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HUNDREDS ENJOY OPEN GARDENS ‘N’ MARKETS
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ALTHOUGH the sky looked threatening the rain held off and more than 350 people enjoyed a magnificent day at the Parkes Racecourse and in the four open gardens. The atmosphere at the Racecourse was buzzing with activity, music, art, food and market stalls. The 24 market stalls came from local craftspeople in our district, with one stall coming all the way from West Wyalong. Approximately 380 people were in attendance throughout the day, which kept our cooks and volunteers busy. FULL STORY PAGE 8.
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Garden owner Leonie Patterson with horticulturalist Jade Wright with Archie, Tessa and Carter.
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Shire’s council revealed PARKES shire welcomes three new councillors with the finalisation of the 2024 local government elections. The distribution of preferences, conducted by the NSW Electoral Commission’s computer count system at the Parkes returning office on Monday afternoon, saw the election of 10 councillors from 36 candidates - including two groups on Monday afternoon. It took 29 counts - that is rounds of distributing preferences - to finalise the 10 members of our next elected local government, who will serve for the next four years. Declared Wednesday morning,
Three new councillors have been elected for Parkes Parkes Shire’s councillors are: * Glenn Wilson (Group B) * Marg Applebee * Neil Westcott * Douglas Pout * Kenny McGrath * Louise O’Leary * Bill Jayet * Matthew Scherer (Group A) * Joy Paddison and * George Pratt Stepping back are Ken Keith OAM, who has given more than 40 years service to local government, with Jacob Cass and Daniel Weber
who have served on our council since 2021. It’s been a long wait for the shire, with much focus on the changing numbers in the summary of initial first preference votes since counting began at 6pm on polling day, September 14. The NSW Electoral Commission has confirmed Parkes pre-poll votes in particular were subject to recounting in that time. Those are indicative counts, where the ballot papers are sorted only by the first preference votes.
The check count is the official election result, this is where every preference on each ballot paper is entered into the computer count centre, including a reconciliation process to ensure there are no data entry errors. The NSW Electoral Commission has explained the process of checking Parkes votes in response to The Champion Post’s queries and also said information was provided to the candidates about each of the steps taken. Parkes pre-poll votes were
recounted on Saturday, September 21 in the presence of scrutineers. The NSW Electoral Commission decided to conduct a further counting and transparency process, referred to as a data entry audit, for the two venues involved. This took place on Friday, September 27, with the assistance of a senior election official who travelled from head office to Parkes, and in the presence of 10 scrutineers appointed by candidates. The process confirmed the check count results.
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