Dear Hamish, Our deepest condolences to Sandy, Jim, you and your fellow paddock friends, on the very sad news of the passing of your dear equine friends Ziggy (30 years) and Mario (25 years).
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On March 17th 2019, the Cherry Gardens Uniting Church celebrated 170 years of continuous worship at its site on Hicks Hill Road, Cherry Gardens. Approximately 90 people attended a wonderful time of celebration and thanksgiving.
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Are you interested in nature? Native plants? Wildlife? Looking for a break from the hustle and bustle? Want to give something back to the community or Mother Nature? We welcome anyone who wants to come along and see what we do at any of our activities.
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Our football season started on the first weekend in April. After a few long months of training, recruiting and preparation the juniors and men’s teams finally got on the oval and played footy. In 2019 we will have 8 home games and we would love to see locals come along and watch good quality local footy.
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We have had trials for the winter season and teams selected. This year we are fielding 10 junior teams and 11 senior teams with games starting 27th April or 4th May. All junior matches are played on Saturday Mornings, with senior matches played Saturday afternoons.
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In Australia, European rabbits have major impacts on agricultural productivity and the environment. Do you have a rabbit problem on your property? Are you willing to allow a baiting program to be run on your property?
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Transport on our farm at Cherry Gardens in the early days was with a 4 wheeled steel tyred wagon, drawn by two horses, which was used up to the 1930’s. By the mid 1930’s this was replaced by a 2 wheeled rubber tyred jinker pulled by 1 horse.
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The Clarendon Branch of the Agricultural Bureau March 2019 meeting was an open discussion by the group on the 2019 Grape Vintage. Most grape growing members advised that their yields were down significantly, but the quality was extremely good.
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On July 17th the Clarendon Bridge will be 100 years old. In 1851 there was no bridge over the Onkaparinga River and when the river was in flood people living on the other side had to wait until the flood waters receded when they could cross by bullock dray. A community event to be held at Riverbend Park on the 21st of July is being planned.
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Possible Council Boundary Changes + Road Works Cherry Gardens
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Is anyone else sick of seeing this throughout our beautiful neighbourhood? For removal of graffiti on council property, you can contact the council’s Graffiti Hotline on 1800 040 225
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Rainfall for March 2019: 18.8 mm
Rainfall for March 2018: 17.6 mm
Average rainfall for March: 38.4mm
May birthdays
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ANZAC Day this year is on the last Thursday of the school holidays and the service will be held at the Cherry Gardens Soldiers Memorial Park at 8.30am followed by breakfast at the Memorial Hall.
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This April edition is the 300th Cherry Chatter that we have published! In May 1992, a small group of dedicated locals got together and published the first edition which was all of 2 pages! We had support from a few local businesses and 2 of those businesses have supported us for the 300 editions and nearly 27 years.
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Re: Australia Post. Is it just me or does Australia Post conspire not to deliver parcels in Cherry Gardens? Further to my letter to the editor, I received an email from Australia Post that may be of interest to your readers. Available to read here.
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Two years on from speaking in person with and writing to our independent MP Rebekha Sharkie and our community STILL doesn't have proper NBN coverage. We deserve better than this. We are not in the remote outback. Don't accept satellite NBN as being even remotely (hah!) acceptable.
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The Annual General Meeting of the Cherry Gardens Memorial Hall was held on Tuesday 26th February. The meeting approved a number of changes to the Constitution. The Committee is currently exploring ways of upgrading the appearance of the Hall; hopefully you will notice some positive changes over the coming months.
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