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All Steamed Up Heritage Get togetherWENTWORTH 150th CELEBRATIONS
19 - 21 Jun 2009
FRIDAY – Welcome Reception – Catch up with old friends- leave your message – bring photographs. Line Dancing Wentworth Club from 8.30pm.
SATURDAY – Running of the Sheep over the Bridge – Darling Street Parade – Official
Opening @ Wharf – Welcome to Country – Street Walk (Window Displays, Photographic displays) – Sweat Box Art displays in Town Hall Old Time Films (Fashions of the time, Floods, and much more! –“Festival of Pubs†– Celebration of Wool Display (Memorial Rooms)
PS Ruby Steaming and riverboats ‘sail past’ on the Darling River (Model riverboat Display on board).
SUNDAY – Celebration of the Naming of Wentworth as a town on 21st June 1859 – Brunch at the Wharf – Unveiling of Capt John Egge Statue – Vintage Cars – Fergie Tractors – Unveiling of Plaque @ St John’s Anglican Church – Little Lunch @ Old Gaol – Book Launch – Fashions of the Outback – Wooden Boats – Sweat Box Art and more………
| Entry Cost (AUD): |
Free |
| Event Venue: | Various Venues Wentworth Township 2648 |
| Event Times: | From 4pm Friday 19th -A weekend-long celebration!!! |
| Facilities: |
Shop Gifts, souvenirs available Entertainment |
| Event Brochure |  Download Brochure [29 kB] |
| Website: | http://www.wentworth.nsw.gov.au/events/index.php?id=175 |
| Contact: | Karen Arnold |
| Address: | 66 Darling Street Wentworth 2648 |
| Telephone: | (03) 5027 3624 |
| Fax: | (03) 5027 2403 |
| Email: | tourism@wentworth.nsw.gov.au |
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