More than 1000 people watched 240 Gumis compete in the 20th and final Gumi Race on the Murrumbidgee River.

Councillors are divided on what to do with the Hampden bridge and have applied for a $100,000 grant to conserve the bridge by building a roof over it.

Anthony Paul, a prominent founding member of Central Wagga Apex, was recently appointed as the fifth life member of the club after 22 years of service.

Rosina Grosse won an Australian Achievement Award, recognising her outstanding community service in Wagga and for her achievements by and for people with disabilities.

Collingullie public school principal Graeme Dutton is pictured in the Daily Advertiser with 1995 school captains, Joe Dennis and Leanne Meyers.

Clare Ryan, a year 11 student at Trinity Senior High School who works part-time at Cannons Kooringal and last year was school captain at Mount Erin High School, is this week's Rotary Young Achiever.

Sandy Parsons, nurse unit manager of the day surgery unit at Calvary Hospital, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the first International and third European Congress on Day Surgery in Brussels.

The Rotary Club of South Wagga is holding its 14th annual Antiques Fair at the Kyeamba Smith Hall.

The granddaughter of Edgar Martin Perdriau, the winning owner of the 1937 Wagga Gold Cup, has written the Murrumbidgee Turf Club to advise that her family would like to present the trophy to the club.

The Lady Mayoress' Charity Concert, now in its eighth year, featured the backing of the Australian Army Band Kapooka led by Captain Patrick Pickett, with all proceeds going to the Wagga Base Hospital appeal.

Wagga branch member of the Commonwealth Development Bank, Max Macadam has retired after 34 years' service.

Tony Quinlivan, who started his own business five years ago after working as the men's wear buyer at Edmondsons since 1953, has now opened a new men's wear store in recently completed premises opposite the Post Office.

Wagga City Council has been told that the Hampden Bridge may be under repair for another three or four months with the Department of Roads agreeing to install traffic lights to allow a free flow of traffic.

Christian Brothers High School hosted this years Combined High Schools Swimming Carnival at the Wagga Baths.

Wagga's population is estimated to be 27,580 which is 400 more than in the year ended June 1968.

Deputy regional controller for Wagga's Civil Defence said the organisation as urgently in need of more members after only one new member responded to a recent appeal for additional members.

A two-bedroom house in a quiet central street within walking distance of the South Wagga Bowling Club is being advertised as a bowler's dream house with an asking price of $17,900.

Fourteen entries have been received in the Wagga Centenary songwriting competition.

Wagga City Council is promoting Wagga's local government centenary by entering a float in Melbourne's Moomba procession.

More than 70 people attended a meeting in the Wesley Hall which decided to form a Wagga Group of the Australian Association for Better Hearing.

The Southern Riverina County Council has installed a special paper shredding machine, the first of its type to be used in Australia.