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NEWSWATCH

ORANGE CITY

LOCAL NEWS DELIVERED WITH — INTEGRITY — WISDOM — BALANCE Saturday 24 October, 2020

www.orangecitylife.com.au

ISSUE No. 23

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2020! — MUSIC, ART, AND LASERS

FREE

Talking POINTS

with DAVID DIXON

Locals and visitors who are missing-out on the annual community Christmas dinner that provides so much cheer and comfort to those on their own each yuletide have not been forgotten by Orange Council. Plans are afoot for a Meals on Wheels type service to deliver individuals dinners to those who will miss-out on this wonderful annual event. “Council's having talks with the organisers of the event that was cancelled this year due to COVID-19 about replacing it with something that would, in a small way, help those who can’t come this year,” Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said. Whether this becomes a meal delivered on the day, or foods such as hams and the like delivered before Christmas Day, has not yet been decided, Cr Kidd said.

Christmas is coming, and the Colour City is planning a bottler of a celebration with live music, art shows, and an innovative laser show for New Year’s Eve.

in Robertson Park with up to 500 locals able to attend to give our isolated musicians a chance to appear before a live audience. Council was also recently presented with a proposal by distinguished local artist, Hank Spirek, for an “Art Explosion” series of pop-up exhibitions in vacant main street shop-fronts. The post-COVID Christmas celebration plans could include a Council has also committed to a major Vivid-style lightshow huge live concert in Robertson Park, art exhibitions utlising on New Year’s Eve to replace the traditional fireworks vacant shop-fronts in the main street, and a New Year’s laser cancelled last year due to the drought and widespread show to replace the traditional fireworks display. Highlight of bushfires on the eastern seaboard. the celebrations to bid farewell to what has been a rather too-memorable 2020 for many, is a proposed concert

• For full story, go to pages 4–5 Halloween, folk tradition or crass commercialism? n Turn to page 7 for what locals think!

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It was ironic that the meeting at which permanent water saving standards were decided on by Orange City Council followed Councillor Scott Munro’s proposal to remove water restrictions totally as a reward for the good work of locals over the past few years. However, it probably shouldn’t have taken about 40 minutes of meeting time for the idea to be fully-rejected. The sometimes-prickly debate could probably have been wrapped-up a little more expeditiously, one suspects, if not for some point-scoring on the matter. In the end, even Cr Munro finally voted against the proposal with the idea punted by a unanimous 11-0 verdict. It has been suggested that the face-to-face meeting about the Anson Street mall wasn’t as positive as the podcast https://www. orange.nsw.gov.au/the-orange-podcast/ suggests. Newswatch has interviewed a number of retailers in the block affected by the pedestrian mall idea that were less than enthusiastic about its effect on their businesses at a time of what one might call — with typical British understatement — subdued business confidence.

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