This Saturday, is fireworks night at the lake, postponed from Australia Day.
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The evening will take off at 6pm, with Ray McCartney providing musical entertainment.
A barbecue, spinning wheel and glow products will all be available. Cash only please.
The fireworks will start around 8.30pm.
Make sure your dogs are tied up safely at home.
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The school holiday program will be on again at the Jerilderie Racecourse from April 8 to 10.
Wesley Mission Youth are coming from Sydney to run the program, which is supported by the Jerilderie Uniting Church.
This year, registration is online. Please go to the Murrumbidgee Council website to register your children.
Don’t let financial difficulties stop you from registering. Sponsors can always be found.
There will be lots of activities including canoeing, sports, music, stories, and more.
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Another ‘save the date’ is for June 28.
This is when the Ian Sneddon MND Golf & Bowls Day will be held at the Jerilderie Sports Club.
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Some more trips down memory lane from early ‘Just Jerilderie’ news, this time from the 2000s.
Fundraising began for a skate park in Jerilderie, the fishing club was up and running, we had an Anglican Craft Fair, a Combined Churches Choir, Sing Australia, Jerilderie Arts Council, and a Play Group.
The historical court house was used as our local library, and the John Monash Memorial signs went up at the southern end of the Newell Highway entrance into Jerilderie.
There was a Summer Fair, Combined Schools’ Fete/Auction, Open Gardens, and the Jerilderie Mini Rail was running successfully.
In 2002, it was the year of the ‘Big Storm’. It swept through Jerilderie and district, creating havoc, and leaving a big and expensive clean-up in its wake.
In 2004, Jerilderie celebrated The Jerilderie Letter event in a big way, and was gifted the ‘Ned Kelly horse’ which had appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
It sat for a while in what is now Memorial Park, but was later moved to parts unknown!
Twenty years ago, the Jerilderie Football Social Club hosted a mock wedding, dubbed ‘The Wedding of the Year’, in July 2006.
It might be mentioned that the ‘groom’ was played by Rebecca Bryce, and the ‘bride’ by Cadman Ham.
Prior to the wedding the happy couple were treated to a bucks’ night at the Colony Inn Hotel, and a hens’ night at the Jerilderie Hotel.
The bucks were women and the hens were men.
Robin Marshall was responsible for the make-up, no mean task; Tanya Roe made and decorated the three tier wedding cake, catering was by St Joseph’s School Council, Apex manned the bar, the music was by A Band Called Barry, and Carmen Lawton organised the lot of them.
Little was reported on that night’s events. However, a full report of the wedding itself follows, verbatim:
The Wedding of the Year was beset by domestics even before it took place.
The mother of the groom and her husband must have had a quick divorce, as there was a new woman filling her (rather large) shoes, in the official party – ‘Pom’ Bryce had been replaced by Peter Lawrence!
The original ‘flower girl’, Cameron Arnold, was concussed on the football field the afternoon of the wedding and was replaced by Chris Marshall and it is understood the bride flew overseas the day after the wedding!
The 170 guests were wined and dined in fine style, while the wedding ceremony, official speeches and guest list were cause for mayhem and much laughter.
The bride arrived on the back of a motor bike, with a leather-clad bikie escort.
The blowsy ‘bridesmaids’ nearly stole the show, as did the rather drunk and lecherous Uncle Sam, who spent the night leering at all the lovely ladies in the hall; the minister, of doubtful denomination, offered spiritual sustenance to anyone who would listen.