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Many worthy nominees for Australia Day sports awards
Local clay target shooters Robert Thompson and Scott Brydon were named as joint winners of this year’s Australia Day Sportsperson of the Year award. Swimmer Makaila Gordon won the Kerrigundi Award and Ben Trudgett was awarded the Services to Sport trophy. Cobar’s Australia Day event coordinator John Martin said it’s […]
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Entrepreneur ambassador is passionate about Parkinson’s
Self-made entrepreneur and passionate advocate for Parkinson’s Disease research, Clyde Campbell will be Cobar’s 2017 Australia Day ambassador. Mr Clyde stated his working career as an industrial electronics apprentice in country NSW 29 years ago and now runs his own company, Machinery Automation & Robotics. His team of 70 staff […]
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Dedication to sport acknowledged by Australia Day awards
Three sporting awards were presented as part of the Australia Day awards ceremony yesterday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool with Ben Griffiths, Kaila Wharton and Scott Griffiths acknowledged for their contributions to their chosen sports. Ben won the Kerrigundi Award, which goes to a person up to the age […]
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Australia Day got off to a quick start
Cobar’s Australia Day activities yesterday got off to a quick start with the senior and junior triathlon events first off the mark on this year’s Australia Day program. Both were well attended with 33 tackling the senior course organised by the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad (CATS) while there […]
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Many worthy Australia Day award nominees
This year’s Australia Day Citizen of the Year, John de Bruin and Young Citizen of the Year, Annie Mugugia were presented with their awards by Australia Day ambassador Andrew Heslop at an […]