THE THUMBS
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to Dubbo Buslines’ receptionist / admin lady for excellent service when requesting information regarding school bus timetables and general bus timetables – nothing was too difficult for her including applying for school bus pass for a parent.
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to Ken Madden for excellent prompt service for collecting and installing a new kitchen appliance much appreciated.
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to George Chapman of Australian Red Cross on the unveiling of the new signage indicating locations of the new Dubbo Automated external defibrillators, former Yellow Wiggle Greg Page, Colin Shanks of Dubbo West Rotary Club and Ken Smith of Dubbo Photo News together with the other wonderful media people for being in attendance for the unveiling of the machines.
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to Rotary and everyone involved in the Science and Engineering Challenge for school students across the region. It is such a fantastic event and a great opportunity for the students to immerse themselves in the practicalities of engineering. We have a significant and ongoing shortage of engineers, so programs like this I feel really do help inspire the next generation of engineers.
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and thank you to the Mower Man who came out to my house to fix my ride on, and didn’t charge an arm and a leg, I appreciate that I didn’t have to load it up and bring it into town. They were very flexible time-wise for me. Cody definitely knows what he’s doing thanks again.
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to Courtney at Spotlight for the excellent job she is doing in the dress fabric department, the fixtures are very tidy and stock easy to find, it’s a pleasure to browse around the area.
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to Dubbo Regional Council. No-one seems to know anything about a lot of parking spots that will disappear out the front of the (Sheraton Road) schools where we’ve always been able to drop the kids off. Council workers have already started on the job and it’s a mess, as well as being dangerous for everyone concerned.
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to Matt Freeth of Matt Diamond plumbing for prompt excellent service.
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to the person who poisoned my dog in my backyard in North Dubbo.
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to unwarranted verbal abuse. I’m elderly and was walking to the shops near somone’s house and I’ve never in my life copped the sort of abuse she gave me for daring to park in the public car park on the street in front of her home – a car park that as a ratepayer and taxpayer of many years I’m just as entitled to use as anyone else.
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to the newly completed traffic lights and roadworks at the intersection of Fitzroy Street and Cobra Street. We were driving through the intersection this week and noticed how much easier traffic seems to be flowing there now, compared to the previous roundabout. The big, wide road is a big improvement. The new traffic lights in West Dubbo, at the Victoria/whylandra Streets intersection, are also a great improvement although we urge the roads people to increase the time the lights stay green for vehicles travelling along Victoria Street – a few times now we’ve seen only half a dozen cars being able to get through before the lights turn red again.