It's the small places like Geurie that make Deputy Premier and member for Dubbo Troy Grant love his job.
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"I get to make some big official openings, but these are the most important things, the community level investments we make. This is where you get the most value," he said at the reopening of the Geurie tennis courts.
Their resurfacing cost $71 000 and the project took 30 tonnes of sand and 400 of gravel to complete.
Department of Sport and Recreation contributed $25,000, and the local youth club managed to raise $19,000 through fundraising and catering, the tennis club raised $7000 and council raised the remaining $20,000.
"Sport and Rec is just part of the puzzle, you sure can see the value when it is partnered up with other money," Mr Grant said. He said the way the community combined services and the use of facilities was also a credit to the village.
The youth club provides activities for a group of 40 children every Friday night and the community hopes that one day they will be able to build a skate park on site too.
Mr Grant said he wants to see a white picket fence around the oval as well as money go into transportable seating.
As the pool gets repaired, Geurie now boasts a lot of top sporting facilities.
Mayor Rod Buhr said when council received money from the Cobbora Transition Fund, they had been mindful to make sure that they invested in the villages, and council is also fixing the cenotaph.
