Out and about

WORDS Erica Visser

LOOKING BACK ON

January

About 1400 people turned out for Australia Day celebrations in the Salisbury Civic Plaza/ Inparrinthi Kumangka including awards, lamington eating competitions and novelty games.

February

The Salisbury Fringe Carnival was a great success, with show rides, upbeat entertainment and colourful street performers popular with crowds.

March April

The turning of the season made for a pretty sight at Mobara Park in Mawson Lakes.

May

A Salisbury Community Fun Day attracted hundreds of people of all ages to Carisbrooke Park.

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June

To honour Refugee Week, the ‘New Land, New Hope’ exhibition was held in the Salisbury Community Hub featuring the stories of refugees including local Sudanese elder Margaret Bako, who shared her story of relocating to Australia as a refugee in the 1980s. While living in Roseworthy, Margaret taught herself to speak English by watching episodes of Days of Lives.

July

A Reconciliation in the North morning tea was held by Salisbury and Tea Tree Gully councils to recognise Reconcilation and NAIDOC Weeks. Talented students from Kildare College performed a dreamtime dance and Nathan May took to the stage to share some original songs inspired by his experience as an Aboriginal man living in Adelaide and his hometown, Darwin.

August

Write Now! – the next chapter of the Salisbury Writer’s Festival – proved popular with a broad spectrum of community members. Author Katrina Germain took the opportunity to launch her latest children’s book, My Dad thinks he’s super funny, while paranormal historian Allen Tiller gave insight into his process for researching Adelaide’s haunts.

September

Andrew ‘Cosi’ Costello joined barrages of excited kids at Ingle Farm’s Community Fun Day during September. On a quieter note, rare Yellowish Sedge-skipper butterflies were released at the Greenfields Wetlands as part of a project that aims to restore the native species to the area for the first time since the 1980s.

October