Photo: Sunset over Eudunda, taken from Railway Yards on the Lavender Federation Walking Trail 31st March 2017 by Peter Herriman (mobile phone).
ECBAT News #40.
Local News and Events. Highlights: Have a Happy &Safe Easter Holiday.
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Some of these items need immediate action if you wish to be involved. These news items have been collected ('mashup') from the Eudunda Web Portal, the Southern Goyder Community Calendar, various Websites, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds and some email sources from various organisations, kind enough to send information. Oh! and sometimes good old hard copy from Newspapers give inspiration too. Thank you to all sources.
Have a Happy & Safe Easter
Easter Church Services
Eudunda Parallel Parking On Hold As Council Ask For Advice
ECBAT News Brief for March
Emmaus Cemetery Request from Margaret
Eudunda Caravan Park Progress
Riverton Easter Market - Sat 15th April
Manoora Hall Market - Easter Monday 17th April
Earthquake Felt at Burra - Not an April Fools Joke
Eudunda Railway Photos on flickr
Summer Clothing Clearance Sale
Variety - 4WD Adventure Enjoys Local Hospitality
Eudunda Area School Reunions
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The Eudunda Community, Business & Tourism Committee wish everyone a
"Happy & Safe Easter"
Lutheran Parish Services
Maundy Thursday (13th April)
Eudunda: 7.30pm HC with Pastor Josh
Robertstown: 7.30pm HC with Pastor Peter
Good Friday (14th April)
Robertstown: 8.30am with Pastor Peter
Peep Hill: 8.30am with Pastor Josh
Geranium Plain: 10.00am Lay reading
Point Pass: 10.30am with Pastor Peter
Eudunda: 10.30am with Pastor Josh
Easter Saturday Vigil (15th April)
Point Pass: 7.00pm with Pastor Josh
Easter Sunday (16th April)
Inspiration Point: 6.30am with Pastor Peter
Robertstown: 8.00am HC with Pastor Peter
Neales Flat: 8.30am HC with Pastor Josh
Geranium Plain: 9.15am HC with Pastor Peter
Eudunda: 10.30am HC with Pastor Josh
Point Pass: 10.30am HC with Pastor Peter
(Uniting Church services thanks to the great Robbie Roundup).
Eudunda Parallel Parking On Hold As Council Ask For Advice.
A number of members of the Eudunda Community, Business & Tourism (ECBaT), a representative from SA Ambulance and several other interested community members attended the March meeting of the Regional Council of Goyder to listen to the discussions concerning the parking in Bruce Street. Any changes are currently on hold as the council seeks further information from the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) and the Council’s insurers, the Local Government Liability Scheme.
ECBAT News Brief for March
The Eudunda Community, Business and Tourism Committee have been writing up a News Brief for people to follow in easy language what is happening around the district. It even gets into the local "print" newspapers. Many thanks to Helen Schiller for going the extra mile to do that.
Check the latest one here http://ecbat.biz/web/ecbat-news-brief-for-march-2017/
or check out the full ECBAT Minutes here http://ecbat.biz/web/ecbat-minutes-mar-2017/
Photos by Margaret Doecke: Emmaus Cemetery taken last year at beginning of project, showing a true indication of the state of the graves!
Emmaus Cemetry Request From Margaret
In my search to find the grave sight of our stillborn baby brother ( May 1951) the search led me to the Emmaus Cemetery just outside Eudunda as found in the records held at the St. John’s Lutheran Church Eudunda.
My sister and I duly went to the cemetery to find Grave 10 Row 7 Number 84. Well to say the least “ Where to find it?”!
We counted back from a recent grave and found 4 unmarked graves, one being our brother. Looking around there was a whole section of unmarked graves and also some among the others. Total 165 from 326.
The Emmaus Cemetery dates back to 1872 and is still in use today.
There are many old and uncared for graves. I have appointed myself a “Friend of the Emmaus Cemetery” and together with the members of the Property/ Maintenance Committee of the St.John’s congregation have devised a plan to upgrade the Cemetery.
First of all Trevor Pfitzner drew up a map together with Rows , grave numbers and names, and also a list of names in alphabetical order .This is very precious and will be preserved in an interpretive sign displayed at the Cemetery in due course.
We applied for Funding through the Regional Council of Goyder Wards Grant for upgrade of the front fence, gravelling , row markers and the Interpretive signage which I am happy to say we received.
Further Funding will be sought for Poison for weeds, grave markers and more Gravel.
This is as far as the committee can go, so now I appeal to the Families of loved ones buried there to contact me re upgrading the graves.
Some of the old names are.. Ziersch, Koster, Sieber, Michalk, Heppner, Fechner, Appelt, Eckermann, Duldig, Kleinig, Hassold, Mader, Handke, Post, Schultz, Pfeiffer, Lindner, Schutz and the list goes on......
If you know if you, or someone you know are 3rd, 4th or 5th generation descendants of these family names and wish to help by renovating these old graves, please contact me as below. This is your family History.
FURTHER NEWS!
The entrance to the cemetery is being upgraded. I have had some positive feedback from a couple of families but need more. The interpretive sign has been completed and will be placed at entrance in due course! We plan to have some sort of ceremony at the Cemetery when the upgrade is finished.
An exciting day at the soon to be Eudunda Caravan Park as local business Craig Fenton Contracting based at Brownlow put down the metal for the road and parking areas on Monday 10th April.
Craig Fenton said,
"We have been involved with the project since the start, removing trees and old concrete kerbing, benched the job and shaped it to the plan. then we have done the undergrounding of the services of sewer, power, water and placement of the septic tank. Preparations have even been put in place for an RV Dump Point once funding has been obtained."
Eudunda Community, Business & Tourism (ECBAT) Committee member, Trevor Mathews is pleased that the project is nearing completion.
"We really hope that the Caravan Park can be operational for the Swann Insurance 24 Hour in July, and this is a great step toward that goal."
Photos by Peter Herriman
Earthquake Felt at Burra - No April Fools Joke
Reports on Facebook from residents around Burra asking if others felt the "Quake" were not an April Fool Joke. Earthquake monitoring did indeed record an tremor at 7:19pm on April 1st located North West of Burra 10km deep.The monitoring service recorded a magnitude ML: 1.9 quake.
You can check if you felt something by going to the Australian Government - Geoscience Australia website at this address, http://www.ga.gov.au/earthquakes/getQuakeDetails.do?quakeId=3948913
Eudunda Railway Photos on flickr
We have found a great collection of photos based on the Eudunda Railway and surrounds on flickr
by "Railways of Australia" by Daryle Phillips. Check them out here on flickr.
PS. The photo above is one taken the other week by Peter Herriman while walking on the lavender Federation Trail as it passes through the Eudunda Railway Precinct
Summer Clothing Clearance Sale
Grab a Bag of Clothes for $5
The Eudunda Carer's & Disability Link in the main street of Eudunda are having a "Summer Clothing Clearance" during April. Pick up a special bag at the front counter, and fill it with Summer clothing on display,
Variety - 4WD Adventure Enjoys Local Hospitality
What an adventure! Participants starting at Port Pirie, then on to Mambray Creek & Spear Creek,
Horseshoe Range – Top End, Clare Valley, Including in the itinery was an overnight stay near Marrabel,
with a finish at the Barossa Valley.
Photo above is with the cars lined up at Koonowla Cellar Door between Saddlesworth and Auburn on the 30th March 2017 by Peter Herriman.
These news items have been collected ('mashup') from the Eudunda Web Portal, the Southern Goyder Community Calendar, various Websites, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds and some email sources from various organisations, kind enough to send information. Oh! and sometimes good old hard copy from Newspapers give inspiration too. Thank you to all sources.
