yomcsi Yowah Opal Mining Community Services Incorporated – Harlequin Drive. YOMCSI provide community dinners and open bar every Saturday night – visitors welcome. In the winter, dinners and open bar are every Wednesday and Saturday evenings from 5pm. • Wednesday Carpet Bowls 3pm • Tuesday Craft Group 10am
SATURDAY’S TAILGATERS STALL 10AM – 2PM Expect to be awed by the range of opals and locally produced craft on sale. Phone 0476 419 211
the royal flying doctors The first Flying Doctor to come to Yowah from Charleville was Dr. Tim O’Leary. In 1976 the miners built a medical room which housed the HF radio and the medical chest. This is now in the town library. A spectacular event is when the Royal Flying Doctor Service would practise night 8
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landings, with the headlights of cars being used to light the air strip. The first regular patrons were Anglican Bush Brothers who flew into Yowah and then rode a mini bike around the field.
