Council invites the community to come together to reflect, respect and celebrate Australia Day in 2023.

The event will be held at the Maitland Town Hall from 2pm starting with a Citizenship Ceremony followed by the presentation of the Australia Day awards.

YP Leisure Options (YPLO) is a community service provided by Council staff and volunteers, providing services to people with a disability and the elderly. 

This video demonstrates how YPLO’s Wood Shed provides a safe environment and guidance to apply safe operating procedures, ensuring council is a safe, inclusive and accessible work environment for all.

2022 Council Election nominations have now been verified by the Electoral Commission of SA and publicly released.

You can find out more about voting HERE

Timeless cultural burning practices returned to Narungga recently with low-intensity burns at sites on Yorke Peninsula.

The Northern and Yorke Landscape Board is collaborating with First Nations people, Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation and National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to undertake cultural burning on Country, with funding from WWF-Australia’s Regenerate Australia program.

The Board engaged Tagalaka man and Firesticks’ Lead Fire Practitioner Victor Steffensen, who holds fire workshops across Australia, to share his knowledge with First Nations people.

Also known as fire-stick farming, cultural burning is a complex practice based on low intensity, cool burns with low flame height, that destroy weeds and promote native vegetation regrowth, particularly grasses.

It is a return to the traditional practices of Aboriginal communities that used fire as one of their tools to manage the land.

Narungga man Cyril Kartinyeri welcomed the return to cultural burning on Yorke Peninsula.

“We are excited to share our knowledge with the wider community about how we care for Country,” he said.

The cultural burns are the result of several months of planning, which began last year with Mr Steffensen joining Narungga representatives in visiting potential sites between Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park and Ardrossan.

The Northern and Yorke Landscape Board held a workshop in Clare with attendees from the Department for Environment and Water (DEW), Country Fire Service, Metropolitan Fire Service, local government, the Native Vegetation Council and First Nations people, who have all played a part in the project’s planning and delivery.

The project culminated with burns led by Mr Steffensen with the involvement of about 20 First Nations people.

The burns were held at Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park, on private land near Warooka and at a grasslands site in Ardrossan.

Northern and Yorke Landscape Board Aboriginal Partnerships Officer Matthew Turner said it was an exciting opportunity for the region, as cultural burning has become rare in southern Australia since colonisation.

“Through this project we hope to build capacity in First Nations communities to continue to conduct cultural burning and help prevent large-scale wildfires in the future,” he said.

“The use of fire in the landscape has incredibly important cultural outcomes for Traditional Owners, and is also intended to eventually complement DEW’s prescribed burning program.”

This cultural burning project is part of Marna Banggara, an ambitious project to restore lost species to the landscape.

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As part of National Volunteer Week, Mayor Darren Braund invites all volunteers to morning tea to recognize and thank you for your dedication and hard work as volunteers in the Yorke Peninsula Council area.

Wednesday 19 May at 10:30 am at the Minlaton Town Hall. Please RSVP for catering purposes on 8832 0000 or rsvp@yorke.sa.gov.au by 11 may 2021.

Every year the CFS asks that you have written and practiced a Bushfire Survival Plan for you and your family. Often the hardest part is putting pen to paper. This Bushfire Survival Plan Workshop aims to help you fix that issue.

By the end of this session you will have written your own plan for you to take home to discuss with your loved ones.

Price
12 September 2020
2:00pm – 5:00 pm
Price Community Clubrooms, Parnell Terrace, Price
RSVP By: 10th September 2020

For further information and to RSVP, please contact:
Adrian Parente (Community Engagement) on 0457 102 255 or adrian.parente@sa.gov.au

The Councils of Barunga West, Copper Coast and Yorke Peninsula are collaborating on the creation of a regional Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.

The purpose of the Disability Access and Inclusion Plan is to ensure people with disability are included in our community, have access to all information, services and facilities provided by Council. This includes:

• Access to services and events
• Physical access to building and facilities
• Provision of information in accessible formats
• Provision of quality services
• Opportunity to provide feedback
• Opportunity to participate in public consultation
• Awareness on disability and access

The Councils are committed to ensuring accessible and inclusive communities for everyone.  As members of our regional community we are seeking your feedback to assist in the development of The Plan.  Community surveys are available online at https://bit.ly/2ZcQGic and hard copies are available for collection or completion at all Council customer service counters.

Responses to the survey should be provided by 24 July 2020

In January and February, as part of the Yorke Peninsula Council’s new kerbside waste management contract, two new wheelie bins (one red-lidded waste bin and one yellow-lidded recycling bin) were delivered to all eligible properties within the Council area.

These new bins replaced the old bins at each property, which were meant to be surrendered to be collected and taken away to be recycled. It appears that some residents have continued to use their old bins despite communications.

The Yorke Peninsula Council has recently instructed SUEZ, its kerbside waste management contractor, to cease servicing all old bins; therefore, residents must ensure they are only using their new bins from now on, as any old bins placed out for collection will not be serviced.

If your property is eligible to receive the waste and recycling collection service (you can confirm this by checking to see whether or not you pay the service charge on your rates notice or via a tax invoice), but you have not received new bins please contact the Yorke Peninsula Council on 08 8832 0000 or email admin@yorke.sa.gov.au.

Mistaken identity

A highly invasive prohibited weed, mistakenly sold as a plant at Ardrossan’s True Value Hardware during the past three months, must be urgently recovered to avoid an outbreak of this problem aquatic plant.

Salvinia, regarded as one of the worst weeds in Australia and rated a Weed of National Significance (WoNS), was misidentified as the native duckweed until it was recently reported to PIRSA Biosecurity. It had been growing in the local store’s indoor pond and some pieces of the plant were broken off and sold or given away to customers.

This free-floating fern is known to quickly form a thick mass of vegetation in streams and dams that could threaten the state’s primary industries and natural environments. In the right conditions, it can double in size in a couple of days and thrives in nutrient-rich aquatic environments such as agricultural run-off or sewage. Salvinia’s dense matting restricts stock access to watering sites and provides favourable conditions for disease-carrying insects, as well as affecting aquatic habitat for birds and fish.

For more information, visit: https://bit.ly/2UhfW4k

Photo caption: The highly invasive aquatic weed Salvinia has been unknowingly sold in Ardrossan’s True Value Hardware store during the past three months.