Minor Boys - Hunter Pirihi (Taralga)

Minor Girls - Lacey Davies (Bigga)

Junior Boys - Bradley Tapper and Michael Alsop-Orchard (both from Tambelin)

Junior Girls - Hannah Calleja (Taralga)

Senior Boys - Maxwell Cooper (Tambelin)

Senior Girls - Abigail Channells (Tambelin)

Hannaford Trophy - 100m Boys won by Maxwell Cooper (Tambelin)

Walsh Trophy - 100m Girls won by Hannah Calleja (Taralga)

CWA Trophy - 200m Boys won by Maxwell Cooper (Tambelin)

Bensley Trophy - 200m Girls won by Hannah Calleja (Taralga)

Swan Trophy for Field Events won by Bigga

Taralga Lions Club Trophy for Track Events won by Binda

Gray Memorial Trophy for Relays jointly won by Taralga and Tambelin

Overall Winning School on the Day: Bigga

After four and a half years work by Laurie Chalker and his team, the Stonequarry 355 Committee have completed the following works:

Over this time we have received help from the Upper Lachlan Shire, who have been very supportive both with monetary grants and physical help. We have also obtained two volunteer grants from the Federal Government Trust and the ULSC provided monies for the toilet at the cemetery two years ago.

We are thrilled to announce that we have obtained two grants to place plaques on unmarked graves courtesy of Pacific Hydro ($19,000) and Veolia Mulwaree Trust ($17,775). We would like to thank these organisations for these funds which will enhance this heritage cemetery at Taralga. We will continue to report on the progress made.

We were disgusted by the person(s) who defaced two signs at the cemetery which stated Roman Catholic Cemetery. The word "Roman" was blackened out. This is a heritage cemetery. When it was established in the 1840s, this was the allotted name. All documentation pertaining to the cemetery before and since carries this name.

It was good to see two local people have taken up the lease of the former Ploughman, now called Grand Ettie. The opening times are 7am-3pm, closed on Tuesday.

The couple have been in Taralga for two years now but Brendon was reared in Bigga while Chloe is from Laggan, so local is fitting when speaking of the pair.

The menus are new and interesting. The pork sandwich with its homemade bread roll is recommended while the macadamia tart is superb.

The Taralga Historical Society have compiled a book on Taralga and It's People. Included is a story on Dr Ettie Lyons, who was born on December 25, 1881 in Wollongong. Her father was governor of the jail at Parramatta.

Ettie went to the University of Sydney and on the advice of her father secured an arts degree and later a medical degree.

It was very difficult for a female to obtain a position as a resident medical officer when Ettie Lyons graduated from university in 1908 so Dr Lyons spent two years at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

After spending some time at the Sydney City Mission, Dr Lyons decided to look for a country practice and chose Taralga.

Dr Lyons set up her practice in a big two storey house which had been a hotel in the town's boom times. Dr Lyons, with the help on her friend, Rebe Wight, transformed the building; the consulting room looked out over the green paddocks to the distant hills.

She was the second woman to take up a country practice in NSW.

At first she visited her patients in a horse and buggy. Later she used a car. Dr Lyons practiced in Taralga for more than 30 years. She was the first doctor to practice in the village for any length of time. Before she arrived the nearest doctors were in Crookwell or Goulburn.

Dr Lyons realised holidays were a necessity when practicing in such an isolated district so she and her friend Wighty used to spend six weeks every winter in Sydney and, in addition every few years they took a trip to Europe.

Dr Ettie Lyons passed away on August 3, 1972.