BAREFOOT BOWLS
TOYOTA TOUR DE OROC
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Lightning Ridge Easter Festival 2022
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Join us for the annual Lightning Ridge Easter Festival from 15 to 17 April 2022:
The town swells with thousands of visitors celebrating Easter, with fun activities and events for the whole family including:
Lightning Ridge Black Opal Bull and Bronc Ride
Outback Opal Hunters and mining machinery line-up
Street Stalls and Carnival
Annual Miners Rickshaw challenge, strength challenges, famous egg and spoon races
Lightning Ridge Race Club Horse Races
Big Dig for over $15,000 worth of solid opals
Little Dig for over $3,500 worth of ‘techie’ prizes for the kids
Live entertainment at numerous venues in the Ridge and Grawin
Fireworks spectacular
Helicopter scenic flights
Download your festival programme here: https://www.walgett.nsw.gov.au/.../lightning-ridge.../
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SAVE THE DATE !
Meet the Locals
Saturday 26 March 9.30-10.30am
Masons Store, Wilson Street Collarenebri
in partnership with Walgett Shire Council, Collarenebri Lions Club,
Colly Watersports & Fishing Club and Collarenebri CWA - one of the first branches established in NSW & celebrating 100 years in 2022!
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If you are a new resident to Lightning Ridge or the greater Walgett Shire book in to our New Resident Event for 2022. Lightning Ridge Rotary Club together with Walgett Shire Council are hosting a welcome evening and you're invited!!!
Local Business, Community Groups and Members of the Community are also invited to help welcome our new members to town and show them all the great things about living and working in the Walgett Shire.
If you cant catch the Lightning Ridge Event we have one in Walgett on March 2nd at Walgett CWA Rooms from 5:30pm
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Lightning Ridge: Initial community consultation program for New Play Space
Purpose of engagement:
• To understand the local community and what’s important to them and to better understand the site and the unique qualities of Lightning Ridge
• To identify potential partners, opportunities and constraints that will inform the design of the new play space
• To provide the community with information about the project and the Everyone Can Play Program.
THURSDAY 17 MARCH
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Central school consultation (both groups primary/ high school)
2:15pm- 3:00pm
Little Diggers/Preschool
3pm – 4pm
Youth Centre Consultation
3:30– 5pm
Community sausage sizzle drop in on site (Soccer field area)
All Welcome
FRIDAY 18 MARCH
10:30am – 11:30am
Morning tea Aboriginal Land Council
10:00am – 12pm
Drop in Information Kiosk in Town Centre
(Diggers Rest site)
11:30am – 12:30pm
Time available to meet with any additional stakeholders.
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Soldier on the Monument to return.
On Thursday 29th July 2021 a long combination vehicle attempted to negotiate a right hand turn from Fox street onto Wee Waa Street, unfortunately things didn’t go as planned, the trailer collided with the base of the War Memorial Monument. The soldier that has watched over the towns centre for almost a century was dislodged from the base along with the plinth, the soldier suffered unrepairable damage.
Council’s General Manager Mike Urquhart advised a structural engineer from Dubbo had inspected the monument in August 2021, reporting the base and plinth were structurally sound as damage was merely aesthetic in nature.
The next step in the restoration process was insurer approval to carry out repair of the secondary plinth and sculpting of the soldier. The General Manger said discussions were had with a number of sculptors and it was decided the renowned sculptor, Carl Valerius be engaged to recreate the soldier on the monument.
Carl Valerius is a nationally recognized sculptor working with bronze, stone and wax and soft materials in between. Carl has no formal qualifications, instead his artistic life has been derived from skills he has developed for essential survival as a stonemason and builder. His lack of formal training has not prevented him from being an invited guest lecturer at the University of New South Wales.
If you have been to Darling Harbour, Sydney you will have seen Carl’s work, likewise Canberra’s National Museum has his work on permanent display. Other work includes Sir Donald Bradman and the design of the Captain’s Walk, Cootamundra Jubilee Park and Bradman’s Cottage. His most recent and significant work was produced in 2020, a life size bronze statue of “Bill the Bastard”, Australia’s greatest warhorse depicted in ABC’s Landline. The statue is on display on the Riverina town of Harden-Murrumburrah.
The General Manager said Carl has since completed a mold of the soldier and ordered the marble from Italy. With delays in the supply chain, Carl was unable to meet his original planned unveiling day 25th April 2022, the revised date for completion is now 30th June 2022.
An official unveiling event will be arranged for later in the year.
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Kookaburra Court
General Manager Mike Urquhart said Walgett Shire Council was deeply disappointed with Whiddon Groups closure of Walgetts aged care facility Kookaburra Court at the end of March 2022.
Kookaburra Court has been a well-managed and maintained aged care facility that has been home for many elderly residents of Walgett Shire over the past 30 years, with Whiddon Group having managed the facility for the past 13 1/2 years.
Whiddon Group last year did signal to the community that closure was imminent should resident numbers not improve as the facility was losing a quarter of a million dollars annually. This has no doubt been a difficult decision for the Whiddon Group executive, a closure that has far reaching consequences for affected residents, their families, staff, their families and the greater Walgett business houses that supported Kookaburra Court in some way.
Perhaps the diminishing demand for aged care in Walgett can be best described as collateral damage, fallout from the Royal Commission into Aged Care report, the pandemic and increased Government care subsidy packages to assist the elderly to remain in their homes.
The General Manager said Council would support Whiddon Group where possible with its winding up of the facility and its move for the Kookaburra Court property and building to be retained as an asset for the greater Walgett community.
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The Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation and our Women’s Health Service have teamed up to get women in the west to have a cervical screening test.
They’ll be visiting Brewarrina, Lightning Ridge, Coonamble, and Gulargambone in March to host info sessions and drop in women’s health clinics.
Drop in to one of the sessions and have a cuppa and yarn about cervical screening and women’s business.
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Service NSW is returning to Collarenebri on Thursday, 7th April 2022 in our Mobile Service Centre. We will be located at the Lions Park in Walgett Street between the times of 10am to 3pm.
Please find below our information for you to inform those in your community that we are returning, unfortunately I cannot provide a poster for this date. If possible, are you able to advertise our next visit on your local Facebook page, local newsletter and/or community notice boards?
A friendly reminder that our dedicated Service NSW team on board can provide support across a broad range of services:
- Roads & Maritime Services (including licence and registration renewals and applications).
- Processing of NSW Fitness to Drive Medical Assessments and Mobility Parking Applications.
- Processing of RSA and RCG cards.
- Undertaking Driver Knowledge Tests.
- Births, Deaths and Marriages (including birth, marriage, death and change of name certificates).
- Application and Renewal of Working with Children Checks on behalf of Office of Children’s Guardian.
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Our Mobile Service Centre is a cashless facility and will accept payment by credit/debit cards or cheques.
If you require any further information on our service locations or opening hours, visit service.nsw.gov.au/msc, contact us on 13 77 88 or reply all to this email.
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