Celebrating the official opening of Sculpture Down the Lachlan
IT’S more than a decade since Rosie Johnston stood at Sculptures by the Sea, and dared to dream of an inland version.
A series of massive sculptures positioned along the Lachlan River between Forbes and Condobolin, drawing visitors to our region.
“Just imagine, hidden amongst the magnificent Red River Gums, with a back drop of dry golden grasses and stormy skies spotted with screeching cockatoos,” she shared that original vision.
It’s now a reality, Rosie cutting the ribbon at the Sculpture Down the Lachlan opening, officiated by Forbes Arts Society president Trudy Mallick, on Saturday after the placement of the final sculpture.
There are now 13 installations along the stock route, from the goanna at Gum Swamp to Wandering at Condobolin, ranging from the timber tower to Bird in Hand at Jemalong.
On Saturday, many of those who have been involved over the years gathered with community at Warroo, between two sculptures, to celebrate.
“All of these astounding pieces along the Lachlan capture the spirit of and strength of the region and stand as testament to the incredible artistry that this project has attracted,” Rosie said.
“I am deeply grateful to everyone who believed in this vision and gave their time, talent, and passion to make it a reality.
“Today we we see the culmination of years of collaboration, creativity and community spirit.”
With the support of Evolution Mining and Forbes Shire Council, the project grew through the annual sculpture acquisition prize, and then finally with a NSW Government grant that also made it possible to build new bird hides at Gum Swamp and to transform the former ambulance station into what will one day be an arts and cultural centre.
The sculpture trail also inspired Grazing Down the Lachlan, a major
and award-winning event that features regional produce and raises funds for the project.
Mayor Phyllis Miller noted that it had been 10 years since community members came together to form the big red ‘a’ for amazing that took pride of place in Albion Park.
“From that first letter a a group of talented farmers and community members got together and not only created art with our amazing sign, they gave our community an identity,” Mayor Miller said.
“This place is absolutely amazing and I want to say thank you publicly to Rosie Johnston.
“I hope it will continue to be the reason for many people to continue to travel to Forbes and to Condobolin for many many years to come.”
Joe Mammen, General Manager of Evolution Mine’s Cowal Operations, thanked all the artists whose work stands on the trail.
“We’re an organisation which wants to truly partner with our communities, and see that sustain-
ing benefit into the future, so to see such a fantastic outcome, to see something that’s going to attract tourism, it’s going to be here for a very long time, for generations yet to come, it’s something we’re very proud to be (part of),” he said.
Rosie said Sculpture Down the Lachlan had been nurtured by the tireless efforts of many passionate individuals over the years, but particularly acknowledged the contributions of Dr Keith Mullette, Wayne Richards and Kim Muffet.
Joe Mammen from Evolution, Mayor Paul Phillips, Rosie Johnston, sculptor Brett Garling, Mayor Phyllis Miller, sculptors Suzie Bleach and Andrew Townsend, sculptor David Ball with Brumbies Run, the final sculpture installed.
What’s on in and around Forbes
HANNAH’S STORY
Thursday, October 17
Hannah’s Story, a session to create more awareness and empower members of our community about the early warning signs of coercive control and the tragic but inspirational story of Hannah Clarke, her three children and family. Two times available at Forbes - daytime or evening. CatholicCare Wilcannia-Forbes and Small Steps 4 Hannah invite you to attend this free session presented by DV prevention educator Michael Jeh. Registration is essential. Register on facebook via Hannah’s Story at Forbes facebook event.
BLUE HEALERS WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 19
This one day educational workshop in Eugowra will touch on the symptoms of depression, stress and anxiety and provide simple strategies for coping. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea is included. This workshop is brought to you with the assistance of the Community Wellbeing Grants, NSW Mental Health and Wellbeing Flood and Disaster Recovery. Registration is essential and places are limited. register via 123tix. There will also be a workshop in Forbes on Saturday, October 26.
LADIES NIGHT
Thursday, October 17
It’s ladies night at Acheson’s Mitre 10! Get ready for a fun-filled evening of DIY projects, home improvement tips, and exclusive deals. Three tradies will be auctioned off on the night including a plumber, a painter and a builder with all money raised going to the McGrath Foundation. This is a fully catered event, make sure to RSVP via eventbrite.com. au.
TRUNDLE PINK RIBBON NIGHT
Friday, October 18
Head out to the Trundle Golf Club for an awesome night of prizes, raffles, the famous auction and lots of laughs all while raising money towards a cancer free future.
TEDDY BEAR PICNIC
Saturday, October 19
Join the Forbes Youth Action Team for a beary special day at the Forbes Shire Council Teddy Bears Picnic! Bring your favourite teddy and your little ones for a fun-filled morning in Lions Park from 10am to 1pm. There will be games, entertainment, and lots of activities to keep the little ones engaged.
CENTRAL WEST CAR CLUB SHOW ‘N’ SHINE
Saturday, October 19
Feature vehicle this year’s Show n’ Shine is utes! Come see the massive display at Pioneer Oval Parkes. Gold coin entry for spectators 9am to 3pm and proceeds go to charity. presentation will be at 2pm.
TRUNDLE ABBA FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 19
Let’s celebrate 50 years of Waterloo with
the biggest and best Trundle ABBA Festival yet at Berryman Oval, Trundle! Featuring Bjorn Again, Furnace and the Fundamentals, Disco Revolution, DJ Diggz and Adante Adante Choir. Tickets on sale now: bit.ly/ TrundleABBAtickets2024
TOM CURTAIN IN BOGAN GATE
Saturday, October 19
Tom is passionate about bringing his show to towns and communities that are often overlooked on the entertainment trail. At the Bogan Gate Pub from 5:30pm to 8:30pm there will be live music and entertainment from the Katherine Outback Experience horse and dog show. Book your tickets now via https://events.humanitix.com/tomcurtain-bogangate2024
QUILTING WORKSHOP
October 19 and 20
At the Forbes CWA Hall join Michelle from the Quilters Coop and learn her pattern Outside the Circle. For information or to book call 0404055609 or email lauren.gunn88@ hotmail.com
MEET THE MAKERS
Sunday, October 20
Discover what’s on offer at the Forbes Visitors Centre and sample some incredible regional produce from local vendors. Meet the Makers is all about showing the local community just who and what the Forbes Visitors Centre stock while offering an insight into the wide range of delicious and unique products that are available. This is a free community event from 10am to 2pm at the Forbes Visitors Information Centre.
WOMEN’S WELLBEING ZOOM SESSIONS
October 23 and 30
Steph Schmidt understands the unique pressures faced by rural communities. As both a farmer and clinical psychologist, she is dedicated to supporting mental health and resilience in rural Australia. Steph will deliver a short series of ZOOM sessions on women’s wellbeing. Steph will explore managing stress, finding balance and practical strategies to care for your wellbeing. Make sure you register via 123 Tix, or email com-
munityrecovery@forbes.nsw.gov.au to secure your spot.
BEDGERABONG TRIVIA NIGHT
Saturday, October 26
The community is invited to trivia night at Bedgerabong Hall from 7:30pm. $10 per person, cash at the door. BYO nibbles and refreshments, teams of up to eight people. Book now by calling 68571185 or email bedgerebon-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au there will be a free bus service available from Forbes contact Mel Sinclair for a seat 0439520087. Prizes for winning teams, best decorated table, games and challenges. Any funds raised will support repairs of Bedgerabong Hall.
COMMUNITY FISHING DAY
Saturday, October 26
Community Fishing Day at Forbes Lake, Lions Park from 9am to 1pm. Celebrate the 2024 Gone Fishing Day. This event is the perfect opportunity to unwind, enjoy the outdoors, and connect with fellow community members. Register now for this free day of fishing at 123Tix.
Volunteers’ vision restores historic hall to community hub
A PASSION to save a rural hall and return it to its former glory as a thriving community centre has seen the Calarie Hall’s volunteer committee shortlisted for the Community Achievement Awards for NSW and the ACT.
The Calarie Recreation Reserve Land Manager committee is one of four finalists for the NSW Government Crown Land Management Excellence Award in this year’s awards, to be announced on November 1.
Calarie Hall is a thriving community hub - a venue for weddings, parties, bingo and youth programs - thanks to the hard work of locals who have raised funds and gained grants to restore and improve it.
The acreage on the outskirts of Forbes has been a gathering place for generations, the current hall on it was originally the Daroobalgie school and thought to date back about a century.
It had fallen into disrepair when, in 2011, a group began to rally around to save it, committee secretary Tara Shaw explained.
“We love that the hall is a venue that incorporates the country life, the relaxed feeling/ lifestyle whilst still having some of the original characteristics on our grounds and that although we are on the outskirts of town we still provide all creature comforts you need to host an event anytime of the year,” she said.
This hardworking group has done so much more than make the hall safe, they’ve transformed the whole site.
The hall itself has undergone complete reconstruction, inside and out, now with heating and cooling as well as an outdoor covered deck area added and a brand new kitchen offering everything you need for catering.
Then there’s the new camp kitchen - fully equipped - toilet and shower block, accessible toilet and shower facilities.
The sprawling grounds are green and welcoming for camping and events, not only for fun for those bound for the likes of the Elvis Festival but as an evacuation centre in times like the 2022 floods.
“We started out with a lot of fundraising events however we realised we needed grants to help with larger items on our refurbishment list. We have applied for many grants via Crown Lands, Northparkes Mines, FRRR, Forbes Shire Council just to name a few,” Tara said.
Their efforts have indeed seen their vision fulfilled.
The hall is host to bingo every two months, Boys to the Bush campouts every school holidays and whipcracking entertainer Nathan “Whippy” Griggs in a special once-a-year event.
“Fortunately for Calarie Hall there has been a large increase in popularity as a preferred venue for weddings, baby showers, birthdays, local artist workshops and community assistance programs such as Boys To
ABOVE: Nathan “Whippy” Griggs is a popular entertainer at the Calarie Hall every year.
RIGHT: The former Daroobalgie school was brought to the site, but fell into disrepair.
The Bush and Catholic Care Mens Yarn up groups,” Tara added.
“The venue is on the edge of town but close enough to town if you need anything so it provides the perfect location for fully functional facilities with plenty of camping and parking areas.”
Winners will be announced at the Awards gala presentation dinner on November 1 and the committee could not be more excited to be considered.
“Saying that we are excit-
ed would be an understatement,” Tara said.
“We are a small volunteer committee and we work very hard at what we do.
“We hope we can bring home the trophy but being nominated is an achievement in itself.”
While the judges look at the categories, you can also vote for Calarie Hall for the people’s choice awardthere’s a link to the voting on the group’s Calarie Hall Recreation Reserve Facebook page.
Electronic monitoring now in force
Corrective Services to alert police to bail breaches by alleged serious domestic violence offenders
ELECTRONIC monitoring
is now in place for alleged serious domestic violence offenders released on bail.
Corrective Services NSW will use GPS technology to track alleged offenders - who are released on bail - against geographical bail conditions, the NSW Government announced on Friday.
In case of a suspected breach, Acting Commissioner Corrective Services NSW Leon Taylor said Corrective Services officers would immediately notify police.
“If we hold concerns for a person in need of protection,
the Corrections team will be able to pick up the phone and alert them to a potential bail breach in real time, allowing them to enact their safety plan,” he said.
The cry for this change came, tragically, from our own community of Forbes, and Member for Orange Philip Donato said the rollout was a welcome start.
It is the most recent of changes announced earlier this year to be put into place.
The NSW Government delivered a $246 million package in the NSW Budget to address domestic, family and sexual
violence through crisis response measures, early intervention, primary prevention, and justice system responses.
The Government also significantly tightened bail laws for people charged with serious domestic violence offences, forcing them to ‘show cause’ why they shouldn’t be detained.
Attorney General Michael Daley said there had been an increase in the number of alleged offenders on remand, signalling the bail reforms were working.
Minister for Corrections
Anoulack Chanthivong said
Corrective Services NSW had the specialist knowledge and robust systems to expand existing electronic monitoring of offenders on parole or subject to community corrections orders to those on bail.
“Women, children, and others in danger deserve to live their lives in safety, free from the threat of domestic violence,” he said.
Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Jodie Harrison said electronic monitoring was one part of a coordinated, multi-pronged response to addressing fami-
ly and domestic violence that included earlier intervention and primary prevention.
“The NSW Government is also working with the sector and victim-survivors as we continue to provide holistic, trauma-informed, wraparound support for victimsurvivors who are escaping violence,” she said.
If you or someone you know is affected by domestic, family or sexual violence, please call the toll-free number 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for support on 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or visit 1800respect.org.au
Electronic monitoring is now in place for alleged serious domestic violence offenders released on bail.
PHOTO: Supplied
PHOTOS: Supplied
The volunteer committee working to keep the Calarie Hall alive.
Brumbies Run at home among the gum trees
SEEING Brumbies Run among the trees at Warroo is a vision fulfilled for sculptor Brett Garling.
“I never thought, realistically, I’d ever see them in a setting like this,” he said at the official opening of the Sculpture Down the Lachlan trail on Saturday.
He’d crafted the marquette of the four galloping, frolicking horses, and the tiny model was sitting on a shelf when Forbes Arts Society visited to look at Family Matters in progress.
Brumbies Run caught their eye as ideal for the sculpture trail, and the call was made to commission Garling to create the piece for Warroo.
The brumbies Garling has formed aren’t just life-size, they’re life-like, their movement captured by an artist who’s had horses all his life and worked first to understand their anatomy to create the armateur that is the foundation of the work.
“There’s more time building the armatures than there is sculpting with clay,” Garling said. “Sculpting, because I probably know horses pretty well having horses all my life, that’s the fun and easy part.”
He explained he has to visualise the work - and in this case it followed from his Man From
Snowy River at Coryong.
“I visualize in my head so I can place it somewhere and turn it around 360 degrees, and once I can do that I’m off and running,” he said.
“It’s getting the bone structure, the movement right and the mannerisms of a horse right, you’ve really got to know your animal to get those man-
nerisms and little gestures right.
“This is the perfect landscape, especially in amongst the trees - from a distance you’re seeing them running through the trees, it’s ideal.”
Garling has a number of works in Forbes including Family Matters at the Wiradjuri Dreaming Centre.
“Forbes has been very kind to me, I’m very very honoured,” he said at Saturday’s official opening of the trail as a whole.
“This is a world class sculpture trail and that’s not something to be said lightly.
“It’s of a standard that’s worthy of recognition and I’m just super thankful – I’ve got to pinch myself sometimes.”
Wandering inspired by the landscape
THE connection between art and nature inspired the Sculpture Down the Lachlan Trail, and the local landscape inspired David Ball to create Wandering.
“I’ve always been a person who makes a sculpture for the landscape,” the artist said at the official opening of the trail on Saturday.
“The landscape’s in my bones and it’s my territory, my playground, and I wanted to make a piece that fit in and became part of the landscape – the landscape was talking to it and it was talking to the landscape.”
So after meeting with Forbes Arts Society he travelled to the site, drove through the landscape and - in his words - felt its breadth.
“I wanted it to have a geological feel to it, a bit like the iron
sculpture trail.
escarpments that just come up out of the ground - they’re like the bones of the earth,” he said.
Crafted out of Corten steel, as it ages in the landscape it’s taking the colour of that earth.
Sonata: Let’s talk about balance
A LITTLE girl, in her skirt and her gumboots, plays a violin on the back of a mighty bull.
It’s a sight sculptors Suzie Bleach and Andrew Townsend hope will capture visitors to the sculpture trail for more than a moment.
“Something that’s very dear to our heart is the theme of man’s relationship with nature, with other species, our relationship with the environment,” Andy said.
“We’re conscious of the fact there’s evidence everywhere of a loss of balance in nature and we wanted to make a work that really talked about addressing that and something that expressed a balance and a symbiosis.”
The artists, given free rein for this project, considered both the history and the richness of the agricultural industry in the Lachlan Valley in choosing their subject.
“The agricultural industry is huge so we wanted to acknowledge your industry,” Suzie said.
“It’s the colour of red oxide which is the colour of iron ore which is where it’s come from,” Ball said.
Wandering, as the name suggests, is one of the works that you need to get out of the car and walk around and through to experience.
“I do try to make work that you can move through, sometimes I make them so you can look up and sometimes it creates a frame for a landscape,” Ball said.
He’d encourage everyone to make their way along the trail - from Forbes to Condobolin along the Lachlan Valley Waywith time to visit the sculptures.
“There’s something for everybody with all of them,” he said.
“It’s great, some of them are fun, some of them are poetic, some of them are lifelike, some are full of spirit.”
“The bull, for us, is this symbol of wild, untameable, natural kind of energy - we wanted to build this mountain of muscle and testosterone,” Andy explained.
Then, on his broad back, a little girl playing her violin.
“Most sculpture in Australia, in fact the world, is all about the male so it was really important to us that it was a female,” Suzie said.
They chose a child not only for contrast but as a symbol of vulnerability.
“In talking about this balance in all things we needed to talk about that vulnerability,” Suzie said.
And then there’s the impossibility of the situation - it’s an invitation to the visitor.
Andy hopes people will come in close, walk around Sonata, and touch it. It’s as if the little girl holds the massive bull captive with her music.
“It’s a massive bull made of steel … nevertheless there’s, I think, an energy,” Andy said.
Sonata is at Warroo Reserve.
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Andrew Townsend and Suzie Bleach with Sonata at Warroo on the Sculpture Down the Lachlan trail.
Brett Garling with Brumbies Run at Warroo.
PHOTOS: Renee Powell
David Ball, who created the work Wandering, returned for the opening of the
Enhanced flood training at Wyangala
WaterNSW has rolled out an enhanced flood training program for specialist dam operators at Wyangala and other regional dam sites, significantly adding to the number of skilled personnel across multiple river valleys.
Record numbers of WaterNSW dam operations and planning staff have recently completed training at Wyangala and Burrendong, as well as Keepit, Copeton and Burrinjuck dams, gaining critical flood management skills at multiple locations.
The expanded training follows international awards in November last year recognising WaterNSW for innovation in the recruitment, retention and development of critical water management specialists whose functions include flood planning and response.
While based on forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology (Bureau) the imminent flood risk is low for major WaterNSW regional supply dams, storage levels rose steadily on the back of periodic winter rainfall and wet
catchments - Wyangala was at 95 per cent on Tuesday.
The total regional average storage is approximately 80 per cent of capacity, representing the highest dam levels seen since the end of summer.
As always, WaterNSW is monitoring weather forecasts from the Bureau and will consider releasing water from dams as required.
WaterNSW General Manager, Water Planning and Delivery, Ashley Webb, said the latest training introduced new staff to flood operations, and broadened the skills of existing team members to be familiar with multiple dams.
“WaterNSW crews are well-
recognised as expert dam operators and we maintain that standard through selective recruiting and consistent training in this niche field,” he said.
“Flood preparedness and response is critical to safeguarding our communities, protecting dam infrastructure and maintaining water security.
“Having a larger, wellprepared, regionally placed team means we have never been better placed to perform this key function.”
For information on WaterNSW dams and water management go online to https://waterinsights.waternsw.com.au
IPART sets rate peg at 4.4 per cent for Forbes Shire
Forbes Shire Council and Cabonne shire councils can both increase their rates income up to 4.4 per cent next financial year under the IPART rate pegging determination.
The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has set core council rate pegs for the 2025-26 financial year, ranging from 3.6 per cent to 5.1 per cent.
Tribunal Chair Carmel Donnelly said the rate pegs limit the amount by which councils can increase their rates income, while allowing them to meet changes in the cost of providing services.
“The Tribunal understands that the community has been facing significant cost-of-living pressures and we have taken this into account in our decision making,” she said.
“We continue to make some adjustments to the rate peg over several years to limit the impact on ratepayers.
“We encourage anyone that is having difficulty paying their rates bill to get in touch with their council to access pensioner concessions and other hardship support.”
Ms Donnelly said each council’s rate peg is the maximum per-
centage by which the council can increase their general income. It is open to councils to decide not to implement the increase, or to delay it.
“Rate pegs do not apply directly to individual ratepayers’ rates,” she added.
“Councils may increase categories of rates by more or less than the rate peg, provided the total increase in general income remains within the rate peg.”
IPART estimates a 3.6 per cent increase in council’s business-asusual costs for 2025-26.
To calculate this, they look at:
• Employee costs – measured
using changes in the Local Government State (NSW) Award and adjusted for changes in the superannuation guarantee;
• Asset costs – measured using the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) forecast change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus an adjustment that reflects the average difference between actual CPI (All groups, Sydney) and actual Producer Price Index (PPI) (Road and bridge construction, NSW) over the past five years; and
• Other operating costs – measured by the RBA’s forecast change in the CPI.
The determination for Forbes included 0.7 per cent Emergency Services Levy subsidy catch-up, to cover costs not captured in the rate peg when these increases were subsidised. It also includes 0.6 per cent to cover the cost of running the 2024 local government elections. Cabonne’s determination included 0.7 per cent for the Emergency Services Levy and 0.3 per cent for the local government elections.
Rates constitute about one third of councils’ total income, other sources include grants and user fees and charges.
Should you wish to lodge an expression of interest in the above vehicle’s forms are available from Town Hall or via Council’s website www.forbes.nsw.gov.au Expressions, addressed to the General Manager, are to be lodged either by hand, post or email by 3:00pm, Friday 1st November 2024. These vehicles are available for inspection by appointment only. For further information or to arrange an inspection please contact Council’s Manager Fleet, on 02 6850 2300 or by email to forbes@forbes.nsw.gov.au.
Taste On Templar
Along Templar Street patrons will feast on the delights of a three-course dinner, local and regional wines, boutique beer, cider, soft drinks, water and entertainment with live music. The theme for the event is based around local and regional products and produce, local businesses, people and Summer.
Tickets available through
WaterNSW rolled out enhanced flood training for staff at sites including Wyangala and Burrendong. PHOTO: Supplied
WaterNSW rolled out enhanced flood training for specialist dam operators. PHOTO: Supplied
Nominations are now open for Eugowra’s 2025 Citizen of the year
AUSTRALIA Day award nominations for 2025 are now open for the Cabonne community.
Do you know someone who has made a difference in the Eugowra community or a local group?
Nominations are now open for the following categories:
- Citizen of the Year: for a person who has demonstrated excellence in their field or service to the community through their work or voluntary activities.
Phillip Wykamp was awarded Eugowra Citizen of the Year for 2024.
- Young Citizen of the Year: For a person under 25 years of age who may be considered an inspirational role model and who has served their community through their school, work or voluntary activities.
Thomas Turner was Eugowra’s Young Citizen of the Year for 2024.
- Community Group of the Year: for a group who has made an admirable contribution to the community including sporting groups.
EPPA - Flood Recovery Committee was the deserving Eugowra Community Group of the Year for 2024.
- Cabonne Environmental Champion: for a person or group who has been an advocate for good environmental practices within the Cabonne community.
- Cabonne Sportsperson of the year: for a person who demonstrates sportsmanship qualities and is an active member of a sporting club.
The 2025 Australia Day award nominations are open until 5pm, Sunday, November 3, 2024.
For more information on the nomination process and guidelines visit cabonne. nsw.gov.au/News/Australia-Day-2025Nominations-Now-Open
Cabonne mayor, deputy returned to their offices
COUNCILLOR Kevin Beatty has been re-elected as Mayor of Cabonne Council for his third term, at an Extraordinary Council meeting held in Molong on Tuesday, October 8.
Councillor Jamie Jones has also been re-elected as Deputy Mayor, for his third term as Deputy Mayor.
Both the Mayor and Deputy Mayor were elected unopposed.
Councillor Beatty and Jones will serve in their roles until a
mid-term Mayoral and Deputy Mayoral election due to be held in September 2026.
Re-elected Councillors, Andrew Rawson and Marlene Nash, have been elected as delegates to Central Tablelands Water.
Councillors Beatty and Jones are looking forward to continuing to work together in building on the work of the previous Council.
“It is a privilege and honour to be entrusted by both the
Cabonne community, and my fellow Councillors, to serve a third term as Mayor,” Councillor Beatty said.
“After a difficult period for the Cabonne Local Government Area, Council’s focus for this term will continue to prioritise recovery from the 2022 flood event, while also delivering quality services to all Cabonne communities.”
“It is an exciting time for Cabonne. Whilst we know there is a large amount of work to
be done across Cabonne, there are a large number of community and road infrastructure projects due to be completed and commencing in coming months,” said Councillor Jones.
“Our elected Council is experienced, enthusiastic and understands what needs to be done to get priorities actioned for all of our Cabonne communities, ” said Councillor Beatty.
The first Council meeting for the term will be held on Tuesday, October 22.
Cabonne councillors took their oath or affirmation of office at an extraordinary meeting. INSET: Deputy Mayor Jamie Jones and Mayor Kevin Beatty will serve Cabonne for another term. PHOTOS: Supplied
Celebrating 40 years of Forbes Probus Club
Forbes Probus Club has celebrated 40 years of keeping retirees connected.
Clubs from around the region joined locals in touring local sites before gathering at Club Forbes for lunch on October 11.
Forbes Mayor Phyllis Miller gave an official welcome to Forbes and shared the history of the club.
Current club president Neil Gilmour was central to the club’s formation: he was the Rotary community service director in 1984 when Forbes Rotary decided to assess the need for a Probus club in Forbes.
A letter was sent out to retired professional and businessmen, who gathered in numbers at the golf club on April 27, 1984.
After hearing from the Rotary Club of Young and their newly-formed Probus club, it was moved that Forbes would form its own club.
Nominations were called for the executive, which resulted in Les Hawke, Robert Woodburn and Ron Barter being elected to the positions of president, secretary and treasurer respectively.
The inaugural meeting of the club took place at Forbes golf club on May 25, 1984 when the district governor of
Rotary presented Les Hawke with his sash and his badge of office.
Decades on, the club continues to meet monthly and host interesting speakers to keep members informed of local happenings.
“I want to commend the work of Forbes Probus Club in connecting our older community members,” Mayor Miller said.
“Thank you for the great work you do.”
The club presented certificates of appreciation to:
Bruce Howard, a life member who has been a member since 1999 and served as secretary for about 10 years;
Trevor Drury, long-serving treasurer; and Allan Toole, who has been a member since 1998 and has filled many roles including tour director for many years.
President Neil Gilmour accepted a certificate of 40 years congratulations for 1984 to 2024 from the Probus South Pacific.
Forbes Men’s Probus Club continues to meet monthly, at Club Forbes at 10.30am on the fourth Friday of every month.
If you are retired or semiretired, there is no better time to join.
Long-serving secretary Bruce Howard. Probus President Neil Gilmour and Mayor Phyllis Miller present a certificate of appreciation to Allan Toole. PHOTOS: Renee Powell
Forbes Men’s Probus president Neil Gilmour cuts the anniversary cake with Allan Toole who has been a member since 1998. More photos page 12.
Long-serving treasurer Trevor Drury.
Historic shire books now in Museum
Forbes residents will be able to find records of family members dating back generations thanks to a donation from Forbes Shire Council to the Forbes and District Historical Society (FDHS).
Council donated 29 books of records dating back to 1917 on Thursday October 3, including revenue and cash books, rates billing records, correspondence registers, letter registers and newspaper clippings.
The records are from the former Jemalong Shire and
Be a friend,
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, women aged 50-74 from Western NSW Local Health District are being urged to book in a free mammogram, with more than 40 (41.4) per cent of women in the region overdue for their two-yearly breast cancer screening.
Corey Hemopo, Director of BreastScreen NSW, Greater Western Screening Assessment Service, said with more than 30 local women expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, now is the time to book in a free, life-saving breast screen.
“For women aged 50-74, a breast screen every two years is still the best way to detect breast cancer early – before it can be seen or felt,” Mr Hemopo said.
“If you’re aged 50 – 74, make breast screening a priority. It only takes 20 minutes and no doctor’s referral is needed.”
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, BreastScreen NSW is also encouraging women to Be A Friend, Tell A Friend about the importance of having regular mammograms.
Forbes Municipal Councils, which merged to form Forbes Shire Council in 1981, and will be held in the Forbes Museum, which is managed by FDHS.
Forbes Shire Council Mayor, Phyllis Miller, said the records gave an amazing insight into the history of Forbes.
“They show what residents paid for rates over 100 years ago, letters written between the Councils and residents and how they communicated before telecommunications took over,” she said.
“For residents whose families have lived in Forbes for many generations, they will also be able to view records of their ancestors.
“Forbes Museum is a wonderful asset to our community and the FDHS does an amazing job displaying our shire’s history for the public to enjoy.”
Historical Society President, Bruce Adams, said it was a coup for the museum to be able to preserve these important records.
“They’re a very important ad-
dition to the museum and we’re very appreciative of Forbes Shire Council for its donation,” he said.
“We’re providing a secure location to store them, and while they won’t be permanently displayed, anyone can view them privately by contacting us to make an appointment.
Forbes Museum is at 11 Cross Street, Forbes, and is open daily between 2pm and 4pm.
To contact them phone 6851 6600 or email forbesmuseum@ gmail.com
tell a friend to book a mammogram
Be A Friend, Tell A Friend encourages word of mouth and social media promotion among women to their friends, family and colleagues about the need to have regular mammograms.
Professor Tracey O’Brien AM, NSW Chief Cancer Officer and CEO of the Cancer Institute NSW, said if detected in its earliest stages, a woman’s five-year breast cancer survival rate is 98 per cent.
This drops to 43.9 per cent if detected later, when it has spread to other organs.
“More than 6500 women in NSW are expected to receive a breast cancer diagnosis this year, and 1,000 women are expected to lose their lives to the disease in 2024, so we need to do everything we can to support women and encourage them to book in a life-saving breast screen,” Professor O’Brien said.
“Early detection not only significantly increases a person’s chance of survival it can also greatly reduce the need for invasive treatment like a mastectomy.
“I know how hard it can be
to block out time for yourself.
Unfortunately, breast cancer doesn’t wait, so I encourage all eligible women to stop and put themselves first – for themselves and their family.”
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women with age and being female the biggest risk factors – not family history.
Women aged 50 – 74 years are recommended to have a breast screen every two years.
BreastScreen NSW recommends Aboriginal women start screening at 40 years, with evidence showing that they are diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age, have more advanced cancer at diagnosis and poorer survival rates compared to the overall female population.
Any woman who has noticed a change in their breasts, like a lump, should see their doctor without delay.
For more information and to make an appointment at a local BreastScreen NSW clinic or mobile van, call 13 20 50 or book on-
Snake season is here, what does this mean
for our pets?
By FORBES VETERINARY CLINIC
We have already seen many cases of cats and dogs who have been bitten by snakes.
Although there are subtle differences between the symptoms and signs depending on the breed of snake, the main signs of a snake bite include:
• Collapse followed by apparent recovery
• Lethargy
• Muscle tremors, shaking and reduced eye blinking
• Dilated pupils
• Sudden onset of weakness/wobbliness
• Complete paralysis (Cats will appear “floppy”)
• Inability to control bladder and bowels
• Irregular bleeding from the nose, bite site, mouth
• Discoloured, dark urine (often bloody)
A little known symptom of snake bites in dogs, includes an immediate collapsing event followed by apparent recovery and seeming normal. This is a sign that the dog has been given a lethal dose of the venom.
It is rare to find the bite site as there may not be a bruise, swelling, or redness.
An animal’s reaction, signs or symptoms from being bitten by a snake can be varied due to species of snake and not appear clinically significant for up to 24 hours after the bite occurs.
For this reason, it can be difficult to know if your pet has been the victim of a snake bite and we will need to perform a blood test upon arrival.
If you have witnessed your pet being bitten by a snake, it is important to seek immediate veterinary attention.
If you have seen your dog playing with a snake, and your dog collapses but then gets up immediately and appears to be fine – call your nearest veterinarian to check if they have snake anti-venom.
Top first aid tips for snake bites on dogs:
• Do not panic, and keep your dog calm
• Phone your local vet and let them know you are on your way
• If the bite wound is on the face or neck, remove your dog’s collar as the area may swell
• Attempt to reduce your dog’s movement and activity
• DO NOT try to catch/kill the snake
• DO NOT apply a tourniquet or bandage –usually you won’t be able to see a bite site and applying these techniques to an unbitten leg can cause further unrelated issues.
How do I protect my dog from snake bites?
Australia’s climate is the perfect backyard for snakes; particularly in the spring and summer months when the weather heats up.
line at www.breastscreen.nsw. gov.au.
Dubbo and Orange Health Services also provide BreastScreen NSW clinincs.
For more information about the Be A Friend Tell A Friend promotion visit https://www. breastscreen.nsw.gov.au/breastcancer-awareness-month/
Reptiles will seek food sources in places they are not normally found in often entering backyards and sheltering in porches, empty pot plant pots, sheds, fencing, piles of wood, junk piles etc. Keep scrubby and bushy areas cleared and pruned off the ground, remove potential food sources that bring in rodents and keep your lawns mowed short, as snakes don’t like crossing open ground.
How will the vet treat my dog for a snake bite?
Snake bites are treated as one of the top veterinary emergencies. For this reason, it is always best to ring ahead and let us know that your dog has been bitten by a snake; this way we can prepare for your arrival.
Brown snake venom causes the blood to be unable to clot, therefore the potential to bleed profusely into the chest or via nose and mouth primarily are a concern.
This means snake bite victims may also require blood transfusions and other blood products to restore clotting factors and blood cell counts.
The signs and symptoms of snake bites in dogs can become very serious in nature very quickly, it is likely that your dog will require intensive nursing treatment during recovery from snake envenomation.
How long does it take a snake bite to kill a dog?
This question is not a straight-forward one to answer. Each pet responds differently to the venom effects on musculoskeletal and respiratory systems and kidney damage.
The most common cause of death from a snake bite is paralysis of the respiratory muscles which can happen within one hour after the bite.
Forbes and District Historical Society President Bruce Adams with one of the council record books to be kept at the museum.
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Farraway to stand for federal seat of Calare
Sam Farraway has announced he will step down from NSW Parliament in November to stand as the Nationals candidate for the seat of Calare.
“I will deliver my valedictory speech in the November sitting before formally resigning from the Parliament,” he announced in a statement last week.
“It has been an incredible honour to serve in the NSW Parliament, where I’ve held various roles, including Deputy Government Whip, Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Minister and Shadow Minister.
“Now, I believe the best way to deliver for our community is to represent them as their Federal MP.”
Mr Farraway said one of his proudest achievements had been getting the Betterment Fund, which provides essential funding to rebuild regional transport and road infrastructure stronger after natural disasters.
“To my colleagues and friends, both in and out of Parliament, I extend my deepest gratitude,” he said.
“Your friendship, encouragement and belief in me has helped me through some of the toughest moments and have made the wins even sweeter.
“I leave knowing that the work we’ve done will continue to make a difference in the
lives of people across the state.
“Thank you to everyone who has believed in me, and to the people of the Central West - you will always have my deepest respect and appreciation.
“And lastly, to my family - my mum, sister and brothers - you’ll never know how much your love and support has meant to me. I owe everything to you, and I know you’ll
It’s time again for Christmas Tree Festival
MEMBERS of Rotary Ipomoea are excited to invite the community to their 12th Christmas Tree Festival.
Trees can be commercially bought or a tree in a pot or a branch in a bucket full of wet sand or a painted tree branch.
Trees can be from recycled materials, welded, nailed, or glued.
Lights can be added but are not necessary.
You may choose to do a Nativity, wall hanging or poster, as long as it has a Christmas theme Rotary Ipomoea will love it.
Enter individually or enter your school, club, family, community group, business or church and support this Rotary Ipomoea project to provide a family experience for Forbes and District this Christmas.
Rotary Ipomoea asks that you place a Christmas Greeting on or under your tree from your class, club members, family or business and you may place your groups meeting times and venues under your tree.
Exhibits need to be delivered to the Forbes Town Hall between 7am and 10am, Friday, December 6 or between 3pm and 5pm Thursday, December 6.
The exhibition will be open to the public on Friday, December 6 from 1-5pm, all day
Saturday, December 7 from 9pm to 5pm and from 9am to 2pm Sunday, December 8.
Entry to view the Christmas Tree Festival will be $5 per adult and free for primary school children. Check out Kerrie Winnett who travelled all the way from Wodonga last year to enter the Christmas tree festival.
Kerrie puchased a Christmas tree dress from a theatre
company in Sydney who were selling their pantomime costumes ... we can’t wait to see what she does this year!
If you are interested in taking part in the 12 annual Christmas tree festival RSVP by calling a Rotary Ipomoea member on 0439708456 or 0427201445 or 0413274735. Members will be able to supply you with any further information and answer any questions you may have.
Locals cheer with $1.7m winner
A MANILDRA man was left shaking with excitement after landing a sensational $1.7 million Keno prize.
The Cabonne Shire resident scored the Keno Classic 10 Spot jackpot in draw 207, drawn Friday October 11, 2024 and won $1,747,357.00 right here in Forbes.
The New South Welshman didn’t realise he had won until his son gave him a call to tell him someone in the area had won the Keno Classic 10 Spot, and advised him to check his ticket as soon as possible.
“I feel numb, I can’t stop shaking,” he laughed.
“We visited Forbes on the weekend for something different and I decided to put a game of Keno on while we were visiting the Inn.
“I sort of didn’t know I had won.
“I had put the game on and left it for a bit.
and I couldn’t believe it. While my son always thinks he’s right, he was right this time!
“It was definitely a great trip into Forbes –my new favourite place!
“I can’t stop the shakes. I had a couple of celebratory beers to try and stop them.”
With $1.7 million opening the doors to a world of possibilities, the doting dad revealed he would start exploring some potential houses to buy for his family.
His winning Keno Classic entry was purchased at Forbes Inn, 43 Rankin Street, Forbes.
The Forbes Inn duty manager Sharon Rossiter said there had been a real buzz in the venue when the $1.7 million prize was won.
“There was a lot of hype when the 10 Spot went off in our venue, and everyone was wondering who might have won,” she said.
be there with me in this next journey.”
The current Federal Member for Calare, which includes Eugowra, is Independent Andrew Gee.
“I then received a call from my son who told me that the Keno Classic 10 Spot jackpot went off and he asked if I had won it. I thought I didn’t win so I just said no.
“I then checked the ticket on the Keno app,
Gas services relocation
“We’ve had wins of $7,000 and $10,0000 but never anything like this. It’s a real milestone for Forbes Inn.
“Congratulations to the winner and we wish them all the very best with their million-dollar windfall.”
23 October - 5 November 2024
Utilities contractors, working on behalf of Inland Rail, will undertake works including out-of-hour night works to relocate gas services in the vicinity of Wyndham Avenue, Forbes between Wednesday 23 October and Tuesday 5 November 2024
Works planned
Trenching works associated with the relocation of existing and installation of new gas pipelines. These works include gas pipeline bypass installation and tie-in to the existing gas pipeline network.
Temporary service interruptions may be required. Impacted residents will be notified in advance.
Hours of work
Works will occur during standard ‘on shift’ working hours of 7am to 6pm Monday to Sunday Out-of-hours works will also be undertaken over two nights from 8pm Friday 25 October to 5am Sunday 27 October, pending weather conditions. These night works are required to minimise disruptions to gas supply users and impacts on the community. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation while these works are carried out.
Kerrie Winnett travelled from Wodonga last year to enter the Christmas Tree competition with her Christmas tree dress.
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Sam Farraway has announced he will stand for the Federal seat of Calare. PHOTO: Supplied
A sensational day for annual Spring races
A BEAUTIFUL spring day heralded the annual Forbes Spring Race Carnival at Forbes Jockey Club.
The inaugural yabby race was held under the tote cover, with 12 yabbies being auctioned, and the funds returned to the winners.
The auction, conducted by Forbes Jockey President Randall Grayson, was an entertaining intermission between races.
The six race program was highly successful with punters enjoying the day.
And the yabbies are off and racing!
Winners
The Forbes CanAssist team were on hand at the gate to welcome visitors - Helen Westwood, Carolyn Morrison, John Schrader and Wendy Hartwig.
Stephen West, Anthony Davies and Jason Kennedy in the members stand.
Macey Roylance and Alana Kitson enjoying the day trackside at the Forbes Spring Races.
Isabella, Elkie, Dominique, Maggie and Henry Nixon with Janet Callaghan.
Forbes Jockey Club committee members Lara Drabsch and Tractor Rennick.
Katie Blair, Harrison Terry, Curtis Wykamp and Vivienne Whitehead had a great view of the races.
Heidi Nicholson, Tara Borger, Amy Slessor and Sally Pietsch in the members stand.
Fashions on the Field winners Most Elegant Lady Kristy Moore, Best Millinery Jackie Murray, Best Dressed Local Couple Jessie Rix and Sam Tildsley, Best Dressed Gent Harrison Terry and Best Millinery Jackie Murray.
Fashions on the Field were judged by Sheryn Davie and Mel West, who walked among the crowd selecting the winners of each of the four categories.
of the Fashions on the Field were: Most Elegant Lady Kristy Moore; Best Dressed Best Millinery Jackie Murray; Local Couple Jessie Rix and Sam Tildsley; and Best Dressed Gent Harrison Terry. Racing news from the day from Colin Hodges in the sport section of this edition.
The yabby auction drew a lot of interest from the crowd. Zola King and Pippa Grayson with the 12 yabbies selected for the yabby race ready for auction.
Winner Jack Rix and Forbes Jockey President Randall Grayson at the Yabby Auction.
Winners are grinners with their winning yabbies - Peter Gasson (third), Zola King and Pippa Grayson (second) and Jack Rix (first).
The making of a garden
By ELVY QUIRK
FORBES Garden Club held their social meeting on Tuesday September 24 at the home of Sue and Bob Jayet.
On a really warm day President Margaret welcomed 33 members.
Discussion took place about the Friendship Day at Young and Elvy collected the cost and organised travel.
Our Christmas luncheon was discussed and it was decided to hold it at the Vandenberg Hotel on November 26.
The cost is $40 for a two course meal and money is payable at the October meeting. Please have your money in an envelope with your name on it.
The garden of Sue and Bob Jayet is picture perfect with quite a number of shrubs, shade trees and roses.
Sue and Bob spoke on how they initially moved into their home in 1972 but
work was number one then and the garden was not established until much later.
Sylvia Glasson thanked them for hosting the meeting.
Flower of the month was won by Denise Thurston with a lovely Paint Brush Lily, 2nd Gail McKay with a white orchid and 3rd Meg Scholefield a Cherokee Rose. Raffle prizes to Jan Stewart and Ann Nelson.
Our next social meeting will be on
October 22, 2 pm at 14 Windsor Street.
Directions-take Bedgerebong Road, turn left onto Edward Street and take first turn to left into Windsor Street.
Look forward to seeing you there, please bring your hat, mug and your chair. Flower of month and trading table as usual.
“When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.”
CAR CLUB’S SHOW ‘N’ SHINE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS SATURDAY
IF you’ve got a passion for cars and bikes or anything else with wheels, then you won’t want to miss the Central West Car Club annual Show ‘n Shine to be held this Saturday October 19 at Pioneer Oval in Parkes.
This year’s feature vehicle is utes so it was timely to talk to show organiser Jo Hemming about her custom EH Holden ute.
“I bought it seven years ago after yearning for one ever since I was 16,” Jo said.
“Dad owned a pretty tough EH sedan and when I got my L’s I was hoping that it might become mine, but much to my disgust Dad thought it was too powerful for me and sold it; leaving me to learn to drive in a Corolla.”
The apple obviously didn’t fall too far from the tree though, because under the bonnet of Jo’s EH is a fuel injected 186 built to XU1 specs mated to a 5 speed gearbox, 4 wheel disc brakes and a limited slip diff.
From the
mayor’s desk
For the keen eye the rear end has been customised with EH wagon rear quarters and tail-lights and all of that has been finished in GMH Tartan Turquoise with a white roof and hard cover.
“This will be the 20th year for the CWCC’s Show ‘n Shine and I’m looking forward to bringing the ute out for all to see,” Jo said.
“Not only will there be plenty of cars and bikes on show but we’ll have a street cruise on the Friday night and live music on the day
from local act Mick Green.”
There’s lots more to see and do with gates open to spectators at 9am on Saturday for a gold coin donation to Can Assist.
With a range of trophies to be won, vehicle entrants are welcome on the day or you can download an entry form on the car club website www.centralwestcarclub.com
“For more information you can find our contact details on the website or follow us on Facebook,” Jo said.
The ABBA Festival is here, plan your weekend
The Trundle ABBA Festival is here and this is what all you Super Troopers and Dancing Queens need to know.
The Trundle ABBA Festival markets open at 8:30am in Memorial Hall and ABBA Central opens at 9am in the main street.
Street performers and entertainment will be putting on a show from 10am in the main street before the Waterloo Express arrives at the Train Station at 12pm.
Parkes Town Crier, Tim Keith, will also be in the main street at 12pm.
The main stage gates open at 12:15pm at Berryman Oval with DJ Diggz getting the party started.
Andante Andante Choir will have you singing along to some of ABBA’s most popular hits and some of their
less popular but still groovy numbers from 12:35pm. The official welcome will be underway from 1:05pm featuring welcome to country with Auntie Rhonda and welcome by Parkes Mayor Neil Westcott.
The Celia Vild Memorial best dressed award will be presented at 2:20pm so make sure to have your best ABBA inspired costumes ready.
At 3:20pm the hottest live disco show on the circuit, Disco Revolution will have the crowd dancing to classic hits from the 70s and 80s followed by Furnace and the and the Fundamentals 5pm.
The highly anticipated band Bjorn Again will once again take to the Trundle ABBA Festival stage this year at 7:30pm.
With their tight harmonies, flamboyant costumes, and quirky dance moves, Bjorn Again will transport you back to the 70s faster than you can say “Dancing Queen”.
Following an amazing line up of entertainment fireworks will end the night at 9pm.
In Trundle the annual Trundle Pink Ribbon Night will also be held on the Friday night raising money for breast cancer.
This is family-friendly night of fun, laughter and generosity.
Over the past nine years, this incredible event has raised more than $150,000 for the fight against cancer.
This weekend is sure to be fun for all so don’t miss out on the excitement and book your tickets for the 2024 Trundle ABBA Festival via 123tix.
By MAYOR PHYLLIS MILLER OAM
IT is that time of the year again to nominate some of our outstanding citizens for the 2025 Australia Day Awards. Nominations are now open. The award categories are Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year and Senior Citizen of the Year winners will be presented at a gala dinner on Saturday 25 January 2025. Any resident is eligible for Citizen of the Year, while Young Citizen of the Year is open to residents aged 25 or younger. Anyone aged 65 years or older is eligible for Senior Citizen of the Year.
This is the perfect opportunity for residents who have displayed excellence, made a significant contribution to the community or had an outstanding achievement to gain recognition in their own community.
There are so many remarkable residents in our shire who have helped our community thrive and there is no better to time to share their story and celebrate them than on Australia Day. To nominate go to https:// www.forbes.nsw.gov.au/ community/our-community/ australia-day and download the nomination form. Copies are also available from Forbes Shire Council’s office at 2 Court Street, Forbes. Forms can be returned to Council by email at community@forbes.nsw.gov.au or by mail to PO Box 333, Forbes NSW 2871.
Award winners will be determined by a judging panel made up of members of the Forbes Shire community. Don’t forget it is our cutest event of the year on Saturday – the Teddy Bears Picnic. Head down to Lions Park from 10am until 1pm to enjoy a fun family day for all – don’t forget to bring your teddy so they can go on some fun adventures with you. There will be bandage a bear, you can go on a fire truck and enjoy lots of bear themed craft activities.
Throughout the day there will be games, actives, craft, facepainting and a jumping castle.
Children are invited to bring along their favourite teddy bear and participate in the Teddy Bear Parade.
Sue and Bob Jayet in their garden.
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Forbes’ 2024 Citizens of the Year, Cheryl and Rex Barton. It’s time to get nominations in for the 2025 awards.
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Jo Hemming with her custom EH Holden ute.
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Men’s Probus Club celebrates 40 years in Forbes
Please join us for our Morning Tea & Information Session to learn about our next stage & proposed plans for Jemalong Retirement Village.
Wednesday, 6 November at 10 AM 240 Edward St, Forbes NSW 2871
RSVP by calling Gwen on 0421 770 101 or register your interest on our website.
Men’s Probus members Ray Martin, David Nock and Mick Malloy.
Bev Gerdes-Green, Pam and Allan Toole and (standing) Trevor Drury.
Kerry Wright, Dianne Sams, Marilyn Dickenson and Cheryl Milford from Bathurst joined the Forbes celebrations.
John Bruce, Jenny Currey and Mayor Phyllis Miller.
Barry Wright, Peter Mackay and Bruce Dean celebrating 40 years of Forbes Probus.
Members of Probus clubs from all over the region joined Forbes to celebrate our club’s 1984-2024 milestone. Full story page 7.
Visitors Marie Francis, Pam McPhail, Maxine Weidemann, Mandy Herrity, Mary Sams, Gillian Date (front) Heather Wittich, Annie Bourke and Lyn McGarry supported the Forbes celebrations.
Forbes’ U3A Singers entertained guests at the Probus 40th anniversary celebration with a selection of classic songs.
Lynette and Barry Cubbitt of Blayney with Forbes member Robert Bryson.
Roberta and John Read, Felicity Cosgrove, Pat Devenish (front) Pam Brady, Dorothy Bartlett and Jan Flloyd from Orange at the luncheon at Club Forbes.
Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme
Neighbourhood Central’s Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS) has teamed up with Cycling Without Age, Parkes Trishaw, to continue reducing social isolation for the older people in Parkes. ACVVS has started a Morning tea meet up every fortnight on Wednesdays at 11am at Bushman’s Dam with our
September. It was wonderful to have our volunteers and recipients able to enjoy a Trishaw ride together and be out in the sunshine and fresh air combating social isolation together.
If you know someone receiving governmentsubsidised residential aged care or Home Care Package (HCP) services
who are socially isolated or lonely please refer them to Neighbourhood Central and we can match them with a suitable Volunteer Visitor. We are also in need of more volunteers in Parkes and Forbes. If you would like to brighten the days of older people as a valued volunteer, you are invited to join us as we bring this opportunity to
those who need a visitor. If you would like further information, request a visitor, or know of someone this service, please contact Brooke at Neighbourhood Central on: 1300 810 771 admin@ncentral.org.au
By MARG APPLEBEE
CENTRAL WEST LACHLAN LANDCARE
Another fabulous Homegrown Parkes community event was held on the weekend!
Thank you to our community for once again coming out and being part of the day in Cooke Park.
Our stallholder survey has been distributed and we would also love to hear feedback from those who attended the event.
Both of the surveys close on Sunday, October 20 at 5pm.
A massive thank you to everyone who has already responded to our request for feedback.
We try to factor in your suggestions moving forward, particularly around demonstrations, workshops, educational opportunities and stallholder suggestions.
It does sometimes become evident that many people don’t understand the ethos behind the ‘homegrown’ concept.
Parkes events for the next three years, twice a year. This is for our community. We don’t have a team of paid people running the event, apart from me, we are supported by volunteers from our Committee, volunteers from the Parkes Community Arts Committee and with in-kind support from Parkes Shire Council.
This past event also received support from the Northparkes Evolution Community Investment Program. I hope to have the results of our surveys in the weeks ahead.
We will be holding our next event in March of 2025 and look forward to sharing those details with you shortly, so keep a check on our social media.
Whilst having 100 stalls in our park would provide a lot of diversity, it is really important that we maintain a standard that focusses on promoting local and regional businesses, not for profits etc. Bigger is not necessarily better.
These events would not be possible without many volunteers contributing on the day.
Thank you to our Landcare volunteers and Parkes Community Arts volunteers.
and Dramatic Society and Parkes School of Dance and the Barnes family.
We love being able to showcase our local talent and have locals sharing with locals.
A bigger event is not our goal.
Thanks to the Parkes Shire Concert Band, Parkes Music
MONDAY’S CATTLE SALE
Yarding 1802 (up 372)
Numbers lifted by 372 for a yarding of 1802 cattle.
Quality was good with an excellent yarding of prime yearlings and grown cattle.
There was limited supply of feeder types on offer as well as a small supply of cows.
All the regular buyers were present.
Prime yearling steers were slightly cheaper, 265c to 360c, while prime yearling heifers gained 4c, 281c to 345c/kg.
Feeder steers were considerably cheaper, 302c to 365c,
and feeder heifers eased 5c, 270c to 325c/kg.
Prime grown cattle were up to 15c better in places, heavy steers sold from 284c to 358c, and heavy heifers, 265c to 344c/kg. Cows dropped 15c, 2 and 3 scores sold from 180c to 280c, and heavy prime cows, 285c to 318c/kg.
Heavy bulls sold to 296c/ kg.
TUESDAY’S SHEEP SALE
Yarding 39,300 (down 1350) Numbers remain similar and just over 10,000 new season lambs were penned.
The quality of the new season lambs was good although there were a few with Bathurst Burr on the skin.
Old lambs quality was mixed in the trade runs and more consistent in the heavy weights.
Extra heavy lambs were limited.
Merino lambs were back in volume and lighter weights were heavily discounted.
The majority of the market sold to a firm to dearer trend.
New season trade weights ranged from $155 to $210 and heavy weights $190 to
A big thanks to our amazing stallholders and food vendors, particularly those who continue to support every event. We were also thrilled to have several new stallholders join us.
If you would like to complete our survey, it can be found via our website or social media.
Central West Lachlan Landcare have committed to delivering Homegrown
For further information on this article, please go to www. centralwestlachlanlandcare. org, twitter, facebook or Instagram @cwllandcare or contact Marg Applebee on 0418 611 053.
$246 and a pen of extra heavy lambs reached $248/head.
Most ranged from 780c to 830ckg and were firm.
Old trade lambs were $10 to $15 dearer after a slow previous week and ranged from $152 to $187/head averaging 780c/kg.
Heavy weights to 30kg sold from $175 to $238/head and were firm to slightly stronger in places and extra heavy lambs sold from $233 to $264/ head.
Light and plain Merinos were $15 to $20 cheaper while most Merino 24kg and heavier with cover were
firm, Heavy weights sold from $186 to $210/head.
Mutton numbers were back and the quality was very mixed from the very light 1 score ewes to very heavy crossbreds.
Prices were stronger lifting $7 to $11/head, medium weight ewes sold from $54 to $98/head and heavy crossbreds reached $117 while heavy Merinos with a big skin made to $136/head.
Most sold from 280c to 335c/kg cwt.
- FROM MLA’S NATIONAL LIVESTOCK REPORTING AGENCY
Emily and Fiona Francis, Deb Jones, Sharon Degeling, Helen Standen and Sharyn Ware.
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TANIA COLE
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY SALES
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Paddy has clocked up $70 million worth of property sales and in achieving an unprecedented consistent customer
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NICK KELLY
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Proudly the leading sales agent in Parkes nsW*. (*Based on
clients.
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KIM WATTS
RURAL PROPERTY & WATER SALES
Perhaps best known for her ability to source and sell australia.Recently recognised as a premier performer in the
RAY WHITE FORBES 0429 952 499
JIM O’DONOGHUE
RURAL SALES SPECIALIST
Drawing form his extensive background in property Management and sales Jim is an asset when it comes to Buying and selling in Parkes
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6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 Fake Or Fortune? 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure.
1.55 The Princes And The Press. 3.00 Muster Dogs. 3.55 Love Your Garden. 4.45 Grand Designs Revisited. 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 Hard Quiz. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Miniseries: Nolly. 9.20 Question Everything. 9.50 Hard Quiz. 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 Miniseries: Nolly. 11.35 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 2.30 Harry’s Practice. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 The Zoo. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Mighty Trains. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 10.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.40 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.05 Would I Lie To You? 4.35 MythBusters. 5.25 Long Lost Family: What Happened Next. 6.15 Car S.O.S. 7.00 My Family. 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 MOVIE: The Pianist. (2002) 11.05 Late Programs.
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Ruthless Renegades. (2020) 2.00 House Of Wellness. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 7News Local. 6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 8.30 MOVIE: Jerry Maguire. (1996) Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger. 11.30 GetOn Extra. 12.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.00 Air Crash Investigations: Accident Files. 2.00 Disasters At Sea. 3.00 Timbersports. 3.30 Carnage. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Resto. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Surveillance Oz. 8.30 MOVIE: Hellboy. (2004) 11.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.05 Kangaroo Beach. 6.25 The Adventures Of Paddington. 7.05 Riley Rocket. 7.35 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 8.00 Scooby-Doo And Guess Who? 8.30 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 8.55 Robot Wars. 9.55 Doctor Who. 10.40 Late Programs.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30
9News Morning. 12.00 MOVIE: Zoe’s Having A Baby. (2023) 2.00 Pointless.
3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 9News
Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. Tonga. 10.00 Pacific Championships: Australia Vs Tonga Post-Match. 10.30 MOVIE: Criminal. (2016) 12.40 Tipping Point. 1.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.00 Jabba’s Movies. 3.30 Bondi Vet. 4.30 Australia’s Got Talent. 6.00 MOVIE: The Karate Kid Part III. (1989) 8.30 MOVIE: A Man Called Otto. (2022) Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño. 11.10 MOVIE: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. (2017) 1.35 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 12.30 Family Feud. 1.00 10 News First: Lunchtime. 2.00 Wheel Of Fortune. 2.30 Lingo. 3.30 10 News First: Afternoon. 4.00 Family Feud. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Deal Or No Deal. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Sort Your Life Out. 8.45 Have You Been
6.00 Morning Programs.
2.00
4.00 Escape To The Country. 5.00 The Zoo. 5.30 Horse Racing. 6.00 Dog Patrol. 6.30 The Highland Vet. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 10.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Rage Charts. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Rage. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Unforgotten. Final. 1.15 Grantchester. 2.05 Question Everything. 2.35 Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. 4.55 Take 5 With Zan Rowe. 5.30 Landline. 6.00 Australian Story. 6.30 Back Roads. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Grantchester. 8.20 Vera. 9.50 Return To Paradise. Final. 10.45 Miniseries: Better. 11.45 Rage. 6.00 Kids’
6.00 Morning Programs. 4.00 Would I Lie To You? 4.35 MythBusters. 5.25 Long Lost Family: What Happened Next. 6.15 Car S.O.S. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.20 Gavin & Stacey. 10.15 Late Programs.
6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. 5.30 The Great Outdoors. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 7.30 MOVIE: Ghostbusters II. (1989) Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd. 9.45 MOVIE: Venom: Let There Be Carnage. (2021) Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson. 11.45 To Be Advised. 12.45 Taken. 2.00 Late Programs.
9.50 Officially Amazing. 10.20 Dragon Ball Super. 10.45 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 6.30 A Current Affair. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Our State On A Plate. 12.30 My Way. 1.00 Great Australian Detour. 1.40 The Block. 4.30 The Garden Gurus. 5.00 9News First At Five. 5.30 Getaway. 6.00 9News Saturday. 7.00 Rugby League. 9.00
MOVIE: John Wick. (2014) Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe. 11.00 MOVIE: Concussion. (2015) 1.20 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.55 Australia’s Got Talent. 2.20 Wife Swap Australia. 3.35 Dancing With The Stars: All Stars. 5.15 MOVIE: A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood. (2019) 7.30 MOVIE: The Jewel Of The Nile. (1985) 9.45 MOVIE: Erin Brockovich. (2000) Julia Roberts. 12.20 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.50 Keeping Up Appearances. 3.00 Antiques. 3.30 MOVIE: The Call Of The Wild. (1972) 5.30 7.30 Antiques Downunder. 8.30 MOVIE: Rambo: Last Blood. (2019) 10.25 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 9.30 The Drew Barrymore Show. 10.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 1.00 Planet Shapers. 1.30 Motorcycle Racing. 4.00 My Market Kitchen. 4.30 Farm To Fork. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Dog House. 7.30 Thank God You’re Here. 8.40 The Dog House Australia. 9.40 Ambulance Australia. 10.55 Ambulance UK. 12.10 Late Programs. 6.00 Morning Programs. 1.30 JAG. 3.30 On The Fly. 4.00
6.00 Morning Programs. 2.20 MOVIE: Flight From Ashiya. (1964) 4.30 Rugby League.
7.00 Customs. 7.30 MOVIE: The Shawshank Redemption. (1994) 10.25 MOVIE: In The Heat Of The Night. (1967) 12.40 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 2.00 Bouddi Wild Swim.
6.00 Morning Programs.
1.00 The Surgery Ship. 2.00 Shannons SpeedSeries. 4.00 Bondi Vet. 5.00 Escape To The Country. 6.00 Greatest Escapes To The Country. 6.45 Escape To The Country. 7.45 Mrs Brown’s Boys. 8.30 Miniseries: The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe. 10.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Hello SA. 6.30 A Current Affair. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Wide World Of Sports. 11.00 Cross Court. 11.30 Fishing Australia. 12.00 Drive TV. 12.30 The Pet Rescuers. 1.05 Bondi Vet. 2.05 The Block. 4.30 Explore TV. 5.00 9News First At Five. 5.30 RBT. 6.00 9News Sunday. 7.00 The Block. 8.40 60 Minutes. 9.40 9News Late. 10.10 See No Evil. 11.10 The First 48. 12.00 Bondi Vet. 1.00 Fishing Australia. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Holistic Living. 10.30 My Asian Banquet. 11.00 Farmer Wants A Wife. 12.35 Home And Away. 3.30 To Be Advised. 5.30 Puppy School. 6.30 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly. 7.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 Law & Order. 11.30 Late Programs.
OK? 9.00 Nightly News. 9.30 Aust Story. 10.00 Late Programs. 6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 The Voice. 3.00 Beach Cops. 3.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 The Voice. 8.50 7NEWS Spotlight. 9.50 Crime Investigation Australia: Most Infamous. 11.05 Autopsy USA. 12.05 The Starter Wife. 2.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Intrepid Adventures. 12.30 Cook With Luke. 1.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Round 17. Australian Grand Prix. Race. 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 Luxury Escapes. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 The Sunday Project. 7.00 The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition. Final. 8.10 The Graham Norton Show. Return. 9.10 FBI: International. 11.00 The Sunday Project. 12.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.30 On The Fly. 2.00 IFISH. 2.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Melbourne United v South East Melbourne Phoenix. 4.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Adelaide 36ers v Tasmania JackJumpers. 6.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Bull. 12.15 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Australia. 2.30 Darby And Joan. Final. 3.15 Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat. 4.00 Restoration Australia. 5.00 Antiques Roadshow. 6.00 Grand Designs Australia. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. Return. 8.00 Fisk. Return. 8.30 Plum. New. 9.25 I Was Actually There. 9.55 You Can’t Ask That. 10.30 Melbourne Comedy Festival: Allstars Supershow. 12.30 Late Programs. 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.20 Odd Squad. 4.35 Little J And Big Cuz. 5.10 PJ Masks. 6.05 Interstellar Ella. 6.25 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 7.05 Andy And The Band. 7.30 MOVIE: Scoob! (2020) 9.00 MOVIE: Zombie Town. (2023) 10.30 Doctor Who. 11.15 Late Programs. 6.00 Morning Programs. 3.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 4.10 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.35 MythBusters. 5.25 Long Lost Family: What Next. 6.15 Car S.O.S. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 8.00 QI. 8.30 The Assembly. 9.15 Take 5. 9.50 ER. 10.30 Late Programs. 6.00 Morning Programs. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Moments: 2023 FIFA Film. 4.00 Etched In Gold. 4.30 Motor Racing. World Rally-Raid C’ship. Rallye Du Maroc. H’lights. 5.00 Wonders Of Scotland. 5.30 Stasi: A State Against Its People. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Nefertiti: To Whom Belongs This Beauty?
6.00 Morning Programs. 11.30 MOVIE: Champagne Charlie. (1944) 1.40 MOVIE: The Colditz Story. (1955) 3.40 MOVIE: Alexander The Great. (1956) 6.30 M*A*S*H. 8.30 MOVIE: Under Siege. (1992) Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey. 10.40 Chicago Med. 11.40 Late Programs.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Distractions continue to nibble at your available time. Turn them off and concentrate on setting your sights on your goal. Progress might be slow, but it is steady.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) An opportunity opens up in a new
You might not feel that it’s for you, but check it out anyway. You could be surprised; you might be able to adjust to its requirements.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A new work environment presents some difficult choices. Best advice: Be ready to defend your decisions while still keeping your mind open to suggested alternatives.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) Don’t let your Leonine pride continue to jeopardize a cherished relationship. You’ve already taken too long to make that apology. Do it now before it’s too late.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A friend needs assistance but fears that you might want to know more than they are prepared to reveal. Provide help without probing into the situation.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You face an important personal decision that could affect a family member. Have a full, frank, no-holds-barred discussion with them before you act.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Take some time out to think over the choices that have suddenly emerged in your life. Don’t be rushed into making a decision until all the facts are known.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Someone might be trying to gain your trust for their own advantage. Be wary: A seemingly friendly smile might be an exercise in teeth-baring.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A situation that emerged earlier can no longer be ignored. You need to deal with it now so that it won’t interfere with more important considerations.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A job situation presents some problems. Deal with them one by one, and they’ll soon vanish. Meanwhile, in your personal life, a Libra would like to know your intentions.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Let your partner know how you feel about your stalled relationship. A delay will result in your swimming around in circles and going nowhere.
6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Landline. 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Vera. 2.30 Creative Types With Virginia Trioli. 2.55 Muster Dogs. Final. 3.55
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Catch Phrase. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 7News Local.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.30 Great Australian Doorstep. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Great Scenic Railway Journeys. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 The Zoo. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 2.40 The IT Crowd. 3.05 Doctor Who. 3.50 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.15 MythBusters. 5.05 Merlin. 5.50 Car S.O.S. 6.35 My Family. 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.15 MythBusters. 10.05 ER. 11.30 Late Programs.
6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. 9.10 The Rookie. 10.10 S.W.A.T. 11.10 The Latest: Seven News. 11.40 Lopez Vs. Lopez. 12.40 Miniseries: Deadline Gallipoli. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 NBC Today. 5.00 Sunrise 5am News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.30 Supercars Supports. 3.30 Cities Of The Underworld. 4.30 Talking W. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Aussie Gold Hunters. 8.30 Outback Crystal Hunters. 9.30 Bamazon. 10.30 Late Programs.
Love Your Garden. 4.45 Grand Designs Revisited. 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 Hard Quiz. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 Q+A. 10.35 ABC Late News. 10.50 The Business. 11.10 Planet America. 11.40 Late Programs. 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.05 Kangaroo Beach. 6.25 The Adventures Of Paddington. 7.05 Riley Rocket. 7.35 Little Lunch. 7.50 Operation Ouch! 8.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 9.00 Teenage Boss: Next Level. 9.25 Poh’s Kitchen. 9.55 Doctor Who. 10.40 Merlin. 11.25 Late Programs.
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 To Be Advised. 1.40 Border Security: International. 2.10 Catch Phrase. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 7News Local. 6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. 9.10 Alert: Missing Persons Unit. 10.10 Made In Bondi. Final. 11.15 The Latest: Seven News. 11.45 Chicago Fire. 12.45 Your Money & Your Life. 1.15 Late Programs.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. 1.30 Explore TV. 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.40 Miniseries: Bali 2002. 10.40 9News Late. 11.10 The Brokenwood Mysteries. 1.00 Cross Court. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. 4.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 10.30 Back With The Ex. 12.00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer. 3.00 To Be Advised. 4.40 Glee. 5.30 The Goldbergs. 6.00 Modern Family. 6.25 First Dates Australia. 7.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 Law & Order: LA. 11.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.00 News. 4.00
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 12.30 Family Feud. 1.00 10 News First: Lunchtime. 2.00 Wheel Of Fortune. 2.30 Lingo. 3.30 10 News First: Afternoon. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Deal Or No Deal. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Dessert Masters. 8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? 9.40 Top Gear Australia. 11.10 10’s Late News. 11.35 Late Programs. 6.00 Home Shopping. 8.00 Healthy Homes. 8.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 9.30 Tough Tested. 10.30 Diagnosis Murder. 11.30 JAG. 12.30 Dr Phil. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 FBI.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.50 Iconic Australia. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: The Frightened City. (1961) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 The Good Karma Hospital. 9.40 Agatha Raisin. 10.40 Late Programs.
Becker. 5.30 Frasier. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Big Bang. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 10.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Creek To Coast. 2.30 My Greek Odyssey. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 The Zoo. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Call The Midwife. 8.45 Inspector George Gently. 10.45 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 2.10 ER. 2.55 Doctor Who. 3.45 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.05 Would I Lie To You? 4.35 MythBusters. 5.25 Merlin. 6.15 Car S.O.S. 7.00 My Family. 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Breeders. 9.20 Fisk. 9.50 Extras. 10.20 ER. 11.45 Late Programs.
2.25
Brush
2.55 Makers Of
Australia. 3.50
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Hornby: A Model Empire. 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 The Zoo. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.45 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. 10.45 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 2.10 ER.
6.00 Morning Programs. 2.00 Outback Crystal Hunters. 3.00 Billy Exterminator. 3.30 Cities Of The Underworld. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Truckers. 9.30 Big Rig Bounty Hunters. 10.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. 1.00 Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things. 2.00 Brush With Fame. 2.25 Space 22. 2.55 Makers Of Modern Australia. 3.55 Love Your Garden. 4.40 Grand Designs Revisited. 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 Hard Quiz. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Back Roads. 8.30 Take 5 With Zan Rowe. 9.05 Louis Theroux Interviews... 9.45 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 10.15 Kitchen Cabinet. 10.50 ABC Late News. 11.05 Late Programs. 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 6.05 Kangaroo Beach. 6.25 The Adventures Of Paddington. 7.05 Riley Rocket. 7.35 Little Lunch. 7.50 Operation Ouch! 8.25 Deadly 60. 8.55 Steve Backshall Vs The Vertical Mile. 9.45 Doctor Who. 10.30 Merlin. 11.15 Late Programs.
6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 To Be Advised. 1.40 Border Security: International. 2.10 Catch Phrase. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 7News Local. 6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 The 1% Club UK. 8.30 Arj Barker: Comes Clean. 9.45 Australia: Now And Then. 10.45 The Latest: Seven News. 11.15 Chicago Fire. 12.15 Stan Lee’s Lucky Man. 1.15 Late Programs.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. 1.10 Getaway. 1.40 Innovation Nation. 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.30 The Hundred With Andy Lee. 9.30 True Story With Hamish & Andy. 10.30 9News Late. 11.00 Transplant. 11.50 Tipping Point. 12.40 Pointless. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 2.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.00 To Be Advised. 4.40 Glee. 5.30 The Goldbergs. 6.00 Modern Family. 6.25 First Dates Australia. 7.30 First Dates UK. 8.35 MOVIE: You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. (2008) Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider. 10.35 The Goldbergs. 11.35 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.00 News
Nightly News. 10.15 Four Corners. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 12.30 Family Feud. 1.00 10 News First: Lunchtime. 2.00 Wheel Of Fortune. 2.30 Lingo. 3.30 10 News First: Afternoon. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Deal Or No Deal. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Taskmaster Australia. 8.40 The Cheap Seats. 9.40 Law & Order: SVU. 10.40 10’s Late News. 11.05 The Project. 12.05 Late Programs. 6.00 Home Shopping. 8.00 Healthy
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.55 Good Karma Hospital. 2.55 Antiques Roadshow. 3.25 MOVIE: I Was Monty’s Double. (1958) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Shakespeare And Hathaway. 9.40 To Be Advised. 10.50 Late Programs.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 The Block. 1.00 The Hundred With Andy Lee. 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 The Block. 8.30 Listing Melbourne. New. 9.40 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses. 10.45 9News Late. 11.15 Law & Order: Organized Crime. 12.05 Tipping Point. 1.00 Drive TV. 1.30 Late Programs.
Your Garden. 4.40 Grand Designs Revisited. 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 Hard Quiz. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 Question Everything. 9.05 Fisk. 9.35 Planet America. 10.05 Spicks And Specks. 10.40 ABC Late News. 10.55 The Business. 11.10 Late Programs. 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.40 Peter Rabbit. 6.05 Kangaroo Beach. 6.25 The Adventures Of Paddington. 7.05 Riley Rocket. 7.35 Little Lunch. 7.50 Operation Ouch! 8.25 Doctor Who. 10.00 Merlin. 10.45 Fresh Off The Boat. 11.05 Speechless. 11.25 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.00 Outback Truckers. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator. 3.30 Cities Of The Underworld. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Resto. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Force: BTL. 9.30 World’s Wildest Police Videos. 10.30 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.00 Modern Family. 3.30 Bondi Vet. 4.30 Glee. 5.30 The Goldbergs. 6.00 Modern Family. 6.25 First Dates Australia. 7.30 First Dates UK. 8.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. 9.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.40 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.30 Entertainment Tonight. 12.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 12.30 Family Feud. 1.00 10 News First: Lunchtime. 2.00 Wheel Of Fortune. 2.30 Lingo. 3.30 10 News First: Afternoon. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Deal Or No Deal. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Shark Tank. 8.30 NCIS: Origins. New. 10.30 10’s Late News. 10.55 The Project. 12.00 Late Programs. 6.00 Home Shopping. 8.00 NBL Slam. 8.30 Diagnosis Murder. 10.30 JAG. 12.30 Dr Phil. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Origins. New. 10.30 The Weekly
2.55 Doctor Who. 4.15 Fresh Off The Boat. 4.35 MythBusters. 5.25 Merlin. 6.15 Car S.O.S. 7.00 My Family. 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Big Boys. 9.20 Mother And Son. 9.50 ER. 11.15 Rage. 12.20 Blunt Talk. 12.45 Fresh Off The Boat. 1.10 Late Programs. 6.00 Morning Programs. 2.00 Secrets Of The Royal Palaces. 2.50 Scotland: Escape To The Wilderness. 3.45 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 4.15 Inside Balmoral. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Portillo’s Andalucia. 8.20 Titanic Revisited. 9.20 Four Years Later. 10.30 SBS
6.00 Morning Programs. 3.00 News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 News With Joe O’Brien. 6.00 ABC News Hour. 7.00 National News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 The World. 10.00 ABC Nightly News. 10.30 Planet America. 11.00 Late Programs.
6.00 Morning Programs. 1.50 Shakespeare And Hathaway. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Heart Of The Matter. (1953) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.40 Midsomer Murders. 10.40 Harry Wild. 11.40 Late Programs.
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ACROSS
1 Which elementary particle is present in every atomic nucleus (6)
7 Name a State of the southern central US (8)
8 What is a former name for stockings (6)
9 What is an occlusion of blood (8)
10 To be scurrilous in speech, language, etc, is to be what (6)
11 Name an alternative term for stupidity (8)
14 Which people sell soldout sporting tickets at an exorbitant price (8)
18 Salem is the capital of which State in the north-western US (6)
19 A bell pepper (USA) is called what in Australia (8)
21 Name the hard, aromatic seed of the fruit of an E Indian tree, used as a spice (6)
22 Name a disease of the peripheral nerves, caused by a deficiency in vitamin B (8)
23 To be ingenious, is to be what (6)
DOWN
1 Which gland, situated near the stomach, secretes an important digestive fluid (8)
2 What was the given name for Mr Edison, the US inventor (6)
3 To suddenly plunge downwards, is to do what (8)
4 What is a stick, with a crooked head, used in golf (4)
5 Which cottage is common in alpine regions (6)
6 When one entertains, one does what (6)
12 What is the inability to sleep called (8)
Letters A to Z have a number value. Some are shown in the right-hand cells. Create remaining values using clues in centre cells.
13 What is the witching hour known as (8)
15 Name the red table wine of Bordeaux, France (6)
16 Name a renowned movie dog of yesteryear (6)
17 Who is under obligation to another (6)
20 What is the head cook known as (4)
Find the following words in the grid. They may be read in any direction, even diagonally. Some letters are used more than once.
1 TAHINA
(a) A paste made of crushed sesame seeds (b) A South African weaver bird (c) A Maori woman
2 VOUCHSAFE
(a) To guarantee to be true (b) To maintain solemnly (c) To condescend
Build it yourself using the clues and each of the twenty-four letters once only to form ten words: five across and five down. A key word (bold clue) builds on the letter set in the grid.
CLUES:
East North East (3)
Explode like a balloon (5)
February (abb) (3)
High body temperature (5)
Inns (7)
Play against (coll) (5) Quite a few (7)
Rapid Access Vehicle (3) Rodent (3) Variety show (5)
Funding for for Gooloogong evacuation centre
By DANE MILLERD
MEMBER for Cootamun-
dra Steph Cooke has announced an investment of $188,620 at Gooloogong Public School to establish a community evacuation centre at the school.
Ms Cooke said the project is being funded under the latest round of the Clubgrants
Category 3 Infrastrucutre Program, which reinvests a contribution from the state’s registered clubs’ gaming machine profits, back into community projects.
“Both as the local member, and in my previous role as the state’s Emergency Services Minister, I know all too well the importance of having locations set up where
people feel safe and looked after in times of need,” Ms Cooke said.
“As we know, during flooding events, areas in and around Gooloogong are at risk of inundation, so it’s vital that we have the resources in place to ensure all residents are catered for should similar events unfold in the future.
“The $188,620 in funding will go towards the installation of a demountable building at Gooloogong Public School with a fully equipped kitchen, which can be used in conjunction with the school’s hall to provide a safe haven for locals.
“When not in use as an evacuation centre, the kitchen will also be utilised by stu-
dents as a learning resource, making good use of the school’s vegetable garden.
“Of course flooding isn’t the only scenario requiring emergency response plans, with bushfires also a threat during the summer months, so ensuring the community is well prepared, and that locals all know their roles during a disaster, provides
a level of reassurance to the community,” she said.
Ms Cooke explained that the grants are funded through a rebate on the state’s registered clubs’ gaming machines.
“Clubgrants funding is available for projects across sport and recreation, emergency preparedness, and arts and culture,” Ms Cooke said.
EVACUATION FUNDING: The new funding will help Gooloogong moving forward deal with disasters such as the November 2022 floods more effectively. Photo courtesy of Farmpix.
Club champs bathed in sunshine
MEN’S GOLF
By SHORT PUTT
THE weekend brought fantastic weather which coupled to a course in good condition provided inspiration for those competing in the Forbes GC Individual Championships. After two days some hopes of a trophy were raised while other players had their hopes dashed.
Sponsorship for these Championships was once again provided by Lachlan Commodities, with the contest played over four rounds on two consecutive weekends. This is a commitment by the players which saw the field size on Saturday at 73, with a small drop to Sunday’s field of 55 players. Scores for individual players bounced around over the first two days.
After two rounds the leaders in each grade are in a tight contest. One slip up next week could see a trophy go begging. Current leaders are:
A-Grade Scratch: C Hanrahan (146), S Betland (147), J Betland (149).
A-Reserve Scratch: J Coulthurst (170), S Uphill (172), P Duke (175).
B-Grade Scratch: N Duncan (171), J Reid (173), P Kay (174).
C-Grade Scratch: N Roach (191), N Morrison (193), L Alley (199).
Junior Scratch: R Murray (151), L Alley (199), A Quirk (203).
The Handicap results show some close contests but also some big gaps. But anything can happen so at present R Murray (A-Grade), K Sanderson (B-Grade) and N Morrison (C-Grade) can feel good.
On each day there was a daily comp played, sponsored by the events committee. The winners on the first days are similar to the champ leaders, but next weekend could spring a few surprises from individuals.
The Day 1 results are:
Div-1: Winner Jacob Reid (68 nett on c/b), Runner-up Reggie Murray (68 nett).
Div-2: Winner Brian Everest (67 nett), Runner-up George Falvey (71 nett).
The NTPs went to: 9th – G Webb; 18th – A Grierson. Greg converted but Andrew’s putt slipped by. There were ten 2’s with most being scored on the 9th and 18th thanks to their generous pin placings. Todd Callaghan managed a ‘2’ on the 1st, while Reggie Murray grabbed one on the 3rd.
The Super Pin was won by Josh Coulthurst whose shot finished 225 cm away. This seems to be a common approximate distance, with winners over the past weeks being about the same distance. Josh was very pleased with his shot but a bit disappointed when he got to the green as his shot looked to be very close from the tee but it seemed to dribble away.
The ball sweep went to 75 nett on count back, going to: 71 – P Pymont, N Morrison; 72 – B Tooth, N Duncan, B Thomas; 73 – C Alley, K Sanderson, T Callaghan, P Dawson, N Roach; 74 – F Hanns, P Kay, L Alley, R Webb, L Little, S Uphill; 75 – S Betland, L Fraser. There was one visitor in the field – Jarrod Hall from Trundle, who is visiting quite often. He must like the beer.
A round of golf can throw many variances at individual players. It has been a long time since ‘The Eagle’ has raised a call but that drought was ended on Saturday. Al Rees had a difficulty on his front-9. To say ‘The Eagle’ was not happy is an understatement.
But the tide turned on the back-9. Al was a little untidy at first but the 14th kick-started a resurgence. He
fired his second shot to the green and watched as the ball bounded and run towards and onto the green, all at pace. All in his group thought it had gone over the back. ‘Check the hole?’ – nah! But nothing was seen over the back and when Al and others checked the hole they found his ball. A magnificent eagle and did ‘The Eagle’ cry out. You betcha!
Other players seemed to be devoid of good fortune. Peter Barnes wanted to be between the trees, on the fairway, but found himself among the trees instead. Marcus Inder had a ‘rubbish round’, finishing well down the back half of Division 1 scores. And Dave Bernardi “felt good now”, after he had completed his round, yet he finished in the middle of the pack.
And what of the former champions? John Betland made ‘a good 7’ on the 15th. He managed this after playing a shot off the bridge, then having to play his next from the tee side of the water course, but managed a good putt.
In general it was a round of opposites. Some had a good front-9 then a bad back-9. Others drove well then chipped poorly. Some took too many shots to find the green, then sank massive putts. But at least the sun was shining.
While the Sunday scores were not as good as the Saturday scores, they generally had a narrower range of results. And overall the scores either improved on the first round or were worse. Only one player managed to record the same score twice – that was Peter Barnes with a pair of 78 nett.
Div-2: Winner Ken Sanderson (70 nett), Runner-up Nick Morrison (71 nett).
The NTPs went to: 9th – Dave Quirk, 18th – Clayton Alley, neither of whom converted. There wasn’t much contest on either hole. And 2’s were scarce with only six recorded. This may be due to some tight pin positions, although the 9th yielded three and the 18th gave up 2.
The Super pin on the 3rd was snaffled by Peter Dawson, with his shot finishing in the ‘approximate general range’ at 219 cm. And yes, he did convert for a ‘2’, which gave him a good start but he could not capitalise on it.
There were some stories to be told. Steve Betland had a brace of 37’s, bemoaning a horror score on the 16th where he carded a ‘6’. But he managed fewer birdies than bogeys.
Stevie G demonstrated an intense concentration on one hole. During his tee shot on the 4th tee, there was a call of ‘Fore’ from Jake Banks on the 16th. Undeterred, Stevie continued his swing and with a low follow through managed to duck, unknowingly, beneath the ball that bounced ahead of him and flew towards the 3rd green. Jake was more shaken than Stevie.
Here is the news:
Apologies to all for the mix up in last week’s report. Be rest assured that this report is the correct one.
Members can keep abreast of the progress in the Champs by viewing the results on the Golf Portal. This is always good for a browse.
The 2024-25 Summer Sixes comp commences next Monday October 21. It is pleasing to see some Nonhandicapped players already playing rounds for handicapping purposes. A reminder to all players that team memberships need to be in by the end of the week. This is to enable a draw to be arranged and hopefully with very little change required.
Players are encouraged to pick up a copy of the ‘Summer Sixes Competition Rules’ from the Pro Shop, and read them so that they can play correctly on the course. Good luck to all.
Members are advised of a change to the format for the event scheduled for Saturday October 26. This will now be a 4BBB Stableford Aggregate Medley. Each person in the team of two will record their stableford score for each hole. At the end all scores will be totalled up.
And a reminder that the Mixed Foursomes Championships will be played on Sunday October 27. As
with next best Lynn Kennedy with 33. Ball sweep winners were Carolyn Duncan, Robin Lyell, Sharon Grierson and Sally Crosby.
Monthly Medal winners were Heather Davidson in Div 1, Sally Perry in Div 2 and Lynette Kennedy Div 3. Nearest to the pins were Sarah Black on the 9th hole and Sharon Grierson on the 18th. Putting Comp was won by Dead eye Dick Sally Crosby mostly have 1 putts with 29. Day 2 Stableford winners were Robin Lyell 34 points on c/b over Carolyn Duncan Div 1, Ann- Maree Gaffney 41 points from Jill Cripps 30 in Div 2 .
After Day 2 of the Championships Div 1 Scratch Leader is Heather Davidson 176 next best is Brianna Duncan 178.
Div 1 net leader is Carolyn Duncan with 144 from Robin Lyell with 146. Div 2 Scratch leaders are Sally Perry with 196 from next best AnnMaree Gaffney 208.
Div 2 Net leaders are Sally Perry with 145 from Ann- Maree Gaffney with 151.
Remember that old saying “The game’s never over till the fat lady sings”.
Most scores in are very close, rest up and we’ll do it all again next week. Matches on offer next week are round 3 and 4 of the Lady’s Club Championships on Saturday October 19 and 20.
always choose your partner well, Also, be mindful that while 3G Network is due to be switched off on Monday 28th this is no reason for you to switch off.
And the Forbes Nissan Classic is fast approaching. Get your name onto the time sheet in the Pro Shop.
It is crystal ball time:
This Saturday, 19 October, is the 3rd round of the Club Individual Championships, sponsored by Lachlan Commodities, with the Final round to be played on Sun 20 Oct.
There will not be a Stableford Medley on the Sunday.
LADIES GOLF
By THE BIRDIE
THIS week’s notes begin with results from a big week of golf for our ladies who just love the game.
Golf can be fun, golf can bring pressure to some people playing with a partner or in a team, hoping not to let your partner or partners down or golf can be downright demoralising. Golf this week has given us a glimpse at all of the above.
Wednesday October 9 was a 3BBB Par sponsored by Verna Lane, Alison Kingston and Denise Squires.
The aim in this match is to only score plus’s or squares no minus’s and that’s exactly what our winning team of Sally Perry, Jill Cripps and Jenny Hubbard did carding +11. Next best was the team of Sheena Gunn (Visitor) Lyn Somers (Visitor) and Sally Crosby carding + 9.
Ball sweep winners were Sheena, Lyn and Sally Crosby, Alison Kingston, Julie Wood and Colleen Bratton.
Nearest to the pins were Kerry Stirling on the 9th and Ann-Maree Gaffney on the 18th hole.
Saturday October 12 was the first round of four in the Ladies Club Championships, Scratch, Handicap and Stableford.
Monthly medal and putting comp sponsored by Fugen Constructions and Storage Solutions, K & J Stirling. Division 1 Stableford winner was Heather Davidson carding 39 over Carolyn Duncan 38 points. Division 2 winner was Sally Perry with 40 points
On Wednesday 23rd will be Individual Stableford sponsored by Julie Scott and Mandy Tooth with play in two divisions. It’s also Pink Day for breast cancer please dress accordingly. Be bold, I was told. See you through the week, good luck in the championships girls. Good golfing everyone.
VETERANS GOLF
THE day was warm and the scoring hot at last week’s twin-towns veterans golf competition played at Parkes where Forbes’ Peter Grayson blitzed the field with a round of 43 stableford points.
Following a slow start Peter had two points to spare over Bogan Gate’s Steve Edwards (41 points) who made a welcome return to form.
Another highlight of the day was the three over par round of 75 by Forbes’ Andrew Grierson for 40 points.
In fact five players recorded 40 points or better in the field of 30 starters - 17 from Parkes and 13 from Forbes.
Peter Grayson completed a good day when he won the B grade nearest-to-pin on the 11th hole with team mate Ted Morgan the A grade winner, while the Parkes pair of Tony Hendry and John Dwyer won A and B respectively on the fourth.
The high scoring on the day saw the ball sweep only go down to 36 points with the winners as follows: 40 points - Andrew Grierson and Ted Morgan (F), Lex Hodges (P); 39 - Richard Hamilton (P) and Frank Hanns (F); 38 - Rod Staples (P) and Ken Sanderson (F); 36 - Peter Bristol, Lindsay Elliott and Kath Jeffreys (P). This week it is off to Condobolin where the October Lachlan Valley 18hole competition will be played.
TUESDAY GOLF
STEVE Edwards reports there were just seven starters with scores running from 20 to 30 points. The winner was Peter Scholefield on 30 points and runner up Ted Morgan on 26 points.
Sian Jennett with Ariya and David Young ready to tee off for a recent afternoon of golf.
PHOTO: Jenny Kingham
Agustin wins West Memorial
By TONY BRATTON
THE Forbes sporting clay’s held their Graham West Memorial shoot last Sunday October 13.
This was a 100 target five stand shoot.
The weather was warm with a temperature of 25 degrees and a light breeze from the north east at 9kph.
There were 10 shooters in attendance , from Forbes, Parkes and Bathurst.
Two other members were in attendance, Norm Brook and Ben Smith, Joan West was in attendance to present the trophies for the Graham West Memorial.
The results of the Graham West Memorial 100 target five stand shoot were:
First in AAgrade: Chris Agustin (Bathurst) 22-21-22-19 total 84;
First in Agrade: Laurie Redfern 21-21-22-20 total 84; the other A grade scores were Sean McCarthy 19-22-23-17 total 81; David Mitton 17-18-15-15 total 70;
First in Bgrade: Clinton Duffy (Parkes) 16-23-12-19 total 70; the other B grade scores were; Phil Cleal 20-14-16-15 total 65; Anthony Bratton, 19-16-12-17 total 64; First in C grade: Brian Neilsen 1617-14-12 total 59; the other C grade scores were Josh Picker 12-10-16-12 total 50; Mathew Mitton 12-9-13-11 total 45.
The next shoot for the Forbes S.S.A.A. sporting clays will be their monthly shoot on Sunday November 10. This may be a 100 target field shoot, if wet a 100 target five stand shoot starting at 10am.
For all information on clay target shooting contact: Norm Brook
0458664541; Tony Bratton (02) 68523349; Ben Smith 0427524151; Doug Davis (02) 68523249 and Phil Picker (02) 68516494.
Any person wishing to obtain a long arm firearm licence can contact Wayne Facey on 0414524059; Norm Brook on 0458664541; Tony Bratton on (02) 68523349 to do a firearm safe shooting assessment course which is a requirement for a firearm licence application.
The next S.S.A.A. sporting shooters .22 calibre and other rimfire rifle (.22 magnum or.17HMR) The next Sunday will be held this Sunday 20th October 2024 starting at 10am, The centre- fire shoot will take place at 2pm on Sunday after the rimfire shoot. Centre-fire shooters names in by 1-30pm so the targets can be placed on the Centrefire range just after 1-30pm. The next Wednesday shoot will be held on Wednesday 30th October 2024 starting at 2pm.
All events are held at the Bedgerebong road range: turn right off the Bedgerebong road onto Dr. Young Drive.
All target shooters are welcome to attend. Any person wishing try rifle or shotgun shooting can attend any of these shoots to take part after filling out a P650 form at the club, Junior shooters must be 12 years or over.
For all information on .22 cabilre rimfire shooting contact: Wayne Facey 0414524059; Norm Brook 0458664541; Ben Smith 0427524151; David Coleman 0427401263 AH. Members are reminded that Local Range rules apply to all Forbes SSAA ranges. Follow Forbes Sporting Shooters on Facebook for updates.
Social week on the greens for bowlers as comps wrap up
By DON CRAFT
WE are nearing the end of the club games and as there were none played this weekend there are only have social bowls to report on.
The Minor Triples and the A&B Pairs are out to the finals.
The draw for the Minor Fours are closed and by the time you read these notes the draw should be up on the board.
Nominations are still being called for the Bentick trophy, which close at the end on the month and the Willding, Herbert and Parslow day on November 9.
WEDNESDAY SOCIAL
Wednesday morning social bowls continues to draw a good number of bowlers and it was no different last week with 36 bowlers attending.
The winners on the morning were Geoff West and Kerry Roach who had a 25-14 win over Peter Barnes and Lyall Strudwick.
Peter and Lyall started off well but as the game went on the were stuck on a number for a number of ends, like so many teams last week, before they got a move on.
At the seventh end they were only down 4-7 and seven ends later they were down 11-17. There they sat until near the end of the game, they picked up three but the horse had bolted giving Geoff and Kerry a good win.
The second winners were Bill Looney and Paul Doust with a 20-10 win over Gail McKay and Lyn Simmonds. Bill and Paul lead all the way and after eight ends it was 131, at sixteen ends it was 20-7 but the ladies scored on the last two ends.
In other games, Ron Thurlow and Kerry Dunstan defeated Sandra Priest and Sue White 21-7. At the eleventh end Ron and Kerry lead 16-1 and although Sandra and Sue picked up two three’s the game was out of their reach.
Angela Dent and Cliff Nelson had a close 14-13 win against Ann Nixon and John Kennedy.
At the twelfth end Angela and Cliff lead 10-9 and although Ann and John picked up four shots in the next four ends, so did Angela and Cliff and a three on the last end gave them the win.
Ann and Peter MacKay defeated Geoff Coles and Noel Jolliffe 18-11. Ann and Peter combined well, no domestic’s, to lead all the way for a comfortable win.
Jamie Dukes and Geoff Williams had a more the comfortable 35-7 win over Michael Coles and John Gorton.
Michael and John scored a 3 on the first end and sat there until the eighth before they scored again with a 1 giving Jamie and Geoff to get their scoring well underway. It was not until the sev-
enteenth end before they scored a 2 and then a 1 but that too little too late.
In the next game Jim Malloy and Tony Bratton had a 16-11 win against Fred Vogelsang and Barry White. Fred and Barry held their own until the twelfth end when it was eight all. Jim and Tony were able to score eight shots to three over the last six ends to to run out victors.
Colleen Leibich and Rob Priest had a comfortable 29-4 win over Garry Jones and Trevor Currey. Colleen and Rob lead all the way as Garry and Trevor did not turn their side of the scoreboard over very often.
In the last game Cheryl Hodges and Greg Gunn outplayed Deana Williams and Ian Hodges to record a 2614 win. At the twelfth end Deana and Ian lead 13-11 but they then sat on that 13 for the next seven ends before they pick up another shot. In the end it was comfortable win the Colleen and Greg.
THURSDAY SOCIAL
Another nice day on Thursday bought the bowlers out to play. The winning rink was Ian Hodges and Scott McKellar with a 26 to 10 win, over twenty two ends, against Billy Cowell and Lyall Strudwick.
Bill and Lyall started well and lead 6-2 at the fifth end but then marked time on 6 for the next five ends.
At end 13, Bill and Lyall
were behind 8-17 and again marked time on 8 for six ends allowing Ian and Scott to skip well ahead for a good win.
The losing rink went to a game of triples with Dale Maynard, Paul Doust and Cliff Nelson going down 1620, over sixteen ends, against Bob Grant, Ron Thurlow and Tony Bratton. Cliff ’s team scored 2 on the first end and sat there for four ends and at seven ends the were behind 5-9. They then sat o 5 for the next 3 ends allowing Tony’s team to score nine shots. It was here that Cliff ’s team started to play and they picked up eleven shots in the next six ends but the bird had flown.
In the other games Christian West and Tara Shaw gave Brian Asimus and Mick Merritt a spanking by raking up a 36-9 win.
As the score shows Mick and Brian didn’t trouble the score board very often with Tara and Christian Leading 12-5 at eleven ends, 26-7 at seventeen ends and 36-9 at 22 ends.
Peter Besgrove and Dennis Byrnes must have been watching Spro’s game as the went down 12-30 to Jason Howell and Bruce Jones.
There must have been something in the beer because again they sat on 7 for five ends, 10 for four ends and 12 for five ends giving Jason and Bruce a clear run to win the game.
In the last game Jamie Dukes and Viv Russell had a 23-9 win over Angie Dwyer and Lawrence Jackson. Angie and Lawrence were down 8-13 on the fourteenth but again they they didn’t trouble and scoreboard for the next six ends giving Jamie and Viv clean air for the win.
Resters went to Brian Asimus, Lawrence Jackson and Viv Russell.
SUNDAY SOCIAL
Sunday morning social bowls are back with a bang with 30 players facing the starter last Sunday.
The winning rink went to Graham Riley and Shane Staines who had a very comfortable 22.7 win against Tara Shaw and Lawrence Jackson. Graham (aka Grub) and Shane lead all the way leading 11-5 on the eighth end and 22-7 at the sixteenth and last end,
The losing rink went to Peter Greenhalgh and John Kennedy who were defeated 12-17 by Ben Parslow and Peter MacKay. Peter and John led until the tenth end where Ben and Peter picked up a 4 to make it 10 all. Over the last six ends Ben and Peter scored 7 shots to 2 and take the game.
Billy Cowell and Laurie Crouch fought hard for their 18-17 win over Jamie Dukes and Cliff Nelson. Billy and Laurie lead until the sixth where Jamie and Cliff picked up a 5 to lead 8-6. At the elev-
enth end it was 12 all. Over the last seven ends Billy and Laurie were lucky they picked up 6 shot to the oppositions 5 and win the game.
Jason Howell and John Cutler came away with a 17-7 win against Ange Dwyer and Kerry Roach. Jason and John proved a bit to good and lead all the way for their win.
Doug Miller and Allan Hilder teamed up and had a 20-12 win over a member we have not seen for a long time, Lloyd Nelson and Peter Besgrove.
Doug and Allan lead lead all the way in this game but Lloyd and Bezzy did pick up a 3 on the last end to make the score a little better.
Helen Bailey and Bob Grant showed the way in the 17-11 win against Kelly Stringer and Ron Thurlow. Kelly and Ron lead until the sixth end where it was 4 all. At the eleventh end Helen and Bobby picked up a five to lead 11-7.
Two ends later it was 11 all but then Kelly and Ron put their queue in the rack and Helen and Bob went to to win the game.
In the last game Tyler Biles, Terry Murphy and John Stringer were untroubled in their game and went on to defeat Jax Murphy, Trish Todd and Tyler Murphy 13-3. The T & M Tyres trophy will start next Sunday and will be held over three weeks.
Joan West congratulates C grade winner Brian Neilsen.
Joan West congratulates Bgrade winner Clinton Duffy.
Joan West congratulates Agrade winner Laurie Redfern.
Joan West congratulates AAgrade winner Chris Agustin of Bathurst. PHOTOS: Forbes SSAA
It’s Spring squash semi-finals time
By DROP SHOT!
WEEK 10 of our Spring Competition, October 9, was the last week before semis.
Wednesday night:
Court one: Wrights defeated Benticks by a point.
Jordan v Michelle 3-0, Brad Hardy v Chris Gogswell was 1511, 10-15, 14-16, 15-13 then Brad pressed home 15-12. Lucy Robinson v Adam Jones 0-3, sub C Webb v Noah Bentick 2-5 and sub C Newton v Adam Cuskelly 5-2.
Court two: Roaches lost to CJones 16 to 19. Nathan v Cooper 3-0, Kim Chudleigh v Matt Wright 2-5, Lucas Jones won against Beth Cannon 15-9 set four and Rob McMillan v Chas Newton 2-5.
Court three: Coombs lost to RJones. Sub W Markwort pushed their match to four sets but finished 9-15 to Riley. Will Markwort v sub B Hardy 5-2, Nikki Doyle v Lin Cowhan 0-3, Hunter Bilsborough v Lucas Bentick 3-0 and Grace Chudleigh v Nate Markwort 0-3.
These results made R Jones, Roaches, Benticks and Coombs Wednesday’s top four scoring teams and ensured their semis births for October 16.
Thursday evening’s action:
Court one: Joneses beat Honerys 23 points to 12. Dan Bayley v Bren Allegri 3-0, Lockie Jones v Dave Brinckley 2-5, Alex Bayley v sub C Bayley 5-2, Will Markwort v sub G Ridge 3-0 then Henry Willis and Ken Bryant played ‘match of the week’ where both blokes level pegged at two sets each until the fifth when Henry hit a row of winners to win 15-7, Great match guys.
Court two: Millers lost to Dawes 14 to 21. Austen Brown v Jono Cannon 4-3, Pete Cowhan v Lawry Brayne 0-3. Sandy Paterson v Max Ridley; Max covered the court well but Sandy had the court well covered and won 3-0.
Weivan Huang v Brett Thomas 2-5 and Claire Bayley v Al Carlisle 0-3.
Court three: Doyles lost to Pipers 17 to 32. Alex v Darryn 0-3, Jake Shaw v Wayne Bilsborough 5-2, Riley Jones v Shanna Nock 6-1, Cam Dale v sub W Markwort 2-5, John Ridley v Tim Coombs 0-3 and T J Markwort v Oliver Paterson 0-3.
Semis entrants for Thursday October 17 will be Pipers v Millers and Dawes v Doyles.
Good luck to all teams.
LACHLAN WOMEN KICK OFF SEASON
OUR Lachlan women’s rugby league sides are at home for their next two rounds.
Fielding under 12s through to opens, the Lachlan club formed just last year is competing in the Western women’s rugby league competition.
They had their first home games of the short competition at the Red Bend Catholic College grounds on the weekend, with our junior
sides recording success, but our Opens going down to an experienced Panorama Platypi side.
Lachlan has Under 12s, Under 14s and Under 16s as well as Opens. It’s all on again this Sunday at Red Bend, when Lachlan host Woodbridge. Under 12s kick off at 9.30am.
The following Sunday, October 27, they’ll take on Goannas.
Visitors join croquet club for morning of play
By PEGGING OUT
WE had 28 players for Aussie Croquet on Saturday October 12 on a very pleasant morning
It was good to have John Browne back.
We had another three visitors Jamie, India and Mac Thomson.
Three players won three games, Noel Jolliffe, Neville Spry and one of our visitors Mac Thomson.
THE BIG WINNER: 14- 8 Geoff Coles and Joan Littlejohn.
MID WINNERS: 14-10 Bill Scott, Allan Jones and Noel Jolliffe, Robin Pols and Neville Spry
CLOSE GAMES: John Farah and John Allegri 14 John Farah and Enid Baker 12; John Allegri and Peter West 14 Marie Spry and David Williams 12; Barry White and Allan Jones 14 Kevin Wenning and Rex Toole 12; Marie Spry and Robin Pols 14 Lyn Simmonds and Bill Scott 11; Mac Thomson and Cheryle Toohey 14 Rex Toole and David Williams 11; May Jones and Kevin Wenning 14 Elvy Quirk and Ros Rennick 11; John Job and Noel Jolliffe 14 Allan Jones and Peter West 11; Colleen Liebich and Nevill Spry 14 Barry White and Frank Donohoe 11; Joan Littlejohn and Noel Jolliffe 14 Elvy Quirk and May Jones 11; John Job and Neville Spry 14 Enid Baker and Geoff Coles 11; Bill Sott and Ros Rennick 14 Robin Pols and Lyn Simmonds 11; Mac and India Thomson 14 Colleen Liebich and Frank Donohoe 11; John Farah band Enid Baker 14 Barry Whit and Kevin Wenning 11; Peter West 14 John Job 11; Elvy Quirk and Rex Toole 14 Lyn Simmonds and Jamie Thomson 11
We had 28 players on Tuesday 15th, but had to wait for the rain to clear, then ready to start. There were 5 players that won 3 games, Noel Jolliffe, Lyal Strudwick, Marie Spry, Elvy Quirk and Colleen Liebich.
BIG WINNER: 10-3 Elvy Quirk and John Cole.
MID WINNERS: 9-4 Peter West and Elvy Quirk, Noel Jolliffe and Elvy Quirk. CLOSE GAMES: Colleen Liebich and Neville Spry 7 Fay Picker and Mal Smith 6; Lyal Strudwick and Sally Perry 7 Allan Jones and David Williams 6; John Farah and Jane Hanbury 7 Rex Toole and John Cole 6; Ray Martin and Kevin Rubie 7 Bill Scott and Carolyn Neilsen 6; May Jones and Colleen Liebich 7 Rex Toole and Frank Donohoe 6; Lyal Strudwick and Bill Scott 7 Sally Perry and David Williams 6; John Job and Peter West 7 Pammie Thomson and John Farrah 6; Lyal Strudwick 7 Rex Toole 6; Marie Spry and Neville Spry 7 Kevin Wenning and John Farah 6; Colleen Liebich and Bill Scott 7 John Cole and May Jones 6; Carolyn Neilsen and Pammie Thomson 7 Peter West and Frank Donohoe 6; Marie Spry and May Jones 8 Bruce Field and Kevin Wenning 5; Frank Donohoe and Noel Jolliffe 8 Pammie and Tony Thomson 5; Allan Jones 8 Carolyn Neilsen 5; Noel Jolliffe and Mal Smith 8 May Jones and Kevin Wenning 5; Kevin Rubie and Fay Picker 8 Sue Jolliffe and Bruce Field 5; Sue Jolliffe and Mal Smith 8 Fay Picker and Allan Jones 5; Bruce Field and Ray Martin 8 David Williams and Sally Perry 5. Our annual general meeting is now definitley being held on Tuesday 22nd, after play, so we would like as many to come to the meeting and maybe to offer to take on a job, relieve a few that have being doing it for ages. That’s it till next week.
Cameron Dale, Alex Doyle, Darryn Piper and Will Markwort after their matches Thursday night. PHOTO: Supplied
Piper White scored the first try of the game for Lachlan Under 14s against Panorama Platypi last Sunday. PHOTO: Jenny Kingham
Lachlan Under 14s (back) Coach Luke Hartwig, Grace Fairley, Corby Fliedner, Stella Bull, Piper White, Ruby Heraghty, Katie Galvin, Maggie Duff, Rachel Grimmond, Kalese Dargin and Charlotte Reid (front) Mahayla Atkinson, Vardi Karaitiana, Miley Nash, Laila Hartwig, Ella Goodsell, Rosie Hurford, Ruby Jackson and Amelia Grayson.
Western girls country champs
Team undefeated in cricket campaign
WESTERN cricket 15 years girls just powered through the NSW Country Youth Championships undefeated, and taking up bat and ball were Forbes’ Holly Maslin and Trundle’s Vashti Williams.
Western zone girls are champions for the second year in a row after the sixround competition of T20 games, played in Singleton in October.
They opened their campaign against North Coast and amassed 139 off their overs with the loss of just four wickets, before restraining North Coast to 7/74.
Holly bowled 1/8 off her two overs, and Vashti restrained the batsmen to just one run off her two overs.
Western headed out to bat first in Round 2 against Northern Inland Bolters, Vashti scoring 22 as the girls amassed 5/121 for their overs.
They won by 22 runs.
Round 3 was a low-scoring game, with Riverina out for 37. Vashti was one of the wicket takers with figures of 1/5 off three overs.
Holly opened the batting for Western, scoring 14 of their required 38 runs.
Western dominated again in Round 4, this time against Greater Illawarra, who they bowled out for 79. Western lost no wickets in amassing the total.
In Round 5, Holly took 1/8 in two overs as Western restrained Hunter Valley to 57 runs, a total the Western girls then achieved with six wickets in hand.
The Forbes spin bowler featured again in her side’s final win, claiming 2/7 off three as Western bundled Lake Macquarie Out for 89.
Vashti opened the batting and made 6 runs, the side making the required runs with eight wickets in hand.
LEFT: Forbes spin bowler Holly Maslin had a successful carnival as the Western girls powered through undefeated to win the country championship.
Red Bend’s best year yet for hockey representatives
By MADELINE BLACKSTOCK
RED Bend has had their most successful year on the hockey field with five athletes selected in the Open CCC teams, an athlete selected in the All Schools merit team and an athlete selected in the U15’s NSWCCC team and the NSW u15’s All Schools team.
The NSW Combined Catholic Colleges individual hockey selection trails were held in May this year in Bathurst.
Thirteen students attended selection trails and six players were named in the CCC teams which is an outstanding achievement.
Year 11 student Ellie Parker was selected into the Open CCC girls team which played in July at the International Hockey Centre in Newcastle. Ellie played as a forward compared to her usual midfield position.
Ellie gained some great experience playing against the NSW Combined High School and the NSW Independent Schools sides.
Archie Daley, Jett and Zanda Johnstone and Henry Rice were selected in the Open CCC boys team which also competed in July at the International Hockey Centre in Newcastle.
These four Red Bend students made up a quarter of
was captain
the team which is the most players ever selected in a CCC side.
The students were able to play in a cohesive unit with Zanda and Archie in the backs, Henry in the midfield and Jett in the forward line as a striker.
“The four boys playing together certainly would have helped the team,” Red Bend Catholic College hockey coordinator Karen Umbers said.
“They all play in the school side together, and they play on the weekend sides either together or against each other and between them there is a player in every layer of the team so they can work
together as a group, it makes a lot of difference and they know that they can trust each other because they have played with each other for so long.”
The team were able to defeat the CHS side which they haven’t been able to achieve for several years.
The boys CCC side ended the competition second behind a talented AISNSW side.
Archie Daley was then selected in the All Schools merit team, unfortunately they will not be travelling to South Africa this year.
Being selected in a CCC team is quite an achievement for these students.
“There’s quite a few catholic schools in the state so the selection of 15 players out of all the Catholic schools in NSW is the highest level within the Catholic system that you can reach before you go on to the All Schools and then the Australian. It’s the peak of the catholic school system for hockey,” Mrs Umbers said.
Year 10 student Sam Westcott has also had a big year on the hockey field being selected in the U15’s NSWCCC team in July.
Sam was then one of two CCC players who were then selected in the NSW All Schools U15’s team who competed in the Gold Coast at the Austral-
ian Championships in July.
Sam was also selected as captain for this team.
The competition was a part of the School Sport Australia Games which also included AFL, Basketball, Swimming and Softball.
Over the week of competition, Sam’s team competed and won all of their games against the states and drew against QLD who they then played in the final.
The final was a close game with Sam leading the team well as full back and captain with the score being tied up at three all at the end of the game resulting in a penalty shootout.
These six individual athletes have achieved a record for Red Bend Catholic College.
“They’ve been really committed the last few years, they’ve taken it pretty seriously and they’ve done really well,” Mrs Umbers said.
“This is probably the most this school has ever had at a representative level, there’s been two or three but never six, it just shows the strength and it really shows the depth of hockey.”
As well as individual success the Red Bend boys open hockey team won the Combined Catholic Schools Carnival for the fourth year in a row.
Prior to this winning streak the team had never won the carnival and Mrs Umbers said the team won quite convincingly again this year.
This is Zanda Johnstone’s last year representing Red Bend through hockey.
“He is a player that will be dearly missed,” Mrs Umbers said.
Ellie Parker and Archie Daley still have one year left to represent their school while Sam Westcott, Jett Johnstone and Henry Rice have two years to continue Red Bend’s recent hockey success.
NSW saved the final ball which won the team the gold medal.
Elli Parker, Henry Rice, Zanda Johnstone, Archie Daley and Jett Johnstone represented CCC. PHOTOS: suppied
Sam Westcott
of the winning NSW All Schools U15s team that competed in the Gold Coast.
The Western girls 15s won the NSW Country Youth Championships undefeated. PHOTOS: Supplied
RIGHT: Trundle’s Vashti Williams on the undefeated western girls 15s NSW Youth Championships campaign.
1000 MILES, $2.5 MILLION
He’s done it.
Nedd Brockmann completed his 1,000-mile or 1,609.34-kilometre run at 6:17am Wednesday at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre.
Brockmann’s time of 12 days, 13 hours and 45 seconds ranks him as the second fastest Australian to run the 1000 miles.
In a gruelling final session, he took to the track at 4:10am on Tuesday and powered through the full day and night covering 158km in 26 hours and 6 minutes.
More than 2000 people packed into the Olympic Park grandstand to
cheer him on - his parents holding the banner at the finish line.
His epic effort had raised more than $2.55million by 7am.
As of 7am Wednesday, Nedd has raised more than $2.55 million for We Are Mobilise, surpassing the total from his last run across Australia with the second phase of the Uncomfortable Challenge to come.
We’ll have more next week, but the call now is for everyone to join the Uncomfortable Challenge from October 20: sign up online at https:// www.neddsuncomfortablechallenge.com/
Homecoming success
By COLIN HODGES
Wayne Martyn, when a resident of Forbes, rode winners as a jockey at central west picnic race meetings.
Now a long time trainer at Coonabarabran, Wayne returned on Saturday to his former home town to win with the six year old gelding Felis at the successful Forbes Jockey Club spring meeting.
Although an $11 outsider, Felis had good support in the betting ring and well ridden by Georgina McDonnell came from a distinct last with a strong finish down the outside to win the 1600 metres Terry Bros Carpet Court
Benchmark 50 Handicap by a half length from Da Noive (Dylan Stanley, $3.80) and Well Decorated (Wendy Peel, $18).
Wayne Martyn will now no doubt start getting runners ready for the Coonabarabran Cup meeting on October 27. Orange trainer Melissa Harrison not only won the race but also supplied the quinella in the 1400 metres Forbes Machinery & BWR Accountants Benchmark 50 Handicap.
Close to the leaders at the top of the straight, On The Decs (Shayleigh Ingelse, $7) won by a long neck from stablemate Bobby’s Secret
(Ken Dunbar, $3.70) while favourite Dundas (Clayton Gallagher was a long head away, third.
Favourite backers were off to a good start when the Roy McCabe, Bathurst trained Tommy’s Girl (Ashleigh Stanley, $2.90) turned for home in third place then finished best to beat Kingsway (Kody Nestor, $4.80) and Dalante (Andrew Banks, $19) in the 1400 metres Peter Maher Shearing Services & Bryton Wool Maiden Handicap.
A typically polished ride by Mathew Cahill paved the way for success by Angel Of Spring in the 1200m Shead & Nicholson and Ron Baker
Switchboards Maiden Plate. Best to begin, the Garry Kirkup, Canberra trained Angel Of Spring ($2.20 favourite) was eased to fourth before finishing well to account for Catori Lass (Ken Dunbar, $9) and The Legal Factor (Clayton Gallagher, $6).
Clayton Gallagher had better fortune when he brought the Gayna Williams, Bathurst trained Cheap Shot ($2.35 favourite) from back in the field to beat Slush Fund (Kody Nestor, $4.80) and Field Agent (Mathew Cahill, $7) by a half length in the 1200 metres Acheson’s Mitre 10 Benchmark 50 Handicap. Punters who backed the
Michael Lunn, Dubbo trained Rewarding Belle, first over the line in the 1100m Forbes Livestock & Agency Co Class 1 Handicap, breathed a sigh of relief when a protest by the jockey on the runner up for alleged interference at the 600m was dismissed.
After tracking the leaders, Rewarding Belle (Andrew Banks, $9) hit the front and won by over a length from the fast finishing Rothgate (Clayton Gallagher, $1.85 favourite).
The Forbes racecourse was presented in great condition through the hard work of the committee and track curator Tom Molloy.
Felis, ridden by Georgina McDonnell, runs home a winner for Wayne Martyn.
Nedd Brockmann celebrates as he sees the fundraising total has reached $1 million and (inset) crosses the finish line at 6.17am Wednesday.
