200722

2021/2022 Little Athletics NSW Award Dinner

Local Barry Knight (at left) was a finalist for Volunteer of the Year at the 2021/2022 Little Athletics NSW Awards dinner held at Ettalong on Saturday night. And while he didn’t win, Barry reckons he may have “conned” retired Australian sprinter, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (also pictured above with Barry’s son Troy, […]

200722

Cobar kids go Globetrotting

The Cobar Youth Council recently took a group of 18 local youth ranging in age from 12-17 on a three day excursion to Bendigo to see a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game, which combines athleticism, theatre and comedy in their style of play. The group also got to experience the Bendigo […]

200722

COOSH excursion to museum

As part of their school holidays activities, the kids and their supervisors at COOSH (Cobar Out of School Hours) service paid a visit to the Cobar Museum last Thursday. The kids took part in a scavenger hunt finding pictures of people and objects both inside the museum and also in […]

200722

Skateboarders hit the deck

Nixen Osborne instructing Harlow Chaplain and Declan Sharpe at last week’s Totem Skateboarding school which was provided by the Cobar Shire Youth Council as a free activity during the school holidays. The focus of the beginners session was learning to get your balance while kids at the intermediate sessions learnt […]

200722

All-Star Wrestling in Cobar

Former WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) superstar Chris ‘The Masterpiece’ Masters won the Eastern States wrestling title at the All-Star Wrestling Australia Winter Warfare show in Cobar last Thursday night at the Services Club. Masters also won a lot of Cobar fans including Maddox Best, Braxton Martin, Hannah and Cooper Trudgett.

200722

ROAR to benefit from a Commonwealth bank donation

The Commonwealth Bank Cobar branch employees have donated $500 to Rural Outback Animal Rescue/Respite (ROAR) as part of the bank’s nationwide communi-ty donation program. As part of the program, the bank has pledged to donate $400,000 nationally, to recognise those organisations that make a difference to the communities in which […]

200722

Training for teens

Local teens recently attended a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training workshop that was aimed at kids aged 12-18 years. The three-hour Teen MHFA Course teaches high school students how to provide mental health first aid to their friends. The course was developed in response to research indicating that young […]