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Issue 186 www.canowindraphoenix.com.au Wednesday 21 November 2011

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CABONNE P UTTING CANOWINDRA ON MOTORHOME M AP A dump point to allow motorhome and campervan drivers to empty effluent from their Closing 24 December vehicles will be installed in Canowindra as a way of encouraging more tourists to stop in the town. Reopening 3 January Cabonne Council will build the effluent dump station near the entrance to its Canowindra Park aims to From 28-30 December 2011 Caravan festivalandApril 2012. have the project completed before the Canowindra Challenge balloon in a mechanic will be on call Mayor Bob Dowling said he hoped the additional facility would entice the owners of motorhomes, some of which can be almost 20 metres long, to stop in Canowindra. There is a trend for tourists travelling in these larger vehicles to plan their stops around towns that offer these facilities and we hope they will spend some time in Canowindra, supporting local businesses, Cr Dowling said. The Mayor said research conducted by the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia Snippets... Christmas: The following Canowindra showed the recreational vehicle and camping market was worth more than $5 billion a year. Volunteer Groups wish everyone a happy According to the CMCA, more than 97% of RV owners make a purchase when they stop at a and safe Christmas & prosperous 2012. town, he said. The club publishes a list of RV friendly towns and maps of effluent dump sites and most of its St Vincent de Paul Society 62,000 members use the CMCA website and literature to plan their trips. Canowindra High Mentors State School SRE Teachers Cr Dowling said that after considering several sites within the town, an area near the caravan Canowindra Show Ladies Auxiliary park entrance adjacent to the Canowindra Mens Shed was the preferred location. NILS (No Interest Loans Scheme) The Council will work within guidelines issued by the CMCA to suit the configurations of Moorbel Hall Committee motorhomes and campervans which can range from 19.5m long to 8m. Canowindra Mens Shed To provide the necessary vehicle manoeuvring and access area (indicated above), the roadway Canowindra Community Garden will be widened and a verge and screening built to separate the dump site from the access to Lions Club the dump site. Canowindra Business Chamber

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Canowindra Show Society Canowindra Little Athletics Club Cake: a reminder that Lions Club Christmas cakes are available from Bill Pauls Carpet Centre. Make sure you get one to take when visiting friends and family this year. Stars: 5 of them for the Old Vic Inn, as part of the Scores on Doors 12-month trial in Cabonne. The program is a voluntary rating system awarding businesses who comply with requirements of the Food Standards Code, and excel in their food safety practices. Another feather in the cap for the Cabonne Daroo Business of the Year 2011, Inland NSW Tourism Award 2011 Hall Of Fame inductee & received Bronze at the 2011 NSW Tourism Awards. Thanks: to all you wonderful people for a great 2011. The Phoenix only exists because of the passion of this community, the readers and the advertisers, without whom the Phoenix could not continue. I truly believe that Canowindra is the best place to live, play and work. I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and safe new year. Please be careful on the roads if you are travelling, and if you are staying in town, enjoy all that it has to offer. MERRY CHRISTMAS! Cricket: Nicole Stevenson has been selected to play in the U18 ACT Emerging Meteors Team in the National Championships to be held in Ballarat from the 1825 January 2012. Congratulations Nic!!!

CANOWINDRA T ENNIS Another great tennis competition was wrapped up on Thursday night with the Grand Finals being played and Christmas BBQ enjoyed by the players and their families. The winner of the B Grade side went to Adam Rogers and Liz Parrish and the A Grade winner went to Bron Newmans Team. A new competition will start up again after the school holidays and anyone interested in playing should contact Kylie Pull on 02 6344 2244. A big thank you to Wally Coady and Andrew Pull for finishing off the play area for the kids, which has been hugely successful with the kids. A very big thanks and appreciation to Earsmans Concert for donating the sand for the new sand pit in the play area, and a big Thanks to Phil Gersbach from Phils Mini Diggers for his assistance in the project.

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Darryl, Neryl, Brenden & Julie would like to thank everyone for their support & kind words over the past few weeks. To know that so many people thought so highly of Ralph is very humbling. To every person who spared a thought, sent a card, made a phone call, brought around food or just said hello; our family says thank you. It is this support from the local and wider communities that must remind all of us, that in times of sadness, the support from a community can help you through. Special thanks must go to Reverend Jono for all he has done, to Tony & Raelene Warne & staff at the Canowindra Hotel, Canowindra Lions Club and The Age of Fishes Museum Volunteers & Staff for organising and donating the food for the wake. We ask that if anyone has a spare $10 this Christmas, they make a donation to the Beyond Blue Organisation, so that our tragic loss may bring hope to someone elses family. Please see the NAB in Canowindra and they can direct the funds to the right account. The Fliedner Family, Canowindra

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It is disappointing that Canowindra only featured 3 times in the Member for Dubbo's "The Soap Box", just received. Two of these acknowledged the success of The Age of Fishes Museum and the other The Old Vic Inn, respectively. The third referred to the completion of a road bridge. Not long ago Canowindra was considered as being at the "a--- end " of Cabonne Shire, however current development works in the town have come as a bit of a surprise. In the case of the Dubbo Electorate it looks as though Canowindra is at that same "end" of the Electorate. Over the years there have been calls for To the editor... Canowindra to secede from Cabonne Thank you to the community of Canowindra for the wonderfully generous Shire to join Cowra Shire. Now it appears that there are grounds also for Canowinresponse for the Christmas Appeal collection that was taken at the Carols on dra to secede from the Dubbo Electorate and join that of Burrinjuck, whose sitting the lawn at Moyne - which turned out to be Carols in the Dining Room. Over $500 member Katrina Hodgkinson (of at least 10 years) has proved a very worthy local was raised for the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal. There are many thank Member of Parliament. Noticeable by its absence from the newsyous to be given. The Lions Club for the manning of the sausage sizzle, the singers letter of the Member for Dubbo, is any reference to funding to restore closed railform Stacey's Singing school. Stacey way lines in the Dubbo Electorate. This is Harkness, Nick Jacobs and Kerrie ( ? in sharp contrast to the efforts of the spelling) O'Dea for their wonderful Member for Burrinjuck, over the Blayney/ musical support on keyboard and violin, Cowra/Young/Demondrill line, currently Cornerstone, Moyne volunteers, the under way. Catholic, Uniting and Anglican Church This non-committal to rail redevelopment singers not mention the staff, residents and friends of Moyne the community for in country NSW makes a mockery of the turning up. All this made for a wonderful hype generated pre the March 2011 evening including a visit from Santa who State Election. Yours sincerely, gave lollies to the children. Bill Barwood, Canowindra Hazel Hunt, Chaplain: Moyne Eventide

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CANOWINDRA GUN CLUB NEWS We would like to thank all the shooters that attended our Christmas shoot on Sunday 18 December. They came from Yass, Goolma, Dubbo, Cowra, Bathurst, Orange and our own Local shooters. It was a great Afternoon we had 37 Shooters and the weather held out until it was all over. 1st Event 25 Target D/B 1st AA J Nash & M Patmore Split 1st 1st A T Robb 2nd D Weal 1st B A Hodges 2nd R Fryer 1st C S May 2nd S Nash 2nd Event 25 Target S/B 1st AA J Nash & M Patmore Split 1st 1st A B Heaslip 2nd T Robb 1st B G Hoskins 2nd J Knight 1st C T Taylor 2nd S May 3rd Event 25 Target Point Score 1st AA C Foster 2nd M Patmore 1st A P Taylor 2nd B Heaslip 1st B R Murphy 2nd J Knight 1st C S May 2nd T Taylor 4th Event 25 Target Handicap 1st B Wilson Won Ham 2nd B Rue Won Turkey

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Our next shoot wont be until 19 February 2012 we hope to see you all there. We would like to say a big Thank You to Beth Rue for her hard work in cooking the afternoon tea every shoot day, we would be lost without her we would also like to say thanks To Ken (Tubby) Thurtell for his culinary skills in barbequing the snags for lunch every Shoot. The committee of the Canowindra Gun Club would like to wish all our shooters and the Community of Canowindra a Very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe 2012.

AFGW OUTSTANDING HSC SCHOLARSHIP The Central West Branch of the Australian Federation of Graduate Women (AFGW) congratulates all students who achieved outstanding HSC/ATAR results. The local AFGW Branch is inviting such Central West female students to apply for its HSC Scholarship prize of $2,000. This Scholarship will be awarded to a female student who has attended a Secondary School within 100km of Cowra (as the crow flies) and intends to enrol in tertiary education. is to uses quality Kubota products The AFGWs purpose their reward and support rural women in advancement of purchased locally from Lucerne education. This Annual Scholarship is funded from the proceeds of four functions held each Foods Parts & Machinery. year with inspiring guest speakers. This year For all your lawn care and members and guests have been privileged to gardening needs listen to guest speaker Babette Smith, author of Out of Sight, the civic legacy of the convict era; Christine Weston 2010 NSW Woman of the Year; Samantha Armytage Channel 7 News and Public Affairs presenter; and Elizabeth Ellis OAM, author of Rare and To all our friends and customers, curious: Governor Macquaries collectors chest. of the AFGW Scholwishing you a very happy Christmas The winnerbe announced Central West Dinner arship will at a Twilight at the Cowra Golf Club in February 2012. & a prosperous 2012, Coordinator of the HSC (ATAR) Scholarship, from Jan & Graham. Mrs Jenny White invites interested students to forward a letter of application, photocopies of We will be closed 25-27 December HSC subject results, ATAR results and Book your ploughmans lunch or intention to enrol in tertiary education to Glenbrook, Showground Lane, Cowra NSW pizza nights on 02 6344 1819 2794. Applications close 31 January 2012.

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SENIOR CRICKET Canowindra cricket club returned to form on Saturday with a four wicket win over Valleys at Holman Oval. After winning the toss for a record third time in a row captain Nick Guthrie decided to bowl first and it immediately paid off with Guthrie removing Dave Henderson in the first over with the score still on zero. Brendan Traves picked up the second wicket but Valleys were scoring more freely and were 2/81 at drinks after 24 overs. After drinks a great partnership of bowling between Al Myers and Nick Traves brought Canowindra right back into the game. Both boys bowled accurately and took wickets at regular intervals with Myers removing danger men Troy Hayes for 41 and then Daniel Frenda-Briggs (17) with his next ball. Nick Traves also found himself on a hat trick when he removed J Montgomery and Ricky Duclos in successive balls. When Nick Guthrie and Brendan Traves returned to bowl the last four overs Canowindra had fought back well and with the last two wickets falling quickly Valleys were all out for 119. Nick Traves was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets for only 14 runs off his 10 overs while Myers finished with 2/34 off 11, Brendan Traves had 2/23 and Nick Guthrie 2/35. With regular top order batsman Peter Guthrie and Mark Norman away Shaun Craven and Rohan Toole got Canowindra to 20 before Craven was out. Toole was soon out for 18 and Nic Whatman came and left without scoring to have Canowindra in trouble at 3/36. Brendan Traves made 18 and then a 43 run partnership between Jake Devlin and Nick Guthrie put Canowindra in a strong position. Devlin scored freely with his pull shot especially impressive as he made 38 before falling. Harry Whatman fell shortly after for 4 but Canowindra soon passed Valleys score with 11 overs to spare with Guthrie on 29 and Myers not out 2. This was an impressive win after a few weeks of poor batting performances and Canowindra head into the Christmas break third on the table. After Christmas the boys will try to carry their winning form into the new month long Twenty20 competition. A thank you also to Canowindra Bowling Club for their support.

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SWIMMING CLUB Leading the way at Swimming Club this week was a tiny blonde-bombshell, Jessica Bennett; Jessica took 2 seconds of her time in the 33m freestyle heat another 4 seconds in the semi, which put her out of the Final. Not content with this performance she smashed her backstroke best by 10 seconds and completely annihilated her 66 metre freestyle time by 23 seconds. What a performance. Curtis Hughes swam a personal best time of 20 seconds to take home the Spoon. Ellis Hawker emerged from the pool after his 33m backstroke heat with very red abs and the Belly Flop winners certificate. Overall best improver time wise for the night was Georgie Fisher who shattered her previous best time in the 66m freestyle by 34 seconds, a great way to finish 2011. Setting times in his first swim for Canowindra Swimming Club was pool manager Jarrod Strange who now has a time of 19 seconds in the 33m freestyle and 24 seconds in the 33m breaststroke. We look forward to his continued competition. Swimming Club will commence again on Friday 13 January 2012, so sign up before then and be ready at 5:45pm for roll call.

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The Co-operating Anglican Church Parish of Canowindra, and Uniting Church linked congregations of Canowindra, Cranbury & Cudal Thursday 22 December 10am Peace Memorial Uniting Church Canowindra Saturday 24 December Christmas Eve 5pm Children's Service at Peace Memorial Uniting Church Canowindra including Carols, video, craft & sausage sizzle. 7.30pm Christmas Eve Communion at St Matthew's Anglican Church Woodstock Come early for some food and fellowship before the service. 10.30pm Late Night Christmas Eve Communion at All Saints' Anglican Church Canowindra Sunday 25 December Christmas Day 9am Christmas Communion at All Saints Anglican Church Canowindra 10.30am Christmas Carols at Cranbury Uniting Church Sunday 1 January 8am St Matthew's Anglican Church Woodstock 9.30am All Saints' Anglican Church Canowindra 11am Cranbury Uniting Church
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