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02 Sep 10 | Friend of Parks - Despite many cool and moist days on the south coast recently, Sunday the twenty-fifth dawned with magnificent clear skies, no wind and if a little cool at first, by the time the Friends started to gather at the Flinders Chase Visitor Centre, it promised to be a late winter’s day to be savoured.
02 Sep 10 | The KI Freemasons Scholarship - which aims to build the skills base of Island workers by providing opportunities for study and skills development - has been awarded for the fourth consecutive year.
02 Sep 10 | Closing the history room at the Kangaroo Island Library had been a positive move, giving the historical aspects of the library more exposure, according to the Kangaroo Island Council’s People Learning and Communications manager Bernadette Brennan.
02 Sep 10 | A wedge-tail eagle assembled from recycled metal has caught the imaginations of visitors to the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.
Kingscote artist Indiana James, pictured right, has won the coveted People’s Choice Award in the 2010 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.
02 Sep 10 | Bec Semler and Nathan Trethewey were crowned best netballer and footballer on Kangaroo Island this week as the winter sports head into finals territory.
02 Sep 10 | A tripling of lease fees has prompted Hanson Bay shack owners to start a new chapter in their quest for freehold ownership of their shack sites.
26 Aug 10 | Community Living and Support Services Incorporated started providing services for people with disabilities on Kangaroo Island in July, 2009. CLASS Inc is a non-government, not for profit organisation that supports people with disabilities, the frail, aged and socially isolated to become more involved in their community.
26 Aug 10 | Since the early days of Art Feast, Kangaroo Island wineries have lent their cellar spaces to artists and become the iconic venues for the annual celebration of our art, food and wine. This year, the tradition continues.
26 Aug 10 | Five Kangaroo Island descendants of Alfred Victor Momplhait, killed during the WWI Battle of Fromelles 94 years ago, travelled to France last month for a moving ceremony which dedicated the new Pheasant Wood Cemetery as the resting place for Australian and British soldiers uncovered in a mass war grave.
26 Aug 10 | Community radio station KIX-FM is ready to make a fresh start, with the help of sponsors and supporters.
Drakes Foodmarkets has come forward with significant sponsorship which has helped KIX get out of the red.
Kingscote Drakes store manager Nathan Conway now has a regular guest spot on the station, promoting specials and new lines of groceries.
26 Aug 10 | Kangaroo Island Racing Club president Roger Williams (pictured) has been honoured with a Most Outstanding Achievement award by the racing industry.
26 Aug 10 | Police took a report from a Kingscote boy, 10, who reported being robbed at knife point of his scooter while walking along Centenary Ave, Kingscote, by two older youths one of whom was brandishing a knife.
26 Aug 10 | Member for Mayo Jamie Briggs is happy and relieved to be re-elected as the Federal Member.
26 Aug 10 | Islander photographer Sean McGowan snapped Zahlia Condo, who was helping light a burn of dried weeds recently. “I happened to be passing. The wind was away from her and two adults were supervising,” McGowan said.
19 Aug 10 | Police have warned surfers to take care when sharks are in the water, after reports of surfers continuing to surf while a shark is near.
19 Aug 10 | PIRSA Fisheries wishes to notify the Kangaroo Island fishing community that new arrangements have taken effect for the issuing of commercial and recreational licences on the Island.
19 Aug 10 | PIRSA Fisheries wishes to notify the Kangaroo Island fishing community that new arrangements have taken effect for the issuing of commercial and recreational licences on the Island.
19 Aug 10 | Keryn Walshe is a South Australian Museum Officer with a special interest in Kangaroo Island’s Aboriginal archaeology which has built a picture of Aborigines living here permanently over a total time span of 13,000 years.
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19 Aug 10 | The slipway at Kingscote wharf is an important part of the fishing industry and must not be lost, according to Ann Jamieson of Jamieson Marine.
“We’re sick and tired of them taking things away from us, unless they can give us something better,” Ms Jamieson said this week.
19 Aug 10 | Kangaroo Island’s own “pink lady” Colleen Addington, has launched her famous home-recipe paté onto the commercial market.
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