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Two Wells & Districts
Est 1978
August 2020
Jenny’s a legend in the baking Jenny Dowling of Two Wells is a legend, and she has the apron to prove it. With the Royal Adelaide Show cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Jenny took part in a unique iso-cooking competition staged in partnership by ABC Radio Adelaide and the South Australian Country Women’s Association. Listeners of the popular radio show were asked to send in their favourite recipe, of which a few would be randomly selected and baked by an ABC personality. Jenny’s Tanzanian date and nut loaf was baked by newsreader Paul McCarthy. Jenny said she had been baking this family recipe for 50 years and despite never entering any baking competitions at the Royal Adelaide Show, was thrilled to have won the blue ribbon and envious first prize of a dinner for eight. “We lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika in the early 1960s and my dad was general manager of Tanganyika Millers,”
Bec O’Brien reports: she said. “Mum brought home this recipe and I’ve been making it ever since. “It’s very easy to make, it’s very moist and it keeps well too. “It never lasts long enough in my house to freeze it though!” Jenny has won a fancy dinner for eight at her home, cooked by local chef and former My Kitchen Rules contestant Bree May. See Jenny’s recipe on page 2.
Budget blues
Adelaide Plains Council (APC) will throw away its first surplus budget in more than a decade to borrow more than $2.2 million to complete a raft of carry-over capital projects from the previous year’s budget. This takes the borrowings total to about $2.6m after around $400,000 was initially outlined in the 2020/21 budget approved last month. However APC’s ratepayers will see no increase in rate in the dollar
Bec O’Brien reports:
from last financial year following adoption of its 2020/2021 Annual Business Plan (ABP) and Budget at a special meeting held on Wednesday, July 8. At that time, APC mayor Mark Wasley praised the chamber for delivering a fiscal and conservative budget, saying more than 50 per
cent of residents were set to receive a reduction in their rates over the next 12 months. Carry over items totalling around $2.2 million were later discussed as a separate budget item at APC’s ordinary council meeting on Monday, July 27. “As a result of council carrying over a number of operating projects, the adjusted operating results for the 2020/21 financial year now forecasts an operating
deficit of $1,173,475,” mayor Mark Wasley said. “As with any budget forecasting, some projects may not be completed within the financial year they have been budgeted. “When this occurs, those uncompleted projects are not automatically incorporated into the current budget deliberations. Instead, uncompleted projects are separately reviewed by Council and may be confirmed to form part of the new budget as
‘carried forward’ projects,” he said. Adelaide Plains Ratepayers and Residents Association (APRRA) newly elected president, Greville Knight, said initially council had predicted a small surplus budget; the first in more than a decade, but too many projects had to be carried over from the previous year into the current budget, which would once again be in the red. n Continued page 5
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