The wonderful wide aisles of the new Klose’s Foodland Supermarket and Cellarbrations stores in Woodside are a treat to navigate. Couple that with designer lighting and the myriad of colours bouncing from the fully stocked shelves, it feels like the only thing missing is the red carpet. The contemporary design of the new site oozes space, creating an enjoyable shopping experience that encourages browsing, menu planning, and new product discoveries! Then there are those times that a quick dash in and out is required—completely possible with oodles of parking, all your favourite products, and seven checkouts.
Welcome to the first ‘Special Online Edition’ of Along The Grapevine!
By Kendrea Rhodes
In April
this year, Kalyra Communities purchased the retirement village on Tolmer Road
in Woodside. An exciting time was expected because community get-togethers and
information nights usually result in pleasant hospitality, new friendships and
entertainment! But we all know how April panned out this year with the advent
of COVID-19. The scheduled social gatherings and extra benefits that Kalyra
brings to Woodside were rethought, repackaged and redelivered—much like
everything else, world-wide.
We have not been immune to the Covid-19 virus, so our next performance, ‘LOVE! LOVE? LOVE…’, will go on show in November this year instead of the mid-year time-slot.
Pictured here are The Artificial Hipsters (Iain Ross & Bob Molloy) performing on Club Night with Club Acoustica at the Olive Branch Café in Balhannah, 2015. Photo courtesy of Martin Photographics.
The lyrical twang of harmonic voices and acoustic guitars echoes through the diners, musicians and the very walls of the Olive Branch Café in Balhannah. It’s the first Sunday of the month and, at 5:30pm, Club Acoustica kicks off its club night with over three hours of live music and wholesome, homemade food and drink at the Café.
This heritage-listed nature reserve — beloved by many as a
place to escape and enjoy nature — suffered an enormous blow as the Cudlee
Creek Bushfire tore through in December last year. In what was considered a
‘hot’ burn, the Park endured a 95% loss of vegetation, with the remaining 5%
canopy spared due to a controlled ‘cold’ burn completed by the Adelaide Hills
Council in September 2018.
The Park is now partially open due to the efforts of the
Adelaide Hills Council, the Australian Defence Force, Conservation Volunteers
Australia, Team Rubicon and other volunteers. The Council have stated that a
‘full reopening [of the Park] will take up to three months … and Council urge
visitors to remain vigilant about safety and stay on the trails.’
The Gumeracha Fifth Sunday Market is back and the FUN Dog Show—hosted by the Lions Club of Torrens Valley—is on again at the market in March. A huge drawcard last year, the Dog Show features a range of lighthearted categories that generate a lot of enjoyment.
Pictured here are two 2019 Dog Show entrants and their owners, including (left) the Mayor of the Adelaide Hills Council, Jan-Claire Wisdom.
As the weeks and months pass since the Cudlee Creek fires,
people are learning to live with grief, stress, relief, pain, loss and gain. Feelings
of anxiety feed into a kind of homesickness when community, home and identity are
disturbed — this distress, caused by environmental change, is also called
solastalgia.
In the township of Lobethal, the old Woollen Mill is
responding to many of the community needs in practical and creative ways through
Fabrik Arts + Heritage, the Adelaide Hills Council, and the State and Federal Governments.
