{"id":120348,"date":"2015-09-13T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=120348"},"modified":"2020-11-17T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T00:35:48","slug":"meet-a-fair-dinkum-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/09\/13\/meet-a-fair-dinkum-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet A Fair Dinkum Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOdr7F1JP98?rel=0\" width=\"740\"height=\"440\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kingaroy Town Hall Forecourt will come alive on Monday afternoon (September 14) with a special &#8220;All Walks And Wheels&#8221; event featuring gold-medal winning Paralympian Jodi Elkington-Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Jodi has represented Australia in the Commonwealth Games, the International Paralympic World Championships and the London Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>Jodi\u00a0has cerebral palsy but this didn&#8217;t stop her passion for sports.\u00a0 Her hard work paid off when she won gold in the Long Jump in the 2014 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of the Kingaroy event is to heighten awareness in the community of the challenges people with disabilities face.<\/p>\n<p>It also aims to break down barriers and support inclusion and integration as part of the annual Disability Action Week celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To help this, there will be a Celebrity Medley Race starting at 1:00pm with six competitors negotiating various obstacles that can be a daily challenge for people with a disability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The celebrities will have to open a packet of cereal, pour it in a bowl, add milk and eat a mouthful while their good hand is tied to their waist.<\/p>\n<p>The top four finishers will then take part in a Wheelchair Obstacle Race.<\/p>\n<p>First and second across the line will then have to thread a necklace wearing vision-impaired goggles to determine the final winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The masters of ceremonies for the day will be Kingaroy resident Michael Goessing, who was left with a brain injury after a car accident, and local celebrity chef Jason Ford.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;All Walks and Wheels&#8221; event will run from noon to 5:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be cooking exhibitions and information stalls by local service providers for people with disabilities and carers.<\/p>\n<p>The day has been funded by the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services and auspiced by SBcare.<\/p>\n<p>While she is in\u00a0 Kingaroy, Jodi will also be visiting local schools, including St Mary&#8217;s Catholic College and Taabinga State School.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Schedule of Events<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Noon<\/strong> &#8211; Opening of Event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12:30pm<\/strong> &#8211; Presentation &#8211; Jodi Elkington-Jones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1:00pm<\/strong> &#8211; Celebrity Medley Race<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1:30pm<\/strong> &#8211; NDIS Presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2:00pm<\/strong> &#8211; Cooking Demonstration &#8211; Endeavour and Ford on Food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3:00pm<\/strong> &#8211; NDIS Presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3:30pm<\/strong> &#8211; Cooking Demonstration &#8211; Endeavour and Ford on Food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4:30pm<\/strong> &#8211; Presentation &#8211; Jodi Elkington-Jones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingaroy Town Hall Forecourt will come alive on Monday afternoon (September 14) with a special &#8220;All Walks And Wheels&#8221; event featuring gold-medal winning Paralympian Jodi Elkington-Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":285798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,3,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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