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NAMBUCCA VALLEY
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Friday, 10 April 2026
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Surveys Launched on Childcare Access
Seafood Industry Calls for Reversal of Cuts Page 7
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q Lily Crease, Sha-Lohm Jamieson, Lee Collier and Martin Ussher are participants in the Launch Pad Youth Entrepreneur program.
NAMBUCCA Heads artist Sha-Lohm Jamieson is thriving through participation in the Launch Pad Youth Entrepreneur program, a 12-week business bootcamp for young people aged 18 to 30. The 24-year-old said the program was challenging her to consider ways she could expand her artistic practice into a working business. “The Launch Pad boot camp has been very informative and engaging,” Ms Jamieson said. “It’s been both helpful and nurturing; the bite-sized learning modules built upon by real interaction with other business people has been great.
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Controversial Valla Beach site headed to auction
Friday, 10 April 2026
www.newsofthearea.com.au
By Doug CONNOR
LOCALS continue to raise concerns over plans to develop a heavily-vegetated 3.22 hectare (ha) site on
Langsford Way, Valla Beach for housing, with the land set CONTINUED Page 5
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