Heart Foundation
A project co-run by Snowy Valleys Council and the Murrumbidgee Local Health District has been named as the winner of the 2020 Healthy Town Challenge.
The challenge is an initiative of the Heart Foundation and the NSW Centre for Population Health. It supports regional and rural communities to facilitate healthy living activities to improve the health of their members.
Early last year, five communities – Condobolin, Holbrook, Murwillumbah, Muswellbrook/Denman and Snowy Valleys – received a grant of $15,000 each to bring their proposed projects to life. Today, the Snowy Valleys project, “Move & Grow”, was named the overall challenge winner, with the prize being an additional $5,000.
Rozzie O Reilly crowned Australian winner of Zanda McDonald award
11 Feb, 2021 12:30 AM
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The Country
Rozzie O Reilly, 28, from Holbrook NSW has an exciting year ahead of her, after being crowned the 2021 Australian winner of the Zanda McDonald Award.
As the breeding manager at Australia s largest prime lamb seedstock business, Lambpro, O Reilly is responsible for managing the database for over 6000 performance recorded stud ewes, co-ordinating staff and providing numerous client services.
O Reilly has a Bachelor of Animal Science with First Class Honours, and also runs a sheep and cattle business on agistment and lease country with her fiancé.
O Reilly was thrilled to receive the award, and was particularly excited about spending time with members of the Platinum Primary Producers (PPP) Group, the network of over 150 of Australasia s influential agri-business men and women, of which Zanda McDonald was a foundation member.
Border Business Women Make up for Lost Time
Business Women Albury Wodonga are celebrating the return of face to face networking in style, with their next event on International Women’s Day 8 March.
Chair Desiree Georgiou says women in business have missed opportunities to network and collaborate in person due to the pandemic and border closures.
“We’ve been home for such a long time and to get back into the community on a business perspective is really fabulous for women, whether they are business owners, employees or start-ups,” Desiree said.
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“There’s been a lot of sad stories and also a lot of success stories, so it’s great to get everyone to collaborate together and get business back on track.”
Famed for his Mark Twain one-man show, actor Hal Holbrook dies at 95
In 1985, actor Hal Holbrook told an interviewer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that American humorist-writer Mark Twain “has become integrated into my whole life … no matter what the subject, he’s always a tremendously amusing wise old bird.” By that time, Holbrook had been performing his one-man show, “Mark Twain Tonight” for 31 consecutive years just about the midpoint of its run. The actor went on, “I think it would be a pretty good idea to keep doing this every year until I drop dead.”
Hal Holbrook in 2007 (Wikimedia Commons/lukeford)