General News
9 December, 2024
Who are our local heroes?
Do you know someone who's made significant contributions to the community and/or achieved to a high level in their chosen endeavours?
Organiser of the annual Warracknabeal and district Australia Day event, the local Rotary club,
is looking forward to receiving nominations for the annual community awards of Warracknabeal Citizen of the Year, Sportsperson of the Year and Young Achiever of the Year.
These awards will be presented on January 26, 2025 at the Australia Day free community morning at Warracknabeal Racecourse.
It’s a great opportunity to thank and recognise locals who've made significant contributions to the community.
Contributions may be over one year or several years, in one area or many.
Since 2012, when the Rotary Club started to host the event, there have been many outstanding
They've comprised:
YearCitizen Sportsperson Young Cititzen
2012 Richard Wilken Chloe Bibby Brock Sturrock
2013 Peter Clayton Chloe Bibby Mikaela Woods & Mikayla George
2014 Lance Huebner Edna Anderson Cody Christian & Maddy Jeffery
2015 Ken Smale Joan Bentley Cory Watts & Abby Sleep
2016 Phillip Zanker Josh Barry Sofia Laursen Habel
2017 Phil Gunn Brad Krahe Jack Quick
2018 Jenny & Curl (Ken) Taylor Emma Koschitzke Cassandra Schilling
2019 Geoff Lovel Alan McLean (Sports Achiever: Merryn Baxter) Nicola Clyne
2020 Gwen Steinmeyer Rikki Nitschke Charlie Inkster
2021 Cameron Whelan David Baxter Aylah Zanker
2022 Ian Wright Julianne Phelan Cody Polack
2023 Barbara Bell Mavis Wardle Piper Knorpp
2024 Stacey Drage Graeme Holland Jane Smith
Within this timespan, Leo Casey, Peter Martin and Ian Penny have also all been named as Yarriambiack Citizen of the Year.
It’s an amazing list of people.
So who's missing?
Can you help?
It takes a little time to put together a nomination, but it’s certainly worth it.
There are so many worthy people in the community but nomination response has been slow.
Rotary club members are hoping for some extra help.
Nomination forms are in many shops and businesses in Warracknabeal and Brim and in the
town library, and digital forms are on the Rotary and schools’ social media pages.
You can also contact Rotarians John Aitken (0418 103 697) or Wendy Hewitt (0427 332 193).
But time is tight now as nominations will close next Wednesday, December 11.
For the actual event on Australia Day, the Rotary club has secured a great line- up of local entertainers and is confident the well-known past resident invited to be the guest speaker will be a popular choice.
More details will announced in next week’s Warracknabeal Herald.
Contributed by Wendy Hewitt