On a Tuesday evening at Mt Gambier’s City Hall, men and women are chatting on couches as sunlight streams through the windows. At mental health support group Lifeboat SE, formality is noticeably absent. There are more than a few laughs. You can speak if you want to or just listen. Here, everyone’s story is different. […]
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Mt Barker man Chris ‘Savvy’ Savill is using one of the darkest times of his life to help others battle their own demons. In 2017, Savvy, who spent time in the military before becoming a sound recordist and camera operator, experienced a serious bout of depression after work-related stress and other factors almost became too
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At the height of summer on those hot, windy days, the sound of a helicopter overhead can be both confronting and comforting. Confronting because it might mean a bushfire is burning nearby, but also comforting because the flames will soon be doused by over 3000 litres of liquid from aerial firefighting bombers. The Aerotech Group
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Compassion, determination and a willingness to give back have led to Whyalla woman Susan Burgess raising more than $40,000 for a children’s charity. After Variety the Children’s Charity donated Susan a wheelchair accessible vehicle for her son Joseph, Susan asked just one question, “what can we give back?” The family had previously driven a sedan
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There are few things more rewarding for Leeanne ‘Twig’ Holmes than helping senior residents explore the country outside of their home on the Eyre Peninsula. Originally part of her job as activities co-ordinator at the Ceduna District Health Service, these seniors trips were sadly no longer viable for the hospital. So in 2012 Leeanne decided
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With its sophisticated wine and food presentation echoing chic European style, Vino Lokal in Tanunda offers a completely different vibe that visitors to the Barossa may not expect – and this is exactly the reaction that its proprietors, the Artisans of Barossa winemakers collective, want to achieve with its innovative new cellar door offering. Creating
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About 600km north of Adelaide in the South Australian outback, locals in the remote town of Andamooka have spent the past year fundraising for a new public pool. It gets hot in the old opal mining town, really hot. So hot that the local publican, John Smirnios, reckons he sets bags of ice on his
Andamooka locals: we need a pool to escape the sweltering heat! Read More »
The Yorke Peninsula’s first micro-distillery has opened its doors to curious locals and tourists looking to try its distinctive blend of vodka, which embraces the region’s grain industry. Sunny Hill Distillery owners Sam and Olivia Colliver use wheat grown on the Arthurton property to produce the vodka and soon-to-be-released gin base, taking inspiration from the
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While most people spend their 20s navigating their way through the first stages of adulthood, Barossa Valley woman Megan McLoughlin once feared she would never live to see 30. In 2010 at the age of 29, she was suffering from acute renal failure and was given just three weeks to live. In desperate need of a
I’m grateful to be alive’: Tanunda mum drives organ donation awareness Read More »
When Port Lincoln woman Angela Perin heard that the town’s only cinema would close its doors on December 31 last year she saw an opportunity to save the much-valued community facility. The Port Lincoln cinema had been run by youth social enterprise, Youthoria, under community organisation West Coast Youth and Community Support (WCYCS) for almost
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