THE THUMBS

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to Dubbo Meals on Wheels, and a big thank-you for letting our daughter help in the office and go out one day a week delivering.

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to all the people who have helped with donations etc for the family whose home in Wellington was destroyed by fire on July 30. It’s been a wonderful show of community spirit and support. &

Thumbs Up to the family using the reverse vending machines in Victoria Park. Instead of throwing empty cardboard boxes into the garbage bin, they eased the tabs and flattened them. Better in their recycling bin than more unnecessary waste.

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to the Munro family and Dubbo Photo News for sharing their story and photos of their family trip around Australia [“Making Memories”, August 1 edition]. I hadn’t seen their story before and it’s made me think hard about priorities for my own family. &

Thumbs Up to carpet and vinyl layers who leave some spare offcuts for possible future repairs. It’s a great help with tight household budgets. A repair can be made instead of replacing good carpet and vinyl.

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to the Service NSW Centre for double dipping on a customer’s account via their eftpos machine recently. The customer then had to jump through hoops to get it back. Not good enough!

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Thumbs Down to the changes to abortion laws that were approved by State Parliament last week. I feel betrayed that this was never mentioned before the election, it was rushed through parliament in what seems to be a controversial way, and so we as the general public never got a proper say.

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to Travis on the door at JB Hifi on Saturday. On my way out, I couldn’t find the DVD I was after, so Travis took the time to ask a colleague to have a search for me and found the elusive DVD. Who said customer service is dead?

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Thumbs Up to your photographer for that epic photo of the two players going head to head in last week’s Sports section of Dubbo Photo News.

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Thumbs up or Thumbs Down via email to photos@dubbophotonews.com.au, mail to 89 Wingewarra Street Dubbo NSW 2830, phone 6885 4433 or fax 6885 4434.

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