It’s one thing not to blow your own trumpet, but to paraphrase Captain Blackadder - someone might at least remind us you had a trumpet. Valiant efforts by the Goondiwindi Historical Society to find the town and district’s ‘heroes’ met with only a lukewarm response. A number of nominations were sent to the Argus, but we didn’t have much luck persuading anyone still living to be profiled as a “community hero”.

We’re even modest on someone else’s behalf, thinking they wouldn’t like to be singled out or made a fuss of. The Council was still looking for nominations for Australia Day Awards last week.

It’s not hard to think of worthy winners and when they are announced, we all go, “Oh, of course!”

This year the council is maintaining the divide between Goondiwindi and Inglewood by giving awards in two categories: Goondiwindi Region and Inglewood and District.

That’s understandable. Many people who don’t come from Goondiwindi, rightly or wrongly, feel the council is more concerned with the town of Goondiwindi than with the surrounding region.

Including the name of one town in the name of the council was always going to cause some lingering resentment. One solution might be to start calling the council by the acronym “GRC”. How about holding inaugural GRC Australia Day Awards next year?

(Mind you, we won’t be calling The Goondiwindi Argus “TGA” any time soon.)