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New Bridge Opens At Glenelg North

The new bridge over the Patawalonga – the Michael Herbert Bridge Wardlipulthu Waadlakatha – opens on Saturday 17 December with a great family fun day!
 
The bridge, a replacement for the old King Street Bridge, was begun back in March this year.
 
Mayor of the City of Holdfast Bay Ken Rollond said it’s an investment for the community that’s expected to last for the next one hundred years.
 
“The old bridge was over fifty years old and crumbling. Now we have a great new bridge thanks to cooperation between Council and the Federal Governments that’s come in on time and on budget.”
 
The name of the new bridge was chosen to honour Michael Herbert, an airman who lived and was educated locally. He went missing while on a mission in Vietnam during the war there and it is only recently his remains were found and returned to Australia.
 
“Michael Herbert has been honoured at the War Memorial in Canberra and it is only fitting that we recognise his life and his service here at his home in naming the bridge after him,” Mayor Rollond said.
 
The Bridge also has an Aboriginal name; Wardlipulthu Waadlakatha, which translates as ‘a former place of encampment’ and ‘a tree lying across a river and serving as a bridge’.
 
The Kaurna name was arrived at with the help of the Kaurna Heritage Board and with help given by Dr Rob Amery of Kaurna Warra Pintyandi (KWP) at the University of Adelaide.
 
The Bridge will officially open at 10.00am on Saturday 17 December with a formal ceremony followed by a sausage sizzle and family fun entertainment. Everyone is welcome.
 

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