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FORMER Orange man Quinton Ko hasbeen awarded the Permanent WayInstitution’s 2013 young achiever award.

The award recognised Mr Ko’s work ona number of engineering projects, includ-ing the Sydney Port Botany Terminal 3, theSouthern Sydney Freight Line and theCampbelltown Perway Sliding project.

Mr Ko, who attended Kinross WolaroiSchool before studying at the Universityof Sydney, was one of 10 nominees for therailway industry award and said he was“pleasantly surprised” to win.

“I entered two years ago and was quiteinexperienced, but I had no expectationsthis year, I didn’t want to be disap-pointed,” he said.

As part of the prize Mr Ko, who worksfor Laing O’Rourke in Sydney, received$10,000 to help fund the cost of him trav-elling to an international conference.

Mr Ko, whose parents Sandy andEdmund Ko own the Canton ChineseRestaurant in Summer Street, said hehadn’t ruled out returning to Orange inthe future.

Deb’s pet project

DEBI Coleman has just returned fromUS having become an internationally-accredited behavioural dog trainer.

Ms Coleman said the qualificationwould allow her to give state-of the-art dogtraining behaviour education. She alsoplans to run new courses designed to workon specific issues with clients in both classand private situations.

“I will also be running information

workshops on dog body language, safetyaround children and babies and theimportance of socialisation with otherdogs and humans, to name a few,” shesaid.

She also conducts temperament testson dogs throughout central NSW thathave been declared dangerous or areabout to be declared dangerous.

Cellar door openingSWINGING Bridge owner and wine-

maker Tom Ward recently opened his cel-lar door in the old stables of Orange’shistoric Union Bank Wine Bar.

“The new cellar door has certainly keptus busy,” Mr Ward said.

“Wine Week was a great success with aconstant stream of visitors keen to tasteour wines and explore the new changesthat are occurring at Union Bank.”

Preschool exceeds standardORANGE Preschool has been awarded

an “exceeding national quality standard”rating.

The preschool was recently assessed tosee if it met the standards set by thenational quality standard for early child-hood education and care and school agecare system.

Mind YourBusinessTracey Prisk

Quinton leads the way

FRIENDS, family andcooking buffs of all agescame to celebrate withCudal’s own celebrity chefMerle Parrish on Saturday.

Mrs Parrish was cele-brating her 81st birthdayand the launch of her sec-ond cookbook Merle’sCountry Show Baking andOther Favourites at the

Cudal Community Hall.Mrs Parrish has entered

cooking competitionssince she was seven yearsold and said she never tiredof heading into the kitchento cook up a feast.

“I love it , I just enjoydoing it,” she said.

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Merle a Cudal favourite

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UPGRADING their household electricalequipment and updating to the latest gadget is aroutine that many Australian consumers follow inthe hunt for a bargain.

But what happens to the old televisions, out-dated computers, faulty DVD players and otherelectrical gear once they’re discarded?

Once destined to add to the tonnes of waste tobe buried in landfill, now in Orange all electricalequipment can now be recycled.

Orange City Council recycles all electronic wasteat the Ophir Rd Resource Recovery Centre.

And it’s a free service! Residents can recycle any electrical equipment

by taking it to the Resource Recovery Centre onOphir Road.

The waste equipment is stockpiled and thentransported to Sydney for processing.

Orange City Council, along with other centralwest councils, has negotiated a wastemanagement contract with Sydney-based company‘Reverse E-Waste’.

At the ‘Reverse E-Waste’ Sydney depot theequipment is dismantled into metals, plastics,glass and other categories for recycling.

It’s estimated more than 95% of the material inelectrical equipment can be recovered for re-use.

Residents can take discarded electricalequipment to the Ophir Road Resource RecoveryCentre for recycling at no charge.

While at the Centre don’t forget to call into theRecovery Shop to grab a bargain on a pre-loveditem. Enquiries can also be made over the phoneto 6393 8860.

The e-waste strategy is a key part of Orange’srecycling strategy that also includes finding newuses for glass and paper waste.

Since the beginning of 2013, residents ofOrange have recycled over 2,483 tonnes ofmaterial. This has saved approximately 6,844cubic metres of landfill space.

Orange Scrap Recyclers at 73 William Streetknows all about recycling. The business has beenoperating for more than 20 years.

It offers bin services for businesses andoperates five-and-a-half days a week.

Orange Scrap Recyclers specialises in farmclean-ups, a service that can be highly valuable tobusy farmers.

The company can also remove cars forconversion to scrap metal.

Orange Scrap Recyclers is a drop-off point foraluminium cans so remember, don't throw yourcans in the bin, save them and exchange them forcash!

For all your scrap recycling needs call DaveWenban on 6362 7220.

Experienced inremoving scrap

E-waste service recycling old TVs

CONVERTIBLE: Orange Scrap Recyclers will remove old car bodies for conver-sion to scrap metal.

E-WASTE : Disused TVs and computers are stock-piled in Orange before being shipped to Sydney forrecycling.

Orange City Council invites local residents to use the

FREE e-waste recycling serviceSimply take disused TVs, computers, DVD players or

any household electrical equipmentto the Ophir Road Resource Recovery Centre.

Your efforts will continue to place Orange at the forefront of recycling

and diverting waste away from landfi ll.

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