Call for health masterplan’s release
The future of the Southern Fleurieu Health Service is again in the spotlight, with a local politician calling for the service’s Infrastructure Master Plan to be made public.
Sport
Field of Fortune delivers a winning winter meeting
It was a case of turning adversity into opportunity for the Strathalbyn Racing Club on Sunday, with the club’s Field of Fortune Race Day transferred from its original date after more than 30mm of rain left the track waterlogged.
Running to succeed
Strathalbyn brothers Rocco and Cody Kenyon have been clocking up some excellent results on the running track and cross country courses.
Sampson’s big night out
Myponga-Sellicks Football Club’s Hayden Sampson won both the Great Southern Football League’s MVP Coaches Award and Mail Medal last Wednesday – claiming the Mail Medal by just one vote.
Family and friends head to the Special Olympics Nationals
The Pugsley family, who call Strathalbyn their second home, will make this year’s Special Olympics Nationals a family affair – with Krystel Pugsley hoping to be selected for the Australian basketball team following the Melbourne event.
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...
