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Big Peanut statue supporter Bernie Hansen donated $30 towards the project on Saturday morning, much to the delight of committee member Abigail Andersson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 7, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

The “Kingaroy Needs A Big Peanut” committee will be launching collection tins – or more precisely, collection pigs – very soon to help them reach their funding goal.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, committee members held a sausage sizzle outside Andersson’s Fruit Market in Kingaroy as part of their fundraising drive to build a Big Peanut statue.<\/p>\n

During the past month the group have raised roughly one-third of their $12,000 target through a GoFundMe page set up for the purpose.<\/p>\n

And on Saturday – as they happily accepted more donations for the project from a steady stream of passers-by – they unveiled the next step in their plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We want to put collection tins in South Burnett businesses so people can drop their loose change into them,” committee member Abigail Andersson said.<\/p>\n

“It might be 10c or 20c or 50c … but over time, all those little coins can add up to something really big.”<\/p>\n

To distinguish their campaign, the committee plans to use porcelain pigs rather than tins … providing, of course, that they can find enough porcelain pigs to go around.<\/p>\n

The reason?<\/p>\n

“The pigs can promote BaconFest as well as the Big Peanut … and besides, they’re prettier than tins.”<\/p>\n

Abigail said the budget for the statue might need to expand a bit beyond its original $12,000 estimate because the group forgot to include Council building permit fees in their budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abigail said Council had been very helpful with the project;\u00a0Council officers had found a good spot in Lions Park to put the statue, and would do the necessary work to get it properly positioned when it was ready.<\/p>\n

“However, we need to cover some building permit fees, so we have to add that to our fundraising target,” she said.<\/p>\n

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