Regatta returns to Milang
The Annual Milang Regatta is excitingly set to make a return to Lake Alexandrina town, igniting lots of fun on and off the water across the last weekend of November.
Community News
A passion for restoration
Willyaroo resident Rob Loffler has restored so many vehicles in his lifetime that he has lost count, and with seven projects on the go at the moment he is as busy as ever.
Sport
Regatta returns to Milang
The Annual Milang Regatta is excitingly set to make a return to Lake Alexandrina town, igniting lots of fun on and off the water across the last weekend of November.
State-of-the-art mini golf course opens in Goolwa
A new $1.4 million 18-hole SHANX Mini Golf course has opened at South Lakes Golf Club in Goolwa, the third of its type in South Australia.
Braw day out for the Highland Games
South Australian athletes Lachlan Page and Lexie Kermond are this year’s Tria Prima Highland Games State Champions – after a day of events at the Callington Show last Sunday.
Boaters set sail on new season
About 100 people celebrated the start of the new boating season on the weekend at the Goolwa Aquatic Club’s open day. The program was launched for the clubs that operate out of the Barrage Road building: the Goolwa Sailing Club, Goolwa Vintage...
Rural
Honey, check this out
An avid gardener recently started a bee-rilliant new hobby, of beekeeping, to improve his crops, and has been reaping what he has sown. Goolwa’s Phil Sargent has planted about 200 native species with his brother on their Goolwa property over the...
Milang farmer’s hopes rained on due to unseasonably wet weather
A Milang farmer estimates the unseasonably wet summer has caused about 25 per cent of income loss for grain farmers in the region. His neighbour has recorded 150mm of rain since harvest started since the end of October, and as reported in this...
Advancing women in agriculture
When Currency Creek farmer Belle Baker was growing up, women weren’t always accepted as farmers. These days Ms Baker, with help from her partner Patrick O’Driscoll, is tailor-making courses to help women on the land fill gaps in their knowledge...
A healthy distance advised for livestock welfare
Hazards for livestock and the best methods to protect their health were the subject matters of a recent Milang Agricultural Bureau meeting. Many of the actions undertaken by governments in the early days of COVID parallel methods used by livestock...
