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It’s time to SMILE! By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY
Pictured: Kahleah Streeting, Jalayah Gordon, Kalissa Streeting and Jakyrah Gordon are all smiles enjoying the Elston Park water park. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/SOPHIA ROUSE
DUBBO Photo News’ Holiday Smiles competition is back! So grab your camera and snap those fun holiday moments with your kids, family, friends, mates, even your pet; whatever it is that makes you smile on your holidays!
Categories this year will be Best Holiday “Smiles” and Best Holiday “Action”, with fabulous prizes to be won. Best Holiday Smile photo will win a Taronga Western Plains Zoo Family Pass plus Savannah Safari Tour for 2 adults and 2 children The Best Holiday Action Photo
wins a zoo family pass plus Hippo Encounter for 2 adults and 2 children. T&C apply. One photo per week will be chosen as “Photo of the Week”, winning a double pass to Reading Cinemas. Start sending your entries now to myentry@panscott.com.au. Entries close on Friday, January 29, 2021.
LOOKING FORWARD TO A BETTER 2021 LOCAL community leaders are hoping and planning for a better 2021 after what most agree was a horror year in 2020. “2020 was a forced ‘reset’,” according to Tottenham Central School principal Amanda Thorpe, who is one of several prominent locals who have written about the year ahead exclusively for Dubbo Photo News. “It made us look at ‘how’ and more impor-
tantly ‘why’ we do the things we do. “In 2021 we will continue to hold COVID-safe excursions, have COVID-safe classrooms and go to COVID-safe events. Staying healthy, listening to our bodies and minds and not spreading germs is a positive!” she added. On a personal note, Dubbo Regional Council CEO Michael McMahon is looking forward to
Warne Street tragedy TWO children were killed and three people injured on Tuesday afternoon when they were allegedly struck by a vehicle while walking along Warne Street in Wellington.
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marking 41 years of service in NSW local government in 2021. “For me, 2021 signals yet another exciting year for the Dubbo Region; year on year growth, and a prospering region – despite the horrors of drought, challenges of global economic downturn and of course, COVID-19,” Mr McMahon writes in today’s newspaper. Member for Dubbo Dugald Saunders points to a number of
State projects he’s looking forward to seeing progress in 2021. “Work is continuing on the Multi-Indoor sports hub project in North Dubbo, while Narromine’s aviation and industrial precinct continues to grow,” Mr Saunders said. Dubbo Regional Council Deputy Mayor Stephen Lawrence believes 2020/21 will be looked back on as the time when gov-
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ernment finally decided to get serious about the fact that “too many members of our community remain ‘locked up and locked out’, prevented from proper social participation because of entrenched disadvantages operating in a generational cycle”, Mr Lawrence writes.
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