Santa has bought some early Christmas cheer to the students at Hermidale Public School.
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On Friday sirens were blazing as Santa rolled up to the small school, located 44 kilometres west of Nyngan in the Rural Fire Service truck.
Each year, with the help of the Hermidale CWA, Santa visits the school and hosts a morning tea and lunch for the children and their teachers.
This year however as numbers are dwindling in the small village and the drought continues to bite, the Central West Riders club and the Narromine Men's Shed donated to the CWA to help the event continue.
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So far Santa has been visiting the students at Hermidale for seven years, but last year the social motorcycle club decided to jump on board with the event to help donate individual presents to the children.
Santa told Australian Community Media that it was the individual members of the Central West Riders club, which includes members from Dubbo, Narromine, Armatree and Gilgandra individually purchased and donated all presents for the children, who they realised have been doing it tough for a while.
This year they also donated a number of small toys and books to the school's library.
The Narromine Men's Shed also donated $100 to the Hermidale CWA to help them provide the Christmas morning tea and lunch.
President of the Narromine Men's Shed and Central West Riders committee member, Ivan Littlehales said as the drought continues it was important to support communities in the region, who are often overlooked.
"Last year we bought the bike club on board to help sponsor and support the CWA's cause," he said.
"We thought it was not only a way of promoting the club, but a chance for us to give back to the small community.
"Town's like this often get overlooked."
Dubbo Taronga Western Plains Zoo also jumped into the Christmas spirit donating a raffle for the morning tea.
It was Abbie Smith who had her name drawn out of the barrel winning a day pass to the Zoo for two adults and two children.
Hermidale CWA President Margret Gudgeon thanked the Central West Riders club, Narromine Men's Shed and Dubbo Zoo for their support this year.
"I'd like to give a special thank you from all of us, and also a big thank you to all the work the bikies have done to individually purchase and wrap presents for the students," she said.
"We look forward to it just as much as the kids do."
The group also bought with them a number of donations of dog food and fuel vouchers the CWA will distribute to farmers.