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Here’s our final issue for 2023! It’s been a long year and we will very much be enjoying the next few weeks as we take a break and get ready for 2024. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who allows us to do what we do here at OC Life. The publishing world has changed dramatically in the past decade or two, but we know there is still a need out there to tell good local stories, let people know what’s going on in our part of the world, and celebrate the people who make our community tick. So, we’d like to thank our advertisers, without whom we wouldn’t be able to do this. And thanks, too, to our photographer and our contributors, who really add a little flavour to our magazine. We will miss Ruben and his cooking column, and we really have been missing ‘The Good-Enough Parent’, Emily Thompson. Emily has had a few health issues of late, but we very much hope to welcome her back in 2024!

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range Public School has renamed its annual Sportsperson of the Year award in honour of local sporting legend, Yvonne “Toot” Keegan.

Toot Keegan, who died in October this year, was a fervent supporter and champion of all local sports, but in particular netball, a sport she played at a state level and she remained an active coach, mentor and committee member with the local netball association for more than six decades. A former Orange Public School student herself, Toot’s five children also attended the school and several of her grandchildren are current students.

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Announcing the change at the Year 5 and 6 end-of-year presentation day last week, OPS Assistant Principal Michelle Black, said Toot was a dedicated member of the school community. “Toot’s deep connection with our school was evident in her unwavering support and love for Orange Public,” Ms Black told the assembled students, parents and other family members at the presentation. “A passionate sportsperson and a skilled coach, Toot left an indelible mark on various sports, including rugby league, swimming, athletics and basketball. However, her truest passion lay in netball, where she coached and managed many Orange Public School netball teams.” Ms Black said renaming the award will

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“Toot Keegan’s Sportsperson of the Year award not only commemorates her dedication but also inspires current and future students to embrace the spirit of sportsmanship, passion and resilience. May her memory continue to resonate within our school community for years to come,” Ms Black said. The inaugural Toot Keegan Sportsperson of the Year award was then presented to the multi-talented Grace Goodlock, who has excelled in the pool, at track and field events and in numerous team sports. Grace was selected in the OPS cricket, rugby union, hockey, touch football and soccer teams. She was also selected in the rugby 7s and touch football Western Teams that played at the

PSSA State Championships. Toot’s daughter, Emily Callaway, was there to present Grace with the newly renamed award. She said it was a massive honour for the family and a fitting recognition of Toot’s dedication to the school. “Toot’s been involved since we were kids and obviously she was a student here as well, so she’s a massive fan of the school and just gave a lot of time, from canteen duty to coaching teams and just supported so many teams all the way through,” Emily said. She would be very humbled by it all, but probably very embarrassed and cross at the same time; she didn’t like being in the limelight. But it’s lovely and a real honour.”

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David Shaw appointed new executive director at the Con

The Orange Regional Conservatorium (ORC) management committee has announced that David Shaw will succeed the retiring and muchloved Donna Riles as executive director.

he Orange Regional Conservatorium (ORC) management committee has appointed David Shaw as the new executive director.

David is a highly regarded figure, both as a teacher and performer. Currently Head of Keyboard, he will officially assume his new role in 2024, succeeding the retiring and much-loved Donna Riles. “I am delighted to accept the position of executive director with the ORC,” David said. “The ORC holds immense value and importance within our community, and I am eager to ensure that we build and grow together in Orange. I believe in a visible,

The Orange Regional Conservatorium is due to relocate to a new state-of-the-art facility in 2025.

relevant, and inclusive conservatorium for Orange and look forward to exciting times ahead as the director of this wonderful institution.” With a remarkable record in the music community, both in Orange and beyond, David brings a wealth of experience to the position. Having held leadership roles within the conservatorium and the broader community, he is well-acquainted with the unique dynamics of fostering music education and appreciation. His appointment comes at an exciting juncture in the 30-year history of the ORC, with the conservatorium due to relocate to a new state-of-the-art facility in 2025. “We are excited by the prospect of David leading the Con’s next chapter,” Chair of the

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“His proven leadership, coupled with a collaborative and personable approach, aligns seamlessly with our vision for the future,” she continued.

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“We are delighted to see talent nurtured within the ORC, paving the way for a dynamic and exciting journey ahead.”

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CAREER-MINDED Last chance to KAYLA’S EXPERIENCE A nominate a local hero FIRST FOR REGIONAL NSW Australia Day Award nomination deadline extended

Orange City Council has extended the deadline for the 2024 Orange Australia Day Awards nominations and is urging residents to put forward a deserving local citizen, community group or business before the new deadline of Monday, January 8, 2024.

The Young Citizen of the Year Award recognises an individual under 25 years of age who has achieved something extraordinary, is an inspirational role model to others, or has made a sustained outstanding contribution to the local community.

“It’s a busy time of year but I encourage residents to take five minutes out of their day and give a local unsung hero the recognition they deserve,” Orange Mayor Jason Hamling said.

The Community Group of the Year Award recognises a group that has made a valuable contribution to the Orange community throughout the year.

“Don’t assume someone else is going to do it. If you know a person, a community group or a business that goes the extra mile for the good of others, nominate them for an award and show them how much we all appreciate their efforts.” Orange Australia Day Community Committee Chair Matthew Chisholm said there were many deserving groups and individuals out there who made a real difference in our community. “Nominating someone for an Australia Day award recognises their outstanding achievements and significant contributions to the Orange community,” Mr Chisholm said. “The nomination process is quick and easy and as simple as logging on to the Orange City Council website and filling out an online form.” There are seven award categories: The Citizen of the Year Award recognises an individual who has achieved something extraordinary, is an inspirational role model to others, or has made a sustained outstanding contribution to the local community.

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The Business Philanthropy Award recognises a business that seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money or services to the community and good causes.

”Placement of students for work experience within Service NSW has never occurred before now,” said Mr Bannister-Tyrell. “The Orange office was the first regional centre to embrace the concept with Kayla being the first student.”

The Environmental Citizen/Group Award recognises individuals and organisations championing environmental initiatives in the Orange community.

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He said one other student in Sydney also participated, and he is confident it will now be rolled out across NSW.

Nomination forms can be found on council’s website at www.orange.nsw.gov.au/australia-day at the Civic Centre or the Orange Visitor Information Centre. Nominations will be assessed by the Australia Day Committee and the winners will be announced at Australia Day celebrations on January 26, 2024.

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Whilst the placement was only for one week, Kayla said she enjoyed the opportunity and has learned about effective customer service, interacting with the public, and the operations and systems of a large government organisation. She said it has definitely given her food for thought as to whether she might pursue a role in the public sector.

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Kayla was then thrilled to discover that she was the first student in regional NSW to ever have been offered work at Service NSW. “I was excited to learn this. It’s a bit of an honour,” said Kayla with a shy smile. “Mr (Andrew) Bannister-Tyrell the Service Centre’s Manager has been so supportive.”

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Currently in Year 10 at Orange High School, Kayla and her fellow students are encouraged to undertake a week’s work experience before they enter the final years of their schooling. It is seen as a valuable way of helping students form a future career path.

The Local Legend Award recognises a person who has moulded the Orange local community with outstanding, illustrious or renowned achievements.

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“Truth be told, I didn’t really know what they did,” Admitted Kayla, “but when Mr Pearson told me more, I was definitely interested.”

The Community Event of the Year Award recognises an event that has made a valuable contribution to the community. This will be determined both in relation to the quality of the event and the scope of impact on the local government area.

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trio of keen local garden lovers are launching a new annual garden event that celebrates and champions people growing their own food at home. The inaugural Orange Edible Garden Trail — March 23-24, 2024 — will be a weekend-long event during which people who grow food in their home gardens will open them up to the public. The Edible Garden Trail concept was started in the Blue Mountains and it’s since inspired other similar open garden events across the state. It was after experiencing the Blue Mountains Edible Garden Trail for themselves that Catherine Hamilton, Min Kelly and Mysie Harper decided to create their own right here in Orange. “Min and I went and spent the weekend and visited all these gardens… We’ve been back again and just really enjoy it,” said Catherine

“It’s a real grassroots, natural, communityminded sort of event, where rather than gardens needing to look really pristine, they’re practical, they’re growing things and there are things to learn from everyone. “These two were like, we should definitely do it — and they have dragged me along for the ride!” The Orange Edible Garden Trail will be a self-guided tour so people can choose to visit all the gardens or just the one. The idea is to have a variety of gardens, big and small, so that anyone visiting will find ideas and inspiration that they can then use in their own gardens, “There’s lots of reasons to grow food… just lots of benefits to your health, your household, the environment, community selfsufficiency,” said Catherine. “But apart from that, it just gets people chatting and showing off what they do, and you get to see other people’s backyards,

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which is fun.” “And it’s good to connect with other gardeners,” added Min. “Like nerds of any type, gardeners really do thrive better when we’re connected.” Min gave the example of the “Garden Enthusiast Orange NSW” Facebook group. From small beginnings, there are now 4,000 active members and the online community has led to the creation of a local plant exchange.

But first, Catherine said they are looking for people willing to open up their own garden and be part of next year’s garden trail. They are not looking for “show gardens”, she said, but practical working gardens that deliver delicious home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs.

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“This is more about the production and the function,” added Min. “In ornamental gardens, you hide your compost bin, you have your leaf pile behind the shed, behind the bougainvillaea. With this one, people want to see your leaf pile, they want to see your compost bin. All the ‘ugliness’ is actually where the interest is.”

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ORANGE RANKED THIRD MOST FESTIVE CITY IN AUSTRALIA

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Orange is the third most festive city in Australia, according to a new study of internet search data.

Representatives of Parke’s Frontline Ball hand over their generous $79,000 donation to RHCCW Executive Officer Rebecca Walsh.

Online language learning marketplace Preply conducted the study using regional search data to determine which cities in Australia are the most and least festive.

Parkes digs deep for Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Volunteers and staff at Ronald McDonald House Charities Central West (RMHCCW) in Orange are celebrating a generous donation from the Parkes community. The donation of almost $79,000, proceeds from the recent Parkes Frontline Ball, is a much-needed contribution and it will go towards providing free accommodation and services for families whose baby, child or adolescent requires specialist and life-saving treatment in Orange Hospital. “We have a team of over 130 volunteers here at the house and this donation so close to Christmas has given us all a boost,” said RMHCCW Executive Officer Rebecca Walsh. That this generous donation came from the Parkes community is particularly relevant, Ms Walsh said, as more families from Parkes than any other area in the state come to stay at

The study looked at the volume of searches that used Christmas-related keywords such as decorations, holiday celebrations, traditions, events, gifting and other relevant search queries.

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very real, and many summers will pass before the scars truly begin to heal.

continues to be as we move through the long and exhausting recovery and rebuilding process.

Amid the joyous chaos of Christmas, filled with gatherings of friends and family, tractor loads of turkey, and swimming pools of pavlova, the summer holidays give us a chance to take stock of how far we have come in the past year.

Amid the devastation of that time, and in the year since, stories of strength and courage, faith and friendship, and hope and community have helped our villages and towns get back on their feet. The determination of our country communities to come back and fight on has been unwavering. To me and the rest of our country, it has been awe-inspiring.

While there have been many sad and difficult days since - days of worry and stress, days of exhaustion - there have also been days of joy as more milestones on the road to recovery are reached and passed.

It is community that has carried our devastated communities forward, from the first moments of the tragedy, and so it

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For the storm and flood-hit communities of Canowindra, Molong, Eugowra, Cudal, and Wellington, this Christmas will mark just over twelve months since that devastating day in November 2022. The pain of that time is still very raw and

I hope this Christmas will be one of them. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

A GREAT YEAR FOR CENTRAL WEST SCHOOLS!

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t’s been terrific to attend school presentations across the region. I couldn’t get to every one, and while the parliamentary sitting calendar played havoc with my diary, I was able to attend presentations at: MacKillop College, Wellington High, Denison College/Kelso High, Canobolas Rural Technology High Grad, Scots all Saints Junior School, Bathurst West Public, Ilford Public, Blaney Public,

really enjoyed catching up with members of our veteran community recently at the Orange RSL Sub-Branch Christmas lunch! Three tiers of government were represented with Mayor Jason Hamling and Phil Donato joining in the festivities. Members of Orange Legacy were also present for this special occasion.

Cumnock Public, Canowindra Public, Zig Zag Public, Spring Terrace Public, James Sheahan Catholic High, Nashdale Public and Mumbil Public. I was honoured to see first hand the wonderful work that our educators and school staff all carry out across our region.

important work that you do in nurturing the future of our region and our nation. Our schools across the Cental West continue to deliver world class education and our future is in great hands because of it! Merry Christmas to all students, staff and teachers.

A sincere thank you to everyone working in our schools and preschools for the vitally

I hope everyone has a well earned break. See you all in 2024!

It was an opportunity to pass on the thanks of the community for all the work being carried out for veterans’ care and ensuring that the service and sacrifice of those who have served our nation is never forgotten. A very Merry Christmas to our veteran community!

Andrew at James Sheahan Catholic High School

Andrew at Spring Terrace Public School

Andrew at Nashdale Public School

Andrew at Blaney Public School

LOSING THE FAITH AS NATIONALS TURN BLIND EYE

t’s a sad fact that more and more people are losing faith in our political institutions and political parties. Communities around Australia are becoming increasingly cynical about the way political parties operate and the tactics they use. What has happened to political vision and leadership? There was a time when political parties provided it. I think back to the days of war hero and former Member for Orange and Deputy Premier, Charlie Cutler. Look at Bathurst’s Ben Chifley. Contrast those days with what has been occurring in our area lately. I’m talking about the package recently sent via Australia Post to my home.

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The sender’s address on the package appeared to be fictitious and my family and I, including my children, were very shocked and concerned that our home was being targeted. In accordance with protocols, I notified the Australian Federal Police, and they in turn contacted Orange police who investigated and found that the package had been sent using a fake name, address and signature and was paid for with cash. The CCTV at the post office revealed that the sender of the package is the Chair of the Calare Federal Electorate Council of the NSW National Party, Janelle Culverson. She is a former Cabonne Shire Councillor and aside from the remaining state MPs, is the most senior National Party member in the region.

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The package contained empty wine bottles bearing labels carrying an insulting message.

resignation from her position but it’s been nothing but silence from the Nationals since.

When confronted by police, she admitted to sending it.

Their silence shows they don’t take this issue seriously. It’s as if they really approve of this nastiness and the party operating in the shadows. No leadership. Turn a blind eye.

This wasn’t a joke. The sending of the package and the steps taken to conceal her identity, created fear, anxiety and stress for our whole family, including my children. You wonder who may be watching your home. Should you be leaving the house? Should you be going to Parliament? It raises the fear of escalation because you don’t know what else could be coming or what may happen next. Family members don’t deserve to be brought into politics this way. The National Party have asked for Ms Culverson’s

Sadly, this looks like the new politics. Whatever it takes, whatever the damage. If the home and family of a National Party MP had been subjected to this by an opposing party, the Nationals would have been demanding an immediate apology, resignation and expulsion of that person from that party. The ongoing silence of the Nationals says so much about what that party has become. Is it any wonder that people are cynical?

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GLENROI CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL PHOTOS BY CEC TILBURG Orange City Council hosted the Glenroi Christmas Festival at Glenroi Oval on Friday, December 15. There were plenty of fun activities for everyone including a jumping castle, free haircuts, family portraits, hand-painting baubles and more. And, of course, there was a special visit from Santa Claus.

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ural Aid has provided a night of joy for the flood affected Eugowra community, one year on from the catastrophic flooding event that swept the town.

On Friday 1 December, Rural Aid hosted a free community BBQ at the Eugowra Showgrounds supported by Newmont Cadia, attended by more than 150 locals.

Local musicians provided entertainment and a dozen support agencies provided face-to-face assistance. “Rural Aid has been helping central west farmers long before last year’s flood, and we’ll continue to be here for them long after,” Mr Warlters said.

Rural Aid CEO John Warlters said the small central west town was still in the grips of disaster recovery.

“Through hay drops, financial assistance, wellbeing counselling, volunteer expeditions, water deliveries, and community events, Rural Aid has proudly stood with central west farmers when they’ve need us the most.”

“Understandably, the deadly flash flood is still having a huge impact on Eugowra and its surrounds,” Mr Warlters said.

Rural Aid’s efforts in the ongoing recovery of the region have been boosted by generous business partners.

supporting the local community to help fast-track its recovery.

“Tragically, two Eugowra locals died in the flood. Approximately one third of the town’s population had to be airlifted from their roofs.”

Newmont Cadia is a proud supporter of Rural Aid, and in turn farming families and communities.

workforce have helped with community projects at Eugowra,

“Now, these brave locals are determined to rebuild their homes, their farms, their roads, their fences.”

Cadia General Manager, Tom Lukeman, said Newmont was proud to be the funder of two fodder drops in the region, the first at Merriwa and the second at Tullamore.

“It was Rural Aid’s honour to host a community BBQ to give this hard-working region a ‘night-off ’,” Mr Warlters said.

“The communities where we live, work and play mean everything to us, which is why we have been focused on

“As well as assisting with the initial response, teams from our Cudal and Molong this year. This has included repainting the Cenotaph in Eugowra and most recently, a garden and nature space project at Eugowra Public School,” Tom said. To register with Rural Aid, or to make a donation, visit: https://buyabale2023.ruralaid.org.au/

Christmas Closure OCLife would like to wish all our valuable clients and readers a very Merry Christmas. It’s been a joy bringing you OCLife throughout 2023, and we can’t wait for a bigger and better 2024. The team will be taking a short break, over the holiday season. The Office will be closed from December 20 and re-opens January 15, 2024.

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Jenelle Price and Dianne Styles

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GRACE NOTES CHRISTMAS CAROLS FOR BREAST CANCER PHOTOS BY CEC TILBURG Local singing group “Grace Notes” held a very special performance of Christmas carols on Sunday, December 17, all to raise money for the Breast Cancer Foundation. The performance was hosted in the beautiful home gardens of Diana and Garry Styles of Sampson Street. The fundraising afternoon was held in support of one of the group’s sisters, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, said Grace Notes member Jenelle Price. She said they were delighted with the response and made over $1000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Jenelle added that they hope to make the fundraising performance and annual event.

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LET’S TALK MONEY

with DANIEL MCGREGOR

MAKE YOUR MONEY DO MORE IN 2024

s we close out 2023, it’s a great time to think about what you want to achieve financially in 2024.

What are the goals you would like to achieve going forward? Setting goals is really important. Sadly, the reality for most people is that after setting financial goals, they then don’t put a plan in place to achieve them. This likely leads to them failing to achieve the set goals, which leads to discouragement. Over time, the failure to put in place a financial plan costs people the financial freedom they could have achieved. In many ways, I see the job of a financial adviser as awakening people to the costs of inaction. The longer people take to start implementing a solid financial plan, the harder and harder it gets to play catch-up.

I’ve been lucky enough to work with thousands of people over almost two decades of being a financial adviser. In that time, I’ve noticed there are certain things that have usually held people back when it comes to taking control of their money: • Most people simply don’t know how to get started when it comes to things financial. There is just too much information and there are too many options. • A lot of people prefer to just hope things will work out over time. Hope is not a plan. • Many of us get stuck in the struggles of our day-to-day existence, trying to juggle work, family and social lives. It’s easy to delay putting in place strategies for longterm financial success. • People often focus on saving rather than

investing. While saving is the important first step, the biggest investment mistake is not investing. • Often, people fear investing. Many of us are scared of losing money, meaning that fear can override what are sensible investment strategies and lead us to not take action (Hint: there’s crazy, silly investing that has a high likelihood of failure, and then there’s sensible investing… the get rich slowly plan). • While some people are paralysed with fear of making a mistake, others are overconfident, believing they know what they’re doing. Sometimes they are working on incomplete information (or completely wrong information) that is taking them in the wrong direction. These are some of the things that I’ve found have prevented people from being more financially successful.

A financial adviser can guide you through these hurdles and mental barriers and help you come up with a plan that suits you. At the end of the day, it’s your money and it’s your life, so it is up to you how you choose to handle your finances. If you perhaps feel you haven’t achieved as much as you should have financially, or are unsure of whether or not you are on the right track, then investing in financial advice is something that can pay handsome dividends. One of the common new year’s resolutions people have is to get better with money. If you want to take control of your money in 2024, then book yourself in for a free initial meeting for the new year and find out how a financial plan can make a world of difference to your financial future.

Cheers, Daniel

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Christmas with HELEN MCANULTY

Some years ago I talked with the original oral history group about memories of Christmas. For a little girl Brunhilde, born and brought up in the Black Forest in Germany, it was not Santa Claus, but St Nicholas, who would sort out the good from the bad children when he arrived on December 6.

Dressed in a long gown and a tall hat, he would distribute apples and nuts to the deserving, and administer punishment with a stick of twigs to the unfortunate ones whose behaviour had not been up to scratch. Brunhilde held the Oral History group enthralled with her stories of a very different kind of Christmas. “On the eve of December 25, my father would take me for a walk, and when we came back, I would glimpse a figure in white just disappearing from the room. Legend has it that the Christ-child was delivering presents, but I knew it was really my mother!” About the same time in the hot, dusty little town of Gulargambone, young Margaret’s father, who was the local storekeeper, was loading a bag of small gifts and lollies onto the back of his truck. It was Christmas Eve and, as was his custom, he was distributing presents to the eager little crowd of children who gathered outside his shop. In those difficult days of the Great Depression, it was the only gift that most of them would receive. The early years of the group were shadowed by two major events in the first half of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. This meant that money and goods were in short supply through much of the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s. The telephone, radio, film and

“He’s making a list and checking it twice, Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice, Santa Claus is coming to town.”

print media were the only means of communication, especially for those in the bush, so the huge advertising campaigns we see today were not nearly as sophisticated or prevalent. Apart from religious celebrations which have remained largely unchanged, the marking of the occasion was often very different in those days. It seems to have been a much simpler time with homemade food, clothes and toys.

“The competition amongst the women to be the best cook was quite fierce,” said Marj. “Many of the ingredients were homegrown and only the best was saved for Christmas.”

were away,” said Rob.

“Later, when I was on the road with stock, it just seemed to pass me by.” Betty remembered the exciting times in the days leading up to the big day. “My mother always welcomed visitors with a piece of Christmas cake. It was said that a slice from 12 different cakes would ensure that you would have 12 happy months the next year.” There seemed to be few Christmas trees in those days, at least in Australia. Kerrel Moor remembered decorating a branch from a gum tree which was a far cry from the trees Brunhilde encountered in the Black Forest in Germany.

“The kids loved it,” she said, “and I’m sure it made them a lot better.” Kerrel, a trained nurse added: “The nurses would walk around the wards, carrying hurricane lamps decorated with the red covers from the bedpans to make them glow, and singing carols.” Of course, there was sadness as Brunhilde told us: “Although we were Swiss, my father was conscripted by the German Army early in the war. My lasting memory of Christmas is looking at his photograph which we put on top of the Christmas tree. We never saw him again.”

There was a lot of planning put into it beforehand.

The presents were mostly handcrafted by mothers and aunts, and fathers as well.

Many of those in our Wontama history group were very small children during the war but still remembered good times at Christmas.

Although the days were hot, everyone cooked and they began about a month before the big day, making Christmas cakes and puddings which were hung from the ceiling in cloths.”

The group remembered calico dolls, golliwogs, china dolls made in Japan before the war, and knitted caps and gloves for winter.

Two-wheeler bicycles seemed to be a very popular Christmas present, especially in wartime when petrol was severely rationed.

Dick agreed: “We always had roast chook, which we never ate during the year. We killed only the old ones because we needed the others for eggs. There was always a bottle of specially pickled vegetables on the table and, as there were eight children to feed, we were allowed to choose only one.” Living on the land was certainly a great advantage when it came to Christmas dinner. ”Up until I was ten, we had really good times at Christmas, with roast turkey but, with the war years, everything changed because so many young men

There were often second-hand bikes or tricycles, but very little was bought new in those troubled times. Yvonne recalled the happiness of visiting her grandparents’ house which was near the harbour in Sydney, and the big family gathering at dinner. And it was hot! “In 1943, the thermometer didn’t go below 110 degrees Fahrenheit all night,” said Russel. “We slept on the lawn under the sprinkler.” People in hospital appreciated the special efforts made by the staff to make it a happy day.

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Bobbie, who was a physiotherapist at the Children’s Hospital in the 1940s, recalled the antics of a young resident doctor who, dressed as Santa Claus, rode a motorbike through the wards chased by an irate matron.

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Dolls were given to girls, and the boys liked a tent or sporting equipment. These days most people enjoy airconditioning, unlike Russel’s hot kitchen, and recalled with relish the Christmas cakes and puddings and roast turkey of their childhood. Of course, this is a time of eating and giving and receiving presents but let’s not forget the real message, and be kind to each other. Have a wonderful Christmas everyone! Santa Claus is Coming to Town lyrics copyright 1934, J. Fred Coots, Henry Gillespie.

Phil DONATO MP State Member for Orange Stay Fire Safe this Summer This summer, ensure your safety with these essential tips from Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW)

Over the past few weeks, I've been immersed in the vibrant pulse of our electorate, witnessing the spirit of our community shine through as we approach the

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end of the year. From attending heartwarming school presentations to joining in the festive fervour of community gatherings and Christmas celebrations, it's been an exhilarating journey. As we prepare to bid farewell to 2023, I want to take a moment to extend my warmest wishes to our community. May this holiday season

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be filled with joy, good health, and cherished moments with loved ones. I eagerly anticipate the adventures and opportunities that await us in 2024, as we continue to work together to make our community even stronger. Stay

Had a wonderful chat with OCC Councillor and OCTEC Chairperson, Cr Jeff Whitton about the Glenn Taylor Scholarship Program.

tuned for updates, insights, and stories from our remarkable electorate.

Last year's debut was a smashing success, and I'm thrilled to share that OCTEC is back with the Glenn Taylor Scholarship Program 2024, offering up to $20,000 annually to students residing in Western NSW. This scholarship program is dedicated to the memory of the former Board Member, Glenn Taylor, a true community champion. It's a testament to his unwavering commitment to our region. The scholarship offers different levels of support based on the prospective student's study level, ensuring that everyone gets a fair chance to pursue their dreams.

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Tom Connolly It brought us immense joy to welcome Tom Connolly from Year 10 at Anson Street School to our team. We were truly privileged that Tom selected us for his work experience. Tom, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to you for your invaluable contributions. Your dedication and hard work have been greatly appreciated. We wish you the utmost success in all your future endeavours.

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It's always a pleasure to connect with Marc Mathews, a dedicated champion for our veterans. Marc, along with his team of accredited volunteers at the Veterans Advocacy Service, is committed to offering veterans valuable support in areas such as access to services, well-being, financial assistance, rehabilitation, and compensation. Should you require assistance, please feel free to reach out to Marc directly at 0403 133 506, or you can contact RSL LifeCare at 02 8088 0388. We are here to support our veterans every step of the way.

Eligible sporting clubs and organisations from certain postcodes in the Orange electorate and across regional NSW can apply (check postcode list and eligibility criteria available online at https://www. sport.nsw.gov.au/grants/localsport-defibrillator-grant-program). This program closes when the $500k funding allocation is exhausted or by 1pm on 23 February 2024 whichever is earlier - so don’t delay your application!

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Rachel’s granddaughter Annabel

Rosita and Tim Madden

HAPPY 50TH RACHEL! PHOTOS BY CEC TILBURG Rachel Crawford celebrated her 50th birthday at the family home on Saturday, December 16. Approximately 70 family and friends helped Rachel celebrate her milestone birthday, with some of them travelling down from Queensland for the big occasion. Happy Birthday Rachel!

John and Terry Cullen from Manangatang

Murray Panton and John Cullen Beth Panton, Rachel Crawford, Kerry Preston and Meg Todd

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Rachel with friends who’d come to help celebrate her 50th birthday

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GARDENINGLiFE with CARO WEBSTER

Plants For The Festive Season Christmas and Hanukkah are almost upon us and, for those who observe, it can be busy and joyous but also an expensive time of the year. However, there are several plants that can make your home feel festive and are a cheaper option than many traditional decorations. Some of my favourites include: NSW Christmas Bush: Ceratopetalum gummiferum belongs in the plant family cunoniaceae. This delightful native plant produces red sepals during summer just in time for the festive season. It grows to a tall shrub but, beware, as it can also grow into a tree reaching up to 5m if left to itself. Many people buy them as a small potted plant for table decoration, pop them into their garden after Christmas, only to find that they soon have a large tree to contend with. There is a dwarf variety called ‘Johanna’s Christmas’. You’ll find that our supermarkets and florists will start selling enormous bunches of them soon. Make sure you snip the ends of the branches and change the water regularly to extend their vase life. Hippeastrums: These beautiful bulbous plants are from the amaryllidaceae family and will be appearing in your local nursery now or popping up in cottage gardens throughout the district. In Australia, they flower from December to April and are drought-hardy, although the first frost will cause them to die back in our region. They come in a multitude of colours such as red, pink, orange and yellow. They have strappy leaves (which come after flowering) which look not dissimilar to Agapanthus or Clivea. They make a pretty house decoration but will need to be moved outside after Christmas. They can remain in their pot, requiring a sunny position or light shade with wind protection. Move to a bigger pot every second year, making sure

that the bulb sits proud of the soil. If you decide to plant them into your garden, the same rule applies for the bulb. Keep watered and apply a slow-release fertiliser. They will multiply well if planted in the ground, requiring lifting, separation and replanting every few years. Nearly all bulbs are toxic to the family pet and stock so keep an eye on that. Look for cut blooms in your local florist. Don’t be alarmed if the end of the stem curls, they will still last if you trim and add fresh water. Poinsettia: From the plant family euphorbiacea (known as spurges), Poinsettia hails from Mexico and epitomises festive joy. You’ll find your local nursery or Bunnings overflowing with them now. When small, they make a great table decoration or look lovely dotted around your home. The red ‘petals’ of these plants are bracts and, once they fall, you’ll have a plain green indoor plant on your hands. After Christmas, move them outside until the colder weather starts. Use a slow-release fertiliser and water sporadically when the potting mix feels dry. They abhor wet feet. This is the bonus of the Poinsettia. It will continue to delight you for years if you give it the right amount of love, including potting it up every now and then. It can grow quite large if it’s happy. I’d advise against planting them into your garden as they will be decimated by our frosts. They prefer direct light and a well-drained potting mix but also require a good amount of darkness each day. Give them a go. Cherries: Now is the time for cherries which our wonderful orchardists are currently selling at our local markets and direct from their sheds. They are everywhere and despite a shaky start to the season, they are some of the best I’ve eaten.

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 21

Canobolas Dance Hall A Handpicked Christmas, 6.30pm

FRIDAY DECEMBER 22

The Country Club 5 O’Clock Shadow, live music from 7pm

Odeon 5 Cinema Special Christmas Screening of Elf, 6.30pm

SATURDAY DECEMBER 23

Orange Producers Garage Sale Local fresh food straight from the growers every Saturday morning, 8am-1pm. (Located Bills Beans East courtyard, 148 Mclachlan Street)

The Greenhouse of Orange White Party on the Rooftop Robbie Mortimer and Band on the lawn from 6:30pm The High Tone Pants in the Piano Bar from 8pm DJ Dave O’Hara on the lawn from 9.30pm

Odeon 5 Cinema Special Christmas Screening of Elf, 4.30pm

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Victoria Hotel Justin Landers live in the Beer Garden, 3pm–7pm

The Greenhouse of Orange Brad White on the lawn from 12pm

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ORANGE ART SOCIETY FEATURED ARTIST: DAVID MASON - ‘FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA’ EXHIBITION ON DISPLAY UNTIL JANUARY 13 Since beginning his painting journey in 2005, David Mason has enjoyed his pursuit of capturing the atmosphere of light through realistic landscapes and emotionally resonant portraits. Enthralled by the allure of light as it hits the landscape, David’s signature style thrives on infusing his artworks with a realistic quality while playing with hues to create vibrant, captivating scenes. The legacy of artistry runs in Mason’s veins, sparked by his father, a painter whose influence ignited the artistic flame within him.David’s artistic journey has been a continuous evolution and opportunity for learning.

He honed his craft under the guidance of several mentors at the Orange Art Society. David’s devotion to the Orange Art Society runs deep: he is in his 6th year as president of the society, helping to guide aspiring artists and seasoned talents alike, sharing his expertise and passion through tutoring sessions. David enjoys painting both landscapes and portraits, using both acrylic and oil. David Mason – ‘From the Mountains to the Sea’ is on display at the Orange Art Society Building (Orange Cultural Centre, 22 Sale Street) until January 13, 2024. The gallery is open most days from 10am. If the flags are out come on in!

LOCAL LINE-UP SET TO ROCK AT ORANGE NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT! Local musicians are lined up to rock the North Court this New Year’s Eve at Orange City Council’s free community concert. The New Year’s Eve Concert will be held from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, December 31, and feature live music from local artists Anthea Basha, Matt Arthur and the Lazybones, and Wild Things Run, who recently debuted their new show at the Orange Civic Theatre. “I’m really looking forward to playing music here,” said local musician Matt Arthur, who will be performing a set of original songs on the night.

dressed in beautiful bright colours… listen to some of the music that we’ve got going on,” Cr Hamling said. “Orange is very lucky, we do have a lot of local talent and we’ll be seeing that on New Year’s Eve. Just come down and celebrate!” There will be a diverse range of food stalls at the event, along with a ‘Kids Corner’ to keep younger members of the family entertained with activities, crafts and lawn games. People wishing to attend are encouraged to be heat- and sun-safe by drinking lots of water

“It’s probably the second time I’ll be playing my original music in the local town, so this means a lot to us.”

and wearing plenty of sun protection. It is an alcohol-free event and bag checks will be carried out.

Orange Mayor Jason Hamling is encouraging families, friends and music lovers to come together and celebrate the end of 2023 as a community.

Admission is free but space is limited, so tickets must be booked prior to the event via Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com.au/e/newyears-eve-concert-tickets-772560337767

“I’d love to see people come down here and be

Orange Mayor Jason Hamling is encouraging families, friends and music lovers to come together and celebrate the end of 2023 in the North Court this New Year’s Eve. Mayor Hamling (centre) is pictured with local musicians Anthea Basha and Matt Arthur.

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HARK! CAROLS IN THE COURT PHOTOS BY HENRY DEROOY Locals enjoyed a night of good food and good music in the Orange South Court on Saturday, December 16, at “Hark! Carols in the Court” — an outdoor screening of Christmas favourites recorded by 15 local artists including Clancy Pye, Robbie Mortimer, Megan Woods, and Dave Webb. “Hark! Carols in the Court” was held to raise awareness of Huntington’s Disease and raise money for the local support organisation HD Awareness Orange.

Santa with Elves, Madison and Eloise Gwyne, being chauffeured by Mark Garey

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Lily Fuller-Davison, Macklin Moon, Amanda Fuller, Annie Fuller-Davison, Maggie and Mason Moon.

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“MANDAGERY VIEWS” 852 KURRAJONG ROAD, MANILDRA UPDATED PRICE GUIDE $1,850,000 - $1,950,000 The Location is Hard to Beat, the Lifestyle is Yours to Enjoy “Mandagery Views” presents as a high quality grazing and/or cropping productive property offering a strong profitable lifestyle with convenient access to a range of amenities and services, including excellent schools, and regional airports. • •

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88 acres - 36 Ha 3 bedrooms with an office space that can be converted into a fourth bedroom as well as 2 bathrooms creates a contemporary home highlighted in the idyllic country setting The home has a bright modern open plan living and dining with cathedral ceilings, an impressive kitchen and bathrooms, as well as large bedrooms and a spectacular undercover alfresco area to enjoy the views Separate fully contained 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom cottage Slightly sloping to flat topography with heavy red basalt soils and scattered yellow and white box shade. 18 acres of highly productive Lucerne flats Excellent water security with 32 megalitre irrigation licence, solar equipped bore, situated in a high rainfall region Impressive machinery sheds with ample storage power and concrete floor, plus a hay shed and a shearing shed Large steel sheep and cattle yards with capacity of 140 Ewes and Lambs and 40 cattle Fencing is in excellent stock proof condition

All the work has been done for you, “Manadgery Views” is the ultimate productive property offering a peaceful and private rural lifestyle that most yearn for. Whether you are looking for a grazing, cropping, lifestyle property or just more space, we strongly recommend your inspection.

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Simply Organized

NEW LISTING

Simply Organized

167 Woodward Street, Orange

LAND: 1133 m2

NEW LISTING

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39 Shepherd Drive, Mullion Creek

LAND: 2.02 ha

LAND: 6.43 ha

111 Franklin Road, Orange

LAND: 620 m2

PRICE GUIDE $740,000 - $755,000 OPEN By Appointment ASH BROWN 0417 663 687

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28 Manning Road, Orange

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1185 Packham Drive, Garra (Molong)

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Large Family Home 23 Athol Street Blayney 5 Beds | 2 Bath | 2 Cars

$850,000 - $875,000

5A LILY PILLY PLACE, ORANGE $650,000

Located in North Orange in a quiet street this Modern 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom villa features. • Built-in wardrobes

• Fully enclosed rear yard with deck

• Kitchen with dishwasher and all stainless steel

• Double lock up garage

appliances

• Currently tenanted with lease in place. Ideal

• Open plan lounge/dining

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investment opportunity.

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Large 4 bedroom home plus large studio with kitchen and bathroom This beautifully presented family home in a well-sorted area comes with magnificent views. Featuring: * 4 bedrooms with built-in wardrobes * 2 living areas * large kitchen with dishwasher * Gas heater and split system * Studio with large living quarters, a bedroom and bathroom * Large carport * Enclosed courtyard * Good size shed * Good size yard

Agent: Nicole Anderson 0401 284 320 William Machin Real Estate

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Modern Townhouse Creative Heading near Cook Park

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$835,000

Fabulous Forbes Road

4/51 Moulder Street, Orange

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Unit 5 80 Forbes Road, West Orange

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$770,000

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that inner city Orange has to offer, this near-new

main bedroom is enhanced by a gorgeous ensuite and BIR, the second bedroom with BIR is airy and well-sized and a

townhouse provides style and convenience.

third room can be used as another bedroom or office; giving you plenty of options.

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5 Churchill Avenue, Orange

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NEW LISTING

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU

30 SUNNY SOUTH CRESCENT

9 DISCOVERY DRIVE

Alluring Versatility

Your Ideal Home Awaits

Discover the allure of this four-bedroom residence situated in a familyfriendly neighbourhood. Offering versatile living spaces and a refreshing swimming pool, this home provides a potential filled canvas for your personal touch, blending practical layout with modern possibilities. Also boasting a standalone studio which is a versatile and functional space for a variety of uses.

Discover comfort and versatility at this captivating property. Three living areas, a master suite with ensuite, and modern amenities make for an inviting home. With new paint, a substantial backyard, and a three-car garage, it’s perfect for family living. Just a 5-minute drive to Orange CBD. Arrange your inspection today!

Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

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Price: $765,000

22 BUCKLAND DRIVE

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3/17 ICELY ROAD

Sure to Please

Contemporary Comfort in Convenient Location

Perfectly presented and built to the highest standard, this brand-new four-bedroom, two-bathroom home will please the fussiest of buyers. With many more features than the average home, this property is a credit to its owners and ready for you to move into right now.

Discover contemporary living in East Orange. Just a 7-minute walk from Bills Beans coffee shop and a 3-minute drive to Orange’s town centre, this townhouse boasts three bedrooms upstairs and downstairs the large open plan living area, complete with secure courtyard, means you’ll relish in the comfort of this stylish townhouse.

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Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price Guide: $775,000-$795,000

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

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Contact: Chris Mason 0438 629 417

Price: $739,000

Contact: Chris Mason 0438 629 417

Price: $579,000

NEW LISTING

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU

2 HAMER STREET

1.5

48 BYNG STREET

Sitting Pretty in a Great Location - Subdivision Potential

In the Heart of Central Orange

Only 3 blocks from the CBD, close to Cook Park and sitting on a quarter acre block, this beautiful Federation home is ripe for further renovation or development. High pressed metal ceilings and picture rails give you a taste of yesteryear while the kitchen is nicely updated and the bathroom is new.

Set in the heart of Orange in one of its finest streets, this beautiful home will capture your heart. The only thing more perfect than the location is the home itself which is a fine example of the historic homes that grace the older streets of Orange and are much sought after by discerning buyers.

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3 SWEETHEART DRIVE

Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price Guide: Contact Agent

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10 SUMMER STREET

This home has all the must have features that you could think of. The three living areas give lots of options for work and play, the open plan living area is spacious and the kitchen is well-appointed. This home is perfect for the growing family, so why build when you can move straight in?

Here is a rare opportunity to purchase three, two-bedroom apartments on one title, just a short distance from the CBD. In the past they were vibrant, income generating, short stay apartments and beautiful art gallery. There is real potential to bring these apartments back to life and reap the rewards for years to come.

Price: $869,000

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Chris Mason 0438 629 417

Rare Opportunity – A Solid CBD Investment

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Price: Contact Agent

Sunsational!

Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Hugh Britton 0419 436 399

Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price Guide: Expressions of Interest

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

NEW LISTING

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU

126 MOULDER STREET

1 REGENCY PLACE

Beautiful Beyond Belief

In the Heart of Leafy Westlea

This gorgeous period home filled to the brim with character and charm and magnificent gardens is a true testament to the care that has been lavished upon it. This home is a true delight and has received highquality renovations ensuring that there are many modern conveniences blending seamlessly with the classic features of the home.

Located opposite a park in the leafy heart of Westlea, this one owner home has stood the test of time. The main lounge room is huge and boasts floor to ceiling north facing windows and there is great space both upstairs and downstairs and an easy to maintain backyard.

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Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Price Guide: $1,500,000

39 WENTWORTH LANE

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25 ROBINSON COURT

Nest or Invest Here

As Good as New

You could not find a more perfect starting point for jumping onto the property ladder as owner or investor than this tidy house. In a great area with popular schools within walking distance, it offers a neat and comfortable home. Properties in the Calare area don’t usually hang around for long so inspect while you can.

This gorgeous home has it all, it’s been meticulously maintained and presents like new. You feel welcome instantly as you enter with the high ceilings, lovely neutral colour palette, spacious rooms and quality inclusions throughout setting the tone. Move in and put your feet up, there won’t be any work to do!

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Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Price: $625,000

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

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Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price: $839,000

Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Price: Contact Agent

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU

23 OPHIR STREET

36 HAYWOOD DRIVE

The Home that Keeps on Giving

Come Look, Stay Forever

This is the home that keeps on giving. Full of many lovely features it is set on a huge 1728 sqm block and boasts an elevated view over the CBD. The home is very private with many versatile rooms, the kitchen is custom-made and the gardens are gorgeous. Come and see what’s on offer.

Situated in the Ribbon Gums Estate this home boasts beautiful vistas over Somerset Park with direct access to walking paths and wetlands. The attention to detail makes this home truly stunning and with so much to offer it is a “must see” to fully appreciate the statement its making.

0419 232 416

Price Guide: $1,400,000-$1,500,000

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Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Price: $999,000

NEW PRICE

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Contact: Adam Savage

13 WENTWORTH LANE

64 CHURCHILL AVENUE

Great Home, Good Location

Dual Income Opportunities Await

In a great location close to schools and parks, this tidy home is perfect as an investment property with many of the desirable boxes ticked for tenants or it would also make a great downsizer or first home as there is loads of opportunity for you to add some special touches if you desire.

This cottage offers you the unique combination of a comfortable residence plus large industrial size shed. The two-bedroom property has a renovated kitchen and bathroom. The 12.9 x 14.9 metre shed has three-phase power, cement floor, toilet and two separate offices or storage rooms. Rent as one or possibly rent out as two properties.

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Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price:$599,000

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Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price: $479,000

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU 3 McLachlan Street

Just Move In

Price: $649,000

Price: $849,000 Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

A Versatile Floor Plan for Modern Living

1 Jaeger Avenue

Price: $439,000 Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Pop it On Your List

This home has recently undergone some wonderful upgrades that buyers will love. The new kitchen is fantastic with all new appliances and the bedrooms all have brand new floor to ceiling LA Wardrobes to name a couple. All you need to do is just move in and enjoy the fruits of the current owners’ labour.

A home in a desirable location with space for the whole family on a large block? Look no further than this spectacularly spacious home on 1148 square metres, superbly located in a quiet cul-de-sac. Featuring a flexible floorplan, the home can be turned into whatever you wish.

In a quiet street in a handy South Orange location, this home offers lots of extras for the price. There are two large bedrooms and two living areas, which is a real bonus. Suitable as an investment with good rental potential or a great start for a first home buyer.

12 Downey Crescent

5, 6 & 9/99 Bathurst Road

14 Park Lane

North Orange

Price Guide: $729,000 - $749,000 Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Price Guide: Contact Agent for Prices

Executive Living Redefined

Price: $785,000 Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Parkside Perfection

2.5

You wouldn’t think this home is 10 years old as it presents so well, is in very good order and the layout works very well. The open plan kitchen/dining/living areas are airy with plenty of natural light and flows nicely out to the pergola with serene views over the adjoining reserve.

These beautiful brand-new villas are redefining executive living for the discerning lover of luxury looking for a no fuss lifestyle with benefits. There are a number of villas and townhouses of various sizes and configurations available. As one of Orange’s newest gated complexes, Kinross Mews offers secure and private living spaces in a lovely setting and a great location.

A haven for those seeking an affordable property in a first-class location. Three generous bedrooms, open plan kitchen dining living area leading onto a large verandah with fantastic views plus versatile downstairs area. With its spacious layout, expansive private block and picturesque outlook, this home has endless potential.

27/209A Hill Street

26B Winter Street

4 Kearneys Drive

Price: $590,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Spacious Townhouse

Price: $579,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Packing a Punch

This townhouse is bigger than you think. The open plan living and dining area is spacious and bright, the kitchen is a fantastic size and there are three bedrooms and two bathrooms. With a backyard that is private and secure you have a townhouse that really ticks all the boxes.

For its size, this semi-detached home really packs a punch with its well-designed floorplan and lots of great features. The kitchen and dining area has plenty of room, there’s a bright lounge room, two bathrooms and a single garage with internal access. An easy investment or perfect home for someone.

9 Elsham Avenue

33 North Street

Price Guide: $629,000 - $649,000 Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Value Packed

This home needs to be inspected to fully appreciate what’s on offer. Step inside and be amazed by the lovely condition and presentation of the property. The lovely large kitchen is well equipped and the huge lounge/family area overlooks the lovely pool and cabana area. It’s all here and ready for the new owner.

2 Bimble Close

Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Price: $360,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Nice Home, Great Shed

This home, with its tastefully updated kitchen and bathroom, is perfect for a first home buyer or investor. The big jobs inside have been done and the block is a very manageable 493 sqm in size. The backyard has a great shed with a covered patio area offering a shady spot to sit in summer.

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

Price Guide: $819,000 Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Huge 1518m2 Block

This home has huge development potential (STCA) with its large 1518m2 block and ideal 6-metre-wide side access to the backyard. The property is big enough for a second dwelling or units. Alternatively, this solid three-bedroom house, with its open plan kitchen, dining/living area and wide verandahs front and back could be the ideal family home.

9/211 Hill Street

Surprisingly Spacious

Price Guide: $570,000-$590,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

This surprisingly spacious unit is a rare find with a simple and practical layout plus three bedrooms and two bathrooms. With a living and dining area that can easily be zoned into usable spaces and well-appointed kitchen, this would make a lovely first home or retirement option or a good investment.

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU 60 Orchard Grove Road

Price Guide: $220,000-$240,000 Contact: Adam Savage 0419 232 416

Ready To Build on Now

3/101 Old Orange Road, Manildra

Price: $199,000 Contact: Chris Mason 0438 629 417

Serene Country Living Awaits

Lot 1 Fanning Lane

Price: $350,000 Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Your New Hobby Awaits

Here’s an affordable 744m2 block of land in an established culde-sac that’s ready to start building on now. Capitalise on the views over Orange and towards Mt Canobolas. Full services available including power, water &amp; sewer. There are few blocks available in Orange in this price range so get your plans ready.

If you’re looking to build your dream home, look no further than this superb one-acre block on the outskirts of Manildra. Power and town water connections run along the front boundary streamlining the process of establishing connections for your future home. This property offers an opportunity to create your own private sanctuary.

Only 10 minutes north of Orange in a quiet lane, this productive 12.5 Ha (31 acres) has much to offer the budding hobby farmer. Fenced into 2 paddocks, it has fertile soils and is well watered with a dam and unused bore. There is no building permission, but plenty of sites for a shed.

Lot 102 Hill Street, Molong

3 Georgia Oak Avenue

Lot 8 Merga Street, Cudal

Price: $380,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Price: $498,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Price Guide: $140,000 - $150,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

You’ll Feel Like You’re in the Bush

Ready to Go!

Large Block Ready for Building

Building your home here will have you feeling like you are living in the bush with a feeling of seclusion and privacy rarely experienced in town. The block is tucked away in its own little pocket on 1.47ha with nicely distanced neighbours and with lots of established vegetation adding interest.

This block of land is nicely placed in a new estate in a very sought after part of West Orange. With a great size of 1,002 sqm, the block has the northerly aspect to the front and is ready to go with all town services available and registration done.

If you have been waiting for the right block, in a rural setting, to build on, then this may be just what you are looking for. Set on the fringe of Cudal, this block is a very generous 2400sqm, allowing plenty of room for your dream home with plenty of space for extra sheds and extensive gardens.

6 Brazier Road

Price: $275,000 24 St Vincent Welsh Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948 Way, Blayney

176 King Street, Molong

Prime Location & Lovely Views

Great Sized Block

Price: $319,000

Price: $200,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

NEW PRICE

Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Ready to Build On!

This block is ready to build on. Within 5km of the CBD it is situated in a brand new estate, close to North Orange shops, gym, childcare centres, Charles Sturt University, the Adventure Playground and Botanic Gardens. It is 579 sqm with views to Mt Canobolas and is registered with full town services available.

Located in one of the best and quietest estates in Blayney, this 2,107sqm block offers the sought-after combination of space and elevation; with views over the beautiful rural countryside. Full town services are available, the only thing you need is your imagination. House plans are available upon request. Inspections are welcome and easily arranged.

This 2,023 sqm block is a great size and is ready to build on. It has ample room for a home and big shed with plenty of space around, so you don’t feel like you’re hemmed in. Located close to the town centre with services ready and waiting.

Lots 2, 3, 6 & 7 Penrose Close, Molong

Price: $199,000 37 Belmore Street, Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948 Cargo

Price: $249,000 Lot 2 Creek Street, Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948 Cudal

Outstanding Lifestyle Blocks – Only 4 Left!

Big, Flat Block Ready to Go

Village Life is Calling

These lifestyle blocks in the brand new “Westridge Estate” are outstanding. A generous 1 acre each, they are quite level and the boundaries are fully fenced. The choice is yours on how to best position your dream home for that all important northerly aspect and to make the most of the views towards Mt Canobolas.

Nestled away in the quiet country town of Cargo, this 2,000 m² block is flat and ready to build on. The property has town water available and power at the front gate. Leave your car at home as the property is within easy walking distance to the local amenities. House and Land package available.

Price From: $365,000-$385,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Village life is calling in the lovely little town of Cudal. This new subdivision of only three blocks offers an opportunity to build your country retreat and enjoy all that a village like Cudal has to offer. Lot 2 is 4,078 sqm (1 acre approx) with a large building envelope and established double garage and trees. House and Land package available.

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Team at Peter Fisher! It’s been another busy year in real estate for our sales and property management teams and we will be taking a break over the holiday period to refresh ourselves before we launch into 2024. Orange Office: Closed from 12.00 pm on Thursday 21 December 2023 and re-opening on Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 9.00 am Molong Office: Closed from 4.00 pm on Wednesday, 20 December 2023 and re-opening on Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 10.00 am

10 Lucknow Street, Spring Hill

Price: $660,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Escape the Hustle and Bustle

Price: $550,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Lovely Home with Fantastic Views

1.5

63 Main Street, Cudal

Price: $449,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Sweet Country Charm

“Ryedale” is a gorgeous character-filled home on a beautiful wide block in the heart of Spring Hill. This home is so pretty and has so much to offer someone wanting the peace and tranquillity of village living. You can truly make this your own hideaway from the hustle and bustle of life.

This home has the most amazing elevated entertaining deck with gorgeous views. The covered and partly enclosed area is huge with plenty of space for relaxing. The home is lovely with a modern kitchen, dining area and lounge room. Not too far from the town centre, there is plenty to recommend this home to buyers.

This sweet property, on a big block, has a country town charm all of its own. The façade of the house will make you think of a rustic log cabin and the inside is as neat as a pin with four spacious bedrooms, cosy lounge and updated kitchen. Could be the treechange you’ve been searching for.

18 George Street, Molong

Bridgewater, 4469 Mitchell Highway

124 Bank Street, Molong

Price: $760,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

An Opportunity Awaits You

As you cross the huge front verandah and enter the spacious lounge room with its cute bay windows, it becomes obvious that this house is bigger inside than you might think. The house is set on a huge block of 2,023 sqm and there are four bedrooms, generous kitchen, two bathrooms plus big sheds.

92 Gidley Street, Molong

Price: $1,450,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Rural Life Within Your Reach

Properties like this 100 acre parcel of land don’t often come along. This property with its usable arable land, Molong Creek frontage, classic farmhouse with verandah plus plenty of additional infrastructure offers an enticing combination of lifestyle and small scale farming. Create that rural lifestyle you’ve always dreamed of.

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

Price: $499,000 Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Great Start, Excellent Location

This home has good bones and would be perfect for a first home or investment. With a good layout and plenty of scope to add your own touches, it is perfectly liveable as is. Tucked away behind established trees on a generous block, this nicely presented home will set you up for a great start.

39 SALE ST, ORANGE | 42 BANK STREET, MOLONG | 6363 1000 | PFISHER.COM.AU

53 SOUTH STREET, MOLONG

45 SHEPHERD DRIVE, MULLION CREEK

Modern Country Family Home

Perfect Blend of Privacy & Space

This grand family home, with its inviting modern country feel, welcomes you the moment you drive up to it. Situated on a generous block, this home feels warm, welcoming and exactly what a home should feel like. Perfect for a large family or entertaining it really is something very special.

Nestled on 6.6 acres, this semi bush block not only gives you the privacy you are craving, but also plenty of space. The property boasts two modern, three bedroom homes. The main home is open plan living at its best and the second residence is a modern and comfortable container home, offering a variety of uses.

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74 PITTMAN DRIVE, BLAYNEY

Contact: Jacob Evans 0428 130 789

Price: Contact Agent

3.5

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87 GIDLEY STREET, MOLONG

Let the Charm and Elegance Entice You

This spacious family home has been meticulously designed and crafted and offers an extraordinary living experience. The features are many and an inspection is a must to truly appreciate the scope of what is included in this home. This home is truly a testament to grandeur and would make a wonderful forever home.

Perfectly poised to take in the sunshine and admire the ever-changing vista over the surrounding farmland, this beautiful old weatherboard home offers an enticing mix of the charm and elegance of yesteryear with comfortable modern living. The large elevated entertaining area and its views will be the envy of all your friends.

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Price Guide: $1,799,000

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Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price Guide: $1,050,000-$1,150,000

A Testament to Grandeur

Contact: Chris Mason 0438 629 417

Contact: Michael Wright 0421 360 948

Price Guide: $899,000- $930,000

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

Orange Property MARKET

Hidden Slice of Paradise 111 Nashdale Lane, Nashdale 4 BED | 2.5 BATH | 4 CAR

$1,795,000

119 Peisley Street Orange NSW 2800 02 6362 4755 www.awn.net

LIVESTOCK & PROPERTY

FOR SALE

92 Warrendine Street, Orange

1 Pitt Street, Millthorpe This sizable vacant block is situated in a desirable location in Millthorpe surrounded by established homes and gardens and is conveniently located close to shops, Millthorpe primary school, cafes, restaurants and the CBD. Zoned RU5-Village zone in Blayney Shire, it will surely be in demand. This is one for the family looking to build now as rarely are blocks offered these days in the established areas of Millthorpe. Time to get the house plans out and contact your builder to make the start on building the house of your dreams. Size

1,121 m2

Price Contact

$450,000

If you are looking for that central location and want plenty of space for the growing family than this is the one you MUST inspect. Such a great location, close to schools, Aquatic Centre, restaurants, and only two blocks to the CBD A renovated modern kitchen with quality inclusions. Formal lounge and separate dining room, family room, theatre room and teenager’s retreat Large bedrooms, all with built-ins, the fourth bedroom could be used as a study. Covered outdoor entertaining area. Fully enclosed yard and a shed ideal as a workshop or gym. Utilities 4 Bed I 2 Bath I 2 Car

Marie Fox 0412 166 132

Price Contact

$895,000 Marie Fox 0412 166 132

FOR SALE

16 El Paso Place, Orange

53 Kenna Street, Orange

Located in a family friendly quiet cul-d-sac in West Orange this home is sure to impress. Nearby you will find parks, playgrounds, childcare centres, shops, and walkways. Generous master bedroom with built-ins. Galley kitchen with huge storage and bench space Four generous living areas, room for all the family North facing sunroom engulfed by natural light and warmth. Separate formal lounge and family room with split system . The fourth living area would be great for those with hobbies, or for a children’s room. Plenty of vehicle accommodation

This Federation home was the original homestead for the area. The home has been cared for and well maintained and offers many features of houses of this era including a fireplace, lead light windows and ornate patterned ceilings. Formal lounge with fireplace and patterned ornate ceiling. Seperate dining room with wine cupboard to store your wines. Eat in kitchen, plenty of bench space and storage. Family room plus office ideal if you work from home or hobby room Outdoor covered entertaining area and workshop/gym. Agent declares an interest

Utilities 3 Bed I 1 Bath I 4 Car

Utilities 3 Bed I 2 Bath I 1 Car

Price Contact

$660,000 Marie Fox 0412 166 132

Price

$795,000

Contact

Marie Fox 0412 166 132

NEW LISTING

Forthcoming Auction

FOR SALE

9 Pym Street, Millthorpe

273 Bocobra Road, Manildra

Number 9 Pym St is a prominent and substantial double brick property located in the heart of the historic Millthorpe CBD, circa 1912, which offers 2 retail premises at street level and a substantial self-sufficient accommodation upstairs with great views of the village. Recently tastefully renovated and rewired on a 522.4sqm block with off street parking and 3 phase power options, all 3 premises are currently under long term leases making it the perfect opportunity for regional or metropolitan investors. Number 9 Pym St presents a unique opportunity to secure a prominent building in a sought after and historic Central Tablelands village. Call today for more information or to arrange an inspection.

An ideal rural lifestyle property situated 11km west of Manildra in Central West NSW set on 228 hectares, or 563 acres, and spread over 5 lots. Power is connected and there are numerous spots that would be ideal to build a home. Currently destocked of livestock but providing a mix of grazing (approx. 70%) and bush country (approx. 30%) with some country potentially suitable to cropping. Watered via dual frontage to the semipermanent Manildra Creek that goes back to permanent waterholes in a dry time and 2 reliable dams.A property ideal as a first time or add on agricultural enterprise, or to be enjoyed for recreational and lifestyle pursuits.

Utilities 3 Bed I 2 Bath off street parking

Price

Forthcoming Auction

Contact

Tom Campbell 0459 022 477

Size

563 Acres / 288 Ha approx.

Price Contact

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

$860,000 Tom Campbell 0459 022 477

We would like to take this opportunity to wish our valued clients and community a safe and joyous holiday season. We look forward to working with you in 2024 for a successful New Year.

Merry Christmas

After just an eight-minute drive from the Orange boundary and down a pretty lane, you will find yourself immersed in a stunning slice of paradise where all your cares will feel very far away.

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Hidden away behind a solar powered gate lies a tree-filled property with a warm and inviting home surrounded by beautiful gardens and accompanied by a soundtrack of constant bird song and the soothing sounds of nature. There is a profound feeling of peace and serenity that flows through the gorgeous home with its raked ceilings with timber features, skylights and amazing picture windows throughout that let the light stream in and bring the outside world in. The lounge room is a delightful and cosy space with a wood fire and is a wonderful space to just sit, relax and unwind while gazing at the pretty views. The dining area is perfect place for family and friends to gather and the kitchen with it’s walk through pantry has a classic country feel with its timber benchtop and rare wood burning stove nicely complimented by modern appliances. The master bedroom suite is a real haven and so spacious with direct access to the outdoors, a huge walk-in robe and a luxurious ensuite with perfectly positioned bath with a view. There are three other comfortable bedrooms with built-in robes, one of which could easily be used as a second living area if you wish. The family bathroom functions just as it should and there are three toilets in total including the powder room off the laundry. You will truly love the cottage gardens and shady trees that have flourished from the care and attention of the owners. They beautifully compliment the outdoor spaces including the vine covered pergola which is just meant for outdoor dining, the lush green lawn, stylish water feature and bordering hedges. On 13 acres there is plenty of space for the kids to have a pony or ride bikes and there is a dam and good fences throughout. Added to this is the infrastructure needed for a rural lifestyle including plenty of sheds with space for vehicles, a dedicated workshop or studio, firewood, machinery and the like. This is a property that must be personally inspected to fully appreciate the feelings of tranquillity evoked by this much-loved home and its idyllic surrounds. You could be a million miles away from anywhere.

PETER FISHER REAL ESTATE CONTACT: ADAM SAVAGE 0419 232 416

‘Bullen Basin’ 4166 Freemantle Road, Bathurst NSW Mixed Farming and Lifestyle Remarkable 2,226* acre property in the Central Tablelands, offering a perfect blend of mixed grazing & natural beauty. 45 mins from Bathurst & Orange, & approx 3.5 hours from Sydney, providing easy access to city while still offering an escape into nature. • Permanent spring runs through the property • 23 paddocks, 14 dams &bhigh-capacity bore • All-weather direct road access • Excellent stock proof fencing and large livestock yards

For Sale Contact Agent Ben Redfern 0457 770 062 Kurt Waterford 0439 642 390 eldersem.com.au * Approx.

40 Strachan Road, Orange NSW A Dream Property Awaits • 10 acres* with excellent sheds, water security & modern home • 20* min from Orange CBD, 3.5* hours to Sydney CBD • Open plan design, four bedroom, two bathroom home surrounded by established gardens • Oversized heavy duty 4-bay shed - ideal & fit for purpose to operate a range of businesses. Fully enclosed sunroom, woodfire place, water, power, and a full bathroom

For Sale $1,850,000 Ben Redfern 0457 770 062 Katie Christopherson 0400 637 559 eldersem.com.au * Approx.

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

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ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

FOR LEASE, COMMERCIAL

Approx. 207sqm

89 Wingewarra Street, Dubbo Looking for the perfect office/consulting space to set up shop in Dubbo? Look no further than 89 Wingewarra Street! This property offers an unbeatable location in the heart of the city, with plenty of foot traffic passing by every day.

For Lease, Commercial Inspection By Appointment

This property is versatile and can be adapted to suit a wide range of businesses suitable for retail, professional services, entertainment, medical and health consulting rooms and other potential uses. With a spacious layout and plenty of natural light, it’s the perfect place to showcase your products and services to potential customers. Featuring 7 office spaces, 6 car parking spaces, ducted air conditioning & a split system along with full bathroom facilities plus a storage room, plus kitchen facilities.

Richard Tegart 0418 634 868 rtegart@raywhite.com

At just $55,000 per annum, plus outgoings this property is a great opportunity for anyone looking to start or expand their business in Dubbo. Don’t miss out on this chance to secure a prime location in one of the city’s most sought-after areas. Contact us today to arrange a viewing!

WHY WAIT?

Ray White Dubbo | 02 6884 1555

raywhitedubbo.com.au ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

TIMEWARP

with ORANGE AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

LIFEandTIMES with ANGUS GIBB

MERRY CHRISTMAS We’ve made it to the end of another year. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad that we are here. The excitement and expectation for Christmas Day is palpable. The sight of the covers being pulled off the caravans is adding to the sense of expectation that holidays are now here. School’s out. The holidays have begun. I really love this time of year as everything slows down and people begin to unwind. For myself, I’ve got one more big event to get through (our Christmas Day service) then it’s time to catch up with the family. As I think back on the year that was, it has been filled with ups and downs, adventure and slow grinds. There have been highs and lows, laughter and tears. But it is all coming to an end and very soon we will be in a new year. The new year will bring with it opportunities and challenges and times of change – but that’s for another column. For now, it is time to hang up the stockings, wrap the last presents, pull the meat out of the freezer, pack the car and get ready for the holidays. As we celebrate Christmas, I am looking forward to

reflecting once more on the hope that is found in the coming of Jesus into the world. This is the reason for the season and the hope that sustains me, not just at this time of the year, but every day. If you want to come along and hear more of this, you are most welcome to attend our Christmas Day service at Orange Presbyterian Church which starts at 9am. But for now, it’s time to sign off for another year. Thanks so much for following my weekly ramblings each week. I hope and pray that these columns have given you a perspective on life that you perhaps haven’t considered before. It has been a real joy to write these columns and I hope you have enjoyed them too. A big shout out to the team at OCLife for their amazing work at providing this wonderful paper to our great city. May you know God’s blessing this Christmas and the hope that is found in Jesus and I pray that you will have a safe and blessed new year. Until then, thanks for joining this journey and I look forward to what the new year brings.

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

DRAUGHT HORSE AT LUCKNOW ORCHARD Duke the draught horse waits patiently while apples are picked at Ken Floyd’s orchard at Lucknow in March 1978. Mr Floyd (right) was at that time one of the few orchardists in the State who still used horses to haul fruit during picking. The other pickers were Ken’s son Ross (in the cart) and Harry Muller. Photo courtesy of the CWD Negative Collection, Orange & District Historical Society. The society holds a working day at Heritage Cottage, 148 March Street, each Wednesday from 10.30am to 4pm, with a lunch break from 12.30-1.30pm. Volunteers are available to answer inquiries at that time.

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ORANGE TENPIN BOWLS 39TH ANNUAL AWARDS

Orange Tenpin Bowl finished up its 40th-anniversary competitive season with its long-running OTBA Annual Awards Night. Orange Tenpin Bowl opened in September 1983, and just one year later, in December 1984 they held their first awards night. The awards have been given every year since, although no awards presentation day was held during Covid restrictions. These Awards are presented to bowlers by the Orange Tenpin Bowling Association committee acknowledging their achievements, such as the highest-scoring game or series during the year whilst bowling at the Orange Tenpin Bowl in the league. The Bowler of the Year for each category is chosen with a points system which is awarded to bowlers for participation in a or multiple leagues, bowling in local, regional, state, national or international tournaments with additional points awarded to their placing in these events and points also awarded for representative teams participation. The Bowler with the highest number of points becomes the 2023 Winner in their category. The Most Improved Bowler is awarded to the bowler who has improved the most pins from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. The Most Prestigious Award is given to the recipients for their contribution to the sport and the OTBA members by giving their time, and helping out whenever possible. They are nominated by other members because of their commitment to Bowlers and the Orange Tenpin Bowl and or the OTBA. Congratulations to all the recipients of the 2023 OTBA Annual Awards — you all are so very deserving!

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2023 OTBA AW ARD WINNERS

: High Individual Game - Junior Gi rl — Armilla Ham High Individual mond (177) Game - Junior Bo y — Brody Jade High Individual zak (269) Game - Female — Lauren Mason High Individual (266) Game - Male — Ni ck Flannery (300 High 3-game Se ) ries - Junior Girl — Jade O'Conno High 3-game Se r (406 series) ries - Junior Boy — Ben Barlow (6 High 3-game Se 43 series) ries - Female — La uren Mason and High 3-game Se Tash Brett (710 ries - Male - Nick series) Flannery (799 se Junior Girl Bow ries) ler of the Year — Ar milla Hammond Junior Boy Bow ler of the Year — Casey Perry Bowler of the Ye ar - Female — Ta sh Brett Bowler of the Ye ar - Male — Nick Fl annery Bowler of the Ye ar - Senior Fem ale — Marilyn Sc Bowler of the Ye hwenke ar - Senior Male — Greg Shapter Bowler of the Ye ar - Disabled Fe male — Michelle Bowler of the Ye Bostjancic ar - Disabled Mal e — David Hayw Most Improved ard Average Bowle r of the Year — M Most Prestigious atthew Woodham Award - Male — Ken McLachlan Most Prestigious and Nathaniel M Award - Female ason — Jenny Liverm ore and Julie Sw allow

Lightning over Molong during a recent early morning storm. Photo by Shane Lear. Have you snapped a great photo around our region? Well, we’d love to see it and share it with our readers! Send your photos to reception@oclife.com.au

ORANGE CITY LIFE | DECEMBER 21, 2023 — JANUARY 17, 2024

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 The Great Australian Bee Challenge. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Vera. 2.30 Christmas With Poh. 3.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Christmas Spaces. 3.55 Back In Time For Dinner. Final. 5.00 Back Roads. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 Back In Time For The Corner Shop. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Camilla’s Country Life. 8.30 Midsomer Murders. 10.00 Life. 11.00 Wakefield. 11.55 Rage.

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.15 Paddington Station 24/7. 11.05 Wonderful World Of Baby Animals. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.15 The Wonderful World Of Chocolate. 3.10 Mastermind Aust. 3.40 The Cook Up. 4.10 The Supervet. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.30 Christmas Carols From London Coliseum. 8.30 Cecil: The Real Lion King. 9.25 Lapland: The Ultimate Winter Wonderland. 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 MOVIE: Candy Coated Christmas. (2021) 2.00 Border Security: International. 2.30 Surf Patrol. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 7News Local. 6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens Summer. 8.30 MOVIE: We Bought A Zoo. (2011) Matt Damon, Colin Ford. 11.05 MOVIE: Tully. (2018) 1.05 12 Monkeys. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 NBC Today.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 MOVIE: Family For Christmas. (2015) 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 For The Love Of Pets. 8.30 MOVIE: Jingle All The Way. (1996) Arnold Schwarzenegger. 10.15 MOVIE: Four Holidays. (2008) 11.50 MOVIE: Family For Christmas. (2015) 1.30 Tipping Point. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 10 News First: Midday. 1.00 Dr Phil. 2.00 Christmas With The Australian Women’s Weekly. 3.00 Entertainment Tonight. 3.30 Judge Judy. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. Final. 7.30 The Graham Norton Show. 9.30 My Life Is Murder. 11.30 Good Sam. 12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 (22) Kids’ Programs. 5.55 Octonauts. 6.30 Lu And The Bally Bunch. 7.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You At Christmas? 8.30 MOVIE: Boy. (2010) James Rolleston. 9.55 Would I Lie To You At Christmas? 10.25 QI. 11.00 Ghosts. 11.30 Killing Eve. 12.15 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 1.05 Close. 5.00 Kids’ Programs.

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6.00 (31) WorldWatch. 10.00 Shortland St. 12.00 The Indian Pacific: The Full Journey. 2.40 Australia’s War On Feral Cats. 3.15 WorldWatch. 5.15 Shortland Street. 5.45 Vs Arashi. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 Naughty And Nice: Sex Toy Britain. 10.15 Planet Sex With Cara Delevingne. 11.10 Limetown. 12.10 Letterkenny. 3.10 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 12.00 Better Homes. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 Cities Of The Underworld. 3.00 Animal SOS Australia. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 10.30 Escape To The Perfect Town. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (81) Programs. 12.00 Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Garden Gurus Moments. 2.05 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: The Man Who Loved Redheads. (1955) 5.30 Saved & Remade. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: The World Is Not Enough. (1999) 11.05 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (53) Shopping. 8.00 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 8. Melbourne City v Central Coast Mariners. Highlights. 8.30 Dr Phil. 9.30 Diagnosis Murder. 11.30 Jake And The Fatman. 12.30 JAG. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Hawai’i. 10.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.15 A Million Little Things. 12.15 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ (23) Programs. 4.00 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 4.20 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Kung Fu Panda. 5.20 Miraculous. 5.45 Hotel Transylvania. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin. 7.35 MOVIE: Early Man. (2018) Eddie Redmayne. 9.00 Shaun The Sheep. 9.30 Wallace And Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death. 10.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 11.15 Close.

6.00 Morning (66) Programs. 11.30 The Big Adventure. 1.00 Yummy Mummies. 2.00 Farmer Wants A Wife. 3.30 Modern Family. 4.00 The Goldbergs. 4.30 MOVIE: Curly Sue. (1991) 6.30 MOVIE: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. (2018) 8.30 MOVIE: Last Cab To Darwin. (2015) Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver, Ningali Lawford. 11.05 MOVIE: Hollow Man. (2000) 1.20 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (64) Programs. 11.30 American Restoration. 12.00 American Pickers. 1.00 Pawn Stars. 2.00 Motor MythBusters. 3.00 Timbersports. 3.30 Hustle & Tow. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 8.30 MOVIE: Blade Runner 2049. (2017) Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana De Armas. 11.50 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. (82) 12.00 Starting Up, Starting Over. 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 Kids’ Programs. 5.45 MOVIE: Snowed In For Christmas. (2021) 7.30 MOVIE: Dolittle. (2020) 9.30 MOVIE: K-9. (1989) 11.35 Under The Dome. 1.30 Life After Lockup. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 (52) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 NBL Slam. 7.30 Becker. 8.30 Seinfeld. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 Becker. 1.00 The Big Bang Theory. 1.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 How We Roll. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

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FRIDAY, December 22

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6.00 DW English News. 6.30 Al Jazeera. 7.00 BBC News At Six. 7.30 France 24 English News. 8.00 DD India Prime Time News. 9.10 Peer To Peer. 9.40 Lap Of Luxury: Escapes Down Under. 10.10 Paul O’Grady For The Love Of Dogs Xmas. 12.00 BBC News At Ten. 12.30 ABC World News Tonight With David Muir. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix Final. Highlights. 4.40 Kelly Clarkson: When Christmas Comes Around. 5.35 Wonders Of The World I Can’t See. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Secrets Of Britain’s Historic Houses & Gardens. 8.40 Highclere: The Real Downton Abbey. 9.35 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys: The Neapolitan Line, Italy. 10.30 Secrets Of The Royal Palaces. 11.20 Rex In Rome. 1.10 The Indian Pacific: The Full Journey. 3.50 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Royal Randwick Raceday. From Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney. Christmas At The Valley. From The Valley, Melbourne. Bernborough Plate. From Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens Summer. 7.30 Carols In The Domain. 10.00 NSW Schools Spectacular: Fabulous. 12.45 12 Monkeys. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Get Clever. 5.00 My Greek Odyssey: West Coast, Crete.

6.00 Hello SA. 6.30 A Current Affair. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra Summer. 12.00 Cybershack. 12.30 Great Australian Detour. 1.05 Iconic Australia. 2.15 Great Getaways. 3.15 MOVIE: Journey Back To Christmas. (2017) Candace Cameron Bure, Oliver Hudson, Brooke Nevin. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Country House Hunters Australia. 6.00 Nine News Saturday. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Christmas With Delta. 8.30 MOVIE: Fred Claus. (2007) Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti. Santa Claus’s cranky older brother comes to stay with him at the North Pole. (PG) 10.50 The Hundred With Andy Lee. 11.45 MOVIE: Charming Christmas. (2016) (G) 1.20 Country House Hunters Australia. 2.00 The Incredible Journey Presents. 2.30 Cybershack. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Helping Hands.

6.00 What’s Up Down Under. 6.30 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef. 7.00 Reel Action. 7.30 My Market Kitchen. 8.00 iFish. 8.30 Farm To Fork. 9.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 9.30 10 Minute Kitchen. 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday. 12.00 Luxury Escapes. 12.30 The Yes Experiment. 1.00 The Bachelors Australia. 2.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Christmas. 3.30 Luca’s Key Ingredient. 4.00 My Market Kitchen. 4.30 Farm To Fork. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Jamie Oliver: Cooking For Less. 7.00 The Dog House. 8.00 Ambulance. 10.30 CSI: Vegas. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 Authentic. 5.00 Hour Of Power.

6.00 Kids’ (22) Programs. 1.55 Hoopla. 2.20 Grace’s Amazing Machines. 2.55 Aliens Love Underpants And... 3.30 Play School. 4.00 Andy’s Wild Adventures. 4.35 Bea’s Block. 5.05 Pfffirates. 5.30 Kiya And The Kimoja Heroes. 5.55 Octonauts. 6.30 Fireman Sam. 6.45 Shaun The Sheep. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.15 The Stand Up Sketch Show. 9.40 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10.05 Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2021: Opening Night. 11.00 Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road. 12.05 MythBusters. 12.55 Inside Portlandia. 1.20 Portlandia. 1.45 Close. 5.00 In The Night Garden. 5.25 Wallykazam! 5.50 Kids’ Programs.

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6.00 TRT World (31) Newshour. 6.50 Indian Country Today News. 7.20 FBC News. 7.55 France 24 Feature. 8.10 ABC America Nightline. 8.40 CBC The National. 9.30 BBC News At Six. 10.00 Shortland St. 12.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 1.30 Gymnastics. FIG Artistic World Cup. Individual Apparatus. Highlights. 3.35 Lee Lin Chin’s Fashionista. 3.50 BBC News At Ten. 4.20 ABC World News Tonight With David Muir. 4.50 PBS News. 5.50 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. 6.45 The Toys That Built The World. 7.35 Impossible Engineering. 8.30 Age Of Rage: Australian Punk Revolution. 10.00 Glastonbury 2022 Highlights. 11.10 Vikings. 1.05 The X-Files. 2.55 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 11.00 Harry’s Practice. 11.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 12.00 Cities Of The Underworld. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 Escape To The Perfect Town. 3.00 Escape To The Country. 5.00 Horse Racing. Royal Randwick Raceday, Christmas at The Valley and Bernborough Plate. 6.00 Extreme Animal Transport. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 10.30 Carol Drinkwater’s Secret Provence. 11.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 12.30 Last Chance Learners. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Animal SOS Australia. 2.30 Creek To Coast. 3.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Thunderbirds. (81) 6.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 Gideon’s Way. 8.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.00 Turning Point With Dr David Jeremiah. 9.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Helping Hands. 10.30 My Favorite Martian. 11.00 The Baron. 12.10 Saved & Remade. 1.10 MOVIE: Bonnie Prince Charlie. (1948) 3.35 MOVIE: Last Holiday. (1950) 5.30 MOVIE: Kid Galahad. (1962) Elvis Presley. 7.30 MOVIE: Die Another Day. (2002) Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens. 10.10 MOVIE: Death Wish V. (1994) Charles Bronson, Lesley Ann-Down. 12.10 Memory Lane. 1.30 Rizzoli & Isles. 2.30 The Closer. 3.30 Major Crimes. 4.30 Late Programs.

Home (53) 6.00 Shopping. 9.00 Exploring Off The Grid. 9.30 Diagnosis Murder. 10.30 All 4 Adventure. 11.30 On The Fly. 12.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 12.30 Diagnosis Murder. 1.30 Luxury Escapes. 2.00 Jake And The Fatman. 3.00 JAG. 7.00 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 9. Melbourne City v Melbourne Victory. 10.15 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 9. Perth Glory v Macarthur FC. 1.00 FBI: International. 2.00 48 Hours. 3.00 JAG. 5.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 Dragon Ball Super. 6.50 Scream Street. 7.25 Camp Lakebottom. 8.00 Miraculous. 8.25 Transformers: EarthSpark. 8.45 The Flamin’ Thongs. 9.45 Horrible Histories. 10.15 The Inbestigators. 12.45 MOVIE: Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! (2022) 1.45 Miraculous. 3.40 Art Ninja. 4.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.30 Mystery Lane. 4.55 Miraculous. 5.15 Total Drama Island. 6.00 Hotel Transylvania. 6.25 School Of Rock. 7.00 Horrible Histories. 7.35 MOVIE: Fantastic Mr. Fox. (2009) George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman. 9.05 Wallace And Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. 9.35 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 11.15 Close.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Get Arty. 10.00 To Be Advised. 11.00 Behave Yourself. 12.00 Bringing Sexy Back. 1.30 Wife Swap Australia. 2.45 Baking It. 3.45 Dodger. 4.45 MOVIE: The Smurfs 2. (2013) 7.00 MOVIE: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. (2021) 8.50 MOVIE: The Shape Of Water. (2017) Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer. 11.20 MOVIE: Live By Night. (2016) Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning. 2.00 Home Shopping. 3.00 Royal Pains. 4.00 9-1-1.

6.00 Fishy (64) Business. 7.00 The Next Level. 7.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 8.00 NFL 100 Greatest. 9.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 Pawn Stars. 12.00 Aussie Adventure Bike Show. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 My Road To Adventure. 2.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.00 Secrets Of The Supercars. 5.00 Counting Cars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 Pawn Stars. 7.00 Storage Wars. 7.30 Air Crash Investigations: The Accident Files. 8.30 Disasters At Sea. 9.30 Mighty Trains. 11.30 Building Giants. 12.30 Storage Wars. 1.30 Pawn Stars. 2.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. (82) 11.30 Pokémon. 12.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Surge. 1.00 Teen Titans Go! 1.30 Transformers: Cyberverse. 1.45 MOVIE: The Christmas Setup. (2020) 3.35 MOVIE: The Mistletoe Promise. (2016) 5.20 MOVIE: Sing. (2016) 7.30 MOVIE: Crocodile Dundee II. (1988) Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski. 9.45 MOVIE: Fletch. (1985) Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson. 11.45 Metro Sexual. 12.45 Yorkshire Job Centre. 2.45 Transformers: Cyberverse. 3.00 Teen Titans Go! 3.30 Beyblade Burst Surge. 4.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 Monkie Kid. 5.10 Lego Dreamzzz. 5.30 Tom And Jerry.

6.00 The (52) Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Seinfeld. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.00 Farm To Fork. 11.30 Seinfeld. 12.00 The King Of Queens. 1.00 Becker. 2.00 The Bachelors Australia. 4.20 Frasier. 5.10 Seinfeld. 6.10 The Big Bang Theory. 10.00 Friends. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 South Park. 3.30 Just For Laughs Montreal. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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ABC TV (2) 6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Rage. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Midsomer Murders. 2.10 The Durrells. 3.50 MOVIE: Robin Hood: Men In Tights. (1993) Cary Elwes, Roger Rees. Robin of Loxley returns to England to fight against the tyranny of the Sheriff of Rottingham. (PG) 5.30 Take 5 With Zan Rowe: Songs Of Summer: The Best Of Take 5. 6.00 Royal Carols: Together At Christmas 2022. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 All Creatures Great And Small. 8.20 Shakespeare And Hathaway: Christmas Special. 9.05 Vera. 10.35 The Capture. 11.35 Rage.

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6.00 DW English News. 6.30 Al Jazeera News. 7.00 APAC Weekly. 7.30 France 24 English News. 8.00 DD India News Hour. 9.15 Paul O’Grady For The Love Of Dogs Xmas. 12.00 APAC Weekly. 12.30 France 24 English News. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix Final. Highlights. 5.35 Wonders Of The World I Can’t See. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Tis The Season: The Holidays On Screen. 9.00 Roberta Flack. 10.35 Big Fat Quiz Of Sport. 12.20 The Toys That Built The World: Masters Of Invention. 3.25 Child Genius Australia. 4.25 Bamay. 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 Al Jazeera News.

6.00 NBC Today. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 12.30 MOVIE: A Holiday Wish Come True. (2018) Schuyler Fisk, David Clayton Rogers. 2.30 MOVIE: A Christmas Number One. (2021) Freida Pinto, Iwan Rheon. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 The 1% Club. 8.05 MOVIE: National Lampoon’s Vacation. (1983) Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. 10.15 MOVIE: The Blues Brothers. (1980) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd. 1.00 Bates Motel. 2.00 Home Shopping. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Million Dollar Minute. 5.30 NBC Today.

6.00 Fishing Australia. 6.30 A Current Affair. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Golf. Cathedral Invitational. Highlights. 11.00 Cross Court. 11.30 Iconic Australia. 12.30 Fishing Australia. 1.00 Drive TV. 1.40 The Pet Rescuers. 2.10 For The Love Of Pets. 3.10 MOVIE: Wishin’ And Hopin’. (2014) 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 RBT. 6.00 Nine News Sunday. 7.00 Tipping Point Australia. 8.00 Carols By Candlelight. 11.00 MOVIE: Christmas In The City. (2013) Ashley Williams. 12.50 MOVIE: The Breakfast Club. (1985) Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. 4.30 Drive TV. 5.00 Christmas At Highclere Castle.

6.00 Mass For You At Home. 6.30 Key Of David. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 Tomorrow’s World. 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 8.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 9.00 Jamie’s Christmas Shortcuts. 10.00 Studio 10: Sunday. 12.00 Jamie Oliver: Cooking For Less. 1.00 Second Chance Champions. 2.00 Food Trail: South Africa. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 My Market Kitchen. 3.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders. 4.00 Christmas With The Australian Women’s Weekly. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 MOVIE: PAW Patrol: The Movie. (2021) Will Brisbin. 7.40 Have You Been Paying Attention To 2023? 8.50 MOVIE: Top Gun. (1986) Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis. 11.05 MOVIE: Daddy’s Home 2. (2017) 1.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS Mornings.

6.00 Kids’ (22) Programs. 9.05 Play School’s Very Jazzy Street Party. 9.50 Sesame Street. 10.20 Shaun The Sheep. 10.50 Floogals. 11.30 Wallykazam! 12.00 In The Night Garden. 12.40 Mini Kids. 1.15 Mister Maker Around The World. 1.55 Aliens Love Underpants And... 2.20 Grace’s Amazing Machines. 2.35 Ben And Holly. 3.10 A Very Play School Christmas. 4.25 Fireman Sam. 5.30 PJ Masks. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI Christmas Special. 8.30 Louis Theroux: African Hunting Holiday. 9.30 You Can’t Ask That. 10.05 Doc Martin. 10.50 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 11.35 MOVIE: Empire Records. (1995) 1.05 Close. 5.00 Molly And Mack. 5.20 Love Monster. 5.35 Peter Rabbit Xmas Tale.

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6.00 TRT World (31) Newshour. 6.30 France 24 Africa News. 6.50 Indian Country Today News. 7.20 FBC News. 7.50 France 24 Feature. 8.10 ABC America Nightline. 8.40 CBC The National. 9.30 Jeopardy! 7.30 Abandoned Engineering. Final. 8.25 Travel Man: 96 Hours In Rio. 9.20 History’s Greatest Of All-Time With Peyton Manning: Invention Showdown. 10.10 One Night In Hamleys Xmas Special. 11.05 The X-Files. 12.00 QAnon: The Search For Q. 1.50 Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia. 2.45 United Shades Of America. 3.30 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

6.00 My Greek (62) Odyssey. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 David Jeremiah. 8.30 Home Shopping. 9.00 Escape To The Country. 11.00 DVine Living. 11.30 Last Chance Learners. 12.00 Carol Drinkwater’s Secret Provence. 1.00 The Surgery Ship. 2.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Christmas With The Salvos. 3.00 Extreme Animal Transport. 3.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 4.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Escape To The Country. 7.30 Slow Train Through Africa With Griff Rhys Jones. 8.30 Call The Midwife. 11.05 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railways. 12.05 I Escaped To The Country. 1.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 2.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Skippy The (81) Bush Kangaroo. 6.30 Amazing Facts Presents. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch Ministries. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 Turning Point With Dr David Jeremiah. 9.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Eatwell Christmas With Emma Dean. 11.00 The Avengers. 12.10 MOVIE: Hobson’s Choice. (1954) 2.30 MOVIE: The Greatest Story Ever Told. (1965) 6.30 M*A*S*H. 8.30 Keeping Up Appearances. 9.50 MOVIE: Blue Canaries. (2023) Tahlee Fereday, David Burnstock, Miles Rubae. 11.50 Rizzoli & Isles. 1.40 The Closer. 3.30 Major Crimes. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 Easy Eats.

Home (53) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. 9.00 All 4 Adventure. 10.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 JAG. 1.00 On The Fly. 1.30 What’s Up Down Under. 2.30 Bondi Rescue. 3.00 Tough Tested. 4.00 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.15 A Million Little Things. 2.05 48 Hours. 4.00 JAG.

6.00 Kids’ (23) Programs. 7.20 Odd Squad. 7.35 Spooky Files. 8.00 Little Lunch. 8.25 Malory Towers. 9.25 The Inbestigators. 12.05 MOVIE: Grandpa’s Great Escape. (2018) 1.15 Miraculous. 3.15 The Dengineers. 3.55 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.30 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 4.50 Miraculous. 5.15 Total Drama Island. 5.35 Hank Zipzer. 6.00 Hotel Transylvania. 6.35 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 7.00 Shaun The Sheep. 7.35 MOVIE: Paddington 2. (2017) Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville. 9.15 Wallace And Gromit: A Close Shave. 9.45 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.15 Rage. 11.15 Close.

6.00 It’s Academic. (66) 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Get Arty. 10.00 Take Me Out. 11.15 Wife Swap Australia. 12.30 Australia’s Cheapest Weddings. 1.45 The Amazing Race. 2.50 Blow Up. 4.30 MOVIE: Keeping Up With The Joneses. (2016) 6.30 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly. 7.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 8.30 Law & Order. 9.30 Law & Order: LA. 11.30 The Blacklist. 1.30 Chicago P.D. 3.00 Royal Pains. 4.00 9-1-1.

6.00 Fishy (64) Business. 7.00 The Next Level. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 NFL 100 Greatest. 9.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 10.00 Counting Cars. 10.30 Storage Wars. 11.30 Fish Of The Day. 12.00 The Fishing Show By AFN. 1.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. 2.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 2.30 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 3.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 4.00 Pawn Stars. 5.00 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 Border Security: International. 7.00 Motorbike Cops. 7.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: Zero Dark Thirty. (2012) Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton. 11.40 Motorbike Cops. 12.10 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. (82) 1.50 MOVIE: Family For Christmas. (2015) 3.35 MOVIE: Random Acts Of Christmas. (2019) 5.20 MOVIE: Gremlins. (1984) 7.30 MOVIE: Parenthood. (1989) Steve Martin. 10.00 MOVIE: Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment. (1985) Steve Guttenberg. 11.50 The Nanny: Oy To The World. 12.20 MOVIE: Random Acts Of Christmas. (2019) 2.00 Starting Up, Starting Over. 3.00 Teen Titans Go! 3.30 Beyblade Burst QuadStrike. 4.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. 4.30 Transformers Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures. 4.50 Ninjago: Dragons Rising. 5.10 LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter. 5.30 Tom And Jerry.

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9.00 The Bachelors Australia. 12.10 Friends. 1.10 The Middle. 2.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 12. Adelaide 36ers v Brisbane Bullets. 4.00 MOVIE: Happy Feet. (2006) 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Two And A Half Men. 10.00 South Park. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Friends. 3.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 4.30 Home Shopping.

THURSDAY, December 28

ABC TV (2) 6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal. 10.00 Gardening Australia. 11.00 Compass. 11.30 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.00 MOVIE: Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! (2022) Griff Rhys Jones , Shobu Kapoor, Archie Yates 1.55 Maggie Beer’s Christmas Feast. 2.25 All Creatures Great And Small. 3.15 Grand Designs. 4.00 Project Wild. 4.30 The Gospel According To Marcia. 6.00 Antiques Roadshow. Final. 7.00 ABC News Summer. 7.30 MOVIE: The King’s Speech. (2010) Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush. 9.25 The Larkins At Christmas. 10.35 The Yearly With Charlie Pickering 2023. 11.35 Christmas Cabaret. 12.30 Christmas Sounds Better This Year. 1.35 Parkinson In Australia. 2.40 Rage Vault. 5.00 Gardening Australia.

6.00 Rage Christmas Special. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 9.30 The Pope’s Christmas Mass. 11.30 News Breakfast. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.05 MOVIE: The King’s Speech. (2010) 3.10 The Larkins At Christmas. 4.15 MOVIE: The Secret Garden. (2020) 5.50 Royal Carols: Together At Christmas. 7.00 ABC News Summer. 7.40 The Royal Variety Performance. 9.40 MOVIE: Lion. (2016) Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman. 11.40 Lucy Worsley: Agatha Christie Mystery Queen. 12.40 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.05 All Is Bright. 10.20 Paul O’Grady For The Love Of Dogs Xmas. 12.10 WorldWatch. 2.00 The Cook Up. 2.30 The Luxury Christmas Decorators. 3.25 Silent Night: A Song For The World. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.30 The Story Of Irish Dance. 9.05 Adele: 30 Greatest Moments. 10.55 My Brilliant Friend. Final. 12.20 Bohème On The Beach. 2.20 The Seekers: Live In The UK. 4.15 Late Programs.

6.00 NBC Today. 6.30 Carols In The Domain. 9.00 Alinta Energy Christmas Pageant. 10.00 Mayor’s Christmas Carols. 11.00 SeaLink Carols By Candlelight. 1.30 Christmas With The Salvos. 2.00 The Chase. 3.00 MOVIE: Crown For Christmas. (2015) 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 7.30 MOVIE: Love Actually. (2003) Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman. 10.15 MOVIE: Groundhog Day. (1993) Bill Murray. 12.25 Late Programs.

6.00 National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant. 8.00 Lord Mayor’s Christmas Carols. 10.00 CMA Country Christmas. 11.00 Christmas With Delta. 12.00 WIN Symphony Orchestra Special. 1.00 Carols By Candlelight. 4.00 MOVIE: Blizzard. (2003) 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 MOVIE: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. (1989) Chevy Chase. 9.30 MOVIE: National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation. (1997) Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. 11.40 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Bondi Rescue. 1.00 Dr Phil. 2.00 Jamie’s One-Pan Christmas. 2.45 My Market Kitchen. 3.00 The King’s Christmas Message. 3.15 Entertainment Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Bondi Rescue. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Cheap Seats. 8.30 MOVIE: How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. (2003) Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey. 10.50 MOVIE: Just Like Heaven. (2005) 12.50 Late Programs.

6.00 (22) Kids’ Programs. 5.15 Piney: The Lonesome Pine. 5.55 The Adventures Of Paddington. 6.55 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You At Christmas? 8.30 MythBusters. 9.20 Upstart Crow. 9.50 George Clarke’s Amazing Christmas Spaces. 10.40 The Stand Up Sketch Show. 11.05 Would I Lie To You? 11.35 QI. 12.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 12.30 Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road. 1.20 Close. 5.10 Peg + Cat. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

ABC TV PLUS

6.00 (31) WorldWatch. 9.30 Small Business Secrets. 10.00 Shortland Street. 12.00 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 2.00 Sidelined: Women In Basketball. 3.00 WorldWatch. 4.50 Shortland Street. 5.20 Vs Arashi. 6.15 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 Forged In Fire. 10.15 Then You Run. Final. 11.15 Hoarders. 12.55 The Devil You Know. 1.45 Jack The Ripper: Hidden Victims. 2.40 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 9.00 DVine Living. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Better Homes And Gardens Summer. 12.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Slow Train Through Africa With Griff Rhys Jones. 3.30 Christmas With The Salvos. 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Endeavour. 10.30 Fortitude. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (81) Programs. 8.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 Danoz Direct. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 2.50 Christmas At Highclere Castle. 3.50 MOVIE: The Holly And The Ivy. (1952) 5.30 Christmas At Warwick Castle. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Queens Of Mystery. 10.40 The Madame Blanc Mysteries. 11.40 Late Programs.

Home (53) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Luxury Escapes. 8.30 Dr Phil. 9.30 Tough Tested. 10.30 All 4 Adventure. 11.30 Reel Action. 12.30 JAG. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 10.20 Blue Bloods. 11.15 A Million Little Things. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

6.00 Kids’ (23) Programs. 8.30 MOVIE: Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe. (2016) 10.00 Kids’ Programs. 11.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 3.55 Odd Squad. 4.50 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 5.10 Miraculous. 5.35 Malory Towers. 6.30 Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes. 7.35 MOVIE: A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon. (2019) Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes. 9.00 Wallace And Gromit: A Grand Day Out. 9.25 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.10 Rage. 11.15 Close.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 Million Dollar Island. 12.00 The Change Labz. 1.00 Yummy Mummies. 2.00 Farmer Wants A Wife. 3.30 Black-ish. 4.00 Modern Family. 4.30 The Goldbergs. 5.00 Bondi Vet. 6.30 Puppy School. 7.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 8.30 Law & Order. 9.30 Law & Order: LA. 11.30 The Blacklist. 1.30 Chicago P.D. 3.00 Royal Pains. 4.00 9-1-1.

6.00 Morning (64) Programs. 11.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 12.30 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 1.30 Boating. Australian V8 Superboats Championship. Round 2. 2.30 Motor MythBusters. 3.30 Hustle & Tow. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad. 10.30 Swamp People: Serpent Invasion. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. (82) 8.00 MOVIE: AliceMiranda: A Royal Christmas Ball. (2021) 9.30 Kids’ Programs. 1.30 The Nanny: Oy To The World. 2.00 Bewitched. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: Austin Powers In Goldmember. (2002) 10.30 Seinfeld. 11.30 Young Sheldon. 12.00 Under The Dome. 1.00 Life After Lockup. 2.00 Late Programs.

6.00 (52) The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 The Middle. 11.00 Christmas With The Australian Women’s Weekly. 12.00 Friends. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 7.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 12. Sydney Kings v Illawarra Hawks. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 How We Roll. 11.30 Frasier. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 South Park. 2.30 The King Of Queens. 3.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 4.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Ask The Doctor. 10.30 Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Vera. 2.30 The Cook And The Chef. 2.55 The Royal Variety Performance. 5.00 Back Roads. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 Back In Time For The Corner Shop. 7.00 ABC News Summer. 7.30 Call The Midwife. 9.05 MOVIE: Queen Of The Desert. (2015) Nicole Kidman, James Franco. 11.05 Mystify: Michael Hutchence. 12.45 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.10 Legacy List With Matt Paxton. 10.15 Paddington Station 24/7. 11.05 Wonderful World Of Baby Animals. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.10 Patrizio Buanne: Celebration. 3.10 Mastermind Aust. 3.40 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 4.10 The Supervet. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.20 MOVIE: Whitney: Can I Be Me? (2017) 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 Das Boot. 12.40 Dear Mama. 2.50 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.30 Test Cricket: The Lunch Break. 1.10 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day 1. Afternoon session. 3.10 Test Cricket: Tea Break. 3.30 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day 1. Late afternoon session. 6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 14. Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars. 9.10 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 15. Perth Scorchers v Melbourne Renegades. 12.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Love Upstream. (2021) 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Travel Guides. 8.30 MOVIE: The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee. (2020) Paul Hogan, Kerry Armstrong, Olivia NewtonJohn. 10.10 MOVIE: Last Vegas. (2013) Robert De Niro. 12.10 Tipping Point. 1.05 Pointless. 2.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Bondi Rescue. 1.00 Dr Phil. 2.00 My Market Kitchen. 2.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 3.00 Entertainment Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Bondi Rescue. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Thank God You’re Here. 8.30 Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers. 9.00 MOVIE: The Italian Job. (2003) Mark Wahlberg. 11.15 MOVIE: The Bank Job. (2008) 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 (22) Kids’ Programs. 4.35 Bea’s Block. 5.05 Kangaroo Beach Summer Special. 5.30 Nella The Princess Knight. 5.55 Octonauts. 6.30 Ben And Holly. 7.05 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. Final. 9.10 Ghosts. Final. 9.45 Would I Lie To You? 10.15 Rosehaven. 10.45 Portlandia. 11.50 Would I Lie To You? 12.20 MOVIE: Boy. (2010) 1.50 Close. 5.10 Peg + Cat. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

ABC TV PLUS

6.00 (31) WorldWatch. 10.00 Shortland Street. 12.00 When Big Things Go Wrong. 2.30 Killing Cancer. 3.20 BBC News At Ten. 3.50 ABC World News Tonight With David Muir. 4.15 PBS News. 5.15 Shortland St. 5.45 Vs Arashi. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Travel Man’s Greatest Trips. 9.25 Alone: The Skills Challenge. 10.15 Hudson & Rex. 11.55 Box 21. 12.50 Dopesick Nation. 1.40 Hate Thy Neighbour. 2.35 VICE Guide To Film. 3.05 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 7.30 Under The Hammer. 8.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 Creek To Coast. 2.30 Cities Of The Underworld. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Rosemary & Thyme. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Law & Order: UK. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (81) Programs. 9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Iconic Australia. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.55 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 2.55 MOVIE: Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express. (1974) 5.30 Saved & Remade. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.40 MOVIE: The 13th Summer. (2022) Nathan Phillips. 11.40 Late Programs.

Home (53) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Luxury Escapes. 8.30 Dr Phil. 9.30 Diagnosis Murder. 11.30 Jake And The Fatman. 12.30 JAG. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 9.25 FBI: International. 10.20 48 Hours. 11.15 A Million Little Things. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

6.00 Miraculous World: New York, United Heroez. 7.00 Miraculous World. 7.55 The Inbestigators. 1.05 Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes. 2.05 Miraculous. 4.00 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 4.25 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.05 Kung Fu Panda. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 Born To Spy. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin. 7.35 Space Nova. 8.25 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Mustangs FC. 9.10 School Of Rock. 9.35 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.10 Rage. 11.15 Close.

6.00 It’s Academic. 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 Million Dollar Island. 12.00 The Change Labz. 1.00 Yummy Mummies. 2.00 Farmer Wants A Wife. 3.30 Modern Family. 4.30 Bondi Vet. 6.30 First Dates Australia. 7.35 First Dates UK. 8.40 MOVIE: Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates. (2016) Zac Efron, Adam DeVine, Aubrey Plaza. 10.45 MOVIE: Ready Or Not. (2019) 12.50 First Dates Australia. 2.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 American Restoration. 11.30 Armchair Experts: NFL Edition. 12.30 Sailing. Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. 2.00 Swamp People: Serpent Invasion. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator. 3.30 Hustle & Tow. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Pickers. 6.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 14. Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Truckers. 9.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under. 10.30 Ice Road Truckers. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 12.00 Starting Up, Starting Over. 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Seinfeld. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: Mercury Rising. (1998) Bruce Willis. 10.45 Seinfeld. 11.45 Young Sheldon. 12.10 Under The Dome. 1.05 Life After Lockup. 2.00 I Dream Of Jeannie. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Bakugan. 3.30 Beyblade Burst Surge. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 (52) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Becker. 8.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 12. Adelaide 36ers v Brisbane Bullets. Replay. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 Becker. 1.00 The Big Bang Theory. 1.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 10.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 How We Roll. 11.30 Frasier. 12.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Magda’s Big National Health Check. Final. 11.00 MOVIE: Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! (2022) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Vera. 2.30 The Yearly With Charlie Pickering 2023. 3.30 Call The Midwife. 5.00 Back Roads. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 Back In Time For The Corner Shop. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. 9.00 MOVIE: Brooklyn. (2015) Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen. 10.50 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. Final. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.10 Legacy List With Matt Paxton. 10.20 Paddington Station 24/7. 11.10 Wonderful World Of Baby Animals. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.15 Britain’s Most Luxurious Hotels. 3.10 Mastermind Aust. 3.40 The Cook Up. 4.10 The Supervet. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.35 Madame Tussauds: The Full Wax. 8.30 Monster: The Mystery Of Loch Ness. 9.30 Fargo. 10.30 SBS News. 11.00 COBRA. 11.50 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.30 Test Cricket: The Lunch Break. 1.10 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day 2. Afternoon session. 3.10 Test Cricket: Tea Break. 3.30 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day 2. Late afternoon session. 6.00 7News Local. 6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 16. Brisbane Heat v Sydney Thunder. 11.00 MOVIE: The Game. (1997) 1.40 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Sweet Autumn. (2020) 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. 8.30 Clarkson’s Farm. 9.30 Police Rescue Australia. 10.30 The Equalizer. 11.20 La Brea. 12.10 Tipping Point. 1.05 Pointless. 2.00 Our State On A Plate. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Bondi Rescue. 1.00 Dr Phil. 2.00 My Market Kitchen. 2.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 3.00 Entertainment Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Bondi Rescue. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Thank God You’re Here. 8.30 Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers. 9.00 MOVIE: Forrest Gump. (1994) Tom Hanks, Robin Wright. 11.45 Late Programs.

ABC TV PLUS (22)

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.35 Bea’s Block. 5.05 Pfffirates. 5.30 Kiya And The Kimoja Heroes. 5.55 Octonauts. 6.30 Ben And Holly. 7.05 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Doc Martin. 9.20 Bay Of Fires. 10.15 Killing Eve. 11.00 Would I Lie To You At Christmas? 11.30 Louis Theroux: African Hunting Holiday. 12.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 1.00 Close. 5.10 Peg + Cat. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 10.00 Shortland Street. 12.00 The Indian Pacific: The Full Journey. 3.20 BBC News At Ten. 3.50 ABC World News Tonight With David Muir. 4.15 PBS News. 5.15 Shortland St. 5.45 Vs Arashi. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 MOVIE: Nekrotronic. (2018) Ben O’Toole, Monica Bellucci, Dave Beamish. 10.20 MOVIE: Hereditary. (2018) Toni Collette. 12.35 VICE. 1.45 Spiraling: Crypto Special. 2.15 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 I Escaped To The Country. 7.30 Under The Hammer. 8.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Cities Of The Underworld. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.45 Lewis. 10.45 Law & Order: UK. 11.45 Late Programs.

6.00 Gideon’s Way. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. 8.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Our Miss Fred. (1972) 5.30 Saved & Remade. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.40 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Rizzoli & Isles. 12.40 The Closer. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Home Shopping. 8.00 Luxury Escapes. 8.30 Dr Phil. 9.30 Diagnosis Murder. 11.30 Jake And The Fatman. 12.30 JAG. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 Hawaii Five-0. 10.20 A Million Little Things. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

6.00 Kids’ (23) Programs. 11.55 Odd Squad. 12.40 Malory Towers. 1.10 Merlin. 1.55 Horrible Histories. 2.20 Danger Mouse. 3.10 Karma’s World. 3.35 The Deep. 4.00 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 4.20 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.05 Kung Fu Panda. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 Born To Spy. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin. 7.35 Space Nova. 8.25 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Mustangs FC. 9.10 School Of Rock. 9.35 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.10 Rage. 11.15 Close.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Kitty Is Not A Cat. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 Million Dollar Island. 12.00 The Change Labz. 1.00 Yummy Mummies. 1.50 Farmer Wants A Wife. 3.35 Modern Family. 4.30 Bondi Vet. 6.25 First Dates Australia. 7.35 First Dates UK. 8.40 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 10.40 Gordon, Gino & Fred: American Road Trip. 11.40 Hell’s Kitchen USA. 12.40 First Dates Australia. 1.40 First Dates UK. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (64) Programs. 9.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 Storage Wars. 11.30 Jabba’s School Holiday Movie Special. 12.00 Outback Truckers. 2.00 Motor MythBusters. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator. 3.30 Hustle & Tow. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 The Force: Behind The Line. 9.30 Beach Cops. 10.30 Surveillance Oz. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. (82) 12.00 Starting Up, Starting Over. 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Seinfeld. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: Junior. (1994) Arnold Schwarzenegger. 10.45 Seinfeld. 11.45 Young Sheldon. 12.10 Under The Dome. 1.05 Life After Lockup. 2.00 I Dream Of Jeannie. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Bakugan. 3.30 Beyblade Burst Surge. 4.00 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 (52) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Becker. 8.00 Seinfeld. 8.30 Friends. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 Becker. 1.00 NBL Slam. 1.30 The Big Bang Theory. 2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 10.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 How We Roll. 11.30 Frasier. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (2) Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Vera. 2.30 Dolphins: Is Our Love Too Deep? 3.30 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. 5.00 Back Roads. 5.30 Hard Quiz. 6.00 Back In Time For The Corner Shop. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 MOVIE: Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool. (2017) Annette Bening. 9.15 Grand Designs. Final. 10.00 Lucy Worsley: Agatha Christie Mystery Queen. 11.00 In The Room: Leigh Sales With Lin-Manuel Miranda. 12.00 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. (3) 9.10 Legacy List With Matt Paxton. 10.20 Paddington Station 24/7. 11.10 Wonderful World Of Baby Animals. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.15 Britain’s Most Luxurious Hotels. 3.10 Mastermind Aust. 3.40 The Cook Up. 4.10 The Supervet. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Aust. 6.30 News. 7.30 Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History. 8.30 Costa Concordia: Why She Sank. 10.15 SBS News. 10.45 A Class Apart. New. 11.35 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (6) Programs. 12.30 Test Cricket: The Lunch Break. 1.10 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day 3. Afternoon session. 3.10 Test Cricket: Tea Break. 3.30 Cricket. Second Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day 3. Late afternoon session. 6.00 7News Local. 6.30 7News @ 6:30. 7.00 Cricket. Big Bash League. Game 17. Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Stars. 10.30 Seven’s Cricket: The Spin. 11.00 MOVIE: Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life. (1983) 1.20 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (8) Today Extra Summer. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: A Vineyard Romance. (2021) 2.00 Pointless. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 WIN News. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Great Getaways. 8.30 RPA. 9.30 Children’s Hospital. 10.30 Chicago Med. 11.20 Emergency Call. 12.10 Tipping Point. 1.05 Pointless. 2.00 Drive TV. 2.30 Global Shop. 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (5) Programs. 12.00 Bondi Rescue. 1.00 Dr Phil. 2.00 My Market Kitchen. 2.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 3.00 Entertainment Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours. 4.30 Jamie’s One-Pan Wonders. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00 Bondi Rescue. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 Thank God You’re Here. 8.30 Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers. 9.00 MOVIE: Catch Me If You Can. (2002) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks. 11.50 Late Programs.

6.00 (22) Kids’ Programs. 5.05 Pfffirates. 5.30 Kiya And The Kimoja Heroes. 5.55 Octonauts. 6.30 Ben And Holly. 7.05 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Hard Quiz. 9.00 Gruen. 9.40 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 10.20 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10.45 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. Final. 11.25 Would I Lie To You At Christmas? 12.00 Live At The Apollo. 12.45 Would I Lie To You? 1.20 Close. 5.10 Peg + Cat. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

ABC TV PLUS

6.00 (31) WorldWatch. 10.00 Shortland Street. 12.00 The Indian Pacific: The Full Journey. 3.20 WorldWatch. 5.15 Shortland Street. 5.45 Vs Arashi. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Beyond Oak Island. 10.10 Making A Killing: Triads, Cartels And The New Business Of Drugs. 11.05 Locked Up: Teens Behind Bars. 12.00 F*ck, That’s Delicious. 12.30 QAnon: The Search For Q. 1.20 Dark Side Of The Ring. 2.10 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 I Escaped To The Country. 7.30 Under The Hammer. 8.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 My Greek Odyssey. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (81) Programs. 8.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Explore. 2.05 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Up The Front. (1972) 5.30 Saved & Remade. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Keeping Up Appearances. 8.40 MOVIE: Downton Abbey. (2019) Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville. 11.05 Rizzoli & Isles. 12.05 Late Programs.

Home (53) 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 9. Melbourne City v Melbourne Victory. Highlights. 8.30 Dr Phil. 9.30 Diagnosis Murder. 11.30 Jake And The Fatman. 12.30 JAG. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 NCIS: Hawai’i. 11.15 A Million Little Things. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

6.00 Kids’ (23) Programs. 11.55 Odd Squad. 12.40 Malory Towers. 1.10 Merlin. 1.55 Horrible Histories. 2.20 Danger Mouse. 3.10 Karma’s World. 3.35 The Deep. 4.20 Odd Squad. 4.45 Little Lunch. 5.00 Kung Fu Panda. 5.25 Miraculous. 5.45 Hotel Transylvania. 6.00 Born To Spy. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin. 7.35 Space Nova. 8.25 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.45 Mustangs FC. 9.10 School Of Rock. 9.35 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.10 Rage. 11.15 Close.

6.00 Morning (64) Programs. 10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 Pawn Stars. 12.00 Highway Patrol. 1.00 The Force: Behind The Line. 2.00 Motor MythBusters. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator. 3.30 Hustle & Tow. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Family Guy. 8.00 American Dad! 8.30 MOVIE: The Hot Chick. (2002) Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris. 10.45 Watch Dogs. 11.45 Late Programs.

6.00 Kids’ Programs. (82) 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Seinfeld. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: Uncle Buck. (1989) John Candy. 10.30 Seinfeld. 11.30 Young Sheldon. 12.00 Under The Dome. 1.00 Life After Lockup. 2.00 I Dream Of Jeannie. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Bakugan. 3.30 Beyblade Burst Surge. 4.00 Gigantosaurus. 4.30 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 (52) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Becker. 8.00 Seinfeld. 8.30 Friends. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 Becker. 1.00 The Big Bang Theory. 2.30 Seinfeld. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.00 How We Roll. 11.30 Frasier. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.

MONDAY, December 25

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PUZZLES…. PUZZLES…. PUZZLES…. PUZZLES

1 2

Above; on (4) Inherited from one’s family (9) 3 Elvis’ middle name (5) 4 Members of a trust (8) 6 1970s band, – Lake and Palmer (7) 7 Bread maker (5) 8 Spoke to (9) 9 Cicatrix (4) 14 Central American country (9) 16 Grant (9) 17 North Italian region (8) 19 Tidiest (7) 22 Smooth transition (5) 23 Not difficult (4) 25 Lover (5) 26 Camouflage (4)

According to the bill of fare (1,2,5) Southern European country (6) Happen (5) Not examined (9)

5 10 11

9-LETTER

Computer network linking newsgroups (6) Keep back (7) Accumulated (8) Cutting tools (6) Sick (6) Mixture (8)

13 14 15 18 20

No. 208

Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included and each letter may only be used once. No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”. Today’s Aim: 16 words: Good 24 words: Very good 32 words: Excellent

I U

CODEWORD

SOLUTION

No. 158

Each number corresponds to a letter of the alphabet. Two have been filled in for you, can you work out the rest?

25 B

26 Z

bids, binds, bins, buds, bugs, buss, bussing, dibs, digs, dings, dubs, gins, guns, ibis, issuing, nisi, siding, sidings, sign, signs, sing, sings, sins, sinus, snub, snubs, snug, snugs, SUBSIDING, suing, sung, using

ACROSS

SUDOKU

4 LETTERS ARTS EARL INTO LESS MITT ODDS SELF SLAB STEP TAXI

6 & $ 1 7

6 LETTERS CLASSY GARGLE OTTERS PURITY SEEPED TESTER

SPAYS START STEPS TAMER TEASE TENSE THERE TINGE TRIES TRUTH TURNS URINE VIOLA

8 LETTERS EPITAPHS PANCAKES VERIFIES VETERANS

7 LETTERS ANNEXES APOSTLE BOARDER GELATIN PATTERN

No. 208

To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number from 1 to 9 must appear in: each of the nine vertical columns, each of the nine horizontal rows and each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes. Remember, no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box.

EASY

4 3 9 1 9 5 4

7 8 9 1 5 2 5 1 6

2 4 6 8 5 8 4 6

10 LETTERS REALLOCATE SLINGSHOTS

PLASTER

SOLUTION

DOWN

5 LETTERS AFOOT ANNUL AORTA APPAL ARVOS ASIAN CANOE CHEER CLODS EDGED ENEMA ENTER GRASS HAVOC HEAPS HUMAN IDEAL LANCE LUNGE NOOSE OMEGA OPIUM PETER PULSE RANTS RATIO RESTS REUSE REVEL RIOTS SALTY SANER SCANT SENSE SNARL

SOLUTION

of Tyrol (8)

3 LETTERS ACT ARE ARM AYE BAG DAM DUE EGG EGO ERA FBI GET IOU KEN OPT PAL PEA ROE SAT SEA TEA YOU

No. 118

8 4 5 3 7 1 2

MEDIUM

5 9 3

4 8

9 8 5 8 1 5

1 8 7 8 3 5 4 2 9 4 6 1 2 4

SOLUTIONS SOLUTION EASY

MEDIUM

1 8 3 9 6 4 7 2 5 5 2 4 8 1 7 9 3 6 9 6 7 2 5 3 4 1 8 3 4 6 5 7 9 2 8 1 2 9 8 6 3 1 5 4 7 7 5 1 4 2 8 3 6 9 8 1 2 3 9 5 6 7 4 4 3 9 7 8 6 1 5 2 6 7 5 1 4 2 8 9 3

21 Entrap (7) 24 Creations (6) 27 Assailant (9) 28 US city (5) 29 Signals (6) 30 Native or inhabitant

WORDFIT

6 5 9 7 2 3 1 8 4 4 2 8 9 6 1 7 5 3 3 7 1 8 4 5 2 9 6 8 1 5 6 9 2 3 4 7 7 3 2 5 8 4 6 1 9 9 6 4 1 3 7 8 2 5 2 8 6 4 7 9 5 3 1 1 9 7 3 5 8 4 6 2 5 4 3 2 1 6 9 7 8

No. 208

& / 2 ' 6 + ( $ 3 6 * 5 $ 6 6 $ 3 3 $ / $ 2 5 7 $ + 8 0 $ 1 9 , 2 / $ 5 ( 9 ( / ( 1 ( 0 $ 5 , 2 7 6 % $ * 2 3 7 ( * * & / $ 6 6 < 5 ( $ / / 2 & $ 7 ( $ 8 3 / $ 6 7 ( 5 6 & $ 1 7 7 + ( 5 ( 0 , 7 7 / ( 6 6 ' 8 ( 3 $ 1 & $ . ( 6 3 $ 7 7 ( 5 1 $ 1 1 ( ; ( 6 < 2 8 , 1 7 2 9 ( 7 ( 5 $ 1 6 ( ' * ( ' 3 8 / 6 ( 6 ( / ) % 2 $ 5 ' ( 5 ( 7 3 8 5 , 7 < 6 / , 1 * 6 + 2 7 6 7 ( $ $ ) 2 2 7 3 ( $ ( 5 $ 5 $ 7 , 2 $ 6 , $ 1 7 , 1 * ( ( 1 7 ( 5 7 5 , ( 6 5 ( 8 6 ( 6 ( 1 6 ( 7 $ 0 ( 5 5 ( 6 7 6

CROSSWORD

CODEWORD: 1 = P, 2 = O, 3 = H, 4 = E, 5 = G, 6 = M, 7 = N, 8 = C, 9 = V, 10 = Y, 11 = R, 12 = U, 13 = T, 14 = K, 15 = Q, 16 = X, 17 = S, 18 = L, 19 = D, 20 = F, 21 = I, 22 = W, 23 = J, 24 = A

WORD SEARCH

QUICK QUIZ

Can you find all the words listed? The leftover letters will spell out a secret message.

ANISE

FOXGLOVE

OREGANO

ARALIA

GARLIC

PARSLEY

ARNICA

HEMP

ROSEHIP

BASIL

HOLLY

SAGE

BORAGE

LAUREL

SALVIA

BURNET

LAVENDER

SAVORY

CALENDULA

LEMONGRASS STEVIA

CHAMOMILE

LOVAGE

CHIVES

MILK THISTLE THYME

COTULA

MINT

VALERIAN

DILL

MUGWORT

YARROW

6. What is philematology?

EPAZOTE

NETTLE

ANSWERS: 1. New Zealand 2. William and Arthur 3. b) 1815 4. Pink 5. Canary Islands 6. The science of kissing 7. Edgar Allan Poe 8. Chewing gum 9. Brad Garrett 10. Fenugreek

SECRET MESSAGE: The basis of natural medicine

Actor Sam Neill (pictured) was born in which country?

2. What were the first names of the musical partnership Gilbert and Sullivan?

3. In what year did the

Napoleonic Wars end: a) 1805, b) 1815 or c) 1825?

4. What colour is eosin? 5. Tenerife is the largest island of which set of islands?

No. 118

7. Which US writer published The Raven in 1845? 8. What confectionery was banned by Singapore’s government in 1992?

9. Who played Ray’s older brother in Everybody Loves Raymond? 10. The name of what plant,

used as a herb and a spice, comes from the Latin word for ‘Greek hay’?

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TANSY

PUZZLES…. PUZZLES…. PUZZLES…. PUZZLES

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12 13 14 16 17 20 22

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10 11

9-LETTER

Expression (4) African country (4) Happen (5) Adolescent (4) Flower merchants (8) Pastoral (8) Element’s smallest part (4)

No. 209

Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included and each letter may only be used once. No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”. Today’s Aim: 12 words: Good 18 words: Very good 25 words: Excellent

CODEWORD

A I

SOLUTION

1 4

No. 159

Each number corresponds to a letter of the alphabet. Two have been filled in for you, can you work out the rest?

25 Q

26 L

alight, hail, haling, hall, halt, halting, HALTINGLY, hang, hating, haying, hill, hilly, hilt, hint, lath, light, lightly, nigh, night, nightly, nighty, than, thin, thing, thinly

ACROSS

SUDOKU

4 LETTERS ACNE CASE CEDE CORN COST NEST ORAL PAID PATS

5 LETTERS ALOUD AMASS APRON ARENA ARGUE ATLAS AVAIL AWARD CACAO CADET CAVES CEASE CHASM CLEAT DRESS DWELT EASEL EDGES EERIE GOUGE HONES HOUSE LARVA LATHE LATHS METRE OASES OLIVE OPALS

7 ( 1 ( 7

6 LETTERS DEAFER EITHER SENDER WINGED

No. 209

EASY

4 6

8 LETTERS EIGHTEEN EVILLEST NOBLEMAN TOMORROW

7 LETTERS DISCARD ERASURE LANTERN MOISTER PULSATE ROUTINE

START SWEET TENET TEPEE THERE TRIBE WEAVE

OPERA OVALS PETTY RANGE REELS RESIN ROLLS SALTS SANDS SILOS SLEET SNEER SOLES STAGS

SOLUTION

PUCK SARI SEES SINK USER

SOLUTION

DOWN

3 LETTERS ALE APT ASH AVO BEE BRA BUT DEN ERA FBI HAT HEW IRE NOR NOT OAR ODE OVA REV RYE SHE SUE TWO URN

No. 119

2 8 3 7 9 1 4 2 9 6 6 9 5 3 6 8 2 7 9 8 5 2 9 7 4 1 3 7 8

SOLUTIONS SOLUTION EASY

MEDIUM

6 3 2 7 9 8

9 5

5 3 9

5 8 6 2 4 9 1 9 4 3 6 1 7 1

MEDIUM

8 9 1 5 3 2 6 4 7 4 5 2 7 6 8 3 1 9 6 3 7 9 1 4 8 2 5 1 4 9 3 8 5 7 6 2 3 6 5 2 4 7 9 8 1 2 7 8 1 9 6 4 5 3 9 1 4 8 2 3 5 7 6 7 2 6 4 5 9 1 3 8 5 8 3 6 7 1 2 9 4

25 Jet (5) 26 Scottish island (4) 28 Slight (4) 30 Verboten (5) 31 Insipid (9) 32 Becoming prominent (8) 33 Strain (6)

WORDFIT

4 1 5 6 2 8 3 7 9 6 8 7 9 5 3 1 4 2 2 9 3 7 1 4 8 6 5 5 6 4 2 8 7 9 1 3 1 2 9 5 3 6 7 8 4 7 3 8 4 9 1 5 2 6 3 7 6 8 4 5 2 9 1 8 5 2 1 6 9 4 3 7 9 4 1 3 7 2 6 5 8

No. 209

$ : $ 5 ' 6 2 / ( 6 & + $ 6 0 $ 9 $ , / ( ( 5 , ( 7 ( 3 ( ( 5 $ 1 * ( ' : ( / 7 / $ 5 9 $ ) % , 7 + ( 5 ( 1 2 5 $ 9 2 3 ( 7 7 < & $ 6 ( 6 ( 1 ' ( 5 ( 5 $ 6 8 5 ( ( 5 $ & 2 5 1 $ & 1 ( 2 9 $ / 6 6 , 1 . 1 2 % / ( 0 $ 1 $ / ( 3 8 / 6 $ 7 ( ' , 6 & $ 5 ' 3 $ 7 6 6 + ( ( 9 , / / ( 6 7 2 5 $ / 8 6 ( 5 7 ( 1 ( 7 $ 6 + 0 2 , 6 7 ( 5 & 2 6 7 $ / 2 8 ' : , 1 * ( ' 6 7 $ 5 7 1 2 7 2 $ 5 $ 3 7 7 5 , % ( + 2 8 6 ( & ( $ 6 ( + 2 1 ( 6 ( ' * ( 6 $ 5 * 8 ( 6 : ( ( 7 5 ( ( / 6 2 $ 6 ( 6

CROSSWORD

CODEWORD: 1 = R, 2 = O, 3 = E, 4 = G, 5 = F, 6 = Z, 7 = J, 8 = I, 9 = H, 10 = K, 11 = U, 12 = B, 13 = D, 14 = X, 15 = C, 16 = M, 17 = P, 18 = W, 19 = S, 20 = V, 21 = N, 22 = T, 23 = Y, 24 = A

2. 3. 4. 5.

Horizontal and vertical axes in graphs are usually referred to by what letters? Vanilla is a spice derived from what type of plant? Cabbage Patch, Twist and Watusi are all types of what? What’s the capital of Portugal? What component of an engine opens and closes the valves on an overhead valve engine? What is the name of the van in Scooby-Doo?

7. Journey to the Past and Once Upon a December

are songs featured in which musical film? 8. Petrograd and Leningrad are names previously used for which city? 9. Melissa McCarthy (pictured) played which character in the TV series Gilmore Girls? 10. Are judges known for using a grovel, gravel or gavel?

ANSWERS: 1. X and Y 2. Orchid 3. Dance 4. Lisbon 5. Camshaft 6. The Mystery Machine 7. Anastasia 8. Saint Petersburg 9. Sookie St. James 10. Gavel

No. 119

' 2 0 8 6 & / ( & $ 9 , 7 < ( 6 $ 8 % & 2 0 0 , 1 8 7 ( 7 + , 5 1 8 6 7 , % 6 , % 8 3 & . 0 % 5 5 $ 1 , 0 $ / / ( < 2 3 / ( ( 6 ( 7 + 0 2 , ' 8 5 ) $ $ 7 7 $ 5 6 $ / $ , ' ( 0 8 7 6 5 6 $ 2 6 7 ( 2 % / $ 6 7 ( $ ( , 6 & + , 8 0 1 6 3 $ / / 1 9 1 < / $ 7 6 2 & , / . / / 6 6 , 1 8 6 5 % $ 1 8 1 7 8 $ / $ 7 1 2 5 ) 3 $ 6 $ 2 + 0 5 & 2 & & < ; 8 / $ 2 1 ' 2 % ( 1 ( 8 5 $ / 6 . 8 / / 1 5 $ 7 6 % , 5 $ 7 1 , 2 - 8 ( $ 5 $ & $ 1 & ( / / 2 8 6 1 7 ; ( /

Can you find all the words listed? The leftover letters will spell out a secret message.

ANKLE

LATERAL

SCAPULA

BURSA

LUMBAR

SINUS

CANCELLOUS MEDIAL

SKULL

CAVITY

METACARPAL SPINAL

COCCYX

MUSCLE

STERNUM

COMMINUTE NASAL

TALUS

COSTAL

NEURAL

TARSAL

ETHMOID

OSTEOBLAST TENDON

FRONTAL

PATELLA

THORAX

ISCHIUM

PUBIS

TIBIA

JOINT

RIBS

ULNA

LAMINA

SACRAL

VERTEBRA

SECRET MESSAGE: Does this tickle your funny bone?

WORD SEARCH

QUICK QUIZ

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Keith Dean (Deanie)

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16.11.37 ~ 18.12.16

I miss you in the morning And when the sunset fades away, The ache within my heart Just will not go away. My heart fills with love for you When I think, how much you cared, As I relive all the happiness And the joy that we both shared. You’re with me every moment And in every move I make, Lie the memories I have of you That I never will forsake. Love Pam, Allison, Paul, Tania, Mark and their families. Betty, Sid and Denise.

“Bob”

Dearne Louise Colin Anthony Tilston

At Peace 18.12.2010

Dad,

As the sun sets and night falls, and the stars twinkle up above … We look for the one that sparkles brighter than them all … And we know that’s where you are. Thinking of you this Christmas.

Nonnenmacher 04.01.72~25.12.90

Your laugh, your smile, a hug a kiss. This is what we really miss. Though a journey you have taken so far away you are always here with us. Dearne, every minute of every day our memories of you will never fade, we love and miss you the same today.

14.12.1945 ~ 18.12.2010

The greatest thing in life is to “love and be loved” Everyone who has loved and lost knows the pain, the emptiness “That always is”. Although it’s been thirteen years our loss is still felt so deeply. There’s no one like you Col - to care so completely, give so freely, teach so gently and to love so deeply. He cared, he gave, he taught and he loved. When we think of all the times we shared, we feel lucky to have had you in our lives. The life of the one we loved is never lost, He lives on through all the lives he touched.

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As I look at the stars at night, I smile, as I know you are at peace and you are smiling right back at me! “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it”. We love and miss you everyday Pat and all your family

Your presence we miss Your memory we treasure Loving you always Forgetting you never

Forever in our hearts

We love you Dad, Kylie, Stephen & Christine

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December 27th, 2020 90 years 1930 ~ 2020

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Glen WHITELEY 8.12.1961~20.12.2022 How do we put into words the heartache we feel losing you both so unexpectedly... Lee, we miss your singing, dancing and funny little ways. You will never know the joy it brought us. We see the little gifts you sent us and we smile everytime we see them. Glen, you lived your life for two. You always made us laugh with your constant jokes. Your gentle spirit will remain with us forever. Our only wish for Christmas is you were back here with us. You went fishing with Dad, Mark and Shayne.

Our hearts are forever broken Love Mum, Karen and Brett you’re extended family and much loved friends.

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THUMBS DOWN to the idiot drivers who think they can change into the left-hand lane from the right at the very last minute on Anson Street turning left into Harris Farm Markets’ parking lot. If you’re planning to park there then use your brain and use the left-hand lane at the lights! Don’t go cutting other drivers off and nearly causing a serious accident, especially at this time of the year.

THUMBS UP for the great Christmas lights in the CBD. What a great sight to see as you head down Summer Street and see the festoon lights and fairy lights on the trees. THUMBS UP to Wontama Clancy Western Lodge for the care and service they provide to the people under their care. THUMBS DOWN to the

stinking hot conditions in our local shopping centre, it is extremely unpleasant to shop in right now. Where is the air conditioning? I really feel for the shop workers working in this extreme heat with no air conditioning. THUMBS DOWN to the family members who posted my recent accident on Facebook. I found it to be highly embarrassing and uncalled for. THUMBS DOWN to the

Cabonne Council for the lack of building blocks in Manildra.

THUMBS UP to Orange Public School. An amazing year! Well done to all! An amazing end-of-year concert. So many highlights throughout the year! A wonderful Grandparent Day and Open Gardens Day. So many amazing achievements, academic, musical, dancing and sporting. You are all amazing! THUMBS UP to Isabelle, the hostess on the XPT service from Sydney to Orange on Wednesday, December 6. And to all the rail staff. I can’t fault their service, from booking in Orange to returning on the train from Sydney, everyone was so helpful. THUMBS DOWN to the foolish driver in the City Centre car park on December 5 who can’t park without hitting another person’s car! You have badly damaged my late father’s white Mitsubishi Lancer. He passed away in May, and when we sold it, the car was to be our nest egg. But you have driven off without leaving a note. You shouldn’t hold a driver’s licence anymore. THUMBS DOWN to the branch rubbish along the pathways in Cook Park. This is dangerous. We understand the bad weather has washed away the gravel on the walkways, but surely something could have been done to limit the danger of falls.

THUMBS UP to council for having the courage to decrease the speed limit to 40 km/h in the CBD. If it saves one life it will have been worth it. Numerous pedestrians have been killed in the CBD over the years. Thumbs Down to the hoons who don’t like it… and Thumbs Down to council for not implementing a trade-off by increasing the speed limit on other streets, especially Leeds Parade, Hill St North, Ploughmans Lane, and the Southern Feeder Road to name a few. THUMBS DOWN to Orange City Council parking officers who, early in the morning when the streets are very quiet, have nothing better to do than to drive around and issue unsuspecting persons with outrageous, uncalled-for infringements. They do not even have the common decency to speak to the person but drive past, photograph the so-called offending vehicle, and post the fine! What happened to the parking officers of the good old days who did their job on foot? I guess the council has to try to recoup some of the millions of dollars they have wasted on projects such as the Lord’s Place stuff up!

THUMBS UP to Shane at the ELF Community Garden. His commitment tending to the plants and watering them has created a thriving community garden for everyone to enjoy. Thank you.

THUMBS UP to Mikey at Collins, and all the staff, for their enthusiastic customer service. It’s a pleasant place to shop. THUMBS DOWN to

THUMBS UP and thank you very much to the honest lady who found and handed in my watch at Huntley Berry Farm on Sunday. Hope good things come your way.

the young lady who works in the perfume section of a local chemist. I don’t know if you’re always so rude or if I just got you on a bad day, but it wasn’t a good shopping experience.

THUMBS DOWN to the local car wash, where I took my car through and it was still covered in dust when we came out. I won’t be using this car wash again.

THUMBS UP to the very helpful Benjamin at Dan Murphy’s who was able to assist two ladies shopping for presents, both of whom had foolishly forgotten their glasses!

these impatient apes in their big vehicles who fly towards roundabouts without slowing down and giving way to the left and right and blast their horn because someone enters it before them. Slow down and give way to all sides of the roundabout; it’s the rules. (The roundabout sign is a give way sign and not a “speed up and get on it before anyone else” sign).

A BIG THUMBS DOWN

to Orange Central Plaza Centre Management for giving out parking permits to workers in the centre shops. Where do the customers park? Out on the street? THUMBS UP to the guys at Woodward Street Butchers. Best service. Best meat. Good job guys! THUMBS UP to the organisers of ‘Hark! Carols in the Court’ on Saturday evening. A terrific line-up of live artists, plenty of food to choose from, and we were blessed with a perfect evening. Then the film with all the local artists performing really set the night off! THUMBS DOWN to the lack of a working escalator at the City Centre, which makes it very difficult for shoppers.

BIG THUMBS DOWN to

THUMBS UP to Louise and Leah from West Orange Motors. Thank you for your honest and genuine assistance. That is what “customer service” is all about. A HUGE THUMBS DOWN

to the new management of Orange Central Square for cancelling the charity stalls for Huntley Berry Farms and The Lions Club Christmas Stocking in the lead-up to Christmas. They had already been set up for the past four weeks and these charities have been running their stalls at the centre for the past twenty years.

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WITH JIM WOODS PANIC – it’s almost Christmas time! What are you planning for this annual celebration… a holiday, a family gettogether? Do we greet Christmas, with an “Oh, no, I’m not ready! Do I have enough food, drinks and gifts?” It’s no wonder this is referred to as the ‘Silly Season’. The reality is, that we make it a ‘silly’ season. The hustle and bustle of planning celebrations, where and what to do, clearly removes any thought of the WHY? The details and busyness of life can overwhelm us and the question of

why we do what we do gets lost. This Christmas, make time to take a meaningful look at the true reason for the season in the birth of Jesus Christ. One place to look is Luke’s gospel chapter 1 in The Bible, where we meet Jesus: the who, what and why of Christmas. My prayer is that as you do, your response may be a mind blowing “AHA!” Realising the reality of God’s amazing love for you! Then keep reading and see that baby became a man who willingly died a cruel death so you can have God’s greatest gift to you, a permanent, loving relationship with him.

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