Hitting the beat in Two Wells is new Officer in Charge (OIC) at Two Wells Police Station, Kimberly Bambery. Kimberly replaces long-serving officer, Grant Devlin, who held the position for 18 years, and comes to Two Wells after spending the last 18 months policing at Port Wakefield. Read the full story in our online […]
Workers at the JBS pork processing facility at Port Wakefield were in shock last Thursday when they were told 102 jobs would be lost, effective as of Monday, as the business moved from a double to single shift operation. While 280 employees have retained their jobs, 36 full time employees and 66 labour hire workers […]
Burra’s Cheryllee Waters toured Ireland and England during January with the Australian invitational U18 AFL team and was voted ‘Players Player’ of the tour. Cher was one of 24 footballers from across Australia who ventured across the globe for the inaugural AFL Junior Girls International Rules Tour playing seven games over the 20-day tour. Two […]
Penwortham’s Colby Ackland has won the 103rd Australia Day jetty to jetty open water swim in the 13/14-year-old male division, along with the trophy for South Australia’s fastest U18 male in the race. In his second year racing, Colby blitzed the two kilometre swim from Grange to Henley Beach, smashing his 2018 swim time by […]
Balaklava’s Janna Mojares returned home last week from a national five-day basketball carnival in Albury NSW, playing for the SA girls U14 Magpies team. The team played against 11 other teams from around the country, and came sixth overall. Read the full story in our online edition: http://plainsproducer.realviewdigital.com
Part of the Mid North contingent of local winners at the State U18 Bowls Championships in Adelaide last week. Pictured above are State Triples champions (from left) Matthew Freebairn (Owen), Fergus Rowntree (Ardrossan) and Nathan Black (Marion).
ABOUT 90 seconds of racing yielded almost as many emotions for Balaklava’s Sam Tiller on Thursday afternoon, when the Phillip Stokes trained filly, Gennikay, stormed down the outside to break its maiden at Pakenham racecourse. The horse is named after her late mother, Genni Edwards, who passed away about two years ago. After three previous […]
How many women can still fit into their wedding dress after 50 years? Not many I bet, but Port Wakefield’s Luxmme Underwood did on the occasion of her and husband, Peter’s, 50th wedding anniversary on January 4. Luxmme (known to many as Lux), and Peter, who also looked dashing in his suit (but not his […]
WAKEFIELD Regional Council will continue lobbying for the green avenue of trees through Port Wakefield as part of the $90 million Augusta Highway duplication and overpass project, which has entered the land acquisition stage. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, State Transport Minister, Stephan Knoll, confirmed discussions with landowners has begun, while consideration for […]
CONSUMERS could face a price rise in eggs – they could become more eggspensive – on the back of soaring production costs. With little government subsidies available for intensive primary production, Days Eggs managing director, Dion Andary, put their current plight to State Primary Industries Minister, Tim Whetstone, when he visited the Lower Light facility […]
