Paris in the West

19th-21st October 2012

West Wyalong NSW

Souvenir Programme

On behalf of Events West Wyalong, I would like to say

bonjour and welcome all visitors to Paris in the West.

Gail Platz

Chair of Events West Wyalong Inc.

www.eventsww.com

Bonjour!

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By-Pass Rd

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West Wyalong Rugby Union Ground

Tallimba Rd

Cooinda ParkRedman Oval

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McCann Park

Main St

Main St

Le Louvre

West WyalongServices & Citizen’s Club

Bland Sire Library& Visitor Information

Centre

St Barnabas Church

Ron CroweOval

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10am - 4pm Le Louvre de West Wyalong

An Exhibition of French inspired art and

photography, Official opening 11.00am,

Includes ‘water lilies’ mural café and studio

photography, (Exhibition ends Sunday 21st Oct)

133 Main Street (old hardware/giftstore)

Friday 19th October

Lucy Buttenshaw Luncheon 2009 (after Renoir)

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1pm - 5pm Garden & Floral Art Club Flower Show

Guest Speaker: Mary Moody

Mary writes and presents for ABC tv’s

Gardening Australia

Services & Citizen’s Club, Admission $10

Friday 19th October

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6.30pm Pre Banquet Wine Tasting

7pm Banquet Dinner and Official Opening

of ‘Paris In the West’. Guest Speaker: Mary Moody

Enjoy the flavours of France with a four course dinner

and wine. Our MC for the night is French singer Susie

Newman, the night includes: mime, stilt walking and

classic french music from Leo Bonne Entertainment. Le

Bland dancers perform for your delectation.

West Wyalong Rugby Union Ground, Tallimba Rd

Tickets from House of Fashion, Main St 02 6972 2305

Cost Single $100, Double $180, Table of ten $800

(over 18's only) Proceeds will be donated by The Rotary

& Rugby Union Club to West Wyalong Mens Shed.

Français -

Friday 19th October

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Friday 19th October

Guest speeker: Mary Moody

7 - 9am Le Petit Déjeuner

Start your day with Crêpes, Croissants and Café

au lait, provided by West Wyalong Netball Assoc.

McCann Park

9am - 4pm Fete à la Poppet Head - An eye-full of

French family fun at our own Eiffel Tower, Go aloft

in the RAAF tethered balloon, Play French cricket

& boulle, enjoy music, market and food stalls. Face

Painting, French Stick Throwing Competition, Circus

Challenge, The Waiters Race.

Cooinda Park Redman Oval FREE

9am - 4pm Le Louvre de West Wyalong

A French inspired Exhibition.

133 Main Street,

Saturday 20th October

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Saturday 20th October

On September 19, 1783, in Versailles, a Montgolfiere hot airballoon carrying a sheep, a rooster, and a duck flew for eightminutes in front of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette.

Some 220 years on, it’s your chance to fly with the Royal AustralianAir Force at the Fete à la Poppet Head in Cooinda Park.

10am Marché de le Rue Principale

Roaming Stilt Walkers, Mime Artists & Musicians

Mime Competitions

Best Dressed French Dog (10:30am)

Pavement Fashion Shows, outside fashion shops

Goatee/beard Growing Competition (11:00am)

‘Paris Hilton’ look-a-like Competition (11.30am)

Main Street, FREE

10am -11:30 Writing Workshop - Author Mary Moody

has written more than forty gardening books, also

four popular memoirs - Au Revoir, Last Tango in

Toulouse, The Long Hot Summer and Sweet

Surrender. She wrote a tender portrayal of a rural

French restaurant owned by five generations of

women in one family (Lunch with Madame Murat)

and made a documentary film on the same subject

for SBS television.

Bland Shire Library, Shire St.

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12:00pm Judging La Grande Parade.

McCann Park

12:30pm La Grande Parade

Float Parade.... including French automobiles,

French fashion through the ages.

Main Street. FREE

3:00pm The Descendants of the Cathederal of

Chartres - Church Window Lecture with Barrie

and Janet Bowden, includes afternoon tea.

St Barnabas Church. Admission $10

6:00pm Rugby - Rugby Union is the 2nd most popular

team sport in France after association football.

Watch the West Wyalong Wobblies against Les XV

de Francey Pants.

Ron Crowe Oval, Perserverance St. 4

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7pm Cabaret de Paris -

MC for the night:

Susie Newman.

Come dressed in

French Costume.

Prizes for the Best

Dressed:

Couple, Female, Male, and

the most Unusual Costume.

Can Can Competition.

Snail Eating Competition.

BYO food + Platters kindy donated

by:

Café Peckish, Globe Hotel,

Luxor Café, Metro Hotel,

Outback Café, Paragon Café,

Thom, Dick & Harry’s of West

Wyalong, Toppy Takeaway,

What’s Cooking.

Services & Citizen’s Club

Cost $35 per person

Tickets available at S&C Club

(Over 18's only)

Saturday 20th October

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Sunday 21st October

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11am start Le Tour des Jardins. Take a seat aboard the

Garden & Floral Club’s coach to

discover some wonderful private

gardens & secret yards. Lunch will

be provided, returning to Cooinda

at approx. 4.30pm (pay on coach)

Cooinda Park $20 9

8am - 10am Le Petit Déjeuner join us for an Indulgent

bourgeois Sunday breakfast beneath our little

Eyefull Tower. Provided by Can Assist.

Cooinda Park

10am - 1pm Le Louvre de West Wyalong

An Exhibition of French inspired art and

photography, ends at 1:00pm today.

133 Main Street,

9.45am start Le Tour de Bland, enjoy the countryside of la

belle Bland. Roll up with your cycle for this leisurely

tour without winners. Returning to Cooinda Park by

approximately 1pm.

Cooinda Park, FREE

10am Combined Church Service.

Cooinda Park

Thank you to our Sponsors:

All our Cafés & Pubs

All Occasions

Andersons Transport

Brass Knuckles Band

Can Assist

Celina Harvey Dancers

Colonial Motor inn

Cuts & Curls

Essential Energy

Foodservice Central

Garden & Floral Art Club

Hair 761

Hair off Main

Hospital Auxiliary

Junee Licorice Factory

Landmark

Land Newspaper

Mrs Suzie Boal

NewsXpress West Wyalong

Nicho’s Toys & Sports

Royal Australian Air Force

St Mary's Catholic School

The House of Fashion

The Rotary Club of West Wyalong

Thom, Dick & Harry’s of West Wyalong

West Wyalong Advocate

West Wyalong Garden and Floral Art Club

West Wyalong High School

West Wyalong Jewellers

West Wyalong Pharmacy

West Wyalong Primary P & C

West Wyalong Rugby Union Club

West Wyalong Show Society

West Wyalong Town Band

West Wyalong Services & Citizen’s Club

West Wyalong Veterinary Clinic

A big thank you to Events West Wyalong Committee, all the

businesses who sold raffle tickets and to all the valued individuals

who worked behind the scenes to make this happen.

Programme designed by Martin Lane Design, West Wyalong NSWPrinted by Chambers Whyte, Wagga Wagga NSW

Backgrounds (from paintings) by Bernard Ollis

It all comesback to ourmembers

South West SlopesCredit Union

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