The Canowindra Phoenix Issue 95 ISSN 1837-0136 www.canowindraphoenix.com.au Tuesday 16 February 2010 Your free weekly guide to life in and around Canowindra...shop locally first!

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RAILWAY CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS Interest is building for town celebrations for the 100 year anniversary of the railway coming to Canowindra. A Centenary Ball will be held on the evening of Saturday 3 July, one day shy of the official opening 100 years ago. The main celebrations will be held the week between the opening of the Canowindra Show, Friday 24 September, until the October Long Weekend, Monday 5 October 2010. The CWA Evening Group which has agreed to hold a Parade of old Wedding Gowns as part of the program for the celebrations, and several rail enthusiasts from Cowra are planning to contribute with displays, a book and model railway exhibition. Lawrance Ryan, Cowra’s railway historian, is writing a book on the history of the Cowra-Canowindra-Eugowra l ine. Another book, “Canowindra, The Town the Railway Rebuilt”, is a joint effort by Lawrance Ryan and Dorothy Balcomb, to be published by Canowindra Historical Society & Museum Inc, with funding from the RAHS who have given the Historical Society a grant of $1500 towards cost. Lawrance and Dorothy will have some assistance from the Historical Society regarding photos for the book, which aims to have lots of before and after photos of Canowindra, which

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mushroomed in growth as a result of the railway arriving. This will be a great social history of the effect the railway had on Canowindra, as the population quadrupled in the space of 10 years, new businesses opened and early buildings were replaced by architect designed and master-built buildings. The street was realigned and the resulting Gaskill Street has since been listed as a conservation area. Canowindra outstripped both Cudal and Cargo as the leading village/town in Boree Shire at that time. It wanted to become a separate Shire, to include South Canowindra and some of Waugoola. Eugowra also expressed interest in being included. The next meeting of the Canowindra Railway Centenary Committee will be at 6.30pm at the Services Club on Thursday 18 February, new committee members and ideas are invited. Lawrance Ryan will be there with lots of suggestions and contacts. Simon Fazzari of the Lachlan Valley Model Railway Club hopes to be there to discuss the possibility of staging a model railway exhibition. Mick Tedeschi of the Lachlan Valley Railway also hopes to attend to discuss the display, as well as Roger Smith of the Billimari Hall Trust, to outline Billimari’s plans to stage and old fashioned picnic in July.

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Friday 26 March Leaving CWA Rooms 7:30am

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Tours: Monte Cristo Homestead;

Railway Round House Museum;

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Enquiries: Ron Cain 02 6344 1497

PROPERTY RIGHTS RALLY - SYDNEY

Another rally in support of fair and just

property rights will be held in Sydney on

Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 9am, to

gather at Hyde Park before marching to

State Parliament House at 11am.

For further details, please contact Bob or

Jeanette Jones 02 6652 4240.

If you can’t get to Sydney for the rally,

there are copies of NSW Farmer’s

Association petitions around town for you

to sign, or available online at

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Grand Champion Pies - 2 years in a row - Try one today 14 Blatchford Street 02 6344 2525 BELATED CORRECTION Apologies to Gwen Landon for the incorrect byline credited to Dorothy Balcomb for the Paula Duncan article that appeared in The Phoenix Issue 92, dated January 19 2010. Thank you Gwen for your interesting and topical article, it was greatly appreciated. Should anyone wish to submit news items, historical accounts or community interest stories, please send them in with your name and contact number so that we can verify the information.

SHOW SOCIETY AGM The Canowindra PA&H Association will be holding their AGM on Saturday 6 March 2010. It will be held in the Nangar Room of the Canowindra Services Club commencing at 7pm and all Show Society members are welcome to attend. The AGM will wrap up the 2009 Show and start the planning for the 2010 Show which will be on 24 & 25 September. One of the topics for discussion will be the replacement of the prime cattle yards which were dismantled last year to revamp the tractor pull area and allow bet-ter flow of traffic for the dog section. So the committee looks forward to seeing all interested people at the AGM and for the light supper afterwards. For those interested, and did not know, PA&H stands for pastoral, agricultural and horticultural!

DRINK DRIVER CAUGHT TWICE A man has been charged after recording an alcohol reading four times over the limit after allegedly being caught drink-driving twice in the space of eight hours on Sunday. About 2:55pm, a 58-year-old man was stopped by police while driving his Toyota Lexus in Cowra. He was subjected to a breath test and returned a positive reading before being taken to Cowra Police Station and submitted to a breath analysis where he recorded a high-range reading. At 10:45pm, nearly eight hours later, officers from Canobolas Local Area Command saw the man’s Toyota Lexus parked next to a phone box on Ferguson Street at Canowindra. The 58-year-old man alighted from the vehicle and police saw him having difficulty in walking to the phone box. He was arrested and taken to Canowindra Police Station for a breath analysis where he returned a reading of 0.240, more than four times over the 0.05 limit. The man was charged with two counts of drive with high range PCA and one count of drive while licence suspended and is expected to appear at Cowra Local Court on 3 March 2010.

SAVE OUR POLICE A petition is now available for signing at Belubula Butchers, Canowindra News-agency, Canowindra Bottleshop and The Phoenix office, to retain the current number of police officers allocated to Canowindra. Senior Constable Janine Cogin and SC Anthony Attard have been doing a great job in our community and we would like to see SC Attard stay. You can help by adding your name to a petition, or a single signature letter, which will be sent to the Superintendent of the Canobolas LAC for action. Updates will be included in future issues.

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LOCAL ROYAL SHOWGIRL ENTRANT Canowindra Showgirl, Andrea Davis has been preparing herself for the next step in The Land Sydney Royal Showgirl Com-petition 2010, to be held at Dubbo RSL Club on Saturday 20 February. Part of Andrea’s Local Showgirl Prize was a Showgirl Personal Development Week-end, that was held in Dubbo on 9-10 January. Along with 41 other entrants from around the state, Andrea enjoyed herself and gained valuable knowledge. Zone judging involves Andrea having an interview on general knowledge of local/Australian/international; rural knowledge in general/local/show; personality; confi-dence; ambitions and goals; diction and speech. Andrea then attends a luncheon with all girls and judges and at 6pm An-drea, family and friends attend a black tie dinner, where Andrea will give an on stage presentation. Three girls from Zone 6 will be chosen to represent all girls at the State Judging to be held during the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. The Canowindra Showgirl Committee, Canowindra Show Society and teh com-munity of Canowindra would like to wish Andrea all the very best. We know you will make Canowindra proud.

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Save the date...Save the date...Save the date...Save the date... Feb 17: Cowra Council community consultation meeting 6pm Royal Hotel Feb 18: CWA meeting 2pm at CWA Rooms. All welcome! Feb 18: Canowindra Railway Centenary Committee meeting 6.30pm at the

Services Club, come and help plan our celebrations! Feb 20: AFGW Present Yehudi Menuhin at the Cowra Golf Club 6:30pm $40 RSVP

Maureen Knight 02 6342 2435 Feb 27: Di Bird - Ray Aldridge - Ed Gaston 7pm @ taste Canowindra. $75 includes

free wine tasting 3 course meal & show. Bookings essential 02 6344 2332 Mar 6: Canowindra PA&H Association AGM 7pm @ Canowindra Services Club

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FOR SALE: Shoprider 889SL motorised scooter with canopy, near new, excellent condition $2,500ono 02 6344 1723

SWIMMING CLUB REPORT For the second Friday in a row wet weather and thunder have cancelled swimming club. As a result this Friday, weather permit-ting, will see a packed programme of three championships, so that the champi-onships programme can be fitted in be-fore the end of swimming club at the end of March Breaststroke championships will start the night, followed by backstroke, butterfly and probably just the spoon races as well. The Learn to Swim Cup will be held with the 200m freestyle championships the next week. Please sign up in the folder before Wednesday afternoon or ring Robyn Co-ady on 02 6364 026 before Friday lunch time so your name can be entered in any of the three championships.

CANOWINDRA GOLF LADIES Polish your clubs and dust off your shoes, ladies golf opening day is Wednesday 24 February at 8:30am for a shotgun start, p l e a s e b e t h e r e a t l e a s t 20 minutes beforehand. Get your entries in before Friday 19 February to Helen Kemper on 02 6344 1757 or in the Ladies Day Book at the Club. Fee is $15 which includes a barbecue lunch. Come and play a round!

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MIXED TRIPLES MUFTI BOWLS DAY The Ron Lynch and Kenny Fisher sponsored Mixed Bowls Day will be held this Saturday at Canowindra Bowling Club at 10am. The day will start with 15 ends in the morning, with 12 ends in the afternoon. The entry fee of $45 for a team of three includes lunch at the restaurant. First prize is $150, with runner up prize of $60. Last weekend was washed out, but the greens will be in top condition for the games this weekend. Learners and new bowlers are most welcome for this fun day out. Single Pairs and 4s draws are up on the board in the Club, so if you are going away soon, make sure you organise your games as soon as possible.

Community Meeting to be held in Canowindra

Cowra Council would like to remind you that it will be holding a Community Meeting in the dining room of the Royal Hotel, Canowindra on Wednesday 17 February 2010 from 6pm to 7pm. For further information on this meeting, please contact Council on 6340 2000 or visit www.cowraregion.com.au

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$40 1 small car booster seat $25 1 baby bouncer $30 1 play gym (never been out in weather)

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STOP PRESS: The 2008 Swinging Bridge Shiraz has received a Gold Medal at the Royal Sydney Wine Show in the Single Vineyard class. This is a great reward for the winery from one of Australia's premier wine shows. The latest wine reviews by Winestate: The 2008 Swinging Bridge Canowindra Shiraz A powerful fresh blackberry-scented red with a spicy overtone. Should improve over the next 2-3 years. Buy it now at Canowindra Bottleshop or taste Canowindra.