THE Cootamundra Soup Kitchen is back in business for a new year providing a nutritious meal, free of charge, to local families who may otherwise go without.
Having commenced in 2010 the Soup Kitchen has gone from strength to strength running out of the Baptist Church Hall each Wednesday
afternoon.
Recently volunteers attached to the Soup Kitchen hosted a stall at the Coota Beach Volleyball carnival which crowd members who ate there raved about!
Sam McNally (left) did an awesome job cooking and serving for the Soup Kitchen and is pictured here with Ben Brown, Lucy Pigram holding Coco and Hannah Pigram who came home for the weekend to play in the carnival.
Photo: Kelly Manwaring
EJOYING THE DAY: Pictured at the recent installation of Father Joshy to the Cootamundra Sacred Heart Parish are Colleen Hines (left) and Regina Mackenzie.
Photo: Michael Van Baast
GETTING THE CHOP: Pictured is Cootamundra High School student Luke Annetts who will have his head shaved as part of the World’s Greatest Shave which will start Friday week.
TAKING A BREATHER: Stopping for a quick snap on their way around Lake Burly Griffin in Canberra are (back, from left) Alan Moston, Fiona McNiven, Viv Christie, Jasper McNiven, Don Christie, Don Hart, Mark McClintock, Ray Luff, Michelle Sutcliffe, Ian McClintock, Debbie Hobbs, Janelle Forsyth, Michael Cook, Craig Gouge and Brett Moston (front) Murray Roberts, Riley Sutcliffe, Rob Power, David Forsyth, Lorna Nixon and William Roberts.
Photo: Contributed
STRONG PERFORMANCE: Tom McGregor has played well for the representative side this year.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Cootamundra mayor Jim Slattery presents Doreen Gunn with a
certificate and gorgeous bunch of flowers in honour of her 102nd birthday on Friday.
ALOHA: Getting in on the action as part of a Hawaiian themed fundraiser at the Cootamundra Nursing Home last week for the internal sprinkler system are (from left) director of nursing Anne Dawes, Nursing Home employees Gaye Johnson, Tracey Watson and board member Ken Turner.
ENJOYING THE ATMOSPHERE: Cootamundra Nursing Home residents Bill Illingworth (left) and Tommy Pendergast enjoy afternoon tea at last Friday’s Trip to Hawaii function held as a fundraiser for the Internal Sprinkler System Appeal. Each of the residents were presented Hawaiian leis as part of the occasion.
PROGRESS: The Cootamundra heated pool is on track for completion by the end of this month. Last week tiling of the pool and painting of the complex, inside and out, took place. Purple tiles have been used with the inside wall painted in shades of blue while the outside of the building has been painted to match with the existing frontage.
CLEAN UP FUN: While Clean Up Australia Day was officially held yesterday, Cootmaundra’s schools got a head start on the rest of the community with students taking to the grounds with plastic bags and gloves in an attempt to make their school a more beautiful place. Pictured (from left) are Cootmaundra Public School students Toby Lawson, Hunter Slavin, Sam Grewal, Abbie Douglas and Brooke Ronning.
FINISHING STRONGLY: Sacred Heart Central School Year 9 students, from left, Skye Churchill, Phoebe Cheshire and Maddison Heritage after completing the cycling section of the school’s triathlon.
TRI-ING HARD: The Sacred Heart Central School held its triathlon for Year Nine and 10 students last Thursday and Cody James, right, came first in the
individual section and Tyronne Owen came second. The triathlon saw the
students swim 250 metres, undertake a one km run and cycle six kms.
BIOMASS READINGS: William Eccleston uses a “greenseeker” at the High School’s agriculture plot along with (from left) Maggie Jordan, Amy Cosby of the University of New England and Hayley Mitchell.
PINK HEARTS: pictured back (from left) are Todd Beddie, Ryan Connell, Dom Trinder, Isabella Booth and Skye Pennington. Middle (from left) are Mackenna James, Kate Alderman, Zara Hamilton, Hailey O ‘Brien and Kate Officer. Front (from left) are Lara Wilson, Grace Hamilton, Charlotte Campbell and Phoebe Hamilton. Sacred Heart Central School held ‘Pink day’ on Friday in support of the McGrath Foundation with students required to make a gold coin donation for dressing in the colour. More than $500 was raised from the day.
FOREHAND: Barry Cant plays a shot during a game last week. The mixed competition will start again next week.
Boys
catch up:
ENJOYING a yarn over a beer at the recent Cootamundra Old Blokes No Frills Reunion are (from left) John Fuller of Canberra, Peter Holder of Canberra, Ray Holder of Wagga, Colin Holder of Canberra and Colin Wilson of Cootamundra while seated is Colin Powell of Canberra.
People returned to Cootamundra from near and far to be part of the weekend and many a good yarn was spun.
Photo: Michael Van Baast
STOCK SPEEDSTERS: Following one of the races which formed part of the inaugural Redneck Games at last year’s Stockinbingal Village Fair are (from left) Kirrilee Cameron, Molly McCrone and Charlee McPherson.
FULL STRETCH: Matt Forsyth scores a diving try for Twomeys in the Unisex A grade grand final held on Monday night.
Photo: Kelly Manwaring
A GRADE CHAMPIONS: Pictured are the victorious Twomeys team who triumphed in the Unisex A grade final on Monday night. Back (from left) are Alex Jones, Ryan Miller, Chris Maher, Haydn Cowled, Matt Forsyth and Jordyn Ballard. Front (from left) are Renae Glanville, Cara Phillis, Sarah Walsh, Madison Byrne, Tahlia Hotston and Ashleigh Willoughby.
Photo: Kelly Manwaring
Helen Axsentieff, instructor of Aqua Aerobics at our local pool spent last weekend at the Temora Indoor pool.
The children at the school (pictured here) so appreciate the opportunity Gemma has created for them, a number of the children are sponsored by families here in Coota and Young. Also the school is regularly visited by Rotarians from around Australia who have taken this passionate cause ‘under their wing’ staying there and assisting with the building of classrooms.
MONTHLY LUNCHEON:
The monthly luncheon of the War Widows and Ex-Servicewomen is back in action with the March gathering at the Family Hotel taking place on Monday last.
Two of the regular attendees are pictured here Mavis Kirley and Marcia Crowe.
Pictured Men’s Golf Captain Garry Mason and Golf Patron Tony Ward are pictured during the official opening of the golf season.
A large field hit off, with players relishing the cooler conditions and fairways rejuvenated by recent rains.
SUPPORT: Gwen Livingstone and Ken Harrison from the Cootamundra Antique Motor Club are part of a display set up at Country Club Oval on Saturday. The display was part of the inaugural Tubby’s Ride and family fun day, which organisers have pledged to make an annual event.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
HAVING FUN: Belle Skillan was amongst the families who attended Saturday’s Tubby’s Ride. The face painting was a hit amongst the kids.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
TOP SCORER: pictured is Mick Butler batting or the Central Bears in their preliminary final against Mimosa on the weekend. Butler top scored for the side with 35 as the Bears ended up winning by four runs.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
CHARGING IN: Country Club bowler Luke Levett prepares for delivery in his side’s match against Stock on the weekend as umpire Graeme Moon looks on.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
MAN OF THE MATCH: Brendan O’Callaghan starred for Stockinbingal as they beat Country Club by 14 runs in the first of the Sparre Cup cricket finals.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
WITH THANKS: Cootamundra’s Robert ‘Loppy’ Longford hands over a generous donation from the GM Scott Social Club matched by GM Scott to Damien Holder, one of the organisers of Tubby’s Ride, held in town on Saturday.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
SPECIAL DAY: The Cootamundra contingent of riders from Tubby’s Ride stop for a photo with one of the organisers Damien Holder in front on the Harley Davidson of his late father Phillip ‘Tubby’ Holder.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
Prior to teeing off on the first hole, are (from left) Maree Deep, Geoff Twomey, Rhonda Twomey and Kevin Deep.
IN HONOUR: Pictured with their long service certificates are (from left) Carol Campbell, Marianne Cook, Leigh Cassidy, Deirdre McAlister, Vicki Twyford and Southern Cross Care area manager Debbie Churchill.
ALL SET: The Lachlan Valley Railway steam train will run a one-way trip to Junee this Friday ahead of the Rhythm and Rail Festival.
THE BIRTHDAY BOY:
Charlie Roberts celebrated a ‘milestone’ birthday last week. No formal party for Charlie but he did so enjoy celebrating with family and old friends at the Coota Old Blokes No Frills Reunion held at the Country Club.
He was surrounded by (back from left) Sandra (nee Shoard) Ryan, Charlie’s sister Susan Rudd, Front Antoinette Ward, Sally (nee Doidge) Nicholls, and Olwen (nee Eldridge) Kearney. Sally lives in Canberra with husband Frank, these days and enjoys coming back to visit her brother John, sister in law Faye, and Aunty Betty (nee Doidge) Manwaring in the Retirement Village.
BACK IN TOWN:
How nice to catch up with these former Cootamundra girls Annette Arkinstall and Anna Ingerman who were back in town for the No Frills Reunion held at the Country Club.
Many memories flood back when mentioning the Artkinstall and Ingerman families.
AND a BIG thank you to Antoinette Ward who sent us through all the excellent photos connected with the reunion.
RESULT: Pictured at Wednesday’s ‘Are Your Customers Revolting’ presentation hosted by the Cootamundra Development Corporation (CDC) and NSW Business Chamber are (from left) NSW Business Chamber Regional Manager Murray-Riverina Ben Foley, CDC Chairman John Stephens, nationally renown business consultant and mystery shopper Debra Templar and NSW Business Chamber Business Solutions Executive Sue Mills.
READY FOR SALE: Pictured prior to the annual sale of Hereford and Poll Hereford bulls and heifers at Glenholme, Cootamundra are Holman Tolmie partner and agent Garry James and property owners Geoff and Heather Bush.
SELLING TEAM: Conducting the annual sale were Cootamundra agents (from left) Corey Nicholson of Holman Tolmie, Steve Tolmie of Holman Tolmie, Andrew Wishart of Landmark and Garry James of Holman Tolmie.
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL: Members of the 2014 Cootamundra High School Student Representative Council including (back, from left) Jessica Meale, Ariah Holmes, Andrew Clements, Joseph Trinder, Sam Masters, Jarrad Chapman, Sarah Stephens, Henry Hughes, Ben Camilleri and Tom Worthington (middle) Dannyelle Bailey (partially obscured), Zac Kostrubic, Teagan Mayor, Maggie Jordan, Brigette Holder, Nicole Kelleher, Ashleigh Dean, Jayden Sutton and Mitchell Holmes (front) Abby Perry, Mikayla Large, Kate Collingridge, Nakiyah Fallon, Michael Perry, Brittany Hefren, Ebony Davey, Jarrad Holmes and Maddison Baker.
FOUR WEEKS TO GO!
The Annual Cootamundra Picnic Races are set to take place on Saturday, April 5.
The hardworking committee is in ‘full swing’ with preparation for this TOP annual event.
Pictured here at the races last year is committee treasurer Amanda Rosengreen with winners of the travel raffle Peter and Robyn Gain, of Gundagai. The raffle prize for this year’s meeting is once again sponsored by Harvey World Travel and the Southern District Picnic Race Committee.
BUSY TIME:
It is a busy time at the moment for manager Trish and the volunteers at the Vinnies Shop with all their summer stock at half price and the winter stock about to appear on the shelves.
Pictured here are two of the hardworking ladies who volunteer their time Helen Bryant and Annie Newcombe.
ALEC’S ARRIVAL:
I was delighted to hear from former Coota girl Wendy Koch and hear of her ‘happy news’ - Bruce and Wendy Patton are proud to announce the arrival of their third child, a boy, Alec Robert Patton. Alec was born at Forbes District Hospital on Thursday 16th January 2014 at 12.24pm, weighing 4780gms (10lb 8 1/2 oz) and was 56 1/2 cm long.
He is a brother for Emma (6) and Charlie (3), and a grandson for Rob and Judy Patton of Derriwong and Marcia and Albert Koch of Cootamundra.
PARIS CATWALK:
From the sheep station to the Paris Catwalk is the story of Jugiong girl Stephanie Field, the daughter of Michael and Angela Field of “Banangaroo”.
While attending school at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga, Stephanie won The Girlfriend magazine Model Search Competition and is now (at the age of 18) on the catwalk of the Paris Fashion Week modelling for none other than Valentino and Celine!
She is pictured here two years ago at the Harden Picnic Races with her mum Angela.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: Cootamundra health service staff are aiming to walk 10,000 steps each day per person for the entire month of March as part of the 10,000 Steps Challenge initiated by the Murrumbidgee Local Health District.
MEETING THE PUBLIC: Volunteer in Policing officer Lindy Boshoff, Cootamundra Local Area Command Crime Prevention Officer Peter Guthrie, Detective Acting Superintendent Paul Huxtable, Volunteer in Policing officer Louanda Hardie and Inspector Frank Brown manned a stall in Parker Street yesterday to engage with the public.
ENJOYING THEMSELVES: Cousins Ben Piffero and Dean O’Loughlin were amongst those who braved the rain for the Family Fun Day at Country Club Oval on Saturday following Tubby’s Ride.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
IMPROVEMENT: Pictured using the new disabled access ramp at the NAB building are Cootamundra resident Beryl McPhail (left) and NAB manager Iona Derrick. Beryl was one of the catalysts to seeing the disabled access ramp installed at the bank.
FOR BATTLE: pictured is Country Club captain Darren Connell (left) and Central Bears captain Josh Purtell with the South West Fuel Cup. The two sides will face off tomorrow in the inaugural cup final.
A GREAT DAY: Supporting Tubby’s Ride last weekend were (from left) Sianna Holder, Kayla Marrion and Annika Holder. The event raised more than $4500 for the NSW Cancer Council.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
CHAMPION: David and Janelle Manwaring of ‘Rose View Herefords’ exhibited ‘Rose View Hangover’, 17 months, at the recent Canberra Royal Show. The bull was named ‘Grand Champion Hereford Bull’ and ‘Supreme Champion Hereford Exhibit’. He then went up against the ‘Supreme Champion Poll Exhibit’ and became ‘Supreme Whiteface Exhibit’. Rose View Hangover is selling at Wodonga Whiteface National in May along with two others in the Rose View team.
FUN FOR ALL: No staff member went without a Hawaiian flavour to their uniform during the recent, very successful, ‘Trip to Hawaii’ organised by the staff and volunteers for the Cootamundra Nursing Home. In addition to being fun the event served to raise funds for the Internal Sprinkler Appeal.
RUNNERS UP: Rhonda Nolan, Joan Cummins and Lynne Eccleston accept their runners up prize at the Cootamundra Ex Services Women’s bowls presentation which was held at the Ex Services Club on Wednesday.
A RESERVE WINNERS: pictured back (from left) are Lauren Connell, Scott Meale, Darren Connell, Todd Basham, Craig McTavish, Ryan Connell, Kellyann Connell, Paddy Cameron and Emily Levett. Front (from left) are Ainslee Meale, Riley Meale, Karen Meale, Andie McTavish, Ella McTavish, Jackie Cameron, Reid McTavsh, Ricky Evans and Libby Evans. Hunt and McTavish won the A reserve grade final after a 4-3 win against the Country Clubbers.
Photo: Kelly Manwaring
B GRADE CHAMPIONS: pictured back (from left) are Brittany Ormond, Andrew Bucknell, Hailey Ormond, Glen Dowell, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Garth Howlett, Emily Fitzgerald, Ben Warner, Aaron Roberts, Aarin Harris and Danielle Phillips. Front (from left) are Cameron Batt, Jarryd Cook nad Tom Warner.
Photo: Kelly Manwaring
C GRADE WINNERS: pictured back (from left) are Shaun Delaney, Pat Doidge, Jake Turner, Jesse Turner, Billy Squire and Blake Guthrie. Front (from left) are Ashleigh Heritage, Kiera White, Maggie Jordan and Teneille Allen. The Wattle Town Skip Bins were crowned the champions of the B grade following a 7-6 against the Central T in the grand final.
Photo: Kelly Manwaring
SERVE: pictured is Cootamundra tennis player Juliette Thompson playing at the Medibank Junior Development Series at the weekend. Juliette went on to win the under 13 girls category.
Photo: Melinda Chambers
HALF CENTURY CELEBRATION: Women from the Ex Services Women’s Bowling Club marked their 50th anniversary on Wednesday. As well as bowls, the ladies also enjoyed a special lunch at the Ex Services Club where a number of awards were presented.
