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Friends! A few weeks back I invited readers to consider making a donation to us to help

A lot has happened over the last few weeks and it’s fair to say that the world as we know it will be different from here us keep going. At the time, it was looking fairly grim and it was going to be on, and for quite a while to come. andhardships go as tothat whether we’d make Since of then readers Many aretouch now facing they would never haveit. dreamed just several a few weeks back. have made People indonations safe employment last month now find themselves on unemployment queues, previously successful and to be honest, I hadn’t really thought too much about what mightbusinesses are now facing ruin.

And so it happen goes on. if and when readers may donate. Now, having seen what has happened, I feel quite humbled and happy atatthe time.

We didn’t getGovernment a lot of donations My wife and I, like so many other business owners thissame time, are scrambling to meet regulations, while trying to keep with community expectations and still come out at thewords other end. some, this must seem but up those that did come in came with priceless ofFor encouragement andmission impossible. good wishes, and for me that was theteam, real value was.toHere’s an extract In our case, and with the unbelievable co-operation of where our fabulous we’re going try and defy the odds.

My wife and I have come up–with a strategy that we hope willwith enable us to keep alland our full-time employees in work, from one note “Please accept this gift our thanks gratitude for how keep producing Orange City Life each week and hopefully come out at the other end. This strategy also relies on others you have blessed us and the community of Orange….and continue to do so”. I who we rely on, such as our printer in Sydney to survive as well. didn’t allrequire whoadonated to all who did, accept my heartfelt Defying the odds speak howeverto will number of but changes, sacrifices and please a lot of understanding.

CHANGES — From this issue, Orange City Life will look very different to what you’ve used to. thanks and appreciation and be sure that you have inspired become me to now tryMany andof the types of stories and features we’ve included in recent issues simply can’t be done under the present distancing and do even greater things for our Community. isolation rules.

To help us all through the Coronavirus crisis, for now at least, we’re taking a completely different approach.

Thetostory doesn’t end there businesses Ashcroft’s Supa We’re going try to meet the changed needseither, that many readers now like have Newcrest, as a result of isolation or being housebound.

We’ll also IGA makeand morethe use of our available space to ensure have plenty to readsponsorship and enjoy each issue.

Orange Credit Union alsoyouhelped us with donations Orange City Life will now provide you with more entertainment, more things to do, more ideas on how to keep yourself to help through.

Myputthanks to theminto too. these a fabulous busy, all while tryingus toget lift your spirits and a little sunshine yourAll day.

To thatdonations, end we’re including more puzzles, and we’reeffort also including Novella titled Sunshine (pure coincidence) given the extra time we all have, we by oura serialised staff and the since announced Jobkeeperthat payments will all ensure hope you will read and enjoy. We’ll also bring you quite a bit of helpful news from local businesses who are keen to keep we’re here for sometime yet, so much so that we’re actually about to introduce serving you, and we’ll be encouraging you to send us items to include. something andminimum out of left field, youreduce can read moreofabout that SACRIFICES — To keepcompletely our costs to annew absolute we’ve also had the number pages we print and suspend several regular features in OC Life that we regularly pay for, among these is our TV Guide.

I know a lot of people in my comment on page 5. love our TV guide but given our present circumstances, the cost of providing this is beyond us, if we are to win this battle. Despite all this, there are still ample copies of OC Life being distributed in many of the usual pick up spots right It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday so to all the Mum’s out there, we wish you a across Orange. wonderful and happy filled with like love, andtosatisfaction, you no our UNDERSTANDING — It’s a shame thatday it takes a disaster thisspoiling to bring home people just how important small businesses are in the scheme of things, and why supporting local businesses is so important.

Without dwelling doubt deserve it. on it too much, my hope is that locals will knock themselves out to spend every dollar they can with local businesses as we battle through this crisis together. Please keep spending as much as you’re able and do it at local businesses. We all There’s youbecause entertained again this issue need every dollar welots can to getkeep right now at the end of theinday we’re all in this together.

of OC Life and I hope you thoroughly enjoy every page.

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Have a great week everyone and go well!

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THIS WEEKS COVER Always look for the beauty!

During these times we encourage our readers to take each day as it comes. Find beauty in the everyday, something that you would usually take for granted. Stay safe, take care of your health, take care of your mind, we’re all in this together.

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General disclaimer: Whilst every care is taken in preparing this publication, we cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions. The publisher accepts no responsibility for letters, notices and other material contributed for publication. The submitter accepts full responsibility for material, warrants that it is accurate, and indemnifies the publisher against any claim or action. All advertisers, including those placing display and classified or advertorial material, warrant that such material is true and accurate and meets all applicable laws and indemnifies the publisher against all liabilities that may arise from the publication or such material. Opinions expressed in the publication are not necessarily those of the publisher. The editor, Bob Holland, accepts responsibility for election comment. Articles contain information of a general nature – readers should always seek professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances. Complaints: Regional Life Group Pty Ltd trading as Orange City Life has a policy of correcting mistakes promptly. If you have a complaint about published material, contact us in writing. If the matter remains unresolved, you may wish to contact the Australian Press Council. © Copyright 2018 Regional Life Group Pty Ltd. Copyright in all material – including photographs and ads – is held by Regional Life Group Pty Ltd or its providers and must not be reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the Publisher. Printed for the publisher by Spotpress Pty Ltd, 24-26 Lilian Fowler Place, Marrickville, 2204.

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One day out of the year, we have an extra special opportunity to give back to our Mums and whilst Mother’s Day, for some may look a little different, we can rely on technology to play its part in bringing our families together and sharing the love.

Mums can seem a little superhuman. They bring us into the world, hug us when we’re scared and share their wisdom to help us navigate through the tough times. In saying that, we caught up with three local super-mums as they share a little of their own ‘words of wisdom’, Mum edition.

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What is your favourite memory as a family? Our last little family holiday to Queensland was a favourite.

If you were to describe yourself as a superhero, which one would you be and why? Is there a super Mum? If so, that would be me. *laughs* What is something your child(ren) always says? ‘No’ *laughs* What advice would you give to your teenage self? Save your money!

What advice would you give to your babies as they grow up? Save your money, always be grateful and have/show respect.

What is one song you will continue to play for your children and why? Anything ‘Wiggles’ related to give me a minute of silence. *laughs* What is the most valuable thing your parents taught you, which you will pass on to your children? If you hang things right, you don’t have to iron them.

What has been your proudest moment as a Mother?

When Kaiden met Moo (Millie) for the first time.

Jess Beckett What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Don’t sweat the small things, enjoy the moment you are in right now because you’ll never get that back.

What advice would you give to your babies as they grow up? Do what makes you happy and never be ashamed of who you are.

What is one song you will continue to play for your children and why? ‘You are my sunshine’- I played that song to both of my girls when they were newborns and they wouldn’t settle. They would stop crying almost instantly.

What is the most valuable thing your parents taught you, which you will pass on to your children? No matter that mistakes we make growing up, your parents will always be there for you and love you.

What has been your proudest moment as a Mother?

Watching my daughters grow and learn new things every day.

What is your go-to snack when the kids are in bed?

Chocolate all the way!

What is your go-to snack when the kids are in bed?

Chocolate.

What has been your favourite memory as a family?

Taking the girls to the beach and watching them react when the waves would hit their feet.

What is the naughtiest thing your child(ren) have done? They both drew all over the walls and whilst Jake and I were cleaning it, Kaiden decided it would be a great idea to spray Moo in the eyes with stain remover.

If you were to describe yourself as a superhero, which one would you be and why? Wonder Woman! She is the perfect example of a strong woman, because she never quits and never turns down a challenge

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What is your favourite memory as a family? The first moments we came home and three became four, when Lachy met his baby sister, I was so proud!

What advice would you give to your babies as they grow up? You’re in charge of your own lives don’t let anyone dictate what you do with it, don’t be afraid to make mistakes and to stay happy, be kind to yourself and others and just have fun.

What is one song you will continue to play for your children and why? Humble and Kind by Tim McGraw, I will play this for that exact reason for my children to know to stay humble and kind on their journey in life.

What is the most valuable thing your parents taught you, which you will pass on to your children? Valuable lesson my parents taught me that I will teach my children is definitely treat others how you would want to be treated, because - remember kindness is a virtue.

What has been your proudest moment as a Mother?

Seeing my eldest (Lachy) care the way he does for his baby sister and knowing I brought two beautiful children into this world who will now grow up together.

What is your go-to snack when the kids are in bed?

Definitely anything sweet.

What traits (good or bad) have your children gotten from you? Lachy is not shy he is definitely a little social butterfly like me but definitely also has my attitude which is not so good *laughs* we are yet to find what things Layla will get from her Mum growing up.

What is the naughtiest thing your child(ren) have done? The naughtiest thing Lachy has done was climbing the bench stool to turn the tap on and turned it around facing it out of the sink to flood the carpet in our new home.

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OCLife THROUGH MY EYES

with Bob Holland

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The Coronavirus has changed our world forever and like so many others, my plans have been turned upside down too. Any hopes for a satisfying retirement seem to have been completely blown away.

In one respect I’m glad, you see I’ve been sitting on my hands for quite some time now, waiting and hoping circumstances would enable me to move on, that simply hasn’t happened and living that way has been very frustrating indeed. So, not to dwell on that, I’ve decided to do an about face and put any notion of retirement in the background, for a while longer at least, and do something that I’ve felt Orange needed for a long time – produce a decent local newspaper. Thanks to Coronavirus, that’s about to happen.

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Very soon, a new free and local newspaper will hit the streets in Orange, one that I hope will turn the notion that local newspapers are dying or dead on its head. I’ve never believed that and will continue to do so, until I prove my thinking is wrong, our new local Newswatch publication will do just that one way or the other.

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~ Melise Coleman

Newspapers across the world have gone from pillars of greatness to undignified rubble and in my view, it’s been their own fault. I realise that’s an enormous claim to make, especially by a little nobody publisher in Orange NSW Australia, but I stand by it. I’m

a business person, a marketer and a consumer and like everybody else, if you want my business or my loyalty, you have to offer me something that will make my life better in some way, and at a price that I feel is giving me value for money. Newspapers across the world stopped doing that a long time ago and most have gone downhill since. Sure they blame social media for most of their problems, but there’s a lot more to it than just that.

For all of time, businesses have had to contend with new competitors or other threats to their profitability and in most cases they make changes or improvements to their own business to maintain their market share, customers if you prefer, no good business owner just throws their hands up in the air and says “we’ll all be ruined!” That’s exactly what it seems to me they did. They blamed everyone and everything, but the one thing they needed to do, they didn’t, they didn’t work the problem adequately enough and they didn’t move with the times. It really is that simple.

I’m backing myself with Newswatch.

I believe having a free local weekly newspaper in a community like Orange, that’s well read and highly respected, is still possible. We’ll soon find out. The first edition of Orange City Life Newswatch will come out soon. I hope you like it!

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT FARMER DOUG’S GOURMET POTATOES? — JONATHAN ROE —

I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. IF YOU ASKED ME A WEEK AGO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT A POTATO IS A POTATO IS A POTATO. SURE, I KNEW THERE ARE VARIETIES BETTER SUITED TO BAKING AND OTHERS TO MASHING, BUT OVERALL, I NEVER CONSIDERED THAT JUST WHERE YOU SOURCE YOUR POTATO COULD MAKE A DRASTIC DIFFERENCE. TOMATOES? SURE. BUT POTATOES… How wrong I was.

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Doug and Elizabeth Dagg, the husband and wife team behind Farmer Doug’s Gourmet Potatoes. Regulars to the district's farmer’s markets will know them well, but with ongoing restrictions on social gatherings set to continue, Doug and Elizabeth have decided to open the gates of their Browns Creek farm in order to sell their plants and produce.

“I was 76 I think when I stopped work,” said Doug, now 84, who spent his career as an agronomist, advising famers from Victoria all the way to Charters Tower and the Atherton Tablelands.

“I had a contract for a company in Sydney to handle all their agricultural product, which was a snack food company and the base of it was potatoes. So, I used to contract growers, advise growers, ship their product to Sydney on order 12 months of a year. The trucks were not supposed to be late and the potatoes had to be to specification… that was essentially what I did.”

But, when he finally made the decision to retire from his consultancy business, a friend of Doug’s had something to say about it.

“I had a friend in Victoria who said, ‘you can’t retire!’ He said, ‘I’m sending you some potatoes, you take them to the markets and see what happens. So I did,” said Doug.

“Elizabeth had an on-farm nursery and we used to go to the markets with her plants, I started at Bathurst and I was giving them away! I went back next month and they said, ‘Well, where are they? We’re here to buy your potatoes. So, I

had to then start growing myself… and instead of just doing two or three markets we wound up doing a total of eight per month and it developed from there. So now at the ripe old age of 84, I’ve still got to work!”

Not that the works seems to be doing Doug any harm.

“My doctor told me many years ago, she said to me, just keep on doing what you’re doing and don’t stop. I said that will do,” said Doug.

Doug has two 30 metre by 6.5 metre hot houses he’s built on his 80-acre farm in order to plant an early crop that he can dig up in time for Christmas. He then programs plants so that he is digging up fresh potatoes all the way through to April.

“Unfortunately or fortunately — I haven’t figured it out yet!

— I don’t get a holiday; my customers want their potatoes!” he said.

“We always declared we wouldn’t open on the farm, but here we are! As of the weekend we will be open Saturday and Sunday 9 ‘til 4 or if they wish to ring through the week by appointment.”

As well as potatoes and other fresh produce grown in Doug’s hothouses, Elizabeth has a range of garden plants for sale – plants she propagates herself and are well suited to our local climate.

Now, the potato varieties Doug sells are not what you will find in your local supermarket, and I can personally attest that they are well worth travelling for.

“These potatoes are what’s used in the top restaurants in Melbourne, because my friend is a plant breeder and he

breeds most of these. So I buy my seed off him and grow them here,” said Doug, who also supplies local restaurants including Tonic, Charred and Sister Rock.

“The Jacklyn, that’s the one the restaurants like, it has a yellow flesh and that’s for roasting, baking, potato bake, chips, wedges and gnocchi,” said Doug.

“Then there’s the White Star. A lot of people still like their white potatoes, so this is an improved 13 Sebago; it has been bred to improve on the Sebago’s characteristics.

“Now we come to Otway Gold, that’s a cream flesh and basically it is like a Dutch Cream although my customers tell me you don’t eat Dutch Cream again after you’ve eaten Otway Gold! That is particularly good for mashing, but it is an all-rounder it will do the lot, in fact it makes beautiful chips as well!”

Doug also grows two visually striking Peruvian potato varieties: the purple-fleshed Midnight Pearl and pink Crimson Pearl.

“The Midnight Pearl; you can bake, boil it, mash it, chip it — do whatever! Frighten the devil out of people by putting it the plate. It’s full of alkaloids it has more alkaloids than blueberries,” he said.

“We have limited supplies of Crimson Pearl. It is the same and goes extra well in salads or just to brighten up a plate.

You will find Farmer Doug’s delicious potatoes at 1008 Browns Creek Road, Browns Creek, about a 30-minute drive from Orange. Doug and Elizabeth will be open for business Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 4pm or other days by appointment. Call 0428234602

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LATEST COVID-19 NEWS Getting Country Kids Back to School

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With country parts of Australia generally having fewer confirmed cases of COVID-19, it's my belief that schools in our rural and regional areas should be the first to reopen.

We now have research strongly indicating that almost one in two Aussie kids fall into the vulnerable category with online learning, and that it doesn’t work for them long term. So as long as our schools adhere to the expert medical advice, social distancing measures and cleanliness, I'd like to see all our country schools reopen, so that those vulnerable kids don't fall through the cracks.

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I will be continuing to work with my state and federal colleagues to make sure that we make the best decisions for the safety and wellbeing of our kids.

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Working to prevent domestic violence The Australian Government has launched a new awareness campaign, Help is Here, to ensure people experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence know where to get help during the coronavirus pandemic.

Andrew at James Sheahan Catholic High School, before social distancing.

Free and confidential counselling is available 24/7 online and over the phone. If you or someone you know needs support contact 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) www.1800respect.org.au or MensLine Australia (1300 789 978) www.mensline.org.au.

For urgent medical or police help freecall Triple Zero (000).

New Respiratory Clinic now open in Bathurst A new GP-led respiratory clinic at the Ochre Health Medical Practice on the Charles University campus is now in open.

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I was very honoured to Light up the Dawn with Derek Johns playing the Last Post, a poignant and soulful tribute which echoed through the Orange CBD.

ItNSW is one of approximately 100 dedicated respiratory clinics being setdistancing up across Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced an easing of social Australia astwo partadults of theand Australian Government’s response to the COVID-19 rules with any dependent children being allowed to visit the outbreak, and will reduce the pressure on our hospitals and GP’s, while reducing homes of their friends from Friday, 1st May. the chance of infection in other members of the community. The location was Nevertheless, people are urged not to take unnecessary risks and to stay home chosen on the basis of expressions of interest by local GPs. The Fever Clinic is still if you have even the mildest sniffle or feel slightly unwell. available at Orange Hospital for the Orange community and I'm hoping to have The hope is that the new on visits will improve mental health in the news on a respiratory clinicguideline for Orange very soon. community.

Well done to everyone involved in setting up the clinic, including the Australian Government, Ochre Health, NSW Health, The Western NSW Primary Health Network, and Charles Sturt University to name a few.

To book an appointment call 4702 3682 or visit ochrehealth.com.au/Bathurst then select Respiratory Clinic appointments.

Thank you to Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University Professor Andrew Vann and Dr Ross Wilson from the Ochre Health Medical Practice who showed me through the new clinic.

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Your Country Your Voice Thank you This week, as the curve flattens and we have a moment to reflect, I would like to acknowledge the huge and continuing efforts of our local communities in responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Inparticular, particular II would would like like to to thank: thank: In • Our brave front line health workers, pathologists, pharmacists, and support staff who are working tirelessly to protect and prepare our community.

• All those working in mental and allied health to ensure the well-being of others.

•Our aged care providers, workers and carers throughout the community for keeping our eldery safe.

• Our local RSL sub-branches who, despite the strict social distancing rules, helped to ensure that all Australians had the oppportunity to commemorate ANZAC Day. •All the local service clubs and commmunity groups that are supporting my Calare Community Care initiative to check on vulnerable people in the community. Together, to date, we have contacted over 2,000 residents across the electorate.

• My dedicated staff. While some electorate offices closed during this crisis, my offices and staff remained on deck and have been working harder than ever attending to thousands of calls and enquiries for assistance during one of the most challenging times in our nation's history.

I wouldalso alsolike liketotoacknowledge: acknowledge: I would • Those in our community who are grieving the loss of loved ones. This has been a particularly terrible time given the social distancing rules and restrictions around funerals.

• The residents of our bushfire affected communities whose recovery efforts have been made even more difficult by these challenging times.

• Local businesses that have had to weather the worst storm since the Great Depression. Your strength and resilience, and your ability to adapt and innovate, is inspiring to us all.

• Those who have lost their jobs and livelihoods and how traumatic this time has been. We'll be with you until everyone's back on their feet.

Andrew delivering a thank you cake to the team at the Coronary Care Team at Orange Hospital.

Pictured here: Andrew and Catherine Nowlan, General Manager Orange Health Service.

I will continue to advocate for all those suffering in our community and together we willl get through this.

For regular updates and news, follow me on Facebook and Instagram @andrewgeecalare Authorised by Andrew Gee, MP, National Party of Australia, Suite 1/179A Anson Street, Orange NSW 2800. Produced and printed using parliamentary entitlements.

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ROTARY CLUB DELIVER A TREAT 13-year-old Matilda ‘Tzzy’ Taylor is looking to make a hit again this year in the global drumming competition Hit Like a Girl.

The contest is all about attracting attention to and supporting female percussionists, with entrants from all over the world submitting a performance video uploaded to YouTube and a brief bio telling their drumming story.

Tzzy was voted Popular Champion in last year’s contest in the under 13 age group, which won her a scholarship with global music education company The School of Rock. It was this connection that led to

the successful Beach to Bush youth music festival in the Northcourt in February.

This year Tzzy is stepping up to the 13-17 years category and your vote could help secure her another win.

“For this year’s entry in Hit Like a Girl I’ve chosen the song ‘Carry on Wayward Son’ by Kansas,” said Tzzy, “because it has multiple time changes, it is a little different to what I usually play and it is one of my all-time favourite songs.”

To support Tzzy, visit hitlikeagirlcontest. com/contestants/tzzy-taylor check out her video, register and vote.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on our frontline hospital and health workers.

In a small (yet tasty) gesture the Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak dipped into their coffers to deliver $1000 worth of pizza and cakes to Orange Hospital Staff, to let them know the community values and respects the important role they play.

While making the delivery, Rotary Daybreak’s Ray Fleming and Stuart Smith took the opportunity to present the Central West Clinical Trials Unit with $25,000 raised from their recently-drawn Central West Cancer Trials Men’s Health Fundraiser raffle of a Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxe FLDE. The money was presented to Stephen Millard, Manager of the Central West Clinical Trials Unit, who said the money would support clinical trials for the treatment of prostate cancer.

s Rotary Daybreak’s Ray Fleming and Stuart Smith with Manager of the Central West Clinical Trials, Ray Fleming at front.

s Rotary Daybreak’s Stuart Smith and Ray Fleming, with Orange Hospital General Manager Catherine Nowlan and Director of Nursing and Midwifery Jo Dean.

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There was no virus lurking in our vicinity then but neither were there any of the modern devices we have today. Medicine had not advanced very far, there were no antibiotics, no Internet and few telephones.

This was The Great Depression which lasted from 1929 almost until the outbreak of the Second World War. At its height, 30% of Australians were out of work and thousands were on the road searching for some way of earning money DOREEN HAS A STORY. “Whilst I was born after the Depression, it’s DNA is definitely in my genes. Much of what my parents experienced has been passed on to me and many people may describe me as mean.

“I learned not to waste and not to buy what I didn’t need. I learned to cook and sew my own clothes and later to sew and make toys for my children. The children used their imaginations in the games they played and they used any number of broken articles to devise games.

“They were happy and content.

“During the Second World War not only was there a very severe drought that impacted very heavily on our farming family but there was also food, clothing and petrol rationing.

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in many cases it just got them into unmanageable debt.

“Another example of Lang’s strategy was the construction of the Jemalong Weir on the Lachlan just west of Forbes. No doubt the farmers were agitating for this project which, as well as flood mitigation, provided irrigation for about one hundred farms. This was a boost to the local economy.

With so many people losing jobs and money becoming scarcer, it is always helpful to look back at a time in which circumstances were very similar.

sat on the running board of our car. I still have the patent for this gas producer along with many of the letters back and forth when he was attempting to set up for manufacturing it. He was about to start production when the war ended and petrol eventually became more available.

“Food was simple and much was home grown. We killed our own meat, milked a cow and made butter and vegetables and fruit were eaten in season.

“After I married, money wasn’t plentiful as we were saving desperately to buy land and the old frugal ways came in handy.

“When we had our own farm, we periodically had droughts and floods and it was important to not get into any more debt. Our clothes started to look a bit shabby, special occasions were deferred and definitely no holidays.

“However, as one of my teenage daughters reminded me, this would not last forever and we would eventually recover.”

Many people are facing similar conditions today, coming upon us so suddenly and unexpectedly that they may feel they cannot cope.

Keith is a retired farmer and well knows the vagaries of the climate and the sudden problems which can befall those on the land. He also understands the way people recover from economic downturns having weathered quite a few droughts and the subsequent problems in his lifetime.

KEITH SAYS: “Recovering from disaster is always difficult, painful or even tragic. There is always, in the farm scenario, light at the end of the tunnel. Often a long and dark tunnel!

“But we always know that it will rain again, markets will recover, flood water will recede, and grass will grow fresh and green.

“Farmers have a saying: ‘keep the barn full and keep the banker outside the gate,’ meaning a good

Vets are “essential services”, so we are here and working hard to take care of your pets and wildlife at this difficult time. The wellbeing of your pets is so important to Dr Judith, but she also wants to take care of you, and her team of vets and nurses. This means we have had to make some changes here at Mulberry Lane Vet Hospital.

What can you do? If you have an appointment, please ensure your dog is on a lead or your cat in a carry cage.

You will find the front door closed when you arrive, but don’t worry – we are all here to help! Just press the new door bell and then follow the instructions of our friendly team. Or you can drive straight round to the back car park and phone 6360 3071 to let us know you are here. Please bring a card, not cash, to pay for any treatment, as well as your own pen. If you are visiting the Hospital to collect repeat medication or Prescription food for your pet, please ring us, order and pay over the phone in advance. We will gather together what you require, and can bring it straight to your car! Sadly, we are having to ask clients to remain outside the hospital at the moment, but we will take your pet safely inside and will keep you fully informed. Don’t worry if these new procedures feel a little complicated – if you have an appointment, you will receive a phone call or a text

Keith also comments on the steps the government took to pull the country out of the economic disaster which was The Great Depression.

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“It was all done with borrowed money which, in due course, the Premier refused to pay back.

He also brought in the Land Moratorium act which forbade a bank to foreclose on a farm which the farmers thought was wonderful and a political winner. However,

In these troubled times we are all being called upon to think of different ways to do things. It is remarkable how we have coped with difficulties in the past and we certainly are doing so again.

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HOSPITAL WORKERS ENJOY FREE COFFEE Local health care workers enjoyed a free coffee last week, thanks to Cadia’s workforce-driven initiative to thank Orange Health Service.

All staff throughout the hospital, Bloomfield hospital and allied health units were invited to benefit from the Cuppa on Cadia initiative.

With the help of Byng Street Coffee Cart, more than 800 coffees were donated to health care workers to acknowledge their hard work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cadia’s Melissa O’Brien, Byng Street Cart’s Will Clark and Orange Health Service employees Andrew Ashton, Liz Shaw and Di Gardiner.

FREE MEALS FOR BLAYNEY HEALTH SERVICE To recognise the valuable work of Blayney Health Service, hospital workers were each given a family meal at the end of their shift on Friday, sponsored by Newcrest Mining’s Cadia Valley Operations, through its COVID-19 Community Support Fund.

Cadia has recently supported a number of initiatives at Orange Health Service and wanted to extend the support and appreciation to the Blayney Health Service through sponsoring meals provided by Akehurst Bakery.

The initiative gave Cadia an opportunity to thank Blayney health care workers for the very important role they play in keeping our community safe and healthy.

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At dawn on ANZAC Day, Saturday 25th April 2020, the nation and our community showed their respect and paid tribute to those who gave their lives to defend our country and beliefs by holding candlelight vigils in our driveways, on our balconies and online reminding us that were all this together. It brought solidarity and unity among us all in a time of uncertainty, isolation and loneliness whilst remembering how important it is to commemorate those in the past and who currently represent our country. We were also a part of history on this day and it’s something to be proud of by finding a special way to still show our respect and unify us together in memory of those who we have lost.

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Unfortunately, some businesses have closed altogether and many which are still functioning are doing so with very limited trade and turnover. The Government has announced over $750 million in grants and subsidies. If you own a small business, have lost your job, need rent assistance, are a primary producer, are an employee or an apprentice, need to speak to someone and have been affected by COVID-19 somehow, please know we are here to help you.

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Although this means that we have some flexibility please stay mindful that COVID-19 is still very much a threat to our community and nation so we still need to follow the social distancing restrictions and public health orders in place.

Thank you to all of you for enduring and adhering to the public health order restrictions, which has resulted in successfully stopping COVID-19 and minimising the number of cases in our health district. I know it’s been hard, but it has worked.

I’m sending a big thank you to our health care and emergency service workers who have kept us safe, night and day. They deserve our sincere gratitude.

Cheers, Phil.

Over the past few weeks I’ve visited quite a few businesses across the electorate, to see how they’re holding up through these times of uncertainty. I was heartened by the positivity of most business owners and their employees with whom I spoke. I was amazed to hear of the support they’ve received from locals who have in many cases done their bit to help keep their local businesses going.

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Academy Coffee aka Matt Swiatkiwsky alongside Lucus Martin have recently started recording a local podcast dedicated to all things coffee, with industry leaders across the country and the globe.

Matt explained, “Originally we wanted to speak with professionals that would be able to give us ideas on how their business would make it through Covid- 19, hopefully inspiring others to think outside the box. Though I think throughout the series it will chop and change from knowledge to ideas and inspiring stories.

It was a good time for us to launch the podcast now because we have a bit of downtime with the current situation and through the years we’ve met some really amazing people who would love to come on and tell people their stories.”

Matt continued, “In our first episode we speak to Yanina Ferreyra about the current situation, ‘the new normal’ and the effect it is having on farmers coffee prices along with the Australian market. In our second episode we talk with Matt from Gorilla Roasters on the South Coast where he tells us about how he formed a committee to help the South Coast of Australia get through the recent bushfires.

Honestly the most enjoyable aspect of this so far has been, Lucas’s amazing radio voice, he is the main man behind this.

We hope listeners may gain a little inspiration and a little bit of a deeper guide into Coffee.”

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THIS YEAR ALONE AUSTRALIA HAS BATTLED HORRIFIC DROUGHT, FLOODS, RAVISHING BUSHFIRES AND NOW, THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

s Aussies, we’ve taken it in our stride to power through and continue on with our lives. In doing that, many of us may be guilty of forgetting about the reality the recent bushfires left fellow Aussies facing.

Cowra boutique store, Bo & Ree want to change that, by letting those suffering know that we still have their backs. In doing so, this week the Bo & Ree team will be donating boxes of brand-new clothing, to those areas that have been affected by the bushfires.

Bo and Ree Boutique Owner, Libby Brien said, “Bo & Ree have been thinking a lot about our many fellow Australians and we were wondering what we can do to help.

The bushfires had deeply saddened myself and my family and we continue to think about these people throughout this already unusual and uncharted time. Like everyone, we have had many friends and family who were and still are affected.”

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which have struggled to hit the grass roots of the disasters, which had me thinking of what I could do, in donating the clothing, it might be a help to those who have lost everything.”

Libby and her team took to Facebook where they asked their followers to send suggestions of towns and organisations that they would like to see the goodies go to.

So far the team are looking at donating to Conjola Recovery Centre, Treading Lightly Ulladulla and the Dundurrabin Community.

“We have at least one hundred clothing items ranging from winter clothing, casual wear and more formal wear – a treat for when this all passes, and we are allowed go out to socialise.

Hopefully this will give some women clothing that really makes them feel good about themselves and they know that other people really do care,” said Libby.

“Although it may seem all we have been hearing about is the Coronavirus, we haven’t forgotten the struggles that others are still facing.”

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To be in the draw to win 5 x $2 Scratchies just tell us how many you found. You don’t have to say where, just tell us the number. To make it more interesting, the Hogsters you’re looking for this competition are different to the one we use in our regular Find Hogster competition.

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TALKING CLASSIC MOVIES with Mal MacDonald:

Film Noir — JONATHAN ROE —

In a time when internet streaming services have made a wealth of entertainment available at the click of a button, Mal MacDonald makes his living sourcing and selling unique and hard-to-find movies and memorabilia.

His business REEL Memories has a catalogue of thousands of titles, many of which you will have trouble finding online or anywhere else.

After taking us through his picks of Epics and Biblical blockbusters last week, Orange City Life caught up with Mal again, this time to talk about film noir classics.

So what exactly makes a movie film noir?

Film Noir was a unique period done mainly through the 40s, into the 50s, and there was a few that spilled over into the 60s… but it was mostly the 1940s and 1950s film period where we find these classic film noir films. By the late 50s interest had waned, and Westerns and Adventure films were coming into the fore. And films were then starting to be turned out in colour, the noir films were mostly black and white of course.

These films have that great look with the shadows, that unique dark look, the moody low key lighting they used to get that sort of effect… if you’ve seen it once you will remember it. It goes back to some of the earlier film makers in France, Germany and other foreign films — like the original Nosferatu and films like that, Frits Lang’s Metropolis they all have that moody dark look, shadow on the wall, the lighting and everything is brilliant!

Let’s get to it and go through some of your favourite film noir titles.

One of the all-time classics is a Paramount film from 1944 – Double Indemnity, it’s one of my favourites. Staring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson — he was a top actor you see him in a lot of the Bogart films he was a big star in Brother Orchid and Little Caesar — but Double Indemnity, that is one of the all-time classics.

Then there’s The Naked City, 1948 with Barry Fitzgerald— which was later remade into a TV series. A lot of that was filmed out on location in New York, I think from memory.

But a lot of these films usually were done out on the back lot of the studio.

Another little gem is a 1945 flick called Detour starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.

The Big Clock, that’s another gem with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. As the name implies, the film centres around a big clock in the centre of the town which is the final sequence at the end of the movie.

There is a great James Stewart movie called Call Northside 777. James Stewart investigates this chap who was sent to prison for murder. He’s about to get executed and Stewart tries to prove the guy innocent. It also features Richard Conte - he was in a lot of these types of films Cry of the City with Victor Mature. He was a bit of a heman he was in a lot of those muscle films, the roman sword and sandal films, but he was in a number of very good film

noir films. In Cry of the City he’s alongside Richard Conte and Shelley Winters, who’s been around forever, you might remember her from the Poseidon Adventure. It was based on the story of two chaps who took different paths in their lives.

Another one that stands out (and not to be confused with the Robert Redford version, which was made years later) is the Allan Ladd film The Great Gatsby, now that was Alan Ladd and Betty Field, Macdonald Carey and Shelly Winters again, Barry Sullivan and Ruth Hussy.

And this movie kicked Alan Ladd off to fame, you might remember a film This Gun’s for Hire. This is a classic, early Alan Ladd where he got his start off with Veronica Lake.

Now Veronica Lake was sort of the second coming of Lauren Bacall, she had that Bacall look with her hair swept over the side of her face and this is about a hitman, who turns good at the end… Most of these films they had to have that Hollywood ending where good would overcome evil — don’t forget in this period of filmmaking there was the Hollywood Code, so you couldn’t see a bad guy getting away with it, they might have got away with one or two, but most of the time the baddie has to end up dead.

Another great one was a movie called The Killing and it was rather unique. It was an early Stanley Kubrick film with Sterling Hayden, who was a character actor that was in a lot of these types of films and adventures and westerns, also Coleen Grey and Vince Edwards. This was a 1956 film about a racetrack robbery which goes awry.

A lot of these films especially the 50s ones have a lot of that 50s paranoia with the atomic bomb. There’s all the sci-fi films that had all these monsters coming out of the desert and stuff like that, well that also spilled over into some of the film noir movies like Kiss Me Deadly, which was a 1955 film with Ralph Meeker, Albert Decker and it’s about a PI who uncovers a mysterious container. But there were films with plots to take over America and plots to do this and to do that.

The Phantom Lady, which came out the same year as Double Indemnity and that had Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Regis Toomey and it was about a man convicted of murdering his wife.

There are just so many great movies! This was the peak of Hollywood, the 40s and 50s where it all started. A lot of people, and people older than me, would remember these movies very fondly.

Mal can be contacted by email reelmemories@outlook.com or by phone 0419 979 773. He also has a Facebook page where he shares images from his extensive stock of classic and genre movie posters.

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Although, I tend to avoid recommending people pull walls out and redo their entire house, that is a rare thing to be doing.”

But there are so many simple and relatively cheap changes you can make that will greatly improve the comfort of your home and save you money.

“It’s simple things like shading western walls and on the northern side putting up pergolas that shade in summer and let the winter sun, looking at little ways to upgrade insulation just simple stuff that doesn’t cost the earth but actually has some significant impacts on the property,” he said.

But there is one improvement in particular that nearly every home in Orange would benefit from.

“Draft sealing; I can’t bang on about it enough,” said Brenton. “Particularly older houses, just sealing around windows and doors has a huge effect, sealing around electrical outlets has a huge effect — you’d be surprised how leaky our houses are!

“I‘ve got a thermal imaging camera and on a crisp morning, when people have their heaters on, you can step outside and show them all the hotspots, where the heat is leaking out of their house and where the cold is leaking in — you can end up having the equivalent of a one-and-a-half square metre window open in your house all the time, just the amount of air flow through the place.”

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“I don’t think people realise how big a difference it makes. Draft sealing can easily knock 10, 15, 20 percent off your heating bill, which is fairly significant, and you have cut it off your bill forever,” said Brenton.

Bathroom exhausts are another common culprit for heat loss that can be easily fixed.

“I know most of the older houses just vent straight into the ceiling void so you have a huge gap in your insulation, but simply running a duct outside and having a one-way duffel on that prevents a lot of air movement,” he said.

Heavy drapes topped with pelmets are also an effective measure to limit air convection across windows, reducing heat loss and greatly improving comfort inside.

“And take advantage of solar passive heating.

If you have sun coming in a window, having something solid that the sun can shine onto makes a huge difference, if you have concrete or tiled floors that’s one thing but if you haven’t, maybe moving your furniture around so the sun gets onto it so it absorb energy and then radiates energy. That radiant energy is actually more comfortable than heating the air,” said Brenton.

“And your gas heater… I walk into so many places where they have ducted heating and it hasn’t been serviced in ten years and the filters haven’t been cleaned in ten years. It is just simple little things that can make a huge difference.”

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DAVID I visited many art galleries in the UK when on holiday, or when having a short break in a UK major city. This one year my partner and I decided to travel the length of Italy by train, from Venice, stopping at Bologna, Florence and finally to Rome. Venice never fails to impress me, even though I’ve visited the city several times; I think it’s the jewel in the crown of Italy.

right hand was definitely out of proportion to the other hand and the rest of the body.

The head, I also felt, was slightly too big.

Who was I, a mere mortal, criticising the world’s finest sculptor and artist; but as minute as I may be in the art world I still have an opinion. And just to make me feel even more insignificant, he painted the magnificent ceiling in the Sistine Chapel lying on his back for months. For this painstaking work the Pope refused to pay him.

Repair work on the heritage-listed Holy Trinity Anglican Church is well underway.

In August last year, church leaders made the decision to fence off the 140-year-old building on the corner of Anson and Byng Streets due to an increase in incidents of slate tiles coming loose, which posed a serious hazard to people entering and leaving the church.

With repairs in progress and social distancing measures slowly easing, it may not be too long until parishioners will be able to return to services in the historic church building.

A very good artist friend explained the mystery about the size of the hand and head to me much later. He said Michelangelo did it deliberately to emphasise David’s concentration (head size), and pending action with his right hand. I realised that you have to be able to understand art to really appreciate what you are seeing.

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We saw lots of excellent art in the Collezione Peggy Guggenheim art gallery on the side of the Grand Canal, and several other museums whose names I no longer remember. Our train then took us to Bologna, where we saw more beautiful art in the Museo d’Art Moderna di Bologna.

My main objective was to see Michelangelo’s ‘David’ at the Accademia Gallery in Florence, our next stop. I’d had a long time ambition to see this incredible statue made from one slab of marble over a period of three years (1501-1504) by the master himself. We arrived in Florence and did a quick tour around the city seeing the Duomo Cathedral, the old Ponte Vecchio Bridge and the Palazzo Vecchio in the middle of the city.

At last we were in the queue to see ‘David’.

All of a sudden I was confronted by a huge statue of a muscular, handsome young man weighing 5671Kg (12478 pounds) and standing 4 metres high. Michelangelo was just 26 years old when he completed ‘David’, a biblical Israeli who slew the giant Goliath with a sling-shot when confronting the Philistines. In David’s left hand is the sling which he’s holding over his left shoulder and is difficult to see.

I looked hard and long at this sculpture and felt that something was not quite right. The

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Another work of art with the “must see” label is the ‘Mona Lisa’, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Louvre Museum Paris. After all the adulation heaped on this painting, I felt I had to see it. I was slightly disappointed when I saw it; it’s small, being only 77 cm by 53 cm and looks lost on the gallery wall. It now has a protective sheet of glass covering the painting since it was damaged by vandals who threw acid at it whilst on display at the museum in Montauban in France. I felt that there were better paintings in the Louvre than the ‘Mona Lisa’, created by much lesser-known artists. The old expression, ‘beauty is in the eyes of the beholder’ also applies to art, old or modern, and will always cause dissension.

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From Bill Bryson’s At Home.

A Short History of Private Life In the 18th century scurvy typically killed about half the ship’s crew on a long sea voyage. However, “On his circumnavigation of the globe in 1768-71, Captain Cook packed a range of antiscorbutics (products that prevent or cure scurvy) to experiment on, including thirty gallons of carrot marmalade and a hundred pounds of sauerkraut for every crew member. Not one person died from scurvy on this voyage – a miracle that made him as much a national hero as his discovery of Australia or any of his other many achievements on that epic undertaking. The Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific institution was so impressed that it awarded him the Copley Medal, its highest distinction”.

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ORANGE OPEN FOR INSPECTION AND ON THE RISE!

See Saw

ships Orange wine to the US — JONATHAN ROE —

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— JONATHAN ROE —

he ban on open houses and on-site auctions has been lifted across the state and local agents are predicting sales will bounce back.

That’s not to say the market has been all that bad, says Peter Fisher Real Estate Director Hunter Ridley.

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, fewer houses may have been coming to market, but those that have are still attracting interest from buyers.

“We are coming off a very, very strong year, so it is not like we are going from a soft market into a bad market, we are going from a really strong market into something where the activity is a bit more like what it used to be… I’d like to see a bit more activity, but it is certainly not a bad market at all,” said Hunter.

“The people who are looking are serious and most of them have got their finance organised. Year on year it is definitely down from last year in terms of activity, but if you look at the values at the moment compared to a year ago the values are probably still up.”

Domain recently named Orange as the third most searched for property market outside of Sydney, behind the coastal centres of Port Macquarie and Newcastle.

Hunter said it makes sense that Orange is in demand

as our city has great facilities, great schools, a strong health sector and ever-growing tourism appeal.

“People can see that Orange is a really strong regional centre and the basics here are still very, very good. Yes, the hospitality industry has pretty much shut down, but it will go very strongly when the travel restrictions are relaxed and Orange is going to really bounce back— not just real estate but other industries will grow as well, quite quickly,” said Hunter.

And given the large number of people who have discovered they can work remotely through this crisis, it is quite possible we may see an increase in people departing the city looking for a better lifestyle.

“I really feel there will be a lot more tree changers coming this way,” said Hunter. “There are so many people who have had a lot more time to contemplate the rest of their life and what they are going to do for the rest of their life. You only need a very small percentage of those people living in Sydney to decide they want to come this side of the mountains… So, I think places like Orange, Tamworth and Wagga Wagga, and up and down the coast especially, they’ll all actually benefit real estate wise from what is happening at the moment. I definitely think that is going to be a big

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winter — MELISE COLEMAN —

Orange’s See Saw Wines have shipped off what could be the first many shipments of wine to the US market.

The export contract had been in the planning for about 14 months, said See Saw vigneron Justin Jarret, but then the outbreak of the global pandemic put everything on hold.

“Just as the lockdown started, we had actually received the order and labelled and packaged it all and then it got postponed due to the lockdown,” he said.

“We thought that was the end of it, but then they came back and said, let's get on with it and the wine left last week on the boat.”

The initial order was for 330 cases, comprising of chardonnay, shiraz and pinot noir. A welcome sale given the near complete shutdown of the hospitality industry in Australia.

“Domestically, See Saw gives mostly to pubs and restaurants that's where we sell most of our wine, so this is actually great to have picked up a little bit of extra sales from an export order,” said Justin.

He believes the fact they are an organically certified vineyard selling originally certified wine has driven the interest from the US market.

Like many other local wineries, See Saw has also been working on pushing online sales, encouraging people to buy tasting packs, then join in virtual tastings on social media “They are good fun. They are not going to replace the loss of pubs and bars, but it certainly has grown and has pushed us to concentrate and look at that area where we weren’t really worrying about it much,” said Justin, who is still confident there is light at the end of the tunnel.

“From a business point of view things have changed, but as we get back to a bit less social distancing and a bit more back to what it was, people will still want to buy wine, people will go to bars and restaurants in the same numbers they did pre-coronavirus.

And if the dollar stays low then exports have got a place as well.”

The Orange City Council initiative to provide firewood for families in need is returning for another year. After a successful initial roll-out last year, the ‘Woodbank’ scheme is back in operation and just in time for the pre-winter chills!

Orange City Councillor Glenn Taylor explained, “Woodbank was well-received last year and I’m pleased that’s back again as temperatures start to drop. Council is funding the scheme with $10,000 and it was great to see that community members have also donated $700 to help out.”

“Local wood suppliers will again also be involved.

They’ll be delivering $100 worth of wood to local families in need.”

The program will operate from the FoodCare Orange organisation operating out of its building at 142 March St, as well as Orange City Council’s

Community Services Centre at 286 Lords Place.

Mr Taylor continued, “Woodbank will operate in much the same way as last year. FoodCare has an established way of offering support to families in need. Families are already going to FoodCare, and there they’ll get the groceries they’ll need to help them through what’s a tough time. They’ll also be able to get a delivery of firewood.

“When a family asks for firewood at the FoodCare office or the Community Services Centre, there’s a simple form where people can supply their details and provide concession, pension or Centrelink reference numbers. Staff will take their details and arrange for a load of wood to be delivered. It can usually be delivered in as little as three days.”

For more information please contact Foodcare on 0447 577 884.

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Who will we surprise on Mother’s Day? You still have time to enter your Mum in our Thoughtful Mum’s Competition, but you’ll have to hurry.

If you’d still like to enter, the details are below.

Here’s some of the Mums in the running so far –

And here’s some of the thoughtful things these Mums have done – “One thing that is so special about my mum is that she plans fun things to happen, like the science day in the Christmas Holidays.

We both did experiments that were really fun, our favourite was the rocket powered by bicarb soda and white vinegar. I really love my mum because she cares about me a lot.”

“I would like to nominate my daughter as it’s her first Mother’s Day with her little family and we would like to say that you have done a great job on been a first time mum in this crisis that we are all going through”

“she’s always put us three kids first and has successfully put up with me for 15 years” “My mum does something very special for me every Thursday, that is our day together and l can choose whatever l would like to do with her on that day”

“My Mum is a Wonderful Caring Beautiful Lady that Always puts her Children First! My Mother made sure that I was Educated Properly at a time I was struggling to understand just to read and write!”

Thoughtful Mums

COMPETITION!

ORANGE CITY LIFE is giving you the chance to Win a Special Mother’s Day delivery for your Mum this Mother’s Day - Sunday May 10th.

5 prizes to be won and delivered to local Mums this Mother’s Day.

“My mum is my best friend, my confident, and most of all the strongest women I know. She has just gone through the hardest 18 months of her life. She battled a health condition that nearly took her from me and then she lost her son. So she has shown me how to be a loving, caring and strong human being and I will always be grateful for her being my Mum”

HOW TO ENTER YOUR MUM: Simply take a nice head and shoulders photo of your Mum, send it to us with her name, your name and a few words about something very special that she has done for you during your lifetime. It’s that simple.

We’ll choose 5 winners from all entries received and deliver the prizes personally on Mother’s Day. TWO WAYS TO ENTER:

By Facebook – direct message us (don’t post to our page) By email – reception@oclife.com.au Entries close 12 noon Friday May 8th.

Winners announced in our May 14th issue.

Good luck!

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Sunshine

ORANGE CITY LIFE IS PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU A SERIALISED VERSION OF THE ACCLAIMED NOVELLA, SUNSHINE, FROM MILLTHORPE’S

KIM KELLY

It’s 1921 and the Great War has left in its wake untold tragedy, not only in lives lost but in the guilt of survivors, the deep-set scars of old wounds and the sting of redoubled bigotries.

In the tiny hamlet of Sunshine, on the far-flung desert’s edge, three very different ex-servicemen – Jack Bell, an Aboriginal horseman, Snow McGlynn, a laconic, curmudgeonly farmer, and Art Lovelee, an eccentric engineer – find themselves sharing a finger of farmland along the Darling River, and not much else. That is, until Art’s wife Grace, a battle-hardened nurse, gets to work on them all with her no-nonsense wisdom.

Told with Kim Kelly’s inimitable with and warmth, Sunshine is a very Australian tale of home, hope and healing, of the power of growing life and love, and discovering that we are each other’s greatest gifts.

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SEED JACK ‘Hello!’ The woman waved again, setting the broom against the verandah post beside her and then she took the few steps down to the ground towards him.

Jack couldn’t think what to say as she approached. She was, hands down, a looker, but she had a different dress on now, a light green one, and the buttons that ran down the front were done up crooked; her hair could have done with a bit of a comb, too. He had an odd desire to tidy her up.

‘Grace Lovelee,’ she said, and as her smile widened she only got sweeter to look at.

Lovely, thought Jack. Plus some. And that only had him more dumbstruck, supposing a thousand blokes and more before him had had exactly the same thought.

‘Are you a neighbour, too?’ she asked, in a way that suggested the idea wasn’t objectionable.

‘Ah …’ He eventually found the word: ‘Yeah.’

She waited a moment – waiting for him to introduce himself, he supposed, but for that moment he couldn’t quite locate his name.

‘Where’s your place, then?’ she chirped on, regardless, as though his place might have been a cattle kingdom up the road.

My word, thought Jack: You really are a posh little dolly, aren’t you. She sounded like one of those Red Cross ladies he’d met in Egypt, handing out comfort parcels in Port Said, plucked from some clipped-lawn afternoon tea, ever smiling, ever kind, seemingly not seeing the filth in the streets, the sand and the flies. An English lady, from that country he had never set

foot on and never would, but that had robbed him of his own and his family – he could see that all too well these days. God save the King – for he is a liar and a thief. Jack told the woman, chucking his chin at the rise of the riverbank, where the redgums sprawled thickly over the silty strand: ‘I live down there.’

Because this is my land. All of it.

‘Oh?’ She only grinned at that idea: ‘We’re quite close neighbours, then!’ And she laughed – that laughter drenching all in sunshine.

Who are you, really? Jack felt a shiver of deeper recognition he didn’t know what to do with. He thought he’d better make sure he hadn’t fallen asleep by the river just now, and so he asked her: ‘You don’t mind? Me being a close neighbour?’

‘Why should I mind?’ She frowned above that sunny smile. ‘Are you someone I shouldn’t care to know?’

He frowned back at her: she couldn’t be real.

Her frown grew cold; the smile vanished: ‘Oh. I see. Of course. Well.’ She waved her hand, dismissive: ‘If we’re going to be neighbours, you should know I’ve had it demonstrated to me too often that our blood is all the one colour.’ She glanced down at his old khakis: ‘With whom did you serve?’

‘Light Horse,’ he said, barely, and not only because he felt the first wisps of friendship curling around and through his ribs, but because he now remembered his pockets were full of potatoes he’d just pinched from her garden – second batch, too, as there were lots of them, juicy and new.

She nodded: ‘It appears we’re all of one blood in this respect as well. I nursed at the front in northern France and Belgium for almost two years.’ She waved her hand again, not quite dismissing the pain that flashed in her eyes before she added: ‘Wherever it is we’ve been, if we’re going to be neighbours now, best tell me your name, hm?’

‘Jack,’ he said, in her thrall; she made him large and small at once; a gawky boy: ‘Jack Bell.’

Her smile returned, so wide and bright: ‘Pleased to meet you, Mr Bell.’

‘Jack,’ he said quickly, suddenly confused by some emotion he couldn’t name.

‘As you must call me Grace,’ she said.

But he couldn’t meet her eye now; he looked down, at the odd lumps made by the potatoes in his pockets; at his bare feet; at the fraying edges of his trouser cuffs. He wasn’t ashamed of his poverty: he’d always been poor to some degree; he was shocked by the appearance of himself, the fact of himself, as if looking in the mirror for the first time in a long time – though he couldn’t have said when last he’d done that.

I shouldn’t be here, loafing about on the river – I should be fighting. Fighting for what is mine. The thought swept into him and swept out – a tide he couldn’t quite catch.

‘My goodness, have I upset you, too?’ she said.

‘I seem to excel at putting off the neighbours.

Whatever clumsy thing I’ve said, I’m terribly sorry for it.’

‘What?’ He looked up. ‘Don’t you be sorry, Miss – it’s … Ah —’ ‘Grace – please. Please, Jack. I’m not anyone’s Miss. I just hope I haven’t got things off to a bad start. Have I?’ ‘No, you haven’t.’ Seventeen different kinds of strangeness made him laugh: ‘I’m the one who should be apologising – I’ve been sneaking about, helping myself to potatoes from your yard.’

The frown came quick again and colder: ‘No,’ she shook her head: ‘No, no, no.’

He began to dread whatever he might have started here now.

‘You will not do that,’ she said, just about growling it at him. ‘You will not sneak about. You will help yourself whenever you like – and be welcome to join us for a meal whenever you like, too. I know Art – my husband – he’d enjoy the company. We don’t have any chums around here yet, you see – be our first?’

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‘Ah —’ Jack could hardly keep up.

‘Never mind.’ Grace Lovelee rolled her eyes and appeared to tsk at herself: ‘I can be a little overbearing at times. Do what suits you, Jack.

Please, do. I say, though, the vegetable plot is a bamboozling load of where-to-begins, isn’t it?

And I’m not much of a gardener. In fact, I’m not a gardener at all. I’m not entirely convinced plants like me, actually. If you know anything about gardening, you could always help me with that, if it ever suited you. I’d be very grateful.’

So would I. Jack nodded. He’d never been a gardener himself but he knew enough to be useful: he’d often been called upon to help Mrs Henry, the Reverend’s wife, in their yard when he was a boy.

‘That’d suit all right,’ he told Grace Lovelee. ‘Thank you.’

It wasn’t a job she was offering. It was something better than that.

It was something good.

‘You might not want to pull those out,’ Jack said as they bent to the work of clearing the garden of weeds and sorting out what was what. ‘They’re tomato seedlings,’ he told her.

‘Really?’ She stood up with her hands on her hips, regarding the little sprouts that had happily sprung up under a shady thatch of old withered grape vines and blackberry vines and rusty fencing wire.

‘Which ones?’ She peered straight down at them.

‘These.’ He crouched and lifted one of the fine, velvety leaves with the palm of his hand. ‘They sow themselves, don’t need much looking after but a bit of water if there’s been no rain. Sweet and tasty, they are, too. Look here,’ he said: ‘See these little yellow flowers?’ He reached across to another more mature plant and turned a cluster of its tiny, wax-papery blooms towards her. ‘You’ll get a fruit round about the size of a plum on this by Christmas.’

‘Really,’ she gave him that wide, wide smile again.

‘That’s amazing. So very amazing, isn’t it, the way things just – grow.’ She gazed off into the distance then, a long way away.

He wondered what she was looking at, in her mind, where she’d gone; he wondered too, why it was so annoying to him that her buttons were still done up wrong: there were a dozen or so of them, from her lace collar down to her belt, small shell disks that kept catching the sun, and the second one from the top had been missed, making the bodice skewiff. Why should he care about such a thing? That dress was probably worth more than his life; she could wear it however she pleased.

Still, the missed button had got into his head, and there become like an itch under a bandage: you can only ignore it for so long before you crack.

‘Ah – Miss. Um – Grace?’ He wasn’t sure whether to stay crouching or stand – or why she made him feel like a boy unable to form whole thoughts.

‘Hm?’ She turned back to him, still seeming dreamy.

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‘Your …’ He pointed, half standing, half crouching, and then he looked away again, thinking: I can’t believe I just did that. It wasn’t as though it was anyone’s business – not as though her underwear was showing, or there was anyone here but the flies to notice.

‘Oh?’ He heard her wonder; and then he heard that laugh of hers: ‘My heavens, can’t even dress myself.’ She laughed and laughed, as he made an effort not to watch her fixing those buttons, returning to the crouch and the tomatoes as though he might watch them at their growing. ‘You must think I’m mad,’ she said.

He did, sort of, but he said: ‘No. Easy enough thing to do.’

‘Yes.’ Her tone grew as quickly serious: ‘Especially easy when you’re distracted.’

She crouched beside him once more and looked into the twisted heap of vines and wire beyond the tomatoes: ‘It’s going to be quite a job getting that in order, isn’t it?’

‘Not too big a job,’ Jack replied. ‘It’s mostly blackberry, and not much at that. Could be worse.

Takes over whole farms, this stuff, but you’ve got to it early. Chop it back, get some caustic soda painted on it, and it’ll die off.’

‘Poison it?’ Grace Lovelee sounded alarmed.

‘Yeah,’ said Jack, and thought to calm her worry: ‘It’s not a dangerous poison.’

‘Dangerous to the plant, though,’ she said, frowning at it.

‘Yeah,’ said Jack, curious. ‘No more dangerous to the plant than pulling it out of the ground. Same result. But a lot easier if you poison it. They’re bast—’ He just managed to stop himself from describing the blackberry as the bastard king of weeds it was. ‘They’re hard to shift once they settle in.’ Worse than whitefellers.

‘Oh.’ She kept frowning at the vines, little white flowers strung along them, bees dancing all around collecting their gold-dust pollen. She said: ‘Art won’t like the idea of poison.’

‘Fair enough,’ Jack replied, wondering what sort of farmer doesn’t need a bit of poison from time to time; he wondered at the man he’d seen smashing together that structure near the river, by the old schoolhouse: four-by-four posts all standing to attention in two lots of two lines like a slipway for Noah’s next ark. Wanting to get to know these weird neighbours, he asked her: ‘What’s your husband been building then, ay?’

She turned that dazzling smile on him as she said: ‘That’s his nursery, or at least it’s going to be, for the young fruit trees, and seed-raising. He’ll put a canvas shade across the top, protecting them from the high sun. He’s got it all worked out.’ Then her sweet face darkened again: ‘I hope it all works out for him.’

Jack wasn’t sure why he said what he said next, but for a trace of worry for this woman slipping through his mind; worry like she was a lamb straggling from the mob: ‘You need a hand, you know where to find me.’

‘That’s very kind,’ she said. ‘I’ll tell Art. He’ll be

pleased to know he needn’t advertise with the labour agent, hm?’ She threw him a glance, some kind of twinkle in it, as though she was the one who had it all worked out, and Jack nearly fell off his heels: these people might really give him some work? But before he could clarify that, she asked him another question, pointing under one of the thick rambling arches of the blackberry bush: ‘That’s more of that burr grass there as well, isn’t it?’

‘Yeah, that’s right.’ Jack nodded at the spindly clump of the stuff. ‘You want to dig them ones out or they’ll spread, too.’

She knelt as she set her little spade on it and said, plain and straight as she dug: ‘Art is sometimes not well. I don’t usually mention anything about it to people, but you’re not just people, are you. Since you were a soldier, I’m sure you know what I mean – probably more than even I do. He’s all go, or all stop. Today, he’s all stop.’

Jack nodded again, and with some genuine sympathy, though he didn’t really know what she meant.

‘Nothing wrong with stopping now and again,’ she went on, digging round the base of another clump: ‘If we all learned to stop for one – stop for the one who is stopped – then we’d all be better off, wouldn’t we, hm?’ She told the earth: ‘And there wouldn’t have been a damn war in the first place.’

My oath. My bloody oath. Jack was stuck there on his heels, struck by the uncommon wisdom of this woman, when she looked over her shoulder at him and said: ‘The more of these burr things I dig up, the more I seem to see – and now I need something to gather them all in. Could you, please —’ She sat back on her own heels then, knees in the dust, her pretty dress getting all dirty; she blinked at him: ‘I was going to ask you to get my basket from the kitchen, but I left it with Mr McGlynn, across the way. You wouldn’t mind fetching it for me, would you?’

Jack couldn’t think of anything he’d rather do less than see that gun-slinging sh-- McGlynn.

‘I mean, if it’s not too much trouble.’ Grace Lovelee blinked at him again. ‘I don’t fancy traipsing back …’

He looked at her kneeling there in the dirt; such a nice lady. Probably nothing would be too much trouble for a woman like her, he supposed.

‘Oh – God.’ She slapped the side of her leg.

‘Please, ignore that. Listen to me, talking to you as though you’re my servant – that’s not what I meant. Or perhaps it was – I just forget where I am sometimes. It’s different in England – women ask men to do things all the time and they do them.

Well, for women like me, anyway. Or they did, once upon a time. What I really meant was that it’s hot now, and I’m too hot to be bothered. And I probably shouldn’t be digging in the garden. I should go and make lunch for Art – make him eat something, at least. You must think I’m awful for asking such a thing of you.’

Jesus, no. Jack could barely shake his head he was so taken by the woman, and he told her, despite himself: ‘I don’t mind. I’ll go and get your basket, don’t worry.’

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‘Are you sure you don’t mind?’ Grace Lovelee asked him with her beautiful, weary-wise eyes.

He knew somewhere in all this he was being strung and played but he was too intrigued to say anything else except: ‘No. It’s all right. I don’t mind.’

Maybe she wanted to avoid McGlynn herself; that he could understand.

He set off, up the track through the vineyard, but it wasn’t until he was nearly at McGlynn’s gate that he realised there’d been a tin bucket near the back step he could have got for her to put all the burr grass in. Come to think of it, there’d been a wicker washing basket there too, by the clothesline post, only a spit from where they’d been bending over the weeds.

Not to worry; he was here now. Wary nevertheless, once inside the gate, he skirted his way round the homestead yard, hoping to catch sight of McGlynn before the bloke caught sight of him. He followed the path of the long-lost track that once led to the old general store; made a detour down to the large, lone emu bush here that was in full flower – a cloud of flowers, it was.

No point not taking advantage, he supposed. He plucked one of the little pink, trumpet-shaped blooms, careful not to break the bulb of nectar that sat at its base; this particular bush always seemed to have the most delicious juice, and he wondered if that was because it held this patch of dark red ground on its own, sharing it only with one of the stone stumps left behind by the store.

He raised the bulb to his lips; the insides of his cheeks tingled and watered with anticipation.

Then he saw McGlynn: a way off, sitting on an upturned crate by this near end of one of his orchard rows, with that damn rifle of his between his knees.

Sitting there taking pot shots at the birds, are you?

So Jack thought.

But he was wrong: and it was his turn to blink now, not quite believing what he thought he might be seeing.

McGlynn had the muzzle of that gun held to his mouth – held within his teeth.

‘No!’ Jack shouted.

His own tongue sang with the taste of iron, his mind filled with thundering hooves, the screaming of beasts, all beasts, as he began to run.

SNOW His vision faded around a blue-grey smudge that sat upon the west horizon. There was not much otherwise going on in his mind: it was more a sensation that had overwhelmed him, the feeling that’s got after many days without sleep, though he’d slept like a bag of bricks these past several nights. It was a feeling like acid in the veins; all brittle and riven edges, all flaking and crumbling away.

He wasn’t even thinking of Moz. He just wanted this feeling to stop; this feeling that nothing good could ever come from his hand or his heart; that these oranges and lemons could not rescue him: they were only a fragile monument to his vanity that he might do anything of any use at all.

He wanted to drift out along the river – any river – and away into the centre of that blue-grey smudge.

The rough steel wings of the foresight scraped the top of his mouth; he could smell the linseed oil in the timber of the barrel casing; his thumb rested on the trigger. At the next breath he’d lean into it; at the next breath he’d do it and be gone.

‘What the f----- hell are you doing?’

At first he thought it was Stu, but it couldn’t have been – and Stu never sounded that angry.

‘Get that f----- thing out of your mouth – you f----- idiot.’

Snow looked up to his left, to find the source of the voice: it was that blackfeller – that blackfeller always mooching around.

Things happened quickly from there: Snow McGlynn suddenly became aware of what he had indeed been doing – and he was as suddenly embarrassed to have been caught in such a shameful position. He turned the gun on the one who sought to stop him: this frowning brown face looking down at him.

‘Get f-----.’ Snow made a firmer point of that gun as he stood, but his words fell like lead on the ground between them.

The black man didn’t move but for a flaring of his nostrils; he squared at Snow and said: ‘Well, go on, then. I’ve got nothing to lose.’

Something in that challenge infuriated Snow: that this barefoot, scrap-of-nothing black thought he was bastard enough to shoot him in cold blood. And with the too-hot flight of logic that accompanies all dire distress, Snow chucked the gun away and threw a punch instead.

The black man dodged the fist and pushed his own into Snow’s chest. ‘Yeah, I’ll have you,’ he said: ‘Come on – go again.’

There was little fight left in him now, and Snow stumbled backwards, but the black man kept at him, shouting: ‘Have a go, you p---- – have a go!’

And he pushed him once more so he fell to the ground.

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supposing this bloke was right off his head, and maybe in a state far more murderous than the one he himself had been in just now.

But the black man only said: ‘I’ve come for Mrs Lovelee’s basket – she wants it returned. Where is it?’

‘On the verandah,’ Snow said, too stunned to chat about it further, ‘out the back.’

He watched the black man walk up to the house, an unhurried but efficient pace; he watched him disappear behind the thicket of old rosebushes there, and come out the other side, with that basket. He watched him go up the track and out the gate.

He might have wondered if he’d imagined all that but his elbow stung from having fallen on it. He got to his feet, in a daze. He picked up his gun: beyond time he put this filthy piece of sh-- away.

As he neared the house to do just that, his mind still numb from shock, he saw his horse, yarded in her pen there to the south, where she had shade and water, but no food – he’d been about to blow his own head off, but he’d not thought to put out any hay for the horse. How could he have done that? How could he have been so selfish? The horse had a name when he bought her in town but he’d forgotten it; he only ever called her Girl. Who was he?

He kept on going around to the back of the house, where he saw something somehow worse, and somehow an answer, too: the white bundle, left here on the verandah boards – it was the bread that Grace Lovelee had brought him, but wrapped as it was in her linen cloth, it looked like a little baby.

His knees just about gave way at the sight of it, and he sat down on the step there by the loaf.

He shook with the relief that floods the body on its surprise at being alive.

Then, at last, and for the very first time, Snow McGlynn began to cry.

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Snow raised a hand, half in surrender, half in anticipation of a blow, and he shouted back: ‘Stop!

I’ve got no argument with you.’

Sunshine was first published 2019

by Jazz Monkey Publications, copyright © Kim Kelly 2019. The moral right of the author has been asserted.

The black man stood over him, black shadow against the near-white, high-sun sky: ‘Oh yes, you f----- do.’

This edition for Orange City Life is publ ished with permission of the author. Some phra ses and words have been altered from the original, for a general audience.

‘What?’ Snow was getting fearful now. ‘I haven’t done anything to you.’

‘That what you reckon?’ The man spat into the dust by his shoulder. ‘You’ve taken my land, my home, my family. But yeah – you’ve not done nothing to me, have you.’

Snow didn’t know what to make of that, other than

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