David Hanisch saw the need for funky frames
Framed is a shop that’s long overdue on Semaphore Road, offering full optical services including bulk billed eye testing, funky spectacles, repairs and accessories.
With 28 years experience in in the optical industry in the city and at West Lakes, David Hanisch realised that our district needed a shop with fashionable but affordable spectacle frames.
Framed offers outstanding service and is open from Monday to Friday from 9.30 am to 5 pm, by appointment on Thursday night till 7 pm and on Saturdays from 10 am to 4 pm.
Near Military Road, at 59 Semaphore Road, Framed can be contacted by phone on 7225 2014 or by fax on 7225 2024.
Mark Butler MP speaks at the Centre opening
Popular local band The Dudleys and visiting Irish gypsy fiddler and comedian Aindrias De Staic entertained the crowd at the opening of the new Semaphore Information Centre and Adelaide Eco Info Exchange on Saturday 6 March.
Kaurna Elder Auntie Josie Agius gave a traditional welcome to Kaurna land and Mark Butler MP praised Australia’s original inhabitants for their knowledge of sustainability and the way they cared for country.
“Indigenous Australians were well aware as so many of us are today of sustainability and the need to care for our planet.
“Every day I am bombarded by emails as part of a campaign being run by climate change deniers.
“This new centre, which will be run by volunteers, will provide information on sustainability, climate change, alternative energies, conservation and zero waste that will help to counter that campaign.
“It has been a long time coming and is a credit to the hard work of volunteers in setting it up and the great financial support they have got from businesses and residents.”
Aindrias De Staic
The Dudleys
Small winemakers' friend Jane Harris
Teacher-turned-businesswoman Jane Harris grew her wine company from a school fund-raising idea — she bought excess but top-quality wines from smaller wineries, labelled it and sold it through schools.
In a very short time it became a full-time job and Adelaide Cellar Door is now marketing choice South Australian wines into China and Hong Kong.
Adelaide Cellar Door
She’s moving more than 5000 cases a year at the moment, mainly through word of mouth, and plans to use the internet to reach a 25,000-case target.
“What we were doing was buying wines that were excess — growers only bottled their top 10 barrels of wine and may have had another 40 barrels they did not want to bottle,” she said.
“If they labelled the whole lot, that would have been too much wine and they would have to discount.
“But there are really outstanding small producers who are concentrating on quality in their regions. They have trouble marketing their wine. They can’t put it into supermarkets because they don’t have the output,” she explained.
“We have a panel of winemakers to look at the wines and if they fit into the quality and interest that suits what we are doing and we can sell it for a reasonable price, we will take it.
“The most important thing is quality — we are fussy about quality.”
Find out more at the Adelaide Cellar Door website.
Gerrard Viergever and his famous moustache
We found 66-year-old age pensioner Gerrard Viergever on the dilapidated side of St Vincent Street in the old run-down Port Town Hall Café.
One of a growing team of people in the Port who are not constantly complaining and waiting for the government or the council to resuscitate our city, he’s turning the old St Vincent Street café into a first class but inexpensive French restaurant with a special purpose licence. He simply ignores all the negative thinking about the place.
Gerrard Viergever discusses his plans for his French restaurant 'Moustache'
It’s not the first time Gerrard has created a new restaurant and he admits he’s had “some elaborate and disastrous failures.”
“I’ve been through a very dark time and I could have just sat in the corner on the pension, but I saw this run-down cafe; it was a disaster zone, but I needed shelter at a reasonable price.
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Fish head art from Oddity Central
The Fringe Festival is heading for Semaphore and it’s looking decidedly fishy.
Semaphore will get a taste of festive fun at the inaugural Fish Head Fringe on the foreshore on Saturday March 13 from 4pm to 8pm.
Take along family, friends and fish for a BYO picnic.
Learn how to cook fish head soup with comic Chef Pierre Le Cochon and listen to fisherfolks’ shanties.
Head off in fish-head fancy dress (prize for best dressed) and boogie to the bluebilly vibes of Prawnhead.
The event will also feature stilt-walking clown Mimi, beloved local choir Born on Monday, Semaphore vocalist Eileen Darley with Peter Douglas, the barbershop Fish Bowl Boys and roving magicians.
It will be a great opportunity to relax at the Semaphore Foreshore and enjoy trademark Fringe entertainment and atmosphere.
Contact Helen Bock 0414 709 187 or Jane Marr 0416 271 566
Fish head art from Oddity Central
Bob and Nana of Kafé Dom
Many Semaphore residents, traders and regular visitors from across Adelaide are saddened by the closing down a few days ago of the popular Kafé Dom, but a new café called La Caz Creole has already opened in the same premises — different owners and a very different menu.
Bob and Nana offered a wide range of eastern European food and, some say, the best coffee on Semaphore Road; they will be greatly missed.
New owner Anna Michael with her husband and chef Kevin have introduced a new menu and we wish them well in their new venture.
They ran the Lipson Café in Port Adelaide at night for a while while Julie Sellick was the owner — and Anna says they make great coffee too.
Chef Kevin Michael of the new 'La Caz Creole'
A donor and one of the many fundraisers for the new Semaphore Information Centre and Adelaide Eco Info Exchange, Adelaide Cellar Door sells wines from 40 small South Australian boutique wineries, so like the Centre, they are supporting small businesses.
Because of the wine glut at the moment many wines are especially well priced – these small producers have to be very competitive with their pricing, as they are not well known companies, although many of the wines have won awards.
The Centre will run wine fundraisers with Adelaide Cellar Door and part of the profit margin will go to the Centre.
All the businesses who have made $200 donations to the Centre can buy their wine through the Centre to promote themselves while resident supporters can just enjoy the wines.
There are wines and prices to suit all tastes and pockets, starting from under $10 a bottle.
Click here to download the initial offerings.
