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Ruby Beil, 9, from Kingaroy, was making friends with the famous mice at Kumbia’s Christmas Carnival on Sunday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 6, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kumbia residents had a genuinely Mickey Mouse* time at the town’s annual Christmas celebrations on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of smiles as\u00a0Mickey and Minnie wandered the crowd.<\/p>\n

And there were also mouse ears aplenty on many of the youngsters (the ears were handed out as all-night “tickets” to access the jumping castle and slippery slide).<\/p>\n

But the famous mice weren’t the only celebrities to drop in; Santa also took time out of his busy pre-Christmas Eve schedule to stop by and meet the children.<\/p>\n

Visitors had been invited to dress as their favourite Disney characters, which meant a few of the adults also sprouted mouse ears.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The annual Kumbia Christmas celebration also featured its famous barbecue of local sausages as well as market stalls, music, Christmas trees, raffles and a busy ham wheel.<\/p>\n

What more could you want for Christmas?<\/p>\n

* Footnote. In Aussie slang, “Mickey Mouse” is rhyming slang for “grouse”, ie. extra good. Confusingly, in American English, it means the exact opposite.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rhonda Callow, from Kingaroy, had a magnificent display of her hand-crafted Christmas decorations for sale … this one featured coral as well as pine cones, polished stones and baubles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Celina Bath and Lorraine Campbell were looking after the dessert table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kumbia markets co-ordinator Brett McGlone with former Kumbia resident Murray Beil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Desiree Crawford and Gayle Carroll were serving up the barbecued goodies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brothers Paul and Morris Winter carried out their traditional Christmas Carnival duties on the barbecue, cooking up sausages and steaks for the hungry crowd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hall committee members Anne Skinner and Linda Thomas were looking after “Josie’s Tea Room” named in honour of the late Josie McConville who was always a hard-working volunteer at Kumbia’s Christmas celebrations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sheilah and Tony Turton, from Kingaroy, were checking out the scented candles, secondhand books and Christmas trees inside the Kumbia Memorial Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Disney theme extended to the Christmas Trees set up inside the hall … a Kumbia tradition!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mickey even made on to a Christmas bauble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Visitors browse a line of market stalls set up beside the Kumbia hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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