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Some of the rural firies at the Com Pub on Sunday afternoon … Junior firefighter Jackson with proud parents Melissa and Mark Beil (all Stuart River RFB), Rebekah Grob and Geoff Jacobson (Taromeo RFB) and Chris Behm (Stuart River); Mark and Chris are also Rural Fire Service support officers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Simon Neal … keeping track of the dollars raised on Sunday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 9, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett’s hard-working rural firies were saluted on Sunday at a special function organised in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

The “Firies Day Out” was organised by Simon Neal and Matt Collins with the assistance of the Commercial Hotel and Michael “DJ Direx” Monk.<\/p>\n

It was an opportunity to thank the volunteer firefighters, raise some money for rural brigades and have some fun.<\/p>\n

A string of musos donated their time and talents to make sure everyone was kept entertained.<\/p>\n

The talent on stage included Amber Goldsmith, Natalie Fenton, RYZA, Luke Green, Deal’N and Soul Good.<\/p>\n

Then there were the raffles. Simon thanked the generous South Burnett businesses who donated so many prizes.<\/p>\n

And the celebrity “slave auction” …<\/p>\n

Councillors and other local notables were put on the block at hourly intervals and offered to the highest bidder.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The winning bidders gained two hours’ work from their “slaves”.<\/p>\n

The highest price paid – $1250 – was for Mayor Keith Campbell.<\/p>\n

Mayoral candidate Brett Otto was “sold” for $300; but he had his revenge, “buying” Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff for $500.<\/p>\n

Kathy, in turn, bought fellow councillor Ros Heit.<\/p>\n

We have it on good authority that Cr Heit must now spend two hours cleaning Cr Duff’s rather large 4WD …<\/p>\n

Simon now is making plans for some more fun charity nights in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

Footnote: There wasn’t much rest for the rural firies on Sunday. The Stuart River brigade members were called to a re-ignited wood chip fire at Benair in the morning; then in the evening worked with other crews to extinguish a fire started by lightning at Booie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Callum Allery and Rachel Armstrong, from Kingaroy, with Jackie Allery, who was one of the volunteers helping out during the afternoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nick Frohloff with his mum, Cr Roz Frohloff (who was later auctioned)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Another auction “slave”, Cr Danita Potter, with Susan Robertson and Lisa Wilson, Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Natalie Fenton was one of the many performers who donated their time on stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Michael “DJ Direx” Monk made sure the music kept on pumping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A crowd of about 100 enjoyed the afternoon of fund-raising and relaxing in the beer garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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