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1 week ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Albury saxophonist Raphael Ennab is getting quite used to playing in front of a crowd. In fact, the 11-year-old is becoming so seasoned he says he’s ready to form a band. The Murray Conservatorium scholarship student can be found on weekends busking in various locations along Dean Street and is one of many taking advantage of council’s recent Bring the Beat to Albury Streets initiative.
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2 weeks ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Albury’s 11-year-old saxophone player Raphael Ennab is getting quite used to playing in front of a crowd. In fact, he’s becoming so seasoned he says he’s ready to form a band. The Murray Conservatorium scholarship student can be found on weekends busking in various locations along Dean Street and is one of many taking advantage of council’s recent Bring the Beat to Albury Streets initiative.
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2 weeks ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
A prize worth more than $30,000 is up for grabs for the person or business whose “big idea” is deemed the best in a Shark Tank-style competition being offered in Albury. Sharks on the Murray, an initiative of Albury Business Connect, aims to support innovation in the region and provide a launch pad to the winners in each of the two categories. They are hoping to attract individuals, start-ups or businesses who have an innovative business idea or invention to take the plunge and enter.
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2 weeks ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
It was a case of third time’s a charm for the Table Top Charity Walk held on Sunday (6 April), with organisers overwhelmed by the turnout and money raised. More than 500 people took part in the six-kilometre round trip and raised $5000 for the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Inc, which was the charity chosen by property owner Roger Paterson in memory of his wife, Elizabeth, who lost her life to breast cancer in 2021.
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3 weeks ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Susan Reid believes the artists and creative practitioners that make Albury’s unique Pumphouse Makerspace a place to fine-tune their craft are pretty spoilt. The facility coordinator said the location right by the Murray River, the renovated heritage building and the breadth of equipment and resources available to its members made it a one of a kind. “We are right here by the river; it’s a very special place and has always been a really significant place for First Nations people too.
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3 weeks ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Year 11 student Mackellar Lyons has been hooking in, so to speak, in preparation for stocking a new store in Albury with her colourful crocheted creations. Heart and Soul will open in the City Walk Arcade in the first week of April and 15-year-old Mackellar’s work will be front and centre, one of only five artists to have their work on show and for sale in the handmade gifts and homewares store.
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1 month ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Nineteen-year-old TAFE student Ella Wood feels as though her nursing career might be back on track thanks to a new critical health care course offered in Albury. The Certificate III in Health Services Assistance has just been launched and means students like Ella can kickstart a career in the care sector. Ella, from Jindera, says she had dreams of being a nurse in high school but her ambitions were put on hold when she decided to leave at the end of Year 10.
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1 month ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Watching birds in your backyard is not only good for the soul, says BirdLife Australia’s Ben Humphries, but can go a long way toward saving the planet. The coordinator of the not-for-profit conservation group’s Birds on Farms project in southern NSW says becoming a bird watcher and recording what you see can contribute to stopping extinctions and stabilising the declining populations of many at-risk feathered species.
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1 month ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
Everyone loves a steam train, possibly no one more than The Picnic Train’s Stapleton family, of whom you are bound to meet at least one when the “living museum on rails” chugs through the regions in March and April. Gemalla Stapleton, 21, along with her parents Paul and Simone and younger brothers Beyer, 18, Locksley, 16, and Tascott, 15, are just some of the 12 to 20 volunteers it takes to operate the R766, one of the rare survivors of the golden era of travel when steam ruled the rails.
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2 months ago | 
regionriverina.com.au | Vanessa Hayden
“We want to make people fall in love with cleaning their leather gear again,” says Holbrook’s Nat Corbett. Nat and husband Fonz launched their new product BEST Leather Care in September last year and have just been named as finalists in the specialised retail category at the Australian Small Business Champion Awards. Winners will be announced at two gala events in Sydney on 28 and 29 March.
