REGIONAL homelessness services provider ac.care will extend its opening hours during extreme weather conditions this week to help anyone in the community access a cool space out of the heat. The agency’s community centres in the Murraylands and Riverland will open late until 7pm from Tuesday to Friday to provide a relaxed environment with access to food and water during…Read more

ac.care has backed a national campaign to raise social security payments to counteract the growing burden of increased cost of living pressures. The country agency’s call for greater support for the most vulnerable in our community coincides with Anti-Poverty Week.“A fair society is one where everyone can live a dignified life and participate in their community,” ac.care homelessness and community…Read more

COMMUNITY FOCUS: Support Homeless People Luncheon chairman Barry Stafford, committee members Robin Reid, Anne Hinkly-Tyler, Di Ind and Astyn Reid and ac.care marketing and communications manager Jason Wallace launch the 2020 program. Picture: THE BORDER WATCH A RENOWNED South Australian business leader and internationally recognised poet will feature at the biennial Support Homeless People Luncheon on April 3, 2020, at…Read more

MEMBERS of Mount Gambier’s Pine Tree Quilters were saddened when they learnt children on the Limestone Coast taken into state care often had no possessions other than the clothes they were wearing at the time.Inspired to use their creative skills to make a difference, they have helped turn that trend around in a touching way by making more than 300…Read more

COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Mount Gambier Family Truck Show chairman Peter Burchell, committee member Michelle Nicholls, founder Adam Smith and ac.care Limestone Coast homelessness service manager Jill Pulleine inside the emergency accommodation unit maintained with funding from the annual event to help people in crisis. FIFTY adults, many with children, may have been left with nowhere safe to sleep in Mount Gambier…Read more