• Wagga based Kendell Airlines has been named Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine only the second time that the award has been won by a non-US airline.

• Bookings are open for Valentine’s Dinner at the Candlelight Restaurant in the Koala Welcome Inn in Thompson Street.

• Wagga City Council says that the recession is to blame for a large fall in development applications over the last three years.

• Member for Hume, Wal Fife, said that the CSIRO should relocate its food processing division to Wagga.

• The former “Water Whizz” near the bathing beach has been renamed “Rippa Slippa” and relocated to the Morgan Street swimming pool.

• Council’s finance committee voted 3-2 to accept City Engineer, Laurie Fromholtz’s, recommendation to take over control of the Forest Hill airport.

• The Jack Mullins Memorial Day inaugural triples tournament as held at the RAFC Bowling Club.

• Peter Dale, who was once in partnership with Steve Kitson, is opening his own office to be known as Peter Dale Real Estate.

• Council’s dispute with Tom White, an unlicensed fruit vendor at Forest Hill goes to the Land and Environment Court.

• Former South Wagga Rotary Club president, Ken Fife, 66, has died in Wagga Base Hospital.

50 YEARS AGO

• Wagga had its hottest day in six years with 104.1 degrees Fahrenheit recorded at the weather office.

• Former Governor of NSW, Lieutenant-General Sir Eric Woodward, officially opened the $75,000 Kurrajong Home for intellectually handicapped children.

• Two 16-year-old Wagga Boy Scouts, John Worthington and Brian Osborne, are paddling down the Murrumbidgee from Gundagai to Narrandera in an attempt to beat a record of five days set recently by five Narrandera boys.

• Ald Cec Toy was returned unopposed as chairman of the Southern Riverina County Council.

• President of the Community Advancement, Mr G Cox said this year’s profit of $3439 from the Miss Wagga Quest was the highest since the quest was constituted along its present lines.

• Former RVN-2 television announcer, Paul Griffiths, married Robyn Whitehead, formerly of Wagga at St James Church of England, Turramurra.

• The Assistant Minister for Education, Wal Fife, is seeking a Federal Government decision to establish a University College in the Riverina.

• Captain Alan Byrnes has been appointed as a new Salvation Army Officer for the Wagga District.

• Wagga is hosting the largest annual gathering of Alcoholics Anonymous outside of Australian capital cities.