DUBBO CITY LIFE
IT’S very easy to let our rural neighbours struggling in drought conditions know they’re in your thoughts and do something to ease their pain.
Your service club, school or sports club for example, can host a fundraiser to support the charities who are working around the clock to help.
The campaign is twofold: to save the breeding stock that’s still left in drought-stricken NSW (less than 50 per cent), by providing feed and carting water, as well as supporting farming families with basic necessities like food and helping to pay for incidental bills.
Let Dubbo Photo News know, and we’ll do our best to support your club or team’s efforts.
With livestock numbers dwindling, residents will also be feeling the pinch as buying staples like meat and wheat will be harder and more expensive to source.
Charities to support include Aussie Helpers, who recently appointed NSW coordinator Krystal Haycock here in Dubbo, and Rural Aid, which is running a Buy A Bale Western NSW campaign to raise money to buy hay, water and groceries for farmers.
The NSW Department of Primary Industries (1800 808 085) and the NSW Rural Assistance Authority (1800 678 593) are running assistance programs.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a climate outlook for July to September which suggests much of the eastern mainland is going to be drier and warmer than average. SOMEONE who’s been out and about around the region, supporting women and men, with her message of breast screening is Donna Falconer who has been touring the Groovy Booby Bus around Garah, Lightning Ridge, Narrabri, Moree, and more. She’s on a roundabout trip to Melbourne, bound for the annual Breast Cancer Network Australia’s (BCNA) Field of Women 2018.
Thousands are expected at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday, August 12, to form the football pitch-sized pink lady symbol associated with BCNA. candidate for the Dubbo Electorate in the State Election 2019, following current member Troy Grant’s announcement earlier this month that he wants to step down.
Three nominees were announced this week: ABC Western Plains radio announcer Dugald Saunders, engineer and infrastructure entrepreneur and 2018 NSW Agrifutures Rural Women’s Award winner Jillian Kilby, and community leader Andrew Mckay.