BATHURST; Gary Weeks and his wife Linda were first into Bathurst in their home-built Lancair Legacy, for the Blue Mountains Bicentenary Flyover. Photo: PHILL MURRAY

BATHURST: NSW Nurses and Midwives Association Bathurst branch members Lyn Sloane and Tatiana Muller (front) and their nursing colleagues are fighting planned cuts at Bathurst Base Hospital. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 052813cnurses

ORANGE: This house in Lone Pine Avenue was home to five children and two adults, and was completely engulfed in flames on Saturday night. Photo: JUDE KEOGH0526house

MUDGEE: Scenes from the game at Glen Willow between the Parramatta Eels and Gold Coast Titans. Photo: SANDY SMITH

LITHGOW: The Hartley Saddlery crew approach Mt York with a police escort.

BATHURST: A Settlers Cottage owner Gerarda Mader with a photo of the antique timber chair that was stolen from the front verandah of the Keppel Street cottage over the weekend. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 052713chair1a

Members of the McKay family including (from left) Sean, Hamish, Hugh, Lachlan, Leah and David are winding up their involvement in the dairy industry after five generations. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOOK 052213cows1

MUDGEE: Scenes from the game at Glen Willow between the Parramatta Eels and Gold Coast Titans. Photo: SANDY SMITH

BATHURST: Leader of The Great Walk team Jonathan Green, front left, and Scotty Macallister from the Knickerbocker Hotel in Bathurst ready to raise more funds for charity. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 052713cgtwalk

BATHURST: Members of the McKay family including (from left) Sean, Hamish, Hugh, Lachlan, Leah and David are winding up their involvement in the dairy industry after five generations. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOOK 052213cows1

BATHURST: Local astronomer Ray Pickard with the fragments from the Chelyabinsk Meteor that have been donated to him. They will go on display at the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 052013cmeteor

ORANGE: Dean and Peter “Batty” Batt travelled from Penrith to take part in the City of Orange Classic Forest Rally on Saturday. The rally was marred by a spate of thefts targeting participants. Photo: CLARE COLLEY

ORANGE: Orange resident Wal McGinley is full of praise for the care and compassion shown by palliative care nurses in Orange and says a decision by management to shut down designated palliative care beds and move dying patients to Molong is heartless. Photo: STEVE GOSCH 0527sgpal1

This week police identified human remains found on a Gooloogong property in 2009 as that of Judith Bartlett, almost 50 years after she was last seen. udith Barlett is picutred here with her daughter Frances.

BATHURST: Ben Bradley, Andrew Smith and Michael Boyd from Harvey Norman Kelso (back) and Jenny Cini and Sandra Peckham from Vinnies and the Salvo's Steve Barrott (front) are all urging the Bathurst community to fill garbage bags with gently- used winter clothing and donate them at Harvey Norman this Saturday to receive a discount. Photo: BRIAN WOOD 052813harvey

BATHURST: Tiny Totz Child Care Cottage director Mandy Lynch (middle right) said immunisation can improve the general health of the wider community and is happy to comply with legislation that requires centres to obtain official documentation of a child’s immunisation status prior to enrolment. Mandy is pictured with child care worker Susan Kreuzberger and children Hayden and Ethan who attend the local child care centre. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 052913ctotz

BATHURST: Liam O'Hara has put The Kelso Hotel up for sale. Photo: Brian Wood.

ORANGE: Nanette Mulcahy (right) with daughter Shannon Cain was shocked when her ticket drawn from the cash cube won her a Hyundai i20. Photo: JUDE KEOGH.

ORANGE: Canobolas Hunting Club wants to see the rogue element in feral animal hunting stamped out. Executive members of the Canobolas Hunting Club president Mick Watts, secretary John Rae and vice president Ian Patteson. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0526hunters

ORANGE: Willoughby’s Model Cars owner Paul Willoughby with an NRL jumper advertising gambling. He believes the amount of live gambling ads on TV is “disgusting” and welcomes Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s push to ban it. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0527gamble2

ORANGE: A healthy crowd turned out to voice their opinions on the pipeline. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

ORANGE: THE alcopop tax has done nothing to curb teen binge- drinking according to a study. Kelly’s Rugby Hotel bottleshop attendant George Eleftheriou with the not-so popular ready-to-drink beverages. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0527alcopops

ORANGE: ONE bus, 107 students, only 62 spaces on the bus and up to a one hour journey - the maths do not add up and Millthorpe Public School parents are furious. Photo: Steve Gosche

Orange Tigers assistant coach Andrew Nelson and senior player Ryan Scetrine are down 28 guernseys after they were stolen from a ute outside coach Nathan Pearce’s house. Photo: STEVE GOSCH 0527sgafl2

ORANGE: Canobolas Rural Technology High School students Jada Murphy, Brianne Wise, Jai Kelly and Tyson Tweeddale get down to their roots while making boomerangs. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0522indig1

ORANGE: Kate Heynes and Rodney Farrell of Central West Off Road Bike Club are excited about building a mountain bike trail at Lake Canobolas earth sanctuary. Photo: Steve Gosch0528bikes

Orange Christian School students (in rickshaw) Daniel Parton and Thom Dwyer with (front) Kyle Palmer, Caelan Maxon and James Scheepers are ready for the school's latest theatre production. Photo: STEVE GOSCH 0529sgmikado

DUBBO: The Member for Dubbo Troy Grant, Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson, Taronga Western Plains Zoo general manager Matt Fuller, runner Jane Fardell, Dubbo Stampede committee president Bonnie Tratt and Elders sponsor Johnathon O'Sullivan . Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

DUBBO: Renal nurse manager at Dubbo Base Hospital Gail O'Brien concurs that kidney disease can be a "silent killer". Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

DUBBO: Dr Paul Adler checking the eyes of Tania Button at the new public eye clinic on Bourke Street. Photo: Belinda Soole

ORANGE: NSW Rural Fire Service firefighter Roy Ferguson was again recognised for his service to the community on Saturday with the National Medal for Service second clasp. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0530roy3

Sarah Sheldon (right) volunteers her time to help dementia sufferers like Erma Phillips as her own mother suffers from the syndrome. Photo: STEVE GOSCH 0528sgmaple1

ORANGE: Cancer Council’s Justin Cantelo says too many people are still dying from tobacco consumption. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0531notobacco4

MUDGEE: Horseman John Howe joined an exclusive club on the weekend when he notched up 10,000 kilometres of endurance riding.

LITHGOW: Pipers Flat Road turned into a footpath for walkers in the Walk for Cancer fundraiser held on Sunday. lm052813walk

DUBBO; A standing room-only congregation at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Dubbo celebrated the life of Gerry Peacocke, a man who was fully engaged and committed to family, church and community.

DUBBO: Brett Garling, Matthew Wray, Dubbo mayor Cr Mathew Dickerson, Dubbo MP Troy Grant , Greg O'Mally and Dr Bill Phillips converge on the Macquarie River for the cheque presentation. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

WELLINGTON: SES volunteers at the Wellington Caves over the weekend. PHOTOS: FARREN HOTHAM

COWRA: L-R: Kira Anderson, Madison Knight, Francesca Fenton, Chloe Wilson, Grace Kelly and Melissa Causer from Henry Lawson High, Grenfell took part in the Cowra Eisteddfod.

BATHURST: The Blue Mountains Bicentenary Flyover

MUDGEE: Riding for the Disabled president Sandy Walker with regular rider Gwen Davis, Magic, and newly graduated assistant coaches Kay Bushnell and Renee Bridger.

PARKES: Member for Parkes Mark Coulton is supporting an Australian Road Safety Foundation initiative to reduce the number of deaths on Australian Roads.

LITHGOW: Paul Cardow, of Beyond Photographics at Wallerawang, captured this short of The Roulettes over the Hartley Valley.

LITHGOW: Aiden Abbey and Lucius Culliton were a pair of musicians who entertained the crowd in Hartley for the commemorative fly over. lm052913hartley8

BATHURST: The Blue Mountains Bicentenary Flyover

COWRA: Students wore red at Cowra Public School in support of the Red Shield Appeal.

COWRA: Cowra Public School has been busy fundraising for year’s five and six excursion later this year- almost 1000 pies later and they've finally reached their target. Luke D'Elboux and Brodie Graham help sort the huge pie order.

COWRA: St Raphael's Catholic School students with teacher Cherie MacCabe. The group will take outdoor challenges building confidence and leadership skills in a course by education group Outward Bound.

WELLINGTON: Geurie resident Justine Williams is donning her joggers in a marathon effort to raise money for Epilepsy Australia this year.

COWRA: Cowra Magpies players Warren Williams, Caley Mok, KJ Wood, Jack Nobes and Josh Rainbow. The club's president Marc McLeish will speak about its involvement in a national campaign against domestic violence at a forum on safe relationships next week.

Forbes’ Celia Pavey (centre) with fellow Team Delta contestants Tim Morrison and Jackie Sannia on stage ­during the announcement of the ‘The Voice’ finalists on Monday night.

Students from Parkes East School preparing for the fete on Saturday June 1. Mia Cummings, Matilda Hargrave, Jeremiah Alexander, Lachlan Plummer, Montanah Phipps and Isabella Hughes; and kneeling, Keira Bloomfield are ready for the Parkes East Fete

PARKES: Tullamore Show representatives, Tom McMahon (vice president), Bernadette Boneham (president), Parkes Deputy Mayor Alan Ward and Shire General Manager, Kent Boyd following the turning on of the grey water system. in Tullamore on Wednesday.