President Stephen Meere, Life Member Helen Mc-Grath, Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke and Mayor Brian Ingram. PHOTO Supplied.
We celebrated our 50th birthday on Saturday with an Open Day that was a great success with over 90 people coming through the Museum and looking at all of our displays, many were locals and it was their first visit to the Museum and from the comments that were made everyone was impressed.
We had Steph Cooke, Member for Cootamundra and Mayor Brian Ingram from Hilltops Council in attendance as well as both local Councillors Jo Mackay and James Blackwell.
Also attending was Past Mayor Margaret Roles and Past Councillor John Piper, both of whom were instrumental in getting work done at the Museum.
We had many past and present members in attendance as well as local visitors.
We had a couple of surprises planned and one was to give local Darrell Armour an Honorary Membership of the Museum as he has done an incredible amount of work for us in the way of cupboards, display cabinets, and photo frames.
Our second surprise was to present our Research Officer Helen McGrath with Life Membership of the Museum as she has done over 500 researches for families, buildings and general history of the town, since COVID, and is still a very valuable member of the Museum.