It’s taken 15 months but at last, Orange has some colourful flags flying on the flag poles along Summer Street, all thanks to the efforts of Put Orange First, a group of local business people who are trying to do good things for the business community of Orange, particularly our retailers.
Read MoreAt the beginning of 2019, Orange City Life announced that our Community Project for 2019 would be called Put Orange First (POF) and one component of that initiative was to invite interested local business people to join a regular brainstorming group over coffee on a regular basis.
Read MoreToday’s Long Lunch with Jim Maxwell at the Emus Rugby Club was a great success with the legendary sports commentator entertaining guests, speaking for over an hour about his life and times covering Australian cricket and other sports for ABC radio around the world.
Read MoreA group of four business people have decided to stand for election to the Board of the Orange Business Chamber to revitalise business representation
Read MoreA recent NAB business survey declared that the retail sector in Australia is “clearly in recession”. If that’s true, it should ring alarm bells for business owners right across Australia, and that includes here in Orange.
Read MorePut Orange First held a small business ideas forum in town recently, with The Park View Hotel kindly making a room available
Read MoreHow often have we heard the cries "Shop local" or "Support locals"? Sadly, and more often than not, we mouth the words but do little to back it up with action.
Read MoreBorn and bred in Orange, I spent three years at Wollongong for University studying History and Politics
Read MoreWhen Orange City Life decided to make our Community Project this year Put Orange First, we knew it would take a while before any worthwhile momentum might start to happen.
Read MoreWhat Put Orange First is all about was on show for all to see last weekend when Orange City was abuzz with people.
Read MoreOur Team Orange group met again last week and the more we get together, the more we realise just how much opportunity we have in this beautiful city of ours.
Read MoreThings continue to tick along with our Put Orange First initiative as evidenced by the feedback and comments we’re getting, along with some good ideas.
Read MorePut Orange First is Orange City Life’s Community Project this year and we’re hopeful that by year’s end, we’ll have made some significant differences to the way people feel about our beautiful city and to our local economy. It will all depend on how much the community at large embraces what we’re trying to do.
Read MorePut Orange First is the theme of our magazine's Community Project this year and just to recap, in case you've missed the earlier publicity, one thing I'm trying to do is encourage us all to respect, encourage and support small business owners in Orange a lot more than we appear to.
Read MoreConsider what I’m about to say as coming from the ‘enough is enough’ file. I’m certain many must feel exactly the same way I do on the matter.
Read MoreThroughout 2019, Orange City Life will be encouraging our readers to “Put Orange first!” in a whole range of areas.
Read MoreWhen I lived in Dubbo there was a well-known and jovial newsagent who, when people checked their lottery tickets with him and found out they didn't win anything, he would say "Back to work!"
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