News Bites
Christmas Workshops!
Christmas Twilight Market!
Market Gift Vouchers
Want to support local this Christmas? Keep your dollars in your community? Keep small business alive? We have gift vouchers available @mountpleasantfarmersmarketau and you can spend them anywhere within the market! All #MPFM stallholders accept gift vouchers or you could buy a membership or market goodies to use whilst shopping local!
Market Hampers make Great Gifts!
Makers Market @ Twilight Market
Good reasons to shop seasonally - from the ABC
Three Well Known Australians exhibit
We are excited to invite you to visit Mt Pleasant Library during the month of December to view the 'Three Well-Known Australians' exhibition by Martin Shaw.
Created in 1982, 'Three Well-Known Australians' has travelled to galleries, libraries and public halls around Australia since 1983, inviting viewers across the nation to guess the identity of the three abstract figures it depicts.
Shaw assures audiences he didn’t merely paint these figures at random. “I did have three Australians or Australian themes in mind” he says, but he won’t disclose these details. The only figure in the painting with a definite identity is a small black and white dog in the bottom right-hand corner. This is Pea, Shaw’s much-loved pet, who died in 1991.
The current exhibition includes more than 40 years of guesses from people who have visited the work, these are catalogued into yearbooks which provide insight to this rolling "historical social commentary" of Australia. Of course, over time, who the community feels these figures represent will change as the figure heads, influencers and popular culture within our community changes and evolves.
Many well-known Australians have participated in this project and a selection of the 240 letters Shaw has received from notable community members are also on display, including recent guesses from Prime Minister Albanese and the Premier of South Australia.
This enigmatic artwork will be on display at Mount Pleasant Library until 24 December 2024. We encourage you to visit and become part of this perpetually touring project.
Fire Danger Season has commenced
The Five Minute Bushfire plan
From Mt Pleasant CFS
The Fire Danger Season for the Mt Lofty Ranges (of which Mt Pleasant is a part of) commenced 15th November, 2024
This community announcement is a notification that fire siren testing has now moved to weekly as of 15 of November, at approximately 7.00 pm every Tuesday, to coincide with the commencement of the Fire Danger Season
Please let your friends and family who are not on social media know of both the early Fire Danger Season date and the commencement of weekly siren testing.
Siren testing is done in accordance with CFS policy. The format of the test will be 3 blasts of the siren in a 1-0-1 configuration. The first blast will be short (approximately 2-3 seconds after wind up) followed by a long blast (approximately 5 seconds) followed by a short blast (2-3 seconds).
The purpose of the siren is to alert and call firefighters to the station if the primary source of emergency notification is inoperative. Secondly, a long continuous siren is to warn the community that the town is in imminent danger of being impacted by fire.
Without regular testing, the CFS siren has been known to seize (see the Mt Pleasant CFS post from February – this took many hours of labour to repair over some months). Testing is therefore part of regular maintenance. Replacing the siren if this damage occurs is not financially viable as station sirens across the state are not funded, repaired or replaced by the SACFS.
This announcement is also a timely reminder for members of the community to review and update their bushfire safety plans, and in times of emergency to monitor an official source of emergency warning information for detailed updates during events such as fires:
CFS website: www.cfs.sa.gov.au
Alert SA app
Bushfire Information Hotline: 1800 362 361 (TTY 133 677)
Facebook: SA Country Fire Service and SA Country Fire Service Updates
Instagram: @sa_countryfireservice
X (Twitter): @cfsalerts and @cfstalk
CFS email bushfire subscription service
Radio: ABC Local Radio (891 AM)
TV: ABC News 24
Do not rely on a single source for emergency warning information
The siren is NOT a trigger for community evacuation. If the siren is sounded in one long continuous blast, follow the advice provided by the published emergency information.
Don’t forget - you can still get your yummy breakfast at the Market - but for a few months they will be working out o the Show Office while the kitchen is being upgraded.
Jimmy the Butcher (& Co) strike gold again!
From the Facebook page:
Hi ham lovers, I have some massive news. Last night was the national awards for Smallgoods. I’m pleased to announce that we are now second in Australia for ham .
The competition was very tough this year to achieve a gold medal, you need to get a score of 95 to 100 . We managed to get two gold medals and seven silvers - that is a massive achievement for a little country Butcher shop. I can’t be more proud of my team - beers are on me . Last year we won best bacon in australia . which we are still coming to terms with.
I just want to thank all our customers and our amazing staff. This award goes out to you.
Last Old Talunga Apple Tree Cut down.
We have often admired and appreciated the one remaining apple tree, that was growing near the tennis courts at Old Talunga Park, as it would have been a part of the orchard which once grew there. Sadly, thanks to Simon, who lives nearby, we were given the news that it has now been razed to the ground. On investigation, it appears that the inner core of the tree was crumbling, but it is still sad to see the tree has been chipped, so that there is no possibility of preserving a small portion of it for posterity... and so preserving a little of the history of the area. Paula Bartsch - Historian.
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Funding approved for Amy Gillet bikeway
From Adelaide Hills Council website:
Adelaide Hills Council has committed to build Stage Four of the Amy Gillett Bikeway from Mt Torrens to Birdwood with Federal and State Government funding of $2.6 million each and a Council contribution of $500,000. The total funding for the project is $5.7 Million.
The Department for Infrastructure and Transport has worked closely with the Council on a design solution that can be delivered within the agreed funding package to ensure work on this iconic bikeway can finally continue.
“This is an incredibly important and much-loved asset for our community with the added strategic outcome of attracting tourism and providing economic benefit to townships along the way.” Acting Mayor Nathan Daniell.
The project will extend the Amy Gillett Bikeway from its current end point in Mount Torrens at Oval Road, taking it through to the intersection with Onkaparinga Valley Road in Birdwood, adding around six kilometres to the overall length of the bikeway.
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Tom Koutsantonis said, “I am pleased to see the State and Federal Governments’ funding offers taken up with the Adelaide Hills Council putting in the remainder of the funds required to see this important and long-awaited stage of the Amy Gillett Bikeway finally realised. It was the former Labor Government that began the Amy Gillett Bikeway to honour the legacy of a great young South Australian."
Adelaide Hills Council Acting Mayor Nathan Daniell said he was delighted to see Stage Four finally progressing after many years of Council and community advocacy. “The extension of the Amy Gillett bikeway will also ensure more young children are provided with a safe place to learn to ride without the safety concerns of riding on Adelaide Hills roads. Council have committed additional funds to cover the shortfall in government funding and will also undertake ongoing maintenance of the new stage so everyone, especially Birdwood residents, can enjoy the benefits.”
“I am so pleased the Adelaide Hills Council has voted to increase its funding contribution towards this valuable project. It is unfortunate that years of delays have resulted in an increased project budget. This project has endured several changes in Government at a State and Federal level, so I am relieved that despite these challenges it is pushing ahead. I look forward to traveling the Mount Torrens to Birdwood leg of the Bikeway once completed.” Rebekha Sharkie MP