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Sylvia Meechan, from Blackbutt, shares a joke with Bloomin’ Beautiful Blackbutt’s Jeff Connor at Butt Art Gallery’s Wine & Cheese Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 20, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

If more Australians had the same level of passion and commitment to their communities that artists do, many of Australia’s problems could be solved overnight.<\/p>\n

This was one of several messages South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann gave guests at the Butt Art Gallery’s third Wine & Cheese Night in Blackbutt on Monday.<\/p>\n

The event was held at the Butt Art Gallery in Coulson Street.<\/p>\n

For a gold coin donation, guests got to enjoy Moffatdale Ridge wines, cheeses, live entertainment from Nitehawk, a belly dancing display, a ticket in the night’s lucky door prize and socialising with the artists as they browsed the Gallery’s extensive displays.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann had been invited along to the function as a special guest speaker.<\/p>\n

He commended Butt Arts Gallery Inc, the non-profit group that now runs the 13-year-old gallery, for the “tremendous job” they were doing promoting South Burnett artists in Blackbutt.<\/p>\n

He said the South Burnett Regional Council valued community groups for the extensive contributions they made to the region’s social fabric.<\/p>\n

So now the Gallery had incorporated itself, he thought Council would be able to provide it with some assistance in a similar way to the assistance it already provided to similar community groups which ran the Wondai Regional Art Gallery and – very soon – the Kingaroy Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

The Mayor noted many guests had travelled from Murgon, Wondai, Kingaroy and Nanango to attend the evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He took this as a positive sign the South Burnett was steadily becoming a unified region.<\/p>\n

Turning to local issues, the Mayor said that he was hopeful a positive announcement about getting a supermarket for Blackbutt could be made soon.<\/p>\n

He also noted the night roadworks that were proceeding a few hundreds yards along Coulson Street.<\/p>\n

These marked the first stage of Blackbutt CBD’s flood remediation works, he said, and very soon Council workers would begin laying $850,000 worth of pipes to fix one of the town’s most long-standing problems.<\/p>\n

Finally, he urged everyone to join the region’s fight to save the South Burnett Private Hospital by signing a letter of support and getting it back to a Council office by 5:00pm on Wednesday, or by filling in an online petition on the Council’s website in the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Butt Arts Gallery Inc’s president Graeme Bates thanked the Mayor for his encouraging words.<\/p>\n

He said the Gallery proposed to hold similar social nights roughly three times a year from now on.<\/p>\n