Rotary Club of Salisbury, SA, Friends of Cobbler Creek, the SA Department of Environment and Water, Tony Zappia MP and City of Salisbury, SA, Australia over a number of months have worked together to see a new shelter installed for the local community to enjoy. The Shelter is located at Cobbler Creek, in a spot known by our Rotarians and Friends as ‘Rotary Spot’.

Here are some happy snaps of our community and friends celebrating this occasion. You can see our VIPs Tony Zappia MP, Rhiannon Pearce MP, Janine Kraehenbuehl- DEW District Ranger and Shanelle Palmer – President FoCC with our President Mìgnon.

Thank you also to Zoe Bettison MP and Blair Boyer MP for sharing the news of this new shelter on their pages.

Not to be missed – Guest Speaker account of their experience in a contaminated rental house that has ripped their lives apart and agents do not want to know.

Michael and Yvonne Lacey have both been devoted community workers and volunteers who over the years have received extensive recognition for their community work.

Their aim is to raise awareness of the serious problem created by methamphetamine contamination of properties and its broad reaching ramifications for innocent members of the community especially children, regardless of socio-economic background.

Join us to hear a first-hand account

Monday 15th May at 7:00pm

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Alerts amid Good News

March 21^st 2023

Strange rains welcome the new Sultan

With all the traditionally – known characters of December/ January winter rains, almost the entire Region has had a relatively good soaking starting from March 11^th. Rain actually continues as of March 20^th, now showing signs of waning. For the traditional meteorologists, this was indeed belated winter rains since it fell in soaking patterns even in Eli Da’ar and Kori where thirst had set in as of late January. However, beyond Eli Da’ar on the Eritrean border, the land got a bit of a drizzle but not more. Dallol leaders today report no useful rain and community thirst of 5 sub-districts bordering Tigray – from the Afar side, there is no road access to these people and, according to their district head, people are going up to 100 kilometers (2 days’ walking) with camels to collect water.

On the other side, for the traditional Afar who flocked to the previous capital and historic town of Assaita to join the celebrations, the rains were God’s welcome for the 15^th Sultan of Awsa as inaugurated on March 13^th following the death of his older brother, Hanfare some 3 years ago. The Awsa Sultanate while being historically recent compared to that in Djibouti and in Eritrea, holds traditional and religious sway for the majority of the Afar population in Ethiopia.

Thus dignitaries from Sultanates of Tadjoura in Djibouti and Rahayto in Eritrea attended along with embassy representatives, UN authorities and Ethiopian government representatives.

Talking enthusiastically on the need for brotherly unity and peace condemning the recent conflict as pointless, the essential place for education in the society leading to a healthy, productive society, the Sultan went on to say that traditions followed in the past that actually harm people, particularly girls and women should be stopped. The good traditions, he said, should be upheld and enabled, binding the community to cohesive development.

Then speaking of the bad habit of chewing Kaat, the Sultan thoroughly denounced this as in every way destructive. Indeed, he delighted his audience including APDA, and, as is planned to hold a further discussion with the senior clan leadership after the fasting month of Ramadan, the organization is encouraged to invite him to chair it. In January, discussion had reached to an overall clan agreement that ancient traditions and practices could and should be reviewed in light of the current era and that clan leadership should direct communities to productive, peaceful lives.

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