]COMMUNITY NEWSThursday February 04, 2016NARACOORTE HERALD10 naracoorteherald.com.au

Truckie features in national bookHAVE you ever stopped to think how your milk, cereal, clothes, car, all the con-tents of your house, in fact everything you use and eat every day, gets to you?

Trucks and truck drivers can sometimes get a bad name for one reason or an-other with what seems like

bad press, but they are inte-gral to our ability to live the lives we do.

Alice Mabin of Al Mabin Photography has been work-ing on a new book to highlight the importance of the trans-port industry to Australians’ everyday lives, through pho-tographs and stories. For the

last 12 months Ms Mabin has been travelling Australia and New Zealand capturing the companies on the ground that keep our economies ticking.

One of those to feature in the book will be Naraco-orte-based company AJ and KD Neagle Transport. An-

thony Neagle started out as a painter and decorator but now owns and drives trucks carting wool.

Ms Mabin’s first book was titled “The Drover” and is the historic Australian story about the largest cattle drive in over 100 years. Her new book will be titled “The Driv-

er”, and will feature 110 busi-nesses across the two coun-tries, with each business carting something different.

There is everything from the corporate company right down to the owner-driver. Ms Mabin is aiming to launch the self-published book in July 2016.

TRUCKER: Local Anthony Neagle, of AJ and KD Neagle Transport, will feature in a new book about the trucking industry.

SA POLICE are reminding road users that a three-month education phase following changes to bicycle related legislation has now come to an end, with both cyclists and vehicle drivers urged to obey the rules.

When the legislation came into effect on October 25, po-lice announced they would conduct a three-month ed-ucation phase to help road users in being aware of and understanding the new leg-islation.

Under the changes mo-torists are required to keep at least one metre from a cy-clist when the speed limit is 60km/h or under, and at least 1.5m when the speed limit is over 60km/h.

The changes also now per-mit cyclists of all ages to ride on footpaths, even if there is a bicycle lane on the road.

The expiation fee for driv-ers failing to keep a safe later-al distance is $287, plus a $60 victims of crime levy and two demerit points.

Cycling laws are now in full effect

SOUTH Australia’s beautiful Limestone Coast proved a hit with locals and tourists, claiming the #15 and #86 position for Naracoorte Caves National Park and the Mary MacKillop Interpretive Centre in in a list of “South Australia’s 100 Things to do Before you Die” - an exten-sive feature highlighting the state's best experiences by attractions provider Experience Oz.

REGION HITS SA’S TOP 100

Backing for a blackspot fixNARACOORTE Lucindale Council will support efforts to address a mobile phone blackspot at Joanna, but it hasn't yet decided to what extent.

The council discussed the Australian Government’s Mobile Black Spot Program at last week’s council meet-ing.

The issue was raised as a result of Joanna Community Hall Committee asking the council to nominate the Joanna area for the list of blackspot locations.

Joanna, east of Naraco-orte, has now been listed on the database of areas report-ed to have poor or no mobile coverage.

The database will be shared with mobile carriers and other parties to help them in preparing funding proposals for the Mobile Black Spot Program.

The department also in-vited the council to consider acting as a project propo-nent, which could be in the form of contributing funding or other resources towards

building a base station or to coordinate the provision of resources from other sourc-es.

CEO Helen Macdonald ex-plained that the council had been asked in general terms by the Federal Government if it would consider supporting

projects, but now the queries were becoming more specif-ic.

She told councillors they could approve a financial or in-kind contribution towards the potential project, and the level of support was up to them.

She said the question for councillors was: “How deep does council put its hand in its pocket?”

Councillors agreed that addressing mobile phone blackspots was worthy of council support, but without a project cost it was difficult to set a financial amount it could promise.

They agreed with Cr Ken Schultz that having definite council support behind a funding application would increase its chances of being successful, but also agreed

that committing support could set a precedent for all the other parts of the district which also needed blackspot funding.

Councillors voted in favour of a motion: “That council notifies the Depart-ment of Communication that it is willing to discuss options with the department to address identified com-munication black spots in the council district, and de-termine contributions once the financial costs of these projects are known.”

‘‘How deep does council put its hand in its pocket?Council CEO Helen Macdonald