Peter Tonkin Realty Pty Ltd Southern Yorke Peninsula Real Estate Sales Peter Tonkin - Principal Specialist Labour (08) 8852 1188 Property Management Hire Providers Holiday Rentals Phone: Julie Tonkin 0438 922 002 08 8671 2450 Fax: 08 8671 0850 Thursday, March 31, 2005 Your Community Newspaper Ph: (08) 8671 2683 www.themonitor.com.au Fax: (08) 8671 2843 Health & Beauty Back to Andamooka Pages 11, 12 & 13 RDAS newsletter Pages 8 & 9 Woomera museum opened Page 3 NOSTALGIA…Former Andamooka residents Rick Boston and Maya Kelleway took a close look at more than 70 years of local history during the opal town’s Easter celebrations this month. The pair, who now reside in Warooka on the Yorke Peninsula, lived in Andamooka for more than 10 years and still own a home locally. They visit Andamooka at least once a year, usually for the ‘Back to Andamooka’ reunion celebrations each Easter. ANDAMOOKA…More than 300 losing the collection. The Monitor. former Andamooka residents and visit- In fact, the bulk of the collection was “We have a whole lot of information about Lot 41 Oates Street, Patrick’s Cove ing tourists celebrated Easter in the out- destroyed in one of three fires at the Minnie Berrington – Andamooka’s first fe- House and Land Package back opal mining town in 2005, the com- th Andamooka Primary School since the male miner in the 1930s. $411,000 Completed munity’s 75 year. early 1990s. “She moved to Andamooka from Coober • Sandstone split face to front Around 200 people attended the annual Then in 2004 the collection was con- Pedy and ran the post office, she was in • Superb location APOMA Cottages community barbecue demned when the most recent fire • 4 bedrooms and 2 the army and a police officer too when bathrooms on Good Friday, followed by another 70 raised concerns the collection had been or so who enjoyed the Reunion Ball on there were only 12 or 14 female officers • Walk-in robe to main contaminated by asbestos. in the whole state. bedroom Saturday night. • Built-in robes to 3 bedrooms To save the collection, the Andamooka On Sunday the community visited White “There’s so much here but we want more.” • Farquhar kitchen with community applied to the SA Govern- the ultimate in Dam for the ‘Back to Bill’s’ RFDS Officer Campbell, and his fellow history ment for an exemption and, after rig- ‘Kleenmaid’ appliances fundraiser. buffs, are calling for former and present including dishwasher orous testing, it was returned to • Ceramic floor tiling to For many of the returnees, the weekend APOMA. Andamooka residents to contribute their entry, family, meals, was an opportunity to catch up with old own photographs and records to the cook, rumpus and passage friends and peruse through piles of pho- Since then, local resident and police of- project. • Double garage under the main roof tographs and other nostalgia. ficer Nigel Campbell has begun trans- • Ducted reverse cycle air-conditioner ferring the original documents and pho- Send your contributions by email – nigel. • Cement brick paving driveway to kerb In fact, one of the highlights of the week- [email protected] - or post them • Ideal rental investment or retirement tographs to computer. • Septic tank connected to common effluent end was the Andamooka history project to the Andamooka Primary School. started by former local resident and Officer Campbell took on the history “We want everything to do with teacher Anne Pitt with documents and project after Ms Pitt’s eyesight began Andamooka,” he said. photographs dating back to the 1930s. to fail. 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