Mannum Mag Issue 44 March 2010

March 2010

Mannum, South Australia 5238

Issue Number 44

Mannum Dock Museum Interactive Exhibition uring February Member for Schubert, Mr Ivan Venning visited the Mannum Dock Museum and the site of the new Caurnamont Boat Ramp.

While visiting the Mannum Dock Museum, Mr Venning presented a $10,830 cheque to the Mannum Dock Museum, following their successful application for funding for an interactive children’s exhibition.

It is planned that the interactive exhibition will feature small activity sets styled to represent each of the vessels crew members’ work stations. Activities will be designed to allow children to learn about the vessel’s operations, the role of each of the crew members and the challenges of the environment. Children will be able to participate by hearing and seeing the people who actually ran the paddle steamer.

Mr Venning said he was delighted the Mannum Dock Museum had received another grant to improve the facilities and the activities on offer to visitors.

“When this museum was first created it was a lot different to what it is now” Mr Venning said, “I remember when it wasn’t a much more than an old shed.

“Now thanks to the tireless work of many volunteers, along with receiving numerous funding grants, the Mannum Dock Museum and Visitor Information Centre is regarded as one of the first places to visit when arriving in Mannum.

“I believe it is very important to ensure that the history of the area is preserved - this museum has achieved that, by including the paddle

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steamer PS Marion, the dry dock, working steam engine, displays about river trade, the 1956 floods, information about the indigenous culture of the area, among many other displays.” Mr Venning said.

The Mannum Dock Museum of River History and Visitor Information Centre, located on Randell Street, are open seven days a week. Further information can be obtained by phoning the Visitor Centre on 8569 1303 or the Museum Office on 8569 2383.

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Mr Ivan Venning presents the $10,830 grant cheque to Jenny Callander, Executive Officer of the Mannum Dock Museum.

Revive and Thrive $10,000 Grant for Mannum e are pleased to announce that the Murraylands Regional Tourist Association has been nominated SA winner of a $10,000 grant for Mannum and are in the running for a further $40,000 if nominated as National Winner Of the ABC Revive and Thrive Challenge.

The Original Mannum Canoe Trail, designed and initiated by MRTA Inc, received Initial f u n d i n g thr o ugh the Mannum Progress Association and a Mid Murray Council Community Grant.

It identified two wrecks, one of which was affectionately called the “Unknown Wreck”. It has

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generated some stories and speculation, and jogged a few memories. We have been busily piecing together an identikit.

Late in 2009 a gentleman, Don, came to us with Pictures and a Story about the Boat and its owner/builder and a unique feature. This story needs to be told and will be with this grant money. A small celebration will be organised to be held at the

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Mannum Dock Museum.

None of this would have come to fruition without the drop in water levels; we are part of Living History today. This gives us a Snapshot in time…

We have been busily putting together a submission for the National prize of $40,000 Focusing on a Community Celebration at Mannum, which will benefit not only Mannum

but all communities in the Murraylands. The ABC has requested to be in Mannum when the National Draw takes place. www.VisitMurraylands.com.au In March we celebrate 12 months since releasing our website and r eb r and ing Murraylands “its unexpected”.

As an Industry Association of 29 years we are proud of our achievements on behalf of our members and the Region.

MRTA Promotions On Behalf of the MRTA Committee

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Memories of Mannum 22 MMCSS & CHIPS Coordinator 8 Out of this World 8

Police & Neighbourhood Watch 18 Puzzle 3 Under the Toadstool 7

Letters to the Editor Deadline 26 March 2010 for publication in the April issue

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A Job Well Done

Request to Council

Dear Editor, Frequently we hear of people complaining about the youth of today, but seldom hear compliments.

We have recently had the occasion to hire a group of local young men named KBM Concreting.

Their work has been admired by a number of people as their standard is of high quality.

Amongst other attributes is their work ethic, manners and the ability to suggest other ideas to improve on our limited plans.

Even the clean up was carried out as professionally as the actual work.

We would like to say how pleased we were to see such young men apply themselves to their new business, and wish them all success in the future.

Dear Editor, ... and Mid Murray Council CEO and/or Councillors.

In December 2009, The Mag published my letter about Mid Murray Council’s Planning policies, concluding with the request: “Would the CEO kindly arrange an article in Mannum Mag which summarizes Mid Murray Council’s relevant rules on sustainable housing? What is the Council doing proactively to encourage responsible building?”

S i nce Mannum Mag’ s February 2010 edition did not include any response from the CEO, I decided to attempt yet again to find something relevant on Council’s web-site. No luck there either.

I tried “Policies”, and the site read, “… currently reviewing all policies” and so none were there. A browse through the categories on the site yielded nothing under ‘sustainable’, ‘energy efficiency’, or similar.

Clicking on “Development Act” resulted in the computer jamming on page 1, and refusing to move.

With the new year well underway now, I appeal to the CEO again, or any of our Councillors, to inform us.

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Linda and Alan Hunter

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Does Mannum Have A Problem?

Dear Editor, advocates allowing children to With regard to the article drink alcohol at 16 years of age. authored by Mr Biagioni Ask the local ambulance drivers (Annual Horrordays, Mannum or the police response to Mag, Issue 43) allow me to concerns of underage drinking in make these comments. the town, or the new residents While the local constabulary is receiving death threats from wasting time and resources local drug barons. Ask why prosecuting a middle aged local small business owners are resident for allegedly spinning apparently discouraged from the wheels of his vehicle in the setting up shop in Mannum gravel at the Mannum Football (unless they are ‘owned’ by Oval (misuse of a motor vehicle locals). Ask why there are - 12 months disqualification, anecdotally only two industries drive dangerously - 2 years ‘allowed’ in Mannum. As a i mp r i s o n me n t ) h e , a n d c o l l e a g u e i n A d e l a i d e Mannum’s reputation, will commented “It sounds like the continue to suffer. It appears that deep south of America.” I found justice in Mannum only favours it hard to disagree. the few and is used more as an In conclusion, the majority instrument in the service of the response to Mr Biagioni’s letter, personal vendettas of local and probably mine, will be powerbrokers than as a “Lump it or leave.” This is protective shield for us hoi exactly the attitude that has seen polloi.

Mannum disappear off most of For those thinkers out there the Top Ten Lists (holiday who are truly concerned with the destinations, land prices, future direction of Mannum’s liveability, property growth, development and engagement of etc.) compiled in the last ‘Gen X and Y’, as touched on by half-decade. Congratulations!

Name Supplied Shane Strudwick’s articles in the same issue, it may be best if they begin questioning the status quo.

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From Your Local Member The New Caurnamont Boat Ramp From page 1

n April 2009, Mr Venning was contacted by a Caurnamont resident who expressed the frustrations of the local community that they had been left without a boat ramp for the previous three years. During that time they had to travel nearly two hours to use the boat ramp facilities in Bow Hill.

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Mr Ivan Venning inspects the progress of the Cauramont boat ramp with Mid Murray Council Works Supervisor Mr Andrew Strauss.

Following enquiries by Mr Venning, Mid Murray Council submitted an application for funding to the South Australian Boating Facilities Advisory Committee (SABFAC) for a new boat ramp at Caurnamont. The application was approved in November 2009. However, due to delays with the Minister’s office signing off on the funding,

construction was not able to commence until this year.

Mr Venning said he was pleased to see the construction is now well underway.

“There are 172 shacks in the town and to have to travel a two hour round trip to put a boat in the water made it a very time consuming exercise.”

Mr Venning expressed disappointment that the construction was delayed because the Minister did not sign off on the funding in a timely manner.

“I understand now that there is a race to have the boat ramp completed prior to the extra flows of water coming downstream, so that none of the construction work in progress is washed away.

“I would like to commend both the Caurnamont community for bringing this matter to my attention and the Mid Murray Council for moving as swiftly as they could once they received the funding” said Mr Venning.

Extracts from Ivan Venning’s media releases. Editor

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his is the last issue that our colleague, Elfrieda Wallent, will be involved with as she is leaving Mannum for “pastures new”.

Elfrieda has been an untiring voluntary worker for Mannum Mag since its inception. She will be remembered for her monthly articles “Under the Toadstool” and “Choristers Corner” which were entertaining, informative, amusing and at times erudite.

E l f r i e d a wa s a l s o a contributing editor, preparing the Memories of Mannum column from her interviews with local people.

Behind the scenes she did many other things by way of phone calls and visits, distributing the large print edition and assisting with the printing and collating of the

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special issues at the end of each year. She was always willing to do more than her share.

At the end of each month, on printing day she would arrive laden with goodies for us all homemade cakes and biscuits, (gluten free for one volunteer), nibbles for the proof readers and lunch for those who worked all day.

Elfrieda will be missed very much and that’s not just “cupboard love”. We will miss her hard work, her contributions, her enthusiasm and her gentle presence.

We bid her a reluctant farewell. Our thanks and our best wishes go with her for happiness and contentment in the new path she has chosen.

Mannum RSL elcome to the New Year of 2010. This is our 91st year as the Mannum Sub Branch of the RSL. It is almost that time of year again to dust off the Medals and clean the suit!

Anzac Day this year falls on a Sunday (25th April), so keep this in mind.

The service starts at the Memorial at 0555hrs. After the service there will be a sausage sizzle at the Community Club.

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The next branch meeting is on Thursday 11th March 2010 at 1100hrs, at the Mannum Community Club River Bar area.

T shirts are still available as are stubbie coolers and RSL banners.

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings, not forgetting that every 2nd one is a sausage sizzle, at no cost to you.

Cheers.

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Farewell Elfrieda

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Package, Bundle and Sharing Win ompanies for many years have understood that if you bundle and package products you’ll gain advantages in the marketplace and more customers. Customers love the idea that they can buy a product that comes with extras. Buy a car and get the spoiler, leather seats and alloy rims extra. Buy 2 cartons of milk and get a third half price. Buy the house and land package.

Packaging and bundling makes choice easy for the customer. They no longer have to compare or shop around. They see the value as you’re offering an easy, convenient, unique solution in one place.

This saves them time, saves them money and increases your business profitability.

As tourism businesses along the Murray River look to maintain market share and find ways forward from challenging situations, the opportunities to package and bundle products, services and experiences allows you to leverage and cast a wider customer net.

Look around and find services that work with your product and benefit the customer to increase your market share.

Every business in tourism can find a way to package and bundle opportunities. If you own a caravan park or motel you could work with the local pub, tour operator and winery to give the visitor a rich experience. The benefit is you’ve leveraged your product off others and everyone wins. When you start to offer good valued packages you’ll increase the customer’s spending and their stay in the region.

Another significant benefit is you also leverage your marketing.

The businesses you’re working with promote your products and services freely. They in turn also learn about your business and will

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sell for you as you will do for them. It’s a network of like-minded businesses all with the aim of increasing business and helping the customer have a great experience.

Does packaging extend past your town? Yes. Naturally river based businesses can package and bundle with towns close by. What’s great is they also have the river as the story. Sharing always gives you greater market penetration, leverage and value. Long term you become a solution provider for time stressed visitors looking for an escape that helps them get what they want in life.

So if you’re running a business or offer an experience consider how you can partner with others in your town that compliment your offering. Spread your opportunities further in the region and work with other towns that enhance your visitors’ experience and region’s story.

Doing it all yourself is a lonely place to live in a 21st century world of business. As the world becomes highly competitive, communities and businesses need to find ways on how they can help each other, share and collaborate. Look for the bigger picture opportunities.

Grow visitor numbers and increase spending while creating a sustainable and competitive future through packages, bundling and sharing.

So what businesses can you combine with to provide a visitor centric solution? Ultimately you’ll win and find a unique marketing angle while others struggle to compete as you have the edge and network.

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Shane Strudwick

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Campervan Comfort e just had our first trip in our new/old campervan. It’s not the first one we’ve owned. For anyone thinking of trying it, there are some things you should know before you try holidaying in one of these.

One is curtains. Sound silly? When the top is up and you are standing upright in the thing the bottom of the windows comes to mid thigh and the top just above your waist. Believe me, I know.

So if your neighbours take a peek in your windows while you are dressing, guess which part of your anatomy shows? Yep everyone in camp will have an opinion on your choice of underwear.

Also, camper curtains spend a lot of their life scrunched to keep them off the windows so you can see to drive. Those lovely curtains that fit so nicely suddenly just won’t meet. You can tell first time campervanners from the clothes pegs holding the curtains shut. I have Velcro on mine.

Then there’s the sliding door. Campervans are called “whizz bangers” by the unkind. Caravan parks have a habit of putting them all together on a back row someplace so the late night runs to the loo don’t wake up anyone who doesn’t deserve it.

They have advantages. They take up the same space as my sedan. When you get in late in a campervan you can almost always get a space in the park because you take up so little room and you pay the same as

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everyone else. You can get put in some funny places though.

Another advantage - you can’t get fat. You won’t fit. Old Faithful (our previous van) had 19 inches of walkway in the kitchen. This one has room for a slightly plumper cook - and a good thing too. Now I get 25 inches between sink and stove.

Almost everything is stored below waist level so the bending and stretching is good - except for the noise caused by creaking knees and backs. And the occasional expletive.

They’re drier than a tent, drive like a van and save you those parking frenzies we see in the caravan parks, with one exasperated wife trying to direct an even more exasperated husband as he tries to park their 30 foot luxury van in a 29½ foot space. I think I’ve seen a lot of divorces in the making.

The trick is not to get too fancy. All those things people hang off the side have to be removed before you can go to town for the groceries. Ours has an awning - never used by the previous owner. On Old Faithful we settled for a sail track and a tarp with a rope sewn to it. Then we got smart and put another track on the other side - shade wherever we got parked. We still have a length of sail track among the assorted things we couldn’t bear to throw out. So guess what? Soon as we can collect it from the shearing shed.

Happy camping.

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Mannum Community Club

Franz Joseph Haydn, Father of the Sonata. Part2: The Young Man.

oseph Haydn was only 17 in 1749 when he was expelled penniless, from St Stephen’s Cathedral School and Choir in Vienna. There was already tension within the school, and unable to resist the temptation, he had snipped off a fellow student’s pigtail with his brand new pair of scissors! An adult chorister from the Cathedral sheltered the homeless youth in an attic for that harsh winter, and Joseph played his fiddle for balls, christenings, and street serenades to earn a few pence. Despite his efforts however, hunger was his constant companion. His luck changed when a benevolent shopkeeper who liked his music, and trusted him, loaned him 15 pounds. To Haydn this was a fortune, so he bought himself a very old clavier (keyboard) and found an attic to rent. The roof leaked, there was no stove, but he said that he “envied no king,” and it was here in 1752 at age 20 that he composed his first Mass, so was able to repay the shopkeeper’s loan.

One day, while street serenading an actress, her playwright husband heard him playing his own composition, and asked him to play a piece which sounded like the sea. To Haydn, who would be 60 before he heard or saw the sea, the s o u n d w a s incomprehensible, but he sensed what was required, and played a piece in six-eight time. This apparently was perfect for the playwright’s proposed opera, which even though a flop and performed only twice, meant Haydn’s n a me b e c a me k n o w n .

Employed then by wealthy families as a children’s music teacher, his strong desire to learn composition remained.

Niccolo Porpora a Naples born musician living in Vienna was considered the best singing and composition

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teacher of the day, but lessons were costly. Haydn managed to gain employment as Porpora’s accompanist and personal servant, combing his wig etc, in exchange for spasmodic lessons. He made the most of these, thus discovering a new composition form, which was the birth of the Sonata.

At first it was simple and basic, but later when Beethoven and Mozart developed it, the sonata was embellished to become richer and more complex, but both composers acknowledged it as Haydn’s original concept. The early sonatas which he wrote for performance by orchestras, we re late r k n o wn a s symphonies. The ones he wrote for four stringed instruments, 1st and 2nd violins, viola and cello, became string quartets, and these sparkled with the humour of his much loved Croatian folk tunes.

Well known now, and wearing splendid clothes and wigs, Haydn was employed by the Viennese Court of Prince Esterhazy, whose family had supported music and the arts for generations. Although the Prince acknowledged Haydn’s genius, he did order him to wear heels twice as high as everyone else wore, because he said that his legs were too short!

Haydn was 28 when he considered himself sufficiently financially secure to seek a wife. His Court musicians called him Papa Haydn, he was witty, popular, successful and humorous; welcome in all social circles. Unfortunately, he fell in love with Therese the pretty younger daughter of a hairdresser. She did not reciprocate his love but entered a convent as a nun instead, so somewhat hastily, Haydn was persuaded to marry her plain older sister Maria, and almost immediately began

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the leisurely repentance of his folly.

Apparently, Maria was quarrelsome, uninterested in music, and found nothing agreeable in being married.

Haydn who lacked experience and education in such matters, h a d n ’t d isc o vered h is prospective bride’s interests or expectations, so for them both, it was a tragic marriage.

Thankfully there were no children.

Next month we look at the folk music influences on Haydn’s compositions, and his later years.

Mannum Town Choir has changed rehearsal time from Monday afternoon at 3pm to early Monday evening at 6.30 pm. There is the possibility of a slightly later time, viz. 7pm, but the day will remain Monday for rehearsals.

Welcome back from the sick-list to Barry Beaumont.

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Elfrieda Wallent

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Under The Toadstool Summer Tales from Winter Park rom my admittedly limited experience, Backpacker hostels in the US are frequently full of characters whose lives are either in motion or commotion. You’d have more chance of meeting your grandma on The Old Silk Road than you would of finding a 9 to 5 office employee on vacation in one of them.

In the relatively remote hostel in Winter Park Colorado that summer, I met a Northern Ireland Mercenary, evasive about his name, but very keen to demonstrate weapon readiness techniques, and Corneliu, a Romanian lace-seller who dreamed of living in Australia.

Daniel, my sad-eyed Sufi- poetry-reading Lithuanian friend, would disappear to the woods every couple of weeks or so, with 6 bottles of bourbon and a bit of food for as many days as the grog would last.

There were many more too, who took little “oblivion vacations” from troubled lives.

When Brent, (whose favourite expression was “Shoot!” and who described himself as a reformed alcoholic Evangelist) tried but failed to teach me to play poker, he berated himself guiltily for showing me card tricks instead of teaching me from the Bible! He needed prescriptions filled very often for dental pain and back ache, so, after rain, the car swerved wildly as he drove avoiding every puddle. Brent lived on canned corn and baked beans when beautiful fresh sweet corn cost $1 for 12 ears, because as he truthfully told me, he didn’t know how to cook or eat corn ears.

Daniel, yes ANOTHER Daniel, also described himself as an Evangelist, and was obsessed by Daniel the prophet. He

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endlessly quoted from the book which he had written also titled “Daniel” about the Biblical character, and sometimes, the temptation to create confusion between all the Daniels was irresistible. Daniel the Lithuanian would deliberately ask Daniel the Evangelist an obscure question about Daniel the prophet, and Daniel the Evangelist would tumble right into the lion’s den, attempting to explain.

Montgomery in Texas is too small to find on most maps. According to Daniel the Lithuanian, it was a few houses, a shop, hotel, and a dusty tiny Post Office. Its smallness may have been the reason that Daniel asked the buxom young Italian-born post mistress, Maria if they would kindly forward his mail to him as he was an international courier for motor parts manufacturers. Maria asked how long she would need to forward his mail, but Daniel was vague, so she left the time blank. His adventures took him from one end of the earth to the other; up the Hindu Kush and through the Khyber Pass. Mostly paying no more than $100 US for his air fares, he delivered car parts and taught English in Asian countries for board and a little keep. An unhappy marriage lay behind him, he moved a lot and the years went by. His mail followed him faithfully, and one day on impulse, shortly before I met him, he decided to visit the Post Office in Montgomery Texas to thank them.

The pretty, almost familiar bosomy young woman behind the same old dusty counter, insisted that her name WAS Maria, and that she WAS the post mistress! Daniel explained who he was and that there must be a mistake. Realization dawned as Maria excitedly yelled up the stairs “Ma come quickly! It’s that guy we been sending the mail to all over the world for the last 32 years!” Old Maria hobbled down the stairs. Her eyes were full of tears. “Well, it’s him alright! I’ll be darned! You never did give me a time.” she said.

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Out Of This World

From the Coordinator’s Desk

Astronomer’s Corner tar charts and star maps are used to locate and identify the interesting objects we encounter when observing the night sky.

To locate and make the connection between the stars and constellations a planisphere is the simplest option. You rotate the discs to your local time and date and hold it over your head. The cut- out section illustrates the sky you can see at that time. (You an download a do-it-yourself planisphere from http://members.ozemail.com.au/~starrylady/Planis1.htm) Planispheres can come in handy when out looking as in orienteering or scouting or locating the astronomical points of view of a place or site. Simple planispheres give only the barest information whereas others may give the astronomical coordinates, sidereal time and other information.

Computer based planispheres can be used to tell where stars, planets or other objects will be present at a certain time.

Because the earth rotates and orbits the sun, the view of the sky, say over the back gate, changes. The same object is not always at the same spot at the same time in our night sky. The old question of where do I find a certain object can be solved with a good planisphere.

A conundrum exists in trying to fit the whole universe into a simple chart. Some places we look there is more density in and others less density. Planispheres are not as detailed as the star maps and charts.

There are many great computer planisphere programs that assist us to find out more about the night sky, of which we are a part.

Minimising the gear we take outside with us is always a problem; damage happens so easily. Even a light shower of rain can cause problems with paper based planispheres. A sturdy, plastic chart will be a good investment over many sky inestigations.

Venus in Aquarius/Pisces is very bright but difficult find. Jupiter is in Aquarius and appears in the morning in late March. Saturn is an evening object in Virgo.

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he year is well underway now with programs, courses workshops and training filling the MMCSS calendar fast.

Bretts computer classes are as popular as ever, the evening classes are proving to be hit with participants.

At the moment ‘Starting out on your Computer’ and ‘Getting the Most out of your Computer’ are underway, with both of these courses ongoing throughout the year. MYOB interest is growing, details coming soon.

The MMCSS Art Group continues to grow in numbers and we still have room for more to join in. Be sure to check out the Art section at the Mannum Show. I hear the group will be entering many pieces in several categories, best of luck to all of Evelyn’s students.

‘Cooking with Angie’ is proving to be very popular, the feedback has been fantastic.

There are two more courses scheduled before the end of June. If you enjoy cooking or are a beginner, you will be sure to benefit from this ‘tasty’ course. A big thank you from Angie to Males Meats for supporting this course, it is truly appreciated.

Coming soon are the Digital Photography workshops and an ongoing Sewing Group. As always, be on the lookout for flyers posted around town, and be sure to check out the

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Community Notice Board at 39 Randell Street.

We have been very fortunate to secure Relationships SA to facilitate a 2 day course on ‘Mental Health First Aid’ in March, covering many topics.

Attending this course will definitely be a worthwhile exercise for members of our community from all walks of life.

As always, for all enquiries and bookings pop in and have a chat with our friendly office staff, alternatively we are always happy to take your call.

If you are a regular visitor to the Centre you may have noticed some new faces in the Front Office lately. We are pleased to report a steady stream of new volunteers coming on board and welcome you all.

Please remember the MMCSS Front Office, besides being first point of contact for the many services offered, is a Centrelink Age n c y , h e r e f o r t h e convenience of our community.

As an Agency we do not make the decisions, but we can certainly put you in direct contact with those that can.

Form lodgment may also be carried out at the Agency. Our staff undergoes regular training with Centrelink, and are well skilled to assist you. A very important and valued partnership that benefits our community immensely.

Marion Wilson, Coordinator

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Community Research

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n 22 and 24 January, our son and grandson were involved in the Tour Down Under Mutual Community Challenge.

At 6:30 am on the 22nd, our son Derek rode from Norwood to Goolwa with 8,099 other riders - it was just mind-blowing to see a sea of blue tops stretching for kilometres along the way.

Derek arrived in Goolwa after 5 hours and 48 minutes of riding time. He said the most rewarding part of the ride was finishing, as conditions on the day were very hot and windy.

However, he enjoyed the Challenge so much that he will do it again next year.

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On the 24 Willy and I travelled to Adelaide with our grandson, Luke, to watch him ride in the Kid’s Tour Down Under Challenge. Two hundred and fifty kids were involved, riding 20 minutes around part of the ‘big guns’ circuit.

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This wasn’t a race; just getting out on a bike, exercising and having fun doing it - which is exactly what Luke did. He said it was ‘awesome’ and will do it again next year.

The Community Challenge Ride raised over $100,000 for cancer - well done guys!

Willie Felusch

Derek Felusch Jack and Jill have just climbed Le Alp de Huez on a tandem.

“Phew, that was a tough climb.” said Jack “Thought we’d never make it.”

“Yeah good job I kept the brakes on” said Jill “or we’d have slid all the way back down!”

Three year research project for the Murray Lands region

new three year research project funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing has commenced in the Murray Mallee and Riverland regions in 2009. The Murray Mallee Aged Care Group and the University of Adelaide are looking at what community means to ‘older’ people, aged 55 years and over; the kinds of community services and transport options they currently use, their connections to their local community and their use of new technologies such as the computer, email and Internet.

Phase one of this project is now underway. A team of researchers from the University, led by Helen Feist, have distributed over 3,500 surveys across the Murray Mallee and Riverland regions. The surveys were handed out over the past few months through over 80 community groups, sporting clubs and service providers.

You may have already received

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a survey. If so, it’s n o t t o o l a t e to return it! We encourage you to participate in this project by completing and returning the survey using the reply paid envelope; if you need another survey just ring 83033560 and we can arrange to post another one to you. Your information is very important to us and can help to make a difference in your community.

Murray Mallee Aged Care Group and the University of Adelaide would like to take this opportunity to thank the many service providers, local councils, community organisations, social groups and sporting clubs that have kindly distributed the survey throughout the Murray Lands communities on their behalf.

Without this help this project could not incorporate the valuable experiences and opinions of older people in these rural communities.

Helen Feist

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Hall Happenings t’s surprising how active the Hall has become lately. We’re not sure if it’s the great activities on the calendar, the atmosphere or just word of mouth, but the folks at the hall are enjoying the fresh new faces as well as our regulars.

The Hall physically is always changing and recently we had a big rearrangement with the coming of our craft cupboards which have made that area look 100% better. We have a relaxing lounge area a little out of the main area and the garden has a few permanent residents now: Henry the junk sculpture by our friend Steve and Summer the scarecrow by myself and Aura, as well as corrugated animals.

The month’s planned activities included computer lessons, great lunches, wood work, painting metal art, stamping, music lessons, karaoke, facebook classes and a bus trip to Hindmarsh Island. There were also lots of other activities that happened, including having a go at Tai Chi, games like scrabble, making a cubby house out of a cardboard box, photo slideshows, pancake day, Maxine’s birthday feast, rock painting, gardening, decorative pot-pouri containers, and cooking as well as the usual social cuppas etc.

All in all we’re enjoying the diversity and looking forward to some great things in March, including lots of time with the Wii, making totem poles, music, special lunches (2 courses $6), computing, woodwork and a few great bus trips like visiting one of Australia’s largest collections of lego sculptures and a fashion parade.

Should be lots of fun so come join in! The Hall is open Mon, Wed and Fri 10-3. call 8569 1643 to get the calendar sent free to your home each month.

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Tirra Lirra Book Group Seeking New Members

irra Lirra Book Group invites contact from anyone interested in joining our book discussion group.

The group was formed in Mannum several years ago and has met monthly since then.

Each month we receive 10 copies of a book from the Salisbury Library’s Adult Book Discussion Service, for which we pay a small fee towards costs.

We meet in members’ homes

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on the first Friday afternoon of the month. Often someone will comment on how the group is adding to their enjoyment of reading, improving their knowledge, extending their perspectives and even adding to their recipe collection over afternoon tea.

There is no pressure to host, lead the discussion, attend every single meeting, or read each book from go to whoa.

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motivates us to persist longer on subjects or writing styles we might otherwise avoid, and so it’s a nice intellectual challenge and discipline. We like to think it’s keeping us young and on-the-ball.

If you’d like to see if we might be just what you need to enjoy 2010 more, do give me a ring (Ph: 8569 7392) and come along for a meeting, or more.

Lyn Gross, 2009/10 Coordinator

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Simply Go Digital re you ready for digital TV? Just get an approved Set Top Box and you are ready to blah, blah …

That’s what the Government ads say, but that’s only if you are in the city. The reality for the country and Mannum in particular is very different.

We have been installing Digital for the last four years or so in and around Mannum and it is nothing like as simple as those ads suggest. There is no guarantee for many of us here that we will be able to receive 100%, round the clock Digital TV from Adelaide.

So you have spent money on a new Adelaide-facing, digital antenna and maybe even an amplifier, yet every week or so there are hours or even days when you cannot receive watchable digital TV pictures.

You may have a good digital picture during the day but some hours after dark it starts to break up. You got a set top box but still don’t get any digital signal, though your analogue picture is fine. You are not alone.

Why do we have problems here that those in Adelaide would never experience? The following are some possible causes.

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• Your street is affected by serious electrical noise in power lines or supply.

• You had an Adelaide installer put the wrong type of system in for Mannum.

• You have a big antenna and amplifier but it is old, non-digital equipment.

• You are next to a site generating electromagnetic or radio frequency interference.

• You have an antenna facing towards the Mannum re-transmitter.

• You are on River Lane or Randell Street and you simply can’t get a lineof-sight signal from Adelaide.

So, what can you do?

Power line noise can affect us badly here. Call ETSA and ask for a monitor. Then maybe they will fix the noise. However, by

law they are obliged to keep electromagnetic noise to a minimum.

This noise has always been there, but with the analogue TV signal it produces “snow” or crackling in the sound, but you could still watch your TV show.

With digital TV the errors can be so bad that the picture is completely unwatchable.

In Adelaide, the receiving antenna and TV transmitter are much closer. The strength of the TV signal is such that the power line noise wont effect the signal.

In Mannum, even if the power line noise was the same as in Adelaide, our TV signal is so much weaker and closer in strength to the power line noise.

Therefore a digital tuner cannot tell the difference between pulses in the TV signal or in the power line noise. A digital tuner will try to count the TV signal pulses but there will be so many errors the tuner will give up until it can reliably count again.

Our signals from Adelaide are so much weaker here because of what is known as ‘the inverse square of the distance law’. This means that as you double the distance between the transmitter and receiver, the signal strength is divided by four. We are a long way from the transmitter so by the time the signal arrives at your antenna it’s very weak (divided by a large number).

Many of us in this area have good digital pictures during the day but some time after dark the signal starts to break up.

This is most likely because you do not have a real line-ofsight to the transmitter and only get a picture due to the higher charging of the ionosphere during the day. Put simply, the sun charges up layers in the atmosphere around the earth.

Those layers can better “funnel”

signals like those of a TV transmitter. This causes them to follow the curvature of the earth, bringing the signal over the horizon to you. After dark, when this charging effect is removed, less signal reaches your antenna.

If you have a cliff between you and the transmitter, as in River Lane, then you will never get a good digital signal from Mount Lofty.

What do you do to get digital TV in Mannum?

Well folks, don’t buy a Digital Set Top Box for terrestrial TV as you will get nothing, even if you have a great analogue signal - you are getting this from the Mannum Black Spot re-transmitter and this has no digital signals imbedded in it.

Recently the government published an article regarding regional black spots and self help re-transmitters. It is clear that only very few self help re-transmitters will be upgraded and that the Governments preferred option is to support FREEVIEW TV via satellite.

In my opinion this is a sensible move, for no matter how many black-spot transmitters are erected, there will always be someone who will not have access to its signals. But anyone can get a signal from a satellite.

So you can’t get the Mount Lofty signal? What do you do?

The answer is that you do get a set top box, but not the type you will see at Harvey Norman. You need a special FREEVIEW Satellite STB and a receiving dish to suit. The reason is, even if you have the latest flat screen LED TV it’s tuner is not compatible with satellite signals, so you must have a satellite STB for each TV. This STB connects to your TV just like any other Set Top Box. You will then be able to get

exactly the same channels via satellite that you would get from Adelaide, including all the HD channels in HD, plus Go, One, ABC2, etc.

The Government has committed some forty million dollars per year for the next four years in order to facilitate the migration of all capital city and local regional channels to satellite.

We here though will just get what you would if you were in Adelaide, and this will be controlled with a FREEVIEW card restricting you to getting only those stations appropriate for your area.

Our council will turn off the Mannum re-transmitter in 2013 so you have time to change over.

My opinion though is that many more people than both the Federal Government and our council have calculated will not get reliable TV signals from Mount Lofty.

If you say that a reliable signal is one that is available for ninety percent of the time and if nothing changes as far as power line noise is concerned, large numbers of people will fall short of the ninety percent figure.

They then will need to go to s a t e l l i te, b ut wi l l t h e Government recognise their claim that they cannot get Adelaide reliably enough?

Only time will tell. Will the power noise be reduced? Will the government both recognise and assist those with unreliable signals? Your guess is as good as mine.

I do recommend that you keep any and all receipts for any antenna and other work you may have done in order for you to “Simply go Digital” Jeff Morgan Mannum Electronics

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The Dive uby’s précis for her new play arrived in the afternoon mail. It had taken several weeks longer than we’d expected - mis-routed to South America, the postmarks indicated. After it was redirected here, Australian Customs then extended the delay by opening and fumigating her envelope, before eventually stamping their official release. Voracious, pin-head-sized tropical weevils had discovered and taste-tested Ruby’s delectable rice paper. They chomped their way through all but a few fragments which contained odd tantalizing phrases, words or letters. ‘Indigestible?’ I wondered.

‘My play’s a new twist on an ol’ tale,’ was all that Ruby had offered in her much-earlier cryptic Southern-style email. ‘Ancient Mariner, adventure, hidden treasure.’ She loves to keep me guessing and I’ve learned from experience that it would have been a totally wasted effort to plead with her for any more clues, or to ‘Please, just TEXT me the outline!’ My American friend revels in secrets and intrigue. ‘Y’all have to wait and read my précis,’ she’d have smugly replied. I studied the remains of ‘holy’ script, feeling a lot like an Egyptologist labouring over hieroglyphics. On one tiny scrap of paper scalloped by insect mandibles, an Americanism, ‘he dove’, snagged my attention. I HATE the word ‘dove’ with a passion! It’s another reminder that ‘English ain’t English’ anymore. I mean, ‘…he dove three fathoms into Caribbean blue and found a chest of Spanish gold doubloons,’ for goodness sake? I dived, YOU dived, HE dived.

We all dived, thank you. Massed fluid motion, like a mob of seals or is that a pod of seals, perhaps? Synchronised diving seals, peas in a pod, seals in a pod, cast up by the broiling surf to sun themselves on slippery slate platforms … podcast.

I love playing with words. Language, our primary communication tool, is not static, unchanging, dead - unless we’re talking Latin, of course. Truly, I do accept the need for some lexical reshapes, like sardines running in a coastal shoal. Stand still, tread water, for too

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long and they (the sardines) can end up as fishmeal, tucker for dolphins and diving gannets. But there are limits, language lines in the sand, and I am driven to point them out, draw and police them.

‘Your adulterated American- English is so insidious’, I rant, during our frequent literary email discourses. ‘Why, if one drops one’s guard for a moment, the word processor sneaks in a correction for ‘cancelled’ or ‘colour’ behind one’s back!’ Ruby usually allows my bouncers to pass unchallenged to the keeper. Spoils to the strong, I suppose. Golden Arches and Pepsi. ‘One day,’ I regularly lament, ‘Mother English will become extinct!’

I emailed Ruby and told her about the fiasco and then put the scraps of her précis in a drawer - for what unearthly reason, God knows. There was nothing to gain from them. Another week passed before I thought to check my inbox for any word back from my playwright friend. Actually, it was the pizza delivery boy who reminded me. Friendly guy - bloke - with a disarming grin. He seemed genuinely pleased with the tip that I handed him. ‘Hey, five bucks! Thanks, man!’ he gushed. ‘You have a good day, buddy.’

There it was again. More American dog slinking into everyday Aussie conversation. I hopped on the laptop and opened my Windows inbox. ‘RUBY READ’, her familiar message header quipped. Ruby red. Yeah, I got it. And OK, I’m happy enough to tick that one. But then I remembered the maddening ‘he dove’ red rag in her pin-head-pest-plundered précis and I began to feel another language discourse coming on. ‘Hi y’all,’ my southern gal had written. I could almost hear her infuriating American-drawl in the email. ‘A copy of my précis is attached. Any comment you’d care to make after reading it, much appreciated. See if you like that “Oh, mah God!” twist I gave to the Genesis story about the dove that Noah sent out to bring him back a li’l ol’ olive branch!’

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The American Songbook – Part 2 roadway shows dominated the music scene in the early part of the twentieth century in the US. Most of the shows were in the form of revues such as the Ziegfeld Follies or the White Follies. Here well known composers and lyricists of the day wrote topical songs sung by recognised stars. The story line was flimsy and often no more than separate sketches. There were still musicals based on the European model written by the likes of Victor Herbert and Sigmund Romberg. Partnerships such as George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern with Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers and Hart together with Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, both of whom needed no lyricist.

Revues continued on into the thirties. However there was another force emerging. Three in fact! All interdependent.

First the recording industry made steady technical progress as the electric microphone replaced the huge horn used previously to capture sound in a studio. The sound recorded became better.

Instruments such as drums which previously could not be recorded because they disturbed the mechanical systems could now be recorded.

Records began to sell in their millions popularising the local musical product. There was not yet a push towards overseas. That was to come with the advent of sound on film.

Before that there was radio.

Commercial radio began in the US in 1924. Initially the radio stations maintained their own orchestras providing employment for many musicians and a large appetite for material. Recordings came to be played widening the audience for artists such as Louis Armstrong.

The medium which internationalised the American Songbook

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was film. The first sound movie was The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson, a musical. That opened the flood gates. The big studios such as MGM, Paramount, Warner Brothers and RKO had a stable of stars and churned out mindless musicals at a large rate.

The films were marketed outside of the US so that American household names became international stars. Artists such as Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby and many others became international household names.

There was another influence on the songbook. That was the great depression.

By the early thirties the recording industry was in a parlous state. Sales had dropped significantly and did not recover until well into the decade. The lights had gone out in a number of Broadway theatres. Coincidentally Hollywood beckoned and the composers and lyricists flocked there. The Gershwins, Rogers and Hart, Harold Alden, Frank Loesser and many others were employed by the studios to churn out songs for their stable of stars. The stars sang the songs to an international audience and the American Songbook began to dominate the popular music of the world even where English was not native. The story lines were still episodic, often non existent. Some were even written as the film was produced with no clear idea of what the finish might be. These flimsy stories can still be seen in the films starring such as Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby in the thirties.

Once again the moment of change was coming to both film and the theatre which would produce a new wave of songs, writers and stars.

Peter Weir, Jazz Presenter Barossa Community Radio

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Are the Mannum Roos Ready to Fire in 2010? aving been bridesmaids in the two senior Grand Finals last year, the Mannum Football Club is aiming to go one better in 2010. The huge crowd which witnessed Imperials dominance in all but one grade of the RMFL, last September wont have long to wait to see if the difference between the clubs has narrowed, as Mannum are scheduled for a rematch in the opening round of this season, 10th of April, at Johnstone Park.

After an impressive first season, David Dolheguy has been reappointed as senior c o a c h a l o n g wi t h t h e inspirational Ben Quinn as his assistant. And with each new football season the immutable merry-go-round of player changes has resulted in the loss of some lads who are seeking success elsewhere, and the welcoming of new faces keen to make an impression in the highly regarded RMFL. Probably the highest credentialed “new boy” is Chris Hall, who played at Glenelg last year and previously at Subiaco in the WAFL, and was a member of Port Power’s squad in 2004. Ricky Hunter played for Moonta in 2009 where he kicked 100 goals and played in the SA Country team as a centre half forward. Michael O’Malley, the young gun from Bow Hill who represented SA at Under 18s level last year, is going to play at Mannum while he completes his trade at Bow Hill Engineering. To have a lad of such great talent commit to the club as part of his bigger plan is a real fillip. Another new player

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with a Mannum connection is Sam Horsley. Son of David and Shona Horsley and cousin of Andrew Warnest, “Sausy” comes from Barmera with a fine reputation. To complete the pilgrimage back to Mannum is the return of David “Killer” Kilsby. Killer has been playing for the Tasmans Football Club in Port Lincoln and upon moving to Adelaide decided he needed to reunite with his old classmate Ben Quinn.

With the likes of Croxton, Hockey, Hentschke, Allen, Lambert, Nitschke, Mullins, Malchow and Schmidt moving on, either to retirement or other clubs, there will be more opportunities for the young boys willing to work and perform in a strong League side.

Stephen “Monkey” Wakefield has finally ended his eighteen year coaching association with Mannum. The lure of spending more time with his lovely wife Annette, and an occasional spot of fishing has finally swayed Monkey into handing over the reigns of the Reserves coaching job to Mick Heward. The popular local vigneron will have Colin “Chuck” Berry as his assistant, with runner Craig Bormann rounding off this coaching team. The Mannum Reserves team has played in the last three grand finals, winning two, so the expectation is of success and the opportunity is there to be grasped.

At junior level, Shaun Richardson has accepted the role of the Under 17½ coach.

“Radar’s” football pedigree is well known at Mannum. He

almost single handedly defeated the Roos in an A grade Grand Final while playing for Mypolonga in the early nineties and was a thorn in the side until he finally saw the light. His football nous and affable nature make him a very suitable appointment to this important age group.

Bob Noll, recently a teacher at Mannum Community College, is the coach of the Under 15s team.

Bob’s rapport with the lads in this group, his previous football experience at Elizabeth, and his teaching background will give the club a refreshing new voice at this level.

Nothing new about David Schellen’s voice; the Ponde dairy farmer, recently listed on the World Wildlife Society’s endangered species list, will be taking control of the Under 13s.

[Note the change in age level ratified by the RMFL] There will be no change to this “unofficial” RMFL competition other than the age limit. With this change the RMFL now has junior football competitions which have a consistent two year gap between each. The “unofficial” Under 10s will be unofficially Under 11s and the Under 10s, will now be unofficially Under 9s.

Common sense prevails in these young age groups, and the placement of children in a team is determined more on their size and ability rather than their age.

All are welcome and everyone gets a game.

Mick Towie has taken over from Jock Krause as President of the Management Committee,

which also welcomed three new members, Colin Berry, Nick Chance and Tony Eversham.

Season 2010 will be a busy one with an SANFL fixture between West Adelaide and Sturt being planned for Mannum at the end of May. This promises to be a big occasion and it is Mannum’s reputation for hosting successful marquee sporting events over recent years and the envied cooperation of Council, clubs and service groups within our community that has Mannum as first cab of the rank as a location for such an event.

The backbone of any local sport or service club are the volunteers and the Mannum Football Club is no exception.

The club has a position to match any skill set and time availability. From all day every day to an hour or two every second Saturday; if you can count or cook or wash or bandage or run or sit or write or talk or wave or all of the above at once, the footy club has a role for you. Enjoy the passion of nailing your colours to the door of your local footy team by being a part of it. Club secretary Debbie Clark has a full prospectus of positions available so please be quick, get in before the rush. Debbie can be contacted on 0400 254 856.

Thursday night teas, a budget priced meal open to all, will be commencing again in late March. This may be an ideal way of starting your love affair with the Mannum Football Club in 2010.

Jock Krause, Vice President MFC

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Mannum Day Centre Mannum Day Centre is open from Mondays to Fridays except Public Holidays.

The Day Centre is available for hire by community groups for a small donation.

Please ring on 8569 0219 for more information.

WEEKLY Monday

9:30am

Tuesday 9am-10:30am Tuesday 10am-2:30pm Friday

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Cost $2 for the morning or $6 for a cooked lunch

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Knitting Group. Bring your craft along and join in!

Tea/coffee provided. For $6, stay for a cooked lunch.

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Social Day. Bingo in morning and games in afternoon.

Cost $6 for the day which includes cooked lunch.

Tai Chi. Dates to be advised. Sessions are expected to last for an hour. Cost will be gold coin donation on the day. Sessions will cater for different levels of ability but is suitable for people with joint, muscular/skeletal or arthritic conditions as well as more able bodied clients.

Tai Chi will not be run during the school holidays.

6:30-9:30pm

Mannum Red Cross Wellbeing Nucleus Discussion Group. Evolved from Mediation, Pastoral Care, Enneagram, Art & Soul Groups.

Men’s Group. Socialisation and companionship. $6 for centre based activities including a cooked lunch. Outings are held on a regular basis. Costs may vary on these days.

Women’s Health and Information Group.

Card Afternoon. Bring your cards and participate in a friendly relaxed game of 500, Canasta, Bridge, Whist (the choice is yours!). Cost $2 (includes afternoon tea.)

Men’s Discussion Group.  Ralph on 8569 1264.

If you would like to attend any of the Day Centre programs but cannot drive here, please contact me (8569 0219) and I will arrange transport for you.

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Ageing in the Murraylands with Millie i folks. Did you join the dots between topics in February’s Mag? We had: • Contribution to Community: Australia Day awards • Open letter to Council re Skate park • My glorious self: “The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing!”

• Carols by the River: “How lucky we are here in Mannum.”

• What’s the Tourism Plan?

• Annual Horrordays from Aaron Biagioni • Mannum Police: “… most of the problems in the district are being caused by non locals”… and more.

OK, you clever Maturing Murraylanders, I did think you’d get it.

My take on it is, “How can we enjoy our wonderful location to the full, and keep a vibrant community going at the same time?”.

Simple really. Here’s one version of the dots joined together.

1. Get that Skate park built!! It’s gone on so long with so much negative publicity, negative talk about Council and vested interests that it’s not doing our community a bit of good and will leave a bad taste for

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a long time to come. How about putting our kids and their needs first?

2. Be a good neighbour, figuratively and literally, to Mr Biagioni, so he experiences the stuff that will help him overcome his bitterness and anger.

3. Start working on ideas for the Visitors’ edition of the Mag at the end of the year and community-spirit advertising. Some of you surely have the skills and wisdom to pick up the negative points raised in February’s Mag and turn them into poems, stories, artwork, flags and banners (made by the Quilters) and so on and so on.

Here’s the challenge: Can you direct your energies and talents into preparing for the next holiday season, so that our visitors will get the message loud and clear that we are a civil, civilised, polite community expecting everyone else to think of others as well as themselves so we all enjoy Mannum together?

Millie

Sillie Millie says: They oughta put you on Council, Millie. Even I’m not silly enuf to think that could all happen. Better still, they oughta crown you Millie, Mannum’s Marvellous Matured Miracle-Worker.

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Mannum History Group any people have been asking about the result of investigations by a team of Flinders University graduates into the site of the previous Nellie’s Nursery.

As previously reported, they have been looking for the engine of the ‘Mary Ann’, William Randell’s first steamer to ply the River Murray. The team visited the site on three weekends, using specialized equipment to scan the soil at a deeper level each time.

Unfortunately nothing of note was found.

I would like to thank Jan and

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Geoff Treloar for their patience and co-operation while this was going on. Even though the engine wasn’t found, it was exciting to get a taste of what the ‘Time Team’ must go through to produce their programmes! The team is continuing to work on investigating the mysteries of the dry dock - it has been altered several times - with a view to better understanding how it can be preserved.

Who or what was Nellie?

She was a paddle-steamer operating from ‘Nellie’s Wharf’ at the back of the site

in the early 1900s. She had cabins for 20 passengers on the top deck and a shop which could carry between 45 and 50 tons of goods. The PS Saddler was converted to a barge in 1908, and when towed by PS Nellie, could carry a further 70 tons. Captain Crane and others operated the business between 1903 and 1919 and serviced an area from Murray Bridge to Blanchetown. The PS Nellie burned at Morgan in January 1930 and the sunken remains of the ‘Saddler’ are visible just upstream from the ferry on the Cowirra side of the river.

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To help a visitor from Queensland, can any one tell us if the original houses in River Lane were built with corrugated iron roofing? Was it a cheap building material in the 1800s? This gentleman is a grandson of Tom Bellchambers, naturalist, who built on 119 River Lane. He is writing a book on his grandfather’s life wandering the Murray. Tom later lived in a farmhouse at the Rocks until 1905 and any recollections of that building would also be much appreciated.

K Stevenson

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Contacting Mannum Police

Mannum Police fter the Christmas break and the increase in crime, there has now been a drop in reported crime. The past month has had the following matters report to Police.

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Theft Assaults Graffitti Building Breaks Interfere with motor vehicle Property Damage Stalking

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Offenders from Murray Bridge have been arrested for the Building Breaks.

The following offences have been reported in the same time.

Exceeding the Prescribed Concentration of Alcohol (one reading 0.305%) 3 Misuse of Motor Vehicle 1 Vehicle Clamped 1 Assault 1 Firearm Offences 2 Driving While Disqualified 1

Due to policing commitments we need to change the hours when some one will be in the station.

The community must remember that the Police of Mannum have a response requirement. If we are responding to a matter, the office may not be open even during the allocated hours. Phone calls can be made to arrange an appointment.

The new times are: 12 to 2 pm and 3 to 4 pm.

We apologise for the change in hours.

Sergeant Mick Towie

Blokes Only Mannum Mens Discussion Group

ince our article in last months Mannum Mag titled ‘Blokes Only’ we have enjoyed a great evening’s discussion with David Mitchell of the RAA. David had much to talk to us about:

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• the importance of defensive driving • some problem road rules • when to give-way (when in doubt give way) • newest safety features in new cars • what to look for when buying a new or near new car. The crash rating.

• why older people suffer more than the young in a similar crash. (old bones!!)

This month (March 31st) we are going to enjoy hearing one of our members, Mike McDowell, talking in a light hearted way about Grumpy Old Men, their sheds and other matters. Want to come along?

We meet on the last Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm for a light meal (Cost $7) at the Mannum Hospital Day Centre.

For more info: ‘Phone Ralph 8569 1264 or Frank 8569 2244.

Ralph Pitman

... and much more.

• Turn signals give away your next move.

• If you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, no matter how fast you’re going, the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in the situation you were trying to avoid • The faster you drive through a red light, the less time you spend in the intersection - if you make it through.

• Never get in the way of a car that needs extensive body work.

• Seeking eye contact with another driver revokes your right of way.

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Urgent emergency assistance call 000. For police attendance call 131 444.

If you need to contact us for other matters either visit the station or call 8569 2211.

This may be answered by the Murray Bridge station. They will contact us by radio and then we will contact you.

Your police are available 24 hours a day.

Emergency 000 Police attendance 131 444 Mannum Station 8569 2211

Mosquito Heaven ne of the blessings of the coming of winter is that the mosquitos disappear.

I was lying in bed listening to the flights of mosquitos drone over my head. They seemed to belong to some aerodynamic squadron. One after the other they would do barrel rolls past my exposed ear then an Immelman turn as they landed on my forehead, refuelled and took off.

In my youth my forehead could only accommodate one at a time. Today with age the landing area has much increased and so there are now multiple landings.

Stung beyond endurance I turned on the light to deal with these pestilent gnats. Of course there were none to be seen. As soon as I turned out the light back they returned.

Finally tiredness overcame me and I slept. The mosquitos continued to drink.

This morning the blood bank rang to tell me it was time for me to make a donation. I told them I couldn’t possibly oblige as I was feeding a whole colony of mosquitos.

Still these little mozzies are nothing to the ones I encountered in Anofeel on the peninsula many years ago.

Big? They were so big four of them could carry a man out of a room. It’s a fact. In the room of the hotel where I stayed there were deep scores in the plaster on either side of the window frame. Close examination showed that they were actually deep scrapes made by finger nails.

Questioning of the publican gained the admission that guests had been carried bodily

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from the room by the mozzies and the marks were made as the guests had tried to resist the inevitable. Their bloodless bodies were found in the morning. The publican had generously set up an honour board in the main bar with the names of those who had perished.

It was too late to find other accommodation. Besides, the streets were filled with marauding mozzies. Even the hotel patrons travelled in convoys to protect themselves.

I had the publican supply me with several cans of spray, I locked myself in my room, locked the window and left the light on all night. By morning I had used all the spray and was suffering from an acute overdose of aerosols, lack of sleep and mosquito trauma where, at the sound of anything like a buzz, I began to shake and assume a foetal position.

Recently when drinking in the local I met a visitor just returned from Anofeel. He told me that little had changed. The mozzies were even bigger. An earnest young student had been studying the flying blood-banks. He thought that he could control their size by feeding them a diet of particular hormones. He was right, only he controlled it in the wrong direction. Still it was some consolation, he was awarded his PhD posthumously. It has been reported that these night marauders have been migrating towards this district.

Sleep tight.

Amos Kitto

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Angie’s Cooking Tips he humble potato; where would we be without this convenient food that contributes complex carbohydrates, Vitamin C, fibre and potassium to our diets? Potatoes are a tuberous crop from the perennial, Solanum tuberosum, of the Solanaceae family. (Commonly referred to as the nightshade family). Genetic testing has indicated it originated from the southern Peru area. Introduced to Europe in the 1500's its popularity grew rapidly. It was this popularity and the fact that limited varieties were introduced that contributed to the ‘Great Irish Famine’, 1845 to 1852. Over time the genetic strength grew.

The potato is now the world’s fourth largest crop and the largest source of Vitamin C in our diets, purely because so much of it is consumed. Enough of the history lesson and on with the food!

One of the most versatile vegetables on the shopping list, bake them, fry them, boil them, steam them, mash them or stew them the choices are endless! I’m sure we all have our favourite way of eating them. This traditional Irish recipe is in honour of the humble potato and to the many souls that perished in the famine.

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Colcannon 500g cabbage 1 cup milk 125g butter 500g potatoes 2 leeks, rinse well to remove dirt 1 pinch ground nutmeg Salt and pepper to taste Method Cook cabbage until just tender in a large pot of boiling water, drain, chop into large dice size and keep warm. Cook potatoes until tender, drain, season and mash while hot and keep warm. Chop leeks (green and white parts), simmer in just enough milk to cover until soft.

Combine cooked leeks and milk into mashed potato. Add the cooked cabbage and heat until the consistency is soft, fluffy and pale green in colour. Make a well in the centre and add melted butter.

Switch up: Add cooked bacon with the butter. Halve the amount of potato and substitute other vegetables that can be mashed, e.g. pumpkin, butternut, turnip or even carrot a little texture won’t ruin the dish.

Send your article suggestions to Angie, 39 Randell, St Mannum, SA 5238 or Email: mmcss.angroesler@internode.on.net Angie Roesler

Cooking Dilemmas Dilemma: I have heard that cooking with aluminum cookware is bad for your health.

Can you shed any light on the subject? Also, how do you tell the d iffe r e n c e b e tween aluminum and stainless steel cookware?

Solution: A very good question. I searched the internet for information regarding this.

All sources I looked at stated that the research is inconclusive as to whether or not cooking with aluminum and consuming the foods cooked in it is harmful to your health. However, I know that in the ‘food industry’ aluminum products for cooking and storing food are not favoured as it can impart a bitter flavour to food such as citrus,

tomatoes and the like. So it is safe to say that acidic compounds do react with aluminum. Personally I do steer clear of aluminum cook ware, so it does come down to personal choice.

To tell the difference between aluminum and stainless steel a sure fire test is with a

magnet. It will stick to stainless steel and not to aluminum or some other metal combinations.

I do hope that this has helped you.

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Fifty Years of Take Five and Kind of Blue ineteen Fifty Nine was a stellar year for mainstream jazz enthusiasts. In that year Columbia Records released both The Brubeck Quartet’s Take Five and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. As jazz albums there hasn’t been anything like it before or since.

The Brubeck album was recorded during June to August, 1959. As with Kind of Blue, Columbia allowed a jazz artist to perform compositions by a group without the interspersing of interpretations of standards. This was a major breakthrough for jazz music at that time. So it was all new music written by Brubeck or Paul Desmond.

One tune in particular made it into the hit parades and sold more than a million copies. In fact the album has sold a million copies. The million seller single was the title tune

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Take Five. Probably the royalties from that allowed Paul Desmond to lead a sedentary life after the quartet disbanded in 1967.

At the time of recording the quartet comprised Paul Desmond playin g alto saxophone, Dave Brubeck piano and leader, Eugene Wright bass and Joe Morello drums. Wright was an African American and that caused problems when the quartet visited the south. Brubeck refused to play unless Wright was part of the quartet.

Drummer Joe Morello was legally blind and played a little too loudly for Desmond. Not withstanding that, Take Five was actually written with Morello in mind and he has a distinctive solo in the original recording. To celebrate the fifty years Columbia has released a special edition of

Two cowboys were waiting in their fort for the Indians to attack. They listened to the distant pounding war drums. One cowboy muttered to the other, “I don’t like the sound of them drums.”

Just then, a distant voice came over the hill, “It’s not our usual drummer!”

Take Five which contains a remastered album plus some previously unreleased quartet tracks and a short DVD featuring an interview with Brubeck.

Kind of Blue has assumed legendary status in the music.

Partly because of the stature of the musicians and partly because it was a radical departure from previous jazz.

It is widely acknowledged as the first ‘Modal’ date meaning a distinct departure from the chord changes featured in bebop and before, and which Davis found inhibiting. It was recorded in March and April, 1959, and it too has sold more than a million copies. The musicians were Miles on trumpet, Cannonball Adderley alto saxophone, John Coltrane tenor saxophone, Bill Evans piano, Paul Chambers bass and Jimmy Cobb drums.

Peter Weir

A hip jazz bebopper dropped in to a bar and asked for a slice of apple pie.

‘The apple pie is gone.’ said the bartender.

‘Crazy man. Give me two pieces!’

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Everyone of them became giants of the music in their own right. On the blues track, Freddy Freeloader, Wynton Kelly plays piano. Miles was always his own best publicist and was certainly not above claiming the work of others as his own. He is given credit for all compositions on the album although Bill Evans always disputed Miles’ claim to Blue in Green. It is the music that is important. Again Columbia has celebrated the anniversary by a special release which includes re-mastered tracks and a new vinyl edition all in an impressive package.

Both albums can be found on the Internet or ordered through the better music shops. And so today we can still enjoy recordings of two classic pieces of modern music.

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An Australian Adventure Vivian Garner

(The Garners, now on the move, extend their “Adventure” before heading south to Sydney.) une 3rd, 1974 - Monday We set out for Burleigh Heads. While crossing the Gibralter range we stopped to hear the bellbirds and saw these little grey and white swallows flitting through the rainforest - a rare treat.

It poured rain all day. We had to drive the flooded Pacific Highway with water up to the doors. It would have been scary but traffic was heavy and no one else seemed bothered.

Getting to Burleigh Heads about 4:30pm, we were surprised to find it a city with a four lane divided highway, American style signs and lights, apartment buildings, etc.

We found ‘Afton’. It was old and high off the ground on pillars - we ran the trailer underneath. Having missed the grocery stops, we shopped at

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the milk bar, had tea and went to sleep.

‘Afton’ had lots of gorgeous tropical flowers out back and an outside toilet half way down the yard. It was fine in the daylight but the local lizard population insisted on sharing it at night.

It also had a lovely hot water heater; and a hot bath at night was just the thing to defrost my feet. There was no heating and it was winter. Never mind the tou rist b ro c h u re s, Queensland weather is not perfect.

We set out next morning bundled up in sweaters and jeans against the morning dampness and shivered to watch the locals sauntering around casually in shorts and thongs, or more often, bare feet. Half an hour later we wished we had joined them.

We soon learned to dress like the natives and just take a cardigan for the morning chill.

I never managed the bare foot look for long though. I set out jauntily across the parking lot

with some Aussie mates and soon was hobbling in pain. My poor cloistered feet just didn’t have what it took. My friends’ feet had leather soles - the human variety. My hat-wearing hubby, who had stoutly refused to go native, chortled “Now will you listen?” shaking with glee from the bottom of his size 9's to the top of his defiantly untanned bald spot.

The beaches were beautiful golden sand, warm sun and white surf. But unless you are young, tanned and well endowed don’t watch the bikini parade. It’s enough to give us who are no longer teenagers the urge to slump behind our beach umbrellas.

Aussie girls have the reputation of being trim, tanned and terrific and I have to admit they earn every bit of it. I maintain it’s the tennis.

But then, I tried the game and the only thing that improved was my forehand.

The kids loved playing in the sand and keeping hats on was

a necessity when we weren’t used to the sub tropical sun. It took some doing. Esther preferred hers in place of the beach pail. There was a lovely sand pile in the bathtub after I washed her hair.

At first I kept a wary eye out for sinister fins. We had been well warned not only about sharks but the venomous little coral sea snake, the deadly brown taipan and sundry insects. Fortunately only harmless little lizards seemed to be in evidence.

We even tried surf-casting.

We seemed to be easily recognizable as newcomers. It had advantages. I was pulling in my one catch - a flathead- at the river mouth and a neighbouring fisherman came running over yelling “Don’t touch it missus.’ So I didn’t.

He scooped it up with a rag and explained that the spines on its back could give you a nasty sting. Then he proceeded to clean it and fillet it for me. It was a lovely week.

To be continued

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Memories of Mannum

Angels Are Not Always What They Appear

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hat a lovely wedding”, gushed Helen. “The pastor really excelled himself and you did a marvellous job on the church hall and on such short notice. I would have been happy to do it of course, except for being called away.” I let Helen’s fountain of flattery gush unheeded until she started on Amy. “What a beautiful little attendant she made, she looked just like an angel.” Which caused me to reflect that angels are not always what they appear.

Not that I was expecting an angel that Friday two years ago - I mean who expects an angel when you’re in the middle of cleaning the oven.

Having your head halfway in a smelly black hole scraping out the charred remains of last night’s disaster does not bring out your spiritual side, especially on your day off. My thoughts were definitely not heavenly - in fact they were tending in the opposite direction. That the casserole that did the damage was not my creation was adding to my distinctly uncharitable train of thought when the doorbell rang.

The creature I found standing on my front porch did not bring out my better nature either - dirty, dishevelled and disreputable I would have said if I’d have been in a literary frame of mind. I wasn’t. I settled for, “Gross, you are gross. What on earth did you get into? What are you doing here Amy?” “P... p... p... please, Miz Elder”, stammered the sodden creature,” I came over to clean out your oven but I took the short cut across the creek.”

Her voice rose in a wail that got steadily higher and louder. “The log was all slippery and I fell in and I couldn’t climb back on it so I had to go up the bank and it was all mud and my dress is ruined and Mrs. Hardy will be so cross.”

At this point I had to interrupt. My ears were beginning to hurt and next door’s dog was joining the din.

“Calm yourself, Amy. Remember what we taught you and take a deep breath.”

She did and I took advantage of the blessed quiet to whisper into one mud spattered little ear, “It’s alright, we’ll fix your dress, just come inside.”

That seemed to do the trick because the wail was replaced by a series of sobs and gulps so I hastily steered her around to the back and into the laundry. I soon had her dress soaking in a tub and her under the shower.

It hadn’t been my idea, this “partnership” between our church Ladies Society and the local “special school.” The school wasn’t called that officially, of course but that was how everyone referred to it, unofficially.

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partnership was proposed. In our country town, everyone knew I had been the cook for the local pub before I took up my present position, so naturally I was the obvious choice to help those students who elected to prepare themselves for careers in hospitality. Our new pastor had volunteered to assist the local mechanic present classes in car maintenance and detailing for the boys. That was going well enough but they had a handy workshop that kept the students - and the students’ messy workplace - in an identifiable location. Age restrictions made that impossible at the pub and the evening cooking classes seemed to inevitably spill over into my kitchen, spill being the operative word all too often. A sodden Amy, huddled in my kitchen wrapped in my best towel while her dress dried, was just the latest catastrophe.

It was all the new pastor’s fault, of course. Though his enthusiastic proposals forcommunityintervention were widely cheered I was feeling definitely put upon.

Amy was enjoying her hot chocolate and the dress was almost dry when the telephone rang. “Joyce, is Amy with you?” trilled Helen Hardy. “She left a note that I really couldn’t read but I think I can make out your name.”

Helen was one of those smiling, cheerful people who were always offering their services. Only to find they needed a lot of help to follow through. You always knew if Helen was decorating the church hall for a function, she’d find she needed your silver service and “that lovely damask cloth” for the head table - and would you mind putting in some flowers from the garden seeing as you have to go over there anyway. So I knew what was coming.

“I’ve been called to a bit of a family emergency, nothing terrible but mother would like some assistance.

She’s had more people that she expected accept an invitation to my sister’s anniversary Sunday and I felt I should offer. It is a surprise for the happy couple and it wouldn’t do to have them arrive and have to help?”

“I thought she’d hired a caterer.” I shouldn’t have said it but I was feeling distinctly irritated.

“Yes, but there’s the house to put to rights and people to organise. I wondered if you could keep Amy for the weekend. I know she’s my lodger and this is her weekend in but just this once? Oh, and would you mind collecting her clothes, I have to rush off. The key is under the mat. Thanks, Joyce.” There was no time to protest, she was off and I had Amy. The clothes needed a wash of course so I spent the rest of Friday afternoon showing Amy the basics of washing.

Ervin Nitschke: General Carrier, Milk Carter and Ferry Operator The flourishing cucumber and pumpkin vines growing in the back yard are cared for by Ervin, while his wife Cora lovingly tends the profusion of roses which bloom in the sheltered front garden. They both obviously have more than green thumbs, yet are also very active in the community.

Together, they deliver 20 Meals on Wheels every 5 weeks, and are keen card players. Until 2 years ago, Ervin was still a volunteer relief Hospital car driver, which he had done for about 20 years.

When PS Marion underwent her major restoration, he did most of her paintwork, as a volunteer. e were just married when we came here in 1951 from Loxton in the Riverland.

The mixed family farm where I grew up wasn’t viable for two families, but the River had always been our life. I worked at Shearers for 12 months, then as a council truck driver here in town for two years.

I bought a general carrying, grain carting business which turned into milk carting from 12 then 15 local dairies, who with others, were known as The United Co-op Dairymen Limited. This later became Dairyvale, and I carted the milk to the Cheese Factory at Mt. Torrens in standard 10 gallon cans. In the cool six months of the year, April till September, we did one pickup starting at 7am, and the other 6 months we did two, 7am and 5 pm.

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In 1967, Milk Tankers holding 2,200 gallons came in, and farmers had to have refrigerated storage for their milk. I had the tanker for 7 years till 1974, and carted to Mt. Compass for skim milk, Adelaide for bottled milk, and Mt Torrens for cheese.

Dirk Bont was the lessee of the ferry operations here in 1974, when the Highways Department took control of the State ferries, and I started work as a ferry operator, with Dirk Bont as the supervisor. There were seven operators, and we did 2 eight hour shifts on one, and 3 on the other. Both ferries were small, but one operated 24 hours a day

and the other for16. I saw big improvements in the ferries over the years; the biggest was the replacement of the belt driven cables by the safer hydraulic system. Before they changed over, Dirk and I had to go to Morgan to become familiar with the new system which had been installed on the ferry up there.

T h e r e wa s m u c h l e s s maintenance than on the old belt driven system.

The 1974 flood closed the ferries again, but this time it was only for 3 months, and Ron Bock ran his launch like he did in the ‘56 flood.

We lived at Cowirra from 1951 till we moved into Mannum in 1986, but in the ‘56 flood we had to move into a shed on the property.

I continued to work on the ferries till 1991, and Dirk was still the supervisor when I left.

W e e k end s wer e always interesting, and we had to be alert for skiers getting caught in the cables especially in holiday times.

These days there are only two dairies operating at Cowirra, and I think one at Ponde. It is so different and very sad to see the River as it is now.

Ervin Nitschke

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She was a willing little thing and I had to admit I was enjoying the company. Maybe the weekend wouldn’t be so bad.

It began well enough, Amy had settled in front of a cosy fire and we were preparing to have a quiet evening when the phone rang again.

“Is Amy there?” a frustrated male voice bellowed.

“Who is this and why do you want to know?” I bellowed back.

“This is her father. I was supposed to collect her from her lodgings and she wasn’t there. The neighbour gave me your number.” Trust Helen to forget something like that.

“She’s here but I’m afraid you can’t take her until I can be sure you are who you say. She’s in my care for the weekend and I know nothing of these arrangements. Why don’t you call the pastor, I’m sure he can vouch for you.”

“His housekeeper is the neighbour who gave me your number. He’s off to a conference until Sunday. I’ve come down to take her to the Saturday fete.

She has a cake entered and Mrs. Hardy thought I should be there. I’ve taken a room at the pub for the weekend.”

I was getting more exasperated with Helen by the minute. Still it did seem a pity to spoil Amy’s weekend so we worked out a compromise. Amy’s father would pick us both up and we would go to the fete together. I could fulfill my obligations and she and her

father could enjoy the fete. It proved to be an inspired solution. Amy’s father was quite companionable once he settled down and Amy was on her best behaviour. The cake won honourable mention, the rain held off til afternoon and we ended the day in front of my fire sipping tea.

I saw a lot of Amy and her father after that. Amy wasn’t over pleased with Helen’s hospitality and gradually managed to shift most of her belongings to my spare room.

What with Helen continually being called away to one event or another, Amy came to stay with me. Amy’s father took to spending weekends in the room above the pub. A widower’s life didn’t suit him and I found to my surprise that a spinster’s lot was not all I desired in life either. Amy blossomed under the attention. Our w eek en ds were surprisingl y comforting to us all. Being practical people, Josh and I found a remedy. He put his sales business on line, rented a flat here and made plans to move us all into a slightly larger house. After our wedding, of course. And it was a lovely wedding, even though I did have to decorate the hall myself. That was no surprise and I had the arrangements already in place when I received Helen’s call. Nice she could be back for the ceremony and Amy really did look like an angel and behaved like one too.

Vivian Garner

ell who would believe January and February 2010 have gone already!

We have planned our 1st Friendship Lunch for 2010 and this will be on March 25th and held at the Pretoria Hotel, so watch your letter boxes, the invitations shouldn’t be far away.

CHIPS prides itself on its ‘can do’ approach to client services and so far we have not had to refuse a reasonable request for any assistance, and that approach fits in with the HACC (Home and Community Care) criteria, HAAC being our major funding body. As requests for services continue to grow we are finding we need to be creative in fundraising to ensure we are able to continue to meet the needs of our clients.

We are very lucky to have an amazing band of volunteers who continually ‘go that extra yard’, to bridge the gaps in other formal services available.

We are selling tickets in the Australian Central Credit Union Community Lottery, so please pop into the office or shop and

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buy one. At $2.00 each, with fantastic prizes, this lottery raises funds for CHIPS and many other Community Organisations.

Another major fund raiser for CHIPS is our Community Helpers Shop. We are e x trem el y gr a t e f u l f o r donations of good saleable items and also to the members of the community who enjoy the opportunity to pick up a ‘bargain’ and support our shop.

We are also grateful to Cheryl, who is the volunteer Shop Manager, and her band of very willing workers who maintain a very professional and welcoming service to our community while raising much needed funds.

The most exciting thing to report on a personal level is that the Adelaide Clipsal 500 is just around the corner and I will be taking 2 weeks Annual leave around this time. I look forward to catching up with everyone on the 25th March.

Marion Wilson, Co-ordinator

After a car crash one of the drivers is lying injured at the side of the road.

‘Don’t worry,’ said a policeman, a Red Cross nurse is coming to attend to you.’

Oh no,’ groaned the victim, ‘couldn’t I have a blonde, cheerful one?’

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Mannum Hotel Social Club 010 will be an exciting year for Beachy’s Mannum Hotel Social Club, with a new committee, plenty of new members and membership in high demand with an ever growing waiting list.

The Social Club invites everyone to come down on Friday nights for a catch up drink and to unwind from the week. There is Happy Hour from 6pm - 7pm and a number of raffles for delicious meat trays, bottle-shop vouchers and cash prizes.

This year the Social Club will hold 3 or 4 events for its members and the first will be on Saturday 20th March with a ‘B’ themed meet and greet night at the Mannum Hotel,

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particularly aimed at new members. However, the Social Club would love to see anyone and everyone there, so come d re s s e d a s s o me th in g beginning with the letter ‘B’ and have a few drinks with us at Beachy’s - we know how to throw a good party!!

Last week’s draw winners: • $60 Members Draw - Beth Tinknell (Absent. Prize jackpots to $70) • $50 Beachy’s Draw - Marlene Davies • Meat Trays - Stix and Marilyn Palmer • Bottle Shop Draw - Donna • $30 Cash Prizes - Dallas Wilsden and Mel Gregory Kim Smithson, Vice President Mannum Hotel Social Club

MANNUM AUTO CENTRE Prepare & Service your 4WD and other vehicles before travelling.

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Bridgestone Dueler and other quality brand tyres available.

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Articles Wanted annum Mag is always in need of “local content” articles, particularly shorter ones of about 150 to 300 words.

Alternatively, large articles that can be serialised over several issues are also welcome.

A large part of our content is supplied by a few regular writers, one of whom is leaving (see page 3).

Clubs and associations are urged to send us regular reports about your activities.

Individuals can also contribute. Have you enjoyed a local “tourist” attraction? Tell the community about it by writing a short article for Mannum Mag. Perhaps in your travels you have seen something that could be implemented in Mannum. Write to the community about it via an article in Mannum Mag. All of you are our reporters. We rely on you sending material to us. Of course, if anyone would like to become an “official reporter” (news gatherer?) for Mannum Mag you will be rewarded with the satisfaction that you are serving the community; helping to make Mannum a better place to live.

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Great Food, Great Entertainment and Great Fun Mannum Agricultural Society Show Dinner

he Show Dinner held on 26th February in Schache Hall attracted a capacity crowd with tickets sold out well in advance. Guests were served excellent food and the dinner organiser and chief cook Berrie Skein was pleased with the results of the evening and expressed her sincere thanks to all who helped.

This Dinner heralds the beginning of Show Week in Mannum. It also provided additional funds to help cover showground improvements.

Show Committee Chairman, Stephen Vivian, urged those present to be a part of the show.

Entertainment was provided

by Dave Verrall with a special guest appearance from Tamika Godleman which, as usual, was a highlight of the evening.

During the dinner, Jennipher Vivian was presented as Young Rural Ambassador for Mannum. The Stock Journal

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and Royal Adelaide Show sponsor the Rural Ambassador and Rural Ambassador Youth Award each year. This sponsorship for the state winner amounts to a corporate clothing package, $5,000 in prize money and a two-week trip to New Zealand.

Jennipher received an Australia Day Lions award for Community Involvement and has been involved with the Mannum Show for a number of years but in 2009 and again this year, she is the convener of the Cattle section. She is a student at Mannum Community College.

Jenn has also been a member of the Mannum Agricultural Society Executive Committee for the past two years and is a keen helper at the monthly Sunday markets here at the showground.

Geoff Skein

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Mannum Golf Club

Murray Darlings

Competition Results A Grade T Johnson Score 42 J Applebee Score 38 B Hughes Score 39 R Dahlitz Score 38 A Reichstein Score 37 B Grade W Banks Score 41 T Miller Score 40 R Burt Score 37 Nearest the Pin 4 and 13 J Applebee 6 and 15 B Hughes Sponsor: B & C Excavation Competition: Stableford 20/02/2010 Winner of the day N Dalton Score 41 A Grade T Miller Score 36 J Packer Score 35 R Whittenbury Score 35 D Jericho Score 35 Nearest the Pin 4 and 13 W Banks 6 and 15 J Packer Sponsor: Little Para Printers Competition: Stableford 27/02/2010 Winner of the day S McGlashan Score Plus 43 A Grade A Reichstein Score 41 T Miller Score 41 R Dahlitz Score 36 M Morrissey Score 36 D Jericho Score 35

Mannum Red Hat Society he Murray Darlings - all about fun and friendship Well, here we are already looking forward to a new season, autumn is upon us already, and it feels like we have only just finished celebrating Christmas! Is it just my imagination, or is this year disappearing already at lightning speed? Is that what happens when you turn 50?

We have a jam-packed calendar planned for this year, which includes: • A trip to Marne River Olives • Celebrating our 2nd birthday in April. We are heading off on a coach trip to “Pryers on the Peninsula” morning show, followed by lunch at Middleton Tavern • “Picnic Day in May”, on the Mary Ann reserve • “Christmas in June” - trip to the Barossa - an invitation has been extended to the Woodside and the Riverland red hat chapters • Willunga Almond Blossom festival in July • Springtime visit to the Rainforest Retreat in Murray Bridge • In September we’re off to see the Pandas at the Zoo • October we hope to join in with the COTA ‘celebration of ageing’, as part of the Every Generation festival • October is time for our annual SA red hatters retreat to Victor Harbor, and then it will be time to start planning for our Christmas celebrations yet again!

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course we still have our regular morning tea at the Mannum Motel Café, the first Monday of every month at 10am (excluding Easter Monday).

As we say goodbye to one special red hatter, Lady Elf Dragon, who we wish every happiness in her new adventures (we will MISS you), we also offer a very warm welcome to our new members, some of whom have only just moved to Mannum. The word is spreading that red hatting is an ideal opportunity to meet some friendly faces (under our red hats), and our newest members are all looking forward to adding lots of purple and red to their wardrobes!

Karyn Lips Almighty

In the words of the exalted Queen Mother of the Red Hat Society, Sue Ellen: “We have placed high value on something that may sound shallow or silly to some; we believe in the importance of having fun, because we know that such things as dressing up and light hearted adventures link hearts and cement relationships, in a way that is hard to describe”.

She asks “How does real love grow out of events that cause us to laugh so hard we cry, or even snort milk out of our noses? I don’t know. It doesn’t matter how it works; what matters is that it does”.

I would like to join Sue Ellen, in wishing for you a whole lot of fun, fun, fun this year. Because we know what it leads to!

Phone: 8569 1438 or Email: inmannum@tpg.com.au Karyn Baker, Divalicious Dahloo (Queen of the Murray Darlings)

Sponsor: Unforgettable Houseboats Competition: Anz Bank 30/01/2010 Winner of the Day S McGlashan Score 44 A Grade B Fisher Score 42 J Packer Score 42 A Reichstein Score 40 R Porter Score 39 N Warhurst Score 38 W Banks Score 38 Nearest the Pin 4 and 13 D Gaskell 6 and 15 W Banks Sponsor: Porter Electrical Competition: Stableford 6/02/2010 Winner of the day N Warhurst Score 43 A Grade J Packer Score 43 T Johnson Score 43 K Dohnt Score 37 D Gaskell Score 37 M Gowling Score 36 T Miller Score 35 Nearest the Pin 4 and 13 S Mcglashan 6 and 15 J Packer Sponsor: Mid Murray Storage Trophy Competition: Stableford 13/02/2010 Winner of the day N Bottroff Score 42

MANNUM DOMICILIARY CARE Home and Community Care (HACC) Services Are you elderly or a carer and needing some help in the home?  cleaning (including Vacuuming, washing floors, cleaning bathrooms, toilets and various other tasks)  Personal care  Respite  Equipment  Podiatry Fees apply for the above services

For more information about any of these services Please phone Coralie on 8569 0240 Monday to Friday Between 8:30am to 4:30pm Or Pick up a handbook which outlays the fees and services available from the Hospital, Medical Centre or Dom Care Office

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Email: editor.mannummag@baonline.com.au Telephone: 8569 7392 (Lyn), 8569 1879 (Jo) Drop in to: 39 Randell Street, Mannum SA 5238 (a mailbox kindly provided by MMCSS/CHIPS)

2010 PUBLICATION DEADLINES Friday (12 noon) For Publication in March 26 April Issue 45 April 30 May Issue 47 May 28 June Issue 48

Email details of regular meetings to: editor.mannummag@baonline.com.au MONTHLY 1 Monday st

9:45am Combined Probus, Mannum Club 10:00am Murray Darlings Red Hatters, Mannum Motel Café. Ph. 8569 1438 Mannum Health Advisory Council, Ph. 8569 1239

1st Tuesday

7:30pm Agricultural Society, Showground

1st Thursday

4:00pm History Group, CHIPS

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Community Meetings Clash Calendar Committee, Showground 9:00am Shared Stitches of 4th Thursday Mannum Quilting Group. Ph. 7:30pm Progress Association, 8569 1035 Mannum Community College.

2nd Wednesday

3rd Monday

7:30pm Mid Murray Mallee Permaculture Group, The Hall.

Tamara Griffiths 0407 457 707

3rd Tuesday

pm Palmer Card Day, Lutheran Hall Palmer. Ph. 8532 2255 7:30pm Neighbourhood Watch.

Coordinator 0428 856 911

3rd Thursday

11:00am R S L , Community Club

4th Tuesday

7:30pm

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Last Monday

1:30pm Hospital Auxiliary, Meeting Room, Esmerelda Street.

Last Wednesday

Midday Mannum Mag Committee, Showground. Ph. 8569 2385 6:30pm Mannum Mens Discussion Group. Ralph 8569 1264.

WEEKLY

Mon, Wed & Fri 10:00–3:00 The Hall, 5 Greening Street, Mannum. Ph. 8569 1643

Monday 6:30pm Mannum Town Choir, Uniting Church hall.

Ph. 8569 2295 Tuesday & Friday 8:30am Walkie Talkies, Lions Den, Show Ground OTHER Alternate Fridays 1:30pm Senior Citizens Club, Club Rooms. Ph. 8569 2795 nd 2 & 4th Tuesday 10:00am Craft Group. Uniting Church Cottage. Ph. 8569 1827.

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2010 Community Calendar MARCH Mannum Show Mannum Showgrounds Saturday 6th, from 10 am Child $1.00, Adult $6.00, Pensioner $3.00 Website: www.mannumshow.com Contact: Geoff Skein Phone: 8569 2385, or Email: mannumshow@yahoo.com.au Market/Trash ’n Treasure Mannum Showgrounds Sunday 7th, 9:00am – 2:00pm Free Admission Sites available Contact: Irene Lovell Phone: 8569 2541

PS Marion Short Cruises Adelaide Cup Weekend Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm.

Adult $15, Child $7.50 Mannum Hot Rod Day Mary Ann Reserve Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th 11:00am – 4:00pm Child $1.00, Adult $2.00, Family $5.00 Contact: Julie Rice Phone: 0407 77 99 72 Hosted by The Bear Rock Rodders Association. Raises funds for the Mannum District Hospital.

Mid Murray Community Support Services Pop in 10 am - 4 pm at 39 Randell St Mannum. Ph: 85692129. A wide range of personal development courses are offered. Contact MMCSS for details. Registering for courses and programs is essential Special Events March 17th & 31st March Mental Heath First Aid Course - free, complimentary light lunch bookings essential April 6th Mens Breakfast - bookings absolutely essential.

8th Start second course “Cooking with Angie”

Weekly Passenger Service Mannum to Murray Bridge For information or bookings: 18 Alma Avenue, Murray Bridge SA 5253 Ph: 08 8532 2633

SA State Election Day Saturday 20th Karoonda Farm Fair Karoonda Friday 26th and Saturday 27th Under 5 free both days Friday Students under 16 free Saturday $3.00 for Students $12.00 Adult each day $30.00 Family Website: www.farmfair.com.au The Karoonda Farm Fair is an annual 2-day event based at Karoonda in the heart of the Murray Mallee region.

APRIL PS Marion Short Cruises Easter Weekend Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm.

Adult $15, Child $7.50 Market/Trash ’n Treasure Mannum Showgrounds Sunday 4th, 9:00am – 2:00pm Free Admission. Sites Available Contact: Irene Lovell Phone: 8569 2541 Anzac Day Service Memorial Monument Sunday 25th, 6:00am Followed by Sausage Sizzle at the Community Club.

Mannum Leisure Centre Squash courts, gym, and cardio Afternoons room are available.

Reopening at 3:00 pm, closing at the Tai chi, karate, basketball, netball, end of the sporting program or squash, carpet bowls, fitness classes, activity. pilates, card games, and others are Stadium and Clubroom are held throughout the week. available for hire for functions on weekends.

Opening Hours Mornings Further information: 8569 0185 Mon, Wed, Fri: 8:00 am - 12 noon Pam Cutjar, Centre Manager Tue, Thur: 6:00 am - 12 noon Sat: 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Every Thursday: Mannum Information Centre  Pine Park Murray Bridge Depart Arrive Depart Return Mannum 10.00am Murray Bridge 10.45am Murray Bridge 2.30pm Mannum 3.10pm 1st and 3rd Tuesday: Mannum Information Centre  Pine Park Murray Bridge

All material submitted for publication is subject to editorial approval. This is done not to censor, but to ensure topics are relevant to the content of Mannum Mag.

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