Text Box: Page # Text Box: Streets Ahead held a planning evening as part of their joint xmas function with the Business Action group. Priorities were established for 2008 and participants reviewed the Sense of Place action plan. Streets Ahead meet at 1pm on the third Thursday of each month. All welcome ! Or call Liz Markey on (02) 6824 1550 or email markey5@bigpond.com visit our web page: www.coonamble.org/sa Text Box: Dust Storm destroys Sign Text Box: Coonamble Streets Ahead Text Box: Issue 17, 19 December 2007 Text Box: NSW Tourism Industry Celebrates Success Text Box: Quambone Brochure Text Box: The shining lights of NSW tourism were burning bright on Thursday for the 2007 NSW Tourism Awards at Star City Hotel. Eight-hundred people gathered for the occasion to celebrate tourism excellence and the outstanding achievements of 2007. The Minister for Tourism Matt Brown congratulated the winners saying the fantastic results demonstrated the quality of tourism in the State. This year’s awards were hotly contested with 206 submissions and 129 finalists, 36 more than last year. All national category winners now progress to the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards to be presented in Canberra next February. Great Outdoors presenter Andrew Daddo hosted the evening as MC, while Australian singer Rachel Beck entertained the crowd with a cabaret-style performance. Text Box: Coonamble Arts Alive will be staging a special exhibition for International Women’s Day on 8th March 2008. Click the icon below for more information. Text Box: International Women’s Day Text Box: Dinner Under the Stars 2008

The annual dinner under the stars will be held in Gulargambone on 1st March 2008.  Tickets are already proving popular and it’s expected that this will again be a sold out event. To order your tickets click on the logo below:

 

A freak dust storm struck Gulargambone on 21st November with such force that the support post for the ‘Welcome to Coonamble Shire’ sign was sheared off at the cement footing.  A new sign has been ordered.

Opening of Coonamble Art Display. Campbelltown Mayor, Aaron Rule with Coonamble GM John Griffiths and Deputy Mayor Michael Webb

Has now gone to print and will be available in the new year.  For a sneak peak click here.