Dubbo Photo News 11.11.2021

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NOVEMBER 11-17, 2021 | LOCALLY OWNED & INDEPENDENT | FREE!

Quite simply:

THANK YOU By JOHN RYAN For those struggling with the past two years of a Coronavirus pandemic, cast your thoughts back to the struggles of those involved in conflicts such as World Wars I and II to gain some perspective of the sacrifices made in those long ago days. In WWI, family members could have been out of contact with husbands, sons, fathers for years at a time, in many cases not knowing for months that they’d died, in many cases the body was never found. In WWII there was the constant threat of the British Empire being overwhelmed and Australia occupied by the Axis nations. So to the servicemen who fought or supported the armies in the field – from Kokoda to the dangerous night skies over Berlin, to the wives, children, parents, brothers, sisters and friends who suffered through those years for our safety and freedom – thank you. To those more contemporary veterans from Vietnam through to Iraq and Afghanistan, who fought in wars far more complex and less defined, and their families – thank you.

R emembrance Day

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COVID SCHOOL SHUTDOWNS By JOHN RYAN

A SPATE of recent school closures in and around Dubbo has seen thousands of primary students forced back into remote learning as deep cleans were performed. The positive Covid tests began with Wellington Public School on November 3 when a member of the school community tested positive for Covid-19, the school site closing immediately to allow time for contact tracing and cleaning. Students were advised to self-isolate until further advice was received, with learning from home resources reactivated. Dubbo West Public School was next, on November 5, after a member of the school community tested positive. On November 8 the Bathurst Catholic Education Office advised that St Mary's Primary would be closed on November 9 to allow time for contact tracing and deep cleaning of the school, and November 10 saw Dubbo Public similarly shut its doors after a member of the school community tested positive.

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