Every year Birdwood Primary School showcases country life for city visitors at its annual Farm Day fundraiser. Among the crowd of 8000 were Isaac Zilm, left, Carl Hentschke and Toby Zilm with a calf from their parents’ Sunny Morn Dairy.

Asbestos alert

The Littlehampton Primary School will reimburse families for any medical expenses relating to last week’s discovery of an exposure to asbestos at the school in 2009.

Principal Jenny Lewis has advised families of students affected to inform their child’s doctor and have the incident tabled on their health records.

“My main aim, from the time this incident was brought to my attention, was for parents to be informed and for support to be given to the families and children involved,” she said.

Interactive white boards were installed in 2009 in two classrooms used by teachers and students before an audit the following year identified those rooms contained asbestos.

The error wasn’t discovered until last month when additional white boards were being installed and the timing overlap became clear.

Also in this week’s issue

• Festival on track: The sounds and smells of New Orleans will mix with historic rail transport this month for a Hoot Adelaide Hills Jazz Festival event.
• Public art: The development of a major sculpture trail throughout the Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula has been made possible after $400,000 of funding was secured for the project.
• Special win: Kate O’Brien has seen first hand the difference participation in the Special Olympics has made to the wellbeing of her son Robert.
• Park n ride: The Mt Barker Council has once again postponed its decision about whether to support plans for a new park n ride on Dumas Street.
• Waste water: The battle to stop a waste water treatment plant being built on Callington’s doorstep is expected to go to trial later this year.

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