Coonamble Shire Tourism Newsletter Page 2

Text Box: The Coonamble Rugby Union Club is celebrating their 50th year in 2006, with the main celebrations spread over the weekend of 7th & 8th October in conjunction with the Coonamble Gold Cup race meeting. The Club is hosting a reunion dinner, in conjunction with its Annual Presentations, for all past and present players, supporters and officials on the Saturday night at the Coonamble Racecourse. Then on the Sunday regather at the Racecourse for brunch, more stories to be told and the Gold Cup Races. The club is interested to know of anyone who has old photos or memorabilia from the early days. If you would like to attend or would like further information please contact Helen Rackham on jhrackham@bigpond.com or 6822 2292.

Text Box: Images from the 2006 Coonamble Rodeo & Campdraft Long Weekend

Clockwise from top left

1. Crowd on Monday

2. Peita Waide and Susan Rea from Campbelltown.

3.Cr Paul Hawker & Paul Colwell @ Campdraft

4.Bush poets breakfast

5. Very junior competitor

6. Rosie Secombe gets too close to the action

7. Joy Evans & Beryl Butler admire the work of Helen Cant.

Despite the cold and wet weather there was a large number of visitors to town for the Rodeo and preliminary figures show approximately 3000 people attended the event. There were plenty of activities on around town and the Bush poets Breakfast and the Quilting exhibition were again popular. Our Campbelltown visitors were impressed and the food vans did a roaring trade in ‘seafood baskets’. See www.coonamble.org/rodeo for full results

Thank you to all those who helped with the Bush Poets breakfast on a (very) wet Saturday morning. The Showground pavilion was an ideal location among the horses and around 80 people heard our guest poet, Frank Daniel. The Coonamble Streets Ahead Committee has been working with the Moorambilla Festival planned for September and has assisted with the employment of a local coordinator to pull together the various community elements of this festival. We are presenting ‘The Forwards’ by the Zeal Theatre group on 1 August. CLICK HERE. Don’t forget ‘Songs in the key of Bloke’ and all men in the region are invited to be part of this unique event. The committee next meets on 20th July 2006 at the Coonamble Bowling Club. To download more information on Coonamble Streets Ahead please click here or call Liz Markey on (02) 6824 1550 or email markey5@bigpond.com

Two eight two eight printmaking workshop & Exhibition launch 29th June –1st July 2006

Text Box: The Warrumbungle National Park has once again made a mark on the international map with the 7th International Rogaining Championships to be held in the park and surrounds in October 2006. Some seven hundred people have entered this prestigious event with teams coming from 11 countries and all states and territories of Australia to compete.

Registrations close Friday 21st July 2006 Contact the Economic Development Office for your registration pack by telephone on (02) 6827 1917 or email: edo@coonambleshire.nsw.gov.au

Download the People Choice entry form here