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Work to further develop Woomera testing site ‘Nurrangar’ to create counteractive measures against

Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) could begin as early as next year.

A Public Works Committee (PWC), led by Chairperson and Member for McPherson on the Gold Coast Karen Andrews, paid a visit to Woomera last week.

Defence is looking to build new training facilities to conduct anti EID testing, which continue to be a threat to Australian De-fence Force personnel deployed all around the world.

An anti-IED Force Protection Electronic Counter Measure (FPECM) has already been developed, but over time further technology refreshment programs will be required.

Temporary testing is already being under-taken at Nurrungar, but a more permanent solution is being investigated at the site – one of the world’s most top secret locations.

Mrs Andrews said there were three things the PWC was looking for: whether the project was value for money, whether there was need for it and the scope of the application.

“We will look at any issues that may arise as well as why Defence have chosen this site for the path,” Mrs Andrews said.

She said the visit would also look at any im-pact the project would have on other equip-ment already onsite, as well as the needs of

the Woomera community and how many jobs could be created.

“Th e proposed facilities at Nurrungar and Edinburgh will close existing gaps in the Aus-tralian Defence Force’s capability to conduct research, development and acceptance testing of Force Protection Electronic Counter Meas-ures (FPECM) equipment,” Mrs Andrews said.

The PWC were taken on a tour of the Nurrungar area last week, and also met with Indigenous elders to discuss any issues they may have about traditional land use in the re-gion.

Public consultation meetings were also held giving residents a chance to have a say on the issue.

Mrs Andrews said all going well a report would be tabled by the fi rst week of Decem-

ber, and if approved, work would begin in April 2015 and fi nishing in late 2015.

“Th is is a signifi cant project which the De-fence has worked on for a number of years,” Mrs Andrews said.

“We are defi nitely hoping for a positive out-come.”

Woomera visit to inspect future Nurrungar project

D espite his usual cooler surroundings at home in the North Pole, Santa, along with around 14 other mem-

bers of the local community, braved the 40 degree heat to take part in Saturday’s Toy Run.

Th e motorbike convoy travelled from Roxby Downs to Andamooka, and helps to provide under privileged children in the Far North with presents for the festive season.

“It went really well,” event organiser Rob Halmai told Th e Monitor following the event.

“Due to the heat we had a few people pull out but we still had around 14 riders take part.”

Th e tour began in Roxby Downs, where rid-ers started with a lap around the main street before heading to Andamooka where they fi nished the ride at the famous local op shop.

Mr Halmai said he was thrilled with the support received for the event with locals donating presents to be passed onto needy families this Christmas.

Th e event has been running for around 20 years, wth people from both communities turning out to watch riders roll through town.

BY PATRICK GLOVER

Right: Santa heads off from Richardson Place on his way to Andamooka as part

of the annual Toy Run last Saturday.

Roxby Christmas Pageant this

Saturday at 7pm. See story Page 4

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Man denied fl ight at ODA 51-year-old New South Wales man was refused

entry onto an Olympic Dam fl ight recently after he made an inappropriate joke about working with explosives and aircrafts.

Local police were called to the airport where they spoke to the man and cautioned him about his be-haviour.

“Th e Olympic Dam Airport is a very secure air-port because you can get off a fl ight in Adelaide and head straight to a connecting fl ight in say Sydney,” Senior Sergeant Terry Boylan said.

“Th ey refused to let the man fl y which they are perfectly in their rights to do.

“Th e man had a momentary lapse of good judge-ment and it has cost him dearly.”

Other arrangements had to be made to for the man to return home and police enquiries will con-tinue into the incident.

Police have taken this opportunity to remind us-ers of airline or any public transport that joking about security will not be tolerated and can lead to fi nes, bans and possible arrest.

DrugsOne man has been arrested and two reported

for being in possession of drugs after a number of houses were searched in Roxby Downs and Anda-mooka recently.

As part of an ongoing drug operation within the Far North Local Service Area, Port Augusta, CIB, Roxby Downs and Andamooka Police – with the as-sistance of drug detection dogs – conducted search-es on several properties on Th ursday, November 13.

As a result a 30-year-old man was found with methamphetamine and cannabis in his Roxby Downs home and was arrested and charged with possession of controlled drug substance.

He has been bailed to appear in court in February. Th e search of a second property in Roxby Downs

resulted in police locating cannabis and drug par-aphernalia.

A 19-year-old Roxby Downs man was reported for possessing a prohibited substance and was is-sued with a drug diversion.

He has been summoned to appear in court at a later date.

An Andamooka house was also found to be con-taining an amount of cannabis.

A 27 year-old-man was reported for minor pos-session of a probative substance and will be sum-monsed to appear in court at a later date.

“We have ongoing drug intel coming in and going out,” Senior Sergeant Terry Boylan said.

“If anyone has any information on the manufac-turing or taking of drugs urgently contact the police or Crime Stoppers.”

Information can also be given personally at the police station and people can choose to stay anon-ymous.


Do you have a pair of shoes you no longer wear but

are still in good con-dition? Th row them in the bin … but not the rubbish bin, the Soles 4 Souls bin.

Rotary Roxby Dis-tricts is getting behind the Soles 4 Souls cause which asks people to donate pre-loved shoes to people in need in Tanzania and remote Australia.

Local donation bins

will be located in the roxbylink library and at Raine and Horne.

“Th is is the ideal com-munity for this because of all the young kids in town,” Rotary Rox-by Districts secretary/treasurer Sandy Sum-sion said.

“Kids don’t tend to wear out their shoes, they just grow out of them, so there should be lots of little shoes around.”

The club’s District Governor’s wife Julie Campbell has made the Soles 4 Souls program her special project, with

all South Australian Ro-tary clubs jumping on board to help.

With every pair of shoes donated a gold coin donation is also made, however to show their generosity Rotary Roxby Districts will be providing the gold coin donation for each pair themselves.

Mrs Sumsion said while the Rotary Club helps with a lot of things

locally, it will be great to combine their commu-nity spirit with a Rotary international program.

Not only will Rotary clubs in South Australia be getting involved, but a high profi le sporting team has also come on board to help out the cause.

“The Port Adelaide Football Club are also on board with this pro-gram,” Mrs Sumsion

said.“Th ey take any foot-

ball and netball shoes collected with them when they do their foot-ball/netball training ses-sions in the APY Lands.”

Collection bins will close December 20 to allow time to get the shoes to Adelaide before Christmas.

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Roxby Downs will celebrate its volunteers this weekend with an event on Saturday

for International Volunteer Day.

Roxby Council Community Pro-jects Offi cer Ann-Marie Arthur said volunteers play such a big part in Roxby Downs.

“Without volunteers the com-munity wouldn’t run,” Mrs Arthur said.

“A lot of what we do here in-volves volunteers and the things they help organise add vibrancy to the town,” Mrs Arthur said.

“It’s not just Roxby Downs but any town. If there were no volun-teers it would really aff ect human service.

“It has been said that Austral-ia would stop in a few minutes if there were no volunteers.”

Th ere are so many volunteers in Roxby Downs. In fact around 23 per cent of residents in 2011 were volunteers.

Often people go about their everyday lives not realising who the actual volunteers are. Everyone generally knows about the CFS,

SES and similar services, but other places run by volunteers include all the sporting clubs, Arid Recovery, school, the Big Warm welcome … and the list goes on.

Last year was the fi rst time the Roxby Downs community cele-brated International Volunteers Day, and after 40 people attended Mrs Arthur said it would be good to keep the momentum going.

Th is year’s International Volun-teer Day looks at the slogan: ‘Make change happen. Volunteer’.

“People are already volunteering so we don’t need to change that. It is more about celebrating the things they help make change to,” Mrs Arthur said.

“Th ey (volunteers) don’t like be-ing given prizes so it is good to be able to thank them for their con-tinued work.”

Th e celebration will also coin-cide with the award ceremony for the local Festival of Trees, and the opening of the annual tree exhi-bition.

“We have decided to do this because it’s the festive season and

it will be great to have so many people using the art gallery,” Mrs Arthur said.

Presentations will be held and prizes awarded in all eight catego-ries on the morning.

Th e Festival of Trees exhibition has also been extended until the end of January, so entrants no longer need to be available to col-lect their trees on January 12.

An interactive side to the Festi-val of Trees has also been includ-ed with the public asked to write down what Christmas means to them, starting with the volunteers at the morning tea, and place it on a tree.

This will continue over the course of the exhibition with everyone encouraged to contrib-ute.

Celebrations for the Internation-al Volunteer Day kick off at 9:30am at the roxbylink art gallery with a morning tea.

RSVPs can be submitted to Ann-Marie on 8671 0010 or at [email protected]. BY PATRICK GLOVER

When Pam Evans was named the Volunteer of the Month for

September she didn’t want anyone to know.

While she is grateful for the award she does not do any of her volunteer work for accolades, and is just glad she can do something she enjoys and help people in the process.

Mrs Evans plays a big part in the local Red Sands Cancer Council branch, and was involved

in fundraising for childhood can-cer through the Cancer Council before moving to Roxby Downs seven years ago. Since being in Roxby Downs she has also become involved with Rotary.

Mrs Evan is always willing to help with the Biggest Morning Tea, Daff odil Day and Relay for Life, which she was unfortunately unable to attend this year.

All these things she does be-cause of her love for the commu-nity.

“I enjoy being in Roxby Downs. It is a good community,” Mrs Ev-ans said.

She acknowledged other volun-teers who helped at local events.

“You don’t do things on your own. There are the people at school like Annette or Sister Pat and (my husband)Norm,” Mrs Ev-ans said.

Mrs Evans will be donating the $100 she receives from Big Sky to Relay for Life.

BY PATRICK GLOVER


F amily orientated volun-teer roles landed Mark Butterworth with the Big

Sky Volunteer of the Month award for October.

Th e father of three is part of the Strengthening Our Families Dads and Kids mornings as well as being a part of the Roxby Downs Area School (RDAS) Parent and Friends (P&F) committee.

He has three kids of his own he enjoys spending time with at the Dads and Kids events, and is committed to helping people in the community feel welcome.

“I had been to a few Dads and Kids events and the people that were running it left town,” Mr Butterworth said.

“So Chris Burggraaff and I took it over to keep it going and we have been running it ever since.

“You meet some new people and it is a bit of an extension from the Big Warm Welcome.”

Mr Butterworth said not every-one had families in Roxby Downs so part of a volunteer’s role, he be-lieves, is helping those people out.

“Volunteers generally do make Roxby Downs what it is,” he said.

“Not a lot of people have family here, so by making these events it helps develop a sense of com-munity.”

With events such as the school fashion parade and the Variety Club breakfast Mr Butterworth has enjoyed his time as a volun-teer at RDAS, which is another big part of volunteering for Mr Butterworth.

Mr Butterworth does not do this work for the recognition. He said it was good to be nominated and he thanked Big Sky for their $100 donation.

Th e money will go towards buy-ing new equipment for the Dads and Kids events.

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The recent Inaugural Scott McKay Golf Day was always going to be a big hit, with numbers at capacity weeks before the event began and

more teams put on a reserve list.

But no one, especially Scott’s wife Tracy, predicted the event would raise over $19,000 – with all proceeds going towards the family and some towards next year’s golf day.

“It is very overwhelming,” Mrs McKay said. “We have had so much support from a lot of families

and friends, it has been amazing.“Th is support, from so many people, just shows how

well respected and how loved Scott really was.“I have been absolutely blown away by the gener-

osity.”Organiser of the event Damon Wilkie was also

“ecstatic” with the outcome of the event and said it “exceeded all expectations”.

Despite heavy rain on the day all comments from the day Mr Wilkie had received were all positive, things like: “best golf day yet”, “super-event”, and “top eff ort”.

While all the golfers enjoyed themselves in the rain the lunch and dinner were also well attended with 200 people at lunch and over 100 people in attendance for the dinner.

A small auction was also held with a wine bar made by one of Mr McKay’s good friends going for $3300.

“No one thought, in their wildest dreams, it would be this successful,” she said.

She said the money would be used on building a swimming pool for the children, among other things.

Mrs McKay said this was a great tribute to her late husband and with the support of Mr Wilkie and others this event would become an annual occurrence.

“I hope the community gets behind the 2015 event as much as they did this year’s,” Mr Wilkie said.

See Tracy’s heartfelt thank-you in her Letter to the Editor on Page 6 this week.

I t’s that time of year again. Richardson Place is expected to be packed with people wanting to enjoy one of Roxby’s favourite event with friends

and family … famous annual Christmas Pageant.

“Interest has been high again this year with more stalls than previous and many great fl oats as well so we expect an excellent turnout,” Rotary Club of Roxby District’s Public Relations Director Deb Allen said.

“Crowds from previous years have been well be-haved and it is for this reason that the BYO status of the event has been approved once again.”

Currently 19 fl oats have entered the pageant, when the paper went to print on Monday, with the cut off for registration being today.

Registration forms can be collected and completed at submitted at either Roxby Hourglass Jewelers or Raine and Horne.

Rotary Club of Roxby Districts Treasurer Sandy Sumsion said everything had come together nicely people across Roxby Downs were getting excited.

“Everything is pretty much ready to go with fl oat and stall holders being contacted on the evening of Th ursday 27th Nov, advising what fl oat number they have been allocated and/or the location to set up their stall,” Mrs Sumsion said.

Th e pageant kicks off at 7pm from the front of the NAB and Adelaide band Mr Buzzy will also be return-ing to provide some extra entertainment for the crowd.

“Th e energetic and interactive Mr Buzzy is one of Adelaide’s hottest 4 piece party bands and they will be our entertainment for the evening once again,” Ms Allen said.

“Th ey play music from the 60’s right through to today’s hot hits.”

Th e Rotary Club has also listed a few things to be mindful of on the day. Th is includes no water bombs, no alcohol on fl oats during the parade, drinks in cans or plastic where possible, lollies to be wrapped, and for locals to remember to use rubbish bins.

Also they have urged people to be mindful of staying off the roads at the end of the event when they have been reopened to traffi c. BY PATRICK GLOVER

McKay Golf Day huge success

Biggest day on the Roxby

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Scotty McKay family and friends at the recent Inaugural Scott McKay Golf Day. The family want to say thanks to the Roxby Downs community for all their support.

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What’s happening at RDAS?

Julie Greenfi eld’s Year 5-6 class.

Year 6 Leaders Jadyen and Shae-lee. Jasmine and Jack. Regan. Brock. Chloe and Cooper.

Year 3-6 teachers.Mrs Christall’s and Mrs

Knights’ Reception class.

Latika.

Mrs Arbon and Mrs Traeger’s Year 1 class.

Mr Pearce’s Reception class.

Mrs Greenfi eld and Mrs Prosser’s Year 6 graduating class

of 2014

RDAS students perform the YMCA dance at Monday night’s concert

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The Celebrating Micro and Hobby Businesses night held at Chives on Saturday,

November 15 has revealed there are around 80 Micro Businesses hiding in Roxby Downs.

Organiser of the night and Bank SA Branch Manager Jade Quinn said the evening was a huge suc-cess and gave the 25 micro busi-nesses represented a chance to cross promote and meet other people in the similar circum-stances.

“It was all about getting their

name out there – networking is the key,” Mrs Quinn said.

“Opportunities for micro busi-nesses aren’t as great in the local market.”

Mrs Quinn said these types of events are good because people in Roxby Downs are often unaware of the micro-business sector, and these events provide them with ideas of how to get their names out there.

“There is a whole goods and service business sector that can’t be seen, but there is a lot availa-ble,” she said.

“If the town wants to love these businesses they need to show their support, get some backing

behind the businesses.”Th e night was such a success

Mrs Quinn said the event may even become a quarterly or bi-an-nual event.

“After the success and the feed-back I got, I said, if people wanted to see another one just contact me and let me know,” she said.

“I have already had a fair few people contact me and say they would like to see another one.”

With the new Totally Locally branding about to be released in Roxby Downs Mrs Quinn said the smaller businesses in town would benefi t from adopting its aim to-ward local businesses helping each other out.

Roxby Downs Community Garden members braved the heat recently to plant four

diff erent species of creeping plants.

The creepers were planted along the wire fence surrounding the garden shed, with hope the addition of the plants will make the fence more aes-thetically pleasing while also creating some shade and protection from the sun and wind.

Passionfruit, Hardenbergia and Kennedia species were planted along the fence, with these species selected due to their hardy nature and beautiful coloured fl owers.

Th e passionfruit will also provide some delicious fruit that the Roxby Downs community will be able to enjoy.

Th e community garden, located be-tween Alberrie Street, Pioneer Drive and Mulgaria Crescent, has started to take shape in recent months, with the committee working together to build a double bank composting system and plant a range of native species.

“It is hoped that the Community Gar-den will be an outdoor space that the Roxby Downs community can enjoy, whilst also demonstrating sustainable and arid smart gardening practices,” Community Projects Officer Anni Walsh explains.

Self-watering or wicking garden beds are next on the agenda for the Commu-nity Garden, with the committee cur-rently looking into garden bed designs to support vegetables and herbs.

“Roxby residents recently completed a survey on the Community Garden, with 82% of respondents indicating that they would like to see vegetables and herbs planted at the garden”, says Ms Walsh. “Th is will be a large project for the Community Garden, and it would be great if anyone in the community has experience with wicking beds and is keen to help out.”

If you would like more information on the Community Garden, or are in-terested in becoming involved, please contact Anni Wals h on 0448 168 167.

Creeping plants latest addition to garden

80 micro businesses call Roxby home

Abi Mann, Jade Quinn, Jess Daw and Zoe Bannerman. Hayley Scrivens and Lisa Hewerdine.

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McKay family says thank you

On the June 11 2014 my hus-band Scott passed away at our home in Roxby downs.

We have three children who along with myself, Scott’s fami-ly, my family and our friends are completely heart broken and dev-astated.

I am writing this as my personal thank you to the amazing people of Roxby Downs and surround-ing communities for their over whelming love and support.

As a lot of you may be aware Damon Wilke, Harry Noll and a lot of other people/businesse s in our community ran a golf day in honor of Scott (sorry I can’t name everyone).

Th is event raised a lot of mon-ey for our kids and I. Also Sarah Cordy and Felicity Foggo arranged to open a bank account so people could donate money to us too.

Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think I would fi nd my-self in the situation the kids and I are in, but with the love and sup-port from family, friends and the

community of Roxby Downs it has made our lives a little easier and to know that we live in such an amazing town is over whelm-ing.

I would like to take this op-portunity to thank everybody for their love and support.

Some days I wake up and don’t know if I can keep going but I then think about everything that has been done for us and that gives me the strength to keep going.

I will never be able to repay you all but please take this as a per-sonal thank you from all of Scott’s family and friends for being there for the kids and I.

Scott was the best husband, father, son, brother, uncle and friend that you could ever come across.

We miss him terribly every day and will do for the rest of our lives but with the love and support around us I know we will keep going strong for Scott.

We love and miss you honey xxxx

Th ank you all!Love from Tracy, Demi, Kiara

and Jay.



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Bel Swanson, Dan Vardy and Fiona Clark enjoyed the recent fair.

Chris, Audrey, Jocelyn and Hamish Burggraaff

at the fair recently.

Ryan and Aiden had fun at the fair.

Brianna and Blake.

Tiana and Bridie.

Cerys Kirkwood and Jed.

Kelly Harris, Emy Nicholson and

Rebecca Gardner.

Daniel, Maria D’Arrigo, Alex Ward, Kristen, Mikey,

Tony and Joe D’Arrigo.

Summer Reading Club 2014 – Get ready for an Adventure!This summer the Roxbylink Library will be once again running the summer reading club and we encourage children to join in the fun! Choose your own adventures from the library and read stories of dodging danger,

run from Monday 1 December 2014 to Saturday 31

libraryresources to the and libraryan

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The year I met you by Cecelia Ahern

The lost key by Catherine Coulter

Plague ship by Clive Cussler

Prince Lestatby Anne Rice

Bridie’s bootsby Phil Cummings & Sara Acton

by Ben Elton

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Malia and Kapri enjoyed the St

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Elsa Scroop and Deb Price doing

some broadcasting at the recent fair.

Sally Natt, Mitchell, Kylie Dospisil, Kate, Rachael and Amy.

Nathan Rainsford and Nissa Gordon at the recent RDAS Formal.

Stacey Wickham and Sam Clarke at the

recent RDAS Formal.

Logan and Michelle Casserly.

Naomi and Laura Johnson.

Savannah and Sienna.

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WHO’S ON THE BOARD

CONTACTING THE BOARD

BOARD MEETINGSBoard 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 presentation 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 85

Roxby Downs SA 5725Mobile: 0418 833 818

Email: [email protected]

Michelle Davis • George GiakoumisVicki Mason • Gaylene Crane

Mary Lewis • Brett McNeilBill Boehm • Nidya Iwan • Di Stanton

• Cherie Gaskin • Sandy Sumsion

JOINING FORUMSIf you would like to join a forum and would like more information please

contact the following people.

New members are always welcome.

ARTS and CULTURE FORUMRachel Young 0428 671 000

Thursday, November 27 @ 7pm

Council Boardroom

BUSINESS FORUM Laura Trotta 0412 734 964

TBC 2015

SPORTS and REC FORUMMichelle Hales 0418 833 818

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COMMUNITY GARDENTBC 2015

ENVIRONMENT FORUMPerri Carter 0433 248 627Thursday, February 5 @ 7pm

Council Boardroom

ROXBY ROADSAFE MEETINGMichelle Hales 0418 833 818Thursday, December 11 @ 5.30pm

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MULTICULTURAL FORUMSasha Yantewo (08) 8671 0010

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WOMEN’S NETWORKLisa Hewerdine (08) 8671 0010

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S choolies Week is considered by some as a cultural rite of passage in Australia.

It is an in between phase or transition time in terms of social status. Schoolies Week should be a week of celebrations of good times and special friends, not a regrettable experience due to poor judgement or irresponsible behav-iour.

Take some simple precautions so you can enjoy yourself without putting yourself or your whole future at risk. Some issues to be aware of include:

• Drink spiking – assume that anyone is capable of spiking your drink. Lots of drink spiking is actually done by people you know adding more alcohol (as opposed to other drugs) into your drink. Don’t leave your drinks sitting around. If you all go off dancing at once, buy new drinks afterwards. Buy drinks with lids you have to open yourself. Don’t accept water from anyone either

• Sexual assault – this is unfortunately all too common during schoolies week. Look out for drink spiking. Going off with a stranger puts you at high risk, especially if you have been drinking, so don’t go to a private place such as a hotel room with someone you don’t know. Catch a cab at the end of the night rather than walking the streets. Males get sexually assaulted during schoolies week too, so these tips also apply to guys

• Brawls – avoid gangs of males who seem to be wandering without purpose. Testosterone plus alcohol can sometimes equal a brawl. Violence tends to spread through a crowd, so don’t hang around to watch if a brawl starts

• Drugs – if you decide to take drugs, make sure you tell your friends what kind so they can give this information to ambulance offi cers or other medical staff in case of an overdose. Avoid mixing drugs with alcohol or other drugs. Stay with your friends at all times

• Physical injuries – when outside, even on the beach, keep your shoes on and watch for broken glass and syringes. Don’t sit down without check-ing behind you

• Drowning – don’t drink or take drugs and swim

• Th eft – don’t leave your stuff unattended on the beach. Take it in turns to look after every-one’s stuff .

To all our Roxby Down’s schoolies, congratu-lations on a great eff ort. You have worked very hard this year and deserve a well-earned break. Wherever you are stay safe and always be careful.

Outback Smart wraps up for 2014The Outback Smart program has

had a successful year, with the program delivering environ-

mentally sustainable workshops and educational programs to almost 70 Roxby residents throughout 2014.

Th e aim of Outback Smart is to pro-mote environmentally friendly solu-tions for the home and garden, specifi c to Roxby’s desert environment.

Outback Smart is a grass roots pro-gram about skill sharing and creating a more environmentally conscious community, and is supported by the Roxby Downs Environment Forum and Community Garden.

A variety of successful workshops were completed throughout 2014, in-cluding Green Cleaning and Green Beauty where participants created their own cleaning and beauty products, an irrigation workshop that demonstrat-ed arid smart gardening techniques, up-cycled jewellery, where participants created their own recycled jewellery, an animal tracking workshop that enabled participants to identify animals by their footprints in the sand, and a pea prop-agation workshop that was extremely popular, with 29 people attending to learn how to grow their own Sturt De-sert Peas and other pea varieties.

All Outback Smart workshops at-tendees went into a draw to win an Outback Smart Home Sustainability prize pack.

Five-year-old Zoe Bryant, who at-tended the pea propagation workshop with her family, won fi rst prize, and is now the lucky owner of a Bokashi One Compost System and home sustaina-bility gadgets worth over $130.

Second prize was a Green Beauty bundle, filled with environmental-ly friendly and greywater safe beau-ty products. Th is was won by Denys

Moore, who also attended the pea propagation workshop.

Th e third prize was a Green Cleaning bundle, fi lled with Earth Choice envi-ronmentally friendly and greywater safe cleaning products. Th is was won by Kul’tus Nagrand, who attended the Animal Tracking workshop.

All prize winners now have the op-portunity to incorporate sustainable practices within their own home, ex-periencing the benefi ts of environmen-tally friendly products that they may otherwise not have been aware of.

“We are extremely excited to use the Bokashi One Composting System,” said Sally Bryant, Zoe’s mum. “We already compost at home, so the Bokashi One System should save us from visiting the compost bin so often, which will be a bonus during the hot months. Th e Bo-kashi juice will also be a great fertilizer that we can use to help our vegetables and fl owers grow.”

The Outback Smart program and workshops will continue to run throughout 2015, and will be com-plemented by a ‘Sustainable Living in Roxby Downs’ booklet. Th e booklet will contain information about methods to reduce our impact on the earth by sav-ing water and energy. Th ere will also be content on reducing waste in your home and garden, and environmentally sustainable transport options. A num-ber of Roxby Downs locals have also shared personal tips and information on how they choose to live sustainably in Roxby Downs.

If you would like more information on the Outback Smart program, or if you have an environmentally sustain-able skill or tip that you would like to share with the Roxby Downs commu-nity, please email Anni Walsh at [email protected].

Don’t let your schoolies

celebrations go pear shaped

Sally Bryant, Lachie and Zoe, who won the Bokashi One Compost System.


Roxby Council

Opening hours Monday to Friday9 am to 4.30 pm

Council 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 businessesRecycling can be taken either

to the Opal Landfi ll orBSH Waste Solutions on Gosse Street

All enquiries: 8671 1154

Opening hours 9 am to 5 pm Monday-Wednesdays, Fridays

9:30am to 5pm Thursdays9.30 am to 12 noon Saturdays

Telephone 8671 0500Email: [email protected]

Library membership is free. Wide range of resources are available including books, DVDs, magazines and internet facilities.Toddler Story Time 10.30am Thursday.

Opening hours

9 am to 5 pm weekdays

Telephone 8671 0010 • Fax 8671 0452


After hours emergency

Mobile 0418 892 870

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The ‘Revitalising Richardson Place’ project and community consultation aims to stimulate

business activity for local retailers, by activating the main street with initiatives such as pop-up shopping and alfresco dining in Richardson Place. Council is very pleased by the strong response from the community attending the consultation sessions on September 9, and was pleased to receive constructive feedback via the survey.

Th e community showed clear sup-port for making some improvements to the Richardson Place precinct, making Richardson Place a more “peo-ple-friendly” street.

A summary of feedback received through the consultation has been prepared by Natalya Boujenko (In-termethod) and Lisel McLeay (Jensen Planning and Design), and the Consul-tation Feedback Report is now availa-ble to download from Roxby Council’s website.

Feedback received from the commu-nity showed strong support for the in-stallation of amenity improvements in Richardson Place, such as introducing additional shaded areas, trees, land-scaping, art and infrastructure to sup-port community events. Longer term elements such as changing the street into a ‘shared’ environment (remov-ing kerbs and making the area single surface) and installation of water play features had a more mixed response re-quiring further work and consultation.

Council is concerned about the retail environment and that our local busi-nesses are suff ering and along with this feedback from both Future Roxby! and Revitalising Richardson Place consul-tation sessions, Council plans to im-plement design suggestions that were strongly focused on activating the main street, which in turn will help support the local retail environment.

Th e consultation team has prepared a list of recommended improvements to Richardson Place (predominantly within the green area in the median strip) as a more immediate focus. Th e recommended changes were based on the strongly supported aspects of the proposal, focusing on improving the business environment for local trad-

ers, while making the main street an improved environment for the com-munity.

“Th e detailed responses the commu-nity have provided to us through the Revitalising Richardson Place project consultation have identifi ed commu-nity priorities in Richardson Place. Th is information helps Council prioritise the roll out of the proposed design ele-ments, which will be implemented both immediately and in the medium and longer term”, Council Administrator, Bill Boehm said.

Council has made budget allocations for several recommendations including:

• Th e upgrade of the events facili-ties in Richardson Place, i.e. power and water

• Providing an additional wombat crossing

• Improving landscaping, public art, signage and lighting

• Assisting the development of new business stimulation activities with a retail and arts focus.

Council is also exploring options to improve shade; for example new and/or improved shade structures over the grassed area in the median strip. Dis-cussions are also planned with shop owners and traders regarding canopy extensions over footpaths along the re-tail strip will to review the potential for outdoor trading; and shape new policies for outdoor dining aimed at encourag-ing activation of the street.

Other elements such as new toilets will be considered in the longer term. In the meantime, review and amenity improvements of the existing toilet fa-cilities are also being planned. Similar longer term planning timeframes apply to other street improvements such as the rationalisation and/or relocation of car parking, with a view to creating more green/picnic space.

Roxby Council wishes to thank all community members who participated in this consultation, your feedback has greatly assisted the strategic develop-ment to assist a revitalised Richardson Place which will complement already planned progress for upgrade works associated with playgrounds and rec-reational areas within the broader town centre.

A s the temperature soars with the onslaught of summer and the use of air conditioners and evaporative coolers becomes more

frequent, many residents may be struggling with large utility bills.

While air conditioner use is necessary in our desert environment, a review of your household’s energy and water use may fi nd areas of waste which if remedied may add up to big savings on bills. It could be as simple as turning off appliances at the wall when not in use to save on ‘phantom power usage’ or installing more effi cient watering systems in the garden.

Th e roxbylink Library has a Home Energy Toolkit for loan to residents which has instructions and temperature and power metres which can be used to conduct a home audit. Doing an audit takes under an hour of time and can be a fun and in-formative activity to do with your entire family. Th e toolkit lets you calculate in dollar terms how much individual appliances cost per hour of use which is a very powerful way of understanding how bills can add up.

While money may be the biggest incentive to look at energy and water use, reduced energy and water use is also better for the environment.

For more information about the energy toolkits or to reserve one for loan see the Community Li-brary which is open on weekdays and from 9.30am till noon on Saturday.

Revitalising Richardson Place

Community Shapes Revitalisation of Richardson Place

AUSTRALA DAY AWARDS 2015

Nominations are now invited for the 2015 Australia Day Awards.

Download your nomination form at http://www.roxbycouncil.com.

au/Council/m-Home.html

NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS IN BRIEFSecond Quarter Rates

Notices

The second quarter Rates Notices have been sent and are due by Friday, 19 December, 2014.

Roxby Council provides a range of easy pay-ment options. Please refer to the back of the rates notice and / or contact the Council Offi ce for further information.

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Soccer profi le growing in Roxby

Members of the Roxby Downs Junior Soccer Association enjoyed a season break up last Sunday, which included presentation of season awards and a friendly game between junior team mates at the local soccer oval.


R epresentatives from the Roxby Downs Soccer Association (RDSA) have travelled down to Adelaide

for a meeting of rural South Australian Soccer Leagues and the Football Federation of South Australia (FFSA) for the fi rst time recently.

RDSA co-ordinator Tony D’Arrigo and Roxby Council Administrator Bill Boehm made the trip to Adelaide, where they met with FFSA offi cials and members of Asso-ciations from Whyalla, Port Pirie, the Riv-erland, etc.

“It (the trip) was really good,” D’Arrigo told Th e Monitor.

“Th ey were really welcoming because this was the fi rst time ever there has been a rep-resentative from Roxby Downs at that level.”

Th e meeting talked about the future of the game of soccer and how the game is con-tinuing to grow as well as opportunities for younger soccer players in South Australia.

Th e representatives from each of the as-sociations were also shown the new soccer facilities at West Beach, and the new arti-fi cial turf that has been put there, as well as enjoying the Adelaide United win over the Wellington Phoenix at Cooper Stadium.

“All things are good in South Australian soccer at the moment and on top of that we

got to watch Adelaide United,” Mr D’Arrigo said.

“Th e atmosphere was amazing.”Also confi rmed at the meeting was Roxby

Downs’ next scheduled Football Federation Premier Soccer League game, sccheduled for March 28 next year.

“Th ey are coming back and are really ex-cited about it all,” Mr D’Arrigo said.

“Th ey said it was a really good weekend, well worth it.”

Mr D’Arrigo said plans for a small soccer competition in Roxby Downs to start next year was also in the pipeline to give children an opportunity to play a diff erent sport, with the possibility of grants discussed with the FFSA while in Adelaide.

Local players enjoyed a fun game at the

presentaitons.


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A fter only having 10 players on Saturday morning the Roxby Downs Cricket Association side managed to

fi nd enough members to travel down to Port Pirie on the weekend to compete in the Upper North Intercity competition.

Th e side missed out on playing off for fi rst by one wicket in the fi rst game, and were out-played in their fi nal game going down by 112 runs.

But despite fi nishing the carnival winless, association caption Paul Polujnikoff said it was a great weekend and the team gave it their all.

“Th ankyou to all who attended the weekend down at Port Pirie and gave up their time to represent Roxby Downs,” he said.

“It was a great weekend spent with guys that we normally play against in local cricket here in Roxby.

“We started off on Monday looking like we were heading down with one of the stronger sides we’ve sent, but by Friday we had six guys who had to pull out and by Saturday morning we were down to 10.

“Nonetheless we certainly gave it our best eff ort and we can hold our heads up high. (I am) really proud of all of the guys, hopefully

we can get better from the experience and be even more competitive next time we meet.”

Th e hard fought nature of the losses and some good performances showed with the RDCA side boasting two players in the team of the carnival – Patrick Glover and Adrian Boulton.

Game 1 at Port OvalRDCA 10/169 (Denbesten 42, Boulton

27, Langdon 26) defeated by Port Augusta 9/178 (Glover 3/25, Langdon 3/53, Boulton 2/20)

Th e Wedgies landed in Port Pirie on Satur-day morning having just found enough players to compete against Port Augusta at Port Oval.

In warm conditions captain Paul Polujnikoff won the toss and elected to bat.

He along with young Port Pirie local Ollie Cosmai, who was fi lling in for the carnival, opened the batting.

Th e Wedgies got off to a bad start losing Cosmai with the score at just fi ve and when the skipper followed at the score at 21, it the RDCA side were looking in trouble.

Josh Sheppard and Jacob Langdon then combined to take the score to 47 before Shep-pard fell for 14.

Langdon fell soon after for a well-made 26, and this brought Adrian Boulton and Camer-on Denbesten to the crease.

Th e two set about taking the score past 100 with some big hitting and despite Boulton falling for 27 Denbesten continued the show crashing his way to 42 before being bowled.

A quick fi re 24 from association president Paul Trotta at the end of the innings helped steer the wedgies to a competitive 169.

Patrick Glover and Jacob Langdon were thrown the new ball and set about chipping away at the Port Augusta top order.

Met with stiff resistance and an early dropped chance Port Augusta survived the fi rst seven overs without losing a wicket.

But Langdon got the break-through in the eighth over removing Th ornton for 17 and the old cricket saying “one brings two” was spot on the money with Langdon claiming a second wicket three balls later.

With the Wedgies right back in the game a few expensive overs off the bowling of Den-besten saw Port Augusta regain some momen-tum before Adrian Boulton with some tight bowling tightened the screws and brought about two more wickets before the drinks

break. Glover was re-introduced into the attack

following the drinks break with immediate eff ect claiming two wickets in his fi rst over after drinks.

With the score at six for 62 the W edgies looked to be right on top and heading for the fi nal but a 49 run partnership saw Port Augus-ta take the score to 111 before Lucas Holbrook struck on the drinks break to make the score seven for 111.

Glover was introduced into the attack straight after the drinks break again and claimed his third wicket to have Port Au-gusta at eight for 126 still needing 44 runs to win.

And when Langdon claimed the ninth wick-et and his third, with the score at 152, victory was in sight.

But a fi nal wicket stand of 26 saw Port Au-gusta claim the victory with six overs still to spare.

Game 2 at Memorial OvalWhyalla 5/305 (Beenham 2/8, Boulton

1/31, Glover 1/45) defeated RDCA 10/144 (Glover 46, Langdon 32, Trotta 28)

After a close defeat the day before the Wedgies were looking for revenge, but after losing the toss and being made to fi eld fi rst their weekend went from bad to worse.

Patrick Glover made the opening break through with the score at 46 but the wickets then dried up with the Whyalla opening bats-men Fiebig (110*) and number 3 Collison (135) putting on a massive 212 run partnership.

Adrian Boulton fi nally removed Collison towards the end of the innings with three more wickets following with Whyalla looking to up the run rate in the fi nal few overs.

Andamooka captain James Beenham was thrown the ball for the fi rst time that weekend in the fi nal over and claimed two wickets to have Whyalla fi nish at 5/305.

Th e Wedgies got off the worst possible start losing captain Paul Polujnikoff in the fi rst over for 0.

Ollie Cosmai and fi llin for the day Obst fol-lowed soon after with the score at 14 which once again brought Josh Sheppard and Jacob Langdon together.

Like the day before the two combined for a 32 run partnership but were unable to go on with it with sheppard falling for 12 followed soon after by Langdon for 32.

Paul Trotta and Patrick Glover showed some stiff resistance with pair taking the score well past 100.

Trotta fell for 28 and Glover continued on as Boulton and Holbrook came and went before Glover was the last wicket to fall, just short of his maiden 50, in the fi nal over for 46.

Th e Wedgies were all out for 144.

Wedgies so far, yet so close MAIN PHOTO: Jacob Langdon plays a cover

drive on his way to 32 against Whyalla.INSET TOP: Cameron Denbesten looks to hit another

ball to the boundary against Port Augusta.INSET BOTTOM: Wedgies captain Paul

Pulojnikoff fends off a shorter ball.

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