Australia Day ambassador Paul Featherstone presented the Yabbies Veterans team of Bill Fugar, Bob Clark, Scott Toomey and John de Bruin with their Cobar Quids prizes as winners of the Yabbies Business House Handicapped Relay on Sunday. The team swam to within 0.47 seconds of their nominated time. The Maintenance Crew team (Greg Martin, Paul Swainston, Jarrod Marsden and Jason Toomey) were the runners up with 3.87 seconds off their nominated time.
Australia Day ambassador Paul Featherstone presented the Yabbies Veterans team of Bill Fugar, Bob Clark, Scott Toomey and John de Bruin with their Cobar Quids prizes as winners of the Yabbies Business House Handicapped Relay on Sunday. The team swam to within 0.47 seconds of their nominated time. The Maintenance Crew team (Greg Martin, Paul Swainston, Jarrod Marsden and Jason Toomey) were the runners up with 3.87 seconds off their nominated time.
Cobar’s newest Australian citizen Felicity Dempsey has swapped the ‘Emerald Isle’ and will now call Australia (and Cobar home) after she officially became an Australian citizen during Sunday’s Australia Day celebrations. Felicity came to Australia from Ireland 10 years ago and was working at the Tilpa Pub when she […]
Aided by some recent cool water training in Antarctica, Paul Swainston topped the winner’s list at the Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club event last week. Swainston won the opening event of the night, the 30 metres handicapped freestyle swim, after he finished within 0.06 seconds of his nominated time. […]
Local resident Leonie McCosker delivered the traditional Welcome to Country speech as part of the 2025 Australia Day celebrations on Sunday. Leonie welcomed the crowd on behalf of the traditional custodians of the land, the Wongaibon people of the Ngiyampaa Nation. “Traditionally these are my ancestors’ lands,” Leonie said. She […]