September 9, 2015
The traditional Friday night St Joseph’s fete in Murgon shifted to Saturday afternoon this year in a bid to help the working families in town.
The fete, which is organised as a joint fundraiser for the Catholic parish and school, has been an “after dark” event for many years.
Andrew Hobbs, from the organising committee, said having it “after work” on a Friday worked well 20 years ago when only one person in most families worked; but these days with both partners working, it was too hectic to get the fete organised on a Friday night.
Unfortunately, the experiment clashed with this year’s South Burnett Rugby League grand finals, which were being held at the nearby Murgon Sportsground, but as Andrew said: “It wouldn’t have really mattered when we held it, it would have clashed with something.”
Andrew said he had not counted the takings as yet, but he was happy with how the fete went.
“There were a lot of smiling faces running around,” he said.
A highlight of this year’s fete was the dunking chair. Local parish priest Fr Michael Carroll was the first “victim” to volunteer and he was duly “baptised” by a few on-target throws.
School principal Greg Cran also was a popular target in the dunking chair with many of his students taking delight in trying to sink him.
