Clarence Valley Independent

... By bringing Mr Priest to Townsend, they believe it will help raise the profile of the gym and hopefully showcase the long list of professional bodybuilders and athletes that have been raised through Bodyrock. “We’ve had one world champion out of our Townsend gym, we’ve had two ladies that have made it into the top five in the world. We’ve crowdfunded two athletes to Vegas, one who won the world title and one who came fifth in the world…not too bad for a little gym out of Townsend”, the proud gym owner says ...

Geoff Helisma. New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has relaunched the government’s 20-Year Economic Vision for Regional NSW at Sanctus Brewing Company, Townsend ... The updated vision, the government says, “identifies emerging sectors and future industries for government investment, includes 50 new priorities to drive long-term stimulus impact, underpins investment in the regions from now until 2038, sets out a plan for jobs and population growth in regional NSW and leverages remote and altered working patterns that have emerged as a result of COVID-19”.

Geoff Helisma. For Derry Moroney, photography started as “just a little hobby”, but now that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and other media outlets from around the world have contacted him, that ‘little hobby’ is growing into something much more. “My partner got me a camera a few weeks after we came here three years ago,” says Derry, “… it went from there. “I started going out every day; I went to every sunrise and every sunset and I’ve been doing it ever since.”

Lynne Mowbray. Lawrence cane and cattle farmer, Bruce Green, was a skilled horseman and was deeply entrenched in both the Grafton and Maclean Show Societies, campdrafts and the Lawrence Rodeo which has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to community groups within the Clarence Valley, since its inception ...

Emma Pritchard. Grafton’s country music sweethearts and fan favourites The McClymonts, added two more Golden Guitars to their growing collection at the 2021 Toyota Golden Guitar Awards in Tamworth on January 23, bringing their new total to 15. The beautiful sisters, Brooke, Samantha and Mollie, won Contemporary Country Album of the Year for their most recent production Mayhem to Madness which was released in June 2020, as well as Group or Duo of the Year.