Issue 165 www.canowindraphoenix.com.au Wednesday 27 July 2011
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56 Gaskill Street Canowindra 02 6344 1009 Snippets... Reminder: the Canowindra Preschool Movie Night is this Friday night, so make sure you don't leave it to the last minute to book or you might miss out. For c atering purposes, please contact the preschool on 6344 1261 before 2pm Thursday 28 July. Good Luck: our Age of Fishes Museum is a contender for this year's Inland Tourism Awards that are being held this Saturday night at Balranald. Let's all hope that this is the year they come home with the very much deserved award. The Old Vic Inn will be inducted into the Inland Tourism Hall of Fame this year as a testament to the success they have had in the previous years' awards. Membership: invoices for 2011 Show membership fees are being mailed as this is being typed. Everyone is invited to become a member of our Show, we are striving to make this year the biggest Show with the most number of members. Non Member entry into the Show is: Adults: $15, School children: $5, Aged Pensioners: $5, Family Ticket: $25. Non- Members leaving ground will have to pay for re-admission = No pass outs are issued. Membership is only $25 and admits your partner and school children. It also allows you free exhibit entry, unless specified in the Schedule. Support your Show and become a member by calling Jo Gaigals on 0418 413 753. Call Jo if you don't receive your invoice next week. Police: interviews have been conducted at the Orange Station as the headquarters for the Canobolas LAC and at the time of printing the successful candidate had not been advised. Next week we should have more details and hopefully a photo. Hopefully that should keep Maureen happy. Thanks!: Ebann Malae, Max Wensley, Gene Tarrant & Matt Fisher want to thank the Skate Park Committee & Cabonne Council for all their work. The guys were at the skate park for the opening and said that the skate park has changed many things for them: it has helped friendships grow, where before kids would pick on each other, now they have a common interest; they learn from each other; they stay in town to play, and it gives them something to do. A few suggestions were: bubblers, shade & maybe a smaller, less steep mini track for the little kids, as sometimes it's hard to avoid them. I was so impressed with their positive and helpful conversation, it is so heartening to listen to intelligent kids. Cabonne Mayor Bob Dowling has heaped praise on the Canowindra community for its hard work and determination to establish a skate park in the town. Cr Dowling said the skate park was a permanent example of a community working together at its best. When the people of Canowindra decided they needed a skate park to provide an important recreational facility for the towns youth, they just rolled up their sleeves and got the job done to raise money for the pro- ject, he said. Cabonne Council offici ally thanked Canowindra for its contribution to the $140,000 facility at a ceremony at the skate park on Saturday. Often in the past month I have been asked what is the most defining feature of Cabonne? What is it that makes it unique? Cr Dowling said My answer has always been the same. Its the people our communities. And there is no better example than this skate park at Canowindra. Cr Dowling said the Canowindra community did a magnificent job raising $35,000. The skate park committee members collected wood for raffles, gathered sheep manure to sell, held discos, collected donations for a T-shirt competition, held a linen party, a bowls day and manned gates for a car rally, the Mayor said. On top of that they were busy approaching businesses, organisations and residents for donations. Cr Dowling said that when the community demonstrated such a commitment to the skate park, the Council had no hesitation in allocating $75,500, which was half of the grant Cabonne received in the second round of the Federal Governments Regional Community Local Infrastructure Program. In addition, Council provided a further $30,000 to make the project a reality. SKATE PARK CEREMONY: ONLY SOME OF THE LOCALS INVOLVED... Cr Dowling paid special tribute to the Skate Park Committee: Mark Edwards, Ken Willson, Anne Traves, Robyn Welsh, Bev Wilson, Richard Waugh, Cindy, Nick, Blake, Alex and Sam Willson; Tina, Aaron, Kane and Alicia Earsman; Michael and Callum Clyburn; Jenny and Lachlan Watson; Josh Welsh; Tracey, Brodie and Dan Friend; Robyn Wooley; Jill and Jamie Bennett; Peta and Casey Edwards and Scott Stuart. The Mayor and Canowindra-based Councillors Kevin Walker and Anthony Durkin handed out more than 50 certificates of appreciation to the committee members and individuals and organisations that had played a significant role in establishing the skate park. The Council congratulates you, I congratulate you, Cr Dowling said. We are proud of you and you should be very proud of yourselves. Skate park committee chairman Mark Edwards said the first meeting to initiate the project was held at the Canowindra Golf Club in March 2006. I said then that it would not happen overnight, Mr Edwards said. But five years and 54 committee meetings later all the hard work has paid off. Cr Dowling complimented Scott Spring, who designed and built the skate park after consultation with the young people of Canowindra. The parks popularity is certainly a testament to Scotts work, he said. The second stage of this skate park, which will involve landscaping and the installation of seating, was included in the Councils 2011/12 Budget and should be completed within the next three or four months. The Council also hopes to obtain additional grant funding to erect a shade shelter. Ouoss w|o w||| bo |oduc|od |o|o ||o lo|ood Jout|s Awotds Ho|| o| loo 2011? JUNCTION HOTEL CANOWINDRA's OLDEST HOTEL Ph: 02 6344 1365 BANGAROO BISTRO LUNCH 12-2.30pm DINNER 6-8.30pm Sunday Roast fr $10pp OPEN 7 DAYS Oo So|utdoy l o||oodod ||o opoo|oq o| ||o Cooow|odto s|o|o pot| w||| ||o Moyot ood C|t Wo||ot. l| to|o|otcod |o o ||o oouo| o| couo||y sp|t|| ||o| o|s|s |o Cooow|odto os d|sp|oyod by ||o qtoup o||ot| ||o| woo| |owotds ||o |uodto|s|oq ood otqoo|so||oo bo||od ||o sc|oo. osod oo o doc|s|oo o| ||o us|ooss C|obot oo||oq, l |ovo toquos|od ||o |os|o||o||oo o| oto b|os o| ||o s|y|o cuttoo||y ou|s|do \|oo|o's, w||| o s||q|| c|ooqo |o co|out, ood ||oy bo |os|o||od o| |oy otoo o|ooq ||o o|o s|too| (os wo|| os bo|oq |ovo|. J|o o|o s|too| |s |o qo| tosut|ocod, bu| Couoc|| |s wo|||oq oo ||o kJA bocouso o| ||o dos|qo o| ||o podos|t|oo |s|ood w||c| |s |o bo |oc|udod. l |ovo odo oo|so obou| ||o cuttoo| s | o| o o| | |o Luqowt o ood Moodutoo koods ood w||| |oop you updo|od w||| ||o ptoqtoss ood ou|coo o| w|oto wo oto up |oo. l oow |ovo o oow dod|co|od oo|| oddtoss |ot o|| tos|doo|s o| ||o Coboooo s||to |o coo|oc| o o|. c|tdut||oo||.co J|oo|s, Lut|o An open letter to Cabonne Council Roads in the Canowindra area are deteriorating at an alarming rate. The large amount of traffic comprising heavy vehicles (especially container trucks) has seen many sections become highly dangerous. Of particular concern is the Eugowra (Nangar) Rd, out past the poplars and Fishermans bend. Here there are numerous safety issues: Serious deformation makes it highly dangerous to pass oncoming traffic. The roadside verge is higher than the road surface itself in many places, and collects water during rain, forcing traffic in both directions to drive in the middle of the road or run the risk of being dragged off the road by the depth of the puddles. Potholes and broken edges I find it hard to understand how Council puts a higher priority on re-aligning the intersection of Wenz and Pauls/Beaths Lanes than the more dangerous problems like those highlighted above, and while there are other misaligned intersections with a higher amount of traffic, such as the Eugowra (Nangar) Road/Wenz Lane intersection. School buses share these roads with semi- trailers, and action needs to be taken before there is a serious accident. I would welcome the opportunity to show the General Manager these areas, how- ever in the meantime I put Council on Notice regarding my safety concerns, also shared by other road users. Yours sincerely, Andrew Holmes, Canowindra Couoc|||ot's Cooo|s by Lut|o Lut|o Lut|o Lut|o TIGER WEEKEND SPECTACULAR Saturday was a tremendous day for the town of Canowindra and Canowindra Rugby League as the Tigers hosted a reunion in celebration of the Western Region Caltex knockout Champions of 1971, a 40 year celebration. The day was also attended by many other past players from different eras. The crowd were treated to a speech from the Captain Coach of that day Greg Hay who spoke of his time in Canowindra and where he resides currently. Chief organiser of the day Eddie Clyburn was presented with a Canowindra Tigers shirt on behalf of the current group of Tigers. The first grade match between 2nd placed Canowindra and 3rd placed Molong lived up to all expectations in a real tit for tat affair. The scores were locked up at 32 each mid- way through the second half until the Tigers superior fitness showed and they roared away to a 49-32 victory. The Tigers were best served by Brad Bowman and Peter Pita, who were just too powerful for the Molong pack. Anthony Gaeta must also receive a mention for his entertaining performance including a very good try. The League Tag Girls found themselves in a tough tussle against the constantly improving Molong Bullettes. In the end sheer brilliance from Madi Vitnell was the difference as the young speedster finished with three tries. Canowindra Tigresses 4- Molong Bullettes 1. In the Youth League Canowindra started off strong with Brydon Hughes slicing through the defence and scoring next to the uprights with Brendan Traves converting. Minutes later Dan Middleton cut through Molongs defence passing on the inside to Nick Willson who was tackled metres short of the try line, this saw Brodie Friend take advantage of Molongs scrambling defence to crash over from dummy half with Brendan Traves once again converting. A mistake at kick off saw Molong in great position to attack although the Canowindra defence held strong with Brydon Hughes and Kain Earsman hitting hard in defence. A wide shift from Molong saw the Canowindra defence stretched with Molong scoring on the side line. Canowindra worked back into an attacking position through strong runs from Ethan Drennen and Harry Myers this saw Sam Barker crash over the try line with his first touch of the game. The conversion was unsuccessful. Canowindra and Molong went back and forth in battle until Molong kicked a 40/20 which gave Molong a scrum feed 10 metres out from the Canowindra line. Molong scored off the scrum through some soft Canowindra defence, leaving the half time score at 16-8 in favour of Canowindra. After half time both sides came out fired up which saw some great attack and defence, a wide shift from Canowindra saw Blake Willson cross over with Matt Mclean adding the extras. Once a gain both teams were locked in a back and forth battle until a Canowindra pass got intercepted and Molong ran off to score out wide. The game heated up with a few blow-ups on the field this fell into Canowindra hands with Josh Cooney scoring out wide. There was some strong football played after that for the remaining of the game with neither team being able to break the opposing teams defence leaving the final score 26-12 in favour of Canowindra. Back at the bowling club the large crowd were entertained by Ian Breen, Eddie Clyburn and Greg Hay before hitting the dance floor for the rest of the night. Thanks to Graham Rice for making a great speech. It was a great day for Canowindra. Next Week: League tag have the bye. On Sunday Youth League play Eugowra at Eugowra at 11:45. First grade play Gooloogong at Gooloogong at 2pm also on Sunday. Woodbridge Cup Ladders
League Tag Canowindra 24 Eugowra 20 Molong 15 Cargo 13 Condobolin 12 Grenfell 10
This weeks Specials at Risi e Pisi (Rice & Peas) 750g fresh peas 1 onion, chopped roughly 1 carrot, chopped roughly 1 celery, chopped roughly Peppercorns 1.5l water 2 spring onions, finely chopped 50g lean pancetta, diced 250g Arborio rice 75g fresh Parmesan, grated 50g butter 1/2 glass dry white wine 2 tbsp olive oil Shell peas & set aside. Place the rinsed pods into a large a pot with onion, celery, carrot & peppercorns. Add water, bring to boil, then reduce to simmer, continue to simmer for 1 hour. Strain stock, discard onion, celery, carrot & peppercorns. Blend pods & add pulp to the stock. Pour into saucepan, heat slowly until nearly boiling. Heat olive oil with pancetta over medium heat. When pancetta fat turns translucent add chopped spring onions, cook until soft. Add the peas, ladle in a little stock & cover for about 10 mins. Add the rice, stir to coat rice in oil pour in wine. When most is ab- sorbed, start adding the hot stock a ladle- ful at a time, stirring the rice & adding more when rice thickens. Use enough stock until the rice is just al dente, this is a fairly wet risotto. Add parmesan & butter, stir and serve hot. Semester 2 Parent Teacher Meetings Dont come to uswell come to you! date: Thursday 4 August time: 4-6:30pm at: Canowindra Bowling Club Ryall Street Please call the school to arrange a time to meet with your childs teachers on 02 6344 1305. The parent teacher meetings will be 10 minutes each in length, a great opportunity to discuss your childs progress and areas for development! If you are unable to make it, please also call to arrange another time or phone interview. Cooow|odto ltosc|oo| luodto|sot MOVIE NIGHT lt|doy 29 Ju|y .20p o| CWA Ho|| (|o|c||otd S|too| J|o J|o J|o J|o K|oq's K|oq's K|oq's K|oq's Spooc| Spooc| Spooc| Spooc| J|c|o|s [25 |oc|udos ov|o & 2 coutso oo| L|||od oubots so qo| |o oot|y |o ovo|d d|soppo|o|oo|l Oo so|o Moodoy 18 Ju|y o| ptosc|oo| oo 02 2== 121 tasteCanowindra 42 Ferguson Street Canowindra
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www.tastecanowindra.com.au or phone 02 6344 2332 HOSPITAL AUXILIARY AGM REPORT Canowindra Hospital Auxiliary held their Annual General Meeting on 18 July, the Committee once again elected Peggy Beath as President, and Jan Mills was elected Treasurer, former treasurer Val Jones did not stand due to ill health, the President and Committee would like to take this opportunity to thank Val for her invaluable service over a 12 year period as the Auxiliaries Treasurer. The Committee also acknowledged the 31 year commitment to the Auxiliary of member Celie Bowd, by making her a Patron of the organization, Celie now joins Flo Nash and Daisy Toohey as Patrons. As the public would be aware, the Hospital Auxiliary over the years has contributed greatly to the equipment at the Soldiers Memorial Hospital, 2009-10 with the I-Stat Monitoring Machine ($9,900.00 approx.) and most recently 2011 with a Pressure Point Mattress valued at $2,400 approx, attending our Meeting was Tara Earsman from the Hospital nursing staff, and it was very pleasing to hear her comments on the benefits to Doctors, patients and staff that these two items have made, as a committee of the town we look forward to continuing our commitment to the welfare of our community. BANG ON A BEANIE! Brain Injury Awareness Week is between 1521 August. It is a week to bring to your attention the severity of ABI (Acquired Brain Injury). Around twice as many people are diagnosed each year with ABI compared to those diagnosed with Breast Cancer and yet very few people know about it. About 20,000 children under 15 have ABI, and around 1.6 million Australians or 1 in 12. This year Canowindra High P&C are getting behind this great cause. There are quite a large number of people in our own community living with or have a family member affected with an ABI. The High School Canteen will be selling the blue beanies and tshirts. Toby Newcombe is also supporting the cause by selling beanies from Belubula Butchery. The beanies are $9.95 and tshirts $19.95. If you would like to find out more information about ABI or Bang on a Beanie campaign go to www.bangonabeanie.com.au Please support the Canowindra High School P&C and Brain Injury Awareness. POETRY COMPETITION THIS WEEKEND The great thing about the folk scene is that it is one of the few musical styles where spoken word is performed alongside musical acts. We have decided to celebrate this part of t he f ol k scene t hi s mont h at "folk@canowindra". As well as four guest poets, who between them cover a wide range of poetic styles; we are hosting a poetry contest. There will be three sections: Adult original poetry Adult performance of other's poems Under 18 original poetry. Entry to these sections is quite limited (because of time constraints on the night); so all entrants must contact Nerida Cuddy via www.nerida.info or call 0429 048 603 as soon as possible in order to register your poem. Save the date: 31 July, 4-6pm at taste Canowindra, Ferguson Street. It is bound to be a rich afternoon of thoughts and words... CENTRAL MOTORS Best mechanic in town! with personalised service & honest advice + PLUS +
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Ph 0488 252 300 The CaNOWindra Hotel 110 Gaskill Street CANOWINDRA 02 6344 1407 PARISH OF ST EDWARDS CATHOLIC CHURCH CANOWINDRA Saturday 30 July 6pm Canowindra Sunday 31 July 8.30am Eugowra CLASSIFIEDS POSITION VACANT Casual work available for local DJing jobs, training provided. Phone Craig on 0447 093 500 NOTICE The Annual General Meeting for Canowindra@home is to be held on Wednesday 3 August 2011 @ Finns Store 6.30pm. All are welcome & reports will be given on the activities during the year Pizzas available at all times BBQ chicken or Ham & pineapple $15ea Meatlovers $17ea Lunch: 12-2pm tue-sun Dinner: 6-8pm mon-sat Great pub food! Beer garden & family friendly environment CANOWINDRA GUN CLUB NEWS On Sunday 17 July Gun Club was held in Canowindra. We had 30 Shooters from Dubbo, Cowra, Orange, Forbes, Bathurst and local. The weather was fine and it was a great afternoon, a few nail biters and a few shoot offs. The Results for the Three Events of the day. 25 Target Point Score AA Grade 1st Matt Chellas 2nd Joe Caltabiano A Grade 1st Josh Lambert 2nd David Player & Peter Haley B Grade 1st Kay Hunt 2nd Barry Heaslip C Grade 1st Peter Sullivan & Jack Knight 50 Double Barrel AA Grade 1st Matt Chellas 2nd Joe Caltabiano A Grade 1st Grant Spencer 2nd Peter Haley B Grade 1st Barry Heaslip 2nd Adrian Hodges C Grade 1st Brett Hooper 2nd Jack Knight Over All Winner for this Event was John Finn (4 Way Shoot Off) Well Done John. 25 Target Handicap 1st Josh Lambert 2nd Peter Haley (3 way shoot off) Well done Peter High Gunn for the day Matt Chellas Well done Matt The next shoot will be held Sunday 21 August with a 12 noon start at the Canowindra Gun Club on the Eugowra Road. Come along and get involved in a great competitive sport. BROOKS SMALL ENGINES push mowers, chainsaws & brush cutter repairs. 2/176 Gaskill Street. Tuesday-Thursday 9am-5pm. Phone 02 6344 2013 KENS SERVICE CENTRE UNDER 16S The Kens Service Centre Under 16s travelled to Grenfell, again, to take on the Grenfell Goannas. After the players were all changed and the Tigers had leant Jayden Brown, Jesse Gander and Michael Watt to the Goannas, the 16s were warming up on the soccer ground. A player from Cabonne was injured in the Under 14s game and the ambulance was called. After the player complained of no feeling below the waist, a chopper was called and the player was put into the ambulance which stayed on the field. The Under 16s game was then called off so we all came home. The Under 16s last three games are against Parkes, [a] Forbes [h] and Forbes [a]. A note for the unwary if you follow a certain green Holden to or from a game, be careful what you may see from out the back window. NOTICE AGM of Canowindra Challenge Inc will be held upstairs at Old Vic Inn 7pm Tuesday 9 August 2011. Please come along with ideas to help make next years event bigger, better & easier. We seek help from volunteers to make it even more successful. PYTHONS REPORT Last Saturday the Pythons hit the road to West Wyalong. With the full effects still evident from Ronnie's 21st the night before, it was going to be interesting how the boys would perform. To their credit, they all played well in the warm conditions at Wyalong. With the Wyalong boys not having the best season this year they had defiantly found some extra talent for their home games and both teams knew that they had to play well to come away with the points. Canowindra did not seem to fire well with the whole team seemed to be in only second gear with the boys not hitting the rucks like they have being in the past few weeks. Though the Python defence was still there with the boys not coinciding a point for the day. The opening try went to Huw Wills who made a good run through the defence from 10 out and reached out and slammed the ball down under the posts. Tommy Abbott converted. Soon after Clint Oborn was also awarded with a try from a pick and drive and jumped over the defence to score near the posts. The boys went into the break with a 14-0 lead though were still not playing any- where near their best. Pete Stacey tried to fire the boys up in the second half with some tough counter ruck- ing and also Dan Willams with some strong running. Dude was soon rewarded with probably his easiest try he will ever score in his career with him finding him self in the middle of a backs play and the defence soon parted when he got his hands on the ball and strolled over for his first 5 pointer for the year. Aarron Woolly was next to score what was to be the last try of the match to give the Canowindra boys a 28-0 win. Points for the day went to Dan Williams 3 for a strong game back from a few weeks off, Clint Oborn 2 points for another great game and Adam Grant found himself in the points again also with 1. Players player went to Dan. This Weekend the boys play their last comp game before the semis at Condo against the ladder leaders who have only dropped one game this year. Though they were lucky to get away with the win last time the 2 sides met with Condo winning 19-17. The Feedlot Restaurant Fast, efficient service! Lic 70446C INSTALLATION, REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE OF: solar & heat-pump hot water systems roofing - draining - general plumbing DOMESTIC, COMMERCIAL & RURAL Steve Thompson PLUMBING 0428 0428 0428 0428 532 532 532 532 984 984 984 984 Club P W L D F A BP Pts CDN 13 12 1 0 442 89 10 58 BLA 13 11 2 0 544 96 9 53 GFL 13 10 3 0 367 112 10 50 CAN 13 8 5 0 425 215 11 43 CSO 13 4 9 0 243 387 7 23 CUD 13 4 9 0 250 426 3 19 WWG 13 2 11 0 112 449 2 10 WAR 13 1 12 0 86 695 1 5