Support to Landowners affected by the Bushfire: Tree guards, discounted plants, plant giveaway.
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Over the last decade, Cherry Gardens residents may have seen white vehicles marked with reflective green and gold checkerband and logos travelling through the area. These are the SA Veterinary Emergency Management (SAVEM Inc) 4WD’s and teams deploying to fire grounds. We rarely appear in the pages of Cherry Chatter - even though our Command Centre is based in Cherry Gardens – because we operate State-wide. SAVEM is a 100% volunteer organisation with no paid staff.
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There are some amazing dry stone walls around Willunga (mainly slate and including some very modern creations) and from Strathalbyn, up through Highland Valley (mainly historic, telling us a lot about early European settlement). I've done quite a bit of homework on these structures made from nothing but rock.
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Sunday 28/3/21 was the second event training day under our new committee on our grounds in Working Equitation with Michele Meijer. There was an enthusiastic attendance of 17 horses/riders. Included various breeds, heights and abilities. The club plans to follow this up with more structured days in smaller groups and focussing on fewer obstacles and techniques. For more information please follow our Facebook page!
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You can read the 2021 AGM report for the Cherry Gardens Community Association and Cherry Chatter. This will be our 29th year which is something we should be proud of. Again, I would really hope we can encourage a few younger and energetic locals to get involved.
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If your interest or curiosity is anything like mine, and you would like to learn more about this wonderful organization, then please let me know by emailing the Cherry Chatter. If there is any interest in our community, then I will arrange for an information evening which could be held at the Cherry Gardens Memorial Hall.
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New faces and a new spirit. We are looking forward to an exciting year with new activities in our calendar. A Come and Try Day is being held on the grounds starting at 10 am on Sunday 7th March. All welcome!
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A dangerous mobile black spot in the Adelaide Hills that has left locals in fear during destructive bushfires, will be fixed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding.
Reprinted with permission from the Adelaide Hills Messenger
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We would like to welcome our new advertisers for September – Mobile Accounting and Tracey’s Barber’s Chair.
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Did you know that you can download e-books and audiobooks from SA Libraries via the SA Libraries App LIBBY, available free for Apple, Android or Windows via the Play Store?
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I’d like to thank all of our volunteer deliverers for the wonderful job they do to ensure we receive our monthly newsletters. if YOU would like to get involved in the community by doing a regular Cherry Chatter delivery along your section of road, please contact a committee member.
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The weekend is upon us and it is pouring with rain and freezing cold outside. So, with some time on my hands (the positives of not being able to go outside) and sitting in front of our lovely warm fire with some magazines, my computer and settled in for some “me time.” I came across an article written by Professor Debbie Haski-Leventhal from Macquarie University which is interesting to read and provides an interesting perspective on the COVID-19 impacts.
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From Natural Resources Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges: A decade-long effort to save one of our most threatened beach-nesting birds from extinction appears to be slowly paying off.
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Despite its proximity to the city, Sturt Gorge Recreation Park offers a great outdoor experience where you can quickly start to feel ‘miles away from it all’. As our chosen Park of the Month for March, Sturt Gorge RP, which is bounded by Bellevue Heights, Flagstaff Hill and Flinders University, will be the place to enjoy a range of family-friendly outdoor activities.
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The People's Climate Assembly is a coalition of activist groups and supporters who are ready to make a stand to our government to demand that they stand up and do something to help fix this problem we now face. Rebekha Sharkey spoke at the People's Climate Assembly organised outside Federal Parliament and she ran into Anna Medlin from Aldgate and Pam White from Emu Bay on KI and Sally Cornish and Lynn Wood from Willunga.
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Click to read the letter from Steve Murray to Cherry Gardens residents. Feb 2020, as well as a response from the government of South Australia re: supporting a mobile infrastructure upgrade.
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Following the strong interest of more than 80 people shown in the informal petition for Cherry Gardens and surrounding suburbs to leave Onkaparinga and join the Adelaide Hills Council, it has been decided to hold a Community Meeting at the Hall on Wednesday 12 FEBRUARY 2020 , 7 for a 7:30pm start.
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