Parkes residents Bill and Beth Thomas recently received the NSW Government State Representative Award from Member for Orange Philip Donato MP. They represented the Western Region in the Australian National Dragon Boat Championship earlier this year. “We are honoured to be recognised for doing what we love doing,” said Bill and Beth. “It just shows – if we can represent our State at our ages – anyone can be an athlete. One of the best things
about this sport is that we can do it together.”
Bill and Beth were also instrumental in the formation of the recently launched Parkes Dragon Boat Club at Lake Endeavour. The club is functioning with paddling sessions taking place on Sunday mornings. “We are confident that Parkes will have a great dragon boating team, because it’s already shaping up that way.”