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St Joseph’s principal Greg Cran gets that sinking feeling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Children were queueing to have their face painted by St Joseph’s staff member Elise Crawford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 9, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The fete, which is organised as a joint fundraiser for the Catholic parish and school, has been an “after dark” event for many years.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Andrew said he had not counted the takings as yet, but he was happy with how the fete went.<\/p>\n

“There were a lot of smiling faces running around,” he said.<\/p>\n

A highlight of this year’s fete was the dunking chair.\u00a0 Local parish priest Fr Michael Carroll was the first “victim” to volunteer and he was duly “baptised” by a few on-target throws.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Theresa Hodson and Helen Leyland, from Wondai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St Joseph’s parishioners Pam Euler and Toni Rodney, from Goomeri, and Faye Kruger, from Durong, were helping out on one of the stalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Kingaroy State High School concert band provided the live music for the afternoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fr Michael Carroll after he dried off and changed his clothes … and no, we couldn’t convince him to have another go in the dunking chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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