Local News
06 Nov 09 | Telstra Child Flight has launched a fundraiser with a difference: “Chops for Choppers”.
The fundraiser gives people an opportunity to help fund the organisation’s important emergency helicopter service for critically ill and injured children.
06 Nov 09 | Gooloogong’s Maisie Thompson was honoured with a special award at this year’s Tidy Towns Sustainable Communities Awards night held at Tamworth.
Ms Thompson is a foundation member of the Tidy Towns movement in Cowra Shire.
06 Nov 09 | Dealing with the loss of a loved one is hard.
Sometimes it can seem like you are inside a black hole with no way out.
There is help and that is in the form of the Grief and Loss Group at the Salvation Army.
06 Nov 09 | A new Cultural Plan for Cowra is expected to go on public display soon.
Cowra Shire Council’s Corporate committee last month recommended the Council place the plan in display seeking comments from the public and that a report on the plan be brought back to Council in December.
The plan would be in place until 2013-14.
06 Nov 09 | The annual general Meeting of the Cowra Business Chamber will be held on Wednesday night November 11.
The meeting will commence at 6.30pm at the Cowra Bowling Club.
06 Nov 09 | Local Army Reserve soldiers of 6 Platoon, B Company the 1st/19th RNSWR Lt Shaun Lawler, Cpl Mark Ashlin, Pte Craig Simpson, Pte Adrian Moczar, Pte Tim Bailey and Pte Brett Kilner are preparing for a three month training program in Malaysia as part of Rifle Company Butterworth 88.
06 Nov 09 | Cowra Health Service staff had to cancel theatre – including a scheduled
caesarian – on Friday when a back up power generator broke down at the hospital.
06 Nov 09 | Northerly winds brought the reality of summer home quickly as this week developed, with temperatures nudging the late 30s at the start.
Cowra officially reached 37 degrees celcius on Monday, November 2.
04 Nov 09 | The first weekly draw in the 2009 Cowra Guardian Shop in Cowra for Christmas promotion will be held at Cowra Trophies in Kendal Street this Friday at 12 noon.
04 Nov 09 | Changes are an inevitable fact of life.
To equip ourselves for the 21st Century, Cowra High School is undergoing lots of changes within a short amount of time.
04 Nov 09 | Matthew Rolfe doesn’t need the TV show to know he can dance, but we hope he proves it when he meets the judges tomorrow of the Channel 10 program So You Think You Can Dance.
04 Nov 09 | In all the excitement about internationally acclaimed singer Katie Noonan performing on Saturday in a hangar at the Cowra airport, some may have missed the Cowra Cork and Fork is being staged too.
04 Nov 09 | Families at ABC Cowra celebrated Children’s Week last week, spending time together at the centre learning and playing.
04 Nov 09 | Breast Cancer research is not the only cause to benefit from the fundraising efforts of Sally Chalker.
04 Nov 09 | Hospital staff regularly see the effect cancer has on suffers and their families, so when it comes to fundraising for health initiatives, especially cancer fundraising, the staff go above and beyond.
04 Nov 09 | Cowra is rallying its forces and finances to run a concert by internationally acclaimed singer, Katie Noonan, as part of its 2009 Cork and Fork food and wine festival.
“We are expecting an audience of over 550,” says Cowra Arts Council President, Jon Wright.
02 Nov 09 | “From Cowra’s perspective the major finding [of the Water Security Study released last week] is the need to continue with the link from Cowra to the Central Tablelands Water system,” Cr Bill West, mayor of Cowra, said late last week.
02 Nov 09 | Gooloogong and Cowra both took out top Tidy Towns Sustainable Communities Awards at this year’s awards weekend in Tamworth.
Cowra received 2nd Place in the Overall Tidy Towns Award, category D (population of 4,001-10,000) and Gooloogong took out 3rd Place in the same Overall Tidy Towns Award for the smallest population category, category A (up to 350 people).
02 Nov 09 | Calls for clearer labeling on meat products and introduce new rules are supported by at least one local butcher.
The call comes after a government inquiry criticised the practice of cow meat normally considered too old except for mincing being able to be sold as rump, scotch fillet and T-bone cuts as long as it is labelled Budget.
02 Nov 09 | Danielle Miller and friends will join more than 230 women across the Central West in preparation for their Girls Night In.
The cancer fundraiser, now in its fifth year, has raised more than $12 million across Australia for the women’s cancer cause since it began in 2005.