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Come and join us for a fun-filled session of child-friendly musical bingo, complete with exciting toy and experience prizes! Kids can enjoy matching their favourite Disney characters whilst singing along to the best and most popular Disney movies and soundtrack hits!

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Today (Thursday, June 22) is the winter solstice, the day our end of the globe is tilted furthest from the warming light of the sun. It’s a day that has held deep significance for many different cultures, all across the world. People have marked this occasion in many different ways, and there are monuments like Stonehenge in England that are built in careful alignment with the solstice sun. But did you know that for the last few years, there’s been a small group of locals who’ve been carrying on their own winter solstice tradition?

Every June, they’ve ventured out on the shortest day of the year to take a swim in Gosling Creek and we hear they’ll be out there again today. Anyone brave enough is welcome to join them at 12.15pm for a 12.30pm dip; all you have to do is show up, although they do request that swimwear is worn.

The village of Newbridge is also celebrating the winter solstice this Saturday with the annual festival, featuring vikings, music and a burning wicker man. You can read more on page 4.

Congratulations to the Orange High School Astley Cup squad on their emphatic win over Dubbo last week. Orange City Life photographers caught some of the action which you will find on pages 22–23. Plus we were there at the Orange Ex-Services Club on Friday to capture the Centenary Dinner celebrating 100 years of the Astley Cup. See page 16.

Mitch Luke, one of the marauding vikings ready to invade the village of Newbridge this Saturday for the Winter Solstice Festival.