Here’s our updated list of calendar of events for 2017 across the North West.
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Jan 14 Community Weave Mount Isa Library
Jan 17 Back to Yallambee Day 9am-noon
Jan 17 Community Weave Ibis Styles
Jan 26 Australia Day celebrations
Jan 26 Mower races for Australia Day, Camooweal
Jan 31 Community Weave Ibis Styles
Feb 4 Copper City tennis sign-on
Feb 4 Isarats Corporate Triathlon 2017 Lake Moondarra 4.30pm
Feb 5 Mount Isa City Council Corporate Teams Triathlon
Feb 5 Mount Isa Super Sports Expo, Civic Centre 9am-noon
Feb 11 Ronald McDonald Charity Ball, Mount Isa Civic Centre, 7pm
Feb 14 Valentine’s Day
Feb 19 Triathlon Race to the Creek 1 enticer, sprint, teams, Lake Moondarra 7am
Feb 19 Mount Isa community markets 10am-2pm Overlander Hotel
Feb 23 Book launch - 'Whispers Through the Spinifex' 6pm
Feb 24- Mar 18 Ma Bakers Tonic MITS comedy production
Mar 4 Mount Isa races
Mar 5 Triathlon Race to the Creek 2 enticer, sprint, teams, Lake Moondarra 7am
Mar 11 Zonta Club of Mt Isa International Women’s Day Dinner
Mar 17 St Patrick’s Day
Mar 18 Mount Isa St Patrick’s Day races
Mar 19 Cloncurry Heat Triathlon
Mar 25 Cloncurry races
Mar 25 Malouf Holden Rotary Charity Ball, Irish Club Ballroom 6.30pm
Mar 26 Triathlon Race to the Creek 1 enticer, sprint, teams, Lake Moondarra 7am
Apr 1 Maxwelton races
Apr 7-9 Dirt N Dust Festival Julia Creek
Apr 8 Julia Creek races
Apr 14-16 Easter weekend
Apr 14-16 Yelvertoft campdraft and rodeo
Apr 15 Boulia races
Apr 21-23 Hughenden campdraft
Apr 22 Winton races
Apr 22-23 Camooweal cricket weekend
Apr 28-30 Winton campdraft
Apr 29 Gregory Downs races
Apr 30 Gregory Classic
May 6 Mount Isa races
May 6 Birdsville Bronco Branding, Campdraft and Rodeo
May 13 Hughenden races
May 16-18 MineX at Buchanan Park
May 19-28 Mount Isa Eisteddfod
May 19-21 Julia Creek campdraft
May 20 Mount Isa races
May 26- Jun 16 There goes the Bride MITS comedy production
May 27 Cloncurry races
Jun 3 Mount Isa races
Jun 4 Colours for Cancer
Jun 8-11 Normanton Rodeo
Jun 9-10 Richmond Field Days
Jun 10 Richmond races
Jun 11 Birdsville Rugby Nines
Jun 15 Cloncurry Cattleman’s Dinner
Jun 16-17 Cloncurry Show
Jun 23-24 Mount Isa Show
Jun 17 McKinlay races
Jun 23-Jul 2 Winton Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival
Jun 24 Birdsville Motorbike and Horse Gymkhana
Jun 24-30 Cairns to Karumba bike ride
Jun 30-Jul 2 Saxby Round-Up
Jun 30-Jul 2 Rockhana Gem and Mineral Festival in Cloncurry
Jun 24 Mount Isa races
Jul 1-2 Bedourie Campdraft, Rodeo, Bronco Branding and Gymkhana
Jul 4-6 Big Red Bash
Jul 13-16 Cloncurry Stockman’s Challenge
Jul 14-16 Boulia Camel Races
Jul 22 North West Qld Breast Cancer Support Group Debutante Ball, Civic Centre 6pm
Jul 23 Outback to the Stack running festival
Jul 29 Quamby Rodeo
Jul TBA Zonta One Million Stars
Aug 3-6 Cloncurry Merry Muster
Aug 11-13 Mount Isa Rodeo
Aug 18-Sep 9 Rinse the Blood of my Toga MITS comedy production
Aug 25-27 Drovers Camp Festival
Aug 26 Camooweal races
Sep 1-2 Birdsville Races
Sep 8-9 Bedourie Races and Rodeo
Sep 15-22 Cloncurry 150 years celebration
Sep 17 Run with Dad, Mount Isa prostate cancer fundraiser
Sep 19-23 Outback Festival in Winton
Oct 27- Nov 18 Right to Remain Dead MITS comedy production
Oct 27-29 Lake Moondarra Fishing Classic
Dec 25 Christmas Day
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
