Stuart Paxton, of the Roxby Downs Police spoke to The Monitor and explained the annual process, which coincides with the biannual airport exercise at the Olympic Dam Airport. "The exercise is Exercise Roadsafe, and it's being held in Andamooka to measure the local response and support response from Roxby Downs emergency services as well as the recovery response times, communications and all that sort of procedure," said Sergeant Paxton.

"Andamooka doesn't often get involved in exercises because it's all around Roxby, so the exercise has been brought out to Andamooka to give them on hand experience as a back up to Roxby in other incidents.

"It's a pre-arranged event; they knew there was an exercise happening on this date during daylight hours. There are observers and measurers, we're assessing our own agencies and that's what it's all about. So we can see what's gone well and what needs to be done better next time.

"The vehicles have been staged into a head on crash and then the road closed signs, one of the problems at the moment is that every street in Andamooka is still considered ?Government Road', even though they've got their new names," explained Sergeant Paxton.

At the time that The Monitor attended the crash scene on Government Road in Andamooka, the exercise was just getting underway.

"We're still waiting on all the agencies, so that's addressing communication problems which Andamooka has with the government radio network, it's a major issue. That's what this is also assessing, how bad it actually is and what can be done to solve that problem," said Sergeant Paxton.

Heart Foundation Jump Rope for Heart is renowned for being one of Australia's most popular physical activities and fundraising programs in schools.

"It's got so many good aspects to this program and the schools love it because the students are getting active and having a lot of fun," Mr Rowston said.

Since the inception of Heart Foundation Jump Rope for Heart over 25 years ago, more than 90 per cent of all Australian schools, involving 8 million school children have participated in this fun and active program.

Each year Heart Foundation Jump Rope attracts over 400,000 students, in over 2,300 schools with over 700,000 sponsors comprising of families, friends and members of local school communities.

"The program has being going for 27 years and it continues to be very strong in South Australia where we have 200 schools involved every year; almost 40,000 students doing the jumping; and we raise $450,000 every year in only our state and over three million dollars nationally.

"They are raising much needed money for the Heart Foundation, to be invested in research and education about heart diseases," Mr Rowston added.

Each student gets a sponsorship form that they take home and get donations from family and friends that can be collected through cash or on an online system where donations are made. This is a great way to fundraise for a place like Roxby Downs because you can actually get people from all over the world to donate.

"The ongoing support of Roxby Downs Area School and the fact that they came on board again this year is really appreciated. I am here this week to give the kids some extra ideas about their skipping but also to say thanks to the school for getting involved again," he said.

He also said that the team made the decision together.

School's Principal Kath was very happy with the donation.

"I think the staff at Sodexo is the star. "The fact that they voted to give this money to the

school to benefit the kids, I think it's brilliant," she said. She also explained that it's in the students' hands to decide how this money will be spent. "Our students have done a little bit of thinking around it and although they haven't finalised their thinking, some of the money may go to buy sports equipment.

"It's funding that is outside our normal planning so it's very gratefully received," she said.

According to her, it's going to a budget line that is for the student's voice.

Each home group class has two Student Voice representatives who attend weekly meetings where each student has an opportunity to relay their ideas and suggestions for the school.

These ideas are discussed in the meetings then, after approval from the principal, decisions are made and action is taken based on the school's and students' needs.

Student Voice gives students who display a natural ability in leadership the opportunity to develop these skills by representing their classmates and the school in a range of school-based situations.

Previously, Student Voice committees have raised money for various charities as well as raising money to be used by the school.

Students Voice Senior representative Josh was present to receive the donation and thanked Sodexo's staff on behalf of all the students.

The Rotary Club of Port Pirie has submitted an application to Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd (RAWCS), which assists Rotary Clubs develop and manage world community service projects, for a project number so that any individual wanting to donate can obtain a receipt for taxation purposes.

Australian Rotarians participate in activities to improve the lives and living conditions of others and to promote international understanding and goodwill, and the Rotary Club of Roxby District is no different, so they jumped on board to help this cause and donated $200 to help Nino's operation costs.

The amount required to cover these costs was 150,000 Philippine pesos (exchange rate is currently 41 pesos to one Australian dollar) or about $3,660 and they currently have about $1,500 towards it.

Local Roxby District Rotary Club president Bob Jacobs told The Monitor that "local Rotarians are fortunate enough to be able to assist people overseas, as well as people in the Roxby District communities."