Have you ever wondered how you can give back to the Forbes Fins Club? Well, look no further because the club need three to four new coaches to enable the club to continue to run such an extensive swimming squad program. Without enough coaches, there will be reduced squad availability.
Coaching days/times are flexible and commitment can be as little as one afternoon per week. There are a number of courses coming up during winter. Please get in touch for further information if you are interested.
Pictured left to right are: Lucy Turner (support worker), Chris Spicer, Blake Huntly, Bonitta Brady and Angela Wall-Powell.
The highly anticipated Currajong Disability Swimming Carnival will be taking place this Wednesday, 1st March.
In 2012, Jodie Turner and Currajong took over the carnival from Cowra and a few other service providers. Currajong have been hosting this event since then, and in the past 11 years, there was only one year the event was not held due to COVID.
The event promotes inclusion, an active and healthy lifestyle and is an opportunity for a social interaction for people living with a disability in the central west. Participants travel from as far as Trangie, Temora, Cowra, Forbes, Orange, Bathurst and Parkes.
The Currajong Disability Swimming Carnival is an event that all participants and spectators look forward to and it averages 50 or more attendees each year.
The Currajong Dissability Swimming Carnival will be held at the Parkes Aquatic Centre, Dalton St Parkes. Arrival time is from 9am onwards, events will commence at 10am and finish by 2:30pm. The cost is $10 which includes pool entry, sausage sizzle, drink and an ice-block. The kiosk at pool will be open for other purchases.
A list of events and agenda for the day include:
• 50 metre freestyle: unassisted
• 25 metre freestyle: unassisted
• 50 metre any stroke: assisted
• 25 metre any stroke: assisted
Across pool relay/novelty events: assisted and unassisted
For more information and to register, phone 6863 4713 or 0409 264 394 or email douglas.pout@currajong.org.au. Race entries must be returned 27th February.
Please reply ASAP. Assisted swim support workers will have to swim with the participants. For any service that wish to stay the night in Parkes, please feel free to call 6863 4713 for assistance.
Forbes Fins standout, Max Reid with his Australia Day Award for Young Citizen of the Year.
Forbes swimmer Max Reid has been awarded the Forbes Junior Citizen of the Year Award. Coaches David, Felicity and Juliet were proud to be in attendance to see Max receive the recognition he deserves. It is not only in his swimming and commitment to the Forbes Fins where Max shines, but the many ways in which he contributes to our community. Congratulations Max!
Year 9 Parkes student Blake Price will be swimming for Australia at an international event in Brisbane next month.
A Year 9 Parkes High School student will be swimming for Australia at an international event in Brisbane next month.
Blake Price will be competing at the Virtus Oceania Asia Games from 5th to 11th November in what he hopes is only the first of many opportunities to represent Australia.
Blake’s parents, Sharon and Chris Scott will be attending the games and supporting him at the huge event with about 1,000 athletes and officials from Asia, the Pacific and New Zealand.
Participants will be competing in athletics, badminton, basketball, cycling, judo, rowing, sailing, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis and triathlon.
The swimming has a jam-packed schedule of events with competition sanctioned by World Para Swimming for freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke and medleys.
Blake has been selected as an II3/S19 swimmer due to his diagnosis of Autism. This is the first time that S19 swimmers have been given the opportunity to be included as a full member of the Australian team and this event is the highest level of swimming that a S19 swimmer can presently achieve.
Blake has qualified to swim in eight individual events and team relay events. He had to achieve qualifying times for his events to be selected for the team.
Blake has put in many hours to prepare for the event. He has been training with Jason Montgomery of Parkes Athletic with up to eight sessions per week, and he travelled to Orange on weekends for swim training during the Winter season.
With the Parkes Pool opening last week, Blake is grateful to resume training with the Parkes Sharks Swimming club under the guidance of Coach Barbara Weaver.
Blake will join the Australian team in Brisbane on the 5th of November which is the day of the opening ceremony. Swimming events will be held from 7th to 9th November and the closing ceremony will be on 11th November. For the duration of the event Blake stays with the Australian team at their hotel.
The Virtus Oceania Asia Games 2022 is an international multi-sport competition in the Oceania Asia region for elite athletes with an intellectual impairment.
This will be the first time a Virtus Regional Games will be held for the Oceania Asia region, with hundreds of athletes and officials from Asia, the Pacific and New Zealand coming to Australia.
The 500 residents of Tullamore in the Parkes Shire can look forward to their pool getting a face lift thanks to $100,000 of funding from the NSW Government through the Stronger Country Communities Fund (SCCF).
The funding will see a new shell installed to provide a modern, easily-cleaned facility that will reduce maintenance for repairs and ensure its longevity into the future. “Tullamore is a small town of just over 500 residents and the community pool is at the centre of this township’s social gatherings throughout the hot summer months,” said Mayor of Parkes Shire Cr Ken Keith OAM.
“This is a well-used facility that sees people enjoy it of all ages from young families to elderly citizens.”
Parkes Shire Councillor Daniel Weber said the pool was used by the aqua group, Tullamore Central School and the Tullamore Swimming Club, whose relay team have made it to state for the last three years.
“Swimming is a vital life skill to learn. We are pleased that the upgrade will allow for these skills to continue to be put into practice and ensure the safety of our community around water,” said Daniel.
Works are expected to completed by November.