Text Box: Page # Text Box: Streets Ahead is busy planning the 2007 Xmas Carnivale which will take place on Thursday 21st December. If you have any suggestions or would like to run a stall or activity please contact the organizing group by email here. The Rodeo & Spit Roast at the Moorambilla Festival was a great success and it was great to see so many locals attending. The committee next meets on Thursday 23rd November 2006 for a joint Business Action Group/Streets Ahead Xmas Party. Coonamble Golf Club at 6pm. All welcome. RSVP and enquiries to (02) 6827 1917 or email To download more information on Coonamble Streets Ahead please click here or call Liz Markey on (02) 6824 1550 or email markey5@bigpond.com Text Box: Images from Events and promotional activities Text Box: Coonamble Streets Ahead Text Box: Issue 8, 10 November 2006 Text Box: Great Inland Way

The Moorambilla Festival was held in Coonamble for the first time from 15th-17th September with choirs from Sydney and around the state joining a regional boys choir in bringing music to Coonamble.  Around 150 enthusiastic visitors joined locals to bring music to venues around town including the Plaza Theatre, Old Monterey Café, Cants Hardware store and even the RTC building.  The event started with a Rodeo & spitroast on the Friday night and included workshops and concerts around the main street.  The Gala concert on Saturday night packed the Catholic Church and was followed by a bushdance at the Anglican Hall.  Community groups and volunteers worked tirelessly to make the event a success and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.  Next year the focus will be on ‘women and girls’.  For more information visit: www.moorambilla.com

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Fashions on the Field (Fillies) Gulargambone Gold Cup 14th October 2006

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Text Box: Get it in Coonamble ! Text Box: The Coonamble Business Action Group (BAG) , which is a sub-committee of Coonamble Streets Ahead has launched a joint advertising campaign with the support of 48 businesses in the shire. The campaign includes radio and print advertising, direct mail and a special web site showcasing businesses. www.coonamble.org/getithere More information from the Economic Development Office on (02) 6827 1917 or email here Text Box: The Heart of Country NSW Holiday Planner was launched in Dubbo on the 20th October by the NSW Minister for Tourism and Sport and Recreation, Sandra Nori. The release of the 60-page Planner is supported by a marketing campaign, including a 2-minute info-break running for three weeks on television in NSW, regional Victoria and regional Queensland; print advertising and publicity. Towns, experiences and events in Central NSW, New England North West, Upper Hunter, Riverina, Capital Country and the Murray all feature in the new Holiday Planner. Coonamble Shire is featured alongside Warrumbungle, Gilgandra, and Narromine Shires and worked with those councils to produce a joint feature. Copies available from the Coonamble Visitors Centre or online by clicking here

Representatives from Tourism NSW travelled to Coonamble on the 26th October. Western Area Manager, Patricia Wilkinson and Destination Services Specialist, Mandy Bellingham met with Steve Baldwin from the Great Inland Way Promotions group.  Tourism NSW is conducting an audit of touring routes in NSW to define the experience, infrastructure, level of support and tourism potential. 

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(Clockwise from top left) 1. Moorambilla Logo, 2. Coonamble Gold Cup, 3. Coonamble Art at Campbelltown, 4. Belinda Howell, Campbelltown City Council, 5. Matt Colahan, Dubbo Tourism Manager promotes the Macquarie Marshes in Canberra, 6. Old Monterey Café & Cants Hardware during Moorambilla, 7.   Lunch on the lawns of Coonamble Museum