2/10/2008 | Eco-Action held the first Sustainable House Bus Tour on Kangaroo Island on September 13, the national day for such events. A highly successful day for about 40 people who visited four houses, each showing different aspects of sustainability.
2/10/2008 | The Islander is proud to launch its new Food Wine and Art Guide to Kangaroo Island, this week.
The glossy 36-page book will be launched officially at the opening of the KI Art Feast this Saturday night at Seal Bay Café, Kaiwarra.
2/10/2008 | Fresh food straight from the producer, fabulous wine and innovative local art: the Kangaroo Island Art Feast gives visitors all this in an environment renowned for natural beauty, clean air and inspirational landscapes.
Events take place all over the Island in spectacular cellar doors, top restaurants and galleries Island-wide.
The event has grown steadily since its inception four years ago and for the first time in 2008 will be stretched out beyond the Labour Day long weekend.
2/10/2008 | POLICE NEWS - On September 22 police reported a MacGillivray man for trafficking in a controlled substance.
Police arrested a Penneshaw man on September 22 for serious criminal trespass and theft from a property in Penneshaw. He was placed on bail and will appear in court.
2/10/2008 | “Everyone had the best time” at the Rock Eisteddfod last week, according to the Kangaroo Island Community Education producer Tracie Heinrich.
2/10/2008 | Motorists on Kangaroo Island will be sharing the road with hundreds of cyclists over the next week as two large tour groups arrive.
2/10/2008 | The Member for Finniss Michael Pengilly has lost his seat in the State Shadow Cabinet after the promotion of the Opposition spokesman on the River Murray and Sustainability and Climate Change, Adrian Pederick.
Communications manager Kevin Naughton said the recent Cabinet shuffle had been designed to put more focus on the water issue.
2/10/2008 | The Kingscote CFS is trying to establish a day-time response group, or “town group”, to respond to smoke alarms and hospital call-outs during the day.
25/09/2008 | This year’s Kangaroo Island Motorfest will be yet another fun day out for all the family. It will be held at the popular venue of the Kingscote Golf Club on Saturday October 11.
25/09/2008 | Forget fuel prices and carbon footprints, John Turner has the ideal solution: Take a step back in time.
John, of Emu Bay, pictured right, has been reliving the glory days of horse-driven transport for a year while restoring an old phaeton in his shed.
25/09/2008 | POLICE NEWS - A Kingscote man was stopped for a random breath test on Saturday morning September 13 about 2am and issued with an immediate loss of licence for driving with excess blood alcohol. He allegedly had a reading of 0.103.
25/09/2008 | The Development Assessment Panel of the Kangaroo Island Council has reached a compromise with the developers of Lot 1 Brownlow Road, Kings-cote, but the project is still not sure to go ahead.
25/09/2008 | Anne van der Giessen, a Year 12 student at Kingscote campus, won the Cadena-Foster Prize for her Probability project entry in the SA Mathematics Talent Quest. She was awarded her prize of $150 at a ceremony in Adelaide, by the Mathematical Association of SA.
25/09/2008 | Volunteer bus drivers Viv Willson and Val Lockett have finished their run after more than 20 years at the wheel.
The passenger services to Parndana and Penneshaw provided by the Cook Centre have now been given to a private contractor, KI Transfers.
25/09/2008 | I’ve never been a big fan of the school play or musical as an art form, seeing it as a parental duty to attend and applaud.
Last Friday night was different. I went along expecting not to be astonished or overwhelmed by the Kangaroo Island Community Education entry for this year’s Rock Eisteddfod.
19/09/2008 | Jack Elsegood was born on Kangaroo Island to Olive Mabel and Frederick Charles.
On leaving school at 12 to help support the family because of his father’s ill health he worked at many jobs including at the Salt Lakes scraping, butchering meat like his father and loading salt onto trains. When Jack was 18 during the Depression, he and his brother-in-law Bill Cooksley rode their bicycles to Broken Hill seeking work.
19/09/2008 | In one week the first exhibition of KI Art Feast 08 opens at Sunset Winery, Saturday 27 September. Featuring all new work from 20 of the island’s most talented artists the event is set for the first weekend of the school holidays.
19/09/2008 | Donna Cowan has been appointed to the permanent position of executive officer-director of nursing for the Kangaroo Island Health Service.
19/09/2008 | Ultrasound is now available to pregnant women on Kangaroo Island for the first time.
Sonographer Julie Nieuwerkerk and her radiographer husband Marcel have started a visiting practitioner service three days a week at the Kangaroo Island Health Service.
19/09/2008 | The new chef at the Aurora Ozone Hotel had a celebrity visitor last week - TV chef Paul Mercurio.
Mercurio was on Kangaroo Island to film a segment for his Mercurio’s Menu series.
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