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Finally! Trangie’s new servo will open within a fortnight By LUKE WILLIAMS IT’S been a long-running saga that has led to Trangie having no petrol station for months, but it looks set to be over within the coming weeks. Residents have been forced to drive a 70-kilometre round trip for petrol or rely on other locals for help for nearly half a year, after Ampol closed its doors with no explanation on December 4 last year. Initially, Government officials told residents they would have to wait just 10 days while a temporary site was put in place by new leaseholder Inland Petroleum.
However, negotiations between Transport for NSW, their contractor UGL Regional Linx, who owns the land, Inland Petroleum, and Narromine Shire Council, delayed the new construction. Narromine Star understands the main cause of the delays, came from Transport for NSW, as Inland Petroleum and Narromine Shire Council were pushing for an earlier start. Inland Petroleum Principal, Paul McCallum, told the Star, that all civil works had been completed for the temporary refuelling site, with fuel pumps, tanks, and line-work
electrics, having all been completed. He also said the canopy is also finished, and the refuelling area tank has been installed and is operational. Mr. McCallum said that now they were only waiting to replace their initially installed single-ULP storage tank with a two-compartment petrol tank. He said this is expected to arrive in Australia in two weeks. “Initially, a single-grade storage tank for ULP was installed,” he said. “In two weeks, a two-compartment petrol tank will arrive in the country and be transported to site,” he added.
He said that this short turnaround, followed what would have been another unacceptable delay. “The delivery date has been brought forward for this tank. It was initially going to be a four-month lead time,” he said. “Given we can have this tank in two weeks, I decided not to use the single-grade tank; the two-grade tank will give the option of either ULP or premium fuel,” he explained. Other final work, is now underway, he enthused. “Next week, we install the outdoor payment terminal on site, and the following week, the two-grade petrol tank.
“Calibration and wet-testing will then take place, and operations will commence within about two and a half weeks,” he said. He added that that the station, will have staff available for all operating hours. “When we open, staff will be on-hand to help people with the refuelling process, Monday to Friday.” Inland Petroleum also plan on installing a 24-hour outdoor payment terminal next week for card-users. Mr McCallum added that his company would also be installing a temporary convenience store in July.
Narromine’s Simone wins District Nurse of the Year By LUKE WILLIAMS WHEN Simone Purtell meets a new patient, she views her role from the point of view of a close loved-one. “I suppose I just think, ‘if it was my family member, how would I like them to be treated, if it was my mother or daughter?’,” she said. “I think of my own daughters, how I would like them to be treated, if they were in the hospital,” she adds. People in hospital, she explained, are often at
their most vulnerable, and that’s what makes her job so important. “I think being there for any patient, when they are at their lowest low, and for them to say, ‘I am so glad you are my nurse’, that makes my day. “I try always to have a smile and always be positive and always acknowledge the patient, no matter what they are going through, and just try to support them in whatever facet of illness or health that they are going through,” she told the Narromine Star.
Simone’s dedication and devotion to her caring craft, were recently recognised by her peers and supervisors. The Narromine Health Service employee was recently awarded the coveted Nurse of the Year at the Western NSW Local Health District’s (WNSWLHD) 2023 Nursing and Midwifery Awards. With more than 3500 peers in her profession in the region, she was supremely- amazed at her honour. “I was certainly sur-
prised,” Simone told the Narromine Star. “There are so many beautiful, hard-working nurses in the district, so to win, was a huge honour.” Simone herself grew-up in a family who worked in education on the outskirts of Dubbo, and said that someone observed to her one day that they thought she would make a great nurse. Continued page 2 Rachel (Simone) Purtell, winner of the 2023 Nurse of the Year Award. PHOTO: WNSWLHD.
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