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ORANGE: Josh and Janine Gallagher did not think they would have any more children after their triplets died but then baby Ethan was born. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
BATHURST: Nine-year-old Bathurst lad Harry Clist has found his place among a band of elite wheelchair athletes. Here he and Paralympian Ryley Batt work on some wheelchair rugby moves during a training session in Sydney recently. 062413harry&Ryley
DUBBO: Red Sky Energy managing director Rohan Gillespie and SOLEIR general manager Edwin Foong at the Boothenba Road site of the new Solar Farm. Photo: LOUSE DONGES
BATHURST: Timed public parking limits could be enforced inside the grounds of Bathurst Base Hospital if council goes down the path of using number plate recognition technology.
MUDGEE: Ulan West coal mine has continued its affiliation with the Mid-Western Region’s emergency services, hosting simulations for worst-case scenarios should an accident occur on site.
OARNGE: Zaidyn, Tess the dog and Cruz Keevil-Holdsworth make sure they are warm during Orange's colder weather. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
BATHURST: Launching a new era for harness racing in the Bathurst region this week were Bathurst Harness Racing Club chairman Mark Collins, mayor Monica Morse, leading local trainer Steve Turnbull (turning the first sod), Bathurst MP Paul Toole and Harness Racing NSW chairman Graeme Campbell. 070913trots9
ORANGE: John Di Francesca trials a macadamia paste at the Gelato Ingredients Manufacturers of Australia factory in Molong. The factory will now close.
BATHURST: Bathurst residents woke to a heavy blanket of fog over the town on Thursday morning. Photo: Zenio Lapka
BATHURST: Acting curator Robina Booth puts the final touches on After Five: Fashion from the Darnell Collection, which opens tonight at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Photo: ZENIO LAPKA 071113zbrag1
ORANGE: Suspicious liquid left in a container near the Orange Court House that caused Saturday’s Byng Street lockdown looked like Coca-Cola, according to the Orange City Council staff who disposed of it, but nobody knows what the substance was.
ORANGE: Businesses that flout laws banning sandwich boards outside their shops could soon have a reprieve if Orange City Council is able to find a way to make the rules more flexible.
DUBBO: Talbragar Street trader Peter Neilson says business has dropped and pedestrians have been injured since construction of a new roundabout began. Photos: LOUISE DONGES
DUBBO: Station Officer Chris Sanders with firefighters Matt Knudsen and Graeme Combridge demonstrate an electric blanket that was seconds away from ignition. Photos: LOUISE DONGES.
DUBBO: A Beech 19, turbo-prop with the Connect Jet livery that will be used on the proposed route between Dubbo and Melbourne.
DUBBO: A woman who performed life-saving CPR on a Dubbo man, Bill O’Neill in the grounds of a car dealership late last week says she has been overwhelmed by the accolades heaped upon her. Photo: LOUISE DONGES
LITHGOW: Enjoying Vacation Care over the school holidays are Amy Luck, Billie and Maddison Boyd, Allirah Northey, Flynn Luck, Francesco Difranco, Muntah Boyd, Ashleigh Hill, Marlee Boyd, James Luck and Maddison Hill; at rear, Vacation Centre’s Theresa Lynch and James Turner
MUDGEE: Field Days fashion models Bianca Holdaway, Shahna Smith, Erika Consadine, Payden Lawson, Jocelyn Cunningham, Claudia Shearman, Lily White and Elle Bartlett in garments from the Australian Wool Fashion Awards.
MUDGEE: Mudgee’s Lions Park was one of several sites around town that needed to be cleared of debris following the 2010 floods.
ORANGE: Kinross Wolaroi Students in rehearsals for Hairspray before they hit the Orange Civic Theatre stage next week. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
FORBES: Former Forbes man, Peter Kennard, will lead two percussion workshops later this month in preparation for the River Arts Festival.
FORBES: Chris Sweeney is frustrated that Forbes may wait another four years to have road train access to the Newell Highway.
CANOWINDRA: The Canowindra Harness Racing Club are harnessing new members with a recent annual general meeting.
COWRA: Councillors voted unanimously this week to reject the disused Canowindra rail line option as a short term heavy vehicle bypass route, opting for the recommended Southern Ring Road corridor.
COWRA: The gates have just closed for another year but the Cowra Picnic Races committee is already looking ahead to an bigger event in 2014. Pictured are Stacy Bokeyar, Zoe and Holly Harrison and Nicole Bokeyar, Cowra at the Cowra Picnic Races.
LITHGOW: Is this a good place for a new lookout in the region?
COWRA: Rising electricity prices are forcing more people to find cheaper ways to stay warm this winter buying blankets from Cowra's St Vincent de Paul shop.
PARKES: The NSW Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, said Patients at Hospitals in Dubbo, Parkes, Forbes, Orange, Mudgee, Bathurst, Cowra, Coonabarabran and Bourke will benefit from a $3 million equipment upgrade
PARKES: Bears with Guns lead singer Rob Saunders (centre) surrounded by band members (left to right) Lachlan Russell, Gus Taylor, Ryan (Hicksy) Unger and Drew Farrant-Jayet. Their single Wandering Soldier stands at number 5 on this week’s Triple J roots/indie chart.
PARKES: Thirty-three years after appearing on the ABC television program, Compass, Bishop Harry Westcott is again set to feature in the programme that during the next six weeks will ask the question “whatever happened to….”
PARKES: CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope has detected brief flashes of radio emission from the distant Universe. Their origin is unknown. The red background in the above image is gas in our galaxy. Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions, vr.swin.edu.au
WELLINGTON: Mary de Graaf, Lorna Carpenter, Elaine Currie, Lynne Munro, Dorothy Robb from the seniors craft group are making items for cancer patients.
WELLINGTON: Michael Abbott from Mooloolaba, Wellington’s Rob Blake, Jeff and Bobby from Burleigh Heads, Ian Neuss and Michael Foley from Sydney. The blue Dodge, a 1920 model was purchased by Mr Neuss of Sydney when he was just 17 and has been with him ever since.
WELLINGTON: Rotary President Donald Chisholm, past president Ruston Smith, club service director and president-elect Greg Wykes, international director and Rotary Foundation officer Terry Hoffman, treasurer Debra Wells, community services director Jamie Gersbach, new generation/youth director Ian Parkes and secretary Maureen Milgate.
OBERON: A LARGE crowd of locals and visitors packed Oberon’s main street last Saturday for the Heritage Street Parade celebrating the town’s 150th anniversary.
OBERON: It was a busy week for the Oberon SES. Paul Dusselaar, Kane Gibbons and paramedics Michael and John attend to the patient while negotiating one of the many steep narrow stairways located within the Lucas Cave.
LIGHTNING RIDGE: Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Victor Dominello, Trinette Simms and Regional Councillor Anne Dennis during the NSW Aboriginal Land Council bi-annual Statewide Conference.
BLAYNEY: A logging truck rolled onto its side on the Mid Western Highway at Martha Street in Blayney.
CANOWINDRA: The Canowindra Harness Racing Club are harnessing new members with a recent annual general meeting.
CANOWINDRA: An innovative housing design has seen a Canowindra house take out first place in four categories of the Sydney Branch Design Awards recently.
CANOWINDRA: Three school days friends - local businessman Bob Craven, Ernie Burgers and David Hutchinson - are preparing for a creative and entertaining reunion later this month.
NYNGAN: Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton this week accompanied four provisional licensed drivers from the Parkes electorate to Eastern Creek to participate in the Drive to Survive Program. Pictured are Ian Luff, Joshua Hunter, Karly Munro, John King, Tessa Flick and Mark Coulton MP
NYNGAN: It’s that time of year again and the AGL Nyngan Ag Expo committee is in “full swing” organising sites for well above 200 exhibitors for Saturday August 3.