COWRA: One of the Woodstock Show's younger visitors - Gabby Bryant - enjoyed her first icecream.

DUBBO: Taronga Western Plains zoo's two Tasmanian Devil joeys. Photo: KAREN ELLIS

ORANGE: Orange CYMS captain-coach Mick Sullivan (left) and Orange Hawks captain-coach Tim Mortimer pose with the spoils of Sunday's Group 10 grand final. Photo: NICK MCGRATH

BATHURST: A family friend of Jessica Ross, who was killed in a crash at The Lagoon on Tuesday afternoon, looks at the wreckage strewn across the paddock where the Commodore Ms Ross was driving rolled. The baby capsule belongs to Ms Ross’s son Cooper, who had been dropped off at his nan’s house just an hour before the crash. Photo: ZENIO LAPKA 090513ZCRASH

MUDGEE: Carol Stubbs, Kerry Smith, Amanda Malsem and Karen Callaghan all pitched in to deliver goods to a Kandos family who lost their house to fire on Father’s Day.

LITHGOW: Anika Haigh (centre) the girlfriend of Gary Tweddle, with her mother Jo (left) and sister Beth at Sublime Point in the Blue Mountains, near where a body has been discovered. Photo: Sahlan Hayes

BATHURST: Students from across the region have created some extraordinary JIRBs (junk-integrated-recycled-birds) that now fill the foyer of the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre with colour. Photo: ZENIO LAPKA 082613zbmec6

PARKES: About to embark on a trek together in the Bumberry Dam area are from left Keith and Ruth Nielsen, Martin Bell, Mandy Harris, Andrew Thom and Ray Martin. Photo: Barbara Reeves

FORBES: Beth Betland, Ryan Potts, Jacqui Carbines and Kirsty Bosveld enjoy the wine tasting evening last Friday.

WELLINGTON: Sue-Ellen Lovett, Gavin Stait, Johnny Murison, Tracey Hooker, Cooper McNeil, Rodney Hooker and Aunty Mary Hooker.

ORANGE: Merle Parrish is set to launch her second book Merle’s Country Show Baking And Other Favourites in November.

OBERON: Iain McPherson shows staff from the RMS and Oberon Council where the signs to mark the O’Connell Anzac Memorial Avenue will go. Photo: PHILL MURRAY

ORANGE: Angus Eddy hopes his egg crash test dummy survives the drop. Photo: NICOLE KUTER 0409nksheahan6

NARROMINE: Narromine will be a hive of activity next week with the second annual Ausfly set to be a roaring success.

DUBBO: A Dubbo woman will have to pay for the damage to her car window after a group of children smashed it last week. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

PARKES: Michael Dumesny and Mark Dwyer from Dwyer’s Butchery are right behind the Parkes Spacemen during the Group 11 rugby league grand final.

ORANGE: Kinross Wolaroi School's Amelia Rawson, Gabby Eade, Kelsea Bellamy, Alex Butcherine, Grace Evans and (front) Amelia Abbott hope to beat their boys team in the upcoming Australian International Pedal Prix Series. Photo: NADINE MORTON 0903nmgrandprix5

DUBBO: A little girl in a Sydney hospital watched yesterday as three staff members at Dubbo’s St Laurence’s Primary School lost their locks in support of her “massive fight” for life.

MUDGEE: Mudgee High School Year 12 students (clockwise, from left) Henry van Laeren, Connor Jones, Kaylee Harradine, Harry Ottley, Lauren Hodgetts, Bec Bailey, Robert Harries, Sheldon Roth, Hannah Bruton, and Corey Tubnor, brainstorm ideas for Rainbow Day, which is on Thursday, September 19

BATHURST: Former Bathurst High School student Rowan Darke has been sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of NSW.

COWRA: Wyangala bridge foundations well underway.

NARROMINE: Haddon Rig Merino and Poll Merino Stud manager, Andy Maclean, and principal, George Falkiner, pictured at the Haddon Rig sheep display at Nyngan Ag Expo.

BATHURST: Robbie Lee, from Bathurst’s Robbie Lee Developments, Demolition and Asbestos Removal, with the Asbestos House’s curator and chauffeur Karen Wicks. Photo: PHILL MURRAY 082913pbetty

FORBES: Owen Bell, Peter Kelly and Greg Preece setting up for this week’s Forbes Show, which opens Friday.

ORANGE: Adam Roberts, with a photo of his brother Damien who died by suicide, said better precautions need to be in place at Orange Health Service to protect people like his brother. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0829roberts1

DUBBO: Police believe arsonists were responsible for this fire in Apollo Estate

OBERON: President of Oberon Plateau Tourist Association Tim Charge and president of Oberon Business Association Andrew Bird agree there is merit to both organisations getting together to share their resources.

COWRA: Will, Bella and Jacob Graham at the Woodstock Show. It's a bit of a family tradition! The brothers featured at the Show in the Guardian's coverage a few years ago.

BATHURST: Members of the Rebels motorcycle gang ride through Bathurst yesterday to be welcomed by a major police presence at the Evans Bridge. 090513bwbikes

LITHGOW: Lilly Brown at the opening of the Daffodils at Rydal. lm090413rydal

COWRA: Probationary Constable Matt Brydon is the newest police recruit in town.

BATHRUST: Scott Forde, his dad Mick and little Harry Forde, 14 months, were joined by a group of cartoon characters at yesterday’s Walk for Red Day. Photos: ZENIO LAPKA 090113zred1

DUBBO: Champion cyclist Megan Dunn will participate in the Toyota Tour de OROC from October 7 to 12. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

ORANGE: Peter Darley has welcomed Woolworths’ decision to use Australian-only fruit in its home brand canned fruit.

ORANGE: Ray Hawkins of Bullets and Bits examines the arrow to assist the RSPCA in tracking down those responsible for firing it into the head of a family’s pet cat on Friday. Photo: OLIVIA SARGENT

MUDGEE: Bylong Landscape Conservation Area was added to the National Trust’s heritage register recently.

FORBES: Forbes PA and H secretary Jan Facey and president Pip Perry hope the recent spring-like weather will continue into next weekend for the Forbes Show.

LIGHTNING RIDGE: Opal prospecting at Lightning Ridge is increasing and there is a much more positive attitude on the fields than there has been for many years.

BATHURST: Assistant Louise Kelly and Bathurst Correctional Complex general manager Bill Fittler congratulate Laura Smith on choosing the winning name for Bonza the dog. Photo: Phill Murray.

ANOWINDRA: Richard Swansborough hopes to fly a hot-air balloon over Papua New Guinea’s Mount Hagan next year.

MUDGEE: Summer Land opens her copy of her new book, Summerlandish.

LITHGOW: Wallerawang Power Station is no longer in government control after 56 years. lm083113LA4692

DUBBO: Dubbo father Mathew Muller holding a Bears of Hope teddy bear given to support grieving parents. Photo: LOUISE DONGES

COWRA: Jesse Murray, Monique Elbourne-Gordon and Imajen James at their rehearsals in Sydney recently. Photo: Anna Warr DEC Arts Unit

PARKES: Drizzly rain at the start of the day didn’t thwart the enthusiasm of 24 volunteers as work commenced on the first stage of the Memorial Hill Rejuvenation Project.

BLAYNEY: Blayney Camera Club president, Emma Jenkins, with some of the photos to be exhibited at the upcoming exhibition. She is pictured with her son, Albert.

CANOWINDRA: Canowindra Public School students created a sea of blue support for Bangonabeanie day last week

NYNGAN: One of the Dick Smith Variety Bash cars.