A project to raise funds to build memorials at the Cobar Cemetery to honour former Cobar residents Kate McKenzie and Johnny the Balt (John Kowalski) has been kicked off with a generous donation of $500 from the members of the Cobar Buffalo Lodge. Pictured above is Jill Weaving, who’s heading up the graves restoration project, with Bev and Terry Clyde from the Buffaloes last week. Details of how to make a donation to the project can be found in the committee’s advertisement on Page 16.
Local band, Ballz n All, have been booked to play at this year’s Christmas Street Pa-rade & Gala Shopping Night. Sponsorship from Glencore CSA Mine and Sandvik for this year’s event has enabled the Cobar Business Association to amp up the night’s entertainment and bring in the live band to […]
The Cobar Lodge No 97 has donated $1,000 towards erecting a World War II commemorative wall mural at the club. Mr Punzet said the funds came from fundraising activities conducted by lodge members within the Services Club and the community. He said the Cobar Lodge No 97 members had been […]
Volunteers and “more or less retirees” Ross Lane, Bill Iceton, Peter Crawford and Warren Russell of Newcastle made a large donation of books to a number of local libraries on Monday. Mr Lane was in Cobar around spring last year and said he noticed how people “do it pretty tough […]
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