The Country Women’s Association of WA honoured some of its hardest-working members last week at its annual State Conference at the Albany Entertainment Centre, with two people receiving life membership.
Jacki Elezovich
Regional parents will be able to pocket up to $500 to help cover the travel cost for their kids to compete in Country Week, which kicked off on Monday.
Jessica Evensen
WA Wheatbelt-based primary producers are invited to develop family farm succession and business transition skills at three venues in August.
Bob Garnant
The Country Women’s Association of WA held their annual State Conference in Albany this week, with more than 200 members attending from a range of branches.
Narrogin school boy Nicholas Reeves is shining the Star and the Light on to one of the Fremantle Docker’s most cherished AFL rounds, with a little help from Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man.
Glen Quartermain
More than 200 working sheep dogs and their handlers will take over the Northam in August to compete for the top honour at one of Australia’s largest sheep dog trials.
Georgia Campion
Narrogin remain on top of the ladder after a round of upsets and surprises in the Upper Great Southern Football League competition at the weekend.
Cameron Newbold
A brilliant second half helped Boxwood Hill cause the upset of the season, powering over the top of reigning premiers Lake Grace-Pingrup in round eight of the Ongerup Football Association on Saturday.
As the annual Country Women’s Association of WA State Conference reached its conclusion at the Albany Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, the Great Southern women behind the three-day event took centre stage.
The Wheatbelt community is invited to attend free ‘Your Heart Your Health’ sessions on common cardiac conditions and prevention of heart attack.
Poles, pipes and ports were the main talking points of this year’s State Budget, with WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti unveiling a $10.3b pipeline of regional infrastructure investment.
Cally Dupe
Heated conservationists are calling out an “embarrassing” inclusion in the State Budget, as WA continues to spend more money on starting fires than fighting them.
Craig Duncan
The Member for Roe has slammed WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s State Budget, tabled on Thursday, as “city-focused” and a document full of “wrong priorities”.
Melissa Sheil
A crowd of men broke open the silence surrounding the oft-taboo topic of domestic violence last week, with a forum that encouraged men to be part of the solution to the hidden issue.
The Kojonup Cougars did their bit for the Big Freeze as a succession of club members raised about $2500 after being dunked into icy water for charity on Saturday.
Claire Middleton
Upper Great Southern Hockey Association celebrated its biggest CBH Group Men’s Country Championships participation with the division two title and a third-place finish in the top tier.
Nearly two years on from the Matildas’ Women’s World Cup run on home soil, interest in WA’s women’s sporting sides continues to surge with each year.
Ben Smith
The Shire of Cuballing held its biannual Winter Ball at the Cuballing Agricultural Hall on June 14 with this year’s ball themed around the glamour of 1923.
It was a busy day of sport in Pingelly on Saturday, with Narrogin and Districts Netball Association junior games on court before the A1 game in the afternoon.
Rhea Turton
The next generation of top Great Southern footballers gathered in Lake Grace earlier this month for the Great Southern Junior Football Carnival, with a host of teams travelling across the region to play.
Hundreds of women gathered in Albany this week for the annual Country Women’s Association of WA State Conference, held at Albany Entertainment Centre from June 23 to 25.
Wheatbelt Minister Sabine Winton visited Narrogin for a whirlwind trip after the State Budget was handed down, visiting community organisations and businesses around town to see funding in action.
The pub has been making more than 450 steak sandwiches a week.
Caitlin Vinci
A wanted WA man who removed his electronic monitoring device has been located by the rapid apprehension squad.
