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WRITTEN BY PATRICK GLOVER

The Roxby Downs Business Forum held a successful breakfast gathering last

� ursday morning, when a diverse group of more than 30 people attended.

The Business Forum Breakfast event gave executive committee members the opportunity to reveal their plan for a revised structure of fi ve focus groups reporting to a core body when necessary.

“We are bringing the focus groups in so that everyone can chip in,” Business Forum chairperson John Wilby told � e Monitor.

“Before it was really just three or four people making all the decisions, so the focus groups will make sure people aren’t doing everything – they are focusing on just one topic.

“� ese groups are what the Busi-ness Forum is all about – challenging things and having a say instead of the executive committee making all the decisions.”

Mr Wilby said the breakfast – this time held at Chives Restaurant – al-

lowed local businesses to get togeth-er, with more events of this kind to be organised in the future.

Another highlight of � ursday’s gathering was an encouraging presentation from new BHP Billiton Olympic Dam asset president Jacqui McGill.

“It was great to have Jacqui here,” Mr Wilby said.

“She came out with some very good comments and it was great to hear her talk about their process-es and help us to understand how hard it is for them as well at the moment.”

� e Business Forum also took the chance to announce that this year’s Roxby Downs Business Awards had been cancelled.

Instead it will be replaced with a ‘Business as Usual’ dinner on Octo-ber 15 at which attendees will still have a chance to refl ect on the year that was.

“We as the Business Forum have come to a decision that we are not going to have the business awards this year,” said Business Forum vice-chairperson Sandy Sumsion. “It is not a good time to be celebrating, so we have taken it off the agenda.”

The financial health seminars and counselling services being held from this week onwards were also discussed, along with the idea of holding a trade day at Roxby Downs.

Financial health seminars will be run by accountancy and legal fi rms Schulz Hobbs, Johnson Withers and Plansure Solutions in the roxbylink cinema today at 10am, 2pm and 7pm – along with the same times and venue on � ursday, September 3, and � ursday, September 10.

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New business ideasBHP Billiton Olympic Dam’s Jacqui McGill (second from left) with

Sandy Sumsion, John and Katalin Wilby and Michelle Davis at the Business Forum Breakfast last Thursday. PHOTO: Patrick Glover

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More than 60 locals attende d a snake awareness program last

week and another nine took a venomous snake handling course.

� e newly trained snake han-dlers have been added to the Roxby Downs Wildlife Hotline’s volunteer list.

Environment Forum member Anni Walsh said the extra volun-teers would help strengthen the service, which was required to attend a snake callout on Tues-day, August 11.

“It just shows they are out al-ready,” she said.

“From now onwards they will be around, so people need to keep an eye out.”

Local policeman Jason Wilkin-son was among those who took part in the course.

“I thought it was extremely good,” he said.

“� e course gave us a basic in-

troduction to snakes. It was very informative and very hands-on.”

Mr Wilkinson said although he was fascinated with snakes he also had a fear of them in light of stories he had heard from others and the media.

He said the snake handling course helped him understand these creatures while also giving back to the community.

“I heard they were a bit short on snake catchers so I thought I would help out,” he said.

“Generally I just wanted to get more involved around town and within the community, and I thought this would be good for myself and the promotion of snakes.”

� e course also provided a fi rst aid component on how to treat snake bites.

Snakes are known to be prev-alent in Roxby Downs, and Mr Wilkinson said it was important to have enough volunteer catch-ers available to deal with them.

“I have seen a couple of snakes running around,” he said.

“I’ve been out and about down the street and seen them in the dunes. � ey are so common here, (and) they don’t seem to be afraid to interact – more so than usual.”

Ms Walsh said she was happy with the wide variety of volun-teers the Wildlife Hotline now had on standby, with the team in-cluding a policeman, ambulance offi cer and 14-year-old student, along with employees from BHP Billiton, Arid Recovery and Out-back Landscaping.

Meanwhile a number of chil-dren, including local Scouts, at-tended the public snake aware-ness course on Tuesday, August 18.

“It is essential people here know – especially because there are so many young children and families in town – how to respond if they see a snake and how potentially dangerous they can be,” Ms Walsh said.

The Wildlife Hotline is an Environment Forum initiative and can be called at any time on 0497 808 315.

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Renee, Sarah, Amelia and Meaghan Kiely get up close to one of the snakes at last week’s awareness session in the Roxby Downs Area

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Section 33 Road Traffic Act 1961

NOTICE Is hereby given that the Administrator of the Roxby Downs Council on August 18, 2015 made the following orders;

That the Administrator of the Council exercises the power vested in the Administrator under the Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982 and Section 33 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 and Clause F of the instrument of General Approval of the Minister 12 March 2001.

Pursuant to Section 33(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1961 declare that the event described below is to take place on the road described below is an event to which Section 33 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 applies; and

Pursuant to Section 33(1) (a) of the Road Traffic Act 1961, make an order directing that the road on which the event is to be held and any adjacent or adjoining roads specified below can be closed to all traffic except police and emergency vehicles and vehicles involved in the event for the period commencing 6:30am to 12 noon Sunday 6 September 2015.

ROAD: OLYMPIC WAY (BETWEEN OLYMPIC DAM HIGHWAY AND PIONEER DRIVE)EVENT: ROXBY DOWNS DESERT DASHADJACENT / ADJOINING ROADS: Olympic Dam Highway, Burgoyne St North & South Entrance, Town Oval Entrance

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1� e free counselling service will be provided

by BHP Billiton’s employee assistance program provider, Optum. � ey will be available at the visitor information centre from 9.30am until 4pm tomorrow – along with the same time and place on � ursday, September 3, and � ursday Sep-tember 10.

Meanwhile the construction of a business data-base is about to begin with the help of the Business Forum and BHP Billiton.

Mr Wilby said the forum would begin to talk to businesses about this concept at October’s dinner event.

“� e idea behind it is that everyone can see everybody else in town’s business details so that it helps keep work in town,” he added.

Business Forum reveals ideas

WRITTEN BYRYNEISHA BOLLARD AND PATRICK GLOVER

A contract worker is recovering in an Adelaide hospital after sustaining injuries at the BHP Billiton Olympic Dam mine

site on � ursday morning.� e SA Ambulance Service was called to attend

to the worker at about 3am before he was trans-ferred to Adelaide via the Royal Flying Doctor Ser-vice organised at about 6am.

“BHP Billiton confi rms an incident in the un-derground mine at Olympic Dam,” a BHP Billiton spokesperson told � e Monitor.

“� e incident resulted in injuries to a Macmahon employee, who is receiving treatment in Adelaide.

“A full investigation is under way.”A SafeWork SA spokesperson said the organisa-

tion was aware of the incident.“We have sent a mining engineer and senior in-

spector… to assess any possible breaches to work health and safety legislation,” the spokesperson said.

Macmahon was yet to respond to inquiries from � e Monitor when it went to print on Monday.

Contract worker injured at OD

WRITTEN BYRYNEISHA BOLLARD

Th e R o x b y D o w n s Community Club is set to be equipped

with an automated external defibrillator (AED) after hosting a successful Trivia Night last Friday.

Organised by local man Brad Langshaw, who is driving a pro-ject to install as many AEDs at

local venues as possible, the event raised more than $2000.

Mr Langshaw said there was now nearly enough funds to purchase the fi rst machine.

“� e Trivia Night was won-derful,” he said. “It was a great success and a good, clean, fun night.

“People left feeling hap-py, and that is what the town needed.”

Mr Langshaw said a number of locals who left it until the last

minute to book a table were left disappointed as the event was fully booked.

He thanked local woman Cherie Gaskin for her assis-tance and The Club manag-er Richard ‘Rocco’ Kirkby for being the event’s emcee, along with Mr Kirkby’s “brilliant” team of staff for ensuring the night ran smoothly and guests were well catered for.

“Everyone worked well to-gether and the night went off

without a hitch,” he said.Mr Langshaw said the pos-

sibility remained of holding another trivia night or some other form of fundraiser, but he would need the support of locals and businesses to ensure it could happen.

“It would be nice if we had more people to share some of the burden,” he said.

For more information about the AED project, phone Brad Langshaw on 0488 244 911.

Trivia event raises over $2000

WRITTEN BYPATRICK GLOVER

More than 100 people attended the Critter Cinema fundraiser at the

Arid Recovery Reserve last Friday.Arid Recovery’s Letitia Sikora said

she was pleased with the popularity of the inaugural event, especially as it was competing with others in town that night.

“� ere were no major hiccups, so everything ran pretty smoothly,” she said.

“We didn’t get any negative feed-back either, which is good.

“We would like to thank the com-munity for showing their support.”

Mrs Sikora said Arid Recovery would continue to try and run dif-ferent events in the future.

� e organisation is currently look-ing for feedback on Facebook as to whether another Critter Cinema should be held.

“A lot of people left between the two movies – not a lot of people stayed to see A Bug’s Life,” she said.

“It was a bit late for the kids and the young families, so in the future we will probably show the one fi lm.

“It was just because it was attached to Science Week this time that we had to show � e Eagle’s Den fi rst.”

Movie night a success

Locals put their general knowledge to the test at a Trivia Night held at The Club on Friday night. Pictured

is winning team Late Comers. PHOTO: Ryneisha Bollard

Rebecca, Sara and Namoi

Nunan at the Arid Recovery Reserve for the Critter Cinema

event last Friday night.

PHOTO: Amber Vanwageningen


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EDITORIALBy Ryneisha BollardIf you own or manage a local busi-

ness and failed to attend last � ursday’s Business Forum Breakfast, you missed out on some important words of en-couragement during what is otherwise a diffi cult time for Roxby Downs.

Business Forum executive committee members highlighted the new focus groups they have developed as a way of getting things done for our community sooner rather than later.

By splitting discussions up into fi ve focal points – strategic and business plan, Totally Local, tourism/market-ing, event planning/marketing and marketing the Business Forum – it is

hoped that actions can be researched and agreed on in a more effective manner.

It is also an opportunity for locals to get involved in the forum’s decision making process, as they could volun-teer to lead one of the groups instead of leaving it all up to the executive com-mittee members.

In the brief provided to � ursday’s attendees, the Business Forum high-lighted that its role involves working collectively “to devise and implement strategies to promote economic growth and sustainability, so the businesses in our region can achieve economic sta-bility and a reputation for high levels of service and innovation”.

I believe the key phrases in there

are “economic growth”, “sustainabili-ty” and “economic stability” – surely all businesses benefi t from these, and yet they cannot be achieved without co-operation.

One of the approaches the Business Forum is taking in fulfi lling its role is to host fi nancial health seminars, which begin today and will continue in the coming weeks.

� is recognises the challenges faced by most businesses at the moment and is an example of locals being proactive about addressing the situation.

Other encouragement on the morn-ing was to be found in a speech and Q&A session provided by BHP Billiton Olympic Dam asset president Jacqui McGill.

Unfortunately the content of her ad-dress was strictly ‘off the record’, but it should be safe to say that what she shared with those in attendance was reassuring in terms of the sustainability of the Olympic Dam mine site once job cuts are completed this month.

Hopefully this information will even-tually be shared with the wider com-munity so that locals can have more reasons to stay positive despite the current challenges.

In the meantime, we need to have faith, stay strong and work together to move this town forward in the direc-tion we want it to go.

Instead of waiting around for some-one else to fi x a problem, it is time to be part of the solution.

If you would like to share your opinions in The Monitor, send us an email ([email protected]) or a letter to PO Box 72, Roxby Downs SA 5725

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AUGUST26th - Free financial

health seminars in the roxbylink cinema at

10am, 2pm and 7pm.

26th - Buffel grass information session,

roxbylink cinema, 8am.

27th - Free counselling service available at the

visitor info. centre, 9.30am to 4pm. Ph:

1300 361 008.

28th - Outback Smart workshop on ‘Green Beauty’ at

the RDAS Hall, 7pm. Email: Jessica.Davis@

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28th & 29th - RDNA prelim. finals.

29th - FNFL grand final, 2pm.

29th - Kids gaming party, roxbylink library,

6pm to 8pm.

29th - Bush dance

and live music at the Andamooka

emergency services shed, 6.30pm. Ph:

8672 7238/8672 7087.

29th-30th - Roxby Downs Lutheran

Church 25th celebrations. Includes

fellowship meal. Ph: 0458 517 313.

30th - Buffel Busters working bee, 9am.

Ph: 8671 2402.

SEPTEMBER3rd & 10th - Free financial health seminars in the

roxbylink cinema at 10am, 2pm and 7pm.

3rd & 10th - Free counselling service at

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GARDENING GROUP: Locals installed a fourth and fi nal wicking bed at the Community Garden on Friday, August 14. ABOVE RIGHT: Volunteers (from left) Mel and Mark Allen, Vicki Mason, Julie and Don Barwick and Richard Gloster. PHOTOS: Ryneisha Bollard


More than 100 riders stopped in at Woomera for the New South Wales leg of the Black Dog Ride

last week as part of eff orts to raise funds and awareness for depression and suicide.

� is was the fi rst time riders from the event had stayed in Woomera despite trav-elling through there for breakfast or lunch in previous years.

NSW Black Dog Ride co-ordinator Wayne Amor said he had looked forward to the stay in Woomera and everyone had been more than accommodating.

“� e Eldo has bent over backwards for us,” he told � e Monitor last Wednesday.

“It is a bit of an unusual request seeing as it’s a Wednesday night, but this is a stop I have been looking forward to and hopefully

we can get a few people along tonight.“I fi nd it better in the smaller country

towns because more people talk and people put up fl yers around town and and so most people know we are coming.”

� e riders were half way through their journey from Bathurst to Alice Springs when they stopped in at the Eldo.

� ey held a dinner at the Eldo Hotel last Wednesday night, with a number of locals attending to share their stories.

Having already made stops at Dubbo, Cobar, Broken Hill and Barmera, Mr Amor said the group had already heard a number of stories from people aff ected by depres-sion and suicide.

“You get diff erent stories in diff erent lo-cations,” he said.

“In Barmera, someone had been dealing with depression for 15 to 20 years and they were saying how the local services wouldn’t

support them if they had to change their medication.

“So it is bad experiences like this we are trying to make better.

“Whether that is through training or get-ting diff erent people in we don’t know, but we are able to pass that on.”

Mr Amor said as of last Wednesday the group had already raised more than $10,000 from raffl es and donations alone.

“People have been so generous,” he said. “� e Lions clubs where we have stopped

have been great and people when we have stopped at hotels or petrol stations are just coming up to us and making donations.

“We are enjoying ourselves, but at the same time we are doing a good thing.

“We are doing it because we want to make a diff erence and give back.”

� e riders fi nished in Alice Springs on Sunday after travelling more than 3600km.

Local newspaper Roxby Downs Sun will print its fi nal edition tomorrow after 27 years of service to the community.

In a statement published in last week’s Sun, Fairfax Media said its regional and rural publish-ing division, Australian Community Media, was transforming the way it does business and had pre-viously announ ced plans to close the newspaper.

Fairfax advised that the closure date had been decided on in consultation with staff and with their well-being in mind.

“We thank each and every one of you for the support you have shown the Roxby Downs Sun and its dedicated staff over the years,” the state-ment reads.

“We trust you will enjoy our fi nal edition, which will delve into the archives and celebrate the news-paper and the community it has been proud to serve.”

2015 Black Dog Ride wheels into Woomera

Duncan White, David Deal, Michael Pears, Wayne Amor and Kurt Pride from the Black Dog Ride during their stop at Woomera last week. PHOTO: Patrick Glover

Sun to make fi nal farewell

Local man hospitalisedfollowing car crash

A 34-year-old Roxby Downs man was fl own to an Adelaide hospital after his car collided with a road train on Bypass Road near the Olympic Dam Way turnoff on Sunday, August 16.

Police, SES and CFS were called to the scene at around 9.15pm and were originally unable to locate the driver of the aff ected car. He was found some time later before being provided with med-ical treatment.

“� e police inquiry is ongoing,” said Senior Sear-gent Terry Boylan.

“We will be making further inquiries into what happened to see if charges need to be made.”

� e local man’s car has been seized and remains with Roxby Downs police for further inspection.

Drug testing in school zoneMore than 100 people were tested for drug or

drink driving outside of the Roxby Downs Area School during drop-off and pick-up times on Mon-day, August 17.

All drivers tested returned negative readings.� is random testing was conducted as part of

an SA Police crackdown on drug and drink driving around school zones.

Acting offi cer in charge of the Traffi c Support Branch, Inspector Steve Kameniar, said it is an off ence for a motorist to drive or attempt to drive a motor vehicle with THC (cannabis), methyl-amphetamine (‘speed’, ‘ice’ or ‘crystal meth’) or MDMA (‘ecstasy’) present in their oral fl uid or blood.

“Having drugs in your system can aff ect your driving through impaired co-ordination, impaired reaction time, poor vision and inability to judge distance and speed,” he said.

“Statistics show that 21 per cent of drivers killed tested positive to illegal drugs.”

Out of 911 motorists tested for alcohol and 184 tested for drugs, police made seven positive drug detections and no driver tested positive for alcohol.

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N ew St Barbara’s Parish School principal Bernadette Lacey will begin her role in term four this year despite original

reports she would begin this term.Acting principal John Robertson has been in

regular contact with Mrs Lacey and said she would visit the school on Friday, September 4.

“She is looking forward to coming,” he said.“We have agreed that she will be taking over as

of the first week of the holidays – so September 26 she will start.”

Mr Robertson said Mrs Lacey’s appointment would add some stability to the role after a number of acting principals had filled the void since the departure of the previous full-time principal, Tony Hayes, late last year.

“Bernadette’s appointment is a sustainable one,” he said.

“�e school is looking forward to many years with her in the role.”

Mr Robertson said he had “loved” his time at St Barbara’s, and the whole community had made him feel welcome since his arrival.

S aint Barbara’s Parish School students and teachers swapped their uniforms for pyjamas last Thursday to raise

money for upgrades to recreational areas.�e day was organised by the Student Voice

and school captains Mitchell Natt and Piper Taylor said they were excited to be able to help the school.

“We are raising money for an upgrade of our basketball courts and the playground,” they said.

“Recently they have begun to fall out of use and are in need of repair.

“We are hoping to raise a couple of hundred dollars towards the upgrades.”

Acting St Barbara’s principal John Robertson said a swing upgrade and new paint in the pri-mary school toilets were also on the cards.

He said he was pleased to see the Student Voice helping by identifying the needs of the school.

“It is great to see the students owning these decisions, then following through with it and seeing something happen,” he said.

While the day was to raise money for the up-grades, Mitchell and Piper said it was also hilar-ious to see their fellow classmates and teachers in the pyjamas, especially those wearing onesies.

BY PATRICK GLOVER

S t Barbara’s Parish School students celebrated National Science Week (August 15-23) by conducting

experiments during their lunch time breaks.

�e International Year of Light is being held in Australia throughout 2015, and Science Week has used this inspiration to create the theme ‘Making Waves – �e Science of Light’.

“We have had daily activities related to light

that have been run by different students from years three to nine,” said St Barbara’s teacher and Science Week organiser Grace Maroma.

“�ere were four experiments every day – some inside in the library and some outside.

“�e students were really excited by Science Week.”

Mrs Maroma said the idea behind running the experiments for the week was to increase students’ interest in science.

Fellow St Barbara’s teacher Morwenna

Stanford said there had been a good range of students visiting the library during lunch time throughout the week.

“�ere were a few boys in here the other day that were keen on the electricity experiment we did,” she said.

“�e year three students enjoyed the col-ourful experiments while the foundation stu-dents just loved everything.”

Experiments conducted last week included work with invisible ink, magic water, magic

candles, water fountains and making erupting volcanoes and hovercrafts.

Mrs Maroma is now leading activities for Children’s Book Week, which again fits into the International Year of Light by following the theme ‘books light up our world’.

Activities have included a book fair, book talks, trivia games and classroom activities, with a Book Week parade set to wrap things up on Friday.

BY PATRICK GLOVER

A cting St Barbara’s principal John Robertson’s last term at the school is set to be a busy one with a number

of meetings and activities taking place in term three.

The school celebrated National Science Week last week, Children’s Book Week this week and Family Week is still to come, leaving

no down time for Mr Robertson, the students and the teachers.

In addition, the foundation class will be making two trips to the kindergarten this term to maintain the relationship between the two.

“It is another busy term for the school,” Mr Robertson said.

Little Athletics SA visited the school two weeks ago to run clinics, and Mr Robertson

said he was excited to see the promise behind creating a club in Roxby Downs.

Mr Robertson also held meetings with staff from the other Roxby Downs, Andamooka and Woomera schools – along with Semann and Slattery’s Angela �ompson regarding digital citizenship as part of the Mining Minds program.

“�e schools in this region have been col-

laborating really well,” he said. “And there have been a lot of positive reports about the Mining Minds program.”

To cap things off, new principal Bernadette Lacey will be visiting Mr Robertson and key staff members in Roxby Downs on Friday, September 4, ahead of her taking over the role in term four.

BY PATRICK GLOVER

New principal begins

next term

Wearing onesies for upgrades

LEFT: Juan-Jose (back, left), Jeshua, Emily, Piper (front, left), Tawana, Mitchell, Jasmyn, Lachlan and Bobby at the playground.

Classroom lights up for National Science Week

Abundance of activities for St Barb’s students in term three

LEFT: Summah, Lily, Samantha, Ainsley, Ella and Melena participate in one of the Science Week experiments.

RIGHT: Lily (left) gets

involved in one of the

National Science

Week experiments.


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The 2015 Far North Football League (FNFL) season has seen a much more even competition, according

to pres ident Henry Andryszczak. Despite Coober Pedy’s slide down

the table, the rise of last year’s wooden spooners East Roxby to genuine con-tender made the battle for second, third and fourth an engaging contest.

“It is certainly a lot more even than last year,” Andryszczak said.

“Second, third and fourth have been very even and have even closed the gap on Roxby Districts a little bit.

“It has made for an absolutely out-standing competition, and has meant there was a number of upsets, which is good for the game.”

Although the competition has evened up, Andryszczak said the Miners were still the team to beat.

“After the Miners’ awesome demoli-tion of OD the other weekend, the Min-ers are red-hot favourites,” he said.

“But they are still very beatable – they just caught OD off guard the other week-end and managed to screw them down in what was a very polished display.”

� ere has been a number of special oc-casions throughout the season, including the Anzac Day match and Indigenous Round.

However, Andryszczak said it was the Partington/Zeptner memorial match that provided the highlight of the season.

“It was a standout in the way it was played and how close the game was,” he said.

“It was a very emotional day, with Amanda Partington (and Bev Zeptner) present for the match.

“It was just a very memorable day.”

East Roxby defeating the Miners, last year’s premiers, by a point was another highlight for Andryszczak as one of the major upsets of the season.

He said there were many people he would like to thank for the league’s suc-cessful season.

“(I thank) the league executive com-mittee for their work, which helps the league run smoothly,” he said.

“(Also) the club delegates whose work is very much appreciated, and special mention to the council (workers) who have got the oval up to the best condition it has ever been in.

“All players have enjoyed playing on a top-quality oval.”

Good Luck to our Boys in the Grand final, do us proud.

The Roxby Districts Sporting Club thanks their loyal

sponsors for their continued support this season.

Roxby Districts Miners will be looking to make club history this weekend, when they will be chasing their third

premiership in as many years. � e Miners have never achieved this feat before

and still have one more hurdle ahead of them – the Hornridge Magpies.

“� ey are going to test us,” said Miners coach Ricky Prosser.

“Hornridge are really tall up forward, so that is something we always need to look out for when playing them.”

However, as he nears the end of his third season as coach, Prosser said he believed his side was starting to click and had found its perfect game style.

He said the team has started playing a brand of football that suited it strengths, and every one of the (roughly) 50 players that have pulled on the Miners guernsey this year had bought into that style.

“� e highlight for the season was the Zeptner/Partington match against OD,” he said.

“We had some of the better performances from the younger kids, and OD was playing some good footy, so to come away with the win was great.”

� e Miners will head into the Far North Foot-ball League (FNFL) grand fi nal as the red-hot favourites having had the weekend off after their demolition job against Olympic Dam in the fi rst semi-fi nal.

Prosser said the side had taken this same route in the past two years, and this had led to its suc-cess, but they were taking nothing for granted.

He said he would not be mentioning the chance for three in a row come the grand fi nal,

despite the fact it would be in the back of some players’ minds.

“We have talked about it briefl y during the sea-son but on the day we won’t bring it up,” he said.

“We are just going to treat it like any other game.“Anything can happen in fi nals – a few years ago

Roxby Districts went through the whole season undefeated and OD beat them in the fi nal.”

Prosser said another highlight for the team this year had been the development of some of its mid-dle tier players.

He said players like Jed Kenny and Callan Hau-gum had stepped up with leadership roles or solid pre-seasons to take their games to the next level.

Another player he said had stepped up this sea-son was James Telfer, who was recently named the FNFL Mail Medallist for 2015.

“I approached him early in the season and said I wanted to make him vice-captain – he had never had a leadership role before,” he said.

“He started with a good pre-season and he went into work early and made sure he booked all the time off .

“He has certainly earnt it, but I wasn’t sure if he was going to win it because there were oth-er blokes in the team that I thought might have stolen votes off him – unlike your Baxters and Millards, who are standouts within their teams – but it was well deserved.”

Prosser said he wished all the juniors luck for their upcoming grand finals and thanked the league committee members for their continued support.

“� ere has been a bit going on in town of late but they have kept the success of the league going,” he added.

Miners looking to make FNFL history

2015 a closer comp

Far North Football League president Henry Andryszczak

Written by Patrick Glover

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appearance last year, the Coober Pedy Saints have endured a

“disappointing” 2015 season, registering just one win.

� e Saints will also be in search of a new coach for next season after Carmelo Crisa re-signed earlier in the season after seven years with the club.

Crisa said part of the reason for his deci-sion and the team’s below-par performances was a lack of commitment from the team.

“� e commitment just wasn’t there,” he said. “We showed last year if we put the com-mitment in, then the rewards will come.

“We didn’t have much personnel change. We still had the same core group we had last year.

“� ere were one or two players come in and out, but the overall picture of the team was the same.

“It was just the team and the players not having the commitment, and it was an issue that started creeping in last year – which was probably what cost us in our fi nal few games.”

Crisa said only two or three players turned up to trainings some weeks.

With teams as strong Roxby Districts and the others, he said the Saints needed to re-

main focused to be able to keep up with the competition.

Despite the disappointing season, Crisa said there were some positives, with a few junior players stepping up into the senior side.

“Steve Murray we plucked up from the jun-iors and he has performed well in the games he played,” he said. “He came to every train-ing session, which was another positive.”

“� en you had your regular performers like Martin Grava, Ben Buller and Michael Beelitz.

“But it was a group of players I thought were going to step up this year that didn’t, which was another disappointing factor.”

Crisa said the strength of the junior com-petition was promising and he was looking forward to seeing more of a focus on the league to help develop the next lot of players for Coober Pedy.

He will be moving to Adelaide at the end of the year and said he would still keep an eye on the team he coached for seven years. He said he wished the club all the best.

“I am hoping the club can sort out its issues that detracted its performances this year and can continue to push forward,” he said.

“Hopefully they can turn things around and we can see the Saints start climbing the ladder again.”

The East Roxby Roos have been the season’s big improvers having come from last year’s wooden spooners to

2015 fi nalists. However, being knocked out in the fi rst

week of the fi nals left fi rst-year coach Cam Faulkner with a numb feeling after his side’s promising year.

“We rotated through around 40 guys in total, and to win seven games out of 12 was a huge improvement on our one win last year,” he said.

“But we have only improved from fi fth to fourth, so the reality is we have only moved from bottom to second to bottom.”

Despite his side’s early exit from the fi nals series, Faulkner said he had been impressed with his team’s eff orts.

“� ere has been a huge improvement in terms of player commitment to training and games,” he said.

“We beat all four clubs this year, which is the fi rst time we have done that in a long time and shows a huge improvement, and we beat OD for the fi rst time in four or fi ve years.

“So when you look at it like that, the im-provement has been huge.”

Faulkner said the younger players in the side played an important role this year.

He said this and the introduction of new

players mid-way through the season had helped the side into the fi nals.

With only three players over the age of 30, Faulkner said the club was well positioned for years to come.

“� e plan with the name change (from Andamooka to East Roxby) was to set up for the future,” he said.

“I think our most experienced player is in his mid-20s so we defi nitely hope the young-er guys stick together, keep training together and getting out on the track together and hopefully we will see more success.

“Hopefully these guys can stick around for

as long as they can and really set up the East Roxby Football/Netball Club.”

Faulkner praised the fifth junior rule, which allowed him to blood a number of juniors throughout the season.

He said putting these younger players of ages 15 to 16 years meant he and other sen-ior players could teach them diff erent points about the game.

“When they came on the ground they pro-vided a heap of excitement, like recently they have been kicking plenty of goals,” he said.

“For an old guy like me it’s exciting lining up next to young blokes like that because

you are just waiting for them to do some-thing freakish.”

Faulkner said he enjoyed his fi rst year of coaching in the Far North Football League, which had thrown some unique challenges at him.

Trying to fi nd enough players proved dif-fi cult for all teams, and he said East Roxby was no diff erent as it had to work around everyone’s shifts.

Faulkner said Roxby Districts was the team to beat this season, and Mail Medallist James Telfer was the man to stop if Hornridge had any chance of beating them this weekend.

Roos turn the tables

Action from the Indigenous Round between East Roxby and Coober

Pedy on Saturday, July 11.

Hellish season for Saints

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Pedy during

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D espite just three wins for the minor round, the Hornridge Magpies fi nd themselves playing in another Far

North Football League grand fi nal.Going into the fi nals as the underdogs,

they defeated East Roxby and Olympic Dam – who both fi nished above them in the minor round – to earn themselves a rematch of last year’s grand fi nal fi xture.

“Most of the year we have struggled to get our best team on the park, but we have got most of our guys back come fi nals and we are starting to gel now and play some good

football,” said coach Ashley Baxter.Baxter said the closeness of the group was

what kept the players together through a tough season and they were beginning to reap the rewards of it.

� eir opponents this week are the heav-ily fancied Roxby District. Having already knocked off two teams above them this sea-son, Baxter said he and his teammates were daring to dream.

“It is going to be tough,” he said.“(� e Miners) have only lost the one game

for the season and they belted second place by 100-plus points only two weeks ago.

“But if we can manage to move the ball like we did on the weekend we will be in with a shot.”

Despite constantly having winning scores kicked against them, Baxter said the Mag-pies’ defence had produced some of the side’s better performers this season in Ty-rone Price and co-captain Tim Milner.

“� ere has also been an improvement from the young fellas,” he said.

“� ey have been there on the training track since day one this season and they have been rewarded with games.

“� ey have improved and earnt them-selves a regular spot in the side, which is pleasing.”

Baxter said this along with the experience of the 13 or 14 core players still left from last season’s grand fi nal would benefi t the side this Saturday.

The Olympic Dam Devils wasted a strong season when they bowed out of the fi nals in straight sets after suff ering a fi ve-goal

defeat to Hornridge on the weekend.First-year OD coach Jason Elliott said it was a

disappointing end to what had been a season of improvement both on and off the fi eld.

� e Devils had been second on the ladder all year and had wins against every side in the com-petition – except for Roxby Districts – at least twice, including three wins out of three games against Hornridge.

� is is the second year in a row the Devils have been knocked out in the preliminary fi nal, and both defeats were at the hands of the Magpies.

Elliott said there needed to be a few changes made to get past that fi nal hurdle.

“It is going to take a bit more commitment and dedication if we want to make it into a grand fi nal,” he said.

Despite the disappointment, Elliott said there were plenty of positives going forward, with a number of the side’s juniors playing important roles throughout the season.

Juniors Nick Calligaris and Kody McCarthy have been around the club for a number of years now, and other young players like Tyler Odgers and Keenen Gates have also joined the fray this season.

“� e young guys have been good,” Elliott said.“If we can keep improving those guys and keep

them coming out then we are going to have a bright future ahead.”

BY PATRICK GLOVER

Olympic Dam ‘disappointed’ by season’s end

Three wins prove enough to earn grand fi nal spot

LEFT: Action from the clash between Hornridge and Olympic Dam last Saturday, when the Magpies earned a spot in the grand fi nal.


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The warmer weather is not far away, and that means snake sightings around Roxby Downs will soon start

to increase. Our local Environment Forum runs the

Wildlife Hotline (0497 808 315), which is a 24/7 service staff ed by volunteers to assist community members who fi nd snakes on their properties.

More than 40 calls were received last sum-mer for snakes, injured wildlife and birds.

Among a number of other people from around town, four Roxby Council staff – Peter O’Connor (Electrical Works Offi cer), Leah Caden (Customer Service Offi cer), Meaghan Kiely (roxbylink) and Anni Walsh (Community Projects Offi cer – Environ-ment) – volunteer on the Hotline, and re-cently polished their snake handling skills.

Geoff Coombe from Living with Wildlife visited Roxby last week to run a number of

sessions (including a community education session), and the four Council staff , who had previously attended venomous snake handling training, all undertook a refresher course to ensure their skills were up to date.

Held at the golf course, the training cov-ered snake identifi cation and physiology, snake bite fi rst aid and various handling techniques.

If you see a snake on your property, stay calm and ensure pets and children are re-moved from the situation.

Keep an eye on the snake (it is very diffi -cult to retrieve a snake from a property if the person that made the call has not watched the snake) and call the Wildlife Hotline on 0497 808 315 to speak with a volunteer for advice/assistance.

Fridge magnets and further information about the Hotline are available during busi-ness hours from the Council foyer of our Richardson Place offi ce.

R eminder notices have now been issued for payment of quarterly water and power bills for the

April-June period. Going to the letterbox and fi nding an

account (or a reminder notice), regardless of who it was sent by, can sometimes make us sigh.

Roxby Council recognises it can be tough to make ends meet and pay a large account on time, especially with the em-ployment diffi culties many people are ex-periencing currently in our community.

If you are experiencing fi nancial diffi cul-

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We understand that from time to time some of our customers may face periods of fi nancial trouble and unexpectedly fi nd themselves unable to meet their account payments for many reasons.

Whatever the reason, we encourage customers to contact Roxby Council im-mediately when they may be in fi nancial hardship. � e Council will work with you and discuss all alternatives.

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more than 400 titles from Australia, New Zealand, America and the UK.

The great thing about Zinio is that it can save you money by reducing the amount of magazines you buy, broaden your reading to include titles you may not have seen be-fore, and enable you to save them in your personal collection to read later (they will not expire).

To access Zinio, just go to the roxbylink library home page at www.libraries.sa.gov.au/roxbydowns and click on the Zinio but-ton, which will take you to the catalogue. The first time you visit you’ll need to create a user account.

You can search for magazines by genre or title and then open the file on your com-puter or download an app to be able to read them on your tablet, smart phone or Kindle.

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Congratulations to Daniel Mo-riarty, who hails from the Unit-ed Kingdom, and Sachira and Sethula Muthukumarana and Nishamali Nagasinghe, who are originally from Sri Lanka.

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In 2013, realising that there was no event dedicated

to women’s health in Australia, Jean Hailes for Women’s Health ran the very f irst national Women’s Health Week.

� ousands of women across Australia regis-tered to take part in a week of online activi-ties, videos, resources and information.

Now in its third year, the event continues to gain groundswell sup-port nationally, and Jean Hailes provides health information and free re-sources to support thou-sands of registrants and hundreds of local events organised by communi-ties Australia-wide.

� is year Jean Hailes for Women’s Health will be launching its new campaign: ‘No more elephants!’

It is time to get rid of the elephant in the room and get talking about women’s health.

Women can be good talkers, but when it comes to health, we of-ten don’t take the time to ask questions, seek out

credible information and work on a sound plan of action.

WHAT DOES THE SAYING “THERE IS AN ELEPHANT IN

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problem or diffi cult sit-uation that is obvious, but nobody wants to talk about it or address it.WHAT DO WOMEN WANT TO KNOW?More than 3300 wom-

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revealed what women worry about and what information they would like to hear about when it comes to their health.

During the fi ve days of the 2015 Women’s Health Week (Septem-ber 7-11), Jean Hailes for Women’s Health will focus on what women want to know about their health:

• Monday – What do women want to talk about?

• Tuesday – Myths: what have you heard?

• Wednesday – Silent topics: what’s not being talked about?

• Thursday – Ask someone: who and what to ask

• Friday – Now what? Tell us your pledge

Ladies, get together and discuss the above questions over a coff ee. Let’s talk about women’s health to raise awareness in our local community.

For more information on Women’s Health Week, visit: www.wom-enshealthweek.com.au

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ADVANCE FIREWORKS NOTICEA fireworks display will be conducted at;

The Roxby Downs Golf Course, as part of the RFDS Giant Auction and Golf Day

On Saturday the 19th of September, at 8pm. Some pets can be disturbed by the noises of the

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THIS Friday, August 28, is Daffodil Day. Daffodils will be avail-able for purchase in front of the school li-brary between 8am and 8.30am, then at Raine & Horne on Tu-top Street and Roxby Hourglass Jewellers in the mall. For more information, phone 0427 760 950.

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Exact Mining Stableford Saturday, August 15

NAME SCOREOVERALL WINNER JOHN LACHMUND 42DIV 1 ANDY HIGHET 39DIV 2 JOHN FOLKMAN 40LADIES/JNR TRISH HENDRY 31SWEEPSTAKES RENE AYALA 39 MICHAEL PAUL 38 ROBIN PASSMORE 37 NEVELLE PETHERICK 36 SEB GRIGGS 35LONG DRIVE DIV 1 SEB GRIGGS LONG DRIVE DIV 2 TONY FORREST LONG DRIVE LJ TRISH HENDRY NTP DIV 1 GLEN MUNGUR NTP DIV 2 MAL PENGLASE NTP LJ TRISH HENDRY

Roxby DownsGolf Association

Monadelphous Monthly MedalSaturday, August 22

NAME SCOREOVERALL WINNER RYAN BENNETT 67A GRADE ANDY HIGHET 70B GRADE MATT BAKER 71C GRADE RENE AYALA 74SWEEPSTAKES SEB GRIGGS 70 BILL BOEHM 72 ROBIN PASSMORE 73 ROY TAYLOR 73 IAN GRILLETT 74BEST PUTTER TONY HOLBROOK 28LONG DRIVE A GLEN MUNGUR LONG DRIVE B PHIL MOON LONG DRIVE C SCOTT PRIOR NTP A GLEN MUNGUR

W eek 24 of the Roxby Downs Darts League has been and gone, and a good night was had by all last Wednesday.

Charlie Lucas (Four Play) threw his third 180 for the season, while in the peg outs Steve Bell (Four Play) threw an impressive 126, closely followed by Andy Tyler (FODFA) with a respectable 116 peg out.

For the females, Zoe Leslie of Twisted Flights pegged out at 78, with Jae Cleary of Andamooka Opals closely following at 64.

Neither of the male or female peg outs were enough to take the highest for the season in both groups.

ROUND ONE, WEEK 24: ISITIN? d Bullz N All 9-2, Tenners d Chukkas 7-4, GC12 d Pointer Sisters 11-0 (forfeit), Dead Eye Dicks d Four Play 6-5, Bull Shooters d Andamooka Opals 8-3, � e Wannabies d Twisted Flights 6-5, FODFA d Red Bulls 8-3.

LEADER BOARD: 1. Four Play. 2. Dead Eye Dicks. 3. ISITIN?. 4. FODFA. 5. GC12. 6. Tenners. 7. Twisted Flights. 8. Red Bull. 9. Andamooka Opals. 10. Chuk-kas. 11. � e Wannabies. 12. Bullz N All. 13. Bull Shooters. 14. Pointer Sisters.

Lucas throws third 180 for season

SPORTS DEADLINESAll sports results and reports

must be submitted by10am on Mondays.


Roxby Downs Area School (RDAS) held its year three to six and year seven to 12 sports days last

Wednesday and � ursday respectively.Gairdner won Wednesday’s competi-

tion, while Eyre won on � ursday.Students were forced to compete in

diffi cult conditions last week as strong winds made things uncomfortable for all participants.

However, this failed to deter the stu-dents, and RDAS principal Steve Bennett said he enjoyed seeing everyone compet-ing in their diff erent events.

“Personally I really enjoyed the oppor-tunity to be involved,” he said.

“Many students who don’t necessarily excel in the classroom get an opportunity to shine, and so as the principal it’s great to have the opportunity to see students excel and achieve in these types of events.”

Mr Bennett said the student captains, along with RDAS teachers Wade Ball and Kelly Harris, had done an excellent job of getting both days prepared.

Parents were also out in force to cheer on their children, who were able to use the small oval’s new shot put and long jump areas for the fi rst time.

COUNTRY CHAMPS: Under 12 soccer players represented Roxby at the country championships held at Renmark over the weekend. PHOTO: Supplied The under 16 country championships side. PHOTO: Will Slee, The Murray Pioneer

Gairdner and Eyre take top spots

Billy winds up in the discus event at the RDAS year three to six sports day.

Hayley in action in the javelin event.

Tristan launches himself during his long jump event.

Imogen clears her jump last Wednesday.

Charlotte kicks the ball in her class’s activity

during the reception to

year two sports day last week.

Matilda clears a hurdle at

last week’s RDAS sports

day.


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Roxby Downs winter basketball grand finals

Women’s runners-up, The Flames. BACK: Maddy Rhodes, Hayley Hill, Tara Cockshell and Glenys Wickins. FRONT: Kaitlin James, Amber Seamer and Phoebe Noll. PHOTOS: Ryneisha Bollard

Women’s winners, Roxby Rollers (aka Young Ones). BACK: Kate

Wilson, Maddy Evans and Renee Wurfel. FRONT: Riley Evans, Millie Cordy and Jasmine Tovakuta.

Men’s winners, Heatstroke. BACK: Kiaran Dadleh, Lochie Munro, Jordan Dadleh and Josh Jordan.

FRONT: Jed Kenny and James Russell.

Note: See next week’s Monitor for its coverage of Saturday’s award presentations.

Robby Sutton takes fi rst Modifi eds win for 2015The Roxby Downs Sporting Car Club held

its fi fth local race meet of the year on Saturday night.

Attendee numbers were strong and, despite early morning rain, the Red Dunes Raceway proved to be quick under tyres.

A reduced fi eld saw the evening’s racing – this time sponsored by Embroidery 4 You, Roxby Downs – split into two heats per round.

Street Stocks were combined with Super Mod-ifi eds and Open Wheelers, while the second heat compromised the larger Modifi eds fi eld.

Street Stocks again provided some exception-ally close racing, with Wayne (RD1) and John Dempsey (RD18) and James Beenham (RD53) duelling for honours.

� e pace laid out by these cars racing among the Super Modifi eds paid testament to the quality of these cars and the skill of their drivers.

� ey kept pace with the Supers in the fi eld and were at times drawing away from them.

John Dempsey ultimately took class honours, followed by Wayne Dempsey in second and Beenham in third.

In the Super Modifi eds and Open Wheelers, Pete Davis (PA24) returned to the track with his Super Modifi ed after an extended absence from the Red Dunes Raceway.

He battled for honours with the Open Wheel-ers of Kane Honner (RD59) and Logan Hobbs (RD314).

Ultimately Honner took fi rst place with a four-point lead over closest rival Davis, who was fol-lowed by Hobbs in third.

� e Modifi ed class delivered some of the clos-est and most spectacular racing of the night as the varied fi eld comprised of recent entries to the class, who raced together with some of the quickest Modifi eds in the state – the latter of which were progressively dealt more and more severe starting handicaps through the course of the evening rounds (as is the usual case).

Mick Wilkinson (RD12) suff ered mechanical issues for the second month in a row and was forced to withdraw early in the evening.

� e competition was fi erce between top drivers Danny Grosser (RD16), Robby Sutton (RD56)

and Chris Burggraaff (RD4), with Duncan Atkins (RD95) also in the mix.

Ryan Miller (RD13), a relative newcomer to the category, also showed growing prowess, and will no doubt be off his P-plates in the not too distant future.

Round four saw contact between Burggraaff and Andrew Davis (RD52) on the entry to the pit corner. � is was followed by a post-race pro-test and contentious retrospective black fl ag for Burggraaff and loss of the six heat points.

Ultimately Sutton took fi rst place honours for the class with a two-point lead over Grosser, fol-lowed by Burggraaff in third.

� e All-Comers competition was forgone on the evening, replaced instead by the annual Pres-ident’s Cup raced over 15 laps.

Wayne Dempsey drove superbly from handicap to move cleanly through the fi eld to take line honours, while Sutton failed to fi nd an edge over the Open Wheeler of Hobbs over the fi nal laps.

� e pair took third and second respectively. The local burnout fraternity provided

much-appreciated light entertainment during the end-of-round breaks, with Clinton Atkins – the younger of the Atkins boys – leveraging the opportunity to take brother Duncan’s RD95 out for laps to further develop his driving experience during one of the breaks.

Sponsor hot laps were also provided, with Em-broidery 4 You’s Karen Atkins opting to place a very lucky CFS volunteer in the shotgun seat of Burggraaff ’s RD4 for an experience the club is sure will not be forgotten any time soon.

OVERALL RACE MEET RESULTSStreet Stocks: 1. John Dempsey (RD18), 19pts.

2. Wayne Dempsey (RD1), 17pts. 3. James Been-ham (RD53), 14pts.

Modifi eds: 1. Robby Sutton (RD56), 25pts. 2. Danny Grosser (RD16), 23pts. 3. Chris Burggraaff (RD4), 17pts.

Open Class (Super Modifieds & Open Wheelers): 1. Kane Honner (RD59), 22pts. 2. Pete Davis (PA24), 18pts. 3. Logan Hobbs (RD314), 15pts.

Annual President’s Cup: 1. Wayne Dempsey (RD1). 2. Logan Hobbs (RD314). 3. Robby Sutton (RD56).

RIGHT: James

Beenham (RD53)

placed third

in the Street

Stocks.

LEFT: John Dempsey (RD18) was the top racer in the Street Stocks class.

RIGHT: Wayne

Dempsey (RD1)

won the President’s

Cup.

LEFT: Kane Honner (RD59) placed fi rst in the Open Class.

Wayne Dempsey (RD56) took his fi rst Modifi eds win for the 2015 season at the Roxby Downs Sporting Car Club’s

fi fth race meet on Saturday night. INSET: Dempsey at the starting block. PHOTOS: Amber Vanwageningen

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A pleasant and still Friday night saw players take the court for the Roxby Downs Netball Association

semi-fi nals. It was a delight to see so many spectators

come out and support the teams while taking advantage of the BYO alcohol ruling for this year’s fi nals.

In the A grade, the East Roxby Roos, who were minus captain Cerys Kirkwood, suff ered a devastating 56-24 loss to the Hornridge Magpies, who will compete in Friday’s pre-liminary fi nal.

The Magpies may have started the sea-son undermanned but were able to field a strong team combination to round out their season.

Hornridge had taken a 12-goal lead at the end of the fi rst quarter, 18-6, resulting in East Roxby making some major positional changes.

� ese included moving Ruby Haeata from goal attack into goal keeper.

� e Magpies continued to dominate the game play in the second quarter, increasing their lead to 18 goals, 31-13.

At half time, Hornridge replaced Amanda Giles with Maddison Rhodes as goal shooter and Dearne Masson with Tara Briggs as wing defence.

East Roxby was unable to fi nd its feet, with Hornridge increasing its lead to 25 goals by the end of the third quarter, 43-18.

Jemma Howe (Hornridge) directed play in attack while Fiona Hooper and Bonnie Har-man created a formidable defence line, ably assisted by Masson and Briggs.

Hornridge took the game by 32 goals at the fi nal whistle to knock East Roxby out of the competition.

Roxby Miners A grade defeated Olympic Dam to go straight into the grand fi nal, 66-38.

It was a close fi rst quarter, with the Miners taking only a four-goal lead, 11-7, and with both teams unable to settle.

� e second quarter saw the Miners’ reg-ular shooter, Joice Takaidza, take the court. � is allowed them to settle into their game play and increase their lead to 10 goals by half time, 27-17.

Goal keeper Georgia Mandemaker and goal defence Hannah Wurfel worked hard against the OD ‘tall timbers’, Emelia Nicholson and Nicole Gregory, to create turnovers and deter scoring opportunities.

After the half time break, OD made major positional changes but was unable to reel in the Miners, who took a 12-goal lead at three quarter time, 43-31.

� e fi nal quarter saw a determined Min-ers side put a stop to OD’s charge to take the game by 28 goals.

� is Friday’s A Grade preliminary fi nal (on Court Two at 8pm) will see Hornridge and Olympic Dam battle it out for the chance to take on Roxby Miners in the grand fi nal.

A determined East Roxby B grade side de-feated Roxby Miners, 48-35.

East Roxby came out strong to score the fi rst few goals of the game, with Jessica Has-sett and Karen Wegner working hard in the goal circle.

� e Roos held a seven-goal lead at the fi rst quarter break, 12-5.

During the second quarter, Wegner suff ered an injury and was forced to leave the court and was unable to return. Her exit was ac-companied by a round of applause from her supporters.

� e disruption failed to deter the Roos, who held a 16-goal lead at half time, 29-13.

At half time the Miners made positional changers to try and get themselves back in the game but it was not enough, with East Roxby maintaining a 15-goal lead at third quarter time, 39-24.

� e emotions from both teams were run-ning hot in the fi nal quarter as the game play became rushed, causing a multitude of errors.

� e Roos worked hard to take the game by 13 goals and push themselves straight through to the grand fi nal.

A nail-biting game saw Olympic Dam B grade overcome Hornridge by one goal for a place in the preliminary fi nal, 29-28.

Both teams were matched on seven goals in the fi rst quarter, with neither able to get a jump start.

Going into the second quarter OD made positional changes to rework the defence line with Sam Fishlock as goal keeper, Courtney Brown on goal defence and Claire Ziebarth as wing defence.

OD managed to gain a one-goal lead at half time, 13-12.

� e Devils found their groove in the third quarter to increase their lead to six goals, 25-19.

Vocal and enthusiastic crowd support saw Hornridge work hard in the fi nal quarter to regain lost ground.

Mel Haynes and Stacey Nicholson (Horn-ridge) fought hard to overcome the OD de-fence to decrease the score line gap.

A nerve-wracking fi nish saw supporters on the edge of their seats as OD took the game by one goal to knock Hornridge out of the fi nals.

� e B grade preliminary fi nal (on Court Two at 6.30pm) will see Roxby Miners face off against Olympic Dam for a position in the grand fi nal against East Roxby.

Olympic Dam Yellow C grade defeated an

undermanned Hornridge, 41-18. � e Magpies, who were missing stalwarts

Susie Smith and Rhij Paulauskas from their line-up, have been knocked out of the com-petition as a result of their loss.

OD Yellow took the lead by four goals in the fi rst quarter, 9-5.

� e Devils took control of the court in the second quarter with shooting tag team Clo Finlayson and Jeanette Taylor working the ring.

Half time saw OD Yellow break away with a 12-goal lead, 19-7.

Hornridge made positional changes to its attack going into the second half to try and make back lost ground.

It was not enough to stop a stampeding OD Yellow, with defenders Chloe Reid and Sien-na Brougham curtailing Hornridge’s scoring attempts.

OD Yellow held an 18-goal lead at three quarter time, 28-10.

A confi dent OD Yellow continued to dom-inate the court to take the game in the fi nal quarter by 23 goals.

In a reversal of fortune, interclub rivals Roxby Miners Red C grade overcome Roxby Miners White by two goals, 45-43.

A determined Miners Red came out strong in the fi rst quarter to take the lead by two goals, 10-8.

Miners Red shooters Sophie Reid and Steph Forsyth worked hard to score against Miners White defenders Ebony Johnson and Bailey Dadleh.

� e half time break saw Miners Red main-tain a three-goal lead, 23-20.

Miners White made positional changes going into the second half of the game. Its players fought back hard in the third quarter to go into the last break tied at 33-all.

A tense and competitive last quarter saw Miners Red defenders work hard to contain the fast-fi nishing Miners White attack.

Supporters were again subjected to a nail-biting fi nish, with Miners Red prevailing in the last 30 seconds to overcome a deter-mined Miners White.

� e C grade preliminary fi nal (on Court One at 8pm) will see young guns Miners White take on Olympic Dam Yellow for a chance to compete against Miners Red in the grand fi nal.

CONTINUED FROM BACK PAGEAfter attracting a staggering 46

votes, her sister Hayley (Miners White) was also named both Best and Fairest and Rising Star Under 21 in the C grade.

Runner-up Verity Casserly (East Roxby) followed on 29 votes ahead of a three-way tie for third between Chloe Reid (OD Yellow), Susie Smith (Hornridge) and Kelly West-on (Miners Red) all on 27.

RDNA president Kate Pedersen thanked the club members and play-ers in attendance for supporting the presentation night.

“It’s great to see so many of you here,” she said.

Pedersen said organising and run-ning a netball competition required many volunteers, and this year had been no exception.

She thanked her fellow executive committee members – Kate Peders-en, Regina Qualmann, Darya White and Laura Johnson – for being by her side throughout the season.

“� ese ladies are amazing,” she said.

“� ey’ve done above and beyond what any person would do.

“� ank you so much for all the

hard work that you put into the as-sociation.

“It is really appreciated.”Pedersen also thanked the scor-

ers, timers, umpires and other vol-unteers for their assistance.

“Without these people we don’t have a competition,” she said.

Pedersen made special mention of record keeper and duty manager Michelle Casserly on the night.

“Michelle puts in an enormous amount of time for the RDNA,” she said. “She’s the ‘go to’ lady.”

Thanks also went to Theresa Wurfel and other organisers of the

country championships teams, and again to Wurfel for her eff orts in developing junior players.

Pedersen said the association also owed its gratitude to the rox-bylink leisure centre for helping to run the games and to the East Roxby Netball Club for decorating the auditorium for Saturday’s pres-entations.

“You’ve outdone yourselves,” she said.

“It looks amazing.”TEAM BEST AND FAIREST

AWARD WINNERS

A grade: Cerys Kirkwood (East Roxby), Hannah Wurfel (Roxby Miners), Hayley Smith (Olympic Dam), Jemma Howe (Hornridge).

B grade: Jessica Hassett (East Roxby ), Glenys Wickins (Horn-ridge), Renee Wurfel (Roxby Min-ers), Beth Weston (Olympic Dam).

C grade: Verity Casserly (East Roxby), Susie Smith (Hornridge), Kelly Weston (Miners Red), Hayley Wurfel (Miners White), Shannon Scarr (OD Green), Chloe Reid (OD Yellow).

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FROM LEFT: 1. B grade Best and

Fairest Renee Wurfel (Roxby Miners). 2.

Runner-up B grade Best and Fairest

Jessica Hassett (East Roxby). 3. C grade

Best and Fairest Hayley Wurfel (Miners White). 4. Runner-up

C grade Best and Fairest Verity Casserly

(East Roxby). PHOTOS: Theresa

Wurfel

Roxby Downs Netball Association names Best and Fairest for 2015

Semi Finals - Saturday, August 22

11 & UNDERShooters 16 d Lightning 9(Shooters into grand fi nal)

Bullets 10 d T-Birds 2 (T-Birds eliminated)13 & UNDER (SCRATCH MATCH)

Bullets 15 d Lightning 13T-Birds 29 d Shooters 16

17 & UNDERBullets 42 d T-Birds 30 (Bullets into grand fi nal)

Shooters 38 d Lightning 16 (Lightning eliminated)

Roxby Downs Junior Netball

Locals out in force for semi-fi nalsVERITY CASSERLYNETBALL REPORTER

Roxby Downs Junior Netball

Preliminary fi nal draw, August 29 11 & Under - Lightning v Bullets

13 & Under - Bullets v Lightning (3v4)T-Birds straight into grand fi nal17 & Under - T-Birds v Shooters

B graders Alice Taysom ( East Roxby WD) and Ashlie Ali (Miners WA) battle it out on Friday night.

PHOTOS: Amber Vanwageningen

Ruby Haeta (East Roxby GA) considers a pass to teammate Kelly Harris (C) in Friday’s A grade game.

Hornridge C grade’s Amelia Johnson (GD) gets a pass around OD Yellow’s Jeanette Taylor (GA).


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Local junior footballers were recognised for their outstanding efforts this

season at the Roxby Downs Junior Football Association (RDJFA) presentations on Sunday.

Jack Dalgleish took out the Jack Hombsch Medal for the best under 16 player, while Bai-ley Chamberlain was named the Best and Fairest in the under 13 category.

Hombsch was unable to at-tend the presentation day be-cause of his AFL commitments with the Port Adelaide Football Club, so instead he announced the winner via a pre-recorded video.

Dalgleish, 15, was also named Best and Fairest for the under 16 Bulldogs side.

Brodie Daddow (Hawks) was runner-up for the overall under 16 Best and Fairest, while Jayden Jones (Bulldogs) was runner-up in the under 13 count.

Other awards given out on the day included the Harry Harri-son Memorial Award to Mark

Young for outstanding service to the RDJFA.

The President’s Rising Star Award went to Jhy McCarthy, with RDJFA resident Rein Ger-aghty acknowledging McCar-thy’s “great maturity and lead-ership” over the year.

A player who is deemed to have the ability to take his foot-ball to the next level is given the Kelvin Huxtable Award, which this year went to Tyler Odgers.

Each team in the under 10s, under 13s and under 16s handed out a Coaches Award and Most Improved along with their side’s Best and Fairest.

� e West Adelaide Football Club (WAFC) also gave out two awards on the day – one to the best WAFC player from the Rox-by Downs area and another to the best player at the 2015 under 15 state championships.

� ese were presented to Mat-thew Hayball – who is currently based in Adelaide while playing for WAFC – and Malachy Lynch respectively.

Geraghty said all the players who received awards thorough-ly deserved them, and all teams had enjoyed a strong season.

“We lost a few with the recent

(job) cuts (at Olympic Dam), but it was a really good year despite the numbers being down,” he said.

Geraghty said the RDJFA awards demonstrated the jun-iors’ progress, which had earned a number of them game time with senior sides this season.

“It has been really good to see a number of the young guys fi ll-ing up the senior sides,” he said.

“It certainly helps improve their footy, and I would like to thank the A grade coaches for giving them these opportunities.

“Guys like (East Roxby coach) Cam Faulkner have been awe-some in letting the kids train with them as well.”

Attendees of Sunday’s event were also treated to surprise presentations via video messages from Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide players, who wished the junior footballers luck for the day and for their upcoming grand fi nals.

JACK HOMBSCH MEDAL & PRESENTATION DAYHarry Harrison Memorial Award:

Mark Young. West Adelaide Football Club Best Player

from the Roxby Downs Area:Matthew Hayball.

WAFC Best player for the under 15 state championships: Malachy Lynch.

Kelvin Huxtable Award: Tyler Odgers. President’s Rising Star Award:

Jhy McCarthy.

UNDER 16s Overall Best and Fairest (Jack Hombsch

Medal): Winner Jack Dalgleish, runner-up Brodie Daddow.

HAWKS (Coached by Mark Young and Rodney Weetra)

Coaches Award: Rhys Owens. Most Improved: Coby Seery.

Best and Fairest: 1. Brodie Daddow. 2. Tyler Odgers. 3. Brodie Caden.

BULLDOGS (Coached by Lee Copeland, James Simmons and Andrew Stanley)

Coaches Award: Lachlan Baker. Most Improved: Bailey Appleby.

Best and Fairest: 1. Jack Dalgleish. 2. Eli Taylor. 3. Wes Steer.

UNDER 13s Overall Best and Fairest: Winner Bailey

Chamberlain, runner-up Jayden Jones.BULLDOGS (Coached by Rein Geraghty and

Grant Aitchison)Coaches Award: Jye Evans.

Most Improved: Caleb Kemenyvary. Best and Fairest: 1. Lachlaun Geraghty. 2. Jayden Jones. 3. James Snell and Haze

Wellgreen.HAWKS (coached by Brett Chamberlain

and Andrew Clarke)Coaches Award: Thomas Lecons. Most Improved: Daniel Hooper.

Best and Fairest: 1. Bailey Chamberlain. 2. Mitchell Natt. 3. Owen Mulady.

UNDER 10sBULLDOGS (coached by Scott Nicholls and

Travis Bell)Coaches Award: Judd Grillett.

Most Improved: Cameron Dobie.Best and Fairest: 1. Jack Johnson. 2. Lewis

Bird. 3. Liam Burden. HAWKS (coached by Warwick Giles and

Jason Carstairs)Coaches Award: Darnell Rynne.

Most Improved: Jake Griggs. Best and Fairest: 1. Jett Giles. 2. Bailey

Anderson. 3. Cameron Qualmann.

Dalgleish wins Jack Hombsch Medal

RIGHT: Sam Maywald from Workpac with

Jack Hombsch Medal winner Jack Dalgleish.

PHOTOS: Patrick Glover

Under 10 Hawks award winners Jett Giles, Bailey Anderson, Darnell Rynne, Jake Griggs and Cameron Qualmann.

Under 13 Hawks award winners Mitchell Natt, Bailey Chamberlain and Daniel Hooper.

Under 10 Bulldogs award winners Cameron Dobie, Liam Burden, Judd Grillett and Lewis Bird.

Under 13 Bulldogs award winners (back, from left) Jayden Jones, Haze Wellgreen, Caleb Kemenyvary and Lachlaun Geraghty. FRONT: Jye Evans and James Snell.

Under 16 Bulldogs third best Wes Steer.

Under 13 runner-up Best

and Fairest Jayden Jones.

Under 13 Best and Fairest Bailey

Chamberlain.

Hawks under 16 Coaches

Award winner Rhys Owens.

Under 16 Hawks Most Improved award winner Coby Seery.

Under 16 Hawks third best Brodie

Caden.

Under 16 runner-up Best and Fairest

Brodie Daddow.

President’s Rising Star Award winner

Jhy McCarthy.

Kelvin Huxtable Award winner Tyler Odgers.

Harry Harrison Memorial Award

winner Mark Young.

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RoxFM provides live broadcasts of Far North Football League games throughout the

season and is always on the lookout for extra commentators.

Phone 8671 2545 or [email protected] for more information.

Roxby Downs Junior Football League

Senior ColtsBulldogs 10.10 (70)Hawks 11.8 (74)Bulldogs best players: Not provided.Hawks best players: B. Chamberlain, K. Gates, C. Seery, B. Caden, R. Owen.Bulldogs goal scorers: Not provided.Hawks goal scorers: C. Seery, J. McCarthy 3, B. Caden 2, B. Cham-berlain, K. Gates, T. Darling 1.

Junior ColtsNot Available

Under 10sHawks best players: J. Giles, B. Higgins, J. Scott, D. Rynne, B. Anderson.Bulldogs best players: T. Evans, J. Hudson, L. Bird, L. Burden, J. Grillett.

PRELIM FINAL - August 8, 2015

Far North Football League

PRELIM FINAL - August 22, 2015A GRADE

Hornridge 4.3, 7.6, 12.8, 15.8 (98)Olympic Dam 4.1, 8.1, 10.2, 10.2 (62)Hornridge best players: J. Harman, T. Grosser, A. Baxter, S. Henke, N. Paige, T. Milner.Olympic Dam best players: C. Green, M. Shaw, J. Veale, J. Kor-ovulavula, S. Clark.Hornridge goal scorers: J. Harman 8, A. Baxter 3, S. Taylor 2, K. Lynch, L. Webb 1.Olympic Dam goal scorers: S. Montgomerie 3, J. Barker 2, K. Gates, J. Korovulavula, T. Hornhardt, C. Linn, M. Evans 1.

Condit ions for the winner-takes-all contest between Hornridge and

Olympic Dam on Saturday afternoon were fine with a south easterly cross breeze.

Both sides appeared ready to go from the fi rst bounce, and

the competition for the Far North Football League prelim-inary fi nal was strong.

Joel Harman (Hornridge) sparked the Magpies early with two goals thanks to a good handball from Ben Grimston and a favourable bounce.

� e Devils responded with majors from Jack Barker and Christopher Linn after turn-overs created by desperate smothers from Cameron Green and Barker.

It was developing into a tough, even battle with strong tackling from both sides.

The scores remained even with a goal to Scott Montgom-erie for OD and another to Har-man for Hornridge.

With the fi rst quarter nearly over, a fi nal major to both sides went to Koby Lynch (Horn-ridge) and – after good team-work from Barker and Robert Rayner, along with a strong pass from Green – to Keenan Gates.

It was an even opening quar-ter with four goals each. Some of the better starters were Grimston, Nathan Paige, Har-man and Grosser for Horn-ridge – along with Green, Lee Copeland and Barker for OD.

At the start of the second quarter, it looked like the Dev-ils were going to explode with Montgomerie scoring the fi rst two majors.

However, the Hornridge combination of Ashley Baxter and Harman saw a two-goal

response to keep the scores close.

A snap out of the pack from Jonacani Korovulavula saw OD bounce back and appear to be better organised, particularly across the half back area, and chipping the ball around when going forward to secure another two goals via Montgomerie and Michael Evans.

Harman was the spearhead for Hornridge, giving a goal to Luke Webb with a strong handball.

While the Magpies had more scoring opportunities, OD was one point in front at half time.

Standout contributions for the quarter included Shaw, Linn, Tyson Hornhardt, Green and Jonathon Veale for OD.

Hornridge again had support from Harman and Paige, with Baxter starting to show more infl uence on the game.

The experts say the third quarter can be a winning quar-ter, and this is probably what eventuated after both sides ap-peared to realise this and the tempo of the game lifted.

� ere appeared to be more aggression in the tackling and chasing, with more players get-ting involved from both sides.

For the fi rst half, goals came to both teams with the fi rst four going to Barker (OD), Shaun Taylor (Hornridge), Hornhardt (OD) and – after a good passage of play from the back lines – to Harman.

Veale was trying his best for OD to keep his side in the com-petition, but Hornridge fi nished stronger with majors coming readily – including another one from Harman followed by two from Baxter.

The score board indicated that a gap had appeared but the game was still within the reach of the Devils, who were determined to remain in the competition.

Everyone expected OD to bounce back in the fi nal quar-ter and possibly run over the Magpies, but Hornridge was carrying over the energy it had picked up in the third quarter.

Some of the usual suspects were busting their guts for OD, but more of the boys in black in white were contributing to hold the Devils scoreless in the last quarter while kicking three majors themselves.

Taylor with one and Harman with another two saw the fi nal score reach 15.8 (98) for Horn-ridge against OD’s 10.2 (62).

However, the final score failed to refl ect the determina-tion and quality of the game.

It appeared the Devils fi nally ran out of puff and were even-tually worn down by a team of more determined footballers.

It will be interesting to see if the Magpies can regroup and pick up this eff ort to provide a challenge for the Miners in the grand fi nal this Saturday.

’Pies fl y into grand fi nal

Levi Rawlins (Hornridge) takes possesion of the ball as opponent Cameron Green (OD) approaches.

Joel Harman takes a strong mark ahead of Wade Hooper as Jonathon Veale and Luke Gersch watch on. PHOTOS: Amber Vanwageningen

Michael Evans gets a kick away for Olympic Dam.

Luke Webb (third from left) in action for Hornridge on Saturday.

Hornridge: Great effort from the lads. Tough,

hard footy by both teams. Bring on next week

- Ashley Baxter

OD: Hornridge deserved the win. Well played - Brett Chamberlain

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E ast Roxby netballer Cerys Kirkwood received the A grade Best and Fairest award for the

2015 season at the Roxby Downs Netball Association (RDNA) senior presentations on Saturday night.

The evening attracted a strong turnout to a well presented roxbylink auditorium for the annual awards, which also saw Hannah Wurfel from Roxby Miners named both runner-up A grade Best and Fairest and A grade Rising Star Under 21.

With 34 votes, Wurfel was just four behind Kirkwood on 38 and eight ahead of Britt Hall (Roxby Miners),

who placed third with 26 votes.In the B grade, the Best and Fairest

award went to Renee Wurfel (Roxby Miners) on 30 votes, followed by runner-up Jessica Hassett (East Roxby) on 24 and Beth Weston (Olympic Dam) on 21.

Wurfel also won the B grade Rising Star Under 21 award.

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ABOVE: A grade Best and Fairest Cerys Kirkwood (right) from East Roxby with husband Ty atthe Roxby Downs Netball Association’s senior presentations on Saturday night. INSET: Runner-up

A grade Best and Fairest Hannah Wurfel (Roxby Miners). PHOTOS: Ryneisha Bollard

Kirkwood claims top

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