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Date Time Nearly 50 new cellar door experiences across SA South Australian tourists can enjoy more new and unique cellar door experiences with 47 projects across the state sharing in more than $200,000 in Marshall Liberal Government funding. Unique funded projects include interactive wine experiences in the Adelaide Hills, wine barrel tasting pods in McLaren Vale, grapevine charcoal drawing workshops in the Barossa and an audio-visual wine tasting experience in the Clare Valley. Minister for Pr...

Mike Paterson, MD, center, with his fellow climbers. At press time on May 12, we received word that Dr. Paterson had reached the summit of Mt. Everest. Its unlikely that Mike Paterson, MD, would have spent a year preparing to climb Mount Everest just because its there. Instead, the trim, gray-haired emergency physician decided to combine his love of mountain climbing with providing health care in places in crisis. The first passion has taken him to the top of four of the tallest mountains on an...

FINALIST: Wangolina owner, winemaker and vigneron Anita Goode has been selected as a finalist in the Young Gun of Wine Awards. ? TWO Limestone Coast residents have been shortlisted as 50 finalists in the 2021 Young Gun of Wine Awards. 
Coonawarra’s Penley Estate winemaker Lauren Hensen and Wangolina owner and vigneron Anita Goode were selected after two days of intensive judging by a panel of leading industry figures from across the country. The Goode family have farmed the land of Wangoli...

19 Wing Comox helps rescue injured hiker near Nanaimo SHARE ON: Photo provided by Maritime Forces Pacific / Forces maritimes du Pacifique, Facebook The 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron, based out of 19 Wing Comox took part in a major rescue over the weekend. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Victoria was asked to dispatch crews from the base Saturday night to help crews near Nanaimo in the medical recovery of an injured hiker on Mount Benson. A team from 19 Wing, which included a...

Search and rescue crews based out of Nanaimo were busy Saturday night after being called to assist an injured hiker near the summit of a local mountain.

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