THE THUMBS
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to scammers stating that they are from the Home Office and then the Taxation Department, asking personal questions via mobile phone!
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to Emily Rose from Service NSW in Macquarie Street, for her exceptional service given with compassion and understanding to a senior couple to set up an Opal Card. We are more than grateful.
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to Sloane at Service NSW – nothing is ever a problem, she makes jobs which used to be stressful and irritating into pleasant experiences.
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to Nicole Lyons Electrical and Cameron Porter Plumbing. Prompt, efficient and professional service always with a smile. Cannot thank you two enough. Gold star Tradies!
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to Blues Butchery in Tamworth Street. Erin Ray was back in Dubbo to pick up some belongings, she’d been with her family in a Sydney hospital for six months since son Mitchell began receiving treatment for Neuroblastoma. Blue sent her back to Sydney with a “huge pile of yummy meat”. Well done Bluey!
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and many thanks to the Editor of the Dubbo Photo News and the staff for providing such a wonderful newspaper. Although living in Gilgandra we thoroughly enjoy reading the paper. Well done to everyone involved!
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to two employees of Carpet Court, Brody and Connor who installed new flooring in our home. They were so friendly, efficient, professional and did such a wonderful job. They are a credit to their employers.
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to local carpenter Matt Rendell for the proposal of the decade, great imagination.
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to the kind person who left my grandson’s camo jumper on the railing at the Adventure Park on Friday afternoon. Thank you, I got it!
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to Chooky and the boys at Mid State Cranes. The service is always friendly, professional and reasonably priced.
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to Dubbo River Care group who were out on Sunday morning collecting rubbish, weeding and generally working along the Tracker Riley Cycleway on the eastern side of the river. Thank you for donating your time and effort to this cause.
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to Rochelle at Easy Living Footwear for fantastic service and very caring attitude. Nothing was a trouble to ensure the customer was able to get well fitting shoes. Well done!
Narromine’s Cottage Craft is a huge hit with travellers as well as locals. CONTRIBUTED.
NARROMINE Cottage Craft was started in 1989 and Maryan Johnston said the organisation is very proud to be celebrating 30 years of continuous service to the community.
“We are a not-for-profit co-op and each year donate money to our local schools and charities,” she said.
“We have managed to survive through several droughts and economic hard times, but this Coronavirus has been the hardest.
“After three months of lockdown we were excited to reopen on June 29 – we took advantage of the closure to do repairs and give the shop a good spring clean, and it’s now looking better than ever.”
The outlet has all kinds of handcrafted goods including knitting, sewing, jewellery, painting, pottery, plants, cooking, gifts for all occasions and all ages.
Thanks to the cooler weather, this month the cottage’s main focus is on winter woollies such as jumpers, scarves, socks, shawls and all things knitted or crocheted.
“The baby and toddler gift section is stocked year round with wonderful items from the smallest booties to beautiful shawls and quilts and the local pickles and jams are very popular, especially with travellers, as are the cakes and slices,” Mrs Johnston said.
Hildred Oliver moved to Narromine from Cowra more than 30 years ago and said her hometown had a co-op craft shop, so she called a meeting to get one started in her new home and hasn’t looked back.
“We’ve had a lot of tourists come in over the holidays,” Mrs Oliver told Dubbo Photo News.
“People love what we have to offer, you can’t get any of this at a supermarket or chain store, everything’s made by hand and it’s all of very good quality – we have a standard that things have to be made to.
“We feel wonderful when customers compliment us, when people tell us how much they love everything,” she said.
New members are always welcome. If you are interested in joining the cooperative just call into the shop for further information.
The cottage is at 81 Dandaloo Street (on the corner of Dandaloo and Burroway St) and is open seven days a week, 10am to 4pm weekdays and from 9am to 12.30pm on weekends.