Bathurst Community Diary | Book a lap around the Mount Panorama circuit

Fly Fish Bathurst will meet at the Panorama Hotel at 8pm. Call 6331 2818 (BH).

Bathurst Men's Probus Club will meet at Panthers Bathurst at 10am. Call 6332 3064 for more information.

Bathurst City and RSL Concert Band rehearses each Wednesday from 7pm-9pm. New players welcome. Contact Wendy, 0400 885 641.

Bell ringing is held every Wednesday from 6.30pm at All Saints' Cathedral Bell Tower, Church Street, Bathurst. If you are interested in having a look, a lesson in this amazing and ancient artform or tower tours, please contact Deb Dixon on 0404 271 440 or Chris Bacon on 6332 2830.

Thursday, August 8

Arthritis NSW Support Group will meet at the Bathurst RSL from 10am-noon. Call Nelma Brooks, 0431 829 709.

Bathurst Highland Society meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month. Call the secretary, 6337 1283.

Grants are available to help local sporting organisations affiliated with Bathurst Sports Council with works or to purchase equipment. For more information, call 6333 6285 or visit www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au. Applications close on Tuesday, September 24.

Coming Up

Hone your poetry slam writing and performance skills at a special workshop at Bathurst Library on Thursday, August 15 from 4-6pm. The workshop will feature last year's Australian Poetry Slam champion, Melanie Mununggurr-Williams, and will be followed by the Bathurst heat of this nationwide search for Australia's best slammer. Bookings are essential via eventbrite.com.au

The Theo Barker Memorial Lecture will be held at BMEC on August 16 at 6.30pm. This free public lecture is co-hosted by Bathurst District Historical Society and Bathurst Regional Council. The lecture, titled "Let's do heritage differently", will be presented by Barbara Hickson, who has over 22 years of experience in heritage management. Visit www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au

Oberon's Accidental Ensemble will present Baby, lt's Cold Outside -The Weather in Revue, a musical romp through the seasons, on Saturday, August 17 in the Robert Hooper Community Centre, Oberon. Tickets are for sale at Arrows Newsagency, Oberon.

Come along to a workshop at Rankin Cottage from 10.30am to noon on Sunday, August 18 and learn how to do candlewick embroidery. Candlewicking is a form of embroidery that traditionally uses an unbleached cotton thread on a piece of unbleached calico. It gets its name from the nature of the soft spun cotton thread, which was braided and then used to form the wick for candles. Visit www.facebook.com/rankincottagecrafts/.

The National Motor Racing Museum at Mount Panorama will have free entry for dads on Sunday, September 1 for Father's Day. You can book a lap around the Mount Panorama circuit in your choice of the Cortina GT, Mini Cooper S, XR Falcon GT or HK Monaro GTS. Call the museum on 6332 1872 between 9am and 4.30pm to make a booking.