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SPIRIT OF ORANGE 11 JUNE — 17 JUNE, 2020

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Friends! so many people out and about taking in the fresh air, or doing many of the

things that haven’t while.

A lot has ‘normal’ happened over the last fewwe weeks and it’sbeen fair to doing say thatfor the a world as we know it will be different from here on, and for quite a while to come.

Many are now facing hardships that they would never have dreamed of just a few weeks back.

We had a bit of a delivery glitch with our latest issue of Newswatch last People in safe employment last month now find themselves on unemployment queues, previously successful businesses are nowSaturday facing ruin.morning, but with plenty of co-operation from our carrier, our And so it printer goes on. and my delivery man Peter Baker, they were in the stands on Sunday My wife and I, like so many other business owners at this time, are scrambling to meet Government regulations, while morning. Occasionally things do go wrong in our game, but thankfully, it trying to keep up with community expectations and still come out at the other end. For some, this must seem mission rarely happens to us, but when it does, be assured that we have great people impossible.

In our case, and with unbelievable co-operation of our fabulous we’re going to try and defy the odds. around usthe and they’ll move mountains to putteam, things right.

My wife and I have come up with a strategy that we hope will enable us to keep all our full-time employees in work, keep producing Orange City Life each week and hopefully come out at the other end. This strategy also relies on others Onon,that seentoasurvive copy as ofwell. our new newspaper yet? Issue 4 on who we rely suchnote, as ourhave printeryou in Sydney reception@oclife.com.au Defying the odds howevercomes will require of changes, sacrifices and a lot of you understanding.

Newswatch outa number this Saturday and I’d encourage to pick up a The following The followingbusinesses businesses CHANGES — From this issue, Orange City Life will look very different to what you’ve become used to. Many of the copy and check it out.

We’re on a mission with Newswatch to make Orange havegraciously graciously agreed agreed toto have types of stories and features we’ve included in recent issues simply can’t be done under the present distancing and sponsor us until June 30th. sponsor us until June 30th. a better place, how much we achieve will depend greatly on how the isolation rules.

We are extremely grateful We are extremely grateful for To help uscommunity all through the1) Coronavirus crisis, for now we’re taking a completely approach. responds to us andat2)least, respects us. It seems todifferent be going well for their support.

We’re going to try to meet the changed needs that many readers now have as a result of isolation or being housebound. their support. so far and I have been looking at ways to make it even better for readers.

We’ll also make more use of our available space to ensure you have plenty to read and enjoy each issue.

One I haveyou is making type a bit bigger page Orange City Lifethought will now provide with more the entertainment, more thingsand to do,boosting more ideasthe on how to keep yourself busy, all while trying to lift your spirits and put a little sunshine into your day.

To that end we’re including more puzzles, numbers to 20 pages from next week. and we’re also including a serialised Novella titled Sunshine (pure coincidence) that given the extra time we all have, we hope you will read and enjoy. We’ll also bring you quite a bit of helpful news from local businesses who are keen to keep Our Pets competition appears to have struck a chord with a lot of serving you, andAdorable we’ll be encouraging you to send us items to include.

SACRIFICES To keep our costsreceived to an absolute minimum we’ve also had reduce of pages we print and pet — owners; we’ve heaps of entries.

We did thisthe asnumber a month-long suspend several regular features in OC Life that we regularly pay for, among these is our TV Guide. I know a lot of people competition and the good news is, you still have one week to enter and take love our TV guide but given our present circumstances, the cost of providing this is beyond us, if we are to win this out the last $100 prize.

Check and the latest winner this issue. battle. Despite all this, there are still ample copies the of OCdetails Life being distributed in many of the in usual pick up spots right across Orange.

UNDERSTANDING — had It’s a shame that itfrom takes aadisaster this to bring home to people just how important our Finally, we a request readerlikeabout small businesses are in the scheme of things, and why supporting local businesses is so important. Without dwelling bringing back our Trivia questions, apparently, he on it too much, my hope is that locals will knock themselves out to spend every dollar they can with local businesses as ASHCROFT’S a group oftogether. friendsPlease havekeep a bit of a competition we battle and through this crisis spending as much as you’re able and do it at local businesses. We all need every dollar we can get right now because at the end of the day we’re all in this together. each week using this to see who’s the smartest.

THIS Marea Ruddy shows off her collection and spills the WEEKS beans on how she turned her passion into a business.

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During these times we encourage our readers to take each day as it comes. Find beauty in the everyday, something that you would usually take for granted. Stay safe, take care of your health, take care of your mind, we’re all in this together. #TogetherApart

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Well, this one I can help with, Trivia questions will Bob and Jackie Holland re-appear very soon. Still on popular segments, Publishers – Orange City Life those people who have missed our TV guide Can’t stop the music!

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Des’ love for the farm life — JONATHAN ROE —

“I love my cattle and it is such a great way of life,” says Des Redmond out on his 200-acre property south of Orange.

“Getting up in the morning, coming out here looking at these blokes,” he says gesturing to the young black steers trotting up to his farm buggy.

“I have a yarn to them and nothing can beat it in my book. It might sound silly to some people, but no, I just love it.”

It was cattle that brought Des to Orange more than 50 years ago. Born in Laidley, west of Ipswich, Des finished school in Brisbane and went to work for meat and pastoral giant T.A. Field.

“I was in Rockhampton with T.A. Field and they transferred me down here. They owned a meat works here in Orange and I looked after the export meats for them,” said Des, who still clearly remembers the climate shock of moving here just in time for winter.

“We came down on the 5th of May ‘68 and it never stopped snowing and sleeting for six weeks! It blew the socks off me! Bloody freezing!

It took me a while to acclimatise and now I wouldn’t leave it.”

It wasn’t long after arriving here that Des decided to buy a place of his own and give grazing a go.

“That would be 50 years ago and I’ve never looked back. Smartest thing I ever did,” he says.

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very good people to work for, marvellous, but then I bought this place and thought I’d give it a crack.”

Not that there wasn’t a steep learning curve for Des in those early years, who insisted on acknowledging the help that Herb Nunn, Beau Taylor and Len Buttle gave him as he found his way in the farming game.

“They were marvellous to me and taught me a heck of a lot over the years and if I needed any advice, they were there to give it.”

As I talk to Des, his mob of fat, young steers are feeding on oats and the paddocks stretching towards the slopes of mount Canobolas are thick with green pasture — a welcome sight after such a long period of drought.

“This was the worst I’ve seen of course, and we weren’t as badly off as those poor beggars out west,” he says. “Orange has always been a very safe area, and always recognised as such, but of late we just don’t get the rain like we used to and I guess a lot of places are the same.

“We used to get storms come across from Canobolas mountain there and they’d come straight across, but these days they split and go left and right, it is amazing the change.”

During the drought, the two creeks on Des’

...I’m getting older of course and I can’t do what I use to do.

Naturally, at 86 you steady up a bit!

property had stopped running for over 12 months, the first time that had ever happened in his experience.

“They may just run back to a trickle, that’s all, but I’ve never seen them stop running, it’s amazing,” he says. “But they are going alright now. After that last bit of rain we had they are starting to move again, which is great to see.”

These days, Des only runs steers on his place as he finds them easier to handle.

“I’m getting older of course and I can’t do what I use to do. Naturally, at 86 you steady up a bit!” he says as one of the steer curiously nudges it’s head inside the buggy door.

“Who’s this coming over? A3, he’s a pest,” Des laughs, referring to the steer’s eartag. “But they are lovely and quiet and that’s how I love cattle. I can’t have those wild buggers about. I’m getting too old to chase them.

“And Dougal’s not much help to me anymore, are you mate?” he says to the small terrier on his lap.

“It is a big enough job looking after the place, but as I say I still love my cattle and it is a great way of life. I just love all this sort of thing and getting to saleyards and talking to people, finding out what’s going on in the area, it is great and I think I am very lucky, very lucky indeed.”

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PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THIS MAKES SENSE? I know I’ve had a lot to say about the media in recent times, and especially newspapers, but now more than ever, it needs to be talked about. In many respects, I think the industry and especially newspapers, are shooting themselves in the foot. For entities with so much clout, smarts and influence, I really scratch my head over some of the policies they operate under.

I’ll try to put what I want to say as simply as I can, because unless you get what I’m on about, you may think I’m the nutty one.

When’s the last time you heard of motels letting people stay willy nilly with them for nothing? When’s the last time you heard of landlords letting people willy nilly stay in their rental properties for nothing? When’s the last time you heard of a shopping centre letting people willy nilly open shops in their centre for nothing? It’s crazy to think they would isn’t it? The spirit of each of these businesses is to provide property (or space) for people to stay with them, live in or operate a business from. In each case, the people involved would benefit in some way from having access to such property (space). Few people would ever expect to be given motel accommodation, home rental or shop rental for nothing.

DESTINATION: NEW ZEALAND When planning our trip to New Zealand I knew it had to include a road trip campervan style. I was completely sold on getting a Kombi rental.

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In the same way that these examples are all about property or space that has been made available at considerable cost by the land or property owners, space in a newspaper is very similar.

It just doesn’t come out of thin air. To produce any newspaper, it can cost anything between a few thousand and many thousands of dollars to produce each issue. This means that every square centimetre of space in

This in turn means that every square centimetre of space a publisher gives away or doesn’t “sell” has to be compensated for by selling enough of the remaining square centimetres to cover all the costs and make a profit.

Are you still with me?

Given all that, why oh why, do newspapers and the media generally give so much of their vital property (space) away for nothing when it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, given the modern times we’re in.

The media, and especially newspapers, are crying over sinking or lost advertising revenues, while at the same time, constantly giving businesses virtually unlimited free advertising for anything and everything. It’s crazy and you’d think the industry would be smart enough to see it! Sadly, they appear not to be, and those who continue to do this are ruining it for everyone. People at large by their actions, no longer appear to want to pay for newspapers, this only leaves publishers with the option of selling advertising space if they are to survive. Everyone understands what advertising is, don’t they? It’s when you put something out there with the hope or intent of making money in some way from it. An ad can appear in many forms and just because someone is trying to make it appear like news or for the common interest, that doesn’t mean it’s not an ad. If it reads or sounds like an ad, it’s an ad and should be paid for.

When the media, and especially newspapers, finally get this right, they might stop whinging about lost readers and revenues and start making money again. It just makes good sense.

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What do you love about being back at school? Mainly seeing my friends again and having face to face learning instead of doing the zooms. I kept an eye out for my frien ds and when I saw them I said, G’day.

Isobel Nathan - Year 5

What is something you can do at scho ol that you cannot do at home? It’s easier to understand wha t you are learning because the teachers can explain to you beforeha nd, whereas online you can’t really ask too many questions.

Why is it important to keep up your hygi ene and wash your hands?

Mainly because we don’t want the corona virus to have a second wave, it’s just better that you do so you don’t get sick.

What do you love about being back at school? That I can socialise with my friends and play on the play grounds, it’s also easier to understand the teachers.

School’s back!

Lucas Vickery - Year 5

— MELISE COLEMAN — Its official- schools back and believe it or not, the kiddies are overwhelmingly happy about it! We caught up with students from St Mary’s Catholic Primary School as they get back into the swing of their school routine, thankful that they don’t have to stay home anymore.

St Mary’s Principal, Kerry Maher mentioned the school grounds became a very lonely place without the students.

“It’s been such a strange time, said Kerry.

“We’ve been really lucky; the parents have been amazing with understanding the social distancing and helping us to function. Just getting back to normal and

having a routine again has been such a big part of healing too.

“The children were so excited to come back, they couldn’t wait to be with their friends. From what we gathered they really missed the face to face interaction, and that contact is so important with the children in terms of understanding where they are with their learning and where they are socially so we can help guide all of that.”

“I know there are quiet times during school time but that joyous happy sound around the school is what is really special.”

Leah Smith - Year 3

What is something you can do at scho ol that you cannot do at home? I can play with my friends and get fitter.

What have you learnt this week at school? How to calm down if you have anxiety and how to stay calm if you are upset.

Why is it important to keep up your hygi ene and wash your hands?

So you don’t get any germs and spre ad the germs to everyone else What is something you can do at scho ol that you cannot do at home? Be in groups and do all of your classes together.

What have you learnt this week at school? I have learnt about ANZAC Day and what it stands for.

What have you learnt this week at school? One of my most favourite things was Maths, because we were learning about litres and millilitres.

Mason White - Year 3

What do you love about being back at school? Getting to play with my friends again on the playgrou nd, it’s quite fun instead of being stuck at home.

What is something you can do at scho ol that you cannot do at home? Definitely play soccer. I alwa ys wished I was at school.

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Andrew GEE MP

FEDERAL MEMBER FOR CALARE REFORMS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN AUSTRALIA The Australian Government has been working to improve scrutiny and transparency around foreign ownership of agricultural land and agribusinesses. We have acted to ensure that foreign investors can only acquire agricultural land where there has been an open and transparent sale process.

Further, on 30 March 2020, in response to the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak, all monetary thresholds for agricultural land purchases by foreign investors were temporarily reduced to $0.

The Government is now acting to implement new, additional reforms relating to national security.

These reforms further ensure our foreign investment regime is able to respond to emerging risks and global developments.

They will mean that Australia can continue to benefit from foreign investment while safeguarding our national interest.

Key elements of the reform package include: A new national security test for foreign investors who will be required to seek approval to start or acquire a direct

interest in a ‘sensitive national security business’ – regardless of the value of the investment.

A time-bound ‘call in’ power enabling the Treasurer to review acquisitions that raise national security risks outside of proposed acquisitions relating to a ‘sensitive national security business’.

A national security last resort power that provides the ability to impose or vary conditions and in extraordinary circumstances order disposal on national security grounds.

Stronger and more flexible enforcement options including the expansion of infringement notices and higher civil and criminal penalties; and Measures to streamline approval for passive investors and investments into non-sensitive businesses.

The Government will release draft legislation for a six week consultation period in July 2020 and legislation will be introduced to parliament for passage prior to commencement on 1 January 2021.

$55,732 FOR MILLTHORPE CWA! The ladies at the Millthorpe CWA have done a great job of maximising their hall for the whole community.

I was delighted to present them with a cheque for $55,732 which represents the total funding they have received from the Federal Government recently.

Of this, $54,572 is being contributed under the latest round of the Federal Government’s Drought Communities program, which will go towards the refurbishment of the kitchen and toilets. An excellent use of funding.

Well done Gwen Aspinall and Beverley Nesbit for all your hard work. The hall just gets better and better!

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All fieldwork investigations on site have now been concluded.

The work team is now completing site finding reports such as the Preliminary Environmental Assessment and Road Safety Audit.

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Community consultation is expected to commence soon.

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DIXONS LONG POINT UPDATE

Road alignment options are being reviewed and concept designs for the bridge and approaches are now being worked on.

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Your Country Your Voice QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST A huge congratulations to the highly-deserving community members who have been recognised on the Queen's Birthday 2020 Honours List.

RUNS ON THE BOARD √ $9,000 for the Spring Hill Activities Group to support community initiatives

It’s a tremendous achievement to receive this acknowledgement which is based on an individual's extensive contribution to their community and the nation.

√ $10,000 for the Millthorpe Village Committee to improve the safety of Richard Lane.

Well done to Jennifer Coleman for receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and to Professor Lesley Forster who received a prestigious Member of the Order (AM):

√ $55,732 for Millthorpe CWA

Ms Jennifer Coleman OAM for service to community mental health.

Professor Lesley Forster AM (the inaugural dean for the Charles Sturt School of Rural Medicine) for significant service to tertiary education, rural public health, and medical administration.

I want to congratulate all the recipients on the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List in our region and thank you for all your hard work and dedication to our community!

$3,930 FOR ORANGE SCOUTS

It was a pleasure to join the 3rd Orange Scout Group for their Annual Review which was held via videoconference for the very first time.

As a former scout (green chord!) I really appreciate all that the movement does for young people in our community.

The amount of time leaders put into the movement is amazing.

During the meeting I was also able to announce a Volunteer Grant of $3,930 for first aid and safety equipment (including walkie-talkies) and leadership training.

Well done to everyone at the 3rd Orange Group and I look forward to meeting in person next time as we ease out of social restrictions!

CSU AND THE FUNDING GUARANTEE FOR UNIVERSITIES EXTERNAL AUDIT NEEDED The Australian Government has given the university sector an $18 billion relief package which includes locking in domestic student course funding at current levels no matter how much student numbers drop.

It’s designed to help provide funding certainty in an uncertain time.

The greater the enrolment drop this year, the greater the funding guarantee benefit for each university, including Charles Sturt University.

This very valuable guarantee has already been warmly welcomed by CSU as it receives over $200 million a year in payments from the taxpayer.

CSU’s student numbers could theoretically drop to zero in 2020 and it would still receive that same, locked-in

funding of over $200 million.

The total funding guarantee benefit for each university (including CSU) won’t be known until the drop in student numbers becomes clearer as the year progresses.

Our regional universities are vital to the future of country Australia and that’s why initiatives like the Australian Government's funding guarantee are so important.

I'm very keen to see the continued community uncertainty over CSU's financial position and potential job losses brought to a close.

I believe an independent external audit is required, so that the community knows exactly where CSU stands.

√ An extra $2.3 million for Calare communities in the Drought Communities Extension Program √ $20,000 for Molong Historical Society to go towards reconstructing the entrance of the Molong Museum √ $4,000 to the Molong Advancement Group to establish a disc golf competition at the golf club and showgrounds √ Better mobile and internet coverage for Freemantle under the $380 million Mobile Black Spot Program √ Almost $54 million in water security pipelines around the Central West √ $40 million for the upgrade of the Mitchell Highway between Orange and Molong at Guanna Hill √ $22 million for a new CSU medical school based in Orange √ $18 million for the Institute for Regional, Rural and Remote Health √ $14.7 million for Mission Australia’s Benjamin Short Grove Aged Care facility in Orange √ $8 million to investigate fast rail for the Central West √ $6.45 million for the Southern Feeder Road √ $3.4 million Aboriginal Learning Centre at TAFE in Orange √ $2.5 million for new classrooms at Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School √ $2 million for local fruit growers for a netting trial √ $1.29 million for Cabonne Council R2R extension

For regular updates and news, follow me on Facebook and Instagram @andrewgeecalare Authorised by Andrew Gee, MP, National Party of Australia, Suite 1/179A Anson Street, Orange NSW 2800. Produced and printed using parliamentary entitlements.

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LIVE MUSIC RETURNS TO ORANGE PUBS — JONATHAN ROE —

Life is slowly returning to normal in Orange. The long weekend saw visitors and locals enjoying the freedom to visit cellar doors, cafes and restaurants and enjoy live music in our pubs.

For Bathurst-based performer Chloe Swannell, her gig at the Metropolitan Hotel on Friday night was her first since the lockdown went into effect.

“I’m pumped! This my first gig back and I’m so excited!” said 22-year-old Chloe, who had no nerves about performing again, despite ten weeks off the stage.

“No, I’m more excited than anything else.

The only thing I’m going to be nervous about is making sure that I adhere to all the restriction and make sure I don’t overdo it and get people up dancing, because they are not allowed to!”

Chloe has been a professional musician for

soon and we can get back to partying and dancing and really enjoying live music, which will be great!”

Not that Chloe has been completely idle during the past ten weeks of lockdown.

“I’ve been writing heaps of new music and I’m actually going to release my debut album at the end of the year, which is really exciting,” she said.

“I’ve been recording every week with a friend of mine and so it has all been written, it is all ready to go so we have just got to finish recording it.

“I think a lot of musicians will be releasing some music at the end of this year!”

Centrelink, Chole was eventually found eligible for the federal government’s JobKeeper program, which has been a lifeline for many in these unusual times.

“They definitely didn’t make it easy. I went six weeks without any income at all, which was tough. I had to watch where every penny went for a while, but I’m so glad to be back out again!” said Chloe who was over the moon when she got the phone call from her agent saying they had booked her a gig.

“I was really concerned that we wouldn’t get live music back the way that we have and that it would really damage the industry,” but hopefully the restrictions will be lifted again

the past three years and said the coronavirus restrictions saw a year of bookings disappear.

“That was 100 per cent of my income as well as a bit of teaching, so it was a real adjustment period to try and find income elsewhere,” she said. “Before COVID I had a full year completely booked out of gigs across NSW, up to five shows a weekend, and during the week I was teaching a couple of days, but then it completely stopped.

“It was scary. I was sitting at home watching the news and when they announced everything had been shut I thought, Oh my God! What am I going to do?”

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Lovin’ Local A CHANGE OF NAME FOR JACK EVANS WORKWEAR

The Evans family have been doing business in the district since before Orange was Orange. But this past week saw a new chapter for the long-running local family business, with Jack Evans Workwear rebranding under the Worklocker banner.

“It was a big decision,” said Jack Evans, the namesake and great grandson of the business’s founder who runs the store with his parents Murray and Robyn.

“But a name change for our kind of business has not been overly uncommon over the last 72 years, depending on what the market was doing and we reckon to stay relevant to this new market it was time to change it.”

The business has certainly evolved over the past seven decades, from a post war army disposals store to modern quality workwear retailer, and the Evans believe the new name better reflects the business today.

“We’ve refined our product offering,” said Murray Evans.

“We’ve dropped camping gear, since the start of the years to solely focus on workwear, which is our strongest expertise.”

“So this rebranding focuses on the specialisation of what we are now,” said Jack. “Instead of stocking a big broad

range of things it is now strictly workwear. But the direction we are moving to also has a bit of family history behind it, as my grandfather started the buying group that became Worklocker.”

Since dropping camping lines from the store at the start of the year, the Evans have also been busy renovating their large Peisley Street premises from top to bottom.

“We’ve certainly updated it. It’s probably the biggest change we’ve done in ten to 15 years, it’s essentially four separate buildings’ worth of renovations.”

The new look and new name appears to be working, said Murray, who has had great customers feedback and noticed more new and returning customers frequenting the store.

“We have certainly increased our range of product and brought in a few new brands and increased products from our existing brands as well,” he said “But our focus has always been on quality brands and we

Let me promote you!

“All this talk about working from home, I’ve worked from home since 1983!” says Ian Hodgson, the ‘Promo Man’ of the Central West.

For over 15 years, Ian has been supplying schools, sports teams, butcher shops and other business houses from Broken Hill to the Blue Mountains (included Orange City Life) with branded promotion items.

Be it pens, calendars, caps, stubby holders, business cards, holiday cards, t-shirts, or mouse pads, Ian has branded it all.

“You name it pretty much I sell it - clothing, jumpers, shirts, magnets — and I sell art and craft supplies and library resources to schools, preschools and some retirement villages,” he said.

But Ian was not always on the road wearing his unmissable rainbow-coloured company shirt. In another life you were more likely to find him in a plain white laboratory coat.

“I was a laboratory technician. I worked for Esso from about 1973 to 1978 thereabouts, and I also worked for a pharmaceutical company before 12

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that… although I don’t know how I got that job. I did seven years at TAFE to learn how to be a laboratory technician to throw it all away and then sell life insurance!”

It was the insurance game that saw Ian moved to Orange in 1993, where he worked for National Mutual, but in his time Ian has been partners in a stationery store (Apple City Paper) and sold Austar subscriptions door to door.

“That was in the late 1990s, so everyone was buying Pay TV back in those days. it was easy to sell! You’d knock on the door and they’d say yeah, come in!”

Ian’s job keeps him on the road and he reckons he might cover 55,000 kilometres in a year, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I can be my own boss,” he said. “You’ve got to be disciplined and you’ve got to get up every morning and go to work, but I do what I want to do and not be told what I’ve got to do. so I like it that way.”

have a lot of people comment that they buy stuff from us that just lasts.”

The past few months have been a difficult time for businesses all over Australia, but Murray said their nimbleness as a small, independent business has proved to be an advantage while larger franchise stores have struggled.

“For us, as independents, we are able to adjust quicker and adapt to the market. So we all adapted and changed the way we did things and everyone was ok. We’ve kind of thrived in that environment, whereas others have been missing out for months.”

“I think it was an awakening for a lot of people that shopped with franchises and bigger stores,” said Robyn.

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CITY OF ORANGE EISTEDDFOD TO GO AHEAD

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— MELISE COLEMAN —

The word has spread!

The City of Orange Eisteddfod will go ahead later this year in a modified form for solo and duo performers, with entries set to close on June 12.

The competition for students of music, speech and drama and dance is one of the largest in regional New South Wales attracting more than 6,000 entrants.

President of the City of Orange Eisteddfod committee Carol Smithers said after considerable deliberation of other options, including an on-line competition, it was decided to host the competition in a modified form starting with the dance sections from August 16.

The committee met via video conferencing last month and it was overwhelmingly agreed upon that a decision to open entries could not be

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delayed any further.

“Usually by this time our entries have already opened, but because of Covid-19 and the way the situation was changing almost daily, we put our decision off for as long as possible,” she said.

Further details of how the Eisteddfod would operate this year will be released later, but the committee were keen to notify performers that entries would open soon.

“It is lovely to think that our Eisteddfod will be able to provide an opportunity for students of all the genres to perform in a year that has seen so many other competitions cancelled.”

She said that to keep within NSW Health

and Government Guidelines the Committee had decided to limit our competition to solos and duos. “We are disappointed that we can’t accommodate group sections in 2020. Of course, we always have large number in the groups and the audiences. Unfortunately, this will impact School Groups, Dance Groups, Choirs, Ensembles and Bands.”

By doing this our income will be greatly reduced and so to offset running costs, it was decided that instead of cash prizes all place getters will be awarded medals and certificates and trophies in some sections.

“A sub-committee has been formed to look at appropriate measures needed to ensure

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COMPETITION DATES: that Covid-19 restrictions, which may still be in place when the competition begins, are followed. These will be drawn up in conjunction with the managers of our venues -The Orange Civic Theatre, Orange Regional Conservatorium and Orange Function Centre.” Mrs Smithers said. “Our committee is consulting on a daily basis and monitoring closely the directives of NSW Health in relation to the restrictions, if at the scheduled time of the Eisteddfod we are advised we are unable to proceed The City of Orange Eisteddfod will of course follow those government guidelines.”

Despite the limitations of the modified program, the Orange Eisteddfod team are very much looking forward to an enjoyable competition.

Entries can be lodged via www. stardom.com.au and will close on Sunday June 14. Break a leg Orange.

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HARD TIMES

“THE RESISTANCE OF WARSAW WAS MAGNIFICENT AND FORLORN... THE POLISH ARMY WAS NO MATCH FOR THEIR ASSAILANTS AND RESISTANCE EVERYWHERE WAS BRAVE BUT VAIN... THE POLISH ARMY CEASED TO EXIST.” WINSTON CHURCHILL 1939

I used to walk past his little weatherboard house nearly every day on my way to the shops and he was almost always on the verandah or pottering in his garden.

We nodded good day and he would smile a beautiful smile which lit up his face.

He didn’t speak much and when he did it was in a thick accent which was often hard to understand.

I tried to ask a few questions about his earlier life but he always shook his head.

Then one day he suddenly declared: “I would like to talk to you” and to my delight he did.

Eddie was born in Obobno, Poland in 1918, one of the four children of Mary and John.

He remembered the Great Depression which began when he was about ten years old.

Like the rest of the world, the Polish people were unemployed and hungry.

Europe was in turmoil in the 1930s, Germany was flexing its muscles and England and France were nervously watching the build up to World War 2.

In 1939, young Edward was drafted into the Polish army.

Six months later Germany invaded Poland.

Eddie remembered the tanks chasing the army which was on foot.

He managed to clamber aboard a troop truck and when the driver was killed by a sniper, Eddie took over the driving.

Coming to a checkpoint he yelled to the Polish lieutenant: “Sir, I cannot drive!”

“You’re doing alright,” replied the officer, “Move it!”

Eddie and his mates finally abandoned the truck, hid the ammunition and took off for the Czechoslovakian border where they were organised into an underground force to work against the invading enemy.

In 1941 they were sent to Manchester in England where they trained as parachutists to be dropped behind enemy lines in Cyprus to join partisan soldiers.

Eddie paused in his story here and found it hard to go on.

His eyes filled with tears and he apologised but it was obviously a very difficult time to talk about.

Finally he continued.

where, if one fell, the rest would follow, breaking limbs and heads with little chance of survival.

The conditions as in all concentration camps, were dreadful... thousands were crammed into the most primitive of housing.

The prisoners were stripped of their clothes and given prison garb.

“We slept on our side on the concrete, crammed together like sardines,” Eddie told me.

“There was no heating and little food. My best friend was Jewish and after the medical examination I never saw him again.”

...we were caught by the Nazis and taken to a camp in Mauthausen in Austria...

This was an horrific concentration camp known for its infamous ‘Stairway of Death”...

“In 1942 I was with a group of resistance fighters and we were attempting to sabotage an ammunition depot in Hamburg when we were caught by the Nazis and taken to a camp in Mauthausen in Austria.”

This was an horrific concentration camp known for its infamous ‘Stairway of Death” where prisoners were tied together and made to carry 50 kilos on their backs up a long, steep stone stairway

Under these conditions most of the prisoners were constantly ill but the Nazis methods of treatment were harsh and primitive.

It was now that Eddie’s intrepid friends in the resistance stepped in and, with great daring, they managed to rescue the men who had been captured. They stole an S.S. truck and in this, and after a fair bit of mayhem, escaped through Poland to Czechoslovakia, finally

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After spending some time in a migrant camp in Bathurst he began to play his violin again and joined a band.

He and two Polish friends decided to try their luck in the bush and answering an ad for rabbit catchers they came to the Central west.

Despite the difficulties of his young life, Eddie went on to marry a local girl, bring up a family and enjoy happy years of peace and freedom.

...There was a feeling of freedom in the air,” he told me.

“I’d never felt anything like it before.” returning to England in 1944.

This was followed by more parachuting behind enemy lines in Cyprus and many dramatic moments of sabotage blowing up bridges and roads.

At one stage they escaped over the Italian Alps, dragging blankets behind them to cover their tracks.

Finally, with the help of the French underground they were smuggled back to England just as the war was about to end.

Poland had been destroyed and was now under the control of the Soviet Union.

Millions of “displaced persons” were homeless and Eddie himself was one of them.

Then an American officer suggested to him that Australia would be a great place to live.

So on a warm sunny day in 1951 the ship carrying Eddie docked in Sydney Harbour.

“There was a feeling of freedom in the air,” he told me.

“I’d never felt anything like it before.”

It was then that his life changed.

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Trunkey Bacon and Pork reopen for business — JONATHAN ROE —

Orange is blessed to have so many amazing producers on our doorstep; from world-class wines, an abundance of fruits and vegetable, to red meat the rival of anywhere in the country.

And when it comes to bacon, pork and smallgoods, Orange’s family-owned and operated Trunkey Creek Bacon and Pork is the benchmark other producers strive for.

Like most small business owners it has been a tough few months for the D’Souza family. But last week they reopened their Endsleigh Avenue shopfront and believe there are big things ahead with more shoppers on the hunt for local, Australian produce.

“Like everyone, we were hurt by COVID,” said Zanzie D’Souza. “We went from nine markets a month, then they all

stopped overnight. And a lot of the hotels, restaurant and cafes, they had to close or do home delivery — and that’s what kept us going. We offered home delivery from Orange to Sydney, so we’d take orders and every Saturday my husband and I we’d run down to Sydney and the Blue Mountains.”

In March, Trunkey Bacon and Pork marked their 20th anniversary. It was largely due to the millennial drought, that Zanzie and husband Fred began processing their own meat and small goods as a way to valueadd to their small piggery.

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In the early years, she said it was difficult to convince people to buy local Australian products when there were cheaper alternatives, but today people really want to know more about where their meat comes from.

And since the outbreak of the coronavirus, Australian seem to be taking the ‘buy local’ message to heart.

“One thing this whole situation has done has made people realise they have to buy local and buy Australian,” said daughter Bec D’Souza.

“On Saturday I had a lady in the shop who said since this has all happened, she’ll only buy Australian, she has completely changed the way she shops.

“And hopefully this shop will go really well, because people realise it might mean a little bit more to buy Australian, but it has shown we need to be supporting Australian producers and growers and farmers.”

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Due to Government-imposed restrictions on communal water bubblers as a result of COVID-19, the need for spare drink bottles at schools was highlighted to Cadia’s Community Partnership Committee.

In response, Cadia donated 1,200 drink bottles across local public schools in Orange, Blayney and Cabonne to support students who forget or don’t have a drink bottle.

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You just wouldn’t have a local show if not for people like Colin and Heather Woodhouse.

olin’s involvement with the Molong Show Society stretches back to the late ‘70s when he first took on the secretary’s role, while Heather has been part of the show nearly her entire life.

“It was born and bred in me,” said Heather, whose mother and father too had a long involvement with the Molong Show.

“I started off in the catering when I was at school, they wanted girls to go around waiting tables and do the kitchen.

So, I started there and then I was asked if I wanted to go on to the needlework and now I’ve ended up being in charge of the needlework for 35 years!”

“In the first year I was just a member,” said Colin, who is the current Molong Show Society President.

“Then I was secretary for — I don’t know how many years — then went onto to be committee member, senior vice president and I’ve had two terms of president, about ten years.”

“I was an exhibitor years ago,” added Heather, “but you don’t have time to do exhibits as well as all the other things so that had to go by the wayside” For their tireless efforts and dedication to the show movement, Colin and Heather have been presented with a state award from the Agricultural Societies council of NSW. “It came like a shot out of the blue, I can tellyou!” said Colin.

“First of all, to get the letter saying we’d been nominated, and then the follow up letter to say you are invited to come to the Royal Easter Show and then the announcement of the winners!”

“It was wonderful,” said Heather. “We were very proud to think

we’d been nominated to start with, and then we went on to win it, so it was a wonderful feeling.

“You don’t look for the thanks; you do it because you enjoy doing what you do, but it is wonderful when people appreciate what you do.”

Colin and Heather were to attend the awards dinner during the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, but the presentation had to be cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions.

“It is very much appreciated,” said Heather, who is pleased to be seeing younger members joining the committee and ensuring a good future for the local show.

“A country show gets the whole community together, it gets the townspeople and all the farmers in the area together, so it’s a real gathering of community. It’s why I love the show.”

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If you’re dreaming of an entire room devoted to plant life, or your excuses begin with ‘I can’t go out, my plants need me,’ you may be bordering along the fine line of crazy ‘plant-lady.’ Is that something to be ashamed of? Absolutely not, plant it up my friends, I love a good plant purchase.

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range local Marea Ruddy, far exceeds my plant-lady status, but I aspire to reach her level one day. She has over 60 divine house plants, scattered in every room.

“It has been a slow journey,” Marea admitted, “I kicked off with one or two… that I actually killed.

Then the next one I got struggled pretty bad, but I brought that beauty back to life. Since then I’ve slowly built up a pretty big collection.”

“It’s a good hobby and a great distraction, it gives me something to do, I enjoy watching them grow and making them nice, big, healthy plants, it makes me feel accomplished.

They keep me busy that’s for sure, I’m constantly re-arranging them, trying to find light, especially now that its winter.

It’s a tough question when someone asks me about my favourite plant but I’d have to say it’s the Pothos, there are many varieties and they come in lots of bright colours, I just love them, they are great climbing plants or they make great hanging plants too.”

Marea found so much joy amongst her greenery, she decided to share it with others, and so her little business ‘Pianta’ was created. (If you can’t help yourself and NEED a new plant but

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“My friends and family would describe me as someone who is quite outgoing and very committed, when I get an idea I run with it,” Marea smiled.

“Pianta was born from a passion of all things planty. It’s something that’s been at the back of my head for a while, but I’ve hesitated in bringing it to fruition because I am quite busy with my job working in Community Services.

I think the COVID-19 experience is what really pushed me into it. I’ve been working from home since mid- April, and in doing that, I suppose I’ve got more of a reason to find an escape.”

Marea kicked off Pianta just last month and is over the moon with the support she has received so far, “I started with a test sale just to see what the response would be like, and it just went insane. I am still growing my customer base which is exciting for me. I definitely get a lot of people messaging me for help and advice.

“I just hope to continue to grow, I’m not really sure what the future holds for me but I feel blessed that I get to do this and feel honoured that the community is supporting me.”

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ADDRESS

PRICE RANGE

11.06.20

5.15pm - 5.45pm

22 Lucas Street

2

1

1

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13.06.20

10.00am - 10.30am

12 Rosedale Place

3

2

2

$263,000

13.06.20

10.15am - 10.45am

14 Avondale Drive

4

2

2

$499,000

13.06.20

10.15am - 10.45am

28 Taloumbi Place

4

2

3

$899k-$929k

13.06.20

10.15am-10.45am

22 Lucas Street

2

1

1

Auction - 13/6 11am

13.06.20

10.30am - 11.00am

3/82 Kite Street

3

2

2

$699,000

13.06.20

10.30am - 11.00am

139 Diamond Drive

4

2

2

$659,000

13.06.20

10.30am - 11.00am

97 Sampson Street, Orange

3

2

1

$760,000

13.06.20

10.45am - 11.15am

2 Phillip Street

4

2

2

$469,000

13.06.20

10.45am - 11.15am

21 North Street

3

1

2

$279k-$289k

13.06.20

11.00am - 11.30am

125 March Street

4

2

1

$950k-$995k

13.06.20

11.00am - 11.30am

42 Heatherbrae Parade

4

2

3

$489,990

13.06.20

11.00am - 11.30am

23 William Maker Drive

4

2

2

$455,000

13.06.20

11.15am - 11.45am

16 Emmaville Street

4

2

2

$579,000

13.06.20

11.30am - 12.00pm

11 Trainor Court

4

2

2

$560,000

13.06.20

11.30am - 12.00pm

13 Young Street

4

2

2

$635,000

13.06.20

11.30am - 12.00pm

10 Emerald Street, Orange

4

2

2

$510,000

13.06.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

161 Phillip Street

4

3

5

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13.06.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

121 Sieben Drive

4

2

2

$499,000

13.06.20

11.45am - 12.15pm

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2

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1

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2

3

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13.06.20

12.15pm - 12.45pm

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2

2

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12.15pm - 12.45pm

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2

1

$879,000

13.06.20

12.30pm - 1.00pm

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1

2

$267,000

13.06.20

12.30pm - 1.00pm

17 Centennial Crescent

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2

4

$649,000

13.06.20

12.30pm - 1.00pm

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4

3

1

$599,000

13.06.20

12.45pm - 1.15pm

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4

2

2

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13.06.20

1.00pm - 1.30pm

59 Icely Road

3

1

2

$429,000

13.06.20

1.15pm - 1.45pm

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3

1

2

$439,000

13.06.20

1.15pm - 1.45pm

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2

5

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13.06.20

1.15pm - 1.45pm

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1

1

$229,000

13.06.20

2.00pm - 2.30pm

11/222 Dalton Street

2

1

1

$219,000

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ORANGE CITY LIFE IS PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO BRING YOU A SERIALISED VERSION OF THE ACCLAIMED NOVELLA, SUNSHINE, FROM MILLTHORPE’S

KIM KELLY

It’s 1921 and the Great War has left in its wake untold tragedy, not only in lives lost but in the guilt of survivors, the deep-set scars of old wounds and the sting of redoubled bigotries.

In the tiny hamlet of Sunshine, on the far-flung desert’s edge, three very different ex-servicemen – Jack Bell, an Aboriginal horseman, Snow McGlynn, a laconic, curmudgeonly farmer, and Art Lovelee, an eccentric engineer – find themselves sharing a finger of farmland along the Darling River, and not much else. That is, until Art’s wife Grace, a battle-hardened nurse, gets to work on them all with her no-nonsense wisdom.

Told with Kim Kelly’s inimitable with and warmth, Sunshine is a very Australian tale of home, hope and healing, of the power of growing life and love, and discovering that we are each other’s greatest gifts.

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GRACE She’d thought it was another knock at the door, but it was only a beetle hitting the bedroom window. Christmas beetles, they were called: glossy bronze with an iridescent sheen to the wings and almost the size of a penny, they would make for attractive baubles, if she’d bothered with a tree – and if the creatures hadn’t been so terminally stupid.

Clunk – one beetle was followed by another, and another, and another. Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk.

A small plague of Christmas beetles hitting all of the front windows of the house.

‘Why?’ she asked them. Unlike moths, who were obviously attracted to the light, these beetles didn’t seem to need a reason to smack themselves senseless against glass or timber – so that they lay all about the front verandah like drunks, legs swimming in the air. Such an awful sight – pathetic and vaguely macabre – she’d taken to sweeping them off as soon as she heard them, which had been three evenings in a row now.

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a boy – boxes of them.’ And she’d asked him: ‘Whatever did you do with boxes of them?’

Couldn’t help herself, and he’d said: ‘Oh, I’d just look at them. I didn’t understand then – you know.’ She did: he didn’t understand then that they were dead. More reason to sweep them up so he didn’t have to look at them.

By the time she’d retrieved her broom to do just that, the beetle storm had abated, leaving perhaps twenty or so scattered on the boards, some upturned, some crawling slowly, painfully, as though disoriented, some quite still. Grace looked across the yard, wondering again what brought them: perhaps a trick of the light: she looked back again at her windows, reflecting the lilac blush of the gathering sunset; perhaps they simply thought the windows were the sky; or perhaps something else, altogether imperceptible, caused them to fly at the house. Too sad, she sighed for those at her feet: these beetles that all looked the same on the surface, like boys in uniform, but were really each their own creature, and she swept them gently.

It was only then that she became aware of a ruckus overhead – the welcome swallows swooping about, gurgling urgently, as though an actual storm might arrive any moment, although there would not be a speck of rain at all this evening. She looked up: they seemed to be darting around the nest, swirling about it, as if something was wrong. The baby birds had emerged from their eggs perhaps a week ago – she wasn’t sure, as the rafter was too high to really see, but a week it was since she’d seen the first little flame-coloured beak appear above

the rim of their twiggy snug – one, then two, then three, and maybe four. So wonderful, so alien – what did she know of their ways?

Then through the greying gloom she saw it: something fluttering fitfully, fretfully, something which did indeed seem very wrong. One of the babies was at the side of the nest – flapping its wings desperately – upside down, its tiny foot caught among the twigs.

‘Oh dear – no!’

She rushed inside, into the bedroom, to get a chair, her own heart beating to match the baby bird’s distress. She wasn’t sure what she wanted more: to save the bird, or to save Art from witnessing its too-dreadful demise. He’d be walking up the path to the house any moment, she was sure. Quick, she urged herself up onto the chair: Quick! Even on the chair, she had to rise up on her toes to reach, and in that reaching the swallows swooped and swirled more and more urgently. Her hand trembled so terribly at this small crisis she wondered how she was ever a nurse, and as she found and grasped the tiny twig-leg between her thumb and forefinger, warm feathers thrumming against the heel of her hand, she was sure she’d hurt the poor thing worse than its predicament ever could – as if she’d never before hurt someone to make it better.

The birds, so close, now cried around her head – PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! – their arrow-wings swishing past her ears, roaring over a call that shouted: COOEE! COOEE! COOEE! ‘Oh God save us all!’

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But at last, she managed to unhook those needle-tip claws. The baby bird struggled then in her palm, writhing, petrified, and she almost dropped it, before she tipped it, rather roughly, back into the nest.

She stood on the chair with her hands pressed together and her fingertips pressed to her lips in the prayer: Please, be all right, baby bird.

Baby.

Baby.

Baby.

And then in that prayer she heard: ‘Mrs Lovelee! Grace! Grace!’

A man – not Art, obviously. A heavy gait, lumbering fast, and thick fair hair fairer against the darkening sky. It was their neighbour, Joseph McGlynn. Snow McGlynn, so Jack had told her he was more commonly called. Snow: how oddly endearing Australian nicknames were, she thought, even as she saw the fear now written on his face. The gruffer the man, the sweeter the moniker, it seemed: Bluey; Froggy; Noisy Ackerman; those she’d nursed slipped through her mind, burly Australians with nursery-rhyme names.

And here was Mr Bitter Misanthropist, Snow McGlynn, but with such a fear in his bearing, somehow fearful in his whole being, she stepped down from the chair but she didn’t hear what he said to her next.

All the fears and the songs within her sang silent around and down into her stalwart verse: When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch. Pray when will that be, please? say the bright bells of Stepney. I am sure I don’t know, says the great bell of Bow. Don’t tell me, don’t tell me.

I don’t want to know.

Behind Snow McGlynn, she saw a grey shadow-shape bouncing towards the colonnades: a kangaroo, unmistakably – and finally – a kangaroo. She didn’t care now if that creature or any creature ate the entire planting out of melons. She thought: This has been an interesting day for animals.

I don’t want another interesting thing to happen.

Lord. It’s Art, isn’t it. He’s done it, hasn’t he.

He’s gone.

He’s left me.

He’s dead.

‘Grace?’ Snow McGlynn was asking her;

pleading with her: ‘Mrs Lovelee? Have you seen him? He’s about three years old – Ross Brock’s son. With the truck – the trees.’

‘What?’ Grace could barely pull herself away from that worst of worst, the sweep of that great black wing obliviating all.

‘The boy – have you seen him?’ Snow McGlynn was catching his breath, leaning on the verandah step, looking up at her.

She frowned, willing herself to return to the reality at hand: the boy.

‘Oh yes. Of course,’ she said to Snow McGlynn: ‘Little Gordie – the driver’s boy – he’s here, in the kitchen.’

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central hall they went, her smile curling around her suspicions confirmed; her hand on her belly: yes, it was true, she knew, she knew: she held a baby there. This would surely explain her eccentric behaviour of late – well, this eccentric behaviour, at least.

A tell-tale sign she’d seen in a few of her junior nurses who’d let love fly in the face of war: a plumpness round the hips and an overbusy emptiness in the head – and then straight on a ship back home.

As she walked towards the kitchen she felt a change in her step, a low-slung satisfaction; she felt her muscles let go and relax; she felt the elastic in the soft silk of her knickers stretch against her swelling belly. She felt each touch of heel and toe upon the floorboards press the foundations of the house more firmly into the soil.

She felt her future, all futures, truly settling at last.

‘Your father is going to tan your hide,’ Snow McGlynn said beside her in the kitchen and the boy blinked up at him from his place at the table, terrified, small hands either side of the bowl, its contents plucked entirely of grapes: this boy had been hungry, too.

She’d quite forgotten him in the run of events these past few moments: he’d appeared at the back door, in company with a shaggy brown dog, both of them asking for a drink of water; she’d filled the bucket for the dog, and as she’d just made lemonade for Art, from the warty but wondrously tangy lemons on the old squat bush at the back of the privy, she’d sat the boy down with a glass of that and a bowl of grapes; she’d asked him: ‘Does your daddy know you’ve come here?’ He’d shrugged: ‘Daddy is busy.’ She’d been going to walk him up to McGlynn’s as soon as he was finished his lemonade, but then the beetles – Oh, what’s wrong with me! It was not like her to be so scatterbrained, so distracted, not like her at all.

‘He’s here?’ Snow McGlynn appeared relieved and disbelieving at once. He took off his hat and wiped his brow with a sleeve, as the dog came skittering around from the back verandah, head down, eyes pleading upwards at him, expecting some chastisement, but receiving only a vague pat on the head.

‘Yes, little Gordie is here.’ Grace beckoned Snow inside, the dog too, and down the

‘No one’s hide will be tanned or otherwise harmed,’ Grace dropped her voice an octave, the way a woman must in giving orders to a man.

‘Right.’ McGlynn gave her a curt nod and left – with the dog, his dog, it seemed – hobnails and paw-nails clipping the fresh linoleum on their way out the back door.

‘I was bad,’ the little boy said into the bowl, far too sombrely for a boy so small.

Grace pulled out the kitchen chair opposite him and sat down. ‘How old are you?

Do you know?’

‘Free,’ he said, not looking up; ashamed.

‘I am free.’ Three, he meant, counting out three little fingers – and bless.

‘You’re a very grown-up young man for only three,’ she said, her heart aching for him.

‘I was playing with the nice dog,’ he said, confessing his crimes. ‘I lost Daddy’s water bottle. I don’t know where it is. I looked and I looked, but I don’t know where it is. I don’t know where I put it.’

Oh my heartbreaker.

‘I’m sure your daddy is more concerned for you than any water bottle,’ she offered.

But the boy shook his head: ‘I went off with the dog.’

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She resisted telling him there are far worse things a young man can do. And thank God for dogs – this one was probably looking after him, bringing him to safety, with that peculiarly caring sense dogs so often have.

Bringing him here, perhaps. A last blast of sun filled the window behind the boy’s dear little head, turning his straw-blond hair bright gold; dust motes turned to glitter, floating in the air between them, and something more deeply beautiful tingled through Grace, as though raspberry sherbet ran in her veins.

The little boy changed the subject. ‘My birfday is in Nobember,’ he said, still not looking up.

‘November, is it?’ Grace was amazed, and not only at the child’s conversational skills.

Such an intelligent little boy – Art had trouble remembering the months of the year and he was thirty-seven.

Outside, Snow McGlynn was calling to the others; the dog barking along: ‘Found him! Cooee! Found him! Cooee!’ That cooee call she’d thought, when distant, had come from the swallows, and now came with a great clanging sound, charging up the hall – startling her and the boy both. It took her a second to work out that McGlynn was ringing the dinner bell that swung from the front verandah awning there – an iron triangle that had come with the house but which she hadn’t thought to use as yet.

McGlynn was determined to wake the dead with it.

She said to the boy, assuring him once more: ‘Don’t worry. Everything will be all right, I’m sure.’ And she got up to light the lamps, in the kitchen, and in the hall. She didn’t really know anything about this little boy, whom she’d only met briefly, down by the colonnades – barely a ‘How do you do’ – she’d been too intent on finding Jack, to show him the photograph. ‘This woman is my mother,’ Jack had said, holding the picture before him, falling into it. He’d then walked away, and she’d felt awful at that, as though she’d handed him some fresh deed of pain; she resolved to try to talk to him about it later, and returned to the house then, to get her washing in, before any blustery dust could spoil her sheets.

Returning to the kitchen now, she looked at the little boy here anew: he was motherless, too.

And she would not let anyone tan his precious hide.

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‘Gordie!’ Stomping across the verandah, the sound of the flyscreen door almost wrenched off its hinges.

Grace stood between the rage and the boy, all the firmer for the abuse to her flyscreen, so lovingly restored.

But the man who crashed through her home now crashed with screaming, searing love. ‘Gordie?’ He quietened his voice on seeing her, searching her face: ‘He’s here?’

Such sadness in that face of his: a young face, too lean and lined with care; eyes so very sad, she had to force herself to hold their gaze: she saw in them all she needed to know of his tragedy. She stepped aside: ‘He’s here.’

‘Mate,’ he stood over his tiny son, words jag-edged and plain: ‘Don’t you ever go off like that again.’

The tall man and the small boy looked into each other a moment then with every unspoken thing.

There was the story of Australian men, Grace brushed away a happy-ending tear, and as all other boots clomped into her kitchen, with the smell of salt-sweat and grimy thirst, she said: ‘I suppose you’d all prefer a beer to lemonade?’

‘There’s a good idea,’ said Art, already reaching into his trouser pocket for the bottle opener, flicking it out from the penknife casing with a thumb. ‘You’ll stay for one, won’t you, Jack?’ he said over his shoulder.

For Jack Bell was in their home at last.

Well, isn’t this Christmas, Grace thought to herself, all her wishes come true, listening to the four men discussing sprinkler irrigation in the lounge. The most glorious sound in the world.

She heard Art get up, declaring, a little drunk, ‘We need some music, don’t we what?’

She heard the crank of the gramophone winder and the trombone beat start up: ‘I gotta brand new sweetie, better than the one before …’ A recent favourite, Jolson.

And soon Art was bellowing the chorus: ‘Does she go, “La-da-da-da, I don’t care”? I’ll say she does!’

‘Getting rowdy in there, isn’t it,’ she said to

little Gordie, who was standing on the chair beside her at the stove.

He was intent on watching her stir the pudding custard; she’d just told him it was a dull job, having to be careful at it for ten minutes or it’d burn or go lumpy and be ruined, and he was taking his watch-duty very seriously.

She asked him: ‘And what are your favourite things to do, Gordie? What do you like to play?’

...That’s handy, isn’t it.’ She nodded at the plum pudding just boiled and steaming on its plate; she’d made it weeks ago, for Christmas Day, but it was fitting that they should share it tonight...

‘I like rocks,’ he told the custard.

‘Just rocks?’ Grace tried not to laugh, but she couldn’t keep the laughter from her voice: he was too adorable.

‘No,’ he told her, looking across at her, such a grave little cherub: ‘I like cake, too.’

‘That’s handy, isn’t it.’ She nodded at the plum pudding just boiled and steaming on its plate; she’d made it weeks ago, for Christmas Day, but it was fitting that they should share it tonight, since they were all here and so together.

Little Gordie beamed with the shared conspiracy: ‘Yum.’ Yum, indeed.

But plans are only dares for disappointment, aren’t they?

‘We’d best get going.’ Ross Brock was at the kitchen door half a second later, hat in hand.

‘Oh, but you must stay for pudding,’ Grace insisted. ‘It’s Christmas – well, it’s Christmas in Sunshine, at least.’

‘We’re expected elsewhere,’ Brock said, somehow defensively; sharply: ‘It’s late.’

‘Oh. I see,’ said Grace – not really seeing at all, except that it was wrong of her to presume they might not have had any

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particular place to go. Or perhaps he just didn’t approve of jazz or Jolson. Still, she wouldn’t have the little boy disappointed at the loss of cake. She hastily cut a slab and placed it in a bowl, smothering it in custard before giving it to Gordie: ‘There you are.’

‘Thanks all the same,’ said the father, ‘but we should go. Got to get the truck back to town and meet the last train home, to Nyngan.’ He had the boy by the arm, half pulling him off the chair, taking the bowl from him, too.

‘Take it with you, darling heart,’ she said, gently pushing the bowl back into the boy’s hands, his silent, observant face unreadable. No wonder you ran away from Daddy. What was this scarred and hardened generation doing to the next? She gave the boy a spoon for his pudding as well and told him: ‘Can’t have you going without when you did such a good job on that custard.’

He looked up at his father, unsure.

‘Can’t take your things with us, Mrs Lovelee.’ The father was a stubbornly humourless chap.

And so Grace matched him sentiment for sentiment: ‘It’s a bowl and a spoon, Mr Brock. We do have others.’

‘Right.’ The man nodded; then tapped the boy on the shoulder: ‘Say thank you.’

‘Thank you,’ said the boy, and they were on their way, the headlamps of the truck golden eyes in the night and gone too soon.

She waved once at the black and stepped back past the lounge room.

‘I’m a jaaaazzz vampire!’ Art had put another record on the gramophone. ‘Shake a foot, shake a foot and daaaance with me …’

He was quite drunk now.

Ain’t we got fun, Grace quickened her step up the hall, the quicker to get pudding into him; it had been such a long day. She yawned as she prepared the food on a tray, waiting for the kettle to boil. She yawned and yawned. She might have enjoyed a gin right now, but she was curiously off the booze: maybe that was baby choosing its preferences too. Was it a him or a her? My, my and la-da-da-da, how much she did not care either way.

‘Yeah, I gotta get going, too,’ she heard Jack say in the hall.

‘Sorry, Grace. Time I called it a day.’

‘Oh?’ She wanted to protest, but it was enough he’d stayed a while as it was, so she only said, ‘See you, then,’ and felt oddly Australian with it; or rather awkwardly Australian: you needed the accent for authenticity: see-ya, exhaled as one word along a breath without moving the mouth.

Jack stood there a moment longer than ‘see you’, though, as if he might be about to say something else. But he only patted his shirt pocket, where she could just see the top of the photograph she’d given him, or returned to him, and he said, ‘Yeah. See you.’

He closed the flyscreen softly behind him and she followed down the hall with the tray – just as Snow McGlynn stepped out: ‘On my way, too, Mrs – Grace.’ And he smiled – a smile from him was an extraordinary thing in itself, but this was a smile of such warmth, he seemed a different man. A returned man, perhaps.

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tell you until Christmas Day, but I …’ Her blood fizzed with more than love, more than life; she touched the place their child called home, for now: ‘This ain’t too much shortbread, love. You know how I said I wasn’t going to bake anything this year?’

‘What?’ He sat up smartly, gripping his knees, on the edge of his seat. Oh, how wonderful he was.

‘Yes,’ she said. ‘How’s that for Christmas?’

‘Christmas?’ He was crying, unashamed, weary and beery tears streaming, taking her in his arms for the best dance, the best embrace, there ever is: ‘Really?’

‘Yes.’ She matched him tear for tear: ‘A bit of peace on earth, a bit of magic, just for us. Hm?’ He shook his head: ‘No. No magic to it. All good things happen because of you.’

‘Goodnight, then.’ She smiled back, a little indulgently, victoriously. But she added, almost having forgotten: ‘What are you doing Christmas Day? We’d love to —’ ‘Going home – tomorrow, to Condobolin.

Going to surprise me mum.’

‘Oh!’ She wasn’t sure why, but that seemed the sweetest victory of all. ‘Safe travels,’ she said: ‘And Merry Christmas, Snow.’

‘Merry Christmas to you, too, Grace.’

‘Cheerio!’ She smiled him out the door.

And now here was her Art, lazing back, feet up on the arm of the sofa, Heifetz’s violin zinging like a lovesick mosquito round Chopin’s Nocturne in E Flat.

‘Christ, I thought they’d never go,’ he said, sleepy eyes suddenly alive: not very drunk at all.

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She laughed: ‘How I adore you.’

‘Put that tray down, woman, and come here.’ He pretended Dancing Dawg; yes, he was just pretending; reclining; wry.

Sunshine was first published 2019 by Jazz Monkey Publications, copyright © Kim Kelly 2019. The moral right of the author has been asserted.

She said, practising her Australian accent, tight-jaw, loose heart: ‘I’m not keen to risk it.’

This edition for Orange City Life is published with permission of the author. Some phrases and words have been altered from the original, for a general audience.

‘Risk? Me?’ He made himself the joke: ‘But I’m such a sure bet, such a dead cert.’

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‘Wait!’ she called out, pouring the water into the pot. ‘Tea’s made!’

A half-moon sat in the window, aglow, as though it were looking down on them from a dress circle seat in the diamondsplashed sky.

But here was Jack now in the doorway:

She said: ‘I’m serious. I wasn’t going to

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THUMBS UP to Council for the bright new lights in Summer Street. They’re hard to miss. Look forward to more bright and colourful things happening along our main street.

THUMBS UP to the person who wrote the thumbs down about people crossing against the green light. I see this all the time and have nearly run over pedestrians. I can give them a bit of advice when you cross against a green light and you get hit, and God forbid suffer an injury or even may end up in a wheelchair or you suffer where you can no longer work, you cannot, I repeat you cannot claim insurance against that driver, in fact the driver can sue you for damages, so just remember when you are crossing it only takes a little inattention that could cost you or your family injury or even death.

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please to the two sets of lights at the Hospital that are on timers not sensors, causing queues for no reason, especially during the busy morning times THUMBS UP to the new drive-through coffee shop in Orange Cellars. Try their beef and gravy rolls, best beef I have tasted. Give them a go.

TRIPLE THUMBS UPto Rick’s Engraving for your outstanding work on my father’s memorial. Highly recommended business for all your needs.

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drivers who continue to run red lights at the roadworks down Huntley Road. Please stop before there is an accident you stupid people. It’s a makeshift traffic light but you still need to stop. Not stop then continue on through.

MASSIVE THUMBS UP to council workers who tidied up Icely Road, it has made visibility much better. Job well done.

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Presumably this will be directed towards Orange City Council.

Two perfectly good seats have been removed from the corner of Peisley and Summer Streets - one outside Salvation Army, the other outside the hotel. We are in our 70’s and my husband has been very ill. He needs to stop and rest at times on a seat - with a back. May I ask why they have been removed? Are they to be replaced?

- with a back rest and NOT made of aluminium, which gets extremely hot in summer.

THUMBS UP to Jax Tyres on Peisley Street who went up and beyond in their service to get my son out of trouble today just after they had closed for the day and stayed back in this Orange cold snap to fit a new tyre onto a rim to enable my son to get home after work later tonight. Well done guys!!!

THUMBS UP to Jody at Office Works photo print section for her exceptional service, friendly personality and great smile.

MASSIVE THUMBS UP to the pharmacists at Orange Hospital, made getting home from hospital a much easier pill to swallow. Keep up the great work!

HUGE THUMBS UP to the Mercure Hotel Orange (Templars Mill). Thank you for your support and consideration with accommodation during the COVID lockdown. As a Nurse living in another town, I was able to continue working even though the Nurses Accommodation was closed due to Lockdown.

BIG THUMBS UP to Chantal at the chemist in North Orange, for going out of her way and showing genuine concern in our needs. We were listened to and such concern and care was shown. She went out of her way to help us find the correct products, and also offered some great advice. Many thanks!

THUMBS UP to those drivers in the Summer Centre car park last Monday around 5pm who showed wonderful courtesy by letting other drivers into the traffic flows. The carpark was extremely busy and chaotic and without courteous drivers, it took an eternity to turn into exit lanes etc.

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