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Sandy Ritcher, Nerissa Schuster, Jane Jones, Jacinta Carr, Jill Arcus, Lara Lukick, Andrea Freeth and Gaylene Crane INSET: From top Anne ‘Wilma’ Gray, Ann ‘Fred’ Shields, Deb ‘Bam Bam’ Price, Bev ‘Pebbles’ Roberts and Andrew Winterfield.

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omen – and men – from around the area donned their best pink attire on Saturday and headed to the Roxby Downs Golf Club to raise money for breast cancer.

Over 50 people took part in the seventh Think Pink Golf Day, and organisers Andrea Freeth and Ann Shields were thrilled with how it went.

“It was an extremely good day,” Mrs Freeth said.

“It looks like we’ve raised $11,000 with 12 teams which is amazing.

“We were worried we wouldn’t have enough teams but we are really happy with how it went.”

Nine caddies were put up for auction, with Mrs Shields’ team ‘The Pink Stones’ spending the most on their caddy Andrew Winterfield.

“We paid $1000 for him,” Mrs Shields said.

“He was worth it though, because he had a bottle of Moet, chocolate, and he paid for our drinks.”

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Along with the caddies, there was a raffle which raised $504, and all other auctioned items were sold on the day.

Participants were also entertained with music from Rob McElhinney.

Mrs Freeth said everyone got into the “spirit” of the day.

“Everyone’s spirit, how they took it on, the costumes, decorations, and the help we had was extremely good,” she said.

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Roxby walks in name of freedom

Police investigating burnout Kat Collins is angry about the dangerous driving on Burgoyne Street.

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olice are calling for more information regarding burnouts that took place on Tuesday night (10

October) and early Wednesday morning (11 October) on Burgoyne Street, which have left large skid marks.

Burgoyne Street resident Kat Collins said she saw a white ute “flying” down her street at around 9pm on Tuesday night, and heard another vehicle at 3am on Wednesday morning.

Mrs Collins described burnouts on her streets as an issue.

“On the weekends, you do hear them in the afternoons and at night, and you just wait for a screech” she said. “ [ O n We d n e s d ay morning] I did try and get a number plate, but I couldn’t because the smoke was so thick.

“All I could see were headlights; I couldn’t even see the colour of the car.”

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Mrs Collins has young children and she is concerned for their safety as well as other residents who use the street.

“It’s quite dangerous, especially because there are a lot of pedestrians,” she said.

“A lot of young kids ride their scooters around here and cross the road, so it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hit.

“We have to keep our front door locked so that the kids don’t get out.”

Senior Sergeant First Class Steve Griggs condemned those responsible for the burnouts.

“Besides being unsafe behaviour, it’s just a blight on the streets,” he said.

“It’s the main road into town essentially, and visitors and residents are now confronted with that reminder on the road which will be there for years.

“As far as we are concerned it’s unsafe and disgraceful behaviour.”

Snr Sgt Griggs appealed to the public to come forward if they had any information on the incident.

“What we’d ask in any type of incident of that nature is that people ring police at the time.

“We really do appeal to the public- if someone knows the identity of the vehicle or the driver, come forward either by ringing the station here, or Crimestoppers if they don’t want to divulge their identity.”

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w alk rai sing awareness and funds for victims of slavery and human trafficking was held in Roxby Downs on Saturday morning.

Not-for-profit organisation A21’s Walk For Freedom is an annual, global campaign that aims to get people thinking about the prevalence of slavery around the world.

Around 13 participants took part in the Roxby Downs walk, which was a single file, protest march through town.

Local woman Hayley Scrivens organised the local event for a second year in a row and said it went well.

“Half of the people who did the walk this year were new and [didn’t participate] in last year’s,” she said.

“We took a slightly dif ferent route this year; we walked through Roxbylink , across the road and into Woolworths, and then finished in the mall. “ T h e Wo m e n ’s Network made sushi [which was sold] and raised $535, which was a lot more than what we raised last year.”

Ms Scrivens said she finds the walk “emotional”.

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“A few people did ask information at the sushi stand and we did hand out information about human trafficking.

“It’s about raising awareness and starting a conversation.”

Roxby Downs was one of 23 Australian cities and regional centres that held a Walk For Freedom event on Saturday.

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“I always feel a bit emotional when I do it,” she said.

“I think about the slaves who are trapped, being abused and experiencing horrific trauma.

“I do get a bit teary thinking about who we are standing up for.”

Ms Scrivens thought the walk was successful in grabbing people’s attention.

“People did look at us which is good, that’s what we wanted,” she said.

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Fire danger season commences

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he fire danger season in Roxby Downs, Andamooka and Woomera has officially started, with the South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) amending the start date for the North East Pastoral and North West Pastoral Districts to October 15.

Traditionally the season begins on 1 November, however due to drier conditions and an increase in fuel loads in the area, the start date was been moved forward.

CFS Director of Preparedness Operations Leigh Miller said South Australians have a responsibility to “play their part in fire prevention”, and being aware of the fire danger season dates is important.

“The announcement of the fire danger season for these districts sends a clear message to South Australians to be aware of their responsibilities in relation to fire prevention, and that the unpredictable mix of high temperatures and drying winds make the potential for fires more likely,” he said.

Captain of the Roxby CFS brigade Anthony Alcock has noticed how dry it is in the region.

“I actually went out [last week] and had a look at some areas around town, and it is definitely drier than it has been in previous years,” he said.

“Up north we’ve already had fires in the [Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara] Lands over the past month which is obviously a bit concerning at this time of year.”

Mr Alcock said while there’s not often too many serious fires in the area, residents should still take precautions and have a bushfire action plan.

“We are pretty lucky here; we’ve had

some issues with campfires and fireworks during New Year’s Eve, but generally people do the right thing so we don’t have too many issues.

“Even though we live in a lower risk area, people shouldn’t be complacent as there is still the potential for a fire to impact Roxby Downs.”

If and when a fire does break out, Mr Alcock and his team of volunteers will be ready.

“We have skills maintenance drills that we have to do every year in preparation for the fire season,” he said.

“We often get called to larger campaign fires around the state when required so we need to be up to scratch on our training.

“The skills maintenance drills ensure that the crew knows what to do in a burn over situation.”

Mr Alcock urged residents to be vigilant during the fire season.

“If anyone is unsure of the rules during the fire danger season, the CFS website has all of the information needed, and the Alert SA App is also another great tool.

“If it’s a full fire ban day then there are to be no fires at all.

“This includes solid fuel BBQ’s like Webers.

“If you do see smoke or for any emergency, call 000; the sooner we can get onto it the better.”

For more information, head to https:// www.cfs.sa.gov.au RIGHT: Local CFS volunteers Back(from left) Dan Amoy, Trinity Teo, Anthony Alcock Front- Stephen Scarr, Tobi Alcock and Michael Scarr.

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Local roads still on Eddie’s agenda

A RoxFM’s board members (from left) Jules Green, Sasha Yantewo, Sandy Sumsion, Tony Butson, Jordan Curtis and Cam MacLeod.

Butson to chair Board

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here’s been a changing of the guard at RoxFM, with Tony Butson elected as chairperson of the community radio station’s board.

Mr Butson became a member of the RoxFM board earlier this year, but was voted in as the chairperson in late August at their Annual General Meeting.

In his new role, Mr Butson is looking forward to working with the committee and station manager Jordan Curtis, who joined RoxFM mid-year.

“It’s a good opportunity to support him and work together,” he said.

“I’m happy to help out in the background and go with the flow. “[Jordan] is settling in; he’s met quite a lot of people, is presenting

a few new shows and has a whole lot of different ideas which is good.”

Joining Mr Butson on the RoxFM board is Mike French as deputy chairperson, Jules Green as secretary, and Sandy Sumsion as treasurer.

Sasha Yantewo and Cameron MacLeod have also joined the committee.

“The old chairperson was Terry Boylan who has moved on, (former station manager) Ross Wilson has moved on and old treasurer Bill Natt also has new commitments – so it was a changing of the guard,” Mr Butson said.

“We have two other new people on the committee, Sasha Yantewo and Cameron MacLeod – it’s good to have some new faces.

“The committee has a good mix

of people in terms of age and experiences.”

Mr Butson said there are a few things the newly elected board will be focusing on.

“We are trying to get the station back to its roots; it’s community radio and we want to push that again,” he said.

“At our last board meeting we were talking about reappearing at the monthly market days and getting our presence back out there, be a bit more visual, and get back to our roots.

“We are also trying to get a lot more community voices on air, and invite new people to become members.”

If you would like to become a member of RoxFM contact Jordan Curtis on 8671 2545.

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s he promised last month, Member for Giles Eddie Hughes has gone into bat for Andamooka Road, and is continuing to look into the feasibility of building a link route between the Borefield Road and Andamooka Road.

Speaking with The Monitor in September, Mr Hughes said he’d received complaints from a lot of residents in Andamooka and Roxby Downs about the state government’s plan to reduce the speed limit on Andamooka Road from from 110 to 100 kilometres per hour.

Mr Hughes recently got to speak with the Minister for Road Safety Chris Picton to voice his concerns.

“I’ve discussed Andamooka Road with Chris Picton,” Mr Hughes said.

“I’m going to be formally writing to Chris to indicate my concerns regarding the reduction to the speed limit.

“In addition to that I’m going to seek assurance that there won’t be any speed limit reductions on other country roads – they should all stay at 110km.”

Mr Hughes also visited Andamooka earlier this month to look at the Borefield Road link route proposal.

“I was there with a couple of people from the Andamooka Progress and Opal Miners Association (APOMA) and also a road contractor, and we drove the road to have a

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look at what the worst parts of the road were.

“Most of the road wasn’t too bad, but there’s clearly some heavy rotting of the road towards the Andamooka end.

“So what I’ve said is that if I can get two quotes – one for the worst sections of the road, the other for the grading of the road – then we will see what those dollar figures are and then I can go back to the Roads Minister [Stephen Mulligan] and say the residents don’t want a gold plated road, they want something they can use four wheel drives on as well as for people travelling to increase visitation in the area.”

Currently Mr Hughes is waiting to receive these two quotes, and is gathering letters of support for the proposal.

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U.G.L.Y for a cause

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oxby Tavern bartender Louise Murray is one of more than two hundred bartenders across South Australia demonstrating their ‘ugly’ side as part of the annual U.G.L.Y. Bartender of the Year Campaign.

The competition, which runs throughtout October and November, asks bartenders to show their Understanding, Generous, Likeable, You in a bid to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation’s accommodation service.

Every $80 an entrant raises provides one night’s accommodation for a patient and their carer while they access treatment for blood cancer in Adelaide.

Miss Murray was keen to take part in the competition to raise as much money as possible to help families spend time with their sick children.

“I didn’t know what the competition was, but the minute I found out about it we’ve been pushing it,” she said.

“We’ve got the tins around the [tavern], we are telling people about it, and we’re going to organise a party.

“Stories of cancer and sick children touch everyone, and it’s just something people really get into and care about.”

Miss Murray said it’s sad to think that some families can’t afford to be with their loved ones in their time of need.

“If it’s a family from Roxby, they’ve either got to go to Adelaide, or if it’s specialist care they might have to go to Melbourne,” she said.

“If they’re working parents or have a farm they can’t afford to be away.

“That one little thing to say ‘someone cares’ means a lot.”

Miss Murray has been fundraising for almost a month now and said it’s going really well.

“I’m not sure what we are up to, but we had one person donate $50 straight away, and we’ve had a lot of money going into the [donation] tins,” she said.

“I’d love to raise thousands of dollars so that as many families can stay with their children as possible.”

Louise Murray is fundraising for the Leukemia Foundation.

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Shoplifting arrest woman was arrested on Friday for shoplifting from Woolworths.

The investigation is continuing into numerous other offences she has committed in the last month.

“Shoplifting and general threat won’t be tolerated,” Senior Sergeant First Class Steve Griggs said.

“With CCTV and the technology of today, it will be pretty hard for people to go undetected.”

Meanwhile over the weekend police introduced drug testing of drivers.

Snr Sgt Griggs said it will be a regular police activity in the future.

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Cancer fundraiser heads to the greens CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE “We also had ladies travel from out of town for the day which was great.”

The team that performed best on the front seven holes was The Pink Stones, and the runner up was ‘Glamstein’.

‘Houghnuts’ won the back seven, with ‘Pink Jockeys’ coming in second place.

Nearest to the pin on the front seven was Bev Roberts, while on the back seven it was Kerry Lecons.

The longest drive on the front seven came off Fiona Bilney’s

A group shot of the participants of Saturday’s Think Pink Golf Day. PHOTO Andrea Freeth

club, and Kerry Lecons went furthest on the back seven.

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Pink Golf Day would like to thank the main sponsor of the event MTM, those who do-

nated items to the raffle and auction, as well as the Roxby Downs Golf Club.

The Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey 2017 closes 7 November.

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has enabled over 355,000 young people to access mental health care.

There is still time to support headspace just visit headspaceday.org.au, write your personal mental health tip on a headspace day postcard and share this on your social media with #headspaceday Thank you to everyone who took part in headspace day, we look forward to your support in the future.

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Dear Editor, On Monday 9 October, 2017, thousands of Australians across the country generously threw their support behind headspace day, kicking off National Mental Health Week. headspace day is an opportunity to educate young people on the importance of taking care of their mental health issues early, before they become more serious.

Every year, a quarter of all young Australians will experience mental health issues and we want them to know that headspace is here to help. Research shows that 75 per cent of mental health issues emerge before the age of 25. By getting on top of issues early, the chances of recovery are greatly increased.

On headspace day we asked all Australians to share their personal mental health tips, telling us how they take care of their mental health. We gathered thousands of ideas to show young people the many different ways to maintain a healthy headspace.

It has been inspiring to see so many Australians share on #headspaceday, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition leader Bill Shorten, musicians, sports stars, and our own headspace day ambassador Anna Flanagan.

Our headspace clinicians say talking about how we take care of our mental health can encourage others to do the same. It is just as important to take care of our minds, as it is our bodies.

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Jason Trethowan Jason Trethowan is the CEO at headspace, the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. headspace provides early intervention mental health services to young people aged 12-25.

How connected are you really?

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taying connected with family and friends via social media is great — but connecting through a screen can have its limitations.

Research shows there’s absolutely no substitute for real face to face contact. In fact, a new article in the Harvard Business Review says that in spite of our increasing connectedness, society is seeing rising levels of loneliness.

We human beings are tribal creatures We’ve been designed to live in close communities and interact with others every day, in real life, face to face.

In this busy, highly technologically-advanced world that we have created, getting enough social interaction can sometimes be a real challenge. It’s now possible to outsource jobs, chores, shop-

ping and more, quite easily through your screens. All while being safely cocooned in your home, in your workplace or in your car.

Many of us are starting to realise that connectivity is not really the same thing as being connected. But getting more social interaction doesn’t need to take a lot of time or effort.

Whether it’s organising a coffee with a friend, kicking around a footy with your mates or inviting your family or friends over for a BBQ or out to dinner, real social interaction is critical to our ongoing psychological health.

Lots of ways to get involved Locally, you’ll find lots of ways to get involved in our community. As well as loads of sporting clubs and community groups, there are also local Community Boards and committees who are always

keen for new volunteers.

Here are just some of the groups that are active in our area: • Roxbylink • Roxby Council • Time for Wellbeing • Mining Minds • Strengthening our Families • Andamooka Yacht Club • APOMA • Family Forum, Multicultural Forum, Environment Forum and other Community Board Forums For more information, check out their websites and facebook pages. For community wellbeing resources visit Angela Lafferty at the Community Health Partnership in Richardson Place.

COMMUNITY CARTOON

Community Calendar OCTOBER 28 - RFDS Bogan Bingo fundraiser, 7pm at the Roxby Downs Tavern.

28 - RDAS Parents & Friends Halloween Disco (over 18s), 7.30pm, RDAS school hall 29 - Arid Recovery leatherwork workshop (session 1 of 2), bookings essential to admin@ aridrecovery.org.au NOVEMBER 5 - Arid Recovery leatherwork workshop (session 2 of 2) 12 - Multicultural Cooking Club, run by the Multicultural forum 18 - RDAS Twilight Market (final market for 2017) 18 - MotoX Night Meet 25 - Roxby Downs Community Christmas Carols DECEMBER 2 - Roxby Downs Community Christmas Pageant.

To add your event to the calendar, email editor@themonitor.com.au or phone 8671 2683.

The Community Calendar is restricted to the basic details of an event (what, where, when).

Little Lizards Does your child love celebrating birthdays?

The Monitor has started up a Little Lizards section where it gives a shoutout to local kids enjoying birthdays, with one child selected to have their photo appear in the paper as well.

To participate send your name and contact phone number, along with your child’s name and date of birth, to editor@themonitor.com.au, phone 8671 2683, drop it in to our Richardson Place office or mail it to PO Box 72, Roxby Downs SA 5725.

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Pageant preparations are underway

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he date has been set for this year’s Roxby Downs Community Christmas Pageant.

This year’s pageant will be held on Saturday 2 December and will feature a float procession, stalls and live music from Adelaide band Mr Buzzy.

The Roxby District Rotary Club will be coordinating the event again, and the club’s secretary Sandy Sumsion promised it would be a fun night for the whole family.

“The [float] procession will go down and around Richardson Place and do two full revolutions,” she said.

“We have some stalls on the evening selling food and things like glow products and raffle tickets.

“And ‘Santa’s Cave’ [will be set up] in one of the shops in the mall, and during the evening kids can line up and get a present from Santa that their parents have arranged.”

Mrs Sumsion said there’s normally between 27-33 floats that take part in the pageant, but she’d

love to see more this year.

“We’d like to see a record number of floats,” she said.

“We’ve got a lot of new people in town who might not have ever attended the pageant before.

“The best way to make the most out of the night is to dress up and be a part of a float – which could be a walking group – and then stay the rest of the night, enjoy the band, get something to eat and have a good time.”

The Roxby Downs Community Christmas Pageant will be held on Saturday 2 December from 7pm at Richardson Place.

Registration forms are now available to enter a float or stall, which can be picked up and dropped off at either Raine and Horne, Smokemart, the Roxby Downs Police Station or The Monitor’s office.

Forms must be submitted by 5pm on Wednesday 29 November.

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oxby Downs Pest Management are warning residents to be ware of spiders and other creepy crawlies this spring season.

“It’s that time of the year; I always call October ‘Octoberpest’,” Roxby Downs Pest Management’s Travis Hague said.

“Spring is a huge season for pests and particularly spiders.

“Red back spiders, black house spiders and sometimes huntsmen spiders are the common ones in the area.”

According to Mr Hague, now that the weather is warming up, it’s the perfect time of the year for spiders and other pests to come out of hiding.

He urged people to take care when going outside.

“When we get stormy sort of weather, it starts to really flush out different sorts of pests and people start to notice.

“You’ve really got to be aware of what goes on in your backyard, your play areas, your little tyke cars, your outdoor settings, your sheds, and other places that you might not have gone out to much in winter because they might be infested.

“When people start to come out into their yards they will notice the pest problems, and that’s where we come in.”

Mr Hague said people moving into a new house also need to be careful.

“There are houses that haven’t been occupied for a while, and when you leave something unattended, nature takes over and that’s where you definitely need to come in and give it a full treatment, otherwise it will be detrimental,” he said.

“If you’re moving house, we

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highly recommend that you assess the house before you move in because it’s easier to treat a house that’s unoccupied before you move in.”

Roxby Downs Pest Management offers residents a general pest treatment for their homes that has a particular focus on spiders.

“If you really do not like spiders or ants and things like that then you do need to get your house treated at least annually,” Mr Hague said.

“That can be interior and exterior with extremely safe products that are harmless to your pets and humans.

“It’s not scare tactics, but it’s nice to be living in a clean house that’s not got creepy crawlies running through it, and we are here to provide that service.”

Mr Hague said it’s never too late to get your house treated, but now is a good time.

“If a house is infested, then we can deal with it and manage it;

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that’s what we are trained to do,” he said.

“Sometimes it doesn’t necessarily need a treatment, sometimes you just need to know what’s going on.”

“I’m in town and we are happy to discuss pest related issues and give advice.”

If you do wish to get your house treated, Mr Hague recommended that you pressure clean it first to get the best out of the treatment.

While he doesn’t think there will be as many problems with pests this year as there were last year, Mr Hague suggested residents be prepared.

“Every year there’s always a pest influx in the spring and summer time, so be prepared for it and know that you have a service here in town.”

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SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Community Foodies pasta making a hit!

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Khai pasta making.

oxby’s Community Foodies held pasta making sessions for kids at the Community Youth Centre in the second week of the recent school holidays.

The kids learnt how to make pasta from scratch; it was a hands on culinary adventure pressing, rolling, and catching strands of pasta as they came out of the pasta maker.

Combined with learning about food handling, kitchen safety and recipe reading, the sessions created a lot of fun for ‘holiday restless’ kids.

“We really enjoyed turning the handle of the pasta maker and then catching the pasta as it came out” said Isabella and Jackson. Khai also really enjoyed rolling the pasta through the machine.

Isabella and Jackson pasta making.

Summah Cooke.

Sophie and Ethan Parker.

Matthew Parker.

Reef Johnson, Arry Miller, Hunter Carr and Patrick Elison.

Parker Green.

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Marlow Green.

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Hennie Manalang, Alina Cojocea, James Manalang, Alice O’Connor, Peter O’Connor, Brenda Murray, Hannah Dyson, Silvie O’Connor, Bowie Scrivens, Hayley Scrivens and Maddy Williams.

Marrisa Draper, Mark Beenham and Donna Higgins.

Bev Roberts putting caddy Andrew Winterfield to use.

Christine Heinrich, Denise Fitzpatrick, Fiona Bilney and Julie Darling.

Linda Evans, Bev Zeptner, Tricia Hendry, Teresa Hodgetts, Paula Innes and Rob McElhinney.

Stacey and April Dadleh.

Jeff and Jaymian Turner.

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Allie Thomas and Jamie Way.

November 11, 2017 Oasis restaurant Years 7-12 7pm-11pm $30 a ticket available from Tandales Hair and Beauty

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Maya Cooke and Harmony Clark.

Jordyn and Lilliana Visentin.

Summah Cooke and Sophie Parker.

Business Breakfast Thursday 26th October 2017 7.00 to 8.30am

Dunes Cafe - Roxbylink * Mr. Isaac Hinton, Manager Supply at BHP Olympic Dam will speak about the new Local Buying Program

* $35 per head •tickets

from the Visitor Information Centre before 5pm Mon 23rd October Lily Nelson.

Kenny Guinan.

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www.roxbydowns.sa.gov.au COUNCIL MEETING WASTE MANAGEMENT

Waste Services Cats & Dogs Parking Parks & Playgrounds Development By-Laws Health Services Youth Services Bushfire Prevention Citizenship Community Calendar & more

The next Roxby Council meeting is 25 October, 2017 at 4pm in the Council boardroom.

Council’s Resource Recovery Centre for waste management has commenced operation from BSH’s commercial yard at 10-12 Gosse Street, Roxby Downs.

Proposal for land allocation for Scouts approved!

C ouncil has been working with the Scouts for quite some time and we are pleased to announce that at the Council Meeting of September 27th, Council approved, in principal, to grant a lease for land to the Scouts.

The land, next to the CFS shed, is currently leased to the golf club. There have been quite a few people involved in assisting the Scouts to finally move forward with constructing their own facility and the Roxby Downs Golf Club are really pleased to have been a part of this success story.

Roy Blight, Roxby Council Chief Executive, sees this as a great opportunity for the Scout movement in Roxby Downs to move forward with confidence, develop some momentum and establish a long-term base – it’s a great outcome for the whole community.

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Developed by the Office of the Small Business Commissioner, the SBFC aims to simplify interactions between small business and councils, and facilitate better ways for councils to support their

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ast week Roy Blight, Roxby Council Chief Executive, briefed the Business Forum on the Small Business Friendly Council (SBFC) Initiative.

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small business communities. Participating councils will be asked to commit to a general charter of principles and implement initiatives to foster and support small local business.

The Roxby Downs Business Forum could be the key ‘reference group’ for a local version of this initiative and Council is very keen to hear forum member’s ideas and input about how a local program could

operate. Small business owners create local employment opportunities, provide goods and services and, here in Roxby, often provide services and products that are tailor made for our community members.

Council is very keen to develop a local SBFC initiative to work with and support Roxby Downs small business and looks forward to working closely with the Business Forum on initiating a local strategy.

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NEW Life Church Roxby Downs is a family friendly Multicultural Pentecostal church with a heart for the community. Our Sunday Worship Service is at 3pm meeting at the Christian Community Church Hall located on the corner of Burgoyne St. & Stuart Rd. We would love to have you join us, you are very welcome!

New Life is a member of the Australian Christian Churches Association and have sister churches of the same name in Port Augusta and in Port Pirie. For more details don’t hesitate to call Ps Dave Bunyon on mobile No. 0403 058 050 or Theresa Bunyon on 0413 609 102 and leave a message. Email: roxbydowns@newlifeccc. org.au

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Roxby Rockets off to New Zealand

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embers of the Roxby Rockets will be heading across the Tasman next month to compete in a new sidecar competition.

The ‘Showdown Across the Ditch’ will see eight sidecar teams from Australia travel to New Zealand and compete in a test match series against New Zealand teams.

It’s a new competition developed by an Australian promoter, and Roxby Rockets rider and manager Trent Headland is happy to support it.

“It’s something new that the promoters have put together, and they want to make it a yearly thing,” he said.

“Now that we’ve got the Australian Championship status, they thought it would be good if the best from Australia went over to try and entice some new sponsors and new avenues for the sport over there.”

According to Headland, the standard of sidecar racing is improving in New Zealand.

“In the last ten years they’ve really stepped it up and they’ve got a few guys who come and race over here [in Australia] fairly regularly,” he said.

“They were right behind the eight ball ten years ago riding bikes that weren’t up to scratch, but now they’re riding what we’re riding.

“They’re on par with our top guys and they ride a lot so they’ve become really competitive.”

Headland is cautiously optimistic his team will perform well in the series, which will be their first competition since the off season.

“We always expect to be at the pointy end, but it’ll be new tracks, different surfaces, and obviously we aren’t going to be in our normal surroundings,” he said.

“But we expect to be on the podium at every race meeting.

“I think we will be on the ball, but we really are going over to support the series and make something of it and help the other guys out.”

And it won’t just be all work for Headland.

“I’m looking forward to seeing NZ. “I’ve heard it’s really beautiful, especially down in the South Island where we are heading.

“I’ve got some friends [there] so we are going to do some hunting and fishing trips while we are over there as well as race our bikes.

“It’s a dream come true really!”

The Showdown Across The Ditch will be held over three weeks and begins on Friday 17 November.

Headland would like to thank the Roxby Downs community for their support.

ABOVE: Paul greigg, Tom Hannigan, Trent Headland, Jason Hardy, DarrenWhetstone, Glenn O’Brien, Wayne Hearne and Harry Hearne and Nate Headland in front after winning the 2017 Australian champs.

RIGHT: Roxby Rockets’ Trent Headland and Darren Whetstone.

Around the grounds

Lachy Bayly bowling for the Miners.

Katalin Wilby.

Angus Hahn bowling for East Roxby.

Louise Reed.

Theresa Wurfel.

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Roxby Downs Golf Association Klinger Australia Stableford Saturday, October 14, 2017 GRADE B B A C B A C A B L A A B A A B B B C B C C A

NAME RESULT HCAP RESULT Adam MALM 45 18 OVERALL WINNER Barry DADLEH 40 20 2nd Don BARWICK 37 9 3rd Admire TAKAIDZA 37 36 Sweepstakes Don SHIELDS 36 17 Sweepstakes Dougal MACLEOD 36 15 Sweepstakes Mark BEENHAM 36 26 Sweepstakes Robin PASSMORE 35 14 Rene AYALA 35 16 Stacey DADLEH 35 30 LADIES WINNER Neville PETHERICK 34 12 Robert GRAY 34 15 Michael PAUL 34 17 Ryan SHIELDS 34 14 Sebastian GRIGGS 34 4 Ian GRILLETT 33 19 Armando MAROMA 33 23 Chris BARRY 32 21 John ROWE 29 27 Michael HOFFMANN 27 16 Graham WARREN 23 32 Last MTENDEUDZI 16 36 Ashley FINLAYSON 13 6 LONG DRIVE (13) Div 1 Michael Paul Div 2 Last Mtendeudzi NTP - 11 Robin Passmore

James Beenham batting for OD.

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Roxby Go-kart drivers race at Nationals F our local Roxby Downs go-kart riders recently competed at the re-run of the 2016 National Dirt Kart Titles at the Yorke Peninsula.

Adam Frith, Michael Vugts and his two sons Lachy and Max Vugts competed in the event, which was delayed as a result of the widespread power outages in South Australia

last year.

Frith competed in the KT heavies and finished 24th, and Vugts raced in the KT mediums and placed 33rd.

Max placed 24th in the junior lights category, and Lachy made it to the finals of the junior heavies and finished 18th.

The competition was held over the October long weekend, and Vugts said they had a great time.

“It was a fairly full on weekend, [but] we all had a ball,” he said.

“On Friday we had practice, got the karts ready and went to a presentation.

“We raced in three heats on Saturday starting at 7.30am, which went on until around 11pm.

“And on Sunday there was one heat and a final.”

It was the first time the four of

them had competed at the national competition, and Vugts said it was a particularly good experience for his sons.

“Both of the boys aren’t used to competing against others as they race against each other here,” he said.

“The biggest field they’d raced in before this was 12, so it was a big eye opener and learning curve.

“They definitely want to keep competing.”

Vugts said they are now in the off season and won’t be racing again until February next year.

Roxby Downs’ Desert Dirt Kart Club is currently looking for new members.

For more information, head to their Facebook page.

Lachlan Vugts with his kart.

Max Vugts racing at Nationals.

PHOTOS: Kirsty Vugts.

Swimming coaches wanted for upcoming season

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n the lead up to the start of the Roxby Downs S w i m m i n g C l u b ’s 2017/18 season, the club is calling for parents to volunteer as swimming coaches.

The club currently has two coaches locked in, however secretary Cindy Kroon said they’d love to have four coaches so that they’re able to hold training sessions over four days. “[Coaches] don’t need to be overly experienced, it’s more about having people who are motivated to want to do it,” she said.

“We understand the nature of the work in this town, with people being fly in fly out and week on week off, so we are happy if people want to do once a fortnight or something like that.

“We are quite happy to work with what they can do.”

Coaches would only be required for between one and two hours each week for training sessions, which will be held during the school term in the early hours of the evening.

According to Kroon, the club wants to have training sessions held over four days to accommodate as many swimmers as possible.

“We ideally would like to do four days, especially for the older ones who want to

Back- Michelle Smith, Logan Smith and Cindy Kroon Front- Indigo Smith, Maya Smith, Madelin Kroon and Georgie Kroon are looking forward to swimming training starting.

get competitive,” she said.

“And there’s Scouts and dancing and all sorts of other things in this town, so we are trying to make it so that people can come to

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one training session.”

Kroon said swimming is a fun sport for children to learn.

“Swimming is great for your health and fitness,” she

said.

“You’re competing against yourself, and it’s a life skill.”

The club will be holding three pre-season ‘come and try’ sessions for chil-

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dren aged five and above on Monday 23, Monday 30, and Tuesday 31 October from 4.30-5.30pm.

Children must be able to swim 25 metres to take part.

Registrations are now open for the 2017/18 season.

For more information, contact Kroon on 0420 305 024.

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Clint GowSmith batted well for Hornridge.

Welcome Mr Bury

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Alex Stopps sends one down for the Miners.

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lympic Dam chose to bat on a beautiful day meant for nothing else but cricket.

OD legend Craig Nicholls (23) opened up with the promising Sanjay Sanhi (11).

Pablo Escobar would have been impressed with the beautiful lines bowled by Muthukumarana (1/13) and captain Mulders (3/25).

Sanhi pinged a hamstring in the early overs in another injury blow for OD, who lost Seb Holbrook to an ankle injury last week.

This brought in the talented Ben McCendrie (0), who like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix only saw two pills.

Skipper Hill (11) looked in the mood for runs until lifting a drive to ‘Buckets’ Faulkner at cover.

Wickets continued to tumble as Cleo Bachelor of the Year contender Angus Hahn exploded onto the scene with a fiery spell of 3/13.

Co-skipper Vandeleur (21*) played an uncharacteristic anchoring innings with some lofty blows from his Gray Nicholls Stuart Law signature edition weapon.

Unfortunately just like Sophie Monk, he kept losing his partners and was left stranded and robbed of a certain century.

89 was going to be hard to defend.

Muthukumarana (27) set the

tone with a powerful boundary off Rayner’s (1/35) first ball.

Geraghty (1/10) was his usual tight self and Vandeleur (2/23) worried the batsmen with his flight and antics.

Muthukumarana edged one to gully as did Cox (7) who has changed shirts this year.

Faulkner smashed (20*) in the same time it takes to use the selfserve checkout at Woolies, and along with Moss (12*) steered the Roos to a dominant win.

Geraghty had four chances go down and there were a couple of other misses that will come back to haunt the premiers who have slipped to 0-2.

East Roxby showed some real passion which has to be attributed to their core of Mulders, Teddy, and the returning Hahn Brothers (although there was only Angus this week so I guess that’s a ‘Hahn Solo’).

They were simply too good and deserved the victory, leaving OD with a lot of work to do to be considered a chance of defending their amazing record.

An improved East Roxby take on the Roxby Rogues this week in what could be seen as a danger game for the lads in red.

It doesn’t get any easier for Olympic Dam, who come up against rampant ladder leaders Hornridge who are definitely ‘up and about’.

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ew Hornridge recruit Liam Bury has scored the first century of the season, and the first for some time in Roxby cricket.

The crowd, including some Roxby Downs Cricket Association legends who came down to see what all the fuss was about, were treated to a masterclass.

Described as one of the best knocks in Roxby cricket history, Bury had more strokes than Picasso in his blistering 111, which included 15 fours and four sixes.

He was supported in the middle order by Hornridge top bloke Clint Gow-Smith (39), who said it was quite the experience batting with a lad of Bury’s ability.

Capper (2/50) and Humphries (2/30) toiled hard to try and break through what is an imposing and intimidating Swaggies batting line up.

The Rogues would have to pull something from somewhere to get close to this phenomenal total.

The spotlight shone on Patrick Glover version two in Rogues young stallion Jack Humphries.

With a tank a Kalari truck would be envious of and a confident game style, it was Humphries’ (72) time to shine.

The unfortunate thing for the Rogues was that Liam Bury (1/12) was just as lethal with the ball.

A wicked bouncer from Bury removed Sieburn for a globe in the first over in a sign of what he is capable of.

Woomera recruit Richardson (2/23) was impressive with his left arm bullets, as was Kavanagh (1/14), Newburn (2/46). and Wiesell (1/33).

The “Smiling Assassin” Travis Capper (41) showed some grit to support the talented Humphries.

Both teams still have big inclusions to come and are shaping up as the likely favourites to contest this year’s premiership.

Player of the Week....Liam Bury (H)

Liam Bury put on a batting masterclass for Hornridge.

Roxby Downs Cricket Association Saturday, October 14, 2017 Olympic Dam v East Roxby

Roos run rampant East Roxby 4/95 def Olympic Dam 89

Hornridge 4/219 def Roxby Miners 8/170

1st Innings Olympic Dam batting S Sahni lbw .......................................................................................... 11 C. Nicholls c ......................................................................................... 23 B. Hill c .................................................................................................. 11 J. Beenham c ......................................................................................... 1 S. Webber c ..........................................................................................9 M. Paul b ................................................................................................ 3 B. Vandeleur not out .......................................................................21 S. Clark c .................................................................................................. 1 R. John lbw ...........................................................................................0 R. Geraghty c ......................................................................................0 L. Geraghty c ........................................................................................0 R. Rayner ......................................................................................... dnb Extras (nb 0, w 1, b 6, lb 2) ..............................................................9 Total ............................................................All out for 89 East Roxby bowling Results not available at time of print.

Troy Mulders bowling for East Roxby.

2nd Innings East Roxby batting Extras (nb 0, w 2, b 1, lb 1) ............................................................... 4 Total ............................................................................ 4/95 Olympic Dam bowling Bowler Overs Maidens Wides Wickets Runs S. Holbrook 1.3 0 0 0 9 R. Geraghty 5 0 0 1 26 R. Ianson 2.3 0 2 1 12 R. rayner 3 0 2 1 14 B. Vandeleur 7 1 0 0 24 S. Webber 2 0 2 0 15 L. Holbrook 7 0 0 2 33 C. Caldwell 4 0 0 2 16 S. Sahni 2 0 0 0 18

Roxby Miners v Hornridge Results not available at time of print.

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Sporting academy to kick off for junior athletes

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new pilot program helping young talented athletes access elite sporting opportunities is starting up in Roxby Downs.

The Roxby Junior Sporting Academy (RJSA) has been developed in conjunction with the Office for Recreation and Sport, and will provide selected athletes access to specialised training and strength and conditioning programs to assist them in reaching the elite level of their sport.

RJSA coordinator Rebecca Cooke is confident the program will increase opportunities for local athletes.

“The vision of the RJSA is to provide young talented athletes born between 2001-2005 across all sports in Roxby Downs with additional sporting and training opportunities, and to assist in identifying clear talent pathways at either a local, state and/or national level,” she said.

“Whilst the primary focus is around sport and elite achievement, the vision of the RJSA is to also provide a positive impact on many areas of a young person’s life. “[We want to help] develop well-rounded young individuals, and help them to plan and work towards their goals, focus on their education, provide opportunities to practice leadership skills, as well as teaching responsibility and ownership.”

Athletes selected for the RJSA will be provided with individual training programs developed by Tony Checker.

Checker is a highly experienced strength and conditioning coach, and has worked with several elite

sports programs including the South Australian Institute of Sport (netball, soccer and hockey), the Adelaide Thunderbirds, Netball Australia’s high performance umpire program, and the South Australian National Football League’s under 18 talent identification program.

Checker is the current athlete development program manager at Immanuel College.

Locals Wes Knights and Jess Telfer have been appointed as high performance coaches, and they will hold training sessions twice per week.

Knights has played basketball at an elite level since he was 10, including as a teenager for the South Australian team where he won gold and silver, and he was named All-Australian when he was 16.

He’s had a range of different successes as a coach, including coaching the local basketball team for 10 years where a number of his players have gone on to play at a state level.

Telfer has a history in athletics, netball and basketball at a state and national level, and coached Roxby Downs’ A Grade senior netball premiership team.

The RJSA committee is very pleased to have them both on board.

“Jess and Wes both bring the academy a wealth of knowledge and expertise in both coaching and from also performing at an elite level,” she said.

Cooke said the RJSA is committed to making sure athletes’ education remains a priority throughout their training.

“The academy will link in strongly with both the Roxby Downs

Area School and St Barbara’s Parish School to ensure that each of the athletes are attending school and that their subjects are all up to date,” she said.

The RJSA will be holding a testing day later this month to select the athletes.

“The academy testing day will be held on Sunday 29 October starting at 9am in Stadium One and will be led by Tony Checker,” Cooke said.

“The testing will involve speed, cardio, vertical jump testing and agility testing.”

Selected athletes will be provided with a home strengthening program over the Christmas break before officially beginning their training in 2018.

Application forms for the RJSA are now available from the Roxbylink Kiosk foyer, or via email request to Rebecca.cooke@roxbylink.com.au Forms must be submitted no later than 12pm Saturday 28 October.

The RJSA was made possible thanks to a grant from the Office for Recreation and Sport, and is sponsored by BHP, Alliance Airlines, and through facility donation; the Municipal Council of Roxby Downs.

The RJSA committee has been working hard and is comprised of Amanda Giles, Lee Copeland, Dan McGuire, Theresa Wurfel, Rein Geraghty, Wes Knights, Emma Nielson, Tony Weir, Clint GowSmith, Ben Vandeleur, Mel O’Donnell and Nicole Montgomery.

For more information on the RJSA and the upcoming testing day, contact Cooke via email or 0428 723 570.

Roxby Junior Sporting Academy’s high performance coaches Jess Telfer and Wes Knights.

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