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April 19–25, 2012 Central West Photo News
Apple Festival art contest for regional schools Local artists, young and not-so-young, are being encouraged to brush up on their fruit sketching and painting skills for the relaunched Orange Apple Festival in May. The subject of course is apples, and two exhibitions are planned for the three-day event which will be staged on Friday, May 11 to Sunday, May 13. The Orange Arts Society will be conducting a special exhibition at its gallery in the Cultural Centre off Sale Street, with society president Neil Skinner challenging members to, “Paint or draw up to three pictures containing an apple or apples.” The other event will be an Apple Festival Art Competition for schools in Orange, Cabonne and Blayney. According to the organisers, three artworks from each year, from K to 12, will be hung at the Orange Region Farmers Market on Saturday, May 12 to be judged across the district, “We are hoping that your school will be involved and incorporate the [apple] artworks into your art lessons in the lead up to the festival.” Works chosen for the final judging must be delivered to the exhibition at the Orange Showground on Friday, May 11 between 4pm and 5pm. Further information can be obtained by emailing Willa Arantz at functions@ racinerestaurant.com.au, or Cath Thompson at ccthomo@bigpond.com.
New events for 2012 Orange Show By DEREK MAITLAND Eroni’s CirCus, formed in 2007 by Tony and Kathy Maynard of the Maynard circus dynasty, will be staging six performances throughout the two-day agricultural festival on saturday and sunday May 5-6. it’s described as a “traditional travelling circus” specialising in agricultural shows and corporate functions, and it performs under a 32-metre red and white Big Top marquee. Attractions include horse, pony and dog acts with trick roping, hula hoops and the trapeze, along with acrobats, jugglers and clowns, and there’ll be free entry to all sessions. Yet that’s not all that’s new this year, according to the orange showground society’s President, Peter naylor, “This year, which is our 140th annual show, we’ll have the first aerial flypast since the Centenary Jubilee show in 1912.” “At this point we’re expecting to have at least a dozen planes and heli-
copters roaring over the showground during the Grand Parade at 2pm on the saturday,” he added. other new features, Peter says, will be draught horses demonstrating how they were used to grind seed and drive pumps, a display of vintage engines “for the first time in years”—and another first, a Ham Competition for local butchers with contests for various categories. “And this year we already have three confirmed candidates for the Miss showgirl competition,” Peter says, “But agriculture is what the orange show is all about, and as always there’ll be judging of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, birds and fowl, along with show-jumping, dressage, a photography and fine arts show, and animal nursery for the kids and a pet show. “To top it all there’ll be a fireworks show at 7.30pm on the saturday evening.” Peter naylor says a special effort
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has been made this year to appeal to and promote the elderly and children, “The elderly because they remember the community value of the show in past years, and children because they need to know just what that special value is. “Last year, for the first time, we invited the city’s nursing homes to display the crafts and paintings of their guests, and it was such a success that we’re hoping for an even bigger response this year. “For the kids, we’ve got everything from new dodgem cars to a vegetable growing competition for eight local schools, plus a newly renovated staging area for the school Display in the Agriculture Pavilion. “We’ll also be seeing a lot more fairground rides, showman skills and trades displays this year because we’re not clashing with the big Hawkesbury show as in the past.” However, there’s even something for the city councillors, too. Peter
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says he’s inviting every councillor to join him after the Grand Parade on saturday for a special guided tour of the show. “Then they can’t deny they know anything about the show or the showground,” he says, “And they’ll see why we in the showground society are so passionate about it.” The society is hoping a guided tour, with all the many attractions and the crowds, will give the City Council something positive to think about in the current battle over which organisation has the right to run the showground itself. The council has voted twice to do away with a Deed of Covenant, bestowed in 1987, which gave the society full control of the showground, with the council providing maintenance funding. The council wants to operate the site itself under a Crown Land trust, but showground society supporters have threatened to take legal action if that scheme goes ahead.
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