Pioneer Oval Today
The oval, is part of a major multipurpose sporting precinct, which includes Spicer Park to the south and Northparkes oval to the north. The Parkes Spacemen Junior and Senior Rugby League Football clubs are based at the ground. The innovative club name of the 'Spacemen' drew it inspiration from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, which is located to the north of Parkes. The name was also recognised during the 100 year celebrations of rugby league by being listed in the article 100 Reasons Why People Love Rugby League, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Famous quotes containing the words pioneer and/or today:
“Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer missionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)