Edition 324 | June and July 2021
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Last Sunday, (April 25th 2021) we were invited to attend a small memorial service at Cherry Gardens to remember the landing at Anzac Cove and our Anzac soldiers at Gallipoli. We would like to commend the Committee on conducting a moving and reflective ceremony that encompassed all of the Anzac Story and extended to include all Service Personnel who have given their lives in action.
Winter Sports are now well underway and the Rec Ground is in use most days for training or games of footy and netball. It is also very encouraging to see how many locals and general community use the Rec Ground and facilities on a regular basis. Please remember that it is a community facility and not owned by the council. Our community owns the place and volunteers run it and pay for everything.
The Cherry Gardens Memorial Hall is available for hire at very reasonable rates + Progress report on the new storage room at the rear of the Hall + Community Campfire will be on 11 Sept! Laughing Llama Dance and Drama group is still holding classes at the hall.
We hope everyone is going well now winter has arrived – how quickly we seem to travel through the seasons. Since our local fires of January, we have been operationally very quiet although our Operations Support team is always on the go supporting communications for the larger Sturt Group. This does not mean from a firefighting perspective we have not been busy – it allows time to train, improve our skills and make improvements.
News from CFS Region 1 - Air Operations - Cherry Gardens Airstrip
During autumn and winter, we would like to put together a history of the Region 1-Air Operations Brigade. Anyone with recollections and anecdotes that could help to record the history of water bomber support at the Cherry Gardens airstrip, we would like to hear from you and would greatly appreciate your help.
Belated April meeting notes: The Speaker for the evening was Rosalie Lawrence who gave a very interesting talk about Native Orchids + George’s gardening suggestions for June.
Next meeting will be Monday 12th July when three members from within our Club will talk on aspects of gardening they are passionate about + Read May meeting notes on Landcare and woody weeds + George’s gardening suggestions for July.
Dept of Transport to risk assess Main Road to Coromandel Valley. If we all want this 2.6km of road brought up to Australian standard, we will all need to make all our collective voices heard to local MP Steve Murray for SA Government funding support once DIT completes the concept study.
At last some decent rain to green up the paddocks! Unfortunately, with the true feed comes the weeds. This may be too late for some weed control, but with the damper ground, some weeds are actually easy to pull by hand. Salvation Jane and cape weed are good examples.
News from Minton Farm + Please share our online petition to change laws to control wandering cats. A paper-based petition will be recognized by Parliament but a digital petition showing support will help!
THaving recently thought about the sacrifices of Australians in global conflicts, it came to mind that our district has been well represented by those who served our nation. Each of those people had a story to tell. It would be good to look at one of them + Services held on Sundays at 9.30am – and all are welcome.
Since gaining permission from the National Parks and Wildlife Service SA to enter and conduct regular activities in the burn area, we have run our first bird banding and a couple of bushcare activities. There are still hazards present following the fire, but we have been given some additional protocols to keep us safe.
The University of Adelaide’s BandiBunch have completed their first series of mammal trap surveys in the fire scar and, in addition to the Bush Rats and Yellow-footed Antechinus that they found and I reported on in last month’s Cherry Chatter, they were very excited to find a male Southern Brown Bandicoot.
The Moddies (mini Thunderer’s) had their Guernsey Presentation on the last Tuesday evening in April. Unlike last season where our moddies could not win a game so far this season they have had 6 wins and Matt, the Moddies Coach, will shave his head down to the skin - including beard and eyebrows - if the kids win 10 of the 12 games this season... Go Mini Thunderers!!
Birthdays for June and July
Rainfall for April 2021 44.4 mm
Rainfall for April 2020 140.6 mm
Average rainfall for April 71.0 mm
Rainfall for May 2021 65.6 mm
Rainfall for May 2020 135.6 mm
Average rainfall for May 115.7 mm