It was a work injury that got me into conservation actually. I was a brick layer for nearly 30 years, then I was going to buy a pub and hurt my back lifting kegs!
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I was born in Orange, but I grew up out west in Cobar — Dad was a shearer’s cook and farm hand. A lot of the places out there you couldn't get TV, so our only entertainment was Mum's records and I just loved listening to them
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“I’ve been a Chef for over 20 years, and continue to enjoy it every day. I love that each day is different.
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It was on Roger Burrell’s very first trip to Orange, three years ago, that he decided he would move here one day, although that came about sooner than he and his family imagined.
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It’s is one of the advantages working somewhere like Orange City Life that when you see something that strikes you as unusual or interesting, you can simply go and ask about it.
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Alf Manciagli is a well-known professional photographer and businessman in Orange. I’ve known him personally for about 10 years and although not close friends, I have come to appreciate him as being a good man, a great bloke and a proud supporter of anything that promotes Orange.
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“Football has been a big part of my life, I’ve never really known anything else, it’s always just been something I was very passionate about and wanted to give my best in.”
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I am from Wyong on the Central Coast, we moved to Blayney in January this year, it was just time for something different. We’ve experienced the heat and the snow so far, our fire is getting a good workout now
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I was born in Orange and later we moved to Parkes for a while
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I trained for radio at the Max Rowley Media Academy in Sydney - Max was one of the best in the business and put literally hundreds of people into radio and TV.
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I spent 27 years in gaol.... as a prison officer. I started in Goulburn, went to the Supreme Court in Sydney and then to Cessnock.
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When I was in school my mate lent me an MxPx tape, a bit of punk rock, and I just fell in love with it and started drumming on everything.
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“I’m in the production for ‘Rent’ which will be performed in May, I’m playing Mrs Cohen and some other small parts, it’s a great cast.
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“I just love rust, rust is my favourite colour,” says local sculptor Jenny Shea, who you could say sees the world a little differently to most people.
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Born and bred in Orange, I spent three years at Wollongong for University studying History and Politics
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The Orange Field Naturalists and Conservation Society Inc. (OFNCS) was started by Jenny Pratten’s father Chris Pratten, 45 years ago this October.
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I was born and bred in Zimbabwe, but my parents came from Malawi. I came here to Australia in 2007 with my wife Heather and my son Tim. My daughter Leah was born here that year.
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“I love to travel, I try to go somewhere every year, I eventually want to do all of the States in America which I think I’ve done about 15 so far
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I was born and raised in Orange and I love it here. I like the weather, the mountains, I love the bush — you are close enough to everything but far enough away from everything and I like the people.
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