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3 October, 2024
Weethalle Centenary a crowd-pleaser
Saturday saw a great event in Weethalle as they celebrated their centenary with what certainly looked like at least a couple of thousand spectators, visitors and exhibitors.
Beautiful weather was on show and there some real stand-outs too, including camels from Central Australia and a bullock train all the way from Queensland, plus one lady riding side-saddle and local ladies who brought their golf carts along to join in the parade too.
We chatted with artist Heesco. The Melbourne-based artist painted the Weethalle silos back in 2017 - his first silo painting, and wonderful it is too. He has since completed nine more (he's working on one in Griffith at the moment) and he came back to paint the new colourful sign which stands above the time-capsule burial spot - that happened on the Sunday at 10.30am.
We also got to meet Myrtle Miller whose parents came to farm in Weethalle back in 1920, so four years before the start of this centenary period, and who came back with family to celebrate the 100 year event.
“We had a farm six miles out and I grew up here and did my schooling here,” Mrs Miller said.
She lives in Melbourne now and at 98 years old she still drives regularly in the city.
Cootamundra state MP Steph Cook officially opened the event and said, “the West Wyalong Advocate described Weethalle in 1928 as a town which ‘sprung up in the night,’ with ‘everything in the sporting line except a golf club’ to service and entertain residents. Now, this remarkable town does indeed have golf club of its own - the Weethalle Country Club. As Member for Cootamundra, the seat of towns and villages, it's a joy to celebrate our towns that keep evolving and growing with our communities,” she said.
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