spotlights Books.
There are many good reasons to host a book fair... Is Lismore ready?
BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNERS - 2021
Congratulations to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers and a huge thank you to our judges for all their hard work. Selecting six winners from such a spectacular Shortlist would have been a challenging task.
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Book Week Winner
Ed Sheeran’s
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HERITAGE | Our Town Our History
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Racing at the Duck Pond
How disagreeing 'productively' leads to better outcomes.
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Racing Every Tuesday in Lismore
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South Lismore in the Spotlight
James O'Brien on South LismoreAs a child growing up in South Lismore, one of my strongest earliest memories was of the arrival at the nearby railway station of hundreds of people for the Aquarius Festival.
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Lismore's Coffee & Café Culture