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From the Editor: Hello Bellingen Lately I have been hav-

ing a look at depression and antide-pressants. While there is a very valid place for antidepressants in cases of severe depression, I feel it is important for anyone considering that step to have a look at all the information avail-able, the possible side effects, possible withdrawal problems etc. This kind of drug often has various unwanted ef-fects on the body as a whole. It is also worth exploring things like nutritional help, such as omega-3 in fish oils, zinc, methionine etc. And also having a good therapist to help you on your journey through it., which may all help in avoiding the use of antidepressants. You may have recently seen an ABC Catalyst programme concerning BPA’s and obesity so I thought it worthwhile to include an article on that, as well as an article on the amazing lawyer, Polly Higgins, who is working on a world-wide scale to save our plant from eco-cide. She sounds like an amazing woman. Just a reminder that there will be no magazine in January. Elisabeth Barrett

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CONTENTS this issue

I ran away to sea p.4

A quest from Harm to Harmony:

Polly Higgins . p.5

Iodine p.7

The power of many p.8

Conversation Denis Lane p.9

BPA’s and Obesity p.11

Three reasons to eat turmeric p.13

Animal Husbandry: Hip dysplasia

p.14

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Hurt people hurt people.

That’s how pain patterns get

passed on.

Generation after generation

after generation.

Meet anger with sympathy,

contempt with compassion,

cruelty with kindness.

Greet grimaces with smiles.

Forgive and forget about

finding fault.

Love is the weapon of

the future.

Yehuda Berg


passed just to seaward.

I try to learn things from him by

watching. How his knife respects the

backbone and the ribs to make a fillet

just so. How he looks and sees and

moves on. How he doesn’t mind.

How he greets each wave in the infi-

nite ocean as an individual, with its

own face and its particular ambition.

These and many things I might learn

by watching.

But not this closing ceremony.

The giving. This is his alone and can-

not be replicated, only witnessed.

Perhaps each man or woman has their

signature way of giving, whether they

know it yet or have still to find it. We

have stopped fishing because we

have enough fish. For our tables and

for neighbours’. For the old men who

no longer go to the sea. He gives

back what we do not require – heads

and guts, some livers and tails. He

gives to the black-back and the her-

ring gulls. To a young brown gannet

down on his luck. But with a hidden

smile he raises his arm, looks away

as if he is shy, and gives the best and

richest to the kittiwakes. The kitti-

wakes so close and so delicate as if

you dreamed you were a bird and

took a lover. He knows where the

chicks are waiting on the Tory cliffs

and imagines them full and fat and

lolling asleep tonight. He dreams he

is a bird.

(David and his wife Sharon Blackie

produce the Earthlines magazine)

By David Knowles , Riverwitch

Perhaps there is nowhere left to go

where the great shadow does not follow.

Not any longer. Now that the way things

are going is so clear. Even out there on the

ocean, away from the busy land. We were

far out yesterday. Beyond the islands for a

while with only the endless ahead of us.

Out to the fish in a small boat on a choppy

sea, my helpless self just ripe for the

drowning and a seafaring man whose name

is trust and whose soul, if any can be, is

still as light as thistle-down.

I wanted away from the taint of know-

ing. So I took as little as possible on board

and amongst my next-to-nothings all the

magic charms I could muster. I had tied up

the feathers and traces fresh that morning

with the silver hooks my grandfather had

left me in old tobacco tins, still in the

grease-paper, untarnished. They had been

protected all these years from corrosion

and the news of how things had turned out

for us. So that they might still have some

luck. I looked for a piece of iron near the

jetty and found one that fitted a hand like it

was born for it, with a good thump for the

killing. A dented flask of rough coffee. An

old bucket.

We caught fish easily. Fine pollock.

Travelling mackerel on the small side. The

biggest fish went back as gently as we

could and us scolding them not to be

caught again. The small fish went back

quickly and away my lads and lasses. We

talked, as our species does, but stopped

often in the middle of a sentence, for a fish

or a bird or just for the stopping, and never

picked up where we left off. Shearwaters

I ran away to sea

5THE BELLINGEN NEWS

Lucy Latchmore speaks with Polly Hig-

gins about her life, earth law and the

nature of the quest

In the evolution of civilisation, I think

we’re at the eleventh hour of the elev-

enth minute of the eleventh second,”

says Polly Higgins, earth lawyer, cam-

paigner and author of three books, in-

cluding Eradicating Ecocide.

Look at the statistics and it’s difficult

to disagree: 80% of the world’s natural

forests have been destroyed by human

activity; our seas are choked with one

billion tons of plastic; 50% of the earth’s

vertebrate population has been wiped out

in the last 40 years. In the face of this

litany of woe, it’s tempting to collapse in

a pool of despair – or to stick our fingers

in our ears, hoping it will all go away.

But Polly Higgins, it seems, has found a

different response.

It is 9am on a Monday morning when

Polly and I meet. Polly is fresh-faced

and glowing, her hair still damp after a

swim. She exudes an infectious sense of

optimism and purpose: “It has to get

worse before it gets better. It’s just that it

hasn’t got bad enough yet for people to

wake up,” she laughs. “It means our

job’s not done yet.”

The job in question is Polly’s cam-

paign at a UN level to create an interna-

tional law against ecocide to criminalise

the mass damage and destruction of eco-

systems. It is, she says, the “missing

law” that would flip the destructive

norms of our world in one fell swoop:

“By creating such a law at an interna-

tional level, our national laws can no

longer put profit first. Instead, by creat-

ing a Law of Ecocide, mass damage and

destruction is outlawed and an overrid-

ing duty of care for people and planet

takes precedence.”

Named ‘One of the world’s top ten vi-

sionary thinkers’ by The Ecologist

magazine, Polly is fêted for her work,

which is supported by a growing number

of people, including Deepak Chopra,

Michael Meacher MP and primatologist

Jane Goodall. She is currently working

towards persuading a group of Heads of

State to stand up and call for the law

against ecocide to be added to the Rome

Statute (alongside the laws against war

crimes and genocide) by the end of this

year so that it can be “tabled and opera-

tional by 2020”.

It is, she says, “imminently doable. Once

it’s tabled it’s a numbers game. Once

you get two-thirds of signatories, it be-

comes an international law.”

I desperately want to believe in this – but

is it really possible? She responds by

drawing a parallel with the abolition of

slavery: “When William Wilberforce

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A Quest from Harm to Harmony

committed to giving his life to this

greater cause, he had no idea how long

that would take. But he committed to

giving it his best shot. He couldn’t

square it with his conscience to just walk

away and say, ‘Ah, it will never hap-

pen.’ And at the outset he had a lot of

people saying, ‘This is ridiculous.’ But

actually, as he moved through his jour-

ney, more and more people came on

board. And he died a happy man. Two

days before he died they passed the last

of the major laws that abolished slavery.

So, who knows what’s possible?”

Polly’s quest to eradicate ecocide be-

gan 10 years ago in the Royal Courts of

Justice. “I was standing in court repre-

senting a man who had been badly in-

jured in the workplace and it was judge-

ment day. I found myself looking out of

the window thinking, ‘It’s not just my

client that’s been badly harmed, so has

the earth.’ My next thought changed my

life: ‘The earth’s in need of a good law-

yer.’ This crystallised into a really im-

portant question: how do we create a

legal duty of care for the earth?

That was the beginning of my quest.”

It is a quest that has taken Polly through

the underworld as much as through the

overworld, as she readily admits. There

is a correlation between what’s happen-

ing in the external world and what’s

happening in the internal world. So I’m

equally interested in our inner ecocides –


what are our own patterns of harm that

cause mass damage and destruction?

How do we really take charge of our

lives, self-authorising rather than allow-

ing others to dictate what we do or don’t

do? This is about empowerment based

on a first-do-no-harm principle – both at

an individual as well as a collective

level.”

Polly’s approach to tackling internal

patterns of harm is seemingly straight-

forward, although perhaps more chal-

lenging in practice. “They’re like gold-

dust moments when we identify a pat-

tern. It’s that moment of giving name to

the shadow self and saying, ‘I choose to

let go of the inner critic within me. I

choose to let go of my belief that I’m

unworthy.’ And it’s the choosing to let

go – the moment when we say ‘Enough!

I’m not having it any more’ – that’s

when we take charge. It’s hugely em-

powering to let go of these old stories,

and actually, the more we free ourselves

from these patterns, the more we shift

away from bare survival to being nour-

ished by life. It’s about moving

from significant harm to significant har-

mony.

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We have a greater impact on each other than we think.

Studies have shown that the strongest influence on someone's

behaviour is their friend's behaviour.

According to groundbreaking research by Harvard's Nicholas

Christakis and James Fowler, happiness loves company -- it

spreads virally, in a network. So does obesity, cancer, and even

divorce. If you have a divorced friend, you are 47% more

likely to divorce your partner.

So if you want to stay married, we have to work on strengthen-

ing your friends’ marriages.

I try to tell my wife that if she wants me to get into shape, she

needs to get my brother and mother on the treadmill. :)

And it works the same way for philanthropy, kindness, and

good news too.

Everything we do ripples out and affects each strand in the web

of our connections.

With this understanding, a significant insight emerges:

everyone matters, and everyone has something to give.

And if we organize around leveraging people’s gifts we begin

to create breakthrough possibilities.

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THE BELLINGEN NEWS

EB Hello Denis, Have you always loved

books and reading?

Denis, Yes I have, ever since I can re-

member. I do remember sneaking away

from sports in primary school, so I could

lay in the cool of the library and read.

EB Do you have a favourite author?

Denis If I had to pick one it would be

Henry David Thoreau, and his main book

is Walden, a journal of his life in the

woods. He is not well known these

days. He was a naturalist and philosopher

in the mid 1800’s, American.

EB People who like books are usually

thinkers, do you have a philosophy for

life?

Denis Well, the best that I have come to,

is that this is what is. That whatever emo-

tional or spiritual growth is attained

comes from how well you deal with what

is, rather than what you would prefer to

have, or think it should have been, or

what you hope for. It comes from life

experiences.

EB What kind of books do you prefer –

are they all to do with nature?

Denis Not current popular best sellers –

these are the ones that I don’t prefer. I

prefer more obscure books, and for fiction

I prefer well researched accurate fiction,

so that you can learn from fiction as well

as non-fiction Travel, honest autobiogra-

phies. I prefer personal history rather than

historians’ views. Personal accounts of

historical events rather than a historian’s

over-view. I also like books about books,

about collecting and finding books.

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EB What made you want to open a book

shop, and why in Bellingen.?

Denis In Bellingen because I live here.

Due to an injury I found I was unable to do

the work I used to do, and I started selling

second hand books at local markets to re-

duce a giant stock pile of collected books

that I had in tea chests. And then when I

got offered a suitable small shop at a very

affordable rent, I couldn’t resist it. The idea

of being able to leave books on shelves in-

stead of having to pack them up and unpack

them every market, was very appealing.

EB What was it you were doing before sell-

ing books.?

Denis Mostly building, garden and property

maintenance, until an injury stopped me be-

ing able to earn money that way, and that

was when I started selling secondhand

books at markets.

EB Were you working round here, have you

always lived in Bellingen?.

Denis No, in the mid 1980’s I moved to

the Valley, from South East Queensland.

EB What do you do when you are not at

the book shop, what hobbies do you have?

Denis I mostly try to keep up with life’s

needs. And kayaking and camping when I

can, in estuaries and lakes. I am not into

white water. I listen to a lot of music

which is another main love - blues, soul,

rhythm and blues

EB Do you play an instrument?

Denis Very amateurishly, I entertain myself

on a guitar and sometimes sing with it. I

am not a performer.

EB Do you have any family here?

Denis Yes I do, though no longer in Bel-

lingen. My son and daughter grew up in

Bellingen and are currently living up in

Brisbane.

EB From where do you source your

books?

Denis Mostly recycled from Bellingen and

some from Coffs, garage sales, market

sales and op shops. But more recently a

lot more donations from the local people.

This is not a viable business but is a

hobby. I spent some time convincing

Centrelink that this is a hobby and not a

business. I don’t sell new books. I am cur-

rently on a disability pension, therefore the

shop only needs to cover its operating ex-

penses and some improvements. So really

it is volunteer work. I would rather be do-

ing this than nothing. There are lot less

book shops than there were. People don’t

seem to value the books any more, and

with increasing unavoidable overheads and

decreasing turnover, secondhand book-

shops have been becoming less viable over

the last couple of decades.

EB And do you have a “bucket list”?

Denis I do, I still do want to become one

of the grey nomads and travel round Aus-

tralia in a camper van. I still intend a pil-

grimage to Ireland and Scotland for ances-

tral reasons; more time kayaking, camp-

ing, fishing. And I still do hope to spend

time in a cabin in the bush, preferably by a

river; as simply as I can manage.

Derivation of sayings:

To curry favour A corruption of the M.E. “to curry Favel”

to rub down Favel, being the name of the

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services of duplicity and so to seek to

obtain by insincere flattery.

gram -- did the trick. The effect disappeared

when the researchers stripped the specific

receptors from the study mice, evidence that

they had in fact pinpointed BPA's chemical

mechanism, which had previously eluded

scientists. In laboratory tests of human

cells, the response was even more pro-

nounced.

"That pretty much nails it," Bruce Blum-

berg of the University of California, Irvine,

who was not involved in the new study, told

The Huffington Post. He notes that despite

the prior associations made between BPA

and metabolic problems, including obesity

and diabetes, doubt had lingered because of

a lack of understanding about how the phe-

nomenon occurred. Long-term studies of

children -- tracking BPA exposures and

health outcomes -- remain ongoing around

the world.

An estimated 90 percent of people in de-

veloped countries have BPA circulating in

their blood at levels often higher than the

threshold for causing hormone disruption

used in Nadal's study. This high incidence is

due not only to exposures from leaching

food packages but also BPA-infused cash

register receipts, dental sealants and toilet

paper.

"People are seeing effects of BPA down

to 1000-fold below [Nadal's threshold],"

adds Frederick vom Saal, another expert in

endocrine disruptors at the University of

Missouri-Columbia. "It takes so little of this

chemical to cause harm."

The chemical industry disagrees. "BPA is

one of the most thoroughly tested chemicals

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The modern lifestyle of super-sized

french fries and couch potatoes often

takes the blame for the rising rates of

obesity and diabetes in the U.S. -- per-

haps rightly so. But growing evidence

suggests another factor in the dual epi-

demics: modern chemicals. Exposure

to even minuscule amounts of synthe-

sized substances -- used in everything

from pesticides to water bottles -- can

scramble hormone signals, scientists say.

This interference can trick fat cells into

taking in more fat or mislead the pan-

creas into secreting excess insulin, a hor-

mone that regulates the breakdown of fat

and carbohydrates.

Among the most ubiquitous and scru-

tinized of these so-called endocrine dis-

ruptors is bisphenol A, better known as

BPA. The chemical is a common ingre-

dient in plastics and food-can linings.

"When you eat something with BPA, it's

like telling your organs that you are eat-

ing more than you are really eating,"

says Angel Nadal, a BPA expert at the

Miguel Hernandez University in Spain.

Nadal's latest research, published last

week in PLoS ONE, finds that the

chemical triggers the release of almost

double the insulin actually needed to

break down food. High insulin levels can

desensitize the body to the hormone over

time, which in some people may then

lead to weight gain and Type 2 diabetes.

To achieve this feat, BPA fools a recep-

tor into thinking it is the natural hormone

estrogen, an insulin regulator. Nadal's

team found that even the tiniest amounts

of BPA -- a quarter of a billionth of a

THE BELLINGEN NEWS

BPA's Obesity And Diabetes Link

Strengthened By New Study

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used today and has a safety track record

of 50 years," says Kathryn Murray St.

John, a spokesperson for the American

Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for

the plastics industry. She highlights re-

cent regulatory rulings in favour of the

safety of BPA.

Vom Saal, who also wasn't involved

in the Spanish study, explains why the

"standard estimates of safety" may be

invalid. Minute amounts of the chemical

may be even more potent than larger

quantities, he says, which can flood the

receptors and essentially turn them off,

stopping the flow of insulin. In other

words, the dose does not make the poi-

son -- at least not in the ordinary sense.

Yet the traditional dose-response as-

sumption remains the basis for most

regulatory tests that have deemed the

chemical safe.

The consequences of the continued

widespread use of BPA could be most

dire for pregnant women and developing

foetuses, who appear to be particularly

sensitive. "The foetus is not only ex-

posed to BPA but also to higher levels of

insulin from the mother, making the en-

vironment for the foetus even more dis-

ruptive," says Nadal. "This is a very deli-

cate period." Previous studies have sug-

gested that the environmental chemicals

in the womb can preprogram weight gain

later in life. BPA, for example, may tell

a growing foetus to develop more fat

cells.

Nadal adds that BPA is just one of a

larger cocktail of at least 20 endocrine

disruptors commonly used in everyday

items, including phthalates, nicotine,

dioxin, arsenic and tributyltin. Further,

obesity and diabetes aren't the only

risks posed by the chemicals. Studies

also hint at links with cancer, infertil-

ity, heart disease and cognitive prob-

lems. Overall, half of the developed

world is now overweight and one in

six is obese -- about double the num-

bers of 30 years ago. Approximately

250 million people suffer from diabe-

tes worldwide.

Sure, our lifestyle has changed over

the decades in parallel with the in-

creased use of BPA. Yet scientists

have noticed the same fattening trend

in newborns, lab rodents, pets and

wildlife that live in close proximity to

humans. Have babies or mice really

changed how much they eat or exer-

cise? Experts highlight this as further

evidence that more than just caloric

intake is driving the current epidemics

of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

"The scary thing is, this is occur-

ring in children. Thirty years ago, we

called Type 2 diabetes 'adult-onset,'"

vom Saal says. That's not the case any-

more.

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13THE BELLINGEN NEWS

What is Turmeric? Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a culinary spice

that spans cultures - it is a major ingredient in

Indian curries, and makes American mustard

yellow. But evidence is accumulating that

this brightly coloured relative of ginger is a

promising disease-preventive agent as well,

probably due largely to its anti-inflammatory

action.

One of the most comprehensive summa-

ries of turmeric benefits studies to date was

published by the respected ethnobotanist

James A. Duke, Phd., in the October, 2007

issue of Alternative & Complementary

Therapies, and summarized in the July, 2008,

issue of the American Botanical Council pub-

lication HerbClip.

Reviewing some 700 studies, Duke con-

cluded that turmeric appears to outperform

many pharmaceuticals in its effects against

several chronic, debilitating diseases, and

does so with virtually no adverse side effects.

Turmeric Benefits: Here are some of the diseases that turmeric has been found to help

prevent or alleviate:

Alzheimer's disease: Duke found more than

50 studies on turmeric's effects in addressing

Alzheimer's disease. The reports indicate that

extracts of turmeric contain a number of

natural agents that block the formation of

beta-amyloid, the substance responsible for

the plaques that slowly obstruct cerebral

function in Alzheimer's disease.

Arthritis: Turmeric contains more than two dozen anti-inflammatory compounds, includ-

ing sixdifferent COX-2-inhibitors (the COX-

2 enzyme promotes pain, swelling and in-

flammation; inhibitors selectively block that

enzyme). By itself, writes Duke, curcumin -

the component in turmeric most often cited

for its healthful effects - is a multifaceted

anti-inflammatory agent, and studies of the

efficacy of curcumin have demonstrated posi-

tive changes in arthritic symptoms.

Cancer: Duke found more than 200 citations for turmeric benefits related to cancer and

more than 700 for curcumin and cancer. He

noted that in the handbook Phytochemicals:

Mechanisms of Action, curcumin and/or tur-

meric were effective in animal models in

prevention and/or treatment of colon cancer,

mammary cancer, prostate cancer, murine

hepatocarcinogenesis (liver cancer in rats),

esophageal cancer, and oral cancer. Duke

said that the effectiveness of the herb against

these cancers compared favorably with that

reported for pharmaceuticals.

How can you get more turmeric into your

diet? One way is via turmeric tea. There are

also extracts in tablet and capsule form avail-

able in health food stores; look for supercriti-

cal extracts in dosages of 400 to 600 mg, and

take three times daily or as directed on the

product.

And, of course, one can simply indulge in

more curried dishes, either in restaurants or at

home. However you do it, adding turmeric to

your diet is one of the best moves toward

optimal health you can make.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/

ART03001/Three-Reasons-to-

Eat-Turmeric.html

Three reasons to eat Turmeric


By Pat Coleby

Hip dysplasia.

I was rung by the owner of a dog with

hip dysplasia earlier today; Dr Wendell

Bellfield in California cures this condition

with massive doses of intravenous vitamin

C, and he also stipulates that the dogs

should be on a maintenance dose for the

rest of their lives. I prefer to go for the

cause, which is invariably poor bone build-

ing feeds in youth, and a total lack of the

necessary minerals and vitamins in the

diet. Vitamin C, of which a german shep-

herd size dog makes about 12 g a day in its

liver, also needs to be given extra on top of

that while the healing process is going on.

Animal feeds

There still seems to be a lot of miscon-

ceptions about protein; meat, fish, eggs and

cheese for dogs and all the grains in larger

herbivores are believed by many people to

be the sole source of protein – first class

proteins is how they are described. In fact

all food (excluding the junk variety) con-

tains protein in varying quantities. Well

grown vegetables are a good source of sup-

ply and contain quite enough protein

(called second class protein) to support a

fairly active life in dogs. Similarly well

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grown grass and clover mixture hay fills

the same role for larger animals, the ad-

dition of a small feed daily of the two

chaffs and bran to carry the necessary

supply of minerals also helps.

I realise that I repeat myself fairly often

on these themes, but I have to do it ver-

bally many times on the phone and think

many animal owners tend to overfeed

their charges quite unintentionally,

thinking they are doing the best they can

for the animal. I am occasionally rather

startled when I ask dog owners what

they eat, so I suggest they feed the dog

roughly the same way and they tell me

they eat white rice, white bread and cook

all their vegetables! In those cases I

have to feed their dogs a better diet than

they get themselves. I live in hope that it

will eventually dawn on them that some-

thing is wrong!

One person, many years ago, who

bought one of my horse books when it

first came out, asked me if it was alright

if he took roughly the same minerals as

the horse because he reasoned that if the

horse needed them that badly so did he!

“The dawning of wisdom” I replied.

~~~~~

Animal Husbandry—

Hip dysplasia and Animal Feeds


Made in Dorrigo Street Market

12th December

Made in Dorrigo Street Market is held on the 4th Saturday of March, 2nd Saturday of

July & the 2nd Saturday of December. There is always an amazing variety of products

from the talented Plateau people including woodwork, photography, toys, organic pro-

duce, textiles, preserves, plants, food and much, much more!

Everything at our market is of a high quality, lovingly and skilfully made by artists and

artisans and is guaranteed to be grown, manufactured or produced in the 2453 post code

so it is the ultimate in small town sustainability.

Bellingen Happenings

If you wish to promote your event/activity here please ring

Elisabeth 6655 9192 before the 12th of the preceding month.

There is no charge for this.

Bellingen Yoga Studio Our highly experienced teachers are fully qualified in a

range of yoga styles.

Daily classes, beginners welcome.

Massage also available. www.bellingenyogastudio.com.au 66552079 or 0431 151 383

The Bellingen Arts Council is pleased to invite you to join us for Sunday Bites—a one hour cultural event in the

Nexus pop-up Art Gallery, at the Butter Factory.

2nd Sunday in the month, ..

Sunday 8th November at 4 pm

Paul Jarman

Join Paul to discuss and sing some of his unique stories, and learn about

The art of lyrics, melody and composing by singing the repertoire and sharing the

journey from inspiration and research to development, arrangement and performance.

Music will be supplied for the day.


Printed by: Midcoast Printing, 38 Hyde St., Bellingen 6655 9414

December 12th Made in Dorrigo market

Carpool mid north coast,… www.carpoolmnc.org

2nd & 4th Saturdays, Growers’ Market 8am-2pm Showground

3rd Saturday, Community Market 8am-4pm

First Sunday 2-3 pm free market at Showground

First Sunday Chess at The Lodge 241, all levels, newcomers welcome

Second Sunday, 4 pm Sunday Bites, Cultural events by Community Arts Council at

Nexus Gallery, Butter Factory, Contact: Rosie Wickert

[email protected]; or 0419 401 901

Last Sunday Bellingen’s Sunday at the Pictures, Memorial Hall

Fourth Monday: Bellingen Writers’ Group, 1.30-4pm at Bellingen Golf

Club. Enquiries 6655 9246

Every Tuesday: Mixed Up Art, open studio. Y2A building, 10-1pm 0418 462 320

Every Tuesday 4-5.30 pm Music, bring your instrument and join us, CWA hall.

Wednesdays Free Counselling Service Neighbourhood Centre, 6655 1239

Fourth Wednesday night Jazz at Federal Hotel

Third Thursdays Warrina Women’s Resource and Info Centre 6655 1239

1st, 3rd 5th Fridays Bellopy organic market 8-1pm Anglican Church

Last Friday. Poetry Corner 7-9pm Alternatives Book Shop, (105 Hyde St)

Last Sunday, afternoon, at No.5 Transition Forum [email protected]

Local radio: Mid North Coast 91.3 FM

Bellingen 2bbb your local community radio station 93.3 FM or 107.3 FM

B e l l i n g e n D i a r y

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If you do not wish to keep this issue, please pass it on, or leave it

somewhere, so others can read it.

If you wish to receive a copy of this magazine in the mail,

Either ring me on 6655 9192

Or email me [email protected]

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