Narromine Star 22.12.2022

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Community carols bring festive cheer STORY: PAGE 9 Trangie trio win big lottery prize By SHARON BONTHUYS THREE friends from Trangie are celebrating Christmas early after winning a total of $101,000 in lottery prizes last week. As well as taking out the $100,000 fi rst prize in the Lucky Lotteries’ Super Jackpot draw on December 13, the group of former health workers also scored a $1,000 consolation prize. The winners shared they were former nurses who had been playing their syndicate together for the past 20 years, according to an official from The Lott. “I’m very excited! Beautiful! Wow!” one of the winning friends exclaimed when her prize was confi rmed by The Lott. “There’s three of us in the syndicate. We’re all former nurses and have been playing together for nearly 20 years. “It started as a workplace syndicate, and we just kept it going. We just said, ‘let’s just keep doing it’, and I’m glad we did. We’ve won some free tickets and other prizes over the years but nothing like this. Continued page 4

students Residential development NASCA attend Gadalung to proceed in Narromine Program at Sydney Uni STORY: PAGE 14

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Farmer trio buy iconic Trangie pub By SHARON BONTHUYS A TRIO of Trangie farmers whose previous “hospitality” experience has been limited to welcoming people into their homes have joined forces to buy an iconic local hotel. Ross Ferarri, his cousin Darren Ferrari and their mate Mark Dugan are the proud new owners of the newly rebranded “Trangie Imperial Hotel”.

How it happened... A PERFECT storm of incidents combined to bring about the purchase of the historic watering hole by the fi rst time pub owners who are also full time farmers with properties outside Trangie. They knew Lynn and Geoff “Kooka” Kohlenberg had wanted to sell the pub they had owned for 28 years, and were looking for a buyer. Then the pub opposite closed suddenly a few months ago leaving their mate Shane Dolton without a pub to lease. (That’s a story for another paper...) When they saw what had happened to their good friend Shane, that event was the catalyst for their decision to buy Kooka’s pub. “The lights went off and

Ross Ferrari, Darren Ferrari and Mark Dugan have bought a Trangie pub! PHOTOS: NARROMINE STAR. we said, let’s just buy over the road. It was that simple,” Mark said. “It was a Saturday morning about eight o’clock when I rang Darren, and by midday Kooka had accepted our offer. We’d bought a pub.” The process to buy the pub started about three months

ago and the sale was fi nalised earlier this month. The Narromine Star asked the newly minted pub owners if their sudden and some might say impulsive decision to buy the pub had changed their lives in any way. “Not really. We’re still all married at the moment,” Dar-

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ren said. “I am drinking a little bit more because I’m thinking the beers are a bit cheaper. We’ve also never been in town so many times,” Mark added.

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