8/10/2008 | WITH a motto like ‘Fun, Frivolity, Fair Play’ the Tuncurry Forster Football Club is sure to put on a show for its 2008 Golden Balls Weekend.
8/10/2008 | OLIVIA Halicek is the toast of Forster Aquatic Swimming Club after a stunning medal winning performance at the Australian Short Course Championships in Melbourne.
8/10/2008 | FORSTER’S tennis champion, Tony Harkin will take on the world’s mature pros this week as he competes in the Seniors World Team Tennis Championships in Turkey.
8/10/2008 | BOTH young and old, along with beginners and old hands, hundreds have signed up to compete during the Forster Triathlon and Multisport Festival.
8/10/2008 | IT was a sea of colour as lifesavers young and old descended on Forster for the Professionals Weekend of Surf. From Towradgi in the Illawarra to Urunga in the North lifesavers came to compete.
8/10/2008 | MARGARET Smith says the clay court recently completed at Tuncurry is the only one in Australia built to European standards.
And the plan is to build more and turn the twin towns into a centre of excellence for clay court training.
1/10/2008 | MANNING Cricket Association is unlikely to press ahead with plans for a mid-week 15/15 competition this season.
The possibility of playing a mid-week twilight competition was raised at an association meeting held last month.
1/10/2008 | FORSTER Surf Lifesaving Club Turtles made history at New Lambton pool last week when its men and women winter swimmers attended the first combined Australian Winter Swim Championships.
1/10/2008 | THERE will be an impressive line up, including two Olympic silver medallists, at the Great Lakes Sailing Club’s annual Wildcat Regatta this weekend.
Also competing will be two world champions, over five national champions and two extreme adventure racers along with many aspiring champions, local challengers and anyone else who has a catamaran that floats.
1/10/2008 | THE Old Bar Festival attracted more than 10,000 people to the coastal town last year and once again rugby union will provide entertainment this weekend with the Old Bar Clams’ Super 10s tournament a special attraction on Saturday.
24/09/2008 | THE medals just kept flowing for paralympian Heath Francis last week.
He graced the back page of last week’s Advocate with his incredible triple gold haul in Beijing – two of which were in world record time. He won gold in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
24/09/2008 | FORSTER Taekwondo student Lee Cotterell will now face the Pan Pacific Masters on the Gold Coast in December after competing at the Hunter Valley Championships earlier this month.
24/09/2008 | JARED Wynter’s rugby league career is on the rise following a number of announcements during the Group 3 Rugby League Awards on the weekend.
He was joint winner of the First Grade Most Improved Award (with Wingham’s Joe Southwell) and subsequently named on the The Group 3 Senior Player Squad.
24/09/2008 | AFTER a nine year drought Forster Strikers Division 1 women’s side took out the major premiership on the weekend.
They defeated the minor premiers Taree West by three goals to two in the grand final of the Manning Valley Hockey Competition.
24/09/2008 | A FAST pace was set as car enthusiasts took on the Old Pacific Highway during the Bulahdelah Hillclimb on Sunday.
Forty six drivers tested their skills over 1148m of challenging road.
17/09/2008 | OVERCAST days, freezing winds and big swells weren’t enough to stop Forster’s Ben Godwin from taking back to back wins at the SunSmart Surfmasters in Western Australia on the weekend.
17/09/2008 | THE Forster Triathlon and Multisport Festival needs plenty of volunteers to be a success, a local coordinator says.
Paul Nixon from Great Lakes International Triathlon Association (GLITA) has called for locals to get behind the October 18 to 19 race.
17/09/2008 | THE score may have read 40-16 against his side but Forster-Tuncurry coach Adam Barclay couldn’t fault his side’s effort in the Group Three Rugby League grand final against Port City at Port Macquarie.
17/09/2008 | JAROD Kohlar has backed up his Forster Anaconda Adventure race win with victory in the annual Mountain Man Tri challenge in Gloucester on Sunday.
17/09/2008 | THE last week has been a blur of personal bests, world record times and gold medals for sprinter Heath Francis at the Beijing Paralympics.
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