The Forbes Central Butchery is extending its delivery service to the villages of Trundle, Tullamore and Tottenham. The plan is to visit all three villages once per week on the same day. Shannon Bermingham said any item from the butchery could be ordered by phone for delivery. He said the best would be to look on Facebook for weekly specials, award winning sausages and the $50 meat pack, which changes every week. Call the Forbes Central Butchery on 6851 6745.

The media launch of the Forbes Business Awards, BOSCARS, last week created a lot of interest not only from past winners, and participants in the regional awards, but also from many local business owners. The event was hosted by Chairman of the Forbes Business Chamber, Chris Roylance, and launched by Vicki Seccombe of the NSW Business Chamber Orana Region.

Vicki encouraged all businesses to enter and to take time over each entry, not leaving it until the last minute. She recommended that any businesses entering should review the questions related to the category they wanted to enter before deciding if it was the correct category for their business. She also said that when allowing time to go through your entry, ensure that you check and re-read your answers, and to make sure you are selling what your business does and is successful in doing.

There are nine different categories to choose from, and if you need assistance please call anybody on the Chamber committee or Vicki at the NSW Business Chamber office in Orange on 6311 2203. The closing date for entries is 29th August. There is not a lot of time left to start preparing your entry. A panel of independent and respected business leaders from outside the region will judge submissions.

Finalists will be announced on 30th September. Winners will be announced at a James Bond themed Gala Dinner on Friday, 28th October. Start planning to treat your staff to an exciting night out.

Australia won the first ever gold medal awarded in women’s rugby sevens after beating New Zealand 24-17 at the Rio Games this week. Two of the players, Alicia Quirk and Sharni Williams, are from the Riverina. Federal Member for Riverina, Michael McCormack, congratulated the team and the two local players on their gold medal success.

He said he was delighted to know both girls personally. “Alicia and Sharni are very inspiring people and fantastic role models for young athletes in the Riverina and elsewhere,” Michael said. Alicia was Kildare Catholic College’s school caption in 2009. “Sharni once beat me in an arm wrestle at a presentation night at her old school – Batlow Technology High – although some would say that is not a difficult feat!”

Michael was pleased to give the two sportswomen their first national media shout-out on Sky News just moments after their success on Tuesday morning. “It’s always great to give the Riverina and its many talented people a plug in the national media,” Michael said.

Hi everyone,
I wanted to draw your attention to the influence the media has over us. Unlike quality publications such as The Forbes Phoenix, some media outlets draw their audience by constantly trying to have us living in fear.

And matters regarding wealth are not immune to this problem. Take for example the headline in the Daily Telegraph recently, ‘Super funds delivering small returns’… Now reading that headline and the first paragraph talking about the lowest returns in 4 years (3% growth on average), you’d possibly be left with a negative sentiment towards super. However, anyone who read the article through until completion would have read that the
median growth fund has delivered average annual returns of 8.8% over the last seven years. Hardly cause for alarm that last financial year only returned 3%!

We can go through life listening to all the ‘noise’ projected our way (read: rubbish), or we can ignore the noise, look between the lines and find quality, independent information that allows us to make informed and confident decisions going forward.

Quite simply, superannuation is just a tax structure. It’s the best legal tax break in town. The fact is that anyone who doesn’t like super just doesn’t understand super.

Those who understand it are using it to build retirement nest eggs in a tax effective way that will enable them to pay themselves a decent income in retirement. You have enormous control over your superannuation…

Therefore, make sure you understand how your super is invested and what fees you’re paying so that you maximise it for the many days you look forward to enjoying being retired.

Cheers, Daniel

A crowd of around 1, 500 people turned up at the annual Forbes Cup on Monday to see jockey Andrew Banks win the $30, 000 Forbes Cup on Zarlu. “It was a really good race,” said Allan Black, Secretary of the Forbes Jockey Club after Banks had to replace an indisposed Brad Clark. Zarlu is trained at Wagga Wagga by Peter Morgan and defeated J Kissick riding Leucura and Clayton Gallagher on Dark Mojo in the seventh race of the day over 1, 600m. It was a first time entry for Zarlu in the Forbes Cup.

The main sponsor of the Forbes Cup for the past 21 years is Bankstown Sports Club from Sydney. Almost 200 supporters travelled all the way to Forbes to enjoy the day, with some of them doing it for the 16th year in a row.

The Forbes Services Memorial Club has also been supporting the biggest race in Forbes for 22 years. Last week Wayne and Denise Richards, President and Director respectively, handed over a $6, 600 cheque to John Rennick of the Forbes Jockey Club.

Another exciting event on the day was the unveiling of the Club’s new $110,000 irrigation system for the race track. Present at the unveiling were Michael McCormack, Small Business Minister, Phyllis Miller, Mayor of Forbes, Gordon Lindley and Scott Kennedy of Racing NSW.

The Boscars 2016 have been launched officially and now is your chance to enter. Is there something you’re doing really well in your business or do you have a star performer? Have you launched any new initiatives or made improvements over the past two years?

Entries are open now via an easy to use online system. Visit www.
forbesbusinesschamber.com.au/boscars to access the system and review the questions for the nine award categories open for entry:
Excellence in Business Ethics, Excellence in Innovation, Excellence in Small Business (<20 employees), Excellence in Business (>20 employees), Employer of Choice, Business Leader of the Year (age 36+), Young Entrepreneur (age 18 – 35), Employee of the Year and Apprentice or Trainee of the Year.

Entries close at 5pm on Monday, 29th August. An independent panel of respected business leaders from outside the region will review and judge the submissions. Finalists will be announced on Friday, 30th September – don’t miss your chance to be one of them.