SARTI Life Members
We honour our life members here.
George Adams
Life MemberEndorsed Supporter – Engineering – 2006 to 2024
George joined the board in 2006 and became the Trail Maintenance Manager. He set up the volunteer maintenance groups, as well as helping to survey and added signage to the walking trail.
George also designed and manufactured the Lavender Trail stiles (check out our article on the LFT website).
George has also been an early supporter and developer of the Lavender Cycling Trail.
Chris Bushell
Life MemberPast Chair, Endorsed Supporter
Over 20 years ago, Ian Pool said to a group of us ARPA Bushwalkers that he thought SARTI needed help. So a group of us went along to a board meeting and were promptly included in the board. At the second meeting I was asked to be president, purely as a temporary measure because George Driscoll was coming back from Sydney and would take over as president. Well, unfortunately he died, and I’ve been president ever since. I then discovered that every president of SARTI has died in office. This is starting to be a concern to me.
I was also the secretary of the Schuss Ski Club for 11 years, President of WalkingSA and the ARPA Bushwalkers.
Chris Bushell, Past Chairperson, SA Recreation Trails Inc.
Bob England
Life MemberRegional Representative – Murraylands
Bob held the position of SARTI Treasurer up to 2020 and has a wealth of history and experience for all things SARTI around the Murray Bridge end, as well as seeing the trail reach it’s destination at Clare.
Graham Hallandal
Life MemberPublicity & Newsletter
Graham became involved in the Lavender Federation Trail in 1999 and has been a part of the Management Committee since the first meeting of the steering committee at the Scout Outdoor Centre in April 2000. Initially working with Terry Lavender building the “Federation Trail 1901” (the original name of the Lavender Federation Trail), as Terry’s health declined, undertook route planning, organizing trail materials & volunteer working days. By 2004, 56 km had been built but work stalled until new volunteers appeared. Graham then concentrated on funding and trail publicity. Awarded RCMB “Citizen of the Year” in 2017 and Walking SA Award in 2019 for his “long and distinguished contribution to walking in SA”. Editor of the SARTI newsletter since 2001.
Roger Lillecrap (RIP)
Life MemberCouncil Representative – Keyneton & Barossa Council
Roger was passionate about the Lavender Federation Trail, supporting it at Local and Council level.
Ian Pool
Life MemberEndorsed Supporter – Trail Advisory – 2004 to 2024
Ian was very active in scouting the LFT, connecting the dots, from maps to unmarked roads and land owners to gain permissions for the trail as well as at all times when installing the trail. In 2017 Ian was awarded by WalkingSA the 2017 Award Winner Award Category: Special Recognition Award – Individual (see article on WalkingSA website here)
Ian has been active on the SARTI Board until finally retiring from the SARTI Board in 2024 as a 93 year old.
Photo taken at Lavender Trail presentation at Goyder Tourism Working Party – April 2011
Barry Stacey
Life MemberEndorsed Supporter – Signage & Brochures
Barry is our graphics wizzard, photographer and collector. His work producing graphics for signs and brochures is fantastic.