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AND WESTERN DISTRICTS ADVERTISER
THURSDAY 4 February 2021
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INSIDE NEWS & FEATURES
Molong Rotary: No voice too big or too small
The Romance of the Swag
"Keep trying Cupid" P2
"Can I come back tomorrow, please?"
MCS Kindergarten 2021. Sitting: Portia, Holly, Heidi, Amzi, Van, Kai, Jake, Jorja, Emma 1st Row: Nikora, Harriet, Kobe, Jorjia, Arabella, Isaac, Willow, Seth, Matilda Back Row: Charlton, Eddie, Cooper, Will, Myles, Angus, Emma, Charlie, Bonnie, Lachlan The first day at BIG school is a day of mixed emotions for both the new starters (and their parents) - "where do I sit, where do we play, is it lunchtime yet?". It can be a challenging new world as Molong's young children walk into their very first environment of school learning. These young residents stepped into the Molong Central School on Monday for the first day of their new life - one they
Photo by Em & The Wild Things
have eagerly been waiting for - and training for at home and or at childcare, playgroup and pre-school. With the professionally trained teaching and class support teams surrounding them they now have every opportunity to achieve their dreams.
Molong Swimming Pool - time to get it 'right'? To keep faith with the many readers who have contacted the Express (and the pool/council we hope) we again raise some apparent problems at the pool. Lack of communication could well be the reason for the continuing problems being experienced by regular users. Many of the problems were raised last year. Others can be added for the summer of 2020/2021. It seems time for the Council to bring together both the operators and regular users to talk about the continuing
problems which include the need to upgrade the current cleaning processes of the facilities (e.g. change rooms and toilets), the lack of drinks and food from the kiosk, the loss of pool space for aerobics and other activities, lack of safe steps in and out of the pool for each user group. It would be ridiculous for this town to move to summer 2021/22 with the same set of problems. Specifically, Council, the operators and user groups (including the large number of non-users) need to be
involved in constructive conversation, planning and finally, implementation of key outcomes to obtain better and greater community usage of the pool and facilities (including a return to early morning AND night swimming, aqua/exercise initiatives, entertainment events etc) to gain a better return for the major stakeholder group i.e. the ratepayers. Note: Molong's attendance figures are around half of Canowindra's. Why? Let's find out.