FILM CRITIC DAVID STRATTON TO GET SCREEN TIME IN DUBBO DUBBO
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RSL indoor pool ready to reopen
SAVE the date! Tuesday, June 11, is the grand reopening day for the Dubbo RSL Aquatic and Health Club’s 25-metre heated pool. Pictured celebrating in the soon-to-be-filled pool are Dubbo RSL Club staff along with members of the Dubbo Ducks Swimming
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Club who have been longtime regular users of the facility and are quacking with happiness that they’ll be back swimming in their home pool again soon! Thanks to Wayne Mallison Painting for Hire for loaning their scissor lift in the making of this photo.
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PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/SOPHIA ROUSE
COPS CRACKING DOWN IN the same week that drink-driving laws in NSW have been tightened, one of the region’s top cops says police have set their sights on country roads this June long weekend and school holidays. Western Region Commander, Assistant Commissioner Geoff McKechnie, said: “Police across the state’s
west will show no tolerance to anyone breaking the road rules.” Meanwhile, the stricter drink-driving laws which came into effect on Monday should be extended to mobile phone usage will driving, according to some Dubbo residents.
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