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John and Margaret Rumens members of the Tidy Towns Committee of the Wagga Wagga City Council.
The Committee was responsible for organising things like the Keep Australia Beautiful Day, and Keep Wagga Wagga Beautiful, handing out gloves ect to volunteers picking up rubbish around the town.
The awards were given in population sizes; towns under 2000, to those over 20,000, then an overall winner.
Judges visited the towns and were taken around to see various projects- waste management, bins in streets and parks, water issues, industries that had made a contribution to better the city.
The committee closed due to the age of members and inability to recruit new, younger members. At the time of closure, the President was John Rumens, Secretary Graham Jackaman, Treasurer Bob Knezledorf, members - Elsie Kimball, Margaret Rumens, Judy Jackaman, Marcia?, Ian?.
Written by Margaret Rumens.

The McLean family arrived at Yandembah around 1902.

Alexander McLean (c.1861-1931) married Sarah Helen Horton (c.1868-1937) in 1897. They had 4 children:

• Edmund JA McLean (born 1898), also known as "Jack".
• Florence M McLean (born 1903), also known as "Florrie"; later married Jack Carr of 'Wilga', Hillston.
• Elsie M McLean (born 1904);
• Lachlan H McLean (born 1906), also known as "Loch"; took over the management of Yandembah after his father.

In 1995, Dennis formed Dennis E Toohey & Associates - an agribusiness consultancy - after working for thirty years in a number of positions in NSW Agriculture. Prior to this, he was Regional Director of Agriculture for the Murray and Riverina Regions for eleven years. From 1990 to 1995, Dennis served on the Murray and Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Boards representing NSW Agriculture.

Formed at a conference in Cootamundra, NSW.

The first issue of the Lockhart Review was published on 4 July 1908 by Arthur Clague Cowin, who had previously worked at the Wagga Wagga Express. He retired in 1943 and the newspaper passed to his son, George Cowin, who had managed the Urana Shire Advocate on behalf of his father for many years. (1)
The newspaper was bought by David Gyger, owner of the Riverina Express, in 1959. At the time, the Lockhart Review was published and printed at 144 Green Street, Lockhart. (2) Gyger installed Frank Moorhouse as Editor (3). Frank and his wife Wendy ran the Lockhart Review until 5 October 1960 when they were replaced by Colin Duncan and his wife Noela. (4)
The final issue of the Lockhart Review was published on 22 November 1967. Gyger cited obsolete plant and ever increasing costs as reasons for its demise.

References:
(1) Bayley, William (1979) Land Galore: history of Lockhart Shire, pg 109 and 149.
(2) The Lockhart Review, volume 8, no. 1, 6 January 1960.
(3) The Lockhart Review, volume 8 no. 2, 13 January 1960.
(4) The Lockhart Review, volume 8 no. 41, 12 October 1960.
(5) The Lockhart Review, volume 15 no. 46, 22 November 1967.

First meeting of the Bolton Park Bowling Club was held on 27 August 1928 at the Wagga Hotel. The name of the club was changed to the South Wagga Bowling Club at a special general meeting on 10 October 1940. The clubhouse was located at 11 Fitzhardinge Street. It was built in May 1957, with a second section opened in March 1965 and a third stage completed in June 1976. Aub Loch had one of the two bowling greens named after him in 1996. The other green was named after Dr Benjamin. The club enterted into voluntary administration in 2008 and closed in about 2012.

A Research Centre of Charles Sturt University, undertaking biophysical, social and economic research. Closed in 2021 and merged with the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation and the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre to become the Gulbali Institute.

An academic in veterinary science [not at Charles Sturt University or any precursor institutions].

Alexander Kennedy Sutherland was born in Sydney in July 1917. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1937 with a Bachlor in Veterinary Science. He joined the Commonwealth Department of Health as Assistant Veterinary Officer in the Australian Capital Territory for a time before being appointed in 1941 to the Queensland Department of Primary Industry's Animal Research Station in Yeerongpilly, Brisbane. He later became their Chief Veterinary Pathologist, then Chief Research Officer.
He undertook a Master of Science at the University of Illinois and was awarded his degree in Veterinary Pathology and Hygiene in 1948. In 1955 he took up a position at the Nicholas Research Institute in Melbourne, working on the commercialisation of the cobalt bullet for sheep and cattle. He was instrumental in the eradication of brucellosis and tuberculosis in cattle. He was appointed as a consultant in the Division of Dairying in the Victorian Dept of Agriculture in 1977, overseeing the quality assurance of milk powder production.
Sandy was appointed National President of the Australian Veterinary Association in 1975 and President of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in 1980-1981. He was Honorary Editor of the Australian Veterinary Journal from 1966-1972 and remained on the Editorial Committee until 1999. He was awarded the Gilruth Prize in 1979 for meritorius service and the Order of Australia Medal in 1989.
Sandy Sutherland died in October 1999, aged 82.

Lake Albert Public School in county Wynyard opened in February 1868. In 2020 the school was still open. (1)

At the time of the school's creation as a provisional school it required a minimum of 25 students for the establishment of the school. (2)

Endnotes

1. Government Schools of NSW 1848-1998. NSW Department of Education and Training, 1998, p.84.
2. Government Schools of NSW 1848-1998. NSW Department of Education and Training, 1998, p.15

Student of Charles Sturt University from 2001 to 2003, graduating with distinction in May 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication - Theatre and Media). A memorial fund was established by Lyndey Milan and John Caldon in 2011 following his death on 17 April that year from acute myeloid leukaemia. The Blair Milan Memorial Fund now aims to support The Blair Milan Scholarship (awarded to students studying Theatre/Media at Charles Sturt University) and The Blair Milan Tour (which helps to support the presentation of the work of final year Theatre/Media students to Australian audiences). In 2017, the Fund stood at $115,006.11.

Bethungra Public School in the County of Clarendon was established in October 1876, and provided basic elementary school education until its closure in December 1995. (1)

Bethungra is located in the vicinity of Junee and Cootamundra. (2)

Endnotes

1. Government Schools of New South Wales 1848-2003, NSW Department of Education, 2003, p.30.
2. ibid., p.181.