Local music teacher Judy Toomey helped to transport a group of local youth to Hawaii last week at the Cobar Shire Library when she offered students tips on how to play the ukulele. The classes to learn to play the iconic Hawaiian instrument were offered as part of Cobar Shire Council’s school holiday youth activities. The miniature four-string guitar embraces Hawaiian culture and it’s reported that just about anyone can learn to play it. Pictured with Judy (at far right) are students Oscar Degn, Isabella Degn, Ryan Jiang, Sophie Beer and Indigo Ryan.
Local music teacher Judy Toomey helped to transport a group of local youth to Hawaii last week at the Cobar Shire Library when she offered students tips on how to play the ukulele. The classes to learn to play the iconic Hawaiian instrument were offered as part of Cobar Shire Council’s school holiday youth activities. The miniature four-string guitar embraces Hawaiian culture and it’s reported that just about anyone can learn to play it. Pictured with Judy (at far right) are students Oscar Degn, Isabella Degn, Ryan Jiang, Sophie Beer and Indigo Ryan.
Several birthdays were acknowledged at Cobar VIEW Club’s August meeting at the Empire Hotel last week. They included Joan Knight, who was pre-sented with flowers at the meeting for her ‘significant’ birthday by club president Enid English. Joan Wells also celebrated a ‘very signifi-cant’ birthday and flowers were delivered to […]
Former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer Clinton Toopi (who now coordinates the National Rugby League’s State of Mind workshops), retired rugby league great and State of Mind Advocate, Joel Thompson (who was born in Ivanhoe, NSW), along with NSW Police Force Youth Engagement Officer Senior Constable Therese Carroll, […]
