On Saturday night the Town and Country Committee partied at the Golf Club with guests dressed as their favourite Aussie Legend.

Then on Monday morning the annual Walcha Australia Day Breakfast was held in McHattan Park. The weather was perfect and an enthusiastic crowd gathered to enjoy a barbecue breakfast, bush poetry and an address by the Australia Day Ambassador Warwick Nowland.

After singing Advance Australia Fair everyone settled down to listen to the announcement of our local Australia Day Award recipients.

Vicki McIvor was named the Walcha citizen of the year for her quiet achievement and being a tireless volunteer for many organisations, providing leadership and hands on work.

As secretary of the Walcha Hospital Auxiliary for the last 14 years Vicki has either organised or worked on street stalls, craft fairs, market day, trivia night fundraisers, progressive dinners, meals on wheels, the Relay for Life team and catering for funeral wakes.

As a member of the RSL Ladies Auxiliary she supports returned soldiers families. With the Walcha Show Society Vicki is the head cooking steward and in the Lions Ladies she supports a variety of activities including working at the Lions run barbecues.

As well as being a member of the Walcha Consultative committee she is a relieving secretary and she is also a Walcha Spring Festival committee member.

Her creativity drives her participation in the Tuesday Walcha Quilters sessions and she makes quilts for Westpac Rescue fundraising and a wall hanging for the Apsley Riverview Hostel.

All this volunteer work is done around her full time job at the Walcha Multi Purpose Centre. Accepting her award Vicki said it was an overwhelming honour.

The Young Citizen of the year is Bec Hoy. Bec was nominated for bringing dance to the children of Walcha through her Destiny Dance Studio.

With 60 students Bec is constantly either teaching or preparing dance lessons and those who nominated her say she would not have it any other way.

Bec has been dancing since she was five years old and it has remained her passion ever since.

The Community Group of the year for 2015 is the Walcha Musical Society.

Since its reformation in 1975 the Society has performed a major musical show for four nights every year. The performances are always strongly supported by the community and the final night is regularly sold out.

Members are also supporters of the Christmas Carols and any other events which require musical participation.