IT IS most unlikely now that the Shell Cove management agreement, whose accessibility caused so much controversy at a recent Shellharbour Council meeting, will be distributed to councillors, council’s corporate solicitor Bruce McCann told last Tuesday’s night’s council meeting.

Watch Me Soar: that’s the motto on the ceremonial life-belt that stands outside T.S. Albatross, the Navy Cadet facility on the shores of Lake Illawarra in Northcliff Drive, Warrawong.

As AGEING leads to greater vulnerability and isolation, so the risk, and the fear, of falling among those of retirement age and older, increases dramatically, with falling being a leading cause of injury, disability, hospitalisation and death among older people.

A GROUP of young people from the southern suburbs of Wollongong had some lessons with a difference last week, when they learned the art of fire twirling as part of the Southside Festival.

When Lake Heights carer Ruth Parrie was told her husband had been taken to hospital with chest pain while working in the Blue Mountains, she was able to rush off to be with him, knowing that her elderly mother, who suffers dementia, would be well looked after.

Oak Flats resident Tayte O’Connor knew she wanted to be a hairdresser from the time she was a child.