PHOTO: 2025 Australia Day recipients from Narromine. From left to right: Dugald Saunders, George Peters, Karen Shearwood, Paul McCallum, Brad Naylor, Viv Halbisch, Gerry Tatrai, Skye Morrissey, Ewen Jones. Image supplied.
Narromine Shire Council has honored its local heroes in the annual Australia Day Awards.
Citizen of the Year Award went to Viv Halbisch, for her decades of selfless service and dedication to the community through her involvement in the Narromine Lions Club, Meals on Wheels, Uniting Church, Narromine Show Society and more.
Mrs Halbisch moved to Narromine Shire in 1991 and has been volunteering with the Lions for decades. “When they read out all about you, you don’t think that you do all those things, but you have. I’ve done it over the course of my life…