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Yorke Peninsula Media, Minlaton (2026)

05/10/2026

THE RADIANT, A MASSIVE TRIBUTE TO AN ICON

That's what is taking place at the Port Pirie Harness racing track, Phoenix Park, this Saturday night.

The club is holding the state's largest prize race worth $100,000 to honour the state's first Inter-dominian Champion Radiant Venture who took the honours in Perth in 1957.

The horse was trained and driven by two Port Pirie milkmen at the time, Max Stephens and reinsman Frank "Digger" Connor.

The Port Pirie Harness Racing Club, one of the oldest country harness racing clubs in South Australia, are hosting a fantastic new concept in harness racing, the Slot Race.

A total of 20 slots (for 20 horses) have been sold to businesses, clubs, groups, owners, drivers and many others for $5,000 a slot.

Port Pirie Harness Racing Club President Mick Darling said set to be an SA first, this exciting event will see 20 horses compete in heats to qualify for the $100,000, The Radiant, run as the pinnacle race on the same night.

In addition, there will be a $16,000 consolation allocated across the 10 horses that don’t make it into the final.

This is how it works:-

Heats

2 x 10 Horses
Distance: 1609M
First 5 place getters in each heat progress to the final and last 5 to the consolation.
Random Barrier Draw
Prizemoney $3,500 (Rating Exempt)

Consolation

For last 5 place getters in each heat.
Distance: 1609m
Random barrier draw conducted on the night
Prizemoney $16,000

Final “The Radiant”

For first 5 place getters in each heat.
Distance: 1609m
Random barrier draw conducted on the night
Prizemoney $100,000

Mick Darling said “We wanted to recognise a true champion from our local community and celebrate an important part of both Port Pirie’s and South Australia’s harness racing history.

"It is fitting that a horse of Radiant Venture’s stature is remembered through what we hope will become an annual feature event.”

Harness Racing South Australia (HRSA) CEO Heath Pocock said it was a “terrific concept developed in a forward-thinking collaboration between the club and HRSA, which will add another feature night of racing to the SA October carnival that also will feature the SA Pacing Cup and Australian Drivers Championship.”

The inaugural 2026 race conditions and horse eligibility have been carefully crafted to draw a field of emerging types and country warriors, which include:

Horse Eligibility

4yo and Older. NR Up to 65, Pacers, Mobile.

Restricted to horses with a continuous South Australian stable return from 10th August 2026.

Horses that have won any race with advertised stake money of $20,000 or more since 1 January 2025 are ineligible excluding wins in South Australia.

The club will also throw open the gates free of charge to the public at 2.30pm to start proceedings with food vans, amusements and family and children entertainment.

The first race is scheduled after 6pm and they'll run a strong program through until 10pm when a number of top bands from Adelaide will perform for patrons right through until 2am.

02/10/2026

QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ASKED OF THIS CITY DRIVER

Kadina Police are appealing for witnesses after a crash in Barunga West.

About 5pm yesterday (Thursday 1 October), police were called to the Spencer Highway after reports of a white Mazda CX5 station wagon driving erratically in the Wallaroo area.

Police found the car after it had crashed and rolled about 5.05pm.

The driver, a 37-year-old Cheltenham man and a five-year-old boy were taken to hospital for treatment.

Their injuries are not considered to be life-threatening.

Further enquiries will be conducted with the driver by local police.

Anyone with information regarding this vehicle and its driving behaviour is asked to call the Kadina Police Station

29/09/2026

HE'S BEEN DRIVING UNLICENSED SINCE 2013!

Police in a shadow fleet caught a recidivist unlicensed driver at Ardrossan this morning.

About 8.30am on Tuesday 29 September, a Yorke Mid North Highway patrol in a shadow fleet pulled over a driver on his way to work on Main Coast Road, Ardrossan.

Police checks revealed the man has not held a driver's licence since 2013 and was currently disqualified from driving.

The 35-year-old man from Tiddy Widdy Beach produced a South Australian heavy vehicle licence.

It will be alleged this identification contained multiple false details, and he has only ever held a provisional car licence, not a heavy vehicle licence.

He was arrested and charged with driving while disqualified and possess altered driver's licence.

He did not apply for bail and will appear in the Kadina Magistrates Court later this afternoon.

SAPOL launched the new shadow fleet of low visibility, marked patrol vehicles on Friday 10 July to assist with detecting drivers committing offences including drink and drug driving, speeding, inattentive driving, and dangerous driving – behaviours that put road users at risk

28/09/2026

HOW MANY COUNCIL WORKERS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB?

This is the question from one irritated Yorke Peninsula Council ratepayer from Port Vincent who has become so incensed at the lack of action to replace a street light in Juno Close that she's written letters of complaint to council and SA Power Networks.

In a letter to the CEO Andrew Cameron and councillors yesterday the ratepayer said she had reported the streetlight outage, at the end of Juno Close, to SA Power Networks on June 24th this year.

She again contacted SAPN on July 10th to tell them the light was still not fixed.

Seven days later on the 17th July she received the following sms from SAPN:

“Hi, we have attended your street light fault and now referred it to the council. Please contact them for any follow up as they are now be (sic) responsible for further repair. Thank you."

On the 20th July the ratepayer telephoned YP Council to question why this matter had been referred to them - and was told that some lights are repaired by council and that Jason, the Works Manager, had put in a job request to attend to the light outage.

However on the 4th of September, seven weeks since the outage was first reported, the light was still not fixed so the ratepayer again wrote a letter of complaint to YP Council.

However she claims she did not receive a written reply to her complaint.

On the 21st of this month Michael McCawley, YP Council acting Director Assets and Infrastructure, telephoned the ratepayer to advise the light should be operational by no later than last Friday.

Today the light is still not working.

She says "Who is responsible for repairing the street light? Is it YP Council? Or is it SA Power Networks?"

“How long does it take and how many men does it take to replace a light bulb?”

"It is interesting that the YP Council is to spend $53,100 on 1500 locally themed Monopoly board games," the ratepayer said.

Mayor Kylie Gray is quoted on Council promotional material as saying this isn’t just about creating a board game, it’s about showcasing Yorke Peninsula’s incredible towns, attractions, businesses and community spirit in a fun and engaging way.”

The ratepayer says so Mayor Gray wants to advertise “community spirit” in a fun and engaging way, while in the meantime members of the community become ever more frustrated, having to make frequent requests for basic repairs and maintenance to be attended to in a timely way?

"Instead of Monopoly, the more appropriate game would be Ping-Pong," she concluded.

27/09/2026

ITS JAM PACKED ON THE YORKE PENINSULA IN OCTOBER

One of the events kicking off on Sunday October 4th will be the 150th year celebrations for the town of Port Julia.

The event will be staged at the Camping reserve oval within the Port Julia township where you can have a hit, a bowl or even put the wicket keeping gloves on and remember the Port Julia Cricket Club.

There'll also be a country style sausage sizzle which you can enjoy with your BYO and own chair whilst talking with mates and friends.

Along with Curramulka, Port Julia was a foundation club for the club of today, the Eastern District Cricket Club.

Stansbury Sounds By The Sea will open up the music on the Saturday on the Stansbury Oval.

There'll be big name bands and plenty of food trucks to keep you entertained.

If you’re soaking up the October long weekend vibes on the Yorke Peninsula, here’s another stop worth adding to the list.

The Southern Yorke Peninsula Photographic Exhibition is back at the Port Vincent Institute from Saturday, October 3 to Monday, October 5, showcasing some seriously impressive work from photographers across the region.

The exhibition brings together a huge mix of photography, from spectacular Yorke Peninsula landscapes and wildlife to macro, monochrome, aerial, abstract and creative digital works.

Warooka will be remembering its history by looking back over the last 150 years whilst celebrating community, capacity and future on October 24th.

At the Warooka Oval children can play some games whilst others can review past model cars and bikes, including watching blacksmiths and SES demonstrations and a bowls pennants game.

Down main street look through the museum including the new displays in the back shed, see the photography display at the town hall and be the judge of the Warooka School student colouring competition by hidden voting.

Have your photo taken with a 2000 Sydney Olympic torch and walk the Warooka history trail including a new scavenger hunt for young and old.

At 4pm music starts at the Warooka triangle with various food vans.

25/09/2026

BUSY DAY ON THE COPPER COAST YESTERDAY

It started with a provisional licence holder being caught speeding at Kadina.

Just after 6.00 am Thursday 24 September 2026, Kadina patrols detected a Isuzu D-Max travelling at 139 km/h in a 100 km/h speed zone on the Copper Coast Highway at Kadina.

Police stopped the vehicle spoke with the driver a 18-year-old local man, who holds a P2 provisional licence.

He was issued with an expiation notice for exceeding the speed limit and breaching a condition of his provisional licence.

Then across at Wallaroo Police arrested a man following a disturbance last night.

Just after 5pm on Thursday 24 September, police received a number of calls regarding a man acting erratically and in possession of a knife at the Wallaroo Jetty.

Patrols responded and arrested the man.

The knife was also recovered.

There were no reports of any injuries.

A 50-year-old man of no fixed address was charged with carrying an offensive weapon, disorderly behaviour and resist police.

He did not apply for bail and will appear in the Port Pirie Magistrates Court .

23/09/2026

KADINA POLICE OPERATING OUT THE BACK OF A CAR

Due to work being undertaken at the Kadina police station, a decision has been made to temporarily relocate administrative functions from 23 September, to ensure staff health, safety and wellbeing.

Administrative services will continue to operate from a Police Operations Vehicle positioned at the station.

Police say while there may be some minor limitations to administrative services during this period, every effort will be made to minimise disruption.

They say importantly, Kadina police station will remain fully operational.

Patrol response and telephone enquiries will continue as normal, with no impact on emergency or routine policing services.

Works are expected to be completed by close of business on 25 September.

Police apologise for any inconvenience and appreciate the community's understanding while these improvements are completed.

20/09/2026

A TREE AND A CAR DON'T MATCH AT MOONTA

A woman has been reported for drink driving after crashing at Moonta last night.

About 8.50pm on Saturday 19 September, Kadina Patrols attended to a single vehicle crash on Milne Terrace.

Police will allege the Hyundai sedan left the road out of control and hit a tree.

The driver, a 27-year-old woman from Wallaroo, was breath tested and allegedly produced a blood alcohol reading of 0.121.

She was reported for drink driving and aggravated driving without due care.

She was issued with a 6-month instant loss of licence and will be summonsed to appear in court at a later date.

15/09/2026

ANOTHER DRUNK THIS TIME IN MAITLAND

A man was caught drink driving in Maitland last night.

Just after 7.30pm on Monday 14 September, Yorke Mid North Highway Patrols were deployed in a shadow fleet when they stopped a Toyota utility on Kilkerran Terrace for a mobile driver test.

The driver, a 56-year-old man from Maitland, was submitted to a breath test where he allegedly returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.080.

He was reported for drink driving and issued with a six-month immediate licence disqualification.

He will be summonsed to appear in the Maitland Magistrates Court at a later date.

09/09/2026

WOMAN AIRLIFTED TO ADELAIDE AFTER HITTING A TREE

A woman was airlifted to hospital following a single vehicle crash at Arthurton.

Emergency services were called to Polkinghorne Road about 5.30pm on Tuesday 8 September after a Toyota 4WD crashed into a tree.

The driver, an 18-year-old woman from Port Lincoln, was airlifted to hospital with non-life threatening injuries while her passenger was taken to the local hospital for assessment.

Polkinghorne Road was closed while police investigated the crash but was reopened at 8pm.

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