If you know of an individual from the Kiama community who has made an important contribution to sports in the municipality, and who has excelled in their chosen sport, you can nominate them for Kiama’s Sports Honour Roll.

The Sports Honour Roll is the municipality’s sporting hall of fame, boasting champions such as Gerroa surfer Sally Fitzgibbons and surf lifesaver and sports administrator Professor John Bloomfield.

Nominees must demonstrate: 

• achievement at an elite level of sporting performance, or

• a contribution at an elite level of sporting administration or sport science, or

• performance of a particularly outstanding athletic achievement or service to sport that warrants special recognition, and

• have integrity, sportsmanship and character.

Nominations can be made online at www.kiama.nsw.gov.au or you can download a form and send it to: Director Community Services, PO Box 75, Kiama, 2533

You can also email to council@kiama.nsw.gov.au

Nomination forms are also available from council’s Administration Centre, located at 11 Manning Street, Kiama. Nominations close Sunday, October 23. 

Council considers all nominations and is not required to select an inductee each year.

Established in 2013, the Kiama Arts Honour Roll recognises the outstanding artists of the Kiama municipality.

The Honour Roll includes legendary Australian landscape painter Lloyd Rees, whose internationally-renowned works include Road to Berry and Gerringong Landscape.

Nominees must:

• have achieved excellence in the arts;

• have made a significant contribution to arts practice;

• be worthy of honour, and

• live or have lived in the Kiama local government area (can include childhood years), for at least ten years, as their principal place of residence; and/or

• have a strong, enduring connection with the Kiama local government area.

Nominations close Sunday, October 23. 

The Kiama Arts Honour Roll nomination form is available at www.kiama.nsw.gov.au or from council’s administration centre.

Successful nominations for both honour rolls will be announced at Kiama’s 2017 Australia Day Awards.