Dubbo Photo News 07.07.2022

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BIG RIVER AS Dubbo Photo News first reported online on Monday, the Macquarie River was carrying a water volume 11 times higher on Monday, compared to Tuesday of the previous week. The official flow rate at the Dubbo gauge at 6pm on Monday, July 4, was averaging 64,436 ML/day. To put that into perspective, on Tuesday of the previous week it was just 5742 ML/day. The river height was also up dramatically. The official reading at the Dubbo guage from WaterNSW at 6pm Monday was 6.928 metres – nearly four times higher than a week ago. On June 27 the river height at Dubbo was just 1.75 metres. As our photo shows, water was close to flowing over the busy Emile Serisier Bridge on Monday, with river debris backing up against the edge of the bridge.

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DRIVEN TO HELP DRIVE-IN SUCCEED By JOHN RYAN

DUBBO’S Westview Drive-In can be saved for the city if the community gets behind it, according to some locals who’ve formed a committee to keep the big screen in the area. Paul Whillock told Dubbo Photo News that while everyone was saying they wanted to save the drive-in, no-one seemed to be

coming forward to make that happen, so he got together with a few mates to do something. “We’ve formed a committee and calling for support from the community. There’s a fair bit of interest in it so hopefully we can pull it down, refurbish it and make it happen,” he said, pointing out the enormous value the drive-in has been since it reopened a few years ago, just one

of a few left in NSW. “It’s just amazing how many cars have been coming to the movies at the drive-in. You don’t realise how many restored or classic cars are about, so to have the drive-in as somewhere to go as a destination makes it that much more exciting for car enthusiasts.” Businessman Chris Seton said he put his hand up to help organise and fundraise because he

couldn’t bear seeing the drive-in lost to Dubbo, knowing that once it goes, it will be lost to future generations. “As a kid I grew up going to the drive-in, it was probably the biggest thing that was happening every weekend. Then when I got into my teenage years, it was all part of our lives, so when it got reinvented years later all that excitement came back again.

“If we don’t act now as a community we’re going to lose it for ever,” Mr Seton said. “It’s one of the biggest drawcards we could possibly have in Dubbo, and now there’s a potential place we could move it to and re-erect (the big screen). We’ve got a committee set up to pull it down, clean it up and move it while we go through the process Continued page 3

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