26 Sep 08 | MICK Simons would love to treat it as just another Sunday.
However, this isn’t just any other Sunday - it’s the Sunday - the Sunday when the Cootamundra Strikers first grade and youth league sides step out to not only represent themselves and their club, but the entire Cootamundra community in the Football Wagga grand finals at Gissing Oval.
26 Sep 08 | HAPPY 21st
Wishing Michael Vesperman a member of staff at Target Country a very HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY. His birthday was yesterday September 25 and rumour has it his mum and dad Debbie and Peter Vesperman will be hosting ‘something special’ to mark this milestone. HAVE FUN MICHAEL.
26 Sep 08 | YESTERDAY marked the last formal assembly for Cootamundra High School’s Year 12 students, where students were presented with their HSC portfolios.
24 Sep 08 | JUST when Matt Forsyth didn’t think his day could get any better - it did.
Just hours after leading his Sullivan Cup side to a comprehensive 36-4 victory in the Group Nine Sullivan Cup grand final against Southcity, the Coota Bulldogs captain was named winner of this year’s Weissel Medal for Best and Fairest in the under 16s competition.
24 Sep 08 | 30 years dedicated service
Well, what a SURPRISE local gentleman Mr Robert Patterson received when he arrived at the restaurant at the White Ibis last Saturday night! There to greet him and say THANK YOU for his 30 years of dedicated service at the helm of his practice Rural Management Strategies were not only his family BUT clients who had travelled from as far as Lockhart, Ariah Park, Greenthorpe, Young, Grenfell and the Cootamundra district.
24 Sep 08 | COOTAMUNDRA’S Tania Baldock is one of three finalists selected in the Pride of Australia Medal.
The Pride of Australia Medal aims to honour everyday Australians, the unsung heroes in our communities making extraordinary contributions to the Australian way of life and not always getting the acknowledgment they deserve.
19 Sep 08 | COUNTING DOWN: taking a last minute look at Fisher Park ahead of this Sunday’s Group Nine rugby league grand finals are Gerad (left) and Jake Walsh.
19 Sep 08 | CANADIAN HOLIDAY
Welcome home to Stephen and Penny Howse and family who have returned after having had a SPLENDID six weeks in Canada and America.
19 Sep 08 | IN a callous act of vandalism the gravesite of Courtney Thompson, who passed away tragically as a result of a car accident last year, was set alight earlier this week.
17 Sep 08 | GLAMOUR GLAMOUR GLAMOUR
Jennifer and Lindsay Cameron had an exciting invitation to attend the NSW Fire Brigades ball at the
La-Montage in Leichhardt at Sydney on the weekend.
17 Sep 08 | A NEW season of Little Athletics will swing into action this Friday when the Cootamundra Club hosts its Registration Day.
17 Sep 08 | A one-stop website for regional employers and job seekers was launched to local TAFE students at the Cootamundra TAFE campus on Monday.
12 Sep 08 | IT was mid-April when Glen Buttriss received a phone call that would not only change his immediate future but would go a long way to changing his life as a whole.
12 Sep 08 | Two birthdays were celebrated last Saturday night at the Coota Hotel with a wicked “Movie Characters” theme party. Mick Duncan’s birthday was September 9 and Janette Milne’s is today. About 30 friends from various places travelled to be with the birthday couple and had lots of fun trying to
identify each other. Pictured left to right: Naiomi, Chris Milnes, Mick Duggan, Janette Milnes, Adam Crane and Scott Goreng.
12 Sep 08 | VOTE ONE: Cootamundra Hospital patient Mrs Joyce Taylor had the polling booths come to her on Wednesday to cast her vote for tomorrow’s local council elections. Joyce is
pictured with Election Official Neil Murray. Voters can cast their votes at Cootamundra High School, Cootamundra Public School, EA Southee School, Stockinbingal Public School and at the Wallendbeen Memorial Hall. Look to page 5 to see how to make your vote count.