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This Christmas card was released by the RAAF in 1944.

Flight Sergeant William Dean (1920 - 2011), served in the RAAF during World War II and collected this card in 1944. The three planes pictured are Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, which Dean’s Squadron flew out of Darwin during the war.

During his retirement, William Dean was a long-serving volunteer at the City of Burnside and enthusiastically gave his time to helping the community.

His family donated this card, along with other items relating to the Dean family to the Local History Collection.

Also pictured: Flight Sergeant William Dean, circa 1944.

We are excited to reveal our three Instagram Photo Competition winners for this year (@ccceee00, Mr Chuck, Dachshund, @xanderfotos). Thank you so much to everyone for your entries, we really loved seeing what Burnside meant to you and the variety of aspects that make up the community.

What a year we've had at Council! Here is the final Burnside Highlights of 2021, thank you all for your support! We hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy 2022.

Summary:
✅ Christmas Card Competition winners announced
✅ 0% rate rise this financial year
✅ Completion of the Pikurna Wirra/Peter Bennett/Laurel Avenue Organic Community Garden
✅ Completion of the Kensington Wama/Kensington Gardens Reserve project
✅ New sculpture in Constable Hyde Gardens
✅ Burnside named a Tree City of the World for the second year in a row
✅ First ever Environment Awards and Business Awards
✅ Commenced work on Magill Village Project and Tusmore Wading Pool redevelopment.

This is just a summary of some of the key decisions and things happening in Burnside. You can read the minutes in full at https://bit.ly/BurnsideAgendaMinutes

The interactive mural was created by Miss Libby Rose (The Sewing Yogi) in partnership with Burnside Council. The many wonderful individual squares that make up the lotus mural were created over weeks of workshops. Visit the Civic Centre to view the mural.

Burnside’s newest resident needs a name. WIN four tickets to the Regal Theatre

A yultu* has found a forever home in Kensington Wama – but it has no name. Yultu is the Kaurna word for frog.

Our yultu would like a name with style. Some of its favourite celebrity names are Trevor, Politoed, Frog Prince and Michael Perry (our frog admits that last one is a place and not a person, but likes it anyway).

Tell us what you think its name should be and WIN four tickets to the Regal Theatre for any movie, and any session; plus the winning name will feature on a plaque in the Kensington Wama nature play space.

The competition is open for children aged 12 and under who live or attend school within the City of Burnside.

Entries close Tuesday 18 January 2022.

A resident in Kensington Gardens was completing renovation works last year and uncovered a pile of postcards and photographs from a previous owner. The resident donated these items to the Burnside Local History Collection.

Pictured is the 1921 Christmas greeting that the dustman sent the owners. A ‘dustman’ is someone employed to remove rubbish, refuse or ashes.

The Library of Things is an exciting new collection available at Burnside Library that launched in October 2021.

The theme of the Burnside Library of Things collection is ‘kitchen items’. You can now use your existing library membership to borrow from a fantastic library of tools, including kitchen utensils, cake tins, baking kits, and so much more!

The Library of Things is an excellent way to save money, free up space in your cupboards, and is kinder to the planet, too.

Sarah Parton, Library of Things customer and environmental scientist, and her son Mattais, recently borrowed a lovely heart-shaped baking tin from the Library of Things to bake some special cakes together.

“The kids and I made a zucchini chocolate cake and a beetroot red velvet cake with rose petals on top for my birthday, Sarah said. “The cakes (surprisingly) both turned out great! The kids love baking - mainly because I let them lick the spatula!”

Sarah would love to see the Library of Things continue to grow.

“People should get involved so they don’t have to clutter their home with things they rarely use - this way they have access to fun and useful items but instead we can all share them as a community.”

What does the future hold for the Library of Things?

Although only kitchen items are currently available to borrow, the goal is to expand the collection in the future to include other types of household items. Stay tuned!

The City of Burnside is navigating the opening of borders and ensuring that we can still continue to deliver services to the community, even with new strains of COVID in our state.

One way of doing that is to help remind people to check in and wear a mask, as per state government Transition Committee directions.

This is one way to ensure the safety of our community at our facilities (especially the vulnerable), and our staff, to ensure that Council can continue to deliver services to the community.

As school holidays begin our Library faces its busiest time of the year. It is vital that visitors are protected by high standards of hygiene and COVID compliance.

Almost every visitor is wearing a face mask and if not, they comply as soon as it is pointed out that it is a mandatory condition of entry. Council has a supply of masks for those who forget.

Our Customer Service Team is in their own ‘bubble’ with limited exposure to other staff so they remain safe as the first point of contact with the community.

All staff are encouraged to wear masks and maintain social distance and teams are alternating working in the office and from home to minimise their chance of contact.

All of these actions are for the health and safety of our community, our employees and the general public.

This is the second year the Mayor’s Christmas Card Competition has been run. The theme was ‘What makes an Australian Christmas?' A recurring theme in entries was sunshine, barbecues, native Australian animals and Santa in shorts. The competition was open to Year 3 and 4 students from schools within the City of Burnside.

Anna, a Year 4 student at Linden Park Primary School, was declared the winner at a ceremony on Tuesday 7 December. The four finalists were all designs which really spoke of Christmas. They were vibrant and colourful. Anna’s card had the theme ‘Christmas is about caring’. It shows a young girl who has hurt herself playing ball and a kangaroo wearing a Santa hat offering to help. Anna said that caring means “We help each other”.

Anna’s mother Venus, said she was very proud of her daughter. She said the win was unexpected but Anna has always loved to draw. She also enjoyed dancing and gymnastics and had to make special time in her busy school schedule to draw her design.

More than 50 entries were received and the Mayor chose three runners up. They were Tiziana, 8, in Year 3 at Linden Park Primary School and Indigo and Alice, both 9 and in Year 4 at Rose Park Primary School.

Mayor Monceaux with winner Anna and her entry.

Runners Up Tiziana, Alice and Indigo.

Is your Christmas tree up yet?

This photograph is of Burnside Town Hall on 21 December 1940 during a Christmas event for children of military service personnel, organised by the Volunteer Defence Corps of South Australia.

Photograph: George Ignatius Ziesing. SLSA B 62413/40.