David Nash, Parkes High School student, comes first in the state in the 1968 higher school certificate science examination.

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Det. Senior Constable John Marheine replaces Det. Sgt. JW Hitchock who left Parkes for Deniliquin.

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Mr Bill Rawson of the Rural Bank, Parkes has received world of his transfer to Broken Hill.

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Patricia Coleman the Champion Post’s “Sportsman of the Year” won the Country women’s singles championship at White City, and in doing so became the youngest player ever to win the title.

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Directors of the Fran Pty Ltd poker machine factory inspected potential sights in Parkes for the factory.

Parkes would be required to initially provide approximately 40 process workers. The centrality of Parkes to the whole state was given as the reason Fran Pty Ltd intended setting up its plant hire.

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Mrs Afradete Tsaoucis has died at the age of 42 years as the result of an accident at their Clarinda Street fish shop.

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1988

Mary Umbers of Bogan Gate, has received an Australia Post Award for Excellence.

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Coles store in Parkes celebrates 50 years of operation with a reunion of former and present staff.

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Veronica Elizabeth Garvey (nee Hando) of Peak Hill has died at the age of 76 years.

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The new $500,000 Family and Community Services building on the corner of Welcome and Cecile Streets is officially opened by Mrs Virginia Chadwick the Minister for Family and Community Services.

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Approximately 300 descendants of the McCarron family gathered at Parkes Showground for a family reunion.

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Parkes Shire welcomes the Lord Mayor and his wife of Coventy, England.

Lord Mayor, A J Waugh Junior and Bette Waugh will be in Parkes for a round of engagements during the fortnight of the Henry Parkes Festival.

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Vintage steam train locomotive 3026 takes passengers on special trips from Parkes to Forbes.

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The book “Parkes a Photographic History” by Ian Chambers is launched at Gracelands.