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“It's all about giving love to people, letting them know that people care”

Since Cancer Care Western NSW was set up in 2007, they have raised over $5.7 million. Along with building and operating the Western Care Lodge, they also provided $350,000 in seed funding for the Clinical Cancer Trials at the Orange Health Service.

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A wartime cricket controversy that had local sports talking

Given the controversial Ashes dismissal of Jonny Barstow that’s been dominating the news and even had Prime Ministers giving their two cents, we were reminded of this little piece we’d stumbled up (just two weeks ago serendipitously) from the Orange Leader nearly 80 years ago. Then, as now, there had been another dismissal given in England that was well within the rules, but debate raged as to whether it was really “cricket.” The Leader’s cricket columnist “Silly Point” was, unwillingly it seems, forced to pen the following.

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Orange piper Richard Cummins returning to Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 50 years on!

When Richard Cummins marched out the drawbridge gate onto the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle as a young 18-year-old school piper back in 1973, he never imagined that 50 years later he would once more be returning to take part in the world-famous Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

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