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August 1, 2024 by Roxane Manley

Are you ready to roll?

Parkes Elvis Festival: Applications for the Evolution Mining Northparkes Operations Street Parade are now open! Northparkes Street Parade is a festival-fan favourite, taking place on Saturday 11th January, 2025 at 10am along Festival Boulevard.

Sign up here to walk, ride, drive or float: https://bit.ly/ElvisParade

Kerin Health: The founder of Kerin Health, Rach, has created a new instagram page to share some tips, and her writing. If you’re a female in business or a leadership role – she’s got a passion for you, and has lots of great content to share to help women be the best version of themselves. We highly recommend you add her to your Instagram feed! You can follow her @rach.kerin

Parkes Shire Council: A friendly reminder there are guidelines in place when bringing your fury friends to Council’s cemeteries, parks and sporting grounds in the Shire.

Always remember to pick up after your dog, if your dog is being exercised in an approved off-leash area, your dog must be under effective control by a competent per­son, dogs are only permitted in cemeter­ies if they are on an appropriate lead. For information visit: bit.ly/CompanionAnimal­Guidelines.

Forbes Youth Action Team: The theme for Local Government Week 2024 is “Your Voice, Your Council”. This week aims to help move the conversation beyond roads, rates and rubbish, to the important and farreaching role Councils play as the hub of the community. Over the next week check out Forbes Shire Council’s socials to gain insight into their roles and responsibilities in the community.

Central West Credit Union: Our branches will be closed on Monday, 5th August for the Bank Holiday. We will reopen on Tues­day, 6th August. You can still manage your finances seamlessly via secure Internet Banking or via our mobile app, available 24/7, from anywhere.

Parkes Show Society: The Young Farm­ers Challenge will be on again at the 2024 Parkes Show. Criteria is simple, you must be older then 15 and can get a team of 4 together. $1,000 prize money up for grabs thanks to sponsor Dwyer Contracting. Don’t forget, tickets are now available for the 2024 Parkes Show. Three day show pass­es will be available online at www.123tix.

com.au. until 11:59pm Sunday 25th August or at the Show office before close of busi­ness Friday 23rd August. Get in early to beat the crowds!

Red Bend Catholic College: College Alumni and Raiders Jersey Flegg assistant coach, Darby Medlyn, presented the u14s boys rugby league team with their jerseys ahead of the Cochrane Cup state semifinal in Canberra earlier this week.

Darby Medlyn presenting jerseys to the RBCC U14 boys.

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