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n FEDERAL MP for Wakefield, Nick Champion, congratulates Wakefield Regional Council mayor, James Maitland, on the successful funding announcement when they met yeterday at the site of the existing pipeline off Herd’s Hill road. – PICTURE: Lisa Redpath

Massive boost with $10 million RDA funding MORE water will mean more jobs and growth in the district as the Adelaide Plains hinges on the cusp of massive industrial growth in the near future.

Regional Australia Minister, Simon Crean, has announced more than $10 million of funding assistance from the Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF) to boost water availability to the area.

“The benefits of this project are enormous. Up to 119 jobs will be cre-

Les Pearson reports: ated including 32 direct jobs during construction, with $4.7 million expected in cash flow through the region,” Mr Crean said.

The proposal is to construct a 47 kilometre mains water pipeline from the Upper Wakefield Storage, west of Auburn through Balaklava and Bowmans to Port Wakefield.

Total cost of the project is $30.11

million. SA Water and Wakefield Regional Council partnered to present the concept to the RDAF. It will allow the construction of a raft of new chicken sheds in the district and expansion at the Bowmans intermodal site, both currently held up by the lack of water availability.

Mr Maitland is happy to see the region edging towards strong industrial and subsequent economic growth.

“The expansion of the chicken farms

at Port Wakefield can’t happen without more water because the water supply is at capacity,” he said.

“The other string in this is the intermodal facility at Bowmans and the water supply there is very low. That’s inhibiting any expansion on something that has amazing potential there.”

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$10 million funding huge boost to region • From Page 1 Mr Maitland, said water availability has been an ongoing issue for about six years.

“It was right back in the days when the pork processing facility was put near Port Wakefield, there was an obvious shortage of water,” he explained.

“There was always going to be an issue with it and then when the chicken sheds started arriving, there was even more of a problem.

“That’s when the line from the Warren Main along Highway One, was boosted pressure-wise.

“Even then, it was still limiting the amount of water that could go to Yorke Peninsula, so we thought the only way we could augment it is to bring it from somewhere else completely.”

Mr Maitland mentioned council had previously been working to achieve a similar goal in years gone by.

Previous WRC acting chief executive officer, Geoff Sheridan, then reinvigorated that push.

“This phase picked up all the old bits,” Mr Maitland said. “Geoff Sheridan was the one that ran with it and he may come back on a consultancy basis to help put it together, having now got the money.

“His experience in local government is enormous and his contacts in SA Water and other departments helped pull it all together.

“I would also like to emphasise that a lot of the ground work was already there through the efforts of his predecessor, Phil Barry.

“It was for the same project but aiming at a differ-

Geoff Sheridan The late Phil Barry ent bucket of money. “At the end of the day, it was to achieve the same thing.”

Mr Champion was understandably thrilled with the funding news. “I have to congratulate the council for putting together such a professional application.

“The important thing about this program is it’s about big projects that are won on merit and done on need, and are also about boosting the economic diversification and potential in regional areas in particular.

“I think the critical thing about this particular project is it underwrites jobs, not just in construction but also in the future.”

Mr Champion believed the pipeline project was looked on favourably due to its undeniable scope to create more local employment.

“What they’re looking for from these projects is the creation of jobs, wealth and economic and social

infrastructure,” he said. “I think that it’s of tremendous long term importance and for locals, it’s nice to see the rhetoric around spreading the benefits of the mining boom and our nation’s wealth, is reflected in local projects,” Mr Champion said.

“Balaklava is a working town; people here work very hard, whether they’re farmers or work in town, they work for a living.

“This is a blue-collar, hard-working project and it’s great to see it get up.”

Mr Crean said the grant would bring the $30.11 million project to life.

“The Federal government is investing in this project, which is part of a strong partnership between State government and the community,” Mr Crean said.

“With current water infrastructure at capacity levels, this pipeline will open up opportunities for the region for developments dependent on water resources.

“It will provide the necessary infrastructure for planned poultry farm developments, support investment in chicken processing facilities and unlock the potential for further commercial development at Bowmans.

“The pipeline can support increased residential development at Balaklava and Port Wakefield, and supply water to meet the requirements of the chicken farm industry with Primary Industries South Australia projecting a further nine chicken farms between now and 2014.

Council, SA Water swing into action ONCE the dust has settled following the announcement of $10 million funding to support the construction of a new water pipeline in the area, there is still much more work to be done before the potential industrial growth is realised.

Wakefield Regional Council’s new chief executive officer, Cate Atkinson, has arrived in the district on the cusp of this exciting phase of development but acknowledged there is a long road ahead for council.

Mrs Atkinson was brought up to speed with the project during her introductory time ahead of taking over the CEO’s role and is ready to carry it through to its practical stages.

“I’m meeting with the RDA tomorrow (Wednesday) to have further discussions on actually establishing the project management for it,” she said.

“SAWater needs to prepare a Cabinet submission to confirm funding from the State government, which is being discussed today (Tuesday) and then we will move forward once we have the State on board.

“I understand that support is imminent and it is a matter of getting the Cabinet submission approved.

“There is a lot of management ahead but it will be absolutely worth it and it’s a fantastic advantage for the region moving forward.”

Mrs Atkinson made no attempt to play down the importance of the project to the area.

“It’s absolutely very exciting and I think it really is a trigger for more economic growth in the district, it’s fantastic,” she said.

“It was a huge amount of effort from Geoff (Sheridan) and Phil (Barry) previously, in positioning the council on the project.

“Certainly the effort Geoff put into the application was immense and demonstrates the importance in maintaining connections with the State government.

“I think the pipeline is critical to secure the economic future of the region.”

Fantastic news, says Balco chief BALCO Australia managing director, Malcolm May, said the pipeline “was fantastic news” for the region.

“We need infrastructure for the future of this area,” he said.

“The Federal government has seen the area needs to expand – and this allows us to further develop our Bowmans Intermodal site as a northern hub.”

Mr May paid tribute to WRC and its earlier vision, noting the late Phil Barry had worked hard to instigate infrastructure development.

“Now we can tick boxes. We can sell the area and the Bowmans facility,” Mr May said.

It’s one of the biggest, says local RDA THE $10.03 million grant for the Wakefield Region Water Supply Upgrade is potentially the biggest project grant announced nationwide from round two of the $200 million Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF).

Regional Development Australia Yorke and Mid North (RDAYMN) chief executive officer, Kelly-Ann Saffin, said there were still two states to unveil their respective successful grants but the pipeline funding is likely to top the list.

“It will be one of, if not the largest funded project

in this round of the Federal government grants,” Mrs Saffin said.

The successful funding announcement came as welcome news to the local RDA, which played a key role in round two of RDAF, with committee members selecting projects to proceed to full application stage after an expression of interest (EOI) process.

“The quality of the projects received in our region was very high and we were very pleased to put forward creative proposals that effectively leveraged off other funding sources and sustain the economic and social

future of our region,” RDAYMN chair, Kay Matthias, said. “The project that has been granted funding under round two all took into the account the priorities of our Regional Plan and will address the needs and priorities of the region.

“The Wakefield Region Water Supply Upgrade project has a strong level of community support and we look forward to seeing the positive long-term impacts on our region and neighbouring regions.”

Mrs Saffin said the local office was abuzz with excitement following the announcement.

Wakefield Waters still on drawing board LATEST indications suggest developers are still keen to go ahead with the Wakefield Waters residential development at Port Wakefield.

Wakefield Regional Council chief executive officer, Cate Atkinson, believed the project was still on the agenda following a meeting with developers, Andrew and Tom Chapman, and consultant, Doug Wallace, on June 12.

Andrew Chapman this week told the Plains Producer he remained “100 per cent committed” to getting the project underway.

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Western ward councillor, Richard Pain, quizzed Mrs Atkinson on the nature of the meeting at last week’s council meeting.

“They came to me to give me their views in terms of the nature of the development and they’re very keen to proceed with it,” Mrs Atkinson said.

“In particular, they wanted some information in relation to whether the council understood what point the State government was up to with regards to issuing guidelines and I’m following that up with the department regarding

the status of their application.” Mrs Atkinson said the developers did end up going into some specifics but otherwise it was a fairly general discussion.

“It was an introductory meeting in relation to the proposal, more so than anything else,” she said.

“They did enquire in terms of views relating to gaining access to the coast and whether I was aware of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ position regarding that, of which, I was not aware.”

Mr Pain asked if the shopping centre,

which is part of the proposed development, was mentioned.

“They’ve been very keen to invest in the shopping centre but in terms of time frames and whether they will build in independently of the marina, it was not discussed,” Mrs Atkinson responded.

Following her enquiries, Mrs Atkinson said she was subsequently advised Minister for Planning, John Rau, is reviewing major projects lodged with the planning department in a bid to determine their validity to proceed, although no time frame was provided.

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‘Mallee Magic’ in Balaklava Geraldine’s inspiration in pastel takes Balco Art Prize Les Pearson reports: PASTEL painting pro, Geraldine Muenchow, claimed her second Balco Art Prize on Sunday, her work, ‘Mallee Magic’, judged the winner over almost 160 entries.

She won the award in 2009 with a beautiful oil painting entitled “Crossroads”.

The Balaklava gallery was again packed for the presentation ceremony, judge, Greg O’Leary, announcing Mrs Muenchow’s piece as the overall winner.

‘Mallee Magic’ also took out the Most Outstanding Pastel category.

Mrs Muenchow, of Kadina, said she had only been painting with pastels for a few years.

“I started after I saw some people in the Northern Yorke Peninsula Art Group working with them and thought I would give it a try,” she said.

“I really enjoyed working with them and you get such quick results…and some nice textured effects with several different ways of applying them.”

‘Mallee Magic’ was inspired by scenic landscape at the Hampton Tablelands, Western Australia.

Mrs Muenchow said while on holidays exactly 12 months ago, the combination of colour and contrasting brightness and shadow caught her eye.

“Part of it was cloaked in shadow, while the sun was like a spotlight on top of the mallee trees,” she said.

“I was just gripped with inspiration.”

Mrs Muenchow thanked Balco as the major sponsors and also the Balaklava Community Art Gallery Committee, praising its commitment to providing an outstanding display of quality work.

Gallery curator, Jo May, also extended the committee’s thanks to all sponsors of the event.

“Without them, this art prize would not happen,” she said.

The 21st Balaklava Art Prize

n ABOVE: Balco Art Prize winner Geraldine Muenchow with her award and artwork behind her, with Balco managing director Malcolm May (left) and judge Greg O’Leary. n BELOW: Kayte Godly, of Templers, with grandchildren Georgia Fox and Ben Cottam admiring entries.

MAYORESS Prue Maitland (left) addresses the big crowd during an award presentation, with curator Jo May and judge Greg O’Leary. exhibition attracted 159 entries from 94 artists, about 40 of those artists were first-time entrants in the local competition.

“We received the second highest number of entries ever. It’s wonderful, if a challenge to hang,” Mrs May said.

“We have hardly a square centimetre of wall space, but a colourful, diverse and competitive exhibition to be enjoyed.

“We are pleased it continues to encourage emerging artists to show their work in a small friendly gallery, in a category that suits their art form.”

Mrs May also thanked the com-

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“And a huge thank you too to all our gallery committee members, for their encouragement and support in so many ways.”

Category winners included Belle Sternal of Port Wakefield, who took out the Senior Student Art Prize, Leon Holmes of Mount Pleasant, won the Three-Dimensional Prize, while Candace Smith of Balaklava, collected the Junior Encouragement Award.

The Photography Prize went to Jude Thompson of Blewitt Springs, Riverton’s Roland Weight won the Still Life Prize and the Portraiture Prize was awarded to Susan Longbottom of Minlaton.

Rounding out the category winners were Peter Kavalenka, Balaklava, who picked up the Novice Art Prize and Port Clinton’s Marcus Peake, who won the Wakefield Regional Council Art Prize awarded to the most creative entry.

“I congratulate all winners and entrants and thank you all for supporting the Balco Balaklava Art Prize exhibition,” Mrs May said.

The exhibition is open for nine weeks until August 26 and is again part of the SALA Festival, which runs from August 3 to 26.

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mittee members for their efforts.

“I would like to specially thank our secretary Lenice Cox, and committee members Alick Barr, Leonie Enman and Jenni McBride, who so willingly assisted with the big job of hanging this exhibition,” she said.

“Also our ‘honorary’ committee members: Peter Cox, our invaluable ‘Mr Fix-it’; Julie Lawson, who did a wonderful job mounting and hanging the student works; Eileen Schmaal, who always provides the perfect flowers for our exhibition openings and Charlie Enman, who was very nimble up the ladder and urged us on when we were starting to flag.”

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NEWS v Port Wakefield PORT WAKEFIELD’S NEW WELCOME SIGNS CAUSED CONCERN – BUT ALREADY THEY ARE DUE TO BE CHANGED ...

Les Pearson reports: THE town entry signs for Port Wakefield are undergoing a redesign over coming weeks and may also face relocation in the near future.

Local resident, Ashley Milton, who owns Port Wakefield Bakery with wife Kerry, said he was not happy with the sign Wakefield Regional Council had placed about four metres from the front of their shop.

“We were never informed about the placing or the size of the sign, so we didn’t have the opportunity to discuss our concerns,” Mr Milton claimed.

“It blocks the view of the shop to people coming into the town, blocks the light into our tea room and also blocks the view for our customers who sit outside the shop.”

He said council claimed to have consulted the business owners some time ago but Mr Milton believed this wasn’t the case.

“WRC are under the impression they discussed it with us in 2009, but I have been here six and a half years and have never been approached,” he said.

“I voiced my concerns to (Western ward councillor) Darryl Pain and he advised me to write a letter to council, which I did, and I am yet to receive a response.”

The size and shape of the signs are set to change however, following a revision of their design.

WRC chief executive officer, Cate Atkinson, said there were thoughts from within council

‘Welcome to Wakey’ sign puts heat on bakery PORT Wakefield Bakery owner, Ashley Milton, seated on the sign outside his shop. INSET: Another sign at the northern town entrance. management the suggested photo for the signs may be based on a photo along a marine theme, similar to recent signage erected at Blyth and planned for Balak-

lava’s entrances.

Some up-to-date photos will be provided to Oxigen, and council will then receive a quote for the work. Mrs Atkinson could not

say exactly what financial impost the redesign would have on the project, only that it would be factored into this year’s budget.

She was also aware the signage

issue at Port Wakefield had been a long, drawn out process.

“We hope to resolve the issue and have them installed as quickly as possible,” Mrs Atkinson said.

Police probe Balaklava incidents BALAKLAVA • POLICE are investigating two incidents which took place on Sunday night.

The canteen at Balaklava High School was broken into and a wheelie bin was thrown through the front window of a clothing retailer.

Investigations are ongoing and anyone with information is encouraged to contact local police on 131 444.

• ON Tuesday afternoon police and CFS units attended a car accident 10km east of Balaklava on the Auburn road.

HAMLEY BRIDGE • A 17-year-old Stockport youth was arrested and charged with aggravated serious criminal trespass and theft on Friday, June 29, as a result of an investigation into a break in, which occurred at premises at Manoora.

A laptop computer, Ipod, mobile phone, Wii game and watch were recovered. The THE wheelie bin and shattered shop youth was bailed to appear in court later. window.

two wells • A 30-year-old man from Two Wells was reported for cultivate cannabis for sale and possession of prescribed equipment by the Barossa CIB. • BETWEEN June 25 and 27 a trailer was stolen from a rear yard on Old Port Wakefield Road, Two Wells.

• ON June 27 unknown persons entered a house on Halstead Road, Two Wells, through an unlocked window and stole jewellery.

MALLALA • BETWEEN June 21 and 24, a lock was cut to a storage container and compressor and a generator was stolen on Old Dublin Road, Mallala.

CLARE • POLICE are preparing a report for the Coroner following the death of a woman at Clare on Wednesday. It appears the death is not suspicious.

BALCO ART PRIZE RESULTS Junior Encouragement Award for Best Work by a Primary School Student – 1 merit award: “The Sailboats”/ Acrylic Tia Barr, Balaklava; Winner: “Seahorse”/Painting Candace Smith, Balaklava;.

Senior Student Art Prize for Best Work by a Secondary School Student – 2 merit awards: “Watercolour Bird” / Watercolour Nadia Koodrin, Balaklava, “Leopard”/ Charcoal Jasmine Shammal, Lewiston; Winner:Joshua” /Acrylic Belle Sternal, Port Wakefield.

Most Outstanding 3 Dimensional Prize – Winner: “What a Mouthful”/ Copper sculpture Leon Holmes, Mt Pleasant.

Most Outstanding Photography Prize – 2 merit awards: “Rest Time on the Oodnadatta Track” / Photograph, Lauren Parker, Quorn; “Old Port Timber II” / Photograph Paul Watson, Aberfoyle Park; Winner: “Wooden Heart”/ Photograph Jude Thompson, Blewitt Springs Most Outstanding Pastel Prize – 1 merit

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award: “Lenswood Apples”/PastelRichard Austin, Verdun; Winner:“Mallee Magic” / Pastel Geraldine Muenchow, Kadina Most Outstanding Still Life Prize –1 merit award – ”The Bells of St Clemens” / Oil Betty Anderson, Hawthorndene; Winner: “Apples and Knife”/ Oil Roland Weight, Riverton.

Most Outstanding Portraiture Prize – 3 merit awards: “All I Want For Christmas” / Oil Betty Anderson, Hawthorndene; ”Oliver Daniel, 1 week old” / Acrylic Amanda Lockwood, Balaklava; ”Kysha” /Graphite pencil, Heike Dargusch, Burra; Winner: “Yum, Yum, Mum”/ Acrylic Susan Longbottom, Minlaton.

Novice Art Prize – 3 merit awards: “Desert in Bloom” / Photograph Lauren Parker, Quorn; “Solar Kiss”/Photograph Jude Thompson, Blewitt Springs; “Shearing/Photograph Lisa Redpath, Balaklava. Winner: “Finches”/ Oil Peter Kavalenka, Balaklava.

“Country Life/ Landscape” Art Prize – 3

merit awards: “Back Roads” / Oil Lise Temple, Riverton; . “Roadside Vegetation - Wallaroo #4” / Woodcut Tina Moore, Laura; “Redwood Barn & Buildings” / Watercolour Glenys Christopher, Burra; Winner: “Bound’ry Gate”/ Watercolour Natalie Lewcock, Saddleworth.

Wakefield Regional Council Art Prize – 2 merit awards: “Bright Exit” / Acrylic Duncan Crawford, Balaklava; “Crazy Cockies” / Acrylic Noel Dansie, Normanville; Winner: “Keeper of the Jewel” / Recycled metal sculpture Marcus Peake, Port Clinton.

2012 Balco Balaklava Art Prize – $2000 awarded to the Most Outstanding Art Work in the 2012 Balco Balaklava. An acquisitive prize, retained by Balco and displayed in its Balaklava office. This is Balco’s 19th year of sponsoring this prize. Presented by Malcolm May, managing director of the Balco Group – Winner: Mallee Magic” / Pastel Geraldine Muenchow, Kadina

JORY Robertson with “The Mountain.”

Burger munchers will take on ‘The Mountain’ TWELVE hungry hopefuls have their sights set on conquering the biggest burger in Australia this weekend.

Nicknamed ‘The Mountain”, the Rosie’s Monster Burger, weighs just under five kilograms.

The event will be held at Port Wakefield takeaway store, Rosie’s Chicken, where the burgers are made, on Sunday, with formalities to begin from 2pm.

Store owner, Jory Robertson, has been busily preparing for this weekend’s competition, assembling a massive ingredients list to produce about 60 kilograms worth of burger.

Jory said three staff members had been assigned the job of cooking the 12 burgers, a heavily scaled up version of the highly popular nacho burger.

Jory said competitors were travelling from Adelaide and local surrounds.

Hometown hero, Collin Barker-Heyman, believes he has what it takes to conquer the mountain, after reportedly destroying Adelaide casino’s 3.6kg schnitzel roll, with a side of chips.

He has one entrant from Port Adelaide, who will be bringing a cheer squad in a bus. Maitland farmer, Brendon Maloney, is another candidate.

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YOU’RE thinking... what to do during the school holidays?

How long has it been since you played a board game? (Not a bored game!)

The other night, one of the boys got the Scattergories game out.

The four of us home at the time, played and had a thoroughly good time, laughing at some made-up words as players tried to get points.

(No, for the letter H, Henry Hornblower was not a president, but good try!)

Anyway, for those familiar with the game, we had rolled the letter N and had to write a four letter word.

Now you know what happened, don’t you?

Dillon said “I can’t believe that in the whole English language, Toby could have the same word as me note!” No points for them, ha ha.

I was pretty confident with my word, noun, and so was Scott, except we had the same word too!

What are the odds?

Anyway, now that it’s school holidays, why not get a board game, or a pack of cards, out of the cupboard and have a laugh.

Pictionary is always fun, especially if you play with a hopeless ‘artist’, and Yahtzee, Chicken Foot, Scrabble and Uno are good too.

Monopoly takes too long for me, but some people like it.

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Covers feature local community members who have a positive impact on their local community.

The last time the Adelaide Plains had someone on the cover was Ian Roberts and the Blyth Cinema in 2007/08, so it’s about time we had another local.

The theme for 2013/14 is “Keeping our Communities Healthy” and nominations close August 10.

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Forget the Olympics!

“Salt of the Earth” markets has been awarded Silver for its high standard in the 2012 YP Tourism Awards in the Cafe, Restaurant, Hotel and Catering category.

The market had been encouraged to enter by SA Tourism for its work in catering for tourism, and was the only representative in the WRC area.

Markets run on the first and third Saturday of each month, 9am to 1pm.

Kapunda Two exhibitions are being run at the Kapunda Gallery from July 1 to 22. “Life Drawing” is drawings in mainly charcoal and pencil, with some watercolours and ink, while “Scratching Around” is an eclectic art exhibition. Open daily for free!

Owen

Time to dip in

The swimming pool committee is looking for community members to step up and take on some important roles on the committee, so the pool can operate next season and beyond.

The pool has been operating for 48 years, teaching and developing vital water skills to children of the area, and also providing hours of fun for people of all ages.

The AGM will be on July 18 at 8pm in the town hall, so get along and support your pool.

• The Owen Community Centre Committee is working hard on the town walking path, with extensions being made to continue around the edge of the golf club to the Pinery Road.

Students from the primary school will soon plant trees to shade the path. Good to see the community working together!

The Hall Committee is making some improvements to the bar area in the hall, which will be greatly appreciated by the locals.

Two Wells

Choir to perform

Adelaide Plains Male Voice Choir is performing at the Two Wells Uniting Church Hall on July 22 at 2pm.

Cost $10 includes the concert, complete with guest artists, brothers Gerald and Len Pederick, and a delicious afternoon tea.

Tickets available from Ros Pratt 8527 2016, Helen Farrelly 8527 2045 or Roy Packer 8520 3370.

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MALLALA Probus committee (from left) Josie Curnow, Kay Helps, Margaret Marshman, Adrian Wandel, Merrilyn Ebbs, Gloria Wandel and Bob Gauthier. Absent: Alan Helps.

Mallala MALLALA Probus Club elected new office bearers at its recent AGM. Adrian Wandel is president and Margaret Marshman secretary.

Meetings are held at 10am on the third Wednesday of each month at the CWA

Probus offers plenty for you rooms. The group also has 10-pin bowling on the first Wednesday of each month and Silver Screening films on the fourth.

And there’s more! Guest speakers and excursions are

MAllala Poetry fun – A new group – the “Society of Smiling Scribes” – is promoting the fun side of poetry.

Their first event starts at 1.30pm tomorrow at the Mallala hotel. Those who want to learn about limericks should join the fun – and maybe enjoy a great lunch at the pub. The group is a new part of the Adelaide Plains Poets and it’s hoped bringing the fun side of poetry to a friendly environment will rejuvenate the original group.

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Sheep colour their world Nancy and Allan Bennett’s sheep breeding business, Bennett and Gregor, located in Reeves Plains, spins wool of a different kind.

Established in 1973 at the Gregor family’s ‘Parana Park’property, the business has a flock of 700 sheep, bred and selected to produce excellent sheep with premium quality soft spinning fleeces.

Bennett and Gregor started with senior partners, the late Ralph and the late Phyllis Gregor, son Neil and daughter Nancy and husband Allan Bennett and grandsons Craeg and Anthony Bennett.

“The business first came about when it was realised there was no access to black and coloured wool,” Nancy said.

Nancy said they went on the search looking for coloured sheep which would produce the best fleece when it came to breeding.

“We drive around the country and if we see a black sheep in a white flock we give the owner an offer to purchase the sheep.”

“It’s all about genetics and putting the right two sheep together,” said Nancy, who is secretary of the SA Coloured Sheep Owners Society.

They bred predominantly South Australian purebred Merinos, Corridales and Merino Comebacks and their fleeces have won supreme and reserve

Sally Crowther reports: champion awards at numerous Australian Coloured Fleece Championships.

Their sheep won the Supreme Champion and Reserve Champion Awards at the recent Australian National Natural Coloured Fleece Competition in Hawkesbury, NSW. This followed success in winning the Champion Fleece at Mt Pleasant Show earlier this year.

With few businesses breeding coloured sheep, their wool, usually black or grey, is highly sought after selling at about $20 per kilogram.

“We sell our raw fleece overseas, going to Japan, USA, Russia, France and Denmark,” she said.

Gregor and Bennett fleece will be on display at the upcoming Fleece and Fibre Fair on Saturday, August 11 from 10am to 4pm at the Soldiers Memorial Hall, Mount Pleasant.

There will be spinning and weaving demonstrations, woollen crafts, books, knitting yarns, coloured and white fleece wool and also homemade soup, cakes, and devonshire teas. Free admission.

For more details: Chris Plowman 8564 1127 or Margaret Killick 8388 2156.

SHEEP breeders Neil Gregor and Nancy and Allan Bennett with a selection of their award-winning sheep.

n MALLALA COUNCIL:

New dog law is on the way

Consultation on the District Council of Mallala’s proposed new dog bylaws has now closed, with only one submission in favour of the changes, received.

DCM chief executive officer, Charles Mansueto, said council would hopefully adopt the new bylaw at its full council meeting next month.

The new bylaw will see dog owners within townships of the council area restricted to three dogs per property, with homes in the Rural Living Zone (One and Two) also limited to three dogs.

People living in the Rural Living (Animal Husbandry) Zone are permitted to have up to nine dogs.

Any property not in one of these zones, or in a town, may have up to five dogs. It could be four months before the law is in use.

The fight against corruption WAKEFIELD Regional Council was briefed at Wednesday night’s council meeting on the new anti-corruption legislation to be introduced later this year.

Natasha Jones and Michael Kelledy, of Wallman’s Lawyers, made the presentation to council regarding the introduction of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) and Office of Public Integrity (OPI).

Both departments act as an agent investigating corruption and misconduct issues in public administration, for bodies such as but not limited to, local councils.

Complaints are initially lodged with the OPI, which analyses the issue and then determines whether it be investigated by either

Council briefed on new investigation process

ICAC or the State Ombudsman. Either investigative party then completes an investigation and if needed, makes recommendations to address the issue.

Such recommendations, in the case of an alleged complaint against an elected member, might include attending specific training courses, issuing a public apology and reimbursement of legal expenses to council.

The legislation is also retrospective in nature, meaning issues from the past can be

made or reported to the OPI. However, if the Ombudsman has previously investigated an issue, the complaint is considered resolved and no further action will be taken.

Also, if complaints are considered to be vexatious or frivolous in nature, they will be dismissed by the OPI before reaching either the ICAC or Ombudsman’s office.

The ICAC should be established in coming months.

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“I think it is a case of good governance because all levels of government should be accountable during decision making processes,” she said.

With some sobering implications should the complaint be serious enough, the importance of councillors having a solid understanding of the legislation and its application is high.

“We will certainly look at providing some further training for elected members,” Mrs Atkinson said.

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Mariette van den Berg is giving horse owners the opportunity to contribute to her research by taking part in a survey.

“How do domesticated horses cope with an enclosed environment in which there is no access to browsing?”

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Mallala council warns of school safety problem

Graham will ‘cop it sweet’ in retirement

District Council of Mallala is urging the local community, and especially parents of children at Two Wells Primary School, to take notice of newly erected signs in Hart Reserve.

DCM chief executive officer, Charles Mansueto, said the signs were put in place to remind residents driving and parking on the reserve by unauthorised vehicles is not permitted.

Mr Mansueto said he had met with TWPS principal, Cherie Collings, to better understand the school’s concerns about car parking and to discuss potential options. He is currently preparing a report to present to council for consideration.

TWPS principal, Cherie Collings, said with growth in the area expected to boom in coming years, it was important the school had better car parking facilities.

“I have been in discussion with DCM about the importance of a drop off zone and car parking facility adjacent to the school,” Mrs Collings said. “I am hopeful council can work with the school to create an area.”

Residents are advised only authorised vehicles are permitted to drive on any council reserve within DCM and community access along the designated pathway is restricted to pedestrians and bicycles only.

Residents are encouraged to use the drop-off zone accessed from Old Mallala Road to access Hart Reserve, and adhere to the 25km/ph speed limit.

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S of Monday, Balaklava’s Graham Olds has swapped sirens for serenity and shift work for sleep-ins.

The former brevet sergeant and officer in charge at Balaklava handed in his badge two days ago, officially ending a little more than 35 years of service in the force.

Graham also relinquished his police uniform and various gadgets and accessories issued to officers of the law.

He became a police officer after spending six years in the army, enrolling in and completing his training at Fort Largs in 1977.

Throughout his career, he bounced around in various metropolitan posts, starting out at Darlington, followed by Christies Beach, then back to Darlington.

Graham then took on administrative roles with SAPOL communications for 11 years, which included a brief stint in the records and warrants section.

After the communications tenure, he transferred to records and warrants again for four years before joining Holden Hill in late 1998.

Ten years later, both he and wife, Julie, arrived at Balaklava, on December 18, 2008.

His first real duty at Balaklava was his role in the local Christmas pageant, which he nearly missed due to making an arrest at Pt Wakefield and transferring the arrested person to Kadina for processing.

On returning to the town, Graham said his car was suddenly swathed in streamers, and he joined the pageant.

“It wasn’t too long after and I was rounding up sheep in Short terrace. That was a new experience,” he laughed.

The shepherding incident marked the start of what he claimed to be the fondest posting in his career, spanning more than three decades and returning back to his country roots.

“I’m a country lad, raised at Wallaroo Mines,” Graham said.

“That’s why we settled and want to live here.”

He noted the change in response to police a country community tends to have.

“There’s a different attitude, a different respect for police,” Graham explained.

“Country people accept you’re just doing you’re job and not just trying to be difficult.

“When you can arrest someone one day and they wish you a happy Christmas the next, it’s good.

“You can also interact with the community and it’s a friendly place.”

He also mentioned the shift to cluster policing, spreading officers around the district across different shifts, has its pros and cons.

“It helps the public a bit because you have five police stations in this cluster and if one is not available, the other is, so we can cover each other,” Graham said.

With the town’s population growing and the police area also a fair geographical patch, the workload can be high.

“I won’t miss the call outs, due to the size of the area and popula-

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tion increase,” Graham said.

“Sometimes, you can find yourself driving 300 or 400 kilometres a shift.

“When you’re on your own, you’re the one responding to all the phone calls, it can tire you out.

“Balaklava has been good and

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busy, sometimes too busy but mostly, not too bad.”

Graham said sometimes, he has had to ‘switch off’.

“You have to because otherwise you can get too emotionally involved,” he said.

“You have to stay detached a little but still be empathetic and sympathetic for people.

You don’t survive 35 years in the police force without learning how to cope with being regularly exposed to traumatic events around the district.

“I’ve been to a lot of fatal accidents and different traumatic jobs,” Graham said.

“Probably the one that affected me most was a little boy who was killed by a train at Nantawarra “He was just a little boy. It probably got to me the most. We still talk about it.

“It didn’t make me lose faith in the job or get out of it or anything but I had to take the opportunity to go to his funeral, which provided some closure for me and the ambos who attended.”

He retires with just one small regret.

“I wish I had come to the

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country earlier but Julie had a good job so when she retired, we decided to have our tree change,” Graham said.

“We don’t call it a ‘sea change’ because there is no sea here. Julie wants to stay here and she was a country girl too.”

When you’ve done the same job for the past 35 years, there are also obvious things Graham will miss.

“I’ll probably miss responding to assist other police officers or helping the public,” he said.

Graham took on the philosophy of leniency in most cases but drew a line in the sand when necessary.

“I didn’t go out there to pinch people unless I had to, or when it was warranted, and I think that helps,” he said.

“If you can effectively ‘toe someone in the backside’ down the street for misbehaving, and that works, you’ve achieved your aim.”

It was that ‘old school’ philosophy which shaped the positive perception of him throughout the Balaklava district.

“I hope the community remember me as firm but fair and easy to get along with,” Graham said.

With some part-time work lined up, five grand children, five daughters and a building project ahead, life won’t come to a complete halt.

“I haven’t got any particular plans, except to build the house locally,” Graham said.

“There’s still plenty to keep me busy here.”

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It’s ‘love me do’ = religion Religion was not a big thing for many people, with 24 per cent of residents saying they had “no religion.”

Of those who were religious, Catholics on 14.2 per cent nudged out Anglicans (12.1) and Uniting (11.4).

marriage Statistics from the Census reveal the number of married people in the town has decreased two per cent from 43.3 per cent to 41.2. Of people aged 15 years and over, 40.4 per cent were in a registered marriage.

The Census also revealed 14.4 per cent were in a de facto marriage, which is also high in comparison to the national percentage of 9.5 per cent in de facto marriages across Australia.

However even though the percentage of marriages has decreased, so has the percentage of divorced and separated residents, sinking from 15.8 per cent to 11.8 per cent.

Love has been in the air at Port Wakefield. The recent National Census reveals an eight per cent boost in babies with more couples in Port Wakefield choosing to have children in comparison to five years ago.

According to the 2011 Census, held August 9 last year, percentages increased from 26.9 per cent to 34.9.

The population has jumped by 80 over the past five years since the 2006 Census with 556 people now living in Port Wakefield compared to 476 in 2006.

Younger generations living in the town have also increased over the years with the age bracket of zero to four rising two per cent from 3.8 per cent, and ages five to 15 rising six per cent from 9.7 per cent.

Statistics from the 2011 Census, released on Thursday June 21 revealed that while the younger generation in Port Wakefield appears to be increasing in percentage, the older generation has decreased with ages 65 and over sinking from 20.2 per cent to 17.6 percent.

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PORT WAKEFIELD

TIME OF CHANGE

PEOPLE

There’s more Chinese people residing in Port Wakefield than previous years with the percentage of Australia born resident shrinking over the years to 73.7 per cent in comparison to five years ago when it was recorded at 84 per cent.

The number of Chinese residents has increased from the last Census in 2006, jumping from just 0.8 per cent to 2.9 per cent.

This also reflects in the number of residents who speak English at home, with percentages dropping from 94.5 per cent in 2006 to 79.7 per cent last year.

Pay

Statistics show that the average pay packets for Port Wakefield residents has increased with the median weekly personal wage rising from $410 to $484 over the last five years.

However, while the weekly wage has risen, it doesn’t compare to the National median weekly wage of $577. While the wages have risen over the past five years, so has the cost of living in the town.

HOUSING

The cost of renting a house in Port Wakefield has increased from $135 per week to $175, though still remains less than the overall Australia median of $285.

Even though the cost of rent has risen, fewer

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residents own their house in comparison to five years ago, with percentages dropping from 42 per cent to 38.5 per cent. For 9.2 per cent of households in Port Wakefield, rent is more than 30 per cent of income.

EDUCATION

While education statistics were not recorded in 2006, in 2011 30.7 per cent of people were attending an educational institution.

Of these 20.2 per cent were in primary school.

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The way We were

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YEARS AGO June 2007

• Madison Bond – daughter of Martin and Sheralyn Bond of Balaklava – turned 7 on July 7, 2007. She was the first born Bond baby, arriving on the seventh month in 2000.

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• Then Blyth resident and third year apprentice at Clewers of Clare’s Betta Eletrical store, Craig Price, was awarded a bronze medal in a world skills competition.

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YEARS AGO June 1992

• Balaklava mobile workshop operator, Jack Clark hung up his hammer, after many years service to farmers around the state.

COMMUNITY

Diary& • Jul 12: Balaklava Red Cross afternoon.

• Jul 27: Lutheran Paper Drive; Blyth.

• Jul 28: Lutheran Paper Drive; Balaklava, Owen, Mallala, Port Wakefield.

• Jul 27, 28: Balaklava Eisteddfod.

• Jul 29: Balaklava Eisteddfod finale concert, Balaklava Town Hall.

• Jul 31: Meals on Wheels AGM, Lutheran Hall.

• Aug 11: Balaklava Football Club Quiz Night.

• Oct 10: Long Plains Red Cross Luncheon. * Dec 11: Balaklava Primary School Carols by Candlelight.

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Heritage Highlights

In papermaking, a dilute suspension of fibres in water is drained through a screen so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibres is laid down. Water is removed from this mat by pressing and drying to make paper. When and where did it all begin?

The earliest known forms of “paper” (a material on which to write or print) date back to the Egyptians (3000BC), who wrote on papyrus sheets which were made from woven papyrus plants. Papyrus was also used in ancient Greece and Rome. Further north, parchments of vellum, made of processed sheepskin or calfskin, replaced papyrus, as the papyrus plant needs a subtropical climate to grow.

In China, documents were ordinarily written on bamboo but

history tells us that, by the 12th century, papermaking mills were operating in Spain, France and Italy.

England’s first recorded mills came in the 14th century. By this time, flax and canvas rags (from flax and hemp plants) were the materials used to make the paper pulp, but it was not until around 1850 that techniques were perfected to make paper pulp from trees.

Papermaking in Australia wasn’t too far behind, with the first known paper mill established near Sydney in 1818, just 30 years after the colony was established.

The “Sydney Gazette” of April 18, 1818, is reported to have carried an advertisement that “Messrs.

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this was very heavy and awkward to transport. Silk was sometimes used, but was very expensive.

The art of papermaking can be traced back to China about 105AD when Ts’ai Lun, an official in the Imperial Court during the Han Dynasty (202BC-220AD), created a sheet of paper using mulberry and other bast fibres along with fishnets, old rags, and hemp waste. He is believed to be the first to document the making of paper. An early use was “imperial toilet paper.”

By the 8th century, the Arabs were making writing paper and

of the New Road to Botany Bay.” They were looking for raw materials to make paper and would purchase linen and cotton rags.

By March 1819, contracts were being signed for the building of a third mill and, by this time, the mill proprietors were listed as Messrs. Fisher & Duncan (it is thought the original naming of “Warren” may have been a misprint or an alias because Frederick George James Fisher was the driving force behind the business).

The third mill was known as the Macquarie Paper Mill, and a supplement to the “Sydney Gazette” in July 1820 was said to have been printed on paper from one of the Fisher & Duncan mills.

Paper mills were gradually established all over Australia.

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consisting of a five-day trip to Uluru for two people.

For instructions on the “Put Your Town On The Map” concept, search it on YouTube.

“The Big Red album and tour is taking me around the country all year long and taking me back to some of my favourite spots across Australia,” Williamson said.

“We were thinking, why not share some of these and give you the chance to share with me your favourite places from the big red?”

So there you go country folk, get online and if the stars align, it could be your town featuring in the next Williamson album or on his next tour schedule.

He is touring from July 11 to late November but unfortunately, South Australia is not on his itinerary at the moment.

In other news, X-Factor Australia has announced worldfamous boyband, One Direction, will be helping out with

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this year’s competition.

As former X-Factor contestants themselves, the five British lads have been somehow roped in to provide feedback for other competitors. If they’re part of the judging panel, I’m hoping for some cleverly placed puns while judging, such as “I think you’ve got that ‘one thing’ this competition needs”, or “you’ve got a great voice, that’s what makes you beautiful.”

I feel sorry for members of boybands, no one takes into consideration what happens to them when they get to the age of 30 and they’re no longer cool. Also, what is it with their cheesy names? I realised it was impossible to have a cool name for a boyband as I was trying to think of better names but even they came out weird. If I was going to be in a boyband, I would name it “The Wiggles II”. No one hates the Wiggles.

Tune in next time, ‘coz I’m Mr Brightside.

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He was also thrilled to see the support from local colleagues, who turned up to the meeting.

“I’ve spent quite a bit time putting the proposal together and it’s good people appreciate that,” Mr Butson said.

“If you’re saying you represent someone and you turn around and there’s nobody there, you might look a little silly.

“The lads turned up, so it was good.”

He would consider the suggestion of approaching other councils with a similar message in coming weeks.

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From various categories, 19 small business and 16 community groups have nominated, along with 13 tourist group nominations and 10 large businesses.

Seven people have been nominated for the “individual” section. Nominations close Friday, July 13.

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Of particular importance to Mr Butson is the 63 square kilometre no-take zone at the top of the gulf, which, in his opinion, needs reducing to minimise economic impact.

“The State government should listen to what this community needs and value what it has to say about its own local asset,” he said.

Apart from the large economic losses, Mr Butson also noted fishing at iconic beaches and other great locations would become off limits.

These include Port Arthur run and its nearby crabbing beaches, the Middlebank snapper grounds, American River and Pelican Bay. “We won’t be able to take our kids into the calm tidal creeks to catch a mullet or two,” Mr Butson said.

“I don’t think that’s right.”

He noted the recent opposition to draft sanctuary zones by the Eyre Peninsula Local Government Region, representing the collective councils in the area.

Mr Butson suggested WRC also do the same.

“I urge council to support us and on behalf of the community, contact the State government and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), to reject the current draft sanctuary zones as they now stand,” he said.

In response, Western ward councillor, Darryl Pain, added the councilowned caravan park is one of those businesses likely to be impacted.

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FISH were happily swimming around without a care in the world in the Upper Gulf St Vincent on Wednesday night, as a strong delegation of local professional fisherman packed the gallery at the Wakefield Regional Council meeting.

They were there in support of Port Wakefield professional fisherman, Bart Butson, who has taken on the fight to save his business, the local industry and the wider community, from the impending impact from the State government’s proposed marine park sanctuary zones to council last week.

Mr Butson presented a formal deputation to council, speaking on behalf of commercial fishers, some recreational fishers, and private businesses.

He said the four draft no-take sanctuary zones in Marine Park 14, encompassing about 225 square kilometres, would drastically impact all three sectors he was representing.

“As a third generation fisherman, I do value and understand the need to conserve the natural environment, my livelihood depends on it,” Mr Butson said.

“We do need a balance between sustainable fish harvesting and conservation but in this case, (I believe) the balance has been tipped too far towards excessive conservation.”

Mr Butson believed the no-take zones were far too large, especially compared to other nearby marine parks, such as Port Victoria, with just 60 square kilometres.

“I think we’re getting a pretty raw deal with the size of our no-take zones compared to the rest of the state,” he told council.

“If we could reduce our no-take area down from 225 square kilometres to something more equivalent to (Port Victoria), the community might be more willing to accept the park, as it would provide for better balance.”

fishers,” he said. Central ward councillor, David Lamond recommended Mr Butson do a similar deputation to Yorke Peninsula councils.

Cr Darryl Pain added council could potentially provide Mr Butson with a letter of support to take to such deputations.

Mayor, James Maitland, also mentioned six councils in the Central Local Government Region shared coastline and should also be approached.

Southern ward councillor, Barry Smith, finally moved council do its own internal report on the matter to be presented at next month’s council meeting, ahead of the public consultation phase

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Thursday: Patchy morning fog on the eastern slopes. Mostly sunny afternoon. Wind easterly and light.

Friday: Patchy morning fog on the eastern slopes. Sunny afternoon. Wind northeasterly and light.

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NEWS v District Louise Michael reports:

Retirement will deliver a new lifestyle for Joy

A GREAT JOURNEY OVER 35 YEARS FOR AN ADMIRED LADY ...

JOY sorts her last mail at Pinery post office and (right) relaxes with pal Millie

W

hile June 30 signified the end of the financial year for us, it also marked the end of an era for Owen’s “Mail Lady” Joy Cunningham.

After 35 years, Joy’s contract with Australia Post as the road side delivery (RSD) lady, ended.

Joy started her contract in 1977, which involved driving to Balaklava every weekday morning at 8am to collect the mail for Owen, Barabba and Pinery residents, and drive it back to the Owen Post Office for sorting.

At 10.30am, Joy would pop in to pick up the mail from Owen Post Office, and start her run to the Barabba and Pinery Post Offices.

Her trusty charcoal coloured Commodore was a welcome sight for the residents who would often be seen standing outside the post offices for their mail.

Joy also delivered some Advertisers and recalls farmer Stan Evans (now deceased)

standing at Pinery every day waiting for his paper.

After initially doing the Barabba/Pinery run, Joy took on the Balaklava/Whitwarta/ Mount Templeton and Bowillia mail runs. The latter run, with 31 roadside deliveries, was travelled three times a week, making the total travelled a whopping 659kms per week!

Joy has provided mail services to 15 boxes at Barabba and 42 at Pinery, while also collecting outgoing mail from post boxes at both towns.

“Biggest change over the years was the increased number of parcels delivered,” Joy said.

“On-line shopping has made a huge difference to Australia Post.”

“Sometimes there was hardly any room for me in the car, especially around Christmas,” she said.

It’s ironic Joy was awarded the Barabba mail contract as there was a longstanding family connection with that post office. When mail first came to Barabba in 1877, the

official postal duties were carried out in the school house.

In 1927 local residents built, at their own expense, a small roadside Post Office. It was unique as it was the smallest PO in South Australia, having letter boxes from 1-15.

Joy’s grandfather, Joseph Hallion, had box number six.

This box number remained in the family until January 2012 when Catherine Hallion died.

The key was handed in by her son, Vincent. For the first time in 85 years, box number six was vacant!

Joy (nee Snook) grew up on her family farm outside of Owen. She attended Owen Primary School and once finished there, went home to help her father, and brother Colin, on the farm.

She married Keith Cunningham, the local butcher, in 1956 and helped him in the butcher’s shop. The couple had two daughters, Helaine (Cunningham) and Paula (Lloyd). Sadly, Keith passed away in 2009, but Joy kept on with her postal duties.

Her niece, and current Owen Postmistress, Derily Snook, has kept her on her toes too.

Prior to working for Australia Post, Joy had been a school bus driver for 18 years.

“I had a great time driving the bus. Some of my passengers were little horrors, but they turned out to be some

of the best men and dads around,” she said.

But that’s another story, and don’t worry lads, your names are safe with Joy – and me!

Joy enjoyed her time as the RSD lady. Travelling regardless of the weather gave Joy some interesting trips, especially after big rains.

She met many people who became good freinds.

“It was a happy but hectic time, but I really enjoyed it.

It’s been a great journey,” Joy said.

This groovy granny intends spending her retirement enjoying time with her family and six grandchildren, helping in her community of Owen and relaxing in her garden.

A great achievement for a great lady!

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Dr Rossotti has worked for 28 years as a clinical psychologist, and having done her Master’s degree in Hong Kong in 1981, she completed a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in London in 1999, and later a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She worked in England for 22 years before coming to Australia.

Dr Rossotti has extensive experience of working with clients with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, grief, loss, trauma, bullying, relationship difficulties and sleep problems.

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Other visiting specialists include a podiatrist, dietician, diabetes educator and an audiologist.

Hamley Bridge Medical Centre, situated in Light Street, has two doctors, Dr Frank Graham and Dr Chris Roach with practice nurses Mary Graham and Joan Peterkin, who provide a number of services including pap smears, spirometry, ECG’s, wound dressings, immunisations and more. n Consulting hours are Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm, but later appointments to 6pm are available on Wednesdays. call Jenny, Jo or Lisa on 85 282 070 with any queries or to make an appointment.

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Growing up – Balaklava Community Children’s centre has been awarded

the KESAB BalaklavaTidy Towns Merit Award for its vegetable garden, which is used to promote healthy living to the youngsters. Looking pleased with the award are teacher Abbie Phillips with (from left) Brianna Ciardiello, Ezra Mae Peralta, Riley Mattner, Wil Mellow, Harvey Taylor and Naish McArdle.

Spotlight on 30 years of Community Arts

BALAKLAVA Community Arts celebrated 30 years of “treading the boards” when “Peter Pan” was presented at the Town Hall recently.

But Captain Hook (alias Gib Palmer) almost stole the cake created to mark the occasion!

• Joining Hook and Kelly Bickle,(right), BCA president and director/producer of “Peter Pan,” are life members (from left), standing, David Appleby, Margaret Baker and Paul Paulenas and seated, Beris Barr, Guelda Hackett and Sally Cowan. Absent: Di Spence.

Brittany Greig with mentor Fay Welke

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Snowtown Area School now has two community mentors, Fay Welke and Murray Menzel who are taking part in the program. A school spokesperson thanked Fay and Murray for their time and interest shown to students.

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Pym’s 250th boosted by win over Bombers REPORT: Les Pearson UNIQUELY nicknamed United stalwart, Mark “Marty” Pym celebrated his 250th senior match with a best-onground performance in his team’s six-point win over Hamley Bridge at Long Plains on Saturday.

The Tigers skipped out to an early lead but the Bombers chipped away at that lead and hit the front at one stage before just falling short in the final term.

The match was highlighted by a stunning goal from Hamley midfielder, RyanAppleton, whose last quarter checkside from 40 metres with about eight minutes to play will go down as an all-time classic, but it was not enough for his team to get the win.

United coach, Travis Opitz, was elated with his team’s determination to cling to the lead.

“It was great to see the guys hang on in the last quarter,” he said.

“I’ve been more uptight about other games as I felt we were playing well enough to hold on.”

The win was arguably the culmination of steady improvement from the Tigers, the team regaining some players and confidence heading into the latter half of the year.

“In the stoppages and when the ball was on ground level, we handled the ball a lot better than we have been,” Opitz said.

“It was like glimpses of the way we were playing last year a bit.”

Recent tackling bag work at training also showed on the day.

Opitz felt some key match-ups fell in favour of United on the day.

He said Sam Harding did his best to quell the

Final score united 10.13 (73) d hamley bridge 10.7 (67) classy Shane Hanson, while Mark Pym’s job loose in defence countered Hamley’s Kirk Heberle in a similar role at the other end of the ground.

“As long as Heberle stayed there, I thought we were in with a chance,” Opitz said.

Meantime, Pym continued to rack up important defensive marks in a trademark performance, securing a great win to mark the occasion.

“It was probably fitting to have him loose in his 250th,” Opitz said.

“It was great afterwards, the club was packed.”

Midfielder, Mikey

Best: United - M.Pym, B.Shimmin, H.Pym, P.Valle, M.Brown, S.Harding Hamley - C.Young, K.Heberle, N.Flynn, A.Martin, R.Appleton, A.Lemmon

n Tiger Will Bedell can’t hang on as Bomber Liam Henneker boots the footy away in the senior colts match at Long Plains Oval.

Brown, put in his standard gritty game to win his share of clearances.

“He’s been fantastic, training most of the year, including the preseason,” Opitz said.

“He’s hard at it and with his relentless attack on the ball, he’s constantly getting hurt and whacked in the head.”

James Rundle (three goals) was again handy up forward.

“When it was dry,

APFL Footy Face Name: Derek Friedrichs Nickname: Freddo DOB: 24/02/85 Height: 185cm Team: Balaklava Peckers Who is the most damaging player (on or off field) in your club? On field definitely has to be Lazza when he spins around on that left foot and fires out those handballs. Whiskey a close second! Off field - Luke Guy’s head. Dylan Pfiefffers......

Highlight of footy career: Making it into the forward 50m - 4 premierships What’s your number one passion outside footy? Beer, food and my lovely wife, obviously not in that order!

If you could trade places with any other person/ object for a week, who/ what would it be? A chair in a cinema. The one in the back corner that no one sits in. Movies all day What is the last movie you went to see? ‘Brave’, with my niece Last book? Game of Thrones If you won $20 million in the lotto, what would you do?

Whatever Carly told me to do with it!

Haha no holiday, new house, charity and invest If you were a car, what kind would you be? Some sort of old bomb that needed upgrading 5 years ago

Jimmy was good but he struggled a bit when it got wet,” Opitz laughed.

The close loss for the Bombers effectively puts finals football out of the question for this season.

Hamley coach, Ash Barnett, conceded the team has to set new goals.

“With finals just about impossible we just have to battle it out now,” he said.

While disappointed with the result, Barnett was happy to see the Bombers close the early deficit and fight back.

“Craig Young was really excellent as captain and tried to lift us,” he said.

Nathan Flynn (three goals), Valor Thach (two goals), Angus Lemmon and Angus Martin were

others Barnett believed put in exemplary efforts.

Talented junior, Jayden Wedding, also made his A grade debut for the club bobbing up for a few handy touches.

“I think they (the Tigers) might have just wanted the win a bit more,” Barnett said.

Opitz suggested the result might have been different if Hamley midfielder, Craig Taylor, had not missed the game through suspension.

Barnett went one step further.

“I would confidently say he’s the best on-baller in the league,” he said.

“He’s probably a more all-round player than most.

“Hopefully he’ll have the chance to show it for the rest of this year and next year too if we can get more good players around him.”

Looking ahead, the Bombers have to plan for the future if finals are off the agenda.

“We’ve set ourselves a goal for the rest of the year,” Barnett said.

“We’ll be looking to build towards next year too and hopefully get some more wins.

“If we can do that with the cattle we had, I think we would have done alright in the end.”

That focus now turns to Two Wells this weekend.

“We’ll have a full list of available players to pick from, so we might try a few different things,” Barnett hinted.

United have Virginia to challenge.

“We’re going in with heaps of confidence,” Opitz said.

“We don’t want to end the season winning two games, we’re looking for another three or four at minimum.”

As for Mark Pym’s milestones, he still has about 300 more senior games to play if he is to catch his dad, Anthony, who retired with about 550 matches under his belt.

Good luck, Mark!

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n Pikachu (AKA Jonathon Brice) was spotted with Popeye (Tate Michael) at Balaklava Football/Netball Clubs’ ‘P’ is for Peckers party on June 23.

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n TYLER Darwin, Hamley Bridge, kicks away in front of United’s Corey Lee-Chapman.

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SPORT v Football

Rampant Roosters Young Two Wells sides outruns confident Virginia REPORT: Les Pearson

Spot the Celebrity!

Michael Jackson (AKA Kahn Leighton) and Sponge Bob Squarepants (Theo Markou) were spotted at the Two Wells Football and Netball Sporting Club’s Spot the Celebrity Event on Saturday night.

Louise Coleman and Jess Schulz dressed in Titanic era costume.

A night on the Titanic

• From back page He also credited Roosters pair, Lee and Jarred Allmond, for their influence on the contest.

“They’re really important link-up players who played a good, unselfish brand of footy,” Phillips said.

The Allmond brothers were just two players in an outstanding team effort.

“Our centre line was very good, with (Simon) Feast, Ned (Seccafien) Eamon (Fetherstonaugh) and Khan (Leighton) all in the best players,” Thomson said.

“We (also) won all four quarters for a change.”

Co-captain, Tallan Leighton (three goals), also played a vital role with his tackling pressure in the forward 50 and Andrew Hardiman (four goals) was also dangerous.

The coach mentioned Brad Fitzgerald’s efforts in restricting gun forward, Brendon Niklaus, to just three goals, his lowest return against Two Wells since round eight, 2010.

The only negative for the Roosters from the game came during the first term, when Anthony Pontt (one goal), in his first game back from a broken arm, was carried from the ground after copping a heavy knock to his head.

He played no further part in the match.

Thomson was confident Pontt should recover for the game against Hamley Bridge on Saturday and will be looking to back up the weekend’s win with another consistent performance.

“We’ll approach every side as equal, it doesn’t matter how many wins they’ve had, we will respect them right from the start,” he said.

Virginia hosts United in a mustwin match if it is to push for a toptwo spot.

Ben Galic (wedding) and Billy Nikou (hamstring) are both likely to return in a boost for the Rams’ chances.

“We’re going to focus on the contested ball and getting our hands on it first,” Phillips said.

“We can’t underestimate United as they really pushed us in the first quarter the last time we played them.”

Final score two wells 21.17 (143) d virginia 10.12 (72) Best players: Two Wells - L.Allmond, E.Fetherstonhaugh, K.Leighton, N.Seccafien, S.Feast, R.McDonald Virginia - A.Johnston, L.Bannear, T.Wilkey, R.Perre, A.Mark, G.Rigney

n vince Ienco, Two Wells runs with the ball during the junior colts match at home on Saturday.

n rooster Kyle Giniotis gives chase to Ram Tyler Jones.

n rooster Jamie Humphrys picks up a loose ball in front of Rams opponent, Anthony Kennison during the junior colts game.

UNITED Football Club turned back time on Saturday June 23, setting the scene of a ‘Night on the Titanic’.

• Pictured here, looking glamourous, are Jana Williams and Ruth East.

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n corey Tryfopoulos kicks towards the Roosters’ goal square on Saturday.

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after round 11 games JUNIOR COLTS Team P W L D B FF F A % Pts Balaklava 9 9 0 0 2 0 563 159 77.98 18 Mallala 9 7 2 0 2 0 446 199 69.15 14 Two Wells 9 7 2 0 2 0 534 335 61.45 14 United 9 5 4 0 2 0 407 427 48.80 10 HW Eagles 10 3 7 0 1 0 276 407 40.41 6 Virginia 9 1 8 0 2 0 250 571 30.45 2 Hamley 9 0 9 0 2 0 199 577 25.64 0 SENIOR COLTS Team P W L D B FF F A % Pts Balaklava 9 8 1 0 2 0 702 384 64.64 16 Two Wells 9 7 2 0 2 0 765 460 62.45 14 Mallala 9 6 2 1 2 0 664 423 61.09 13 Virginia 9 4 4 1 2 0 556 585 48.73 9 Hamley 9 4 5 0 2 0 438 494 47.00 8 HW Eagles 10 2 8 0 1 0 488 689 41.46 4 United 9 0 9 0 2 0 328 906 26.58 0 RESERVES Team P W L D B FF F A % Pts Two Wells 9 7 2 0 2 0 889 358 71.29 14 Balaklava 9 6 3 0 2 0 782 434 64.31 12 Virginia 9 6 3 0 2 0 784 466 62.72 12 United 9 6 3 0 2 0 514 434 54.22 12 Mallala 9 5 4 0 2 0 578 498 53.72 10 Hamley 9 2 7 0 2 0 539 590 47.74 4 HW Eagles 10 0 10 0 1 0 194 1500 11.45 0 A GRADE Team P W L D B FF F A % Pts Mallala 9 8 1 0 2 0 823 437 65.32 16 Balaklava 9 8 1 0 2 0 987 535 64.85 16 Two Wells 9 5 4 0 2 0 1042 559 65.08 10 Virginia 9 5 4 0 2 0 759 693 52.27 10 United 9 2 6 1 2 0 481 937 33.92 5 HW Eagles 10 2 8 0 1 0 487 1054 31.60 4 Hamley 9 1 7 1 2 0 672 1036 39.34 3

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after round 11 games JUNIOR COLTS Pos Name ThWk Year 1 Kyle GINIOTIS - Two Wells 4 36 2 Daniel COOMBE - United 4 24 3 Jacob BUTTERFIELD - Balaklava 1 14 4 Jake MICHAEL - Balaklava 0 14 5 Joshua STUDHAM - HW Eagles 0 13 6 Dylan HOWELL - Mallala 0 12 7 Samuel MICHAEL - Balaklava 0 11 8 Charlie ARBON - Balaklava 1 11 9 Jake Ludewig - Two Wells 0 9 10 Benjamin O’LEARY - Mallala 0 9 SENIOR COLTS Pos Name ThWk Year 1 Bradley CALVETT - Two Wells 1 38 2 Joshua BUTTERFIELD - Balaklava 0 31 3 Adam COE - Mallala 0 29 4 Hayden RAMSAY - Two Wells 0 20 5 Brad WILSON - Mallala 0 20 6 Tyson TEMBY - HW Eagles 0 14 7 Lachlan GOSS - Two Wells 1 14 8 Anton POGAS - Virginia 0 14 9 Jared PRATT - United 2 13 10 Mitchell HILL - HW Eagles 0 12 11 Jordan TAYLOR - Balaklava 1 12 RESERVES Pos Name ThWk Year 1 Justin Platt - Virginia 1 27 2 Derek TILLER - Mallala 0 25 3 Ross COLEMAN - Two Wells 0 19 4 Travis WAKE - Two Wells 1 16 5 Oren HEARNDEN - Balaklava 5 15 6 Michael CLIFFORD - Balaklava 2 13 7 Timothy BROWN-PICHUGIN - Two Wells 0 13 8 Michael WARNES - United 2 12 9 Cameron FELSTEAD Virginia 0 12 10 Jason McPHARLIN - Balaklava 0 12 11 Brian MONTGOMERY - Mallala 0 12 A GRADE Pos Name ThWk Year 1 Glenn DAWSON - Balaklava 6 43 2 Brendon Niklaus - Virginia 3 35 3 Andrew HARDIMAN - Two Wells 4 30 4 Matthew Bryant - HW Eagles 1 26 5 Jarred ALLMOND - Two Wells 2 3 6 Nathan FLYNN - Hamley 3 23 7 Jonathon BRICE - Balaklava 2 20 8 Scott HAHN - Mallala 0 20 9 Lee ALLMOND - Two Wells 1 19 10 Shane Hanson - Hamley 1 17

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n left: Pecker Jared Cmrlec lunges at Eagle Brett Price in the A grade. n RIGHT: Eagle Tim Thiele handballs in front of Pecker Justin Michael.

Peckers down Eagles ON face value, Balaklava’s 101-point win over HummocksWatchman Eagles at Ralli Park on Saturday was somewhat expected but Peckers coach, Stuart Lamond, was taking nothing for granted.

After receiving a reality check against Virginia last weekend, Balaklava were keen to bounce back with some force versus the Eagles.

“It was definitely a good response,” Lamond said.

“It wasn’t so much about the (Virginia) loss but more so about how we played that was most disappointing.”

The Peckers were on top from the start in slightly damp conditions in the first half, kicked off by a standard Ben Catford finish as one of five goals for the first quarter.

Max Doherty was taken from the ground after taking a heavy knock in the back following a marking contest but eventually came good after an extended break to return to the field.

Hummocks-Watchman Eagles managed to pull a goal back in the second term after Matt Bryant read a dropping ball the better, taking a strong pack mark in the goal square and finishing

REPORT: Les Pearson from point-blank range.

That was the only real highlight for the Eagles in the quarter as Balaklava slammed on seven goals for the term and opened up a huge 72-point buffer at the main break.

Along came the rain while the teams talked tactics at half time, an icy breeze making conditions even less comfortable.

HWE again came out with some intent, the ball spending a fair amount of time in their attacking half before Nick Twelftree won a free kick and goaled from the subsequent 25-metre penalty.

Balaklava again responded well, adding two more goals as the rain fell.

For the Eagles, Todd Twelftree continued battling away in the midfield, also providing excellent run and carry for his team.

He seems to enjoy playing against Balaklava, often collecting plenty of touches and generally performing well.

The Twelftrees are interesting in the way they barely resemble each other, Nick standing at about six foot four and shaggy long hair,

while Todd is lucky to be five foot nine and bears a sensible hair cut.

Peckers forward, Glenn Dawson, snared a cracking volleyed goal from about 25 metres out in the last quarter and also got the crowd on their feet after strongly marking on the forward flank, closing to just outside 50 metres and drilling the ball through.

It put an exclamation point on Balaklava’s performance.

“There was so much more intensity about our game,” Lamond said.

“There can be some areas of games when you drop off a bit and that consistency is an area we were looking to pick up.”

He believed the win was not the result of any major structural change.

“Nothing drastically changed, we were just more honed in on the task at hand,” Lamond said.

Peckers midfielder, Todd McPharlin, stepped up in the absence of Lachy Michael, while Justin Michael also relished the wet conditions.

“He (McPharlin) played his best game for the year and it wasn’t that he hasn’t been playing well, he just strung four consistent quarters together,” Lamond said.

“Other teams probably feel

we play our best footy in dry weather with our marking options up forward but Glenn (Dawson) kicked six goals, including three in the second half in the rain so we’ve certainly got no problems with wet weather footy.

Catford finished with three goals but created plenty more opportunities.

“I think we will see gradual improvement from him in the second half of the season leading into the form we know he can play,” Lamond said.

The Eagles had some good contributors in an otherwise dark day.

Ryan Reid and Dylan Cicolella linked up on many rebounding efforts in defence, while Shaun Light won his fair share of taps against Balaklava’s Hayden Walker.

HWE now have the bye, while Balaklava head to Mallala to take on the Magpies.

“A few clubs are probably surprised about where they’re (Mallala) sitting after last year but I’m not, they’ve always been a quality side,” Lamond said.

“We will be treating it like that and looking to come out with some real intent.”

Sponsors, past players unite at Balaklava BALAKLAVA Football Club held a Sponsors/Reunion Day on Saturday at the club, during half time of the A grade match against the Eagles, with past players travelling from Adelaide, Queensland and the West Coast.

• Pictured: The 1982 B grade premiership side, back from left: Paul Carmody, Marty Brice, Grant McPharlin, Michael Smith, Kevin Simon, Roy Rowland. Front: Karl Kohlberger, Kym McPharlin, Hank Lamond (coach), Geoff Gardner, Rob Michael, Robert Reid.

FAR LEFT: 1982 A2 Premiers: Janice Smith, Joy Ryan and Cherie Cleary. LEFT: 1992 A4 Premiers: Jo Michalanney, Narelle Michael and Toni Kirkland.

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‘Pies, Peckers battle it out for top spot Mallala v Balaklava

THIS match really is the battle for top spot, both teams locked on 16 points at the top of the table, only minute percentage separating the two.

Who knows how many players Mallala will welcome back to its team to take on Balaklava this weekend?

There is sure to be a fair contingent of senior footballers set to return for the Magpies on Saturday, Jason Earl and Brad Hardie two of those key players who come to mind.

The Peckers will be sweating on the return of ruckman, Justin Walker, who missed the match against the Eagles with a hamstring strain.

Lachy Michael should be back after a big weekend with the Central Zone at the State Country Championships last week.

The match between these two teams earlier this year wasn’t pretty, with a high tackle account and low scores reflecting the pressure both sides applied.

Whether we will see a carbon copy on Saturday is to be seen but an open, flowing game would be a great spectacle from the two form teams of

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the competition to date.

It will be Balaklava’s first look at Magpie recruit, Scott Hahn, while Mallala coach, Steve Lubcke, would be well aware of the threats in the Peckers’ forward line.

The likes of Matt Saunders, Tim and Dave Cawrse and James Wildbore will all have their roles to play in the Mallala defence.

A midfield battle between the likes of Balaklava’s Lachy and Justin Michael, Todd McPharlin and Ben Catford against Mallala’s Joel Montgomerie, Christian Rimmer, Daniel Griffiths and Jason Earl (if fit) is also enticing.

Match of the round by far.

Hamley Bridge v Two Wells

THE Bombers have already signalled their intent to come out and

challenge the highly-rated Two Wells team, red hot after a big win over rivals, Virginia.

The Roosters got through Saturday predominantly injury free, with Bryce Hart returning after a lengthy break to be best afield in the reserves.

Hamley Bridge is also set to have its best night at the selection table for a while, midfielder, Ryan Appleton, available again, while important on-baller, Craig Taylor, returns from suspension.

Bombers coach, Ash Barnett, suggested he might try some different tactics against the Roosters to try and shake things up.

With a speculative licence, starting Hanson, Heberle or Flynn (or all of them) deep in the forward line, seems like an option.

Heberle picked up six goals against Mallala two weeks ago from

a forward pocket but if he does go forward, Two Wells has some height in defence, the likes of Anthony Pontt, Sam O’Brien and Brad Fitzgerald all capable stoppers.

The foot-speed of the Roosters could be the deciding factor though, Khan Leighton tougher to catch than a greased-up watermelon (don’t try this at home).

On paper, it looks like Two Wells holds all the cards and with a full squad to pick from, barring the injured Dean Coates (hamstring), the Bombers are likely to be up against it.

Virginia v United

THEY were roaring at Tigerland on Saturday and the stirring win won’t do them any harm going into a tough encounter against Virginia at Virginia this weekend.

United put up a reasonable fight against Mallala two weeks ago, showing it is capable of sticking with the top four teams when gifted some options at the selection table.

If the Tigers come to play, it could get interesting.

Which Virginia turns up will be of note.

The Rams were superb for four quarters against Balaklava a fortnight ago but at the opposite end of the scale on the weekend versus Two Wells.

They were smashed in the contested footy, somewhere the Tigers believe they were reasonable themselves on Saturday.

Heath Pym, Adrian Mills and Mikey Brown have a huge role to play in the engine room for United, facing up against the class of Troy Wilkey and Ben Russell, coupled with the power of Matt Young and Graham Rigney for Virginia.

With Ben Galic likely to return for the Rams, it would free up Chris James to go forward, which should keep Mark Pym occupied.

The Tigers know it won’t be easy and even a win is unlikely but on their day, they just have to believe they’re capable and play with that belief.

That said, Greg Phillips would be priming his team to ensure they don’t take too many steps backwards like they did Saturday.

A loss against United could prove extremely costly come the end of the season.

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ABOVE: Lachlan Wood catches up with Steve Renshaw at Balaklava’s Sponsors/ Reunion Day on Saturday.

RIGHT: 1972 B grade premiership player, Darcy Treverton, holding his side’s premiership photo.

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by Michelle Davey

A Grade

Senior Colts

Balaklava HW Eagles

5.4 12.8 14.11 17.16 (118) 0.2 1.2 2.5 2.5 (17)

Balaklava HW Eagles

2.3 9.6 11.7 12.8 (80) 0.0 1.2 1.5 2.5 (17)

Two Wells Virginia

6.5 1.2

Two Wells Virginia

3.0 1.2

Hamley United

3.4 4.8 6.11 10.16 (76) 0.0 2.0 4.0 4.1 (25)

Goals: Balaklava - G.Dawson 6, B.Catford 3, J.Brice 2, M.Doherty 2, R.McPharlin 1, J.McPharlin 1, T.McPharlin 1, S.Lamond 1 HW Eagles - M.Bryant 1, .Twelftree 1 Best: Balaklava - T.McPharlin, L.Pearson, G.Dawson, J.Michael, B.Michael, B.Lamond HW Eagles - T.Twelftree, S.Light, R.Reid, N.Twelftree, D.Cicolella, B.Higgs

12.9 18.12 21.17 (143) 6.2 8.7 10.12 (72)

Goals: Two Wells - A.Hardiman 4, T.Leighton 3, E.Fetherstonhaugh 3, A.Pontt 2, J.Allmond 2, B.Spiteri 1, S.Feast 1, K.Leighton 1, D.Wise 1, R.McDonald 1, L.Allmond 1, T.Markou 1 Virginia - B.Niklaus 3, A.Johnston 2, E.Tsimiklis 1, S.Papanotis 1, T.Wilkey 1, C.James 1, B.Russel 1 Best: Two Wells - L.Allmond, E.Fetherstonhaugh, K.Leighton, N.Seccafien, S.Feast, R.McDonald Virginia - A.Johnston, L.Bannear, T.Wilkey, R.Perre, A.Mark, G.Rigney

United Hamley

5.1 7.5 7.9 10.13 (73) 2.1 3.3 6.6 10.7 (67)

Goals: United - J.Rundle 3, S.Schulz 2, R.Sharer 2, A.Littlewood 1, A.Mills 1, M.Brown 1 Hamley - N.Flynn 3, V.Thach 2, R.Appleton 2, K.Heberle 1, S.Hanson 1, D.Millar 1 Best: United - M.Pym, B.Shimmin, H.Pym, P.Valle, M.Brown, S.Harding Hamley - C.Young, K.Heberle, N.Flynn, A.Martin, R.Appleton, A.Lemmon

Balaklava HW Eagles

Reserves

6.2 9.9 13.14 17.16 (118) 1.2 2.3 2.3 2.4 (16)

Goals: Balaklava - O.Hearnden 5, J.Jenner 4, K.Michaelanny 2, M.Clifford 2, S.Nankivell 1, L.Williams 1, D.Tezacker 1, D.mith 1 HW Eagles - S.Allen 2 Best: Balaklava - O.Hearnden, S.Nankivell, D.Butterfield, J.Jenner, M.Clifford, T.Zerk HW Eagles - J.Jenkins, M.Nicholls, M.Hoepner, J.Rowe, C.Price, B.Rowe

Virginia Two Wells

2.2 2.4

5.6 2.5

8.7 3.11

13.11 3.12

(89) (30)

Goals: Virginia - S.Lioulios 2, R.Desmond 2, J.Versari 2, M.Lazenka 2, R.Starr 1, T.Lioulios 1, A.Seccafien 1, J.Platt 1, C.Campbell 1 Two Wells - T.Wake 1, J.Dimasi 1, L.Webb 1 Best: Virginia - C.Campbell, J.Simmonds, C.Halkias, C.Felstead, J.Booth-Elliott, R.Starr Two Wells - B.Hart, R.Coleman, T.Brown-Pichugin, L.Webb, J.Hart

United Hamley

3.1 7.1 11.4 15.7 (97) 2.0 2.1 2.2 3.2 (20)

Goals: United - J.Crosbie 4, J.Curnow 2, B.Sobey 2, M.Warnes 2, M.McArdle 1, A.Bennett 1, T.Taylor 1, J.Chapman 1, A.Pratt 1 Hamley - A.Natt 3 Best: United - J.Chapman, B.Brown, J.Crosbie, A.Pratt, B.Priest, B.Sharman Hamley - T.Miller, L.Shanahan, G.Branson, B.Selth, A.Baker, A.Natt

Goals: Balaklava - J.Speissegger 6, C.Michael 2, J.Harkness 2, J.Taylor 1, H.Veitch 1 HW Eagles - T.Nottle 2 Best: Balaklava - J.Harkness, C.McPharlin, R.Logan, J.Speissegger, T.Michael, R.Harris HW Eagles - J.Appleby, C.Veitch, M.Hill, W.Angel, T.Nottle, J.Alsop

5.4 2.2

6.7 5.5

8.9 6.8

(57) (44)

Goals: Two Wells - S.Stringer 2, S.Slattery 1, B.Calvett 1, L.Goss 1, N.Seccafien 1, J.Henneker 1, A.Pounendis 1 Virginia - A.Drew 2, C.Stronach 2, J.Conrad 1, N.Piscioneri 1 Best: Two Wells A.Pounendis, N.Seccafien, B.Daly, W.Hart, B.Catanzariti, D.Heron Virginia - A.Drew, T.Collins, M.Musolino, C.Worden, C.Stronach Goals: Hamley - J.Talbot 3, B.Paxton 2, A.Poulton 1, J.Hutton 1, J.McCauley-Hall 1, S.Collings 1, L.Henneker 1 United - D.Coombe 2, J.Pratt 2 Best: Hamley - J.Wedding, D.Collings, T.Darwin, L.Henneker, J.Talbot, S.Collings United - C.Lane, K.McArdle, H.Hosking

Junior Colts

Balaklava HW Eagles

0.1 1.1 1.3 5.8 (38) 1.0 1.3 2.3 2.3 (15)

Two Wells Virginia

5.1 7.1 13.5 13.5 (83) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.35 (35)

United Hamley

4.1 5.2 7.3 11.6 (72) 0.0 1.0 1.0 2.12 (24)

Goals: Balaklava - J.Wehr 2, C.Arbon 1, J.Butterfield 1, S.McRostie 1 HW Eagles - B.Guerin 1, J.Nipperess 1 Best: Balaklava - C.Arbon, J.Michael, D.Michael, T.Scholz, B.Chapman, J.Wehr HW Eagles - D.Irrgang, N.Studham, J.Nipperess, T.Moulds, J.Lu, J.Murray Goals: Two Wells - K.Giniotis 4, M.McFarlane 2, B.Manning 2, J.Kerr 1, L.Brander 1, T.McLeod 1, L.Barnett 1, N.Barnett 1 Virginia - Not Supplied Best: Two Wells - C.Hocking, N.Barnett, J.Humphrys, L.Barnett, K.Giniotis, B.Manning Virginia - G.Llewellyn, T.Jones, L.Peter, Z.Owen, C.Conti, J.Tipouikidis Goals: United - D.Coombe 4, R.Curnow 1, D.Page 1, N.McArdle 1, B.Robinson 1, K.Dalgleish 1, C.Lane 1, J.Zeidas 1 Hamley S.McCabe 1, C.McCann 1 Best: United - D.Coombe, R.Curnow, K.Dalgleish, J.Zeidas, C.Lane, N.McArdle Hamley - C.Buckby, S.McCabe, C.McCann, K.Rosenzweig, O.Barnett, T.Damiani

2012 South Australian Country Championships played on Saturday & Sunday MSE Zone Central Zone

Round 1

0.0 0.0

0.2 3.2

0.2 5.6 (36) 3.2 3.2 (20)

Goals: MSE Zone - J.McConnell 2, L.O’Neil 1, D.Dempsey 1, L.Harrowfield 1 Central Zone - J.Gillings 1, J.Martin 1, T.Harradine 1 Best: MSE Zone - T.Saunders, L.Harrowfield, T.Wait, S.Berkefeld, D.Dempsey, L.Medhurst Central Zone - T.Riggs, R.McDermid, S.Wendelborn, T.Haseldine, A.Zwar, S.Maxfield

1982 A3 Premiers: Glenda Shepherd (coach) Di Gregor, Kevyna Gardner, Cherie Cleary, Lesley Saint and Suzanne McDonald.

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Central Zone Eastern Zone

0.0 0.0

4.4 1.2

4.4 5.6 (36) 1.2 5.4 (34)

Goals: Central Zone - J.Gillings 1, J.Martin 1, S.Wendelborn 1, P.Hopton 1, R.Prior 1 Eastern Zone - L.Jennings 1, S.Agars

1, P.Barrett 1, J.Warnock 1, B.Sugars 1 Best: Central Zone S.Wendelborn, S.Maxfield, R.Prior, B.Murphy, T.Jenkin, T.Haseldine Eastern Zone - T.Schiller, W.Nicholls, M.Ruwoldt, N.Schmidt

3rd vs 4th Finals

Central Zone Northern Zone

2.2 2.2

5.4 4.3

10.4 6.6

11.6 8.9

(72) (57)

Goals: Central Zone - S.Wendelborn 4, T.Harradine 2, J.Martin 1, B.Murphy 1, A.Zwar 1, P.Hopton 1, R.Prior 1 Northern Zone - G.Phillips 3, D.Hill 1, W.Hewett 1, R.Morris 1, D.Shillabeer 1, M.Woolford 1 Best: Central Zone - A.Luitjes, S.Wendelborn, S.Maxfield, R.Prior, L.Michael, M.Barber Northern Zone - L.Ellery, D.Pegler, B.O’Dea, J.Kelly

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SPORT v Netball

Show down, snow down Ok, so there was no snow, but rain threatened all day. A good weekend for a bye, as enjoyed by the Magpies. Luckily most A1 matches escaped relatively unscathed, something I was very envious of during my sloshy A3 game later in the day.

This weekend was another so called “showdown” with rival Hummocks and Balak fighting it out. However, the impressive Hummocks side led from start to finish with only a minor lapse in the second quarter.

Hummocks coach Sam Nicholls was pleased her girls were able to recognize what wasn’t working at half time and rectify the situation in the second half.

The Hummocks side scored 17 goals to Balaklava’s 6 in the first quarter. The Peckerettes came back in the second, winning this quarter by three goals. But it was Hummocks from then on, who won 60 goals to 39.

Sam said, “We had some great passages of play and Beth Reid and Kelli Blakely combined really well to feed into the goal circle.” Kelli Blakely was covering for Lisa Powell who is still out with an ankle injury.

Bonnie Nicholls also had a great game taking best player for the match.

The Hummocks girls are looking forward to a rest this weekend.

Nadene Wehr stepped in as coach for Balaklava

Courtside with Merridy Manuel last weekend with Tess Pollard away. Nadene commended Hummocks on being a well drilled quality side with their pressure and decisive offensive work. But, Nadene gave much credit to her Balak girls, noting they have an average age under 20. Nadene said, “It was a great challenge for the young and persistent Balaklava team, and playing against a quality side will assist the development of a young team with plenty of potential.

I admire the girls effort, work rate and enthusiasm and am very proud of their game.” Balaklava must win their next two matches against Mallala and Long Plains to keep their finals hopes alive.

High scoring Hamley takes win A whopping 129 goals were scored in total at Long Plains on Saturday, with Hamley securing 78 of them to win by 27.

Hamley Bridge coach Lee Barnett admitted that it didn’t seem that big a gap while playing the game. After being up by six in the first quarter, Long Plains came back in the second. Hamley then ran away with it in the next two quarters. Lee was pleased her girls had recovered from their loss

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n ABOVE: Trying to keep warm while watching the A5 game at Balaklava on Saturday are L-R: Nat May, Kathy Nicholls, Julie Lawson, and Pam Hann. n RIGHT: Balaklava wing defence Gabbi Smith looks to pass watched by Sharon Moulds.

to Hummocks last week.

“We had a much better training this week,” said Lee, “and it showed.”

Best for Hamley was the coach herself, Lee Barnett at GD. Long Plains coach Josie McArdle said shooters from both sides performed well and Leah Tynan, C, thoroughly deserved best player.

Jess Daniel is still out with continuing back problems and Tori Doherty went off in the third quarter with a pinched knee muscle. Jess Schultz did well coming up from A2s, playing in defence.

Josie thought the girls struggled with their usual problem of dropping their heads after a few

mistakes. Hopefully, Bollywood star Emma Laintoll is back from India this coming weekend.

Welcome home Emma.

Two Wells blitz Virginia Like Hamley, Two Wells also scored 78 goals this weekend and tromped the struggling Virginia side by an enormous 60 goals.

This was the only match that got wet, the heavens opening five minutes before full time.

Despite the last minute drenching, Two Wells coach Stacey Gameau was pleased with how her girls performed. “All of my team played well but I thought Trisha Beer stood out in goals. Nicole Hardy

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Results of Adelaide Plains Netball Association matches played on Saturday A1: Hummocks 60 (Bonnie Nicholls) def Balaklava 39 (Lauren Michael). Hamley Bridge 78 (Lee Burnett) def Long Plains 51 (Leah Tynan). Two Wells 78 (Nicole Hardy) def Virginia 18 (Sarah Smith).

A2: Hamley Bridge 52 (Michelle Hennessy) def Long Plains 43 (Ali Tiller). Hummocks 49 (Holly Cowan) def Balaklava 29 (Jane Harding).

A3: Balaklava 58 (Merridy Manuel) def Hummocks 35 (Caitlin Mackay). Long Plains 55 (Heather Curnow) def Hamley Bridge 36 (Kate Smith). Two Wells 63 (Amanda Farr) def Mallala Away 28 (Belinda Angus).

A4: Balaklava 54 (Ellie Reusch) def Hummocks 32 (Adriana Deer). Long Plains 48 (Helzah Sommerville) def Hamley Bridge 26 (Belinda Prior). Two Wells 39 (Jamie Dinham) def Virginia 25 (Kaity Viger).

A5: Hummocks 45 (Jenny Young) def Balaklava 32 (Erin Tilley). Long Plains 46 (Dayna Heaft) def Hamely Bridge 32 (Bethany Packer). Two Wells 29 (Liana Juvan) def Virginia 21 (Bek Majchrak).

B: Hummocks 31 (Tayla Williams) def Balaklava 9 (Chelsea McPharlin). Hamley Bridge 45 (Madelin Rose) def Long Plains 28 (Kymba Zanker). Balaklava Away 37 (Victoria Logan) def Two Wells 19 (Hayley Squires).

C1: Hamley Bridge 37 (Amy McCabe) def Long Plains 15 (Brittney Smith). Balaklava 33 (Eleanor Cunningham) def Hummocks 7 (Jessica Davey).

C2: Balaklava 51 (Madison Bond) def Hummocks 2 (Brittany Berry). Hamley Bridge 32 (Shakira Fuller) def Long Plains 8 (Jamie Doolan).Virginia forfeited to Two Wells

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A1 GRADE Hummocks........ 18.... 59.64 Hamley Bridge... 16.... 57.03 Two Wells........... 12.... 57.81 Mallala................ 8..... 52.05 Balaklava............ 7..... 49.76 Long Plains......... 3..... 45.57 Virginia................ 0..... 27.81

A5 GRADE Hummocks........ 18.... 60.88 Two Wells........... 14.... 62.88 Mallala............... 10.... 56.01 Long Plains........ 10.... 51.31 Virginia................ 8..... 46.99 Balaklava............ 4..... 43.06 Hamley Bridge.... 0..... 28.57

A3 GRADE Balaklava........... 18.... 62.93 Hummocks........ 14.... 57.02 Two Wells........... 10.... 57.25 Long Plains........ 10.... 47.85 Mallala Away...... 6..... 40.93 Mallala................ 5..... 41.88 Hamley Bridge.... 1..... 38.42

C1 GRADE Hamley Bridge... 18.... 77.12 Two Wells........... 16.... 64.29 Mallala............... 12.... 62.12 Balaklava........... 10.... 52.04 Long Plains......... 6..... 27.81 Hummocks......... 2..... 18.57

A2 GRADE Mallala............... 15.... 53.13 Two Wells........... 14.... 52.05 Hummocks........ 13.... 52.04 Hamley Bridge... 10.... 50.56 Balaklava............ 8..... 49.51 Long Plains......... 4..... 42.81

A4 GRADE Two Wells........... 18.... 63.20 Balaklava........... 14.... 62.62 Long Plains........ 12.... 49.00 Hummocks........ 10.... 53.08 Virginia................ 4..... 43.21 Hamley Bridge.... 3..... 37.98 Mallala................ 3..... 37.18

B GRADE Hamley Bridge... 16.... 63.44 Hummocks........ 16.... 59.88 Balak Away........ 12.... 59.83 Two Wells............ 7..... 48.54 Mallala................ 5..... 37.55 Long Plains......... 3..... 39.95 Balaklava............ 3..... 34.07

C2 GRADE Mallala............... 18.... 87.46 Balaklava........... 16.... 84.18 Two Wells........... 12.... 66.91 Hamley Bridge.... 8..... 47.15 Virginia................ 6..... 27.11 Long Plains......... 2..... 17.83 Hummocks......... 2..... 16.89

played well in defence and Bec Pym led well in centre.” Nicole Hardy captured the umpires attention also and won best for her side.

Shelley Williemsen, coach of the Virginian side, was happy to forget this one! She described it as their worst game so far this season. So moving right along, let’s hope they have a better match against Long Plains this weekend.

The game to watch this weekend is sure to be third placed Two Wells hoping to topple second placed Hamley. Balaklava plays Mallala, Virginia faces Long Plains and Hummocks have a rest. All games are at 12.30pm.

APNA netty star Name: Syjourn Renshaw Nickname: Journ DOB: 14/10/1997 Height: 167cm Team: Balaklava B grade Position: GK/GD Who is the most damaging player (on or off court) in your club?

Ciara Guy and Tenayah Renshaw Who is your club’s hardest worker (on or off court), and why? Alex Wilson - watch her play netball, she never gives up!

Highlight of netball career: Premiership in C1 2010 What’s your number one passion outside netball? Piano If you could trade places with any other person for a week, living or

dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be?

Xavier Samuel What’s the last movie you went to see? A Few Best Men If you won $20 million in the lotto, what would you do with the money? Buy a house in Melbourne and travel If you were a car, what kind would you be?

Punch buggy If you were on the front page of the newspaper, what would the headline say? “Syjourn new Thunderbirds goal shooter” If you could take anyone on your next netball trip, who would it be? Joshua Harkness What’s the grossest item in your fridge?

Olives stuffed with anchovies

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n 1 - Action at Two Wells on Saturday between Virginia and Two Wells D2 grade. Pictured: 1- Jayde Masson and Betty Tipoukidis, Virginia. 2 - Amber Errington, Virginia. 3 - Jazlyn Southwell Two Wells.

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Hamley takes the chocolates Long Plains v Hamley

A2: A quick goal scored by Hamley, followed quickly by Longies set the scene. Hamley broke through a run of goals. Longies holding on with a couple of good turnovers in defence by Taryn Hall, GD. Strong play also by Hamley GA Brianna Wedding. LP 9, H 14.

Hamley GK, Lauren Durdin, started the quarter with an early intercept.

Hamley with a strong start. Kirsty Good had a great intercept but Longies just couldn’t capitalise. Later in the quarter.

Kayla Skuse for Long Plains scored some great goals. LP 18, H 31.

Hamley started the quarter a little unsettled. Long Plains defence worked very hard but they just couldn’t put away goals. The first half of the quarter Long Plains switched into high gear and had strong attack resulting in a run of goals.

Great quarter with only a two goal difference in the quarter. LP 29, H 44.

Long Plains started the final quarter strong with the majority of the goals.

Longies had a great last quarter closing the gap in the final score. Final score: Long Plains 43, Hamley 52 A4: Longies came out strongly with great defence turning the ball over.

Lauren Wilson making the turnover count. LP 14, H 7.

Longies kept pressure up, Hamley kept trying, it’s a young side, again beautiful shooting by Lauren Wilson.

LP 26, H 14.

Hamley tried to close the gap with some great play down the court and shooting, but Long Plains stayed strong and continued with great shooting by Lauren Wilson and Suzie Curnow. Pearl Chapman also a standout player. LP 41, H 20.

Hamley gave it everything for the young side. A nice effort from the young shooters and they kept at it. But Long Plains were too strong on the day. An awesome game to watch. Final score: Long Plains 48, Hamley 26.

A5: Poured with rain entire game yet accurate scoring by both Mel Smith and Liz Wallis along with the constant presence of Amy Barr in WA, saw Long Plains A5 girls defeat Hamley Bridge.

However, the young Hamley Bridge girls in both A4 and A5 show great promise for the future.

Final score: Long Plains 46, Hamley 32.

B grade: Hamley Bridge came out strong from the first whistle, scoring

n ABOVE: Balaklava A5 goal defence Chelsea McPharlin looks for a team mate to pass to. n RIGHT: Balaklava GS, Ciara Guy, has eyes for the goal as Tammy Nicholls, Hummocks, defends.

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well in the first half of the quarter. Long Plains played well in the last few minutes scoring much needed goals. LP 8, H 14.

Long Plains started the second quarter scoring six goals in the first half of this quarter. Longies shooters playing well with accurate shooting. Hamley still leading that game by only four goals.

LP 18, H 22.

The Longies team lifted in this quarter with some good netball. Tamika LeeChapman shooting well and Georgia McArdle at GD creating some great intercepts. Hamley girls didn’t give up their lead though. LP 25, H 32.

Hamley Bridge started the quarter with some quick goals, but the Longies were still playing a good team. Hamley girls were too strong on the day. Final score: Long Plains 28, Hamley 45.

C1: Hamley off to a courageous start. Kelsey Wedding moving well in the goal circle. Few late goals to Long Plains. LP 4, H 11.

Hamley made changes. Better play Long Plains’ Catelyn Harkness trying hard in GD. LP 8, H 16.

Long Plains made changes making Hamley’s goalies work harder. Mary Hosking added lots of pressure. LP 10, H 28.

Long Plains goalies Keisha Gregory and Chelsey King moved well and added pressure to the Hamley goalies. Final score: Long Plains 15, Hamley 37.

C2: A good start by Longies with good turnovers helped them score the first goal. Silly passing by Longies and some strong play by Hamley saw them dominate the quarter. Brittany from Long Plains and Celeste from Hamley were standout players for this quarter.

LP 1, H 11.

Messy play saw lots of loose balls with Hamley quick to pick up. Long Plains missing some much needed goals. Hamley’s GA and GS not missing too many. LP 3, H 20.

A few changes helped Long Plains as they defended the ball well keeping Hamley to only five this quarter. Long Plains shooting better this quarter. LP 6, H 25.

A couple of really exciting goals from Long Plains. Hamley just too strong. But great sportsmanship from both sides.

Final score: Long Plains 8, Hamley 32.

D grade: The enthusiastic attitude of both teams made for a very exciting game. Hamley GA Jaimie Bubner worked well against the LP defence Tonie Parker and Shevaughn Langley

with accurate shots for goal by GS Libby Cleary. Abbie McArdle, GA for Long Plains, was also a standout player.

LP 0, H 5.

Changes made by both teams, which made for an exciting quarter. Hamley WA Lucy Smith had great competition with Tanaya Robertson, WD for Long Plains, both players working hard. Jasmine Gibson, Long Plains WA worked hard to get the ball in to Long Plains goals with Leonie Snowden, GA, trying hard to help. Amber Watson played well also. LP 0, H 10.

Long Plains team stayed the same as Hamley made some major changes but still playing with good team work.

Amber Watson C Hamley ran hard against Abbie McArdle, C Long Plains.

Lucy McCabe, Hamley GA, ad Kate Barnett, Hamley GS, worked well in the goals with Long Plains defence Zoe-Anne Robertson, GD. LP 0, H 14.

Changes to both teams and last quarter brought out some excitement with both teams running hard to keep up with each other. WA on both teams Mika Goldney from Hamley and Maddison Smith form Long Plains, played well in the centre third. Final score: Long Plains 0, Hamley 18.

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Blyth Golf Champions BLYTH Golf Club held an Ambrose on July 1 (see report below).

ABOVE: Mens Open Ambrose winners with Denby Wandel of Clare Financial Services (sponsor): Daniel Jakeway, Wayne Zechner and Carl Jakeway.

Absent Barry Spinks. BELOW: Mixed Open Ambrose winners, from left: John Hogan, Denby Wandel, Janet Zweck, Wayne Carling and Ian Zweck.

Congratulations to the 15 boys who represented the Mid North in the State Hockey Carnival held at Grange from June 18-22.

It was a fantastic experience for all those involved, particularly the nine new players to join the team this year.

The Mid North had a mixed team of experience – from those who hadn’t played before or some in their first year, to some who have been playing for many years.

Each day the boys played two games against other districts.

The week saw the team have wins against Airport/Western (52), Port (3-1) and Southern (3-2).

The boys had a couple of draws – against City South and Tee Tree Gully.

The lads couldn’t quite keep up with some of the stronger sides, and suffered losses to Gawler, Barossa & Light, Lower Eyre Peninsula, Hills and Whyalla.

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2012 SAPSASA Hockey team, back from left: Mary Heslop (coach), Doohan Pattison, Thomas Vandepeer, Ryley Mullan, Sacha Weatherstone, Nick Haddow, Sam Wilkop, Riley Chapman. Front: William Price, Jack Packer, Aydon Pattison, Jarrod Clarke, Peter Cornwell (captain), Mitchell Lawrie and James Forrest. Absent: Sebastian Pullin.

The boys worked incredibly well together as a team and represented themselves and the district with pride and good sportsmanship.

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Results of games played at Clare on Saturday.

Under 14 Balaklava won on forfeit from Burra Clare Donnybrook v Clare Springstown were short of players, so a scratch match was played with players from Balaklava and Burra also participating, all players enjoyed the different format.

Under 17 Balaklava 3 d Burra 2 Goals: Bal – Hedley Greenshields, Marni Greenshields, rebecca Goldney; Bur – Jake Dolphin, Riley Chapman. Best: Bal – Sarah Tiller, Hedley Greenshields, Marni Greenshields; Bur – Alex Catt, Neil Maxted, Jake Dolphin.

Clare Springstown 4 d Clare Donnybrook 1 Goals: Spr – Tom Forrest 2, James Forrest 2; Don – Ellen Canna. Best: Spr – Tom Forrest, Will Price, James Forrest; Don – Josh Nourse, Ellen Canna, Kim Davis.

Men Balaklava 5 d Riverton 0 Goals: James Manuel, Ben Hall, Peter Shepherd, Sarah Tiller, Lee Cunningham.

Best: Bal – Samuel Tiller, Lee Cunningham, Peter Shepherd; Riv – Josh Nourse, Caleb Desmet, Neil Maxted.

Clare Springstown 10 defeated Clare Donnybrook 3 (half time score 3 all) Goals: Spr – Luke Burge 3, Tom Forrest 2, Brianna Cheetham 2, James Burge 2, Jace Hooper; Don – James Hillcoat 2, Ben Fuller.

Best: Spr – James Burge, Luke Burge, Jace Hooper. Don – Mark Telfer, Jason Fischer, Mark Harvey.

No hockey next week, a bye for school holidays. Next game July 14, at Burra

A respectable A Grade field last weekend helped our numbers up to 24, to compete for the Balco Trophy and qualify for the Winter Shield, both factors of a Stroke round. Merv Hameister took out the Balco Trophy and blew the field away with his score of 78/68. Doug Taylor (86/75) ducked into second place in the A Grade, followed

by Bill Parkin (77/76) who lowered Bill Lokan (88/76) into 4thon a count back.

Left to discuss the perils of splitting the infinitive were P Thompson (85/77), P Freebairn (93/80), R Hart (91/81), M Loy (96/86) and S Michael (100/87).

John Michael (94/76) muscled Murray “Smudger” Smith (92/76) into second, while Wayne Nagle (94/80) ground Greg Sonntag (100/80) into 4th.

Then came D Rodgers (102/84) and G Spence (102/87). W Berry recorded a DNF while Bill Goudie had some trouble with “the wrong ball” and was given a “disqu”.

Visitor Malcolm Liptrop (105/76) leapt into first place in C Grade, dumping Dean Trickett (100/79) into second and Chris Hahesy (107/80) to third. Left to their own devices were M Hahesy (108/81), A Henstridge (102/81), M Bell (116/84) and T Gilmour (1221/85).

Bill Lokan achieved the day’s sole Birdie at the 3rd, while NTP’s were held by Doug Taylor at the 2nd, Bill Parkin (3rd), John Michael (8th), Bill Parkin (10th) and Merv Hameister (15th). Golfer of the Winter points: Merv Hameister (6), Doug Taylor (5), John MIchael (4), Murray Smith (3), Bill Parkin (2) and we also-rans, one each.

This was also the second round of our Split Sixes comp., which saw The President’s Men (Bill Lokan, Bill Parkin and John Michael) score 133 points, the Odd Angry Bunch (Peter Thompson, Doug Taylor and Wayne Nagle) 122, The Casual Clan (Merv Hameister, Dean Trickett and Bill Berry) 107, The Three Stooges (Graham Ackland, Greg Anderson and Geoff Spence) 103, Gamblers Anonymous (Austin Henstridge, Mike Hahesy and Bill Goudie) 98 plus the Builders and Labourers (Dave Rodgers, Mark Loy and Scott Michael) 95. Doug Taylor scored the highest (52). Currently the table reads: Odd Angries 256, President’s 243, Gamblers 212, Casuals 207, Stooges 197 and Builders &c. 191.

This weekend a Stableford round will determine the winner of the Foodland Trophy, while Round One of the Winter Shield will be Stroke match play. Round One are: Bill Parkin v Scott Michael, Merv Hameister v Mark Loy, Peter Thompson v Peter Freebairn, Doug Taylor v Bill Lokan, Dave Rodgers v Geoff Spence and Mike Hahesy v Martin Bell. Martin will also man the control tower with Graham Ackland personing the wet mess.

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Results from Thursday June 28 Stroke round.

A Grade: L Michael nett 76, J Taylor nett 77, T Matz nett 80. B Grade: R Jenkin nett 76, D Wandel nett 81, J Hoskin nett 83, T Greenshields nett 83. C Grade: S Friedrichs nett 77, J

was their first opportunity.

Well done on finishing seventh overall – hopefully next year will be another successful competition. The event wouldn’t be as successful without parents’ support over the week, along with umpires.

Edwards nett 82, F Williams nett 82.

Four Laurel Wreath matches played: T Matz d J Anderson 9 & 8 to play, G Edwards d C Taylor 4 & 3 to play, L Michael d F Williams 6 & 4 to Play, J Taylor d J Thompson 5 & 4 to play.

Thursday July 5: Fourth Stableford.

Starters: J Thompson & D Wandel.

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A group of 16 took to the fairways on Wednesday June 27, Joan Anderson winning the day with 46, Brian Stewart 42, Bill Goudie 39 CB, Rod Phillips 39, John Newton 37 CB, Trevor Reid 37 CB, Barry Thompson 37, Steve Shuck 35 CB, Doug Taylor 35, Dene Newton 34 CB, Trevor Gilmore 34 CB, Greg Sonntag 34, John Michael 33, Merv Hameister 29, Norma Taylor 25, Rhonda Shuck 23.

Birdies: John Newton 14, Steve Shuck 8, Merv Hameister 2, 4 & 16, Norma Taylor 9. NTP: Doug Taylor hole 3, Norma Taylor hole 8 & Steve Shuck hole 10. Putting: Joan Anderson 21 putts.

Results from June 20.

M Hameister 45, J Bastian 44, D Taylor 43, B Stewart 42, B Berry 39 CB, A Henstridge 39, D Trickett 38, S Davey 36, B Goudie 35 CB, D Newton 35 CB, R Campbell 35 CB, C Redpath 35, R Phillips 33, M Hahesy 25, G Toms DNF 31, J Anderson DNF 33, C Hahesy DNF 35, M Hayes DNF 38.

Birdies: M Hameister No. 7, 10 & 17; D Newton No. 10. NTPs: No.3 & 8 B Berry; No. 10 D Newton.

Blyth

Ambrose results July 1, sponsored by Clare Financial Services.

A great turn up with 19 teams (74 players) participating with players from Two Wells, Riverton, Hamley Bridge, Snowtown, Balaklava, Adelaide, Clare and Blyth. Men: C & D Jakeway, W Zechner, B Spinks 67/56 7/8; L Grafton, B Hogg, J Ball, R Thompson 65/57 3/4; Rob, Phil, Ryan, Tim 67/58 3/8; AJ Wood, R Dall, B Wilden, L O’Dea 72/58 1/2; S & C Michael, M & T Eime 68/59 1/2; V Zito, B Zerna, B Schwartz, R Pawlak 68/60; D & B Pratt, P Bickle, L Mugge 72/60; K Blanchard, K Peterkin, P Maynard, B Stopp 71/60 5/8; M & B Day, B Coleman, C White 72/60 5/8; G & A Ince, B Reichstein, J Olsen 74/61 3/8; N Johnson, A Yandell, J Lemmon, J Hogben 72/64; J & E Greet, G & C Walkley 80/66 1/2.

Long Drives No 9 Div 1 - T Eime, No 7; Div 2 - C Jakeway. NTP Div 1 No 6 - D Pratt, No 17 - R Hogg; Div 2 No 14 - C Jakeway, No 18 - M Eime.

Mixed - I & J Zweck, J Hogan, W Carling 70/58 7/8; J & C Clark, T & H O’Connell 72/60 3/4; M & H Williams, M Videon, D McSkimming 71/60 7/8; R Lamond, H Wandel, M Carling, K Eime 73/61; G & K Mugge, S Pocock, A Styles 73/61 1/2; P & C Agnew, D & T Paynter 77/61 1/2; All Ladies team - D & J Wandel, L Michael, J Taylor 78/64 5/8. With Long Drives No 9; Div 1 - K Mugge, No 7; Div 2 - C Agnew. NTP Div 1 No 6 - K Mugge, No 17 - H O’Connell.

Men July 8: Stroke comp, Second Qualifying Round of Club Championship, Jim Barry Memorial, sponsored

by Barry family. Ladies also welcome.

July 15: Stableford, sponsored by Eldredge Wines.

Ladies June 27, Stroke comp, Second Qualifying Round of Club

Championship, sponsored by Page’s Deli: J Wandel 109/68, J Zweck 90/74, K Mugge 94/74, D Wandel 106/80. 9 Holes- L Randolph 52/33, C Virgin 64/42, H Williams 66/43. Skins - jackpot. Raffle - J Zweck.

July 4: Stableford, sponsored by Clare Chemmart, Hostess L Randolph.

July 11: Flag comp/Stroke, sponsored

by Kelvin Grove Olives. Hostess: K Mugge.

results: J Rankine d K Behn 2 up; J Connell d G Stone 5/4.

Next week: Stroke competition – Third Qualifying Round Club Champs.

TWo Wells

Men’s results from Saturday June 30th – Second Round of the Freebairn Putter.

Seven brave souls ventured out to play this round, with only four managing to finish. Winner of the Freebairn Putter was P Sullivan with aggregate score of 144 net. Other scores, A Ince 80, I Freebairn 82 and L Beatty 86.

Next week’s round: President v Vice President Handicap match play – tee off 12:30pm. new players welcome.

Results from Saturday June 30 Stroke, sponsored by Bendigo Bank.

Twenty-nine players fronted up for the Second round of Club Championships. Rob Thompson, visiting from Loxton, cleaned up the A Grade with a fine net 66 from Stuart Grigg 67 and Robert Hogg and Russell Grigg on 70. Stuart picked up 4 strokes on halfway leader in the Club Champs, Les Grafton, to be only 2 strokes behind.

Ian Smith showed Ian Clark how to play with 66 to win B Grade from Rick Wendland 69 and Tim Clifton 72. Ian Smith leads B Grade Club Champs by 3 strokes from Rick Wendland with Tim Clifton 1 stroke further back.

C Grade winner was Ian Telfer with 67 from Bingo Barnes 71, 21 strokes better than last week, which he was pretty pleased about, and Michael Dimasi 3rd with 72.

C Grade Club Champs sees Jeff Spackman out in front by 3 strokes from Ian Telfer and Darrell Thompson.

Ian Telfer also continued his merry handicap matchplay way, dispatching Russell Grigg 2/1 to move into the semi-final.

View Two Wells scores: http://www. twowellsgolfclub.com.au/ A Grade: R.Thompson 66, Stuart Grigg 67, R.Hogg, R. Grigg 70, J.Ball, L.Grafton 71, A.Bail 73, G.Payne 75, G.Wilson 77, A.Baker, P.Shields 78.

B Grade: I.Smith 66, R.Wendland 69, T.Clifton 72, C.Barker, H.Linford, J.Weir 74, Rabbit 78, I.Clark 82.

C Grade: I.Telfer 6, Bingo 71, M.Dimasi, P.Woods 72, J.Spackman 74, D.Thompson 77, S.Kelly, D.Smith 82.

Ladies: E.Grigg 76, J.Holland 83.

Long Drives -A: L.Grafton. B: H.Linford.

C: P.Woods. Ladies: J.Holland A Grade Club Champs: L.Grafton 161, Stuart Grigg 163, R.Hogg 171, R.Grigg 173. B Grade Club Champs: I.Smith 173, R.Wendland 176, T.Clifton 177, P.Woods 187. C Grade Club Champs: J.Spackman 197, I.Telfer 200, D.Thompson 200, S.Kelly 201.

Meat trays: R.Hogg, E.Grigg, B.Barns Next week: Stableford (President’s Trophy 3).

– Russell Grigg, TWGC Handicapper

Results from June 30, Stroke - Third Qualifying round Club Championships.

AGrade: J Rankine 78/64, M Norman 76/66, M Day 73/ 67. B Grade: S Saunders 86/63, J Connell 84/68, R Thomas 86/69. C Grade: K Behn 90/65, B Reaney 91/66, A Callery 97/71. Longest Drive: A – M Day. B – A Hartwell. C – J Heapy. Handicap Match Play: J Yard def T Moreton 3/2.

Next week: Stableford.

Results from June 23 Stableford: 28 players took to the field with some good scores carded.

AGRADE: M Day 40pts, B Howarth 39, J Tucker 38. B GRADE: P Buckley 44, A Hartwell 43, J Connell 39. C GRADE: J Heapey 43, M Keast 38, R Harvie 38.

NTP 3 & 12: J Rankine; 8 & 17 (in 2): P Buckley. Handicap Matchplay

On June 26, round two of the Qualifying Championships was played.

Judi Frost won with nett 76 on a CB from Tine Perry and Helen Johnson.

Runner-up was Tine Perry with 76. It was also the second round of the Jenny Rowe putting competition. Winning with 25 putts was Kath Stubing. Longest drive on hole 5 was Helen Johnson.

NTP 12 & 15 was Tine Perry. Monthly Medal winner was Helen Johnson.

Results from June 19 June 19 saw the Second Round of the Captain’s Trophy was won by Aileen Oliver with a nett 71, runner-up Helen Johnson with 74 on a count back from Julie Holland.

Long Drive on 10: Judi Frost.

NTP’s: H Johnson on 11, 12; J Holland and K Stubing on 15. Birdies: H Johnson on 12.

Hamley Bridge

Thursday’s stableford event attracted 33 men and seven ladies, with Colin Doudle finding a few fairways with his long drives to score 41 points to win the day from Doug Cooper, who released the brake with 39 and John Bell slipping into third spot with 35.

Other s to make the cut were Roger Hahn, John Gardner 34, Brian Cooper, Wally Jackson 33, Ron Smith, Vince Zito, Ron Collins, George Dahlitz, Cliff Applebee, Bob Charman, John Riley, Anto Noack 31, Warren Isgar, Errol Branson, Noel Stringer 29.

Birdies: Colin Doudle 7th, Barry Schwartz 3rd, John Bell 2nd. NTP’s: Barry Schwartz 9th.

In a field of 31, Barry Schwartz shot a credible + 6 in Saturday’s par competition to grab top step on the podium. Bert Pearce came in second with +4 from Ian Ferguson +2.

A GRADE: Barry Schwartz +6, Bert Pearce +4, Ian Ferguson + 2.

B GRADE: Roland Pawlak +2, c/b Kieth Kluske +2, Colin Doudle, Errol Branson, Neville Durdin +1. C GRADE: Dean Branson square, John Gardner -1, Ross Hienze -3, Errol Branson 2, Liegh Durdin 6, John bell 17.

NTP’s: John Mitchell 4th, Ian Ferguson 9th, Kieth Kluske 12th.

Barrie Zerna and Vince Zito played off in the final of the Match Cup, with Barrie winning 4/2. Congratulations Barrie and commiserations Vince.

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Boat/Tinny: 3.8m Ally Craft, 25hp mariner and trailer. Fully floored with marine carpet, storage, live bait pump, and electric motor for lure fishing. $7,000 ono Ph 0400 593 225.

Firewood - top quality split red gum, $290 per tonne.

1/2 tonne loads available.

All loads weighed. Free delivery to Owen and surrounding areas. Phone 0412 887 040 anytime.

Firewood for sale. $120 per trailer load. Saw bench and operator for hire $80 per hour. Phone 0408 800 534.

Firewood for sale, cut, weighed and delivered.

Kindling available. Phone (m) 0407 896 159 Snowtown.

Garage Sale

15 Kelly Street, Balaklava, 8.30am. Books, DVD/ CD, bric-a-brac. Saturday July 7 B ala k lava C r o q u e t Club AGM, Friday July 6, 1.30pm in the Clubhouse.

Balaklava Mill Court Homes Inc - Mother’s D a y R a ff l e W i n n e r s G.Tiller, I.Evans, M.O’Neill, J.Evans, S.Lane, D.Larson, D.Marker, L.McLean, K.Pfeiffer, G.Hackett, R.Hore, D.Evans, T.Kraft, A.Simon.

CASH for cans & bottles, Owen Recycling - 18 Railway Terrace, Owen.

Wednesday 10am - 5pm; Saturday 10am - 1pm or by appointment. Ph 0428 890 107.

SAILPLANE flights. The Balaklava Gliding Club has $90 gift vouchers available for passenger flights any weekend from their airfield 10km north west of Balaklava on main Snowtown road. Bookings 8864 5062.

Wanted to Buy

HORSES unwanted, top prices, cash, any types, Ph 8524 3640 or 0414 546 217.

Ford Laser Liata, 1998 GXL 1.8L, Red, Manual, 122,000kms, alloy wheels.

One Lady driver, needs to go to good home. $4,800 ono, Ph 0408 859 858

Pram - Emmaljunga, classic, navy/white, bassinet plus toddler seat with accessories. Immaculate condition. Photos can be emailed $500. Phone: 0418 850 964.

New rotary tillers. 5.5HP, 25 inch cut, $695 free delivery. NOWA P/L, Virginia.

Phone 8380 9976.

Rover ride on mower’s, 14.5hp, 38 inch cut, $1,995, free delivery. Nowa P/L, Virginia. Phone: 8380 9976.

Sawbench, homemade, towable, 13HP, new petrol motor, tungston tip blade, $3,000 o.n.o. Phone 0419 836 913.

Sprayer - Optima 300 litre trailer sprayer by Croplands with 12-volt pump, hand lance and 4m boom. The unit has never been used so in brand new condition, location Virginia. $2,200 ono phone 8332 0589.

VALIANTS wanted AP5 to CL sedans, wagon, utes, parts, anything considered.

Ph Joe 0439 339 634.

Work Wanted

Building plans, for additions, alterations, new houses, sheds, pergolas.

Ph Stuart 0488 429 169

Death

CUNNINGHAM (Vic) Victor Anthony. Passed away peacefully June 27, 2012.

Aged 89 years.

Beloved husband of Elaine.

Loving father and fatherin-law of Ken and Heather, Annette and Robin, Vicki, Roger and Carol, Jo-Ann and Philip.

Caring and proud Poppa to all his 22 grandchildren and 34 great grandchildren.

Always in our hearts

Vic’s Funeral Mass was conducted in St. Andrew’sCatholic Church, Balaklava and the Balaklava Cemetery on Tuesday July 3, 2012. Father Mark Sexton kindly officiated.

DURDIN & FORGIE Family Funeral Directors Member A.F.D.A Balaklava 8862 2101

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Death

Cunningham - Victor Anthony. Loved Dad of Ken & Heather. Cherished Poppa of Shane & Caroline, Kirsti & Peter, and Lee. Fond Great Poppa to Caleb, Chelsea, Lacee, Hosea, Amy, Kasey & Jade. We will cherish the many happy memories. The work is done, now at rest in God’s care.

Cunningham - Vic. A lovable larrikin, you are a man we were proud to call papa. Forever in our hearts Sharon, Wayne, Ainsley, Mitchell and Mackenzie.

Cunningham - Vic Aged 89 Much loved father and father in law of Jo-Ann and Philip.

Poppa and Great Poppa of Craig, Katie and Alexia, Shaun, Hayley, Noah and Joseph,Brett and Kimberly, Nicole and Katrina . We will cherish the memories, you were our Hero. Now in Jesus care.

Cunningham - Victor. The staff and families of Cunningham’s Engineering extend deepest sympathies to the Cunningham family on the sad loss of Vic. Company founder and inspiration to all.

Cunningham - Vic. Members of Balaklava Bowling Club extend their condolences to Elaine and the family. Vic was a valued past member of our club.

Cunningham - Vic. Loving memories of Vic - you will always be remembered for the love and welcome you greeted us with, when we first arrived in Balaklava and met you at church. We look forward to a similar greeting when meeting you again when arriving home in eternity. We know you will be your warm and loving self. Our sympathy goes to Elaine and family.

Pat and Mike Schilling.

LAMOND, Pearl Joy – Born a sleeping angel 14/06/12.

Now at play with Matilda and our four other angels.

Our perfect, precious, beautiful daughter and sister. Mum, Dad, Tyson, Chloe and Stella, will forever love and miss you.

A moment in our arms…..A lifetime in our hearts.

Lamond - Pearl Joy. You and your beautiful Mum & Dad (Rick & Shelley) fought so hard to bring you into this world and now you are a little angel in heaven with Matilda. I am proud to share your middle name Joy. Love to Tyson, Chloe & Stella all very brave little children.

Lots of love Nanna (Gay), Grandpa (Malcolm) & Uncle Anthony & Sada.

In Memoriam

Becker - Norm.

30/06/2005. Our hearts aches with sadness. Our secret tears flow. For what it means to lose you. No one will ever know. Love Lorna and families.

Jenkin - Greg. 24/11/57 to 07/07/07. 5 sad years have passed, wrapped in our love, held safe in our hearts. Mum, Dad and family. thorne - Murray. 18/10/44 to 08/07/11. One year ago we lost the best Dad and Pa in the world. We miss you terribly but we know you are looking after Matt for us. Love Trish, Richard, Anna & Ryan.

Newton - Russell Roy. Passed away July 5, 2007.

You left us suddenly 5 years ago. We do not need a special day to bring you to our minds, for the days we do not think of you are very hard to find. Always loved always remembered by Ada, Susan, David, Judy and families.

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Wakefield Development Assessment Panel

DEVELOPMENT ACT 1993 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CATEGORY 3 DEVELOPMENT Pursuant to Section 38 (5) of the Development Act, 1993.

Notice is hereby given that an application comprising a CATEGORY 3 DEVELOPMENT has been lodged with the Council for a development assessment by the Panel.

Details of the application are as follows:DEVELOPMENT NO: 373/049/12

Coming Events

APPLICANT: Brian Riddle

THIS SUNDAY

JULY 8 9AM TO 1PM

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MONDAY AUG 6 At 19.30pm in Dublin Station All Welcome

APPLICANT’S ADDRESS: PO Box 36, Balaklava SA 5461 NATURE OF THE DEVELOPMENT: Engineering business, involving the repair and manufacturing of horse floats, trailers, verandahs and sheds, and including the construction of a 24m x 12m x 5m zincalume shed SUBJECT LAND: Lot 36, 14 Racecourse Road, Balaklava CERTIFICATE OF TITLE: Volume: 5989 Folio: 398

Second Hand Book Sale MONDAY JULY 2 TO FRIDAY JULY 13 in the Balaklava Community Library School Holiday Opening Hours Weekdays 9:30am to 5pm (closed from 1pm to 2pm) Saturdays 9am to 12 noon

May Terrace Balaklava Ph/Fax: 8862 1336 admin.bcl@balakhs.sa.edu.au

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• Treasure Buddies (G) ★★ - Thurs July 5, 10.30am - Wed 11th July 10.30am tickets $5 • The Artist (M) ★ ★ ★ ★ 5 times Academy Award Winner - Fri July 6, 8pm - Tues July 10, 1.30pm • J.Edgar (M) ★ ★ ★ Leonardo DiCaprio - Sat July 7, 8pm - Fri July 13, 8pm • Alvin & the Chipmunks; Chipwrecked (G) ★★ - Thurs July 12, 10.30am Tickets $5 • One For The Money (M) ★ ★ ★ Katherine Heigl-Action/Comedy - Sat July 14, 8pm

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The application may be examined at the Office of the Council located at Scotland Place, Balaklava during normal business hours (an appointment is recommended) and a ny p e rso n o r b o dy affected may make relevant representations in writing concerning this application to reach the Chief Executive Officer at Box 167, Balaklava SA 5461, not later than 5pm Tuesday July 17, 2012.

Each person making a submission should indicate whether that person wishes to appear personally or be represented by another par ty before the Panel in suppor t of that submission.

Please note that, pursuant to Section 38(8) of the Development Act, a copy of each representation received will be forwarded to the applicant for a written response.

Cate Atkinson Chief Executive Officer DATE: July 4, 2012 THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE

Tickets: • Concession/Student $8 • Adults $10 • Child $5 • Family tickets $25 (2 + 2) extra child $2.50 BOOKINGS 8844 5175 - (BETWEEN 2PM - 5PM)

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Mallala Construction Project • Hoping to work in the general Construction industry?

• Looking for skills in bricklaying? Painting? Concreting? Gyprocking?

• Need up-skilling?

We may have the course for you!

Participants in the Mallala Construction Project have the opportunity to learn genuine skills in a variety of general construction facets by undergoing both accredited and non-accredited training on-site during the construction of the Mallala Ablution Block at the Mallala Oval during July- September 2012.

Where: Mallala Oval When: Either Tuesdays and/or Thursdays Dates: Starting July 24th 2012, finishing late September Times: 8.30am - 4.00pm Cost: In most cases free, conditions apply Training: Competency units from Cert II in Construction REGISTER YOUR INTEREST NOW! For all enquiries and to register please contact David Hutchinson, Barossa Lower North Futures : 0423 783 843 or david@blnfutures.com

Situations Vacant

Situations Vacant

CHRISTIAN PASTORAL SUPPORT WORKER

CHRISTIAN PASTORAL SUPPORT WORKER

PORT WAKEFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL

OWEN PRIMARY SCHOOL

(Previously known as School Chaplain)

(Previously known as School Chaplain)

Schools Ministry Group along with Balaklava Chaplaincy Support Group are seeking applications for this 14-15 hours per week position, commencing late Term 3, 2012

Schools Ministry Group along with Balaklava Chaplaincy Support Group are seeking applications for this 14-15 hours per week position, commencing beginning Term 4, 2012

A Job and Person Specification, including details on “How to Apply”, is available from Schools Ministry Group on 8378 6800 or mail@smg.asn.au.

A Job and Person Specification, including details on “How to Apply”, is available from Schools Ministry Group on 8378 6800 or mail@smg.asn.au.

The position exists to offer support to students, staff and the school community.

The position exists to offer support to students, staff and the school community.

Closing date: Friday August 17 at 4pm to SMG

Closing date: Friday July 20 at 4pm to SMG

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VINEYARD MAINTENANCE MECHANIC

WINERY ELECTRICIAN

Full Time Position

NOTICE is hereby given that the Council at its meeting held on June 25, 2012 in respect of the financial year ending June 30, 2013, resolved as follows: Adoption of Valuation To adopt, for rating purposes, the most recent valuations of the Valuer-General available to the Council of the Capital Value of land within the Council’s area totalling $1,528,436,140.

Declaration of Rates To declare general rates on all rateable land as follows: (1) 0.573 cents in the dollar in the Centre Zones in Mallala and Two Wells, and the Industrial Zone in Two Wells.

(2) 0.441 cents in the dollar in the Residential and Recreational Zones in Mallala and Two Wells and Country Town Zone; and (3) 0.444 cents in the dollar in the Rural Living (1), the Rural Living (2) and the Rural Living (Animal Husbandry) Zones; (4) 0.463 cents in the dollar in the Coastal Township and Settlements Zones; (5) 0.388 cents in the dollar in the Horticulture Zone.

(6) 0.378 cents in the dollar in the Future Urban Mallala & Two Wells, Commercial (Bulk Handling), Special Use (Mallala Racecourse), Industry (Mallala Racecourse), Regional Open Space System (Conservation), Regional Open Space System (Watercourse), Coastal, General Farming Zones.

And to fix a minimum amount payable by way of general rates of $700.00.

Annual Service Charge To impose service charges in respect to rateable and non-rateable land follows: Middle Beach $ Large tank: 385.00 Small Tank: 355.00 Vacant Land: 325.00 and an additional component of $575.08 where ratepayers have chosen to fund their CMW Scheme installation costs from loan funds raised by Council.

Taylors Wines, a family owned and operated wine company is home to some of Australia’s most consistently awarded wine brands.

With their head office located in Sydney and sales offices located around the country, Taylors Wines offer a friendly & progressive environment within which your career can flourish. The vineyards & winery is situated in the picturesque Clare Valley, South Australia & has been in operation since 1969.

We have a wonderful opportunity for a full time Diesel Mechanic to join our vineyard team.

You will partner with the Vineyard Manager and undertake a range of duties which include continuous improvement, breakdown and preventative maintenance. With a positive attitude and a passion for service excellence and safe work practices you will become a valued member of the Taylors winery team.

Taylors Wines, a family owned and operated wine company is home to some of Australia’s most consistently awarded wine brands.

With their head office located in Sydney and sales offices located around the country, Taylors Wines offer a friendly & progressive environment within which your career can flourish. The vineyards & winery is situated in the picturesque Clare Valley, South Australia & has been in operation since 1969.

You will partner with the Maintenance Manager and undertake a range of duties which include continuous improvement, breakdown and preventive maintenance.

The person we are seeking will be a qualified Diesel Mechanic with proven skills in the service and repair of vineyard/agricultural machinery.

The person we are seeking will ideally: • Be trade qualified (A Grade Electrical Trade Certificate) • Have extensive plant operational maintenance experience • Have a sound knowledge of PLC programmes (Allen Bradley)

If you believe you have the essential qualities listed above, please post or email your application in the strictest confidence to: Taylors Wines Vineyard Maintenance Mechanic PO Box 90, Auburn SA 5451 Or via email to: admin@taylorswines.com.au

If you believe you have the essential qualities listed above, please post or email your application in the strictest confidence to: Taylors Wines Winery Electrician, PO Box 90, Auburn SA 5451 Or via email to: admin@taylorswines.com.au

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Separate Rate - Dublin Water Supply To declare a separate rate of $541.46 on rateable properties along Harris Road, Dublin Natural Resources Management Levy To declare a separate rate of 0.008761 cents in the dollar on rateable land within its area for the purpose of raising the amount of $132,052 payable to the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board.

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PUBLIC NOTICE - SECTION 7 The vendor's statement relating to matters affecting the advertised properties in this publication may be inspected at the agent's office three business days prior SNOWTOWN to auction at19, the place of auction 30 Auction: Thursdayor July 10.30am minutes before sale.

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BALAKLAVA $249,500 SNOWTOWN $189,500 15 First Street 46 Edith Terrace

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WHITWARTA $149,000 Lot 301 Farmlet .4069Ha The Rvendor's ED CED statement Urelating to

matters affecting the advertised properties in this publication may be Rare chance to purchase a new home Magical Rural Views inspected at the • 3 Bedrooms • In new subdivision • 3 Bedrooms • Functional wooden kitchen agent's • Kitchen has ample bench space • Large Lounge • Security shutters • offi Ductedce a/c three • Sizeable lounge • Easy care gardens • Slow combustionbusiness heating • Built in robes days prior • Very affordable home or investment property • 4 car carport • Garden Shed / Workshop to auction or at the place of auction 30 OWEN $179,000 minutes before sale.

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Rampant Roosters Two Wells outruns Virginia the Final Siren with Les Pearson THE famous footy cliché ‘a week is a long time in football’ hit home harder than ever for Virginia on Saturday, when Two Wells smashed the Rams by 71 points at Rooster Park.

The Rams went into the match buoyed by the huge win against the previously undefeated Balaklava Peckers the week before but they were unable to back up that effort against a Two Wells team hell-bent on defeating its close rival.

“We enjoyed the win, there is no doubt about that,” Roosters coach, Mark Thomson said.

After opening up a 33-point lead at the first break, his team were never headed in a dominant display.

It gifted Two Wells its first win against a top four team this season.

“I think it was a long time coming from us,” Thomson said.

That train of thought is a fair assessment, his team widely regarded as being around the mark come September.

Rams coach, Greg Phillips, was not thrilled by the efforts of his team, which came crashing back to earth.

“That was the best footy we have seen Two Wells play this year, by far,” he said.

“They were too hungry for the ball, they were first to the ball and their run and carry was really good.”

He said his team had prepared for the Roosters’ running game style but couldn’t account for it.

“We were just chasing them all day,” he said.

“It really hit us and we just weren’t good enough to get back at them.”

He rued unaccountability and lacklustre efforts from too many.

“It was a disappointing game because if you want to win finals, you have to come back at these teams but too many of our blokes put up the white flag too early,” Phillips said.

“With the rain we had, I didn’t train them too hard but we just didn’t come out of the blocks.

“We just didn’t have a fair dinkum go.”

Youngster, Lewis Bannear, was spared from the coach’s scathing assessment.

“He tried his heart out and he showed great accountability as a kid, which was really pleasing,” Phillips said. n Continued page 17

above: Pecker Brenton Lamond dodges his way around Eagle Matt Higgs during Saturday’s A grade match at Balaklava Oval.

Sponsors, past players unite

OLD TEAMMATES and sponsors caught up at Balaklava Football and Netball Clubs’ Sponsors/Reunion Day on Saturday. Pictured are Balaklava Football and Netball Club officials (from left) Cherie Willmer, Peter Butterfield, Michelle Davey, Mark Heaslip and Angela Battle with a display of club trivia and old football and netball uniforms. n More pictures, page 19

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Hugh Heffner (Scott Goode) was spotted with playboy bunny Emily Stringer on his arm, at Two Wells Football Football and Netball Sporting Club’s ‘Spot the Celebrity’ event on Saturday night. n Other club events, page 16

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