Stan Cartoons Archive

Young & Old

High school students have a lot on their plates these days.

This cartoon was about students nipping out for a quick smoke at recess.

The issue here was students nipping over to the nearby Westland shopping centre at lunch. Apparently it was always against the rules.

Each January we have the LEARN TO SWIM campaign and it’s always hard (Seeing as January is always a slow news month: silly season and all that.) to avoid doing a cartoon about it.

As with lots of professionals, it’s a constant battle to attract and keep teachers in country areas.

Not many people are aware of the fact that the now national CHILD PROTECTION WEEK began here in Whyalla.

Every two years the school children in South Australia enjoy COME OUT, a huge youth arts happening.

Falling population in the 1980s and 1990s saw several primary schools close or amalgamate. There were harder decisions to make when it came to the two state high schools: Stuart High and Whyalla High, which both had good reasons for remaining open, and nobody seemed able to say which (if either) should close.

Then there was the issue of young children roaming the streets at night, and why weren’t their parents supervising them.

Kids are always bored.

The ongoing issue during the population decline of closing things.

Whyalla’s main aged care facility is called Yeltana, and they had such a struggle to get established that the comment below was called for.

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