Residents of The Vines on Friday. Front (seated): Brian Cave, Lesley Pay, Estelle Finch, Caroline Phillis, Dawn Dalton, Margaret Nietschke, Elizabeth Ranger, Doris Andrews. Second row (seated): Dawn and Ralph Hancock, Carmel Hughes, Ann Smith, Maureen and Neville Nolan, Shirley Krieger, Shirley Koch, Barbara Philp. Third row (standing) Ute Donaldson, Florence Milne, Norelle Herbig, Pauline Campbell, Barbara Burgemeister, Reena Conlin, Patricia Wellington, Sandra Menzel, Alan Channon, Elsie Pietsch, Judy Gray, Mary Arthur, Gillian Flynn, Beverley Regnier, Penny Bosward, Kate Stafford, Dee de Niet. Fourth row: Eric and Jan Kohlhagen, Albert Wilkinson, Mary Eglinton, Fran Jones, Trevor Burgemeister, Brenda Noble, Margaret Kroehn, Margaret Dungey, Colleen and David Salisbury, Judi Channon, Chris Pietsch, Bruce Donaldson, Peter Flynn, Dianne Dawson, Peter Reuter, Kathie Wharton, Fred de Niet, Susan Barratt. Fifth row: Karma Helbers, Grant Campbell, Linda Hammond, Denise Dorovata (obscured) Pauline Eichner, John Kroehn, Barbara Dungey, Karen Sandford, Sandra Davis, Marlene Sidler, Cecilia Frank, Mary Harris (partly obscured), Colin Krause, Viv Morris, Kerry Pike, Garry Wharton. Sixth row: Noelene Thomson, Len Hammond, Harry Barratt, Brian Sidler, Bill Dungey.Back: Member for Schubert, Ashton Hurn MP; The Vines manager, Julian MacIntosh, Christine and Geoff Redden, Keith Sandford, Graham Gray, Keith Frank, Stuart Jones, Ian Dawson, David Pike.
On October 25 this year, one of the Barossa’s most cherished retirement villages will celebrate 20 years since the first residents, Elizabeth Ranger and her late husband, John officially called The Vines, Nuriootpa, home.
It’s a milestone that comes with great pride and satisfaction, as the Rangers’ ‘Villa 2’ was just the first of many units to be filled with enthusiastic retirees, look...
