IMPORTANT NOTICE   There will be a special bus taking locals who wish to donate blood for the Victorian Bushfire Victims from Narromine to the Dubbo Blood Bank on the 23rd February.
The bus will be leaving from the front of the Narromine Community Services Centre at 6pm and returning at approximatly 9pm. This is an excellent opportunity for those who wish to help the victims in Victoria especially as blood is so desperatly needed. Future donations will also be required in three months time to continue with the treatment of burns victims. Anyone wishing to go on the special bus can book in on 6889 9980 as places are limited.
The blood bank has asked that all those who normally come in on the bus with Les Lambert to  please keep to their original dates as they are unable to donate again less than three months to the previous donation.

Those dates are as follows and anyone is welcome to attend if they haven't donated within 3 months. 9th and 16th March, 15th and 22nd June, 7th and 14th September, 7th and 14th December leaving from Narromine Hospital at 6pm. _________________________________________________________________________

Less than an hours drive west of Dubbo, along the Mitchell Highway is the town of Trangie. With a population around the 1000 mark, this small town is brimming with interesting, spirited people who are passionate about their community..  

With thanks to the Trangie Agricultural Research Centre and the Trangie Community. Click here for more information about the TARC
    

Gateway to the TARC  from the Mitchell Highway

Trangie, whilst a small town, is relatively close to the large centre of Dubbo and provides a range of lifestyle and sporting activities.With a strong reliance on rural activities, the area grew strong with the rise of the wool industry, and later into a range of broadacre farming activities and grazing.
With the introduction of irrigation, the town grew, as crops such as cotton, soyabeans, corn to name a few, were able to be grown.
Strong community support enables the back bone of events such as the "Crossing the Divide" festival to take place.
Only 45 minutes from Commercial Airline Services to Sydney and a daily Countrylink Service, Trangie is a great place to start your adventure into Australia's Outback.

Along the track to Dandaloo ...
Where droughts are plenty; rains are few;
There lies on a patch of sunburnt ground ...
A little place called Trangie Town.
 
A town that grew on sweeping plains ...
From yields of wool & golden grains;
Where in the wake of the chippers' toil ...
Cotton springs from rich brown soil.
 
Where by the stand of native scrub ...
Goodwill flows from a country pub;
And beneath verandahs & shopfront signs ...
Stockmen muse and pass the time.
 
The time that seems to stand so still ...
(A legacy of the pioneers' will?)
And by shady gums of the Goan stream ...
Weary travellers pause to dream.
 
That's why along the track to Dandaloo ...
Where country faith is tried & true;
You'll find as the western sun goes down ...
It leaves a glow on Trangie Town!            
(reproduced with permission from Maggie May Gordon)