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STEM fun for juniors
Cobar Mobile Children’s Service hosted a Questacon STEM session at Drummond Park yesterday which offered demonstrations as well as fun hands-on activities using water and music for 0-7 year olds.
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Employment & Community Services Expo
Cobar High School held an Employment & Community Services Expo at the school yesterday with 30 exhibitors from a wide variety of career (and volunteer) vocations taking part. Staff from local businesses, Cobar Shire Council, mining companies, Tradies, the Commonwealth Bank, TAFE, the University of Sydney, Australian Defence Force, the […]
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Future Farmers Project
Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton (at centre) called into Hermidale Public School recently to check on the students’ Future Farmers project which sees all seven of the school’s students involved in the entire cropping process. “It’s not only about teaching them about all aspects of farming, but it’s helping […]
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Colourful crew at St John’s
St John’s School staff and students last week celebrated Book Week by dressing up as their favourite book characters. They also celebrated with a book fair sale and invited family members and friends to join them for lunch on the lawn. Pictured above are the staff dressed up as […]
2022
Support available for families concerned about their kids
Local families and carers who have concerns about their child’s development or behaviour were able to find out information on support and pathways open to them at two information sessions in Cobar last week. The Early Childhood Approach (ECA) sessions were presented by MacKillop Rural Early Childhood Intervention coordinators Dominique […]
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Students give voice to their ideas
St John’s School held the finals of their Public Speaking competition at the school last Wednesday. Pictured above are Year 2’s finalists Sophia Le Lievre, Michael Rogers and Xavier Foster, whose topic was ‘Country life is better than city life’. Students in other classes were tasked with discussing the benefits/disadvantages […]
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Festival to showcase Cobar connections music talent
While Cobar’s Running On Empty Festival (ROEF2022) next month will be “all about the cars” it will also have a focus on music. All of the live music at this year’s festival has a local connection. ROEF’s headline band, Edgecliff, who wowed Cobar audiences on New Year’s Eve at the […]
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Celebrating 100 years!
Edna Neale has been waiting a long time for “her letter from the Queen” and it arrived earlier this week (along with numerous cards and congratulatory letters) in time for Enda’s 100th birthday today. Born in Glebe in 1922, Enda came to Cobar in 1948 with her husband Bill who […]
2022
Happy with Knee Slapper
Co-owners of Knee Slapper, Colin ‘Butch’ Eves and Wayne ‘Wap’ Prisk (who also trains him) were pretty happy with the big seven year old gelding’s performance in the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup feature race on Saturday where he finished third. Despite not having a run for the past […]
2022
Learning about Landcare
Year 6 students from Cobar Public School (CPS) and St John’s School spent two days last week learning about Landcare including invasive native scrub management, erosion control and measures to prevent erosion on farms, soil types, animal handling and pest management. They also learnt about native plants and introduced species […]