JANUARY 1976
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Mrs Elva Bathgate opens Showcase, a women’s clothing store. Mrs Molly Toohey will be the manager of the store. Mrs Bathgate also has a store in Wagga.
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Current Miss Parkes Showgirl Dianne O’Shea is this week’s guest hostess.
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Brett Findlay of “Glenbrooke”, Bogan Gate, goes to attend college in the Philippine Islands for 12 months as a Rotary Exchange Student.
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Popular Parkes residents, David and Sharon Hodges are farewelled as they leave for Canberra. David, a former Parkes Rugby League star and proprietor of the Top Jeanery, has accepted a lucrative offer as a paid player with the Canberra Rugby League West Belconnen Club.
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Parkes Municipal Council Engineer, Mr Peter Southwell, has died in Sydney at the age of 38 years.
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Swimming and boating are strictly forbidden on Lake Endeavour for health reasons as it is the town’s main source of water supply.
DECEMBER 1996
Parkes wins two Tidy Towns Awards. Parkes was third outright in its category and won a special environmental award for the Coobang Valley waterways and foreshores.
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Rev Noel Stanforth and wife Mary of the Anglican Church transfer to Eugowra.
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Parkes mechanic Frank Cusack retires after 47 years in the business.
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Jack Broderick dies at the age of 75 years.
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Alec Hoy celebrates his 100th birthday and is helped to celebrated by the Diggers Mens Bowlers.
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Vietnam Vets have a ‘home’ at the Georgio’s Youth Drop in Centre in Currajong Street. Every Friday between 10am and 3.30pm the centre is given over to the Vietnam Veteran Association.
NOVEMBER 2006
Dr John Gale, with his daughter, Demelza-Rose, is among the 4000 cyclists participating in the VicRoads Great Victorian Bike Ride in order of the awareness of the worldwide diabetes epidemic.
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Daniel Byrnes is named as senior club coach at the Panthers Australian Rules Club annual meeting. Other coaches are Kade Gillingham, Pat Byrnes (President) and Damien Byrnes.
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Nine thousand dollars damage is done at the Parkes Golf Club with two break ins in a week.
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Suzie McNamara is farewelled after 25 years service as coordinator of the Parkes Neighbourhood Centre.