FAMILY, friends and colleagues united to fight back against cancer and raised more than $90,000 at the weekend’s Upper Yorke Peninsula Relay for Life.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

THE headers are out of the sheds and grain trucks are starting to appear on the roads as the 2012 harvest starts up on northern Yorke Peninsula.

JOURNALIST: Sonny Coombs

THE first sod was turned for the $439million Snow­town II wind farm project last Thursday, marking a move into a new age of green electricity.

TEENAGERS who use an iPad for an hour before bed are still likely to get a good night’s sleep, new research has found.

PEOPLE might complain about going to work but when it comes down to it Australians love their jobs.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

PARENTS have become complacent when it comes to road safety, with a new survey revealing many are failing to teach their children the basic skills required to keep them safe.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

TWO days after his unsuccessful challenge for the Liberal Party leadership, Member for Waite Martin Hamilton-Smith visited Ardrossan.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

DOORS to the refurbished District Council of the Copper Coast administration building in Kadina are set to open, with Katnich Building and Design having handed over the keys.

THE District Council of the Copper Coast is creating an entrance statement to the region at Paskeville.

JOURNALIST: Sonny Coombs

A WALLAROO resident is concerned the five-way intersection on the Kadina Road is an accident waiting to happen.

JOURNALIST: Sonny Coombs

WITH a hot, dry summer forecast for South Australia, now is the time to start thinking about what you would do in the event of a bushfire.

WORK has started on the Ardrossan stormwater harvesting project with pipes laid to divert water from the golf course to adjacent holding dams.

THE no-parking zone on Port Road, Kadina, is expected to be implemented this week or next.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

YORKE Peninsula’s State Emergency Service volunteers will have new guidance with the appointment of Ben Birbeck as the district officer for the region.

A WOMAN was airlifted to Adelaide with non-life threatening injuries after falling from the third floor of a property at Point Turton yesterday morning (Monday, October 29).

TWENTY riders from the SA Ride for Sick Kids will pedal into Wallaroo today (Tuesday) as they complete the fifth leg of their 1029-kilometre fundraising ride.

ELITE cyclists will converge on the Copper Coast this weekend for the long-awaited Hell of the North cycling race.

IN spring and summer, beaches around Yorke Peninsula become the nesting grounds of the threatened Hooded Plover.

INDIVIDUALS and groups from Yorke Peninsula have brought home 14 awards from the 2012 KESAB Sustainable Communities Awards presentation last Wednesday.

RECREATIONAL fishers are reminded of the Rock lobster fishing rules ahead of the northern zone season opening from 12pm, November 1.

IMAGINE finding out your newborn baby has a heart condition and needs open-heart surgery in the first week of its precious life.

FOOD safety short courses have been held across the region this year with the final sessions to be held at Ardrossan and Minlaton next month.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

MORE than 120 people gathered at the Seagate, Moonta Bay, to celebrate the Advantage SA Yorke and Mid North Regional Awards last Wednesday night.

IT’S all systems go for Southern Yorke Peninsula Operation Christmas Child coordinator Gina Voigt as she collects the final donations and boxes ready for shipping.

THE Vietnam Veterans Association Copper Coast sub-branch has donated a work of art to help raise money for Moonta’s Lucy Hancocks.

­THE 2YP clinic on Port Road, Kadina, was described as a “breath of fresh air” by the mother of an anxiety sufferer at the official opening last Wednesday, October 24.

THE Motley Moonta Crew is making final preparations in the lead-up to the Novita Mighty River Run, November 13 to 23.

JOURNALIST: Jenny Oldland

MEMBERS of the Southern Yorke Peninsula Active Ageing Classes held their own Eager Oldies Olympics on the Yorketown oval last Tuesday, October 23.

MORE than 100 people attended the reunion luncheon of the former South Australian Fire Brigade (now SA Metropolitan Fire Service) Regional Operations at the Wallaroo Community Sports Club on October 21.

REPORTER: Jenny Oldland

A PRACTICAL guide to bushfire safety was presented during the Firey Women’s Workshop at Yorketown this month.

WITH term four here, it’s not long until the Kadina Primary and Kadina Memorial High Schools amalgamate.

MARK Seymour, with his regular band The Undertow (Cameron McKenzie, John Favaro and Peter Maslen), is playing at the Coopers Alehouse, Wallaroo, this Friday, November 2.

For the first time in many years at the Yorke Peninsula Dirt Kart Club, there is a KT Ladies class with 10 ladies racing on Saturday night. The ladies were joined by another 80 karters in 10 fields.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

Kadina’s Carl Sherry has won his fifth consecutive state powerlifting championship at Mannum on Saturday, October 13.

The National Senior Sides Championships were held at the Queanbeyan Bowling Club in the ACT, October 16-19.

REPORTER: Joan Hill

A win of 55 shots in Division I, a drawn game in Division II and a forfeit in Division III featured in Saturday’s results.
Moonta, which had the 55-shot Division I win, is going from strength to strength, season after season.

REPORTER: Kenn Rogers

In the match of the day on Saturday, Stansbury scraped home by one shot at Curramulka.

Ardrossan Bowling Club held an invitation day in honour of club stalwart Vic Brown, OAM, on Tuesday, October 23.

REPORTER: Full Court Press

Kadina’s A men received scoring contributions across the board to hand Arthurton its first loss of the season in the Yorke Valley Amateur Basketball Association on Friday night.

Yorke Valley Amateur Basketball Association’s junior representative sides will play at a carnival in Port Augusta this Saturday and Sunday, November 3-4.

After a successful couple of years, the Country Living Homes Country Twenty20 Champions Cup (CLHCT20) continues as an exciting addition to the South Australian cricket calendar.

A breeze of 12-15 knots on Sunday meant the nine participating boats had ideal conditions for the club championship heat 1, sponsored by the Sonbern Lodge Motel.

Copper Coast sporting clubs and community groups have a greater understanding of the support available after an information night in the Kadina Town Hall last Thursday, October 25.

Maitland Rifle Club held its annual open prize meeting on October 13 and 14, with shooters from around SA competing for the excellent array of prizes on offer thanks to the generosity of many sponsors.

FORMER YP AG agronomist Carly Buttrose, now of Kangaroo Island, has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Scholarship to study the world’s best practice in optimising the reproductive potential of sheep.

EMPTY agvet chemical containers returned by a farmer have helped South Australia crack the three million drum record.

Consumer Column
By Robert Harding – SA/NT Regional Director

THE weather is warming up and summer is on its way. While many people use this time of the year to spring clean the house and backyard, it’s also a great time to give your finances a once over.

LAST week, myself and three friends decided to have lunch and a wine at the Coopers Alehouse, Wallaroo.

WHAT a fantastic and generous community we live in! On behalf of the Upper Yorke Peninsula Relay for Life Committee, I would like to congratulate all who took up the challenge this year to participate in the Relay for Life during the weekend.

LAST Friday, I went to use the ATM at BankSA in Moonta.  I proceeded with my transaction and removed my card from the machine.

THIS matter has been on the District Council of the Copper Coast agenda for a long time.

I LIVE at Moonta Bay, approximately 160 kilometres from Adelaide.

JOURNALIST: Sonny Coombs

FIRST home buyers can nail up to $23,500 in grants thanks to new housing reforms announced by the state government last week.

POLICE detained a 32-year-old Wallaroo man who caused a partial lockdown in his town’s central business district by making a hoax threat last Wednesday evening.

JOURNALIST: Jenny Oldland

SUBMISSIONS about the state government’s draft marine park management plans closed yesterday (Monday), with a number of action and lobby groups still canvassing public support until the last minute.

HALLOWEEN is just a week away and Yorke Peninsula’s budding witches, vampires and ghosts are gearing up for a night of ghoulish fun.

THE iconic Innes Park Trading Post and Rhino’s Tavern is closed, just as the influx of summer visitors to the area is looming.

CONTRARY to popular belief, not all Australian men are running screaming from parenthood.

THE Cross family, of Brentwood, knows the importance of a local ambulance service after one of its members was saved by the quick actions of volunteer ambos after a car accident nine years ago.

SITE works have started for the new $3.6million public dental clinic at the Wallaroo hospital.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

EXPRESSIONS of interest have closed for five parcels of land formerly owned by developer Peter Butterly including The Dunes, Port Hughes.

JOURNALIST: Sonny Coombs

THE Copper Coast Youth Advisory Committee be-lieves there is a lack of public transport on Yorke Pen­insula and young people are being disadvantaged.

THE annual purchase of a book of People’s Choice Credit Union Community Lottery tickets has paid dividends for the Wardle family, of Moonta Bay.

JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

SMALL charter operators are concerned they could lose business due to new snapper limits which come into effect on November 30.

LAST Friday, the Sea SA ferry from Wallaroo to Lucky Bay carried its 25,000th passenger since the service restarted in February.

BOATIES again encountered problems at the Port Hughes boat ramp caused by low tides mid-last week.

WIND farm developers must now consider the impact of their projects on low-altitude agricultural aircraft movements, one of several changes to the state’s Development Plan Amendment.

PORT Wakefield police reported a 62-year-old Lochiel man for growing cannabis after finding 18 plants and almost a kilogram of leaf at his property on Thursday, October 18.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

CATHERINE Therese Collyer, 49, has been sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment, with a nine-month non-parole period, for the manslaughter of Troy Fraser Hannah at Edithburgh on December 20, 2009.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

DRUG offences continue to rise in the Yorke-Mid North area despite a drop in most other common crimes.

MUMMY power prevailed in the South Australian Parliament last week, with the government doing a back flip on its decision to cut funding for breastfeeding support.

YORKES Amaroo, a team of emerging leaders from the District Council of Yorke Peninsula, has won this year’s Local Government Managers Association Rural Management Challenge.

ARDROSSAN businesswoman Jeanette Long is passionate about helping rural women step up and take the lead in their careers.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

THE new Balgowan Country Fire Service station was officially opened last Friday, creating a new chapter in the brigade’s 22-year history.

JOURNALIST: Sonny Coombs

IT’S beginning to look a lot like Christmas in local retail stores and it’s only October.

A GROUP of Moonta residents recently tackled 10-foot fences, waist-high mud, rocky terrain and heavy weights — all in the name of fun.

MANDI Keain was pretty chuffed when she won the YP Tourism Boat Load of Fun competition in August last year.

THE 150th birthday celebrations for the first jetty in Wallaroo will be held this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 27 and 28. The event aims to celebrate the history and importance of the jetty which is now used for swimming.

ALEX Dassira, from the Angler’s Inn, Wallaroo, is on her way to raising $3000 for the U.G.L.Y. Bartender of the Year competition.

THE Apex Outback Postie Bike Ride has wrapped up for another year, with 11 riders and six support crew from Yorke Peninsula joining the four-day, 1100-kilometre fundraising event.

A GROUP of ladies from Adelaide, who have been friends for many years, some since primary school, get together a couple of times a year and enjoy a short holiday.

THE physiotherapy service at Wallaroo hospital has been strengthened with Catrin Evison and Sophie Chapman joining the team in the past 12 months.

KIRSTEN Weindeback, who writes creative non-fiction focused on Australian history, will be guest speaker at a Moonta Community Library coffee and cake evening on Thursday, November 1.

BABY boomers are showing up generation X when it comes to adopting new technology, according to BankSA research.

TICKETS are selling fast for this year’s Make-A-Wish® Melbourne Cup luncheon, so if you don’t already have your ticket, get in quick!

IN response to the article DCCC community grants announced (YPCT 9-10-12); I just want to express my horror at the once again blatant disregard for areas which are not Kadina or Wallaroo, and also the comments from Councillor Craig Costello.

ON Sunday afternoon, October 14, we attended the concert at the Wallaroo Town Hall organised by the Kadina Wallaroo Moonta Band.

DECLINING numbers of members and players are having serious effects on golf clubs.

TODAY, Thursday, October 18, after an enjoyable morning’s fishing from the Port Hughes ramp, to be able to retrieve my boat I had to get out of it and push it over the sand build-up in the entrance to the basin.

AS you may be aware, upper Yorke Peninsula is hosting a Relay for Life event to raise funds for Cancer Council SA at the Kadina oval this Saturday and Sunday, October 27 and 28.

ONCE a week, I travel to Kadina from Ardrossan and every time I do so I drive at the specified speed. It really irks me when I have motorists tailgating me to go faster; in the end they overtake me travelling at speeds of up to 120km/h.

Yorke Valley Amateur Basketball Association’s newly-expanded junior representative program sent 11 teams to a carnival at Murray Bridge on the October long weekend.

Bute Football Club has announced Matt Gallarello as its 2013 A grade coach.

The Yorke Peninsula Football League will decide whether to reduce each club’s allotted points for outside players at its annual general meeting next month.

REPORTER: Joan Hill

Wallaroo Mines is taking all before it, continuing its good form with a 19-shot win against Kadina at home.

Alford Bowling Club celebrated its 60th anniversary with invited guests, members and friends on October 1.

REPORTER: Kenn Rogers

Curramulka scored the upset win of the day in SYP bowls on Saturday with a seven-shot win against Yorketown at Curramulka.

Edithburgh Bowling Club hosted the Gifford Hancock Memorial Bowls Day recently.

The Yorke Peninsula zone inter-association twenty20 will be contested on the immaculate Arthurton turf wicket on Sunday, October 28.

REPORTER: Full Court Press

Reigning dual premiers Bears recorded their first win for the season, utilising a solid team effort to down Kadina by 10 points in the Yorke Valley Amateur Basketball Association’s A men on Friday night.

Sport and recreation clubs in the Copper Coast are invited to attend information nights presented by STARCLUB field officer Kristian Whitaker.

The Kadina Motocross Club finished its 2012 season with the annual Pony Express on Saturday, September 22.

Fred Howes, club cruising division and 40-year Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron member opened the Wallaroo sailing season earlier this month.

With a warm-up race cancelled due to rough weather the previous week, the Point Turton fleet dusted off the winter cobwebs and flew straight into the first championship race of the season on Saturday, October 13.

ALL homeowners and people renting properties with a balcony or raised deck, whether it’s timber, concrete or features steel supports, should check it out for safety in time for summer.

ROB Stephens, Elders Real Estate Yorke Peninsula specialist, received his fifth Rural Salesperson of the Year Award at the Real Estate Industry of South Australia’s Awards of Excellence in Adelaide on October 5.

Consumer Column
By Robert Harding – SA/NT Regional Director

FARMERS who assume their grain moisture meter is accurate may be risking grain rejection.

WEED management and stubble retention in the southern cropping region are being prioritised by the Grains Research and Development Corporation in its latest research investment plan.

THE latest Australian Made, Australian Grown campaign is calling on customers and consumers to help Australians keep their jobs.

A MEETING of the Parliamentary Sustainable Farming Select Committee scheduled to be held at Ardrossan tomorrow (Tuesday, October 23) has been deferred.

MUNDOORA was inundated with people on Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the town’s centenary of proclamation.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

A $10MILLION tourist resort including three-bedroom holiday rental homes, motel units and cabins will be built behind Clayton Drive at North Beach.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

RAIN, hail and strong winds battered Yorke Peninsula last Wednesday and Thursday, leaving many people wondering if winter was back.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

PUBLIC consultation will soon begin for the Kadina town centre master plan with council receiving $20,000 in grant funding for the $40,000 project.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

LIKE most new mothers, Moonta’s Carly Talbot thought she had kid-proofed her home before her son Grey became mobile and started exploring his surroundings.

EVERY year, 1121 South Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 200 women die from the disease.

JOURNALIST: Nick Perry

FINAL design tweaks to stage one of the Moonta, Moonta Bay and Port Hughes Community Wastewater Management Scheme are being made before a tender is finalised.

JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

A TWO-week extension to the snapper closure season for commercial fishermen and reduced bag limits for recreational and charter fishers are some of the changes introduced to protect future stocks of the species.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

THE Wallaroo Mines, Kadina, heritage area is dangerous and neglected, according to local residents concerned about their children’s safety.

JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

WITH spring weather here and pollen levels on the rise, asthmatics are reminded to have a current asthma plan and carry their reliever medication.

THE District Council of Barunga West has received a draft copy of its new Boat Ramp Enforcement Policy.

A MAJOR expansion of Electranet’s peninsula transmission network, a $25million upgrade of the Ardrossan West substation, is nearing completion and will come online later this month.

JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

A STATE parliamentary inquiry is continuing to investigate the school bus contract procurement process.

A LONG-RUNNING saga for District Council of the Copper Coast’s elected members over people lodging applications to vary their land management agreements has ended.

JOURNALIST: Jenny Oldland

COUNTRY Fire Service chief officer Greg Nettleton visited the Yorketown station on Sunday to attend a Southern Yorke Group family day and present several service awards.

EDITHBURGH police reported a 14-year-old Stansbury male for theft yesterday (Monday, October 15) as a result of investigations into the break-in spree around Edithburgh and Yorketown between February and August.

PORT Victoria business owners Terry and Rosemary Bormann are intent on boosting tourism in their town.

JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

THERE are just two weeks of school left before year 12 students on Yorke Peninsula start their final exams. The first exam for many local students is English Studies on Monday, October 29.

ABBY Muller, of Bute, will participate in the Westpac Stair Climb in honour of her best friend Shanae Lyall who died in a car accident last October.

THE Moonta Open Garden Festival Art in the Gardens theme provided an opportunity for passionate gardeners and artists to display their talents during the weekend.

THE 100th anniversary of the tiny Bublacowie School, north of Yorketown, will be celebrated with the opening of the Pioneer Garden during a special open day on Sunday, October 28.

REPORTER: Ali Kuchel

IF you have an old, unwanted or rusty bicycle you no longer use, take it down to the Yorke Peninsula Veterans and Com­munity Centre, Kadina, and it will be given a second life.

MOONTA’S Ena Taylor has overcome a lot of adversity to reach her 100th birthday.

THE Port Clinton Progress Association had a barbecue and naming ceremony to officially open the revamped section of the Walk the Yorke track from Port Clinton to Price on September 30.

MOONTA Dirt Bike Club’s Ride Day for Lucy is being held this Sunday, October 21, in aid of Lucy’s Champions for Hope.

UNITINGCARE Wesley Country SA (UCWCSA) celebrated 100 years of providing services to country people last Thursday, October 11.

ALMOST 200 employers, employees, family and friends walked the red carpet for the annual Yorke Peninsula Celebration of Employment Awards dinner held in the Ardrossan Town Hall on Saturday.

Port Broughton’s Dean Dolling has been playing at Golf SA Men’s Country Week for 50 years and was recently recognised for the milestone.

REPORTER: Peter Argent

Celebrating 100 years of football at Point Pearce, the Narungga side made it to the grand final of the 2012 South Australian Aboriginal Foot­ball Championships held at Argana Park, Elizabeth Downs, October 13-14.

Maitland Pistol and Shooting Club hosted the 2012 ISSF State Pistol Shooting Titles on the October long weekend.

The curtain has come down on another successful season, the presentation dinner held recently to celebrate the achievements of members.

Ardrossan Netball Club held its annual presentation afternoon recently.

The Northern Yorke Peninsula Little Athletics season has begun but it is not too late to join the fun.

Little athletics centres around the country are encouraged to add a splash of pink to their track and field events to support the McGrath Foundation.

REPORTER: Joan Hill

Wallaroo Mines made it two in a row, as did the ever-strengthening Moonta. Kadina got back on the winning track with a good win against Ardrossan and Port Broughton, which played extremely well, had a win against Paskeville. Wallaroo White, playing at home for the second week, had a good win against Bute.

REPORTER: Kenn Rogers

Round two in the SYP Bowling Association last Saturday resulted in three close games, one with an upset win on the last end.

Lower Northern Region tennis players won both boys’ and girls’ events at the statewide Foundation Cup at Gawler, September 23-27.

REPORTER: "Full Court Press"

Arthurton’s A men side exacted some revenge on Bears, defeating them by two points in the grand final rematch in the Yorke Valley Amateur Basketball Assoc­iation on Friday night.

South Australian Cricket Association coaches brought the popular MILO in2CRICKET program to schools around the peninsula last week.

Cricket clubs can apply for $1000 grants to buy equipment for their teams.

JOURNALIST: Steph Callow

LAST week’s rain had farmers rushing to get their hay into the shed, with the majority of Yorke Peninsula growers now finished bailing for the year.

ANNA Villa Stud at
Weetulta, celebrated its 50th annual flock ram sale on October 4.

FARMING sustainability will come under the spotlight at two meetings on Yorke Peninsula in coming weeks.

JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

As part of the Australian Year of the Farmer celebrations, the Yorke Peninsula Country Times is looking at different types of farming; this month we are looking at sheep.

YORKE Peninsula students based at the University of Adelaide’s Waite campus have returned from a two-week trip to India where they learned about the country’s agricultural practices.

ERADICATING habitats for stored grain pests is the best way to start a grain storage program. Habitats include anywhere there is a food source or shelter close to a food source.

THE subject for the Minlaton Ag Bureau’s October meeting was the chain of responsibility with the transport of farm produce, specifically the overloading and fatigue regulations.

AT a time when borrowers are being urged to make the most of this month’s cash rate cut, a national survey of more than 900 recent first homeowners has found almost one in three borrowers is unaware of their home loan’s interest rate.

THERE'S nothing with more potential to provoke disputes between neighbours than fencing. Ideally, it should be the responsibility of the two households it divides, but getting agreement on its care and maintenance is another matter.

CONTRARY to the letters supporting homosexuality (YPCT 9-10-12), God has forbidden such a lifestyle in Lev.18:22; this is referred to in 1Cor.6:9-11.

OUR interest rates on our bank savings accounts should stay no less than five per cent at all times, because people had to work hard for their money and pay stupid taxes at all times, like GST, mining and carbon taxes.

WE would like to express our appreciation to the council workers who are engaged in the upgrade of Otago Road, North Beach, as they have been most cooperative with regard to the residents’ use of the road whilst all the works have been in progress. I’m sure their thoughtfulness will continue until all is completed.

IT was heartening to read the letters of support for gays (YPCT 9-10-12) in the condemnation of Mrs Klaffer’s rather harsh piece of criticism (YPCT 3-10-12).

IN reply to Re-Action Group formed (YPCT 9-10-12), it would seem Peter Bourke and others could be likened to Nero, “as he fiddled, whilst Rome burned”.

MY compliments go to the District Council of the Copper Coast and the North Beach Progress Association being the parties behind the construction of the informative walking trail from the southern end of Clayton Drive to the start of Otago Road.

HALLOWEEN will get U.G.L.Y this Saturday night to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.

REPORTER: Peter Argent

The Woodville-West Torrens under 18 side is the 2012 Macca’s Cup premiers, with a large contingent of Yorke Peninsula players playing significant roles in the victory.

A brilliant grand final performance by Matt Appleton, of Moonta, has put him back on the AFL draft radar.

Chad Read and his Wallaroo Football Club teammates watched the SANFL grand final in style on Sunday.

They joined the crowd of more than 30,000 people to witness the match between Norwood and West Adelaide at AAMI Stadium.

REPORTER: Joan Hill

In windy, cold weather, the Northern Yorke Peninsula Bowling Association Saturday pennants 2012-13 season started with some close and exciting games.