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The Roxby Downs Races Club held its AGM on Sunday February 20 which saw a a number of structural changes.

Stu Cormack, President of the last 16 years has stepped down, and committee member Har-ry Noll has fi lled the position. Stu will be fi lling the Vice Presidency position until the remaining fi ve vacant committee positions are fi lled. Shay Carroll has stepped up to be Club Secretary and Kate Donahue joins the club for her fi rst year, fi lling the treasurer’s position. Additions to the general committee members include Russell Marks, Glen Crowhurst and Meegan Noll.

Harry Noll was honoured to be stepping into Stu’s position. “I’m fairly proud to take on the roll actually, to take over from Stu is a fairly big honour,” he said.

Harry said that he has been involved with the Race Club for about six years now, and that he is quite happy to fi ll the leadership position. “Stu was looking at having a year off and someone had to step up, so I was quite happy to do so.

“We were sort of looking for someone else, because I was more looking at going into a vice president role.

“We don’t have anybody there at this stage that wants to step up - however there are a couple of people that wanted a year or two more experi-ence before they made the move up.”

Harry said that the future of the club is reliant on the next generation – the younger people of Roxby Downs to bring in the new ideas and eventually take over the running of the club.

“Th e big thing to me is that we need to get some younger people involved,” confi rmed Har-ry. “We’ve started that with Shay Carroll coming in as the secretary. We’re sort of looking at a couple of other people to join the committee as well.

“It’s the sort of situation I think where peo-ple can get stale on things, and by introducing newer people, we’re going to come up with bet-ter ideas.

“Anybody that’s interested can join the com-mittee. What we don’t want is just someone to come on there and say ‘look, I’m on the races

committee’, we want people that are going to come on with ideas, who are prepared to do a little bit of work and that sort of thing so that’s where we’re heading!”

He also said that following current exponential crowd trends at the annual Roxby Downs Race meeting, that infrastructure will have to be ex-panded sooner rather than later. “Th e big thing we have to look at is, as we currently sit structure wise, we really can’t get much bigger as a meet-ing, so if we want to head towards 3000 people for the races we’ll have to have a real good look at the structure.”

Th e Annual Race date has been announced this year for the weekend of August 6th, and Harry said that with Tony ‘Pilko’ Pilkington (radio presenter, 5AA) moving on to retire-ment, they are scouting for a new number one ticket holder and ambassador for the day.

“Obviously with Pilko moving on, we’re look-ing at getting a new number one ticket holder and ambassador of the races, so we’re hoping to approach a couple of people who are reasonably high profi le, Johnny Letts and also Cozzie from

the radio.”On a sadder note, one of the founding mem-

bers of the club, Kerry ‘Gummy’ Gum, and 14 year long secretary, Vonda Powell have decided retire from their positions.

“It’s time to give the younger guys a go,” said Kerry. Kerry said his favourite memory of his time spent with the club was their fi rst race meet in 1994, and he is looking forward to their an-ticipated TAB meeting. “I’d like to still be here when they have their fi rst TAB meeting which will be good. With this new running rail they’re putting up, there’s not much barring it.”

Club President Harry Noll expressed his sin-cere gratitude to Vonda, Stu and Kerry. “On be-half of the whole race club committee and eve-rybody involved, the heart felt thanks we send out to Stu, ‘Gummy’ and Vonda on the eff orts that they’ve put in.

“We know people can’t fi ll their shoes and we know they’re still going to be there for advice. Th e thing is we don’t want the legacy they’ve left to go downhill, we just want it to keep go-ing up.”

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Long serving members, Stu McCormack (top left), Vonda Powell (right) and Kerry Gum stepped down to make way for younger people.

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Roxby Downs locals of 6 years, Scott Kruger and Hayley Summerton fi nally tied the knot in Port Lincoln on January 15 this year.Hayley and Scott were joined by 120 family and friends, many of whom were from Roxby Downs and made the long journey to help them celebrate.The bridal party consisted of three bridesmaids and three groomsmen. There were three fl ower girls: Scott and Hayley’s daughters, Tayah, Mahli and Macie Kruger and Scott’s son Caleb as pageboy.Scott and Hayley will be honeymooning in Fiji in April and will reside here in Roxby Downs.

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by Celeste LustosaA playground located on Hermit Street in Roxby Downs was set on fi re last Saturday March 5.

Luckily Heather Leasor (who lives in that street) and Sarah Rob-ertson were driving along the area and did what was needed to keep things under control until the Fire Service arrived.

“We were driving on Hermit Street when I looked over and saw the fl ame shooting up. Sarah pulled over; we called 000 and proceeded to start fi ghting the fi re.

“We alerted some of the neigh-bours that we needed buckets and shovels to get this under control until help arrived,” Heather told Th e Monitor.

“Some of the residents that stopped on the site weren’t wear-ing appropriate clothes to help stop the fi re and they had shorts and fl ip fl ops so we asked them to step back for their safety,” said Heather.

She also acknowledged that peo-ple without training should not try to fi ght fi re but in that case there was no time to wait, and she has some training in fi re safety.

“We couldn’t wait because the area connects to the reserve and the fi re was starting to spread with

the dry wind fanning the fl ames towards the reserve green. It could have gotten pretty ugly real quick and being a fi re warden I knew that I had enough training to put a few fi re breaks. I am a fi re warden for our building so I have basic training on fi re safety.

“It is important to advise that people without any training should not try to fi ght fi re and must keep away from the fl ames, and keep out of risk,” she explained.

She said the entire bottom plat-form was in fl ames, along with the six supporting posts and the wind was hot and dry and it was going to fan it straight into the sand hill reserve.

“It is important for everyone in the town to be alerted to the signs of potential fires,” Heather con-cluded.

Locals fought the fl ames for over 30 minutes when the fi re service arrived and continued to cool the area after the fl ames continued to rise up again.

Municipal Works Manager for Roxby Council Peter Keller said the estimated cost of the damages is $3,000.

“My estimate is that the cost to get it fi xed will be around $3,000.

It is only an estimate because we haven’t had time to get the exact amount from a builder.

“Th e community also lose the use of the playground for some time. The children in that area won’t be able to go there and play safely because it created a hazard in the area,” Mr Keller said.

Th e playground will have to be pulled out and the area will be fenced out for sometime until it gets fi xed.

“It is an inconvenience for every-one and an extra cost to the com-munity.

“What people need to realise when they light up fires is that other people miss out on the facili-ties that are available to them and it costs the council a substantial amount of money.

“Council is not a business and we operate on the money the commu-nity pay through their rates. Th e more vandalism we have, the more we have to budge on every year.”

Mr Keller also said “Hopefully we get it underway at the end of the week and I would like to see it fi xed in the next couple of weeks.”

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Tasman Resources revealed significant mineralisation at one of its drill holes at the Vulcan site, 30 kms north of Olympic Dam.

Th e test hole 7 just completed found iron oxide,-copper-gold. Th e thick zone (+150m) of min-eralised, hematite-rich breccias, very similar in style, thickness and mineralogy to a very large portion of the Olympic Dam de-posit, has been intersected.

Th e report stated that seven holes in total now drilled at

Vulcan and; all have intersected IOCGU style alteration and/or mineralisation similar to the Ol-ympic Dam deposit.

Tasman Resources is pleased to announce encouraging initial results from the current 4 to 6 hole drilling program at its 100% owned Vulcan iron oxide, cop-per-gold-uranium prospect. All described drill holes are verti-cal. Each hole is expected to take about two to three weeks to drill, and assay results are ex-pected four to six weeks after the completion of each hole.

Readings from a hand held scintillometer indicate that low grade uranium is also present

throughout the interval but di-minishes near the bottom of the hole. Assays results for all metals (including copper and uranium) are not expected for at least four to six weeks. Gold, silver and rare earth metals are also anticipated to be anomalous in this zone.

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By Millie ThomasIn a bid to get fit and help alleviate the current lack of parking in Richardson Place, the teachers of Roxby Downs Area School (RDAS) have taken on board the 10,000 steps program.

The 10,000 steps program is an initiative of the Queensland Health Department, and is a free health promotion program that encourages the use of step-count-ing pedometers to monitor your daily physical activity levels. Th e program recommends that an average person should achieve 10,000 steps in a day to be consid-ered physically active, and 12,500 to be considered highly active.

RDAS teacher Tasha Bedding spoke with Th e Monitor about the novelty of the program and how so many people have become involved.

“Th e idea initially came about because our staff car park is cur-rently closed due to building in progress. We also wanted to try to help our staff become fi tter and more aware of how much they are walking,” said Mrs Bedding. “Rather than saying you should walk for half an hour each day, which is sometimes difficult to measure, the 10,000 steps program encourages people to walk at least 10,000 steps to be physically active.”

Mrs Bedding said that the 42 staff who have joined the challenge are armed with a pedometer and walk to and from school almost every day, with many staff drop-ping off anything they need for the week on the weekend. “10,000 steps is an initiative that anyone

can join, either as an individual or as a team” said Mrs Bedding. “You upload your steps to the website each day. We are also making this into a fun competition. Th ere are a few local businesses on board who have donated some prizes, including Desert Edge and Desert Decor, Sportspower, Nextra, Blockbuster and Tandales. Th e winner is announced in our staff room each week with a major prize winner at the end of term.”

“We’ve already done over a million and a half steps this week! Most people have come on board and we’ve actually had a shortage of pedometers because there are so many staff involved!”

Mrs Bedding said that most people are averaging about 4000 steps to and from school, plus their incidental walking through-out the day.

“Staff are really trying to help minimise the parking problem that has become more apparent recently” she said. “A lot of people were already walking to school so this is an incentive to keep doing it.”

“Our primary PE teacher averages about 20,000 steps per day because he’s walking around the school site with his classes so much! It is a great way to keep fi t in a fun and competitive environment.”

Mrs Bedding concluded by saying that “It would be great to look towards the future and perhaps have a community com-petition going.” She encouraged readers to look on the 10,000 steps website (www.10000steps.org.au) to read up on articles relating to the health benefi ts of regular walking.

Ten thousand steps for our teachers

Above: Some of the Roxby Downs Area School

staff putting theory to practice walking home from school last week.

Left: Some famous inspiration!

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By Celeste Lustosa

Australia is a society of people from a rich variety of cultural, ethnic and

linguistic backgrounds. Most Australians are immigrants

or the descendants of immigrants who arrived during the past two cen-turies from more than 200 countries. Today, almost one in four of Austral-ia’s estimated resident population of 21 million was born overseas.

Young Australians with skills in languages other than English and an understanding of international cul-tures are vital to the nation’s future in a global community like this.

Acutely aware of this, Roxby Downs Area School introduced Spanish as their language program for students from Reception to Year 7. Both school’s principal Kath Ma-calister and Spanish teachers Ally Christall and Lisa Hassan are enthu-siastic about the program that will see students speaking or ‘hablando’ (as you say in Spanish) another lan-guage.

“Th e reason we are doing Spanish is because we were made aware back in 2009 that we are likely to have a lot of Spanish speaking people coming to town once the mine starts to expand. Th e kindy project was based on the same information and the children that are coming from kindy to us already have this background,” Mrs Macalister explained.

In Term 2, 2010, after successfully applying for a grant through the De-partment of Education, Roxby Downs Kindergarten began implementing the ‘Languages in Early Childhood Settings Pilot Project – Spanish’. Th e kindy is utilising an ‘immersion process’, which involves providing the children with the opportunity of listening to and speaking Spanish on a daily basis.

According to Mrs Macalister, “in the fi rst year, 2009, we focused on the teachers. We had 24 teachers doing a Spanish familiarisation course.

“Out of that we made a decision we needed to start to teach Spanish. Ally was already here, as she is a na-tive speaker to start with, she was an obvious choice. Th en we advertised for another teacher and Lisa was suc-cessful in getting that position.

“Th e idea is that each year we will add more teacher expertise and ex-tend one year up, so next year we will have year 8 and so on. Th ere is a pathway for the students and at year 9 it will possibly become an elective subject,” Mrs Macalister added.

She also pointed out that to get the Spanish teachers will always be diffi cult because there are not many people to teach any second language, but she pointed out this is a long term program.

Spanish teacher for Reception to Year 3, Ally Christall, is an experi-enced junior primary teacher who has been working at RDAS for many years.

“I was one of the teachers that took on the familiarisation course. Even though I am a native speaker from Spain, not having spoken Spanish for a while I did need to refresh.

“The program at RDAS really builds on the basis of the kindy pro-gram. It goes from familiarisation, teaching the children from the very basic such as colours, numbers, all of those kinds of things that the kindy had already began to introduce to the children. Th en we evolve to speaking, games, songs,” Mrs Christall said.

She added that “the children have been really enthusiastic and keen to pick up on the language and we see them in the school yard saying ‘hola’, ‘como estas?’ which is really nice to see.”

Lisa Hassan has recently moved to Roxby and she is teaching from year 3 to year 7. She is originally from Scot-land but she has been in Adelaide for fi ve years before moving here.

According to her, the program is much more than just learning a dif-ferent language.

“With my year 7 students we have a research project, where they learn a little bit of language but also about the 21 countries that have Spanish as a mother language and the other few countries that have a large population of Spanish speaking people. Th e chil-dren research one of those particular countries about national food, his-tory, geography. In that year 7 pro-gram we incorporate history and geography and cultural awareness. It’s not just about learning a language it’s about the learning of diff erent cul-tures,” Ms Hassan said.

She also told Th e Monitor that the idea is to make students see beyond the Spanish language and open their minds to other languages learning as well.

“Th ere are numerous benefi ts of learning languages and there is a lot of research that suggests that learning a second language will improve your other academic abilities and there are statistics to prove that.

“It is also to help children start to understand their own language be-cause a language is a code and once you start learning a second language you start to look your fi rst language into more detail,” the teacher ex-plained.

School’s Principal Mrs Macalister added that learning from a young age is also benefi cial.

“If you look at who the best lan-guage speakers are you will see they are the ones that started almost from birth. If you can learn one language before you are seven, you will fi nd learning languages easier. Th ere are lots of documents and studies prov-ing that,” she said.

Mrs Macalister also explained that the school will have signage in diff er-ent languages and become an even more welcoming site to people from all cultures.

“We haven’t talked about special celebrations, but I can see that we might want to nominate a particular date as Spanish day when we cele-brate with typical food, have a native Spanish person as a speaker and so on.

“We are only at the beginning at this program but we have special funding from DECS Curriculum Services to help with training and resourcing. Starting a new subject is costly and we need to do it right.”

Mrs Macalister also said that the only concern parents have ap-proached her with was that learning another language could somehow harm their children’s literacy in Eng-lish and she assures them that it is not true.

“If any parents have any questions they can come to the school and make some time to meet with the teachers,” she concluded.

RDAS students RDAS students ‘hablando’ Spanish‘hablando’ Spanish

By Millie Thomas

Last year, Roxby Downs Child Care Centre emo-tionally farewelled long

time director, Nikki Morgan in what seemed to be the end of an era.

Th is year, Hayley Th ompson has taken over, with years of experi-ence under her belt and an obvious passion for the care and wellbeing of children.

Hayley’s husband moved up to Roxby late last year to start a job with Monadelphous, and it didn’t take long for Hayley and their two children Sam, 8, and Asha, 6, to follow and settle into the country

life.“We had a plan of three years to

live up here,” said Hayley. “Now it’s looking more like fi ve years! It’s not too far from Adelaide so we can always travel back & forward.

“My parents live up here. I haven’t lived in the same town as my parents for four years, and we’re really close so it’s awesome having Mum here – she does all the babysitting!”

Hayley has worked in the child-care industry for 14 years in vari-ous centres around Adelaide, and said that she much prefers the feel of small Roxby Downs Child Care Centre than to some of the bigger companies that she has worked for. “It’s more community here,” she

said. “I’ve worked in big companies before and this is hugely diff erent to that. It’s defi nitely a lot smaller.

“Everybody knows everybody, which is lovely. It’s a little bit dif-ferent.”

Hayley said that the main thing she wants to work on this year is getting the community involved in the not-for-profi t centre, and meeting the requests of the staff .

“We’ll have a tidy up - new peo-ple always come in with a diff erent outlook on how they run things,” she said. “Th ere are a lot of changes that the staff would love to make so I sort of try and do those as well, because they’re the ones who work in the rooms.

“We’d like to do up the centre.

We’ve got some ideas that we’d love to do to the back yard, the foyer and stuff like that.

“We’re not-for-profi t so it would be really nice to get some commu-nity businesses involved.”

Hayley pointed out that every-one has something to off er to the Centre. Whether you are a chef, a handyman or a work at a check out, the children would be mystifi ed by your stories, and would benefi t from your help. Simple cooking demonstrations or a keen eye on infrastructure could help move the Child Care Centre to where they want to be – giving optimum care to your children.

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Par Kour is as yet a relatively unknown recreational activity in Australia.

Founded by Frenchman David Belle, it is a spiritual philosophy that incorporates a method of moving within your environment and approaching obstacles of any kind, be they physical or mental.

Commonly compared to ‘fre-erunning’, Par Kour involves scaling buildings, trees, or any obstacle in an often primitive fashion to escape a threat.

Local teens in Roxby Downs have recently discovered the trend through video sharing website YouTube, and one par-ticipant’s father, Jeff Trussler, is unhappy of how the exercise has resulted.

“He (my son) started about six months ago,” said Jeff. “I think there was about four of his friends that do it. Th ey make a video themselves and put it on YouTube.” About three weeks ago, Jeff ’s 14 year old son Cody had an accident whilst

practicing Par Kour, resulting in major reconstructive surgery to his knee. “He jumped up on a rock to do his front fl ip and his knee snapped on the fall,” said Jeff .

“He got flown out to Ad-elaide that night, and they had to bring in a trauma surgeon to operate on him on the Monday, his knee was that badly dam-aged.

“He was in hospital in Ad-elaide for four or fi ve days.”

“Before this happened, it didn’t really worry me – no one was injured, nobody got hurt, but after seeing this, that’s completely changed.

“It is very dangerous, espe-cially when they’re doing the building jumping, which I’ve seen him do on his video.”

Cody will have to now under-go about eight months of physi-cal rehabilitation, but maintains that he will continue to practice Par Kour.

Cody, an active boy, has al-ways played football and will now miss out on new specialist

training that the Junior Football League is off ering this season.

Cody said that he enjoys Par Kour, and the fl ips and heights he conquers. “It just looked fun and something that could help you later in life, with exercise and that,” he said. “Th ey’re a bit worried (my parents). Th ey’re just worried ‘cause they think I’m going to injure myself again.

“Apparently I could still have problems with it because the scar is straight over my knee it could stretch.”

“I don’t know what I can do,” said Jeff . “All I can do is warn other kids of what’s happened to Cody.

Jeff said Cody had aspirations of joining the army once he be-came of age, but is now uncer-tain if he will be accepted if his knee is still playing up.

“We don’t really know what’s going to happen in the long term with his knee,” said Jeff . “I think Cody just thinks ‘oh I’ll get better, it’ll be right,’ but we just don’t know yet.”

Par Kour – way of life or Par Kour – way of life or dangerous fad now in Roxby?

By Celeste Lustosa

Th e Roxby Downs Community Christian Church invites the communities of Roxby and Andamooka to the GROW weekend, on March 18, 19 and 20 at the Church.

GROW weekends are focussed opportuni-ties to learn and be encouraged to grow to maturity as followers of Jesus.

“We have invited Elizabeth and Gordon Melvin, mature Christians who have worked and lived and learned to be God’s people in the mining industry and mining communities to be our guest speakers on the weekend,” Minister Mary Lewis said.

Gordon is active in Christian ministry and leadership. He is also the vice-president of Global Mining Solutions.

Elizabeth has been active as a doula, and

supporter of people with HIV/AIDS, working

in a community centre for Hispanic immi-

grants and in age care.

Gordon and Elizabeth have lived in a re-

mote area in Australia so they know Roxby

and Andamooka residents will be able to re-

late to them in many aspects.

According to Mary Lewis this should be

a great weekend and everyone in the com-

munity is welcome to join.

GROW WEEKEND at RDCCC –

18-20 March

Meet Elizabeth on Friday evening at

the International Women’s Day cocktail

party at the Dunes Café;

Meet Gordon for breakfast on Saturday

morning at 8 at RDCCC;

Join them both for dinner on Saturday.

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Community invited to GROW weekend

Advanced Notice: 10th Anniversary Celebrations 15-17 April

Holy Week and Easter 17-24 April

By Millie Thomas

Elizabeth and Gordon Melvin will be in Roxby ffor the GROW weekend promoted by the Community Church

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Are you in favour of the government

clamping down on fi ne defaulters?

Last week’s Hot Topic: Do you agree the Govt. should introduce

a carbon tax and how do you think it will affect you?

Lock-out times don’t go far enough

Another tax! Another reason why Labor will never survive.

Over it.

Seem to remember John Howard pushed his free trade barrow that no other country adopted like we were told they would. Now Australian is going to lead the way on carbon tax and again no other country will comply! All this will do is put up our cost of living, up goes infl ation and up go interest rates. Good luck!

JR

Carbon tax equals more processing going overseas where no carbon tax will apply. More industry and jobs lost. Th anks Julia!

Blue Collar, RD

I have just got into the housing market and it will devastate me and my family if the cost of living and interest rates go up as predicted. How is this carbon tax going to stop global warming?

Worried Family. RD

Bugger! Pollies want to make us pay again! Soon I won’t be able to aff ord a beer and a fag after work and they will miss out on those taxes!

Rob.

Hey, great to see the dirt cars out again last weekend, and more pleasing to see a service church group helping out in the canteen. Good onya guys, good to see some local support.

Regards, “Oh Suuuummer nights .....”

R ppl serious in complaining about the dis-tance they have to walk from parking spaces in this tiny town? Come on, it’s about a 15 min walk from the outskirts to the centre and if u use a bike only about 5 mins. In a town like this there is no need to be complaining about such things.

RC.

Car dealers back road safety program

Safety rating stickers will be placed on cars at dealerships across the state in a new move aimed at bringing down the road toll.

Road Safety Minister, Tom Kenyon says 26 dealers have signed up to the Stars on Cars program for a four month trial to better promote safety ratings at the point of sale.

“Th ere’s more than a million vehicles out there on our roads now, so the more that are highly rated under the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) fi ve star safety rating system, the safer it will be for all SA road users,” Mr Kenyon said.

First graduates from world-leading rehab program

An innovative program targeting young off enders reached an important milestone last week when the fi rst 14 participants gradu-ated from the Sierra program at Port Augusta Prison.

Aimed at prisoners aged 23 and under, Sierra is a six month pro-gram with a highly structured and disciplined daily routine with

intensive education and training programs, exercise, sport and physical activities.

Literacy and numeracy and general education classes are also compulsory and there is also a strong cultural element, where par-ticipants have an opportunity to explore and express their cultural heritage through history and art programs.

Fine dodgers put on notice

Attorney-General John Rau announced a major review of the way the Government collects fi nes, with the central aim of making fi ne dodgers take their debts seriously.

Mr Rau said the review would look at moving responsibility for fi nes collection away from the Courts Administration Authority and legislating to give the Government broader powers to chase unpaid fi nes.

“Th ere are people who have continually frustrated attempts to recover their unpaid fi nes. Th at is money which should be going to support the community, not sitting in their pockets,” he said.

He said recent fi gures indicated there was about $199 million in fi nes outstanding in South Australia.

It’s all well and good for the Curdimurka Park to be expanded, but how about a little at-tention to the other playgrounds in the town that are falling into disrepair?

Parent on the other side of town, RD

Not much has been said about Roxby’s recent change to lock-out laws, stopping late attendees at our local pubs and clubs. Th e question remains, do the changes to the licensing times go far enough to con-trol the social abuse that follows drinking binges?

It’s great that the local licensees realise there is a problem and in co-operation with the police are preventing potentially drunk people turning up at their establish-ments wanting to drink on until close of trade, 2 am on weekends.

Normal Friday and Saturday night lock out times of 1am have now been brought back to 12 midnight. Regular operating hours remain in place (usually 2am on a Friday or Saturday night), but this just means patrons will not be allowed to enter

the premises after 12 midnight on either a Friday or Saturday night.

Patrons are going to be in a licensed venue for longer so they can be judged on how much they’ve had to drink. So that will help staff assess whether to serve peo-ple who are intoxicated.

Until this ruling came about on March 1, many patrons were drinking at home until the last minute and then going to the pub or club in an already intoxicated state.

While this could save the odd alterca-tion inside the premises, it doesn’t stop the problem of binge drinking, fi ghts and the damage caused when drinking goes on in the parks and streets around the town.

Th e move to lock-out entrance to these places after midnight is seen by many as

just tinkering around the edge of a grow-ing anti-social drinking problem facing Roxby Downs and many other towns.

Much more needs to be done to create a better and safer environment for those people who want to have a drink and cel-ebration or want to enjoy the company of others without fear of confrontation by intoxicated people.

Binge drinking is adding to a morale de-cay never experienced in contemporary times and unless we address it now the problem will continue to grow at unprec-edented levels.

Time will tell if the new lock-out times have the desired aff ect on alcohol abuse by a few. Th e belief is it will just move the problem to a diff erent place at a diff erent time.

I would like to make parents of the new recep-tion class starting in second term at the RDAS aware that their children will not get school photos, ie class photo and individual for their fi rst year in school. As the receptions starting in term 2 only do 3 terms then go to year 1 the following term, they will not have school photos taken this year because the school has decided that the normal time in the year that they take photos (August), is too late in the year and they will be taken in week 8 in term 1. I think it is a shame that the RDAS can’t cater for all student going to school this year and all the other par-ents should be aware that they will miss out, I’m certainly not happy.

Concerned Parent

School reply: “Incoming students will be pho-tographed for school purposes each term and we really need them earlier than term 3. We use the photos for identifi cation on site and for special pub-lications. Our major purpose is education not the provision of a photographic service however we will suggest to the Parents &Friends that they organise a photographer for a Market Day(s).”

THE MONITOR – Your Community Newspaper www.themonitor.com.au Wednesday, March 9, 2011 – Page 7

ROXBY DOWNS COUNCILWEEKLY INFORMATION UPDATEWEEKLY INFORMATION UPDATE

NEWS NEWS IN BRIEFIN BRIEF

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Opening hoursWednesdays and Thursdays only

9 am to 4.30 pmCouncil provides Transport

Services including:• Vehicle Registration • Boat Registrations

• Licensing Transactions• Learner written theory tests (test to begin before 4 pm)

All enquiries 131 084

Opal Road Landfi llOpening hours

1 pm to 6 pm every dayDisposal of household rubbish is FREE

Levies apply for businesses

Recycling can be taken either to the Opal Landfi ll or

BSH Waste Solutions on Gosse StreetAll enquiries: 8671 1154

Opening hours 8.30 to 5 pm weekdays

9.30 am to 12 noon SaturdaysTelephone 8671 0660 • Fax 8671 1418

Email: roxbydowns.library@plain.net.au

Library membership is FREE wide range of resources are available including books, DVDs, magazines and internet facilities

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By Emma Offl er

The Roxby Downs Community Library celebrated the end

of another successful Summer Reading Club in 2010-11.

Marie Trezise, Com-munity Library Manager, said, “each year we run a summer reading club over the summer holidays. It’s basically just to keep kids reading over the holi-days.”

Th e kids have a reading record sheet that they fi ll out and return to the li-brary and receive activi-ties to do each week.

Ms Trezise thinks the program is very valuable to children.

“Studies in the past have shown that literacy skills tend to drop off if kids don’t continue read-ing over a long break like the summer holidays. So for the last four years the Australian Library and Info Association have run a summer reading program mainly through public libraries across Australia,” she said.

Scare up a good book party

Th e reading club is based around a theme each year; this year the theme was “scare up a good book”, so all the holiday activities in the library had a spooky theme.

To reward the kids for their par-ticipation in the program, the li-brary had a party on Th ursday 3rd March.

“Th ey (the kids) got certifi cates,

we also had some prizes that were given out to some of the kids. At the party we had some food and games, party kind of things. We gave out the certifi cates and prizes, which were books.”

Th e kids enjoyed the Summer Reading Club and Caroline Wis-sell, one of the young girls who participated, said, “I got through

the ten books. It’s a good way to

read through the holidays and do

activities.”

Th e Summer Reading Club will

run again at the end of this year.

If you haven’t already considered

it, think about enrolling your chil-

dren in it to improve their literacy

skills.

Corinna, Emily, Liam, Amy, Caroline & Olivia with their certifi cates

Council has been gradually phasing in a new corporate logo and this week capped it off by installing a new fl ag in Richardson Place.

Th e logo heralds the beginning of a new era for the Council. For the last 20 years the focus has been on building a solid founda-tion for the community. With a potential mine expansion loom-ing it is likely that over the next few years the community will experience rapid change. Th e

re-branding strategy refl ects a forward looking community that is ready to embrace this change.

The new logo, which forms part of a set that includes Roxby Power, Roxby Water and Roxby Leisure, was designed by local graphic artist Susie Smith. Su-sie was given a brief to create a fresh, vibrant and modern look that refl ected our community.

Th e colour palette of her de-sign refl ects the colours of the red sands of our landscape and

the ever present vibrant yellow of the Australian outback sun. When you look closely at the graphic element of the sun you will notice that it also depicts a friendly waving hand. Th is sym-bolises the close-knit, welcoming community that is Roxby Downs. Th e logo also includes the When-an Shaft Head Frame represent-ing major industry and the Sturt Desert Pea often present in our landscape. In contrast the Roxby Power logo represents the cogs

of power whilst the Roxby Water Logo has the swirl blue water to represent water supply and sew-age disposal.

According to Bill Boehm, Council Administrator, “we have been really pleased with Susie’s designs. All of the logos work well both together and individu-ally. Th e Council logo refl ects a community that is young, for-ward looking, diverse and full of energy. It is just what we were looking for. ”

New logos for CouncilNew logos for Council

The fresh and modern new logos created for Council by Susie Smith

MESSAGE FROM ROXBY POWERRoxby Power and ETSA Utilities repaired 2 transformers on the 2nd and 3rd of March - one in the Roxby Downs Caravan Park and one in Richardson Place. We would like to thank the pedestrian traffi c for their patience while the footpath was closed off completely while the crane was on site in Richardson Place. All repairs were successful and both transformers are back in service.

UPCOMING POWER OUTAGERoxby power will have a series of short POWER outages in the Copper Sands area in the near future while a switch is replaced in the supply transformer that supplies that area. The outages will only be for very short periods of approximately 5 minutes.

GAS – ORIGIN ENERGYResidents regularly contact Council with gas related questions. Please be aware that Council is not involved in any aspect of gas supply in Roxby Downs. Residents making enquiries relating to payment of bills, connections and disconnections, and emergencies will need to contact ORIGIN ENERGY direct on 132 461. Payment of gas accounts can be made at Australia Post, by phone or via the internet.

NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSUREOlympic Way will be closed from 7.00am to 11.00am on Sunday 20 March 2011 for the Triathalon event. Adjacent/adjoining roads that will be affected are the Bypass Road, Burgoyne Street north and south and the town oval entrance.

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We can get you fit and healthy too!Phone 8671 0500 and book a time to meet our trained staff to develop your personalised fi tness programme

shape up or ship out

Sweet potato and

tuna pattiesCooking Time36 minutes

Ingredients (serves 4)500g orange sweet potato, peeled olive oil cooking spray 4 green onions, sliced 1 garlic clove, crushed 2 x 180g cans tuna in

springwater, drained, fl aked 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 cup fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs 2 tablespoons fl at-leaf parsley leaves, chopped 2 tablespoons plain fl our 3 teaspoons sesame seeds 2 bunches broccolini, rinsed, trimmed lemon wedges, to serve

MethodCut sweet potato into 5cm pieces.

Wash and place, with water clinging, on a microwave-safe plate.

Cover and microwave on HIGH (100%) for 3 to 4 minutes or until

just tender. Drain well. Transfer to a large bowl. Using a fork, roughly

mash. Allow to cool slightly. Preheat oven to 180°C. Spray a small

non-stick frying pan lightly with oil. Heat over medium heat. Add onions

and garlic. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until soft. Add to sweet potato. Add tuna, egg, breadcrumbs and parsley to sweet potato mixture. Stir until well combined. Divide

mixture into 12 equal portions and shape into 1.5cm-thick patties.

Combine fl our and sesame seeds on a plate. Coat patties in fl our mixture,

shaking off excess. Heat a large, non-stick frying pan over medium

heat until hot. Spray both sides patties with oil. Cook, in batches,

for 4 to 5 minutes each side or until golden and heated through.

Place in oven to keep warm. Meanwhile, place broccolini in a microwave-safe plastic bag. Twist top to seal. Microwave on HIGH

(100%) for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes or until just tender. Drain. Serve patties with

broccolini and lemon wedges.

By Millie Thomas

This week is the week that all the girls from Th e Monitor are tested for their strength, fl exibility, fitness and perhaps even accountability as

we undergo the fi rst step in our 10 week fi tness challenge.

Th e measurements and assessments start this week with ‘Coach Kelly Seward’s’ gruelling bid to get us fi t and healthy.

“I’m going to try and make it so it’s not such a huge change to your lifestyle,” said Kelly. “A lot of people do go and start diets and because it’s such a massive change, they just go backwards.

“So I just want to make it a progressive start, not neces-sarily small, I’ll still give them a good kick up the bum when they do the boot camps, but start it smaller and work their way up so that it’s a positive change to your life, not just something you dread.”

Using a similar approach to diet as she does with exercise, Kelly said that gradual changes to diet and moderation are all that needs to be done.

“We can look at their diets and rather than change everything we can say maybe try and cut back on this or just make small changes,” she said. “Ten weeks, while it’s a long time, it’s not ages either.

“I believe in everything in moderation, stick to really colourful food so lots of green vegies, red vegies, bright colours, as long as it’s bright colours it usually means it’s pretty fresh and healthy.

“Th ere’s nothing wrong with frozen food, there’s actu-ally a lot of nutrients in it especially if it’s snap frozen. Out here, it’s probably almost the better way to go, because obviously the food up here is not fresh.

“Eat meat because it’s full of protein and helps with muscle development, try and not cut back on carbs but just moderate them.

“Also, rather than having three big meals in a day, have six little ones.”

What a lot of people may not realise is the carb and sugar content in alcohol especially in beers and wines. With drinking such a popular culture up here in Roxby, this is anticipated to be one of the harder changes, but Kelly assures that alcohol needn’t be cut out completely.

“You don’t necessarily have to stop drinking,” she said. “Maybe you just cut it back a little and maybe change what you’re drinking. Try to spread out the drinking a little bit more as opposed to drinking it all in one night!

“Also, if you do have a fair bit to drink on a night, mix it up with water.”

One of the features of this 10 week program is the once weekly ‘boot camp’ session. It’s a session

in which Kelly will personally instruct The Monitor group through between 30 and 45 minutes of rigorous exercise.

“In the boot camp it’s going to be very military style,” she said. “I like that sort of style when it comes to doing a group class and I think a lot of people respond well to it, because you can have a bit of a giggle as well.

“We’ll do lots of running whilst carrying something heavy above your head and lots of things to get your heart rate up.

“A lot of leg work as well as abs, buns and thigh work-ing, because they’re your big muscles so they’re going to burn more energy.”

When it comes to each person’s individual program, Kelly outlined that certain exercises and reps work for certain people and not for others. “Th e programs are going to be more personal so we’ll use the diff erent machines we have up there and depending on what area of your body you would like to work on we’ll have a dif-ferent program to work on those types of things.

“I think having all four of you; you’re going to achieve more than probably what other people might do because

you have the four of you to motivate each other. I bet there will be a

bit of competition going on in the offi ce!

“Hopefully after this, you will be motivated enough to keep going. And I hope that’s going to happen, that you’re going to stay and enjoy the gym.

“I plan to just motivate them all and to just try

and get them lead-ing healthy

lifestyles,” Kelly con-cluded.

Roast beetroot dip beetroot dip with sumac with sumac

crisps crisps

Cooking Time

55 minutes

Ingredients (serves 6)

1 whole garlic bulb

Olive oil spray

1 bunch beetroot, ends trimmed, washed

2 pieces (20cm-diameter)

Lebanese bread

1 tbs sumac

130g (1/2 cup) natural yoghurt

MethodPreheat oven to 200°C. Trim the top from the garlic bulb. Spray with olive oil spray and wrap in foil. Wrap each beetroot bulb individually in foil. Place the garlic and beetroot on a baking tray. Roast for 45-55 minutes or until the beetroot is tender when pierced with a skewer. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool. Meanwhile, split the Lebanese bread horizontally to make 4 pieces. Place on baking trays. Spray with olive oil spray. Sprinkle with sumac. Bake for

4-5 minutes or until crisp. Set aside to cool. Unwrap the beetroot. Wearing rubber gloves to avoid staining your hands, peel the beetroot and coarsely chop. Transfer the beetroot to the bowl ofa food processor. Unwrap the garlic bulb. Squeeze the garlic from the skins. Add to the beetroot and process until almost smooth. Transfer the beetroot mixture to a small bowl. Stir in the yoghurt. Season with salt and pepper. Break the bread into pieces and serve with the dip.

What’s in store What’s in store for our girls!for our girls!

THE MONITOR – Your Community Newspaper www.themonitor.com.au Wednesday, March 9, 2011 – Page 9

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By Celeste LustosaPaula Mackenzie works as a contractor to the Department of Defence in Woomera. Her work there involves administrative tasks of all sorts, including accounts, research, CSR at the Westpac Instore and a whole lot more.

But her volunteer work within the community never stops. Paula has been involved with the Woomera Board for many years in various roles, including Chair-person. She is also involved with the Gibber Gabber local newspaper and the local Radio Station 5RRR.

“I do volunteer work for the Woomera Board and 5RRR Radio station. Activities can include functions to aid women’s causes such as movie nights in aid of Breast Cancer research, attendance at the Women of Woomera (WoW) group at which we meet for cof-fee, activities of any sort, and companionship, and via the radio station, we get messages out regarding health and wellbeing. Th e volunteer work hopefully assists women in the area, even if it just puts a smile on their faces for fi ve minutes, but most of all I do it because it’s fun and I love to get out and about. It never gets boring.”

She is currently studying a Communications Degree via Open University, and has varied regular activi-ties, including playing various musical instruments. She is also a voracious reader of books, a fan of old Hollywood movies, and she walks lots to keep both herself and the dog fi t!

Paula recognises many other good women in the world therefore she believes it’s very important to celebrate International Women’s Day.

“Women all over the world are fantastic. We are lovers, fi ghters, sisters, daughters, carers, providers, educators, hard workers, artists, musicians, writers, sports people, and all manner of inspiration. Let’s say thanks to all those great women who have helped us on our way,” she said.

Her biggest inspiration is her mum. “My mum is always my inspiration. At all stages of

my life, she has led the way and is never afraid to share her experiences, ideas and support.”

“Among the pros of being a woman in the current days is the fact that, if we want to, we can have eve-rything. Th at’s also a con, as it’s hard to fi t everything in, but I guess we can get around to everything in our 80 years or so of expected life span!”

“Challenges include distance, being away from fam-ily, and making sure you have a healthy disrespect for any gossip that you might hear!”

Th is inspirational woman sends a message to the young women of our region.

“My message for the young women in the area is to be ready for new opportunities that may come your way; also to remember that there’s time for everything in your life, you don’t have to fi t it all in this year!”

Paula Mackenzie

Women’s profi le of the week

By Emma Offl er

The Roxby Youth Orchestra (RYO) had its fi rst practice

on Wednesday, March 2 and approximately 15 children between the ages of seven to 14 years came to further develop their musical talents.

“Along with a dozen fi d-dles we had a percussionist (metallophone), two fl utes, alto saxophone, guitar and piano.” Owen said.

“Having a youth orches-tra is a vital way for stu-dents to give expression to their eff orts in learning an instrument. Th e experi-ence is both daunting and exhilarating; a major spur for improvement.

“Student musicians learn

Young musicians given a chance in Roxbyto play in time and in tune with each other through ensemble playing. They get the feel for harmony, practice reading notation in real time, and most im-portantly, develop their ear and appreciation for music through being part of an orchestra. Th is is a major boost to confi dence, mak-ing the chore of practice worthwhile.”

Owen was inspired to start the RYO after being in the school orchestra when he was seven and leading a musically rich life.

“Coming to Roxby Downs a year ago, I had the opportunity to shape my working week so that I could put violin teaching and other musical activities in the mix. So I am having

a ball,” he said.Th e fi rst meeting of the

Roxby Youth Orchestra was particularly exciting because Owen invited the children to play with the Roxby Folk Club in the Billy Cart Bash on March 27.

“We have school assem-blies, market days, Red Earth Festival, Relay for Life and other such events as targets for performances. We have invited Adelaide group, the Fiddle Chicks to perform in the Red Earth Festival and to run a work-shop for musicians on Au-gust 5 (to be confi rmed).

The Youth Orchestra would like to thank parents and staff for their involve-ments and the school for hosting it.

“From a personal per-spective the involvement of other adults is critical to success as I would not be able to do it on my own,”

Owen said.

“Th e RYO complements

the school choir as an op-

portunity for students. It’s

great to be able to make use

of the music room’s instru-

ments and music stands.

Music waxes and wanes

in the life of the school.

Unfortunately funding has

dwindled for instrumental

teaching, so it’s time to start

a new wave of demand.

Th is might counteract the

tendency to send children

off to boarding school.”

Th e orchestra welcomes

anyone who has learned

an instrument – children

7 and over, teenagers and

the young at heart. Practice

is on Wednesdays at 3:30-

4:30pm in the music room,

Block D, Roxby Downs

Area School.

Enthusiastic member of the Roxby Youth Orchestra, Aston Culf, has a go at playing the metallophone. He is one of many children who are looking forward to furthering their musical skills by taking part in the orchestra.If you are interested in your child being able to refi ne their musical skills and abilities, come along to one of their practices which are held at RDAS on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30pm.

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TravelWhat To Do - Keeping the

Kids Happy

For the whole family

• Catch the Sealink Ferry to

Kangaroo Island for a Day

• Get on your horse! Try trail riding at

Normanville • Picnic on the Beach - Grab

yourself a basket full of regional

produce and pick a beach, any

beach• Take a Walk – The Fleurieu is

fi lled with magnifi cent walks,

both long and short, including

a section of the Heysen Trail,

beginning at Cape Jervis winding

through the magnifi cent Deep

Creek Conservation Park, past

the Tapanappa Lookout and the

waterfall and onward along to

coast past The Bluff and Victor

Harbour. If you are staying at

Port Elliot don’t miss the cliff walk

back toward Victor Harbour past

thundering surf along the gorgeous

coastline• Join a wine region tour, or do a day

trip to the nearby wine regions of

McLaren Vale, Currency Creek or

Langhorne Creek.

• Greenhills Adventure

Park, Victor Harbor

• Urimbirra Wildlife Experience, Victor Harbor

• Catch the Cockle Train -

Port Elliot to Victor Harbor

• Take the horse drawn cart

to Granite Island to see

the penguins• Lolly Shops – always a

winner with the kids (and

it keeps them quiet too!)

There are many scattered

through the region so

don’t miss a chance to

stop!

The Fleurieu Peninsula’s sunny Mediterranean climate provides ideal conditions for vineyards and orchards.

With around 60 cellar doors, McLaren Vale is the largest of the Fleurieu Peninsula’s four wine re-gions, each of them owing much of their character to their close prox-imity to water.

Langhorne Creek has become a major producer for the premium wine industry, where you’ll fi nd some of the newest (and oldest) boutique wineries in South Aus-tralia at Currency Creek and the Southern Fleurieu.

Th e Fleurieu Peninsula’s farm-ing tradition remains strong today, with local food festivals heralding the beginning of almost every har-vest, from grapes and apples, to olives and almonds.

Don’t MissAgon Berry Farm

Pick your own luscious straw-berries from November to April at Agon Berry Farm, situated in the picturesque Mount Compass Valley and set in a beautiful rural environment.

Blessed CheeseBlessed Cheese is a cafe and

store off ering local produce, lo-cal, national and international cheeses and the best cake, choc-

olates, biscuits and organic coff ee in the Vale.

Th e Olive GrovesMore than 26 varieties of premium

olives on 60 acres of plantings are grown, crushed and bottled with dedi-cation and loving attention at the Olive Groves in McLaren Vale.

Chapel Hill Winery, Gourmet Retreat, Cooking School

Enjoy tastings inside the original chapel, take part in a residential cook-ing school and then stay overnight in the two-storey chalet-style Chapel Hill Winery Guest House, set among the vineyards with commanding views of the surrounding McLaren Vale area and St Vincent’s Gulf.

Coriole WinesWine lovers can spend hours tasting

premium red and white wines matched perfectly with Coriole’s own olive oils, vinegars and cheeses. Perched high on a hill overlooking McLaren Vale, the Cellar Door is surrounded by a ram-bling cottage.

Quick Info- Th ere are more than 70 cellar doors

in the Fleurieu Peninsula.- Th ere is almost 13,300 hectares

under vine.- Main grape varieties include Ca-

bernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Chardon-nay, Sauvignon Blanc, Grenache, Mer-lot and Riesling.

- Main foods produced include al-monds, olives and olive oil, yabbies,

cockles, dairy products (including cheeses), lamb and venison, seafood, chocolate and berries.

- Th e leaders and inno-vators in the area include Coriole, d’Arenberg, Har-dy’s Tintara, Hardy’s Rey-nella, Rosemount Estate and Wirra Wirra.

- Food brands and pro-ducers include Spice Girlz, Mount Compass Venison, Diana Olive Oil, Fleurieu Farm Foods, Alexandri-na Cheese Company, B-d Farm Paris Creek and Medlow Chocolates.

- Harvest periods are February to mid April

Great food, wine and Great food, wine and magnifi cent viewsmagnifi cent views

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Where to Eat• Star of Greece Café – Port Willunga ... stellar view and amazing food. Grab a quick takeaway from the kiosk window, or book a table and enjoy one of the best menus SA has to offer. Be warned – make bookings well in advance.• The Strand – Port Elliot – Wander along The Strand and enjoy a great pub meal, sushi or an Arabella’s wood fi red pizza. Don’t walk past Melba’s Chocolates!• Blessed Cheese – McLaren Vale – a cheese shop, licensed café and provedore with local and imported gourmet foods and regional produce and also the starting point of the McLaren Vale Cheese and Wine Trail.Enjoy a horseback ride along the Beach.

Photo courtesy of SATC

Magnifi cent white sandy beaches, boutique wineries, gourmet cafés, galleries, picturesque scenery, tranquil coastal towns, water sports and horse riding are only the tip of the iceberg when describing this fabulous coastal destination.

Just one hour’s drive south of Ad-elaide, Th e Links Lady Bay resort is bound by ocean and surrounded by rugged natural beauty. Features of this luxurious resort include the 18 hole championship “Links” Golf Course rated South Australia’s number one public access course.

Indulge in the sumptuous alfresco Italian cuisine at the Peninsula Bar & Restaurant whilst enjoying the breathtaking ocean and golf course views.

Th e luxury 4 star King Spa Suites include huge spa, two plasma TV’s,

king beds, all with spacious balconies overlooking Yankalilla Bay. Other fa-cilities include tennis courts, gym, swimming pool, playground and just a short drive to the beach which stretches for many kilometres.

Th e Links Lady Bay resort is also a perfect destination to hold your next conference or event where our facil-ity can cater up to 250 guests. Th is magnifi cent environment is designed to cater for every event from smaller intimate groups to larger occasions such as weddings and even major corporate functions.

Th ere are also opportunities to purchase real estate within the Re-sort with allotments starting from $100,000 and House & Land Pack-ages for $289,000 (complete with everything). For further information call (08) 8558 2220 or visit our web-site at www.linksladybay.com.au

Fleurieu Housing Market

Jewel of Fleurieu Peninsula

Suburb Median House Price 2010McLaren Vale $ 383,500.00 Goolwa $ 273,500.00 Middleton $ 420,000.00 Normanville $ 297,500.00 Port Elliot $ 385,250.00 Strathalbyn $ 350,000.00 Victor Harbor $ 310,000.00

Links Lady Bay Resort

Nestled beside the sand dunes of Lady Bay you will fi nd South Shores Coastal Resort Village surrounded by magnifi cent country side and some of the most divine beaches our state has to off er. Only an hour out of Adelaide and you are in the perfect place to disappear and escape from the demands of everyday life.

Th is unique village is the place for holidays and weekends, also proving to be a sound investment with a record of strong rental demand.

Th is development has left no stone unturned, safety and security is a must, you can be met at the end of the driveway by automatic gates and an intercom system. Th ese gates open to a resort like setting revealing native landscape, BBQ ar-eas, two swimming pools and a magical emerald green lagoon.

Stroll down the boardwalk to the undiscovered sandy beaches and crystal blue waters of Norman-ville. Th e kids will love spending their summers building sand castles and riding the waves! When you have had enough of the beach you simply

retire to your villa for a glass of vino and relax. All the while the kids are safe and sound explor-ing the walking paths and play areas south shores provide.

Th ese villas have been architecturally designed to maximise both light and air fl ow. Posing 12 foot ceilings, western red cedar café bi-fold doors, huge decks for entertaining and outstanding fi nishes including Caesar stone benchtops and stainless steel Smeg Appliances , fl oorboards throughout. All villas have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, open plan living and ducted air conditioning.

If you would like to come and stay in on of these luxurious hideaways please contact Commercial & General 1800 554 663 or info@c-g.com.au. South Shores Villas achieve strong rental demand so book early to avoid disappointment.

If you are interested in purchasing one of the last few available considering the long term growth and sustainability the region off ers is simply an opportunity not to be missed. Currently off ering a 7% guaranteed return for 2 years for a limited time only (conditions apply). Please contact Kate Hill on 0418 803 319 or 1800 554 663.

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THE SOUL OF A BEACH SHACK AND LUXURY OF A RESORTSouth Shores is situated approximately one hour from Adelaide on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

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By Millie ThomasLake Mary revellers took a second glance last week before plummeting into the cool desert waters.

Triops Australiensis or ‘Shield Shrimp’ are back!Th e shield shrimp, which lay dormant underground until

a considerable amount of water gathers, are around 220 mil-lion years old, around the same age as crocodiles and older than humans (homosapiens) which have only been around for about 100 million years.

All shield shrimp start off as females. Th e females can pro-create with themselves (a skill not yet mastered by humans!) and only when the inhabited waters start to dry out do the males surface. It is then that the males and females procre-ate together.

Th e shield shrimp can be found in the shallows at Lake Mary and various relatives of the Triops Australiensis (such as Triops Cancriformis and Triops longicaudatus) are found all over the world. Th ey can even be bought at shops for pets.

Th e shield shrimp, although ominous looking isn’t danger-ous, and the only trouble you may have is if they fi nd their way up your board shorts!

By Millie ThomasBored of the monotony of your week-ends? Trying desperately to look for another way to entertain the kids?

Lake Mary, located just over 30kms South of Roxby has recently refi lled and by all reports surpasses the previously mentioned three metre mark.

At its fullest point, it covers an estimat-ed 170 hectare area and provides for a per-fect place to take the family for a camping trip, a day trip or a boating trip.

If you’re planning a day trip, there are a few things you need to remember;

- While it has been known to get a car as small as a Holden Barina out to the Lake, a 4WD is probably best as it is sometimes unknown what the track conditions will be like.

- It’s still warm up here at the moment, so make sure to stock up on lots of water and sunscreen to avoid dehydration.

- Mosquitoes are in full force around dusk at Lake Mary. Mosquito repellent just won’t cut it, so grab as many mosquito coils as you can and map out a perimeter around your camp or picnic site.

- Bring a pair of sneakers or boat shoes with you – the surrounding area is quite striking with amazing views of the Lake,

- Boating, knee boarding, wake board-ing, wake skating, single or double skiing or a plain old barefooting are all possibili-ties… jump on board.

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By Celeste Lustosa

The Sodexo South Australia Star Awards was held at the Adelaide Intercontinental Hotel on February 18. Once again, the

Olympic Dam Project made us proud.

Th e awards recognised Sodexo sites and staff for outstanding application to their roles and service provision throughout 2010. In the South Australia awards, the Olympic Dam Project was recognised for the following:Winner– Zero Harm (Safety)Runner up – your future “So Sodexo “(Peo-ple)Runner up – Corporate Social Responsibility Personal Awards received (Individual em-ployees recognised)Tony Treloar – Winner – Spirit of ProgressJude Materora- Runner up - Team Spirit

According to senior Project Manager – So-dexo Olympic, Roxby Villages, Anthony Tre-loar, Sodexo employees from Olympic and Roxby Villages and their partners were present at the night, as well as Sodexo employees from other sites throughout South Australia; Sodexo Australia and New Zealand CEO Jonpaul Di-mech; Chief Operating Offi cer Remote Sites

Gary Mickler; Communication Director So-dexo Remote Sites and Asia-Australia Nina Morange (from Paris global offi ce); South Aus-tralia /Victoria Regional Manager Matt Currey; and other national managers and executives from Sodexo Australia.

“Th e awards night is all about Sodexo em-ployees and sites being recognised for their achievements and their outstanding com-mitment to Sodexo’s core values of Spirit of Progress, Team Spirit and Service spirit.

“Th e awards recognise teams’ and individu-als’ commitment to continuous improvement and innovation, going above and beyond to contribute to the success of Sodexo and mak-ing every day a better day for our customers,” said Mr Treloar.

Th ere are fi ve Sodexo Star Awards in Victo-ria, South Australia, New South Wales, West-ern Australia and Queensland.

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Dingoes inside Dingoes inside the fencethe fence

This photo of a dingo was taken by Dan van Holst Pellekaan MP at 5:30pm Tuesday March 1st

of a dingo only 50km north of Port Augusta and an astounding 300km inside the “Dog Fence”!

It is more proof of the ongoing con-cerns of pastoralists and farmers that dingoes are breeding up to alarming numbers inside the fence.

It is estimated that there are at least a few hundred dingoes living within the dog fence. Approximately 60% of

all sheep/cattle stations below the dog fence have encountered dingoes in re-cent years.

While the fence is not perfect, it does provide a very useful barrier to protect sheep stations and farms. However, the problem is that dingoes already inside the fence are breeding due to extremely limited resources to combat the problem and the fact that many pastoral leases are not used for pastoral purposes and so lessees do not actively work to cull dingoes.

A n e x p l o s i o n i n rabbit numbers on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is nearing plague proportions in many areas.

The out-of-control numbers are partly due

to plenty of feed from last year’s good rains.

Biosecurity program manager Iggy Honan says about 500,000 rabbits are being targeted in a poi-soning program.

He says the problem

has taken some farmers by surprise.

“Th e last few years a lot of young farmers are say-ing, ‘rabbits, what’s that?’” he said.

“We’ve had calicivirus doing a great job, we’ve

had myxoma but it seems as though that has turned, there’s a lot more resist-ance out there and rabbits have ... dug in, so I hate to say it but we could be looking at, we’ll call them localised rabbit plagues.”

Rabbit ‘plagues’ hit Eyre Peninsula

By Celeste Lustosa

I t doesn’t matter if you are a smoker or a non-smoker, you might know that smoking is

bad for our health, our pocket and the government’s pocket.

Smoking kills 15,000 Australians every year and costs $31.5 billion to the country’s economy.

“As a Government, we have made a decision that although we have a pretty low smoking rate by world standards, we’re still losing 15,000 Australians every year to smoking-related deaths. We know that we can stop that.

“Th ere are many serious health consequences from smoking and we want to provide support to smokers who are ready to kick the habit,” Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, said.

So, support is available for smok-ers ready to quit with subsidised

nicotine patches available on the Pharmaceutical Benefi ts Scheme (PBS) for the fi rst time from Feb-ruary, 1st.

“With subsidised nicotine patch-es now available for those working with their GP, I hope many Austral-ians take up the challenge and quit in 2011,” Ms Roxon said.

In an interview with Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland on ABC 2 News Breakfast, the Minis-ter also said that the Government doesn’t want cost to be a barrier to quitting.

“Many people do decide to give up smoking and get support from their friends and family to kick the habit. Others do need some ad-ditional assistance, and nicotine patches have been effective for many people. Others will need to go a step further and will need to see their doctor, be part of a proper smoking cessation program and use the nicotine patches. And I suspect

many in the community are at that stage, people who have wanted to give up but have not been able to kick this very addictive habit. And they’re the people we’re really tar-geting with this initiative because for many people, concession card holders, it will cost now only $20 rather than anywhere up close to $500, and for those who are not on concession cards, it’s around $100.

“We want there to be a very clear message that you can improve your health and you can improve your hip pocket by giving up smoking. And we hope people will take the opportunity to do that from today (February 1st), Ms Roxon said to the ABC reporters.

For help to quit smoking, peo-ple should consult their doctor or pharmacist, call the Quitline on 13 7848 or see the Quitline web site at: www.australia.gov.au/quitnow

Subsidised nicotine patches could be the answer

THE MONITOR – Your Community Newspaper www.themonitor.com.au Wednesday, March 9, 2011 – Page 15

The Board The Board that provides that provides a community a community voicevoice locallylocally

JOINING FORUMSIf you are interested in joining a forum please

contact the following people. New members are

always welcome.

ARTS and CULTURE FORUM

Rachel Young 0428 671 000

EDUCATION and WORKPLACE TRAINING

Michelle Hales 0418 833 818

SPORT and RECREATION FORUM

Kaye Doyle 0419 935 316

COMMUNITY GARDEN

Cherie Gaskin 8671 2924

HEALTH FORUM

Karen Russell 8671 9020

Did you know?

An initiative of the Environment Forum

BOARD MEETINGS WHO’S ON THE BOARD CONTACTING THE BOARD

Board meetings are held on the last Monday of the month.

Members of the public are welcome to attend and observe.

If you would like to make a pres-entation or raise an issue, please contact the Executive Offi cer on 0418 833 818 so that you can be

included on the agenda.

Confi dential discussions with the Board can be arranged if required.

For further information, advice or general questions please contact:

Michelle Hales,Executive Offi cer

Roxby Downs Community Board Inc.

PO Box 85Roxby Downs SA 5725Mobile: 0418 833 818

Email: halesm@roxbycouncil.com.au

Teresa Baddeley • Darren Smith

Michelle Davis • George Giakoumis

Vicki Mason • Gaylene Crane

Jamie Love • Bill Hiscox

Liz Rogers • Michael Esposito

Bill Boehm • Amanda Hudson

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Roxby Downs Community Board welcomed two new members in their fi rst meeting of 2011. Heath

Murry and Joe McDiarmid were inducted by the Board Chairperson Michelle Hales on February 28.

Th e Community Board welcomed two new members at its fi rst meeting for the year. Th e two new members - Heath Murry and Joe McDiarmid bring a wealth of experience to the Board, according to Executive Offi cer Michelle Hales.

“Th eir skills complement and add value to an already diverse group of people. Th ey were chosen because they have both lived in other mining communities in other states. Fresh ideas and new perspectives create new energy and contribute to the vibrancy of an already active board,” she said.

Joe McDiarmid moved to Roxby Downs, with his family, from Kalgoorlie in July last year, when an interesting job opportunity came up at Olympic Dam.

“We looked at many mining communities before deciding to move to Roxby Downs and I can see the benefi ts to our family of living in this strong community. And I can also see the potential for it to develop further in future,” he told Th e Monitor.

Mr McDiarmid says living in Roxby has been wonderful and he wants to put some-thing back into the community.

“Working my way up through the ranks of the WA mining industry over 15 years, and starting a family more recently, have kept me busy out of work hours. Now that I have more regular hours and our youngest is over 12 months old, I’d like to put something back into the community we live in.

“I’m bringing to the board a fresh perspec-

tive on Roxby; the experience of living in remote mining communities for more than 15 years; a family-oriented outlook; strate-gic planning experience; strong budgeting background; the ability to think outside the square in seeking solutions; and attention to detail.

“In the short time I’ve been here it’s been wonderful to see the community spirit and I would like to contribute to being an integral part of that,” he added.

“I think Roxby Downs is a very well-run community but if I could improve anything – I have to say it! – I’d like to see Lake Mary developed to be a year-round recreational lake with boating, camping and a grassed barbecue area,” Mr McDiarmid concluded.

The other new member of the Board, Heath Murry also spoke to Th e Monitor about how he wants to contribute to the community by being on the Board.

Mr Murry has lived in Roxby Downs for about 5 months now. He and his family came from a small mining town in Central Queensland called Dysart.

“It’s a town roughly the same size as Roxby Downs and supports a couple of the nearby BMA Coal mines.

“My wife and I were interested in expe-riencing and living in another part of Aus-tralia, and when the opportunity to work at Olympic Dam and live in Roxby Downs presented itself, we jumped at the chance,” he said.

Also according to him, there’s lot’s of great things about living in Roxby Downs and South Australia in general.

“Th e facilities here are fi rst class, the re-laxed lifestyle, so many great camping spots to explore, the wine, but I would have to say my favourite thing about living in Roxby is

the people. Everyone is really happy to be liv-ing here, and it shows in the way that every-one gets really involved in the community.

“Becoming involved in the Community Board was a great start for me, now I just need to decide which of the community fo-rums to become active with, and get busy. I also like the thought of becoming more ac-tive with the likes of RoxFM and Rotary. I’m spoilt for choice here,” Mr Murry added.

Th e enthusiastic Roxby resident said he joined the Community Board based on the philosophy that Roxby has an excellent com-munity.

“Small towns like Roxby are fueled by how active residents are in ‘making it a great place’ and my family and I look forward to contributing in any way we can.

“Firstly, I think that I can help out by be-ing a passionate and active member of the community, and secondly I think that I can bring skills and experience in building rela-tionships and making pragmatic decisions. My goal is to assist wherever I am capable to deliver the community plan in alignment with future changes and the associated chal-lenges.”

Mr Murry also believes there are some pressing issues for Roxby.

“Probably the most notable however will be the challenge of ensuring that Roxby continues to develop as a community and retain it’s identity as a great place for fami-lies, whilst being faced with a period of rapid growth from the pending BHP Billiton ex-pansion activities.

“In my opinion, Roxby is already a bench-mark case for a community, it’s a great ex-ample of ‘what good looks like’ and believe me, I’ve seen bad,” he concluded.

Two new Two new members for members for the Community Board Board

By Celeste Lustosa

Did you know?Bathroom fans are more effective in preventing mould during a shower than after.Avoid leaving bathroom and kitchen ventilation fans on – they can suck out an entire house full of heated or cool air in about 1 hour!

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New community board members Joe & Heath

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Red Sands Roxby Downs ‘A division of Cancer Council SA’ has had a huge involvement in Roxby Downs since it was formed in 2007. Some of the events include:Relay For Life, Daffodil Day, Biggest Morning Tea, Think Pink Golf Day, Pink Ribbon Day, Girls Night In, Call to Arms, Mother’s Day Raffle plus so much more.

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By Celeste LustosaOn Sunday March 6 in Roxby Downs around a hundred participants gathered for Clean Up Australia Day.

The Roxby Downs Scouts group, with the great help of Stephen Moss (in organis-ing previous days), local companies, Roxby Council and community members collected fi ve skips of rubbish that included CD collec-tions, underwear and many broken bottles.

Tracey Michels, Chairperson of the Roxby Downs Scouts was very happy with how the day went.

“I think the day went really well. Stephen Moss did a lot of the organising before the event and the Council provided the barbeque foods and drinks, so we didn’t have to chase that up either.

“During the day we had a lot of the Scouts showing up which was our aim; to get a lot of our group out there. We also had a good turn out of community members and fortunately the town was really clean,” said Tracey.

She said a group of walkers went down to Tutop Street, Stuart Road, around the church area, back to Mitre 10, around the shops area cleaning every spot.

“As for the drivers, we had one crew from York that did the turn up into Roxby and the parking area there. We had another group going down the dump road and another group along Axehead Road.

“Outside of town was a lot of worse. We have found a lot of broken bottles, ice coff ee containers, rubbish, even CDs. We could probably spend a whole day collecting rub-bish in Axehead Road,” Tracey added.

She also explained that the Scouts have also been spoken to about respecting the

environment and a lot of the Joeys will have to report back on what they did and what they learnt.

All the rubbish collected was separated into diff erent bins and will be recycled.

Tracey was glad to comment that “the town is a lot cleaner than in previous years.”

Municipal Works Manager for Roxby Council Peter Keller, who was present at the Clean Up, said Council is always willing to support the Clean Up Australia Day here in Roxby Downs.

“We are well aware that by volunteers cleaning up the streets it saves Council some money and it beautifi es the streets making Roxby and even better place to live.

“Our contractors do the best they can cleaning many areas of the town. Roxby has been part of Clean Up Australia for fi ve years and that has some eff ect into the town be-ing cleaner every year. Hopefully each year, there’s less and less to do.

“I think the involvement of the Scouts is an educational thing that will fl ow on to their parents, friends. And in the future, hope-fully keeping the town clean can be a lifestyle change for everyone,” Mr Keller said.

He also believes that “the 10 cents a can has probably helped because people are re-cycling them for the money.”

“Clean Up Australia Day tidies up the town a lot and we would like to thank Stephen Moss, the Scouts, companies and commu-nity members that embrace the day, put their time into it and help out,” Mr Keller concluded.

One of the Scouts who helped on the day was 14 year old Nissa Gordon. She has been in the Scouts Group for four years.

“Th e worst place we cleaned was next to

the Tutop Plaza with all the discarded oil next to the shops. Th ey were really not dis-carded properly,” she said.

Added to her comment, many others who helped on the day were very unhappy with how untidy and dirty the Tutop Plaza sur-roundings were.

York employees that helped Clean Up what was considered the dirtiest part of the town were Guy Barrett, Michael Russo, LJ Novosel and Darko Filko, who were all participating for the fi rst time.

“It was a pretty good day; a good chance to help the community and have a bit of fun,” Guy said.

Michael added that “it was an interest-ing day. We saw lots of diff erent things out there. Th e town itself is not too bad but the entrance, where people come in and out and don’t really care about was very dirty.”

LJ told Th e Monitor she felt really excited doing it.

“It feels good to be doing something for the community that we work and live in. And for as long as I am still in town, I plan to participate other times and hopefully we will have even more people.”

Darko was also very positive about the Clean Up.

“It was good to be out and about, enjoy-ing the sunshine as well. Th e parking bay was really dirty and there was lots of broken bottles, which means people are drinking while driving.”

Th e group also found a CD collection and a love CD…clearly a bad breakup!

Tracey concluded by saying thank you to all who participated and Stephen Moss for the support!

Roxby Downs – a cleaner place now!

A happy and tired group of people who joined the Scouts in the annual Clean-up Australia Day around Roxby Downs on the weekend. . . INSET Young Scout Brayden had a good day cleaning up the town with his friends.

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Your friendly automotive helpdesk, Autopro, are here to give you every opportunity to help maintain and better your vehicle.

Kat and Donald McKin-non have owned the Roxby Downs franchise of Autopro for six years now, and plan to stay here for many years to come.

Locals for the past 21 years, Kat and Donald will stop at nothing to help you achieve the very best result. “We will try our hardest to fi nd the part for the customer,” said Kat. “We try to get the right part the fi rst time by getting the correct information from the customer and we’ll bend over backwards to fi nd them the part that they need.”

Stocking just about every-thing you could fi nd in the

automotive vocabulary, Au-topro strives to keep you on the road.

“Th ere’s the basic things that every car needs such as batteries, oil, air and fuel fi l-ters, oil and then we can ob-tain most other spare parts, break parts, engine parts, suspension parts, for pretty much any car,” said Kat.

“We also do car accessories like the washers and polish-ers, fl oor mats and dash mats. We can get parts for trailers and we have a large range of electrical accessories, lights, globes, switches.

“At the moment we’ve got a new range of exhaust tips, we can get exhausts for peo-ple. Stereos for the cars, UHF gear, LED lights…”

Kat and Donald can help you with anything for your fl ashy street car to your beat up landcruiser, so just pop in and be amazed!

By Millie Thomas

N ewest addition to the Leisure Centre team, Kelly Seward, put theory

to practice on Saturday, February 26, when the swimming teacher and gym instructor swam from Cottesloe Beach (Perth, WA) to Rottnest Island in the annual Rottnest Channel Swim.

Th is is the second attempt at the competition for Kelly, who is one part of a duo team. Th e race is in total 19.6 kilometres, and Kelly shares with Th e Monitor the highs and lows of the renowned race. “It was perfect conditions this year, absolutely perfect,” said Kelly.

“Last year was really bad condi-tions, there was a two and a half metre swell. Unfortunately both of us got injured around the 12km mark. Our shoulders decided to give up on us!”

Th e race can be completed in teams of two, four or in a solo ca-pacity, and each swimmer must have a support boat and a paddler with them each step of the way to ensure safety from passing boats. Th is year, the participants peaked at 2,300.

“We started swapping swim-ming every 15 minutes, and then we swapped every ten, every fi ve etc,” she said.

Kelly said that just about the whole way across to Rottnest you could see the bottom of they ocean, save the deep water channel used for international export.

“Th e stingers (jellyfi sh) were re-ally, really bad! Because it was such good conditions they were sitting at the top of the water, hiding in the seaweed, so everyone just got annihilated. Down the bathers and everything! It was nasty!”

Kelly’s aim this year was to beat her time from last year, but she ended up achieving almost the exact same time – 7 hours and 45 minutes.

She also spoke about the contro-versial ferry incident. “Th ere was a big hoopla this year because one of the main ferries, the Rottnest express, went straight through the group of swimmers at high speed, 35 knots an hour!

“So there is being a police inves-tigation, the guy’s resigning... We’ve never had a debacle like this!

“Th ere were 2,300 swimmers, thousands of boats, and he knew what was going on and everyone was yelling at him over the radio.

“Th ere was also two shark spot-tings! So it was quite an eventful year.”

While Kelly didn’t do quite as well as she might have hoped, and she’s not sure if she will compete next year, she maintained that one day she would like to fi nish the race solo. “Ill have to see how I go (if I compete next year), because it hurt this year, it really hurt! I want to do it solo one year, but I would like to be living near the ocean if I were to do it solo.

“I didn’t do as much training since being in Roxby, because when I did it last year, I was a swimming coach so it was a lot easier.”

A 19.6 km race takes a lot of long, drawn out preparation, and Kelly’s advice is to clock up the k’s.

“Start training early. If you were going to do it solo, you would want to start training sooner rather than later,” she said.

“If you’re doing a duo, make sure you have a good partner that’s ac-tually going to do work! Just start training and get the kilometres under your belt, that’s the main thing!

“Th ey say that women who have had had kids perform better at en-durance sports so maybe mothers could get into it!”

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THE MONITOR – Your Community Newspaper www.themonitor.com.au Wednesday, March 9, 2011 – Page 19

By Matt HayballOlympic Dam played Wanderers on Th ursday night and a win ensured them a place in Friday night’s grand fi nal.

Wanderers batted fi rst and made 9 for 88 with Ryan Briggs scoring 39. Mick Hoffman and Lucas Holbrook took 3 wickets each.

O.D. then made light work of the chase passing the score in 10 overs. Steve Westlake 52 and Seb Holbrook 21 n.o. made it look easy.

On Friday night in Woomera O.D. batted fi rst and only posted a score of 7 for 86 off their 20 overs.

Seb Holbrook 48 the only real con-tributor with the bat. Adrian Boulton 2 for 18 bowled well along with the other bowlers.

Rogues batting, however, was not good enough and fi nished at 4 for 80 off their 20 overs. Woomera oval was again extremely slow however it was the same for both teams.

Woomera claim 3rd spotWoomera claimed third spot and a

home fi nal in the 40 overs competition even though they were comprehensively beaten by O.D. in Woomera on Saturday night.

O.D. batted fi rst and scored 4 for 155 with Craig Nichols 68 not out and Seb Holbrook 45 batting very well.

Adam Willis 2 for 23 was the best of the Woomera bowl-ers. Adam Willis also scored 37 not out in the Woomera’s total of 88. Matty Travis returned the outstanding fi gures of 7.4 overs, 4 maidens, 7 wickets for 8 runs. Well done Matty. Lucas Holbrook also took 2 for 15.

Sunday morning at Roxby - Rogues and Wanderers completed the minor round. Wanderers batted fi rst making 105 with Brad Cox 26 and D.Manhood 21 – best with the bat. Rogues then passed the score in the 24th over with Paul Polujnikoff 34, Adrian Boulton 26 and Paul Trotta 20 making light work of the run chase.

Next week Olympic Dam play Rogues on Saturday morning at 8.30am on Roxby Oval and Woomera play Andamooka in the elimination fi nal at a venue and time to be advised.

Roxby Downs Cricket Association Presentation Night will be held on Friday

Olympic Dam win T20 Final

ROXBY DOWNS JUNIOR BASKETBALL RESULTS

UNDER 12 GIRLS

Magic 39 points defeated Phoenix 34 points

Lightning 30 points defeated Slamdunks 12 points

UNDER 12 BOYS

Lakers 28 points defeated Pistons 16 points

Bulls 31 points defeated Mavericks 20 points

UNDER 14 BOYS

Flames 46 points defeated Bulls 34 points

Magic 48 points defeated Eagles 10 points

UNDER 15 BOYS

UNDER 17 GIRLS

Bullets 46 points defeated Pistons 28 points

Panthers 65 points defeated Lightning 36 points

UNDER 18 GIRLS & BOYS

Bullets 45 points defeated Hornets 23 points

Eagles 44 points defeated Magic 27 points

J Dadleh goes for goal (Choccies) while Toby Chesson tries to

defl ect the ball

Jake Roberts (Miners) about

to push past a persistent

S Smith (Choccies)

Inset: Cody Kenny

Bulls 22 points defeated Lightning 21 pointsCavaliers 59 points

defeated Magic 56 pointsThunder 34 points defeated

Lakers 25 points

Dave Manhood, one of the best wth the bat on the day,

making one of his 21 runs

Craig Wilson,

Association President,

up for a bat on

the weekend

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By Millie Thomas

M ick Hoffmann has been involved in the Olympic Dam football club as a player, committee member or

volunteer in excess of ten years, so it only makes sense that he take over from former club President Zane Petty to lead the club through the 2011 season.

Mick joined the Footy Club committee back in 2003 and has started his fi rst year as presi-dent with a proactive attitude. “It’s pretty full on, there’s always something to do,” he said. “I’ve been around it long enough to know what’s going on, so now it’s just a matter of stepping up and delegating.”

Mick said one of his main objectives for the

Devils this year is to build up membership and encourage volunteer and member involvement when help is needed.

“We’re looking at impressing upon the new infl ux of people into town and trying to pro-mote the family atmosphere of the club, and the meals etc. It’s just a good family club. Social shows are also a big part of getting members out here and families out here.”

He said that presuming success at the up-coming Sportsman’s Night at OD Footy Club, nights such as this could possibly become an-nual. “We’re hoping to get some good numbers out to that event,” he said. “Th ey’re going to supply us with a junior coaching clinic as well – so we’ve donated that side of things to the junior association for free.

Mick said that he didn’t want to improve upon anything that former president Zane had

installed in the previous two years, but rather follow his lead. “Zane was in a consolidation mode,” said Mick. “We paid a fair bit of money for the outdoor entertaining area, so he sort of set up for the way forward, if you like.

“Th ere are now no major bills to be paid and there have been a lot of replacements of gear that’s been broken down over the years – fridges and cool rooms, things like that.

“I’d like to go along the same way as he has done except expand on members and helpers around the club. Th ere’s just so much to do and not enough helpers. We’ve had a heap of people leave probably three or four years ago of real workers around the club.

“Getting runners and trainers and support staff more or less – that’s what we’re going to focus on this year so that the general commit-tee can enjoy the game rather then be working,

as well as being out here during the week.”On the football side of things, Mick is qui-

etly confi dent in his team. “Aaron Spicer will defi nitely be a stand out player for us,” he said. “And there are a few other good recruits.

“We only had a fairly small list last year and ended up with 24 fi t players to pick from in the fi nals so we defi nitely need numbers with the shift work up here – 35 plus to get a good side going.

“As usual you don’t really know what they’re going to be like until the fi rst game. Th ey can look a million dollars on the track but you just have to wait and see.

“Jason Neindorf will be a good player for us as well. Ben Woodall is another recruit who comes with a few wraps so well just see how they go as the season starts. It’s looking prom-ising.”

New OD New OD president president pushes pushes for more for more member member involvementinvolvement

LASTCHANCEFOR AQUA CLASSES!

A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile the Black Swan, daughter of an evil magician. Stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis. Screens: Friday 11th March @ 7.30pm, Tuesday 15th March @ 7pm.

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Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit”. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin. Screens: Saturday 12th March @ 7.30pm, Sunday March 13th @ 12 noon, Tuesday 15th March @ 3.30pm.

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Monday > Butts ‘n’ Guts 9am, Balance 10am, Spin 7pmTuesday > Balance 7pmWednesday > Pump 9am, Aqua 6pm, Balance 8pmThursday > Pump 7pmFriday > Aqua 9amSaturday > Fitball 9am, Aqua 10amClasses/times subject to instructor availability. To avoid disappointment book classes in advance.

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