Torin Hando (left) received the Community Person of the Year award from Deputy Mayor Barbara Newton and Aunty Karen Hawken. Matty Price (right) from Parkes High School was named Youth of the Year.
The Parkes Rotary Club cooked the free bbq lunch with former President Mark Ritchie and current President Robert Shore hard at work.
Andrew Taggart and Sister Flo Kinsela were full of praise for the wonderful program to celebrate NAIDOC Week in Parkes.
The River Spirit Dancers with Tyrece Robinson, Blake Baxter (Wurrumarry) and Brad Holmes (Yarrangirri) performed some traditional dances.