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Open rehearsals for Orange Youth Orchestra

This Saturday, the Orange Regional Conservatorium is throwing open its doors and inviting all young local musicians to come and see what the Orange Youth Orchestra is all about!

Orange’s long-standing youth ensemble is looking forward to a massive year ahead and they are kicking things o with a big open rehearsal and a chance to meet the new conducting team of Dahle Innes, Laith Ismail and Stephanie Li.

For over 30 years, the Orange Youth Orchestra has provided regional music students with high-quality orchestral training and experiences. Its goal is to extend young musicians and provide them with the chance to play a wide variety of orchestral repertoire.

Orange Youth Orchestra is open to all young orchestral musicians of an AMEB Grade 5 playing level or above. So, if you play a string, wind, brass or percussion instrument you are invited along to join in!

Even if you are not quite advanced enough to join right now, you can still come along to find out what the future holds for you and have some fun.

The new conducting team have been busily preparing new, fresh and fun repertoire for the year. So, come along, meet the team, meet fellow students from across the region, play some tunes and enjoy an afternoon tea.

To take part in the open rehearsal head to the Orange Regional Conservatorium auditorium at 1.30pm Saturday, February 18.

Come on down to Cumnock Markets this Saturday.

Cumnock invites you to join them for their next market day this Saturday, February 18.

With stall holders producing delicious cakes, biscuits, jams, chutneys and pickles you’re sure to go home with something exquisite.

Homemade craft items are available, as well as local honey, woodcraft, plants and seedlings.

Stalls are able to fit undercover in the case of a rainy morning.

Visitors, or anyone wishing to have a stall, can get further information from Pat Gilmour – 6367 7270

Pancake Tuesday feast and fun at Millthorpe on February 21

Traditional Christian feast, Pancake Tuesday, has returned to the historic village of Millthorpe this Wednesday evening, February 21, and everyone is invited!

St Mark’s Anglican Church Hall on Park Street from 6pm, will host this unique event featuring dozens of home-made meals, fillings, desserts, tea and co ee, and, of course, freshly-made pancakes.

For more information or details of this year’s event, contact David on 6366 3397, mob. 0456 733 437.

Quick Crossword Quiz

1 Which storyteller are the fables The Tortoise and the Hare and The Boy Who Cried Wolf attributed to?

2 In which year was The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare first published?

3 What was Madonna’s (pictured) seventh studio album, released on February 22, 1998?

4 What does NASA stand for?

5 How many teams play in the Australian Football League?

6 Which band released the albums Adrenaline and Around the Fur?

7 Who directed the films Boyz n the Hood and Higher Learning?

8 The Ganges river, Meghna river and Brahmaputra river all flow into which bay?

9 How many pens did Barack Obama use to sign the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law?

10 Gangkhar Puensum is the highest mountain in which landlocked Asian country?

Wordfind

AORAKI

The leftover letters will spell out a secret message.

Theme: Mountains No. 071

Insert the missing letters to make 10 words – five reading across the grid and five reading down.

Crossmath

Insert each number from 1 to 9 in the shaded squares to solve all the horizontal and vertical equations. Multiplication and division are performed before addition and subtraction.

No. 071

No. 071 Edgeword

Place each of the tiles of letters into the blank jigsaw below to create four six-letter words going across and down.

Drop Down

Sudoku No. 071

Fill in the blank cells using the numbers from 1 to 9. Each number can only appear once in each row, column and 3x3 block

891 13 9 62 1

18 6 829 4 68

57 8 37 5 249

No. 071

Starting with the seven-letter word, drop a letter and form a six-letter word. Continue in this manner until you reach the single letter at the bottom. You can rearrange the letters in each step, if necessary.

9-Letter

No. 071

QU RE

EN EV SE OP

EL VE

There may be more than one possible answer.

There may be more than one possible answer.

Today’s Focus:

21 words: Good

32 words: Very good

43 words: Excellent

D SR I E

Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included and each letter may only be used once. No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”. D D

A C

Reference: Macquarie Dictionary Sat 0801