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Stephanie Gardiner

Talking and tinkering townsfolk make for more wellbeing

Retired policeman Terry Betts says it is harder to slip through the cracks in a regional community. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

Inside a historic arts school beside a bustling rural highway, men chatter as they put fresh coats of varnish on chairs, patch-up old toys and measure timber to restore a faded glory box.

The simple act of tinkering and talking in the Men's Shed at Lucknow, a village near Orange in central western NSW, is community connection in action.

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