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Raising Hell In Maidenwell organiser Terry Mackrell at an earlier event … he has invited other groups to consider taking over the well-established annual camp-out weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 7, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nine-year-old Raising Hell In Maidenwell camping weekend will not be held this year, and possibly never again.<\/p>\n

Organisers Terry and Rhonda Mackrell announced this week they have reluctantly decided to pull the pin on the annual event due to a lack of volunteers.<\/p>\n

The pair, who are also involved with Nanango’s Waterhole Rocks festival and the South Burnett Gas Guzzlers car club, started Raising Hell in 2010.<\/p>\n

The aim of the weekend was to encourage vintage and veteran car enthusiasts to travel to the Maidenwell Sportsgrounds for a fun weekend of camping.<\/p>\n

They could enjoy retro fashions, foods, engine burnouts, a show’n’shine and doses of rock’n’roll culture in the company of fellow enthusiasts around July 4 each year.<\/p>\n

The early success of Raising Hell encouraged the pair to become involved with the creation of the Waterhole Rocks festival in 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waterhole Rocks is held in conjunction with the Nanango Show Society, and the Show Society’s extra helpers have helped that event grow year-on-year while numbers at Raising Hell have remained fairly static.<\/p>\n

Terry said that\u00a0 he and Rhonda have less energy these days to devote to their pet projects and had to scale back their commitments.<\/p>\n

“Something had to go and I’m sad it had to be Raising Hell because it was a great thing for Maidenwell and everyone who took part,” he said.<\/p>\n

However, Terry said some Raising Hell regulars had suggested they might come for a camping weekend whether the event was running or not.<\/p>\n

He hoped they did because it would provide a cash injection for the town.<\/p>\n

He would also be happy if some other group took over the reins and continued to run the event, or gave it a new complexion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“If there’s some group out there who’d like to organise Raising Hell In Maidenwell, they’re very welcome to call me about it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I have all the contact details for past entrants and I’d be happy to pass it on to a new group, which will give them an instant audience of potential visitors.”<\/p>\n

Terry can be contacted on (07) 4163-1999 or 0409-496-167.<\/p>\n

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