When funding for most anything is announced by council, time to lodge applications can be a rush.
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Council has announced Hilltops Council Heritage Funding 2021-22, opened on July 22, and applications are invited ASAP to Ray Christison, the Council Heritage Adviser, at raychristison@higround.com.au
Application forms and further information available from council at www.hilltops.nsw.gov.au
Help financially, or advice on stabilisation, colour schemes, general repairs to walls, roofs, windows and doors, drainage or missing components such as verandahs is available, simply ask, council is there to help.
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COVID has once again reached out its tentacles putting an end to a regular monthly attraction, Rotary's monthly markets.
The markets for July and August have been cancelled, with September to be considered later.
Boorowa's got Woolfest and the Touch/Netball Carnival coming up in October, so organisers will have fingers crossed we can get on top of this current COVID outbreak and these events can go on.
Harden's Kite Festival and Young's Cherry Festival will have similar concerns.
It all comes down to doing the right thing, follow instructions as handed down by government authorities, and I would suggest, get vaccinated.
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Overheard a young shop assistant talking to a workmate about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the beach in a convertible.
She said she didn't think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving.
Really, boofheads walk among us like the thousands of people who marched in cities at the weekend protesting about the COVID lockdown requirements.
The Police Minister described them thus, "Three and a half thousand boofheads".
No masks, no brains, no excuse to save them from police charges, as some already face.
Footage of the protest march will be scanned and more charges will be laid, as they should be.
Protesters, in reality, care not one iota about everyone else.
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Go on, say it, 'Here he goes again!'
When do opposition politicians have anything positive to say?
Take this classic comment from last week, "If vaccine roll out stuff ups were an Olympic event, Scott Morrison would be a gold medalist".
We hear these negative comments ad nauseam but in reality, opposition politicians have it all their own way, the easy way, they don't have to, or want to, say anything constructive, just stay destructive.
Criticise the government if you wish, it's our democratic right, but please tell us how things could be done better.
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On this day in 1907, Sir Robert Baden-Powell formed Boy Scouts in England.
Scouting became a virtual world wide movement, followed by Cub Scouts and Girl Guides.
Recent figures for Scouts in Australia indicated there were 56,061 youth members and 15,607 adults.
Surprised?
We don't seem to hear much about scouts and scouting any more.
Boorowa had scouts, cubs and guides here, but unfortunately, like many other towns, gone.
Scouts were first formed here in 1924, but failed, to be reformed in 1926.
In 1955 a hall was opened in Pudman Street and added to in 1957 to cater for Girl Guides and Brownies.
I can vaguely remember the hall being there when I came to Boorowa in 1976.
It wasn't long after it was gone, but I suppose many of my ilk would have fond memories of their days in Scouting and Guiding.
