The Return and Earn can and bottle recycling service, operated locally by Cobar Camels Rugby Club members, re-opened last Thursday after being closed for a month due to the COVID lockdown. Volunteer collector, Cairo Haronga (pictured above at left with customer Michael ‘Dog’ Lawrence), reports they have been kept busy since they reopened. On just their first day they filled half a container of bottles and cans. When this photo was taken on Friday afternoon, the service was just as popular with a number of cars lined up with locals keen to drop off their hoard from the past month. The club uses the proceeds from the service to help with their running costs.
The Return and Earn can and bottle recycling service, operated locally by Cobar Camels Rugby Club members, re-opened last Thursday after being closed for a month due to the COVID lockdown. Volunteer collector, Cairo Haronga (pictured above at left with customer Michael ‘Dog’ Lawrence), reports they have been kept busy since they reopened. On just their first day they filled half a container of bottles and cans. When this photo was taken on Friday afternoon, the service was just as popular with a number of cars lined up with locals keen to drop off their hoard from the past month. The club uses the proceeds from the service to help with their running costs.
The Cobar & District Rugby Union Club has had a long and proud history and over the past 65 years has produced some fine footballers, including an Australian Wallaby. Cobar’s talented centre Bruce Harland toured with the Wallabies in 1962 to New Zealand to play the All Blacks. After playing […]
The Cobar Catholic Church will be closed until NSW Public Health Orders once again allow everyone to be welcomed into the church. Cobar’s St Laurence O’Toole Church parish joins other Catholic communities within the Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese and all around the state who are choosing to leave their church doors closed […]
The Cobar Camels may have done the Bourke/Bre team a favour in swapping the venue and hosting Saturday’s Western Plains Rugby Union game, but that was as far as their acquiescence stretched, with the Camels showing no mercy on the field to post a 36-24 win. It was an even […]
