It will be held at the Darlington Point Riverside Caravan Park this Friday, October 9 from 11am to 1pm.
Participants will learn fishing skills, river species and safety with fun land-based activities. Lunch provided.
Throughout the day, junior anglers will rotate through workshops including water safety, boat safety, Murrumbidgee River fish species, sustainable fishing and fish care, knot tying and casting activities.
Bookings are essential via Eventbrite and places are limited.
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Congratulations to regular Coly Chatter contributor Marlyn Laurie for her numerous Griffith Show cooking and garden ribbons last weekend.
The Coleambally Garden Club’s next meeting will be the annual general meeting this Saturday, October 10.
New members are always welcome by contacting Marlyn on 0417 548 817.
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It is lovely to see our township celebrating each other as they do.
The Coleambally-Argoon Country Women’s Association is in the midst of celebrating and thanking various services available in our town, as part of NSW CWA ‘Awareness Week’.
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Australia's oldest living cameleer, John Wilkinson, met up with two of his mates, Rodney Sansom and Phil Gee at the Barellan Good Old Days Festival.
Known as Wilko, the 105 year-old was born in April 1921 and lives in Leeton.
He married Jo in 1949 and they farmed in South Australia.
Wilko was a cameleer from 1976 to 2018, making his last trek on a camel across the Simpson Desert at the extraordinary age of 96 in 2018.
It brought the curtain down on an incredible 30-year association with camels and cameleering.
He accompanied Andrew Harper OAM, Outback Camel Company owner/operator and Deniliquin-local, on many Simpson Desert crossings.
Wilko is one of Australia's oldest veterans, if not the oldest, having fought in the New Guinea campaign in World War II.
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