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Record numbers visited the Gawler Show on the weekend with plenty of action and good weather keeping showgoers out and about.
Paul Bova's match winner from 45m out in the dying seconds of the game gave Gawler Central Tigers a thrilling three-point win over the more fancied Angaston Panthers, in the BL&GFA first semi-final on Saturday.
PROPOSED traffic infrastructure for Gawler East and Environs development has finally been released, signalling an imminent decision from the state government over the new suburb.
RETAIL development will proceed on the southern end of Gawler Racecourse, with land rezoned last week.
IT has been a long time coming, but the Gawler East Development Plan Amendment (DPA) has finally arrived.
John McKinnon has taken out the award for Most Outstanding Volunteer at the South Australian Thoroughbred Racing Association presentation night.
The Northern Market Shopping Centre is on the market following a decision by the owners, Makris Corporation, to sell the complex.
LOCAL farmers fear prime agricultural land will be swallowed up by housing, property values will drop and food production will dwindle, under the Roseworthy project.
The 2010 Gawler Show rural ambassadors were named on Saturday, with Cindy Martin winning the 20-30-year category and Aaron Bain the 16-19.
Multi-language education workshops are being conducted to help growers establish and maintain sustainable farming practices.
17/Feb/10 MADAM - My campaign office is located at 81 Murray street, Gawler, approximately halfway up the street.
17/Feb/10 MADAM - As a local resident, ratepayer and also a long-standing attendee at the Salvation Army Church here in Gawler, I was staggered to read that the Salvation Army had spent $53 million Australia-wide in the year 2008 on the disposal of dumped goods - goods that were not fit to pass onto others, nor fit to sell in order to raise funds to help the needy.
11/Feb/10 MADAM - The Bunyip on January 28 reported that the Gawler Town Council was considering cutbacks in spending by $400,000.
11/Feb/10 MADAM - I am writing on behalf of a pensioner relative.
11/Feb/10 Last week's announcement surrounding Buckland Park indicates Playford Council must be ready for an influx of population.
3/Feb/10 MADAM - If it were not for the support, persistence and courage of the Gawler Council Development Assessment Panel (DAP) Telstra would have already built a 37-metre communications tower in the most densely populated part of Hillier.
3/Feb/10 MADAM - An election looms and still the concerns of the Gawler community have not been addressed by the state government or its representative Tony Piccolo.
3/Feb/10 Has Gawler Council cut its generosity in the right places?
28/Jan/10 MADAM - The residents of Bethel road, Kapunda extend their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all of the CFS personnel and the water-bombing aircraft for their quick response, courage and efforts in controlling the bushfire in difficult conditions near their properties on the early afternoon of Friday, January 22.
28/Jan/10 MADAM - The motto of our Kiwanis club is 'Serving the children of the world'.
28/Jan/10 Gawler was put in the spotlight for all the right reasons last week as the town played host to the start of stage two in the Santos Tour Down Under.
20/Jan/10 MADAM - In regards to the front cover page of The Bunyip, January 13, after studying it for a while, I do wonder why the pedestrian safety bays along Murray street were put there.
20/Jan/10 Madam - In recent months there have been attacks on dogs in public places by other dogs which may or may not require veterinary treatment.
20/Jan/10 Tour Down Under fever has hit the region as cyclists and the long list of crew members and supporters converged in Tanunda yesterday.
13/Jan/10 LOCAL regions are set to come abuzz next week as 133 of the world's best professional cyclists speed through for the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.
13/Jan/10 MADAM - In response to 'Gawler like a boxing ring' (The Advertiser, January 9), what a shock to see a headline like that describing our town late at night.
13/Jan/10 MADAM - Where is the country voice in parliament?
6/Jan/10 THE state government's much-hyped 30 year plan for greater Adelaide is due for final release - as urban development and planning minister Paul Holloway describes – "early" this year.
6/Jan/10 MADAM - I refer to Jessica Magliulo's article 'Development predicted to double Gawler’s economy’ (The Bunyip, December 23).
6/Jan/10 MADAM - On December 9, when visiting the Gawler Library, we noticed a young man in a wheelchair who appeared to be struggling up the slope.
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