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Businesses struggle to compete with government
GOVERNMENT departments are offering high wages to entice workers, but that’s causing big problems for small-to-medium sized businesses who can’t match those high wages and still remain profitable. They’re losing good staff as a s rresult, according tto Dubbo bu si ne ssb man Neil m Sturrock. Mr Sturrock told Dubbo Photo News he couldn’t be happier that so much investment has been happening around this city, especially during a drought, but believes every silver cloud has a dark lining – he’s struggling to retain long-serving, experienced staff.
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Apex Oval decision: the mayor explains “THE 8-1 decision of your council quite literally brought one councillor to tears, while others reflected on their own situations, knowing full well they have families and friends who were going to be angry with Council about this decision.” That’s how Mayor Ben Shields described Monday’s emotional Dubbo Regional Council meeting in a column he wrote for today’s Dubbo Photo News. Last minute pleas by junior rugby league sports club representatives were noted by Councillors at Monday’s meeting, but could not sway a decision to move their Apex Oval Field One grand finals day to alternate fields, giving precedence to the A-League match scheduled a week later.
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A DAD, A SON, AND A CAR NAMED ERROL
By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY When you’re a dad – whatever that looks like in your family – keeping your kids safe and healthy is a priority. When David Ward’s son Lucas was born prematurely ten years ago, it was a life or death situation. To this day, David is grateful that the Newborn and Paediatric
Emergency Transport Service (NETS NSW) was there to safely transport his wife Camilla and newborn baby boy to hospital to receive the care they needed. As a way to repay that help, for the past five years Mr Ward has hit the road in the KidzFix Rally to raise awareness and money for NETS, as well as other organisations. He is now the KidzFix charity’s
managing director, using his passion to help other families if and when they need access to the best possible care for their children. David and Lucas are pictured with the car David will drive when the rally gets underway next month. The car is named ‘Errol’. Why Errol? Find out in our story inside.
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DIVIDED BY UNITED Airline’s seating plan separates Dubbo mum from fouryear-old daughter
By JOHN RYAN
KAREN RAUCHLE is back home in Dubbo but is still seething after a flight from hell on United Airlines in the USA last month. She was flying north from Houston, Texas, and boarded the plane
with her toddler in her arms only to find her older four-year-old daughter had been allocated a seat somewhere else on the flight. “I hadn’t looked at the tickets because never in a million years would I have thought that anybody would find it acceptable to sepa-
rate a mother from her very small child,” Mrs Rauchle told Dubbo Photo News. When she tried to address the issue with one of the flight attendants, he refused to help. It eventually fell to some kind-hearted fellow passengers to
make things right on the flight. Dubbo Photo News learned of her story after Mrs Rauchle returned to Dubbo. This newspaper contacted the airline and, to their credit, they have responded with an apology and peace offering.
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