Parkes Phoenix Editor

The Cowra Christmas Street Festival is back for its sixth year with Cowra’s Kendal Street hosting the region’s largest celebration of all things festive on Friday, 7th December from 6pm to 9pm.

The main street of Cowra is set to be closed down and reopened as a magical twilight marketplace, jam-packed with locally handcrafted wares, soaps, jewellery, clothing, preserves, candles and more. The festival is the perfect time to tick off your Christmas shopping list with unique gifts from local Cowra retailers and regional market holders. Our retailers and market stallholders are committed to ensuring shoppers have all they need for the big day. The beloved Christmas Wonderland at Squire Park will be making its return, offering lots of fun, free activities for the kids as well as the opportunity for photos with Santa himself! The kids will also enjoy the Old Kentucky Animal Farm in the Bushman Boots & All courtyard. Get up close and personal, pat the animals and even help the farmer with feeding time.

Macquarie ‘Eat Street’ is the place to grab a bite to eat, with a huge range of delicious local and international cuisines available to enjoy whilst watching the great live entertainment up on the main stage, featuring the youngest winner ever of ‘The Voice Australia’, Ellie Drennan!

Don’t forget to be present at the main stage for the annual Cowra Guardian Christmas Cracker draw, where the lucky winners will take home a multitude of fantastic prizes. Winners must be at the event to claim their prize.

Join in the fun and get festive this season at the Cowra Christmas Street Festival in Kendal Street on Friday, 7th December from 6pm to 9pm. Ho, Ho, Hope to see you there!

 

The committee for the Forbes Boscars is pleased to announce that the Gala Dinner event will be held at the Forbes Services Memorial Club on Friday, 8th February 2019.

“The Gala Dinner will be under the magical theme of Midsummer Night’s Dream – a whimsical theatrical theme!” said Michael Jelbart, Chair of the Boscars committee.

“We are delighted to be working with 123 Tix for this event and will be publicising the link for ticket purchases on social media later this week,” added Michael.

The Boscars nominations have been very promising with submissions for all categories. “The committee awaits for the judges to make their final decisions to enable the award nominees to progress to the next step,” said Michael.

The committee meet fortnightly to ensure that the plans for the Gala Boscars event are well on track.

If you would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact either Fiona Ferguson of the Forbes Business Chamber on 0407 380 936 or Cheryl Newsom, Media Liaison, on 0411 211 065.

Eight students from the Forbes High School Support Unit were selected to form part of a section in the School Spectacular, namely D’Arts Ensemble, which specifically caters for students with special needs.

All the students were extremely excited when they recently received their School Spectacular bag and cap.

The school’s support unit staff, students and parents/carers of the students attending the Spectacular have all been amazed at the overwhelming response received from local community groups and local businesses. Their major sponsors include Evolution Mining ($2,000), RSL Club ($1,200), Lions Club ($1,000) and Ipomea (Rotary) Club ($500). The donations have lessened the students’ total expenses by an astonishing 65 percent. They have also each received a School Spectacular shirt, bag and cap which will be extremely useful during their week in Sydney.

They are in Sydney this week until tomorrow, and will be doing four separate performances at Qudos Bank Arena. They will be performing a surprise dance that may not be revealed until the first performance today.

Anyone wanting to watch the show can do so when it is televised the following week on Saturday, 1st December on Channel 7.

The Forbes Business Chamber Find It In Forbes committee are hard at work to ensure that the Christmas promotion is launched on the 19th November.

“For 2018 Forbes Shire Council holds the Naming Rights sponsorship with Forbes Services Memorial Club being the Gold sponsor for the event. For the second year, Terry Bros Carpet Court is the Silver sponsor,” said Chairperson Marg Duggan.

“The Chamber is delighted to introduce a new category of sponsorship this year. Bernardi’s, Little Extras and Central West Diesel are all Bronze sponsors, which is fantastic,” said Marg.

The committee is also working hard at developing the Christmas carnival which will see the beginning of the Find It In Forbes draws. The draws for the promotion consist of 10 x $500, 5 x $1,000, 1 x $3,000, 1 x $2,000 and 1 x $5,000. Giving a total funding pool of $20,000.

“The Find It In Forbes promotion will run from the 19th November until the 24th December at 10:30am. The Forbes Business Chamber would like to thank the sponsors, participants and supporters for assisting to make this Forbes promotion such a success,” said Marg.

Please remember to support the below businesses during this busy period and use any of the major sponsors and participating businesses to redeem any of your lucky draws.

Forbes Shire Council, Forbes Services Memorial Club, Terry Bros. Carpet Court, Bernardi’s, Central West Diesel, Little Extras, Agriwest, Allure on Main, Betta Home Living, Blush Organics, Bowns SportsPower, Brons Hair Design, C & D Floor Coverings, Cahills Footwear, ChapterTwo, Country Bakehouse, Flannery’s Pharmacy, Forbes Family Dentist, Forbes Small Engines, Turners Furniture One, Gottaluvit, Gunns Menswear, Helloworld, HozPotz, Jullianna Kneebone Solicitors, Ladybird, Life Pharmacy, Loomzys FishNFix, Made Of Fridays, News On Rankin, Painted Daisies, Phillip Wells Optometrist, Robbs Jewellers, The Pantry Cafe and Catering, Undercover Sleepwear, Vandenberg Hotel, Walkers AgNVet, Blue Sky Outdoors, Forbes Inn, Roylances Auto One and Eye Wear Specs.

Supporters include Forbes Livestock, Forbes Toyota, Hazel Field Accountants, Hughes and Co, Kevin Miller Whitty Lennon & Co, McCarron Cullinane and Chudleigh, Midpro, Midwest Pest, WA Knights and BWR Accountants.

Don’t forget to ask for your Find It In Amazing Forbes tickets with every purchase at a sponsor or participating business.

CatholicCare Wilcannia-Forbes provides a broad range of programs and services to encourage and support people living within the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese. Services are adapted in response to specific needs and collaborative partnerships are developed to strengthen the capacity of rural and remote communities throughout Western NSW.

A new service CatholicCare is providing is support for those affected by drought. An initiative they are pursuing to support these people is holding various community catch ups. This service aims to target and bring those who are living in communities which are affected by drought within the diocese together. A key goal for these community catch ups is to provide an opportunity for locals to discuss ways further support can be offered to them.

The community catch up evenings are free to all those who attend and will be of host to various kids activities, a family movie playing on the big screen, sausage sandwiches, burgers, soft drink and water.

While the kids are kept busy with their fun activities the parents can sit back, relax and enjoy their sandwiches/burgers and drinks. Another aspect of these events is to offer information on mental health support, financial management support and other support services people at these events could be interested in accessing such as the drought support hotline. For the farmers and those who are heavily affected by the drought temporary relief through gifts such as vouchers for food/livestock feed/laundromats etc may be provided.

The first event is scheduled for 16th November at Bedgerebong Hall. Another event is planned for 23rd November at Lake Cargelligo.