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FARMING families are working through one of their toughest times in living memory. Dubbo Photo News wants to help – even in a small way – by offering one of our region’s farming families the chance to take a break for a weekend and get some R&R in Dubbo. Dubbo Photo News has partnered with local businesses to create this ‘time out’ for a farming
family of four on Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12. We’ve organised a night’s accommodation, dinner, an entertaining evening at the Australian Bee Gees show at the theatre, breakfast, plus a petrol voucher to help cover the cost of getting to town and back. To enter, we’re hoping interested farming families will take their minds off the drought for a
while, sit around the dinner table at home and come up with their funniest and favourite pet moment on the farm, then share that story with us for your chance to win. Full details are inside today’s paper. Pictured above are sponsors of the Dubbo Photo News Farming Family Getaway – back, Inland Petroleum’s Colin Cottee, Alchemy on Victoria owner Chris Davis,
Quality Inn owner Kerrieanne Nichols, middle, Dubbo Regional Theatre manager Linda Christof, Alchemy on Victoria owner Ngaire Davis, and front, 178 Restaurant manager Jo Turner. They all have something special to contribute toward making sure the lucky winners of the Farming Family Getaway have a weekend to remember. PHOTO: DPN/WENDY MERRICK
CHINA CRISIS BECOMES DUBBO OPPORTUNITY EXCLUSIVE
By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY DUBBO could become a major centre for recycling in NSW, creating jobs and other business opportunities, under a plan being developed by Dubbo Regional Council. As a result of China’s decision to stop accepting recyclables from countries includ-
ing Australia, a backlog is starting to build up here. That crisis could be turned into opportunity for Dubbo, mayor Ben Shields told Dubbo Photo News exclusively. Paul Green MLC, who chaired a parliamentary inquiry in to waste management in 2018, has already identified a source of state funds to invest in the proposed recycling centre here. Only one third of the $2.2 billion collected under a state Waste Levy is cur-
rently going to waste issues, according to Mr Green – the other two thirds is going into general coffers. Mr Green would rather see that money invested in a major new recycling centre such as the one being proposed for Dubbo. “In the true spirit of that collection it should be going into projects like this,” Mr Green said.
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