Andamooka Community Directory Frontier Services Andamooka
Community Health Service Clinic opening hours
- Monday to Friday 9am to 12pm & 2pm to
5pm. - Wednesday closed from 2pm to 5pm. - Closed at all other times except for 24 hour emergencies. Phone: 8672 7087 (during work hours) or 0428 727 087 (after hours)
Country Womens Association
Andamooka Opal Fields Branch
Meet every 2nd Tuesday of the month in the CWA clubrooms.
Op Shop Hours
Wednesday 9.00am to 1.00pm Friday 9.00am to 1.00pm Saturday 9.00 am to 1.00pm
Andamooka Emergency Services
CFS
Anne Legg 0427 974 084
SES
Stefan Bilka 0427 181 752
POLICE
8672 7072
CLINIC
8672 7087 (work hours) 0428 727 087 (after hours)
Roxby Downs Health Services 8671 9020
Poisons Information Centre 131 126
Roxby Vet
0419 806 392
Port Augusta Vet 8642 0411
Apoma membership If you wish to become a member of Andamooka Progress and Opal Miners Association, you can join at the office in the Community Hall. Fees are $55 Family, $33 Single and $16.50 for Pensioners. Membership entitles you to vote at the Annual General Meeting in August and to attend, free of charge, the BBQ’s held throughout the year.
The Andamooka Calendar Every Wednesday:
WEB & INTERNET TRAINING AT THE LIBRARY
Every Thursday 10.30am: TODDLERS STORY TIME Every Saturday from 1pm to 4pm: SEW N SEWS SEWING GROUP Call Anne on 8672 7077.
New manager settled in Andamooka By Celeste Lustosa
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h e f i r s t permanent community manager has been appointed to Andamooka. Robert (Bob) Jacobs is working from a new office at 118 Government Road, next to the Long Bus Opal Showroom. He has a background in business, Local Government and remote com-
munity management. His previous position was with the Barkly Shire Council in Tennant Creek, NT. This appointment is the first major outcome in the new partnership between APOMA and the Outback Areas Community Development Trust (OACDT ), which aims to establish the expanding township of Andamooka as a model of good governance in outback locations. The town manager had never been to Andamooka
modation and good places to eat. I have seen many people coming to visit for a day and they stop to visit the Long Bus Opal Showroom and Dukes Bottle Shop but we want to see them staying for a couple of days and enjoying more of what the town has to offer and the adjacent Lake Torrens National Park.” Mr Jacobs is a member of Rotary International and has already participated in meetings at Roxby Downs.
“I want to join Rotary here and get involved in their activities in our region.” The new manager is in town, with his wife Anne and keen to be involved with the community and making a significant contribution to the township of Andamooka. Bob Jacobs can be contacted on 8672 7411 or email Rober t.Jacobs@ sa.gov.au.
APOMA and the new manager will work together By Celeste Lustosa
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ndamooka Progress and O p a l M i n e r ’s Association (APOMA) i s h a p py to h ave A n d a m o o k a’s n e w manager Bob Jacobs on board. The Association has been trying to get this position created for years. “We have been trying to get someone in this position for a long time, to take the burden of running the town off the volunteers,” said APOMA’s member Robert Hancock. Whilst a lot of details about the roles the manager and APOMA will have in Andamooka is still to be fleshed out, APOMA says that Bob Jacobs will be taking over the management and daily operation of the municipal duties that APOMA curPage 6 – Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
before taking up this position and says he is really impressed with what he has seen. “I am very impressed with the long history of opal mining in Andamooka, and the hardships the early miners must have experienced,” Mr Jacobs said. Mr Jacobs is very interested in promoting tourism in the area as he believes Andamooka has a lot to offer. “We have good accom-
rently tried to oversee. “He will become the face of the New Outback Area Authority, which will be in charge of delivering Local Government Services to the incorporated areas and will work in cooperation with the Local Progress Associations. “ Th e n e w a u t h o rity, which will be created when the legislation goes through Parliament, will have access to a large range of Government resources which our community have never been able to use before,” Mr Hancock said. The Board which will manage the Authority will have experts from various fields plus three representatives from within the Outback Areas appointed to it by the Local Government Minister. According to Mr Hancock, “The Board’s work will be to oversee and implement local governance
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similar to a council and it must operate in consultation with the local communities.” “As Andamooka is the largest community in the Outback Area and in most need of organising community assets and local government infrastructure, we will become a template for the roll out of services and how they are going to be managed elsewhere.” APOMA’s current goals, according to Mr Hancock are to offload the municipal jobs to Outback Areas Community Development Trust (OACDT) in an orderly manner, so the Association can concentrate on making the new system work well for the town. “To do this we need to update our constitution and change our Progress Association into a peak representative body which will be responsible to lay out the future strategic
direction of the town and work with the new Authority to get the outcomes the town expects.” Mr Hancock adds that “the new community
manager will be responsible for managing the office of Andamooka’s local government and that will be where the community will be able to go to discuss town issues.”
APOMA wants to thank Brian Frederick ‘DOC’ for his help in welding and maintenance of the Grader in Andamooka. DOC has been a volunteer in many services that aim to improve our town and it is truly appreciated. THE MONITOR – Your Community Newspaper