{"id":318325,"date":"2022-05-17T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T08:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=318325"},"modified":"2022-07-05T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:49:27","slug":"mens-shed-to-host-meetngreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2022\/05\/17\/mens-shed-to-host-meetngreet\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Shed To Host Meet&#8217;n&#8217;Greet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255860\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lorrainegoodchild1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255860\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lorrainegoodchild1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MBDA treasurer Lorraine Goodchild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>May 17, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Murgon Business and Development Association is testing an after-hours &#8220;meet and greet&#8221; concept which seems to have proven popular with the Kingaroy Chamber of Commerce and Industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, we tried holding evening meetings for business operators (&#8220;Business After Hours&#8221;) to see if that time was more suited &#8211; rather than the breakfast meetings &#8211; to encourage more of our business members to come along to our meetings,&#8221; treasurer Lorraine Goodchild said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disappointingly, it still seemed to be mainly the same people turning up to them as were coming along to the breakfast meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So now, we are going to trial some &#8216;Meet and Greet&#8217; evenings at various local venues or businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;These will be held every 2-3 months for the remainder of this year to see how that goes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These will be a more casual informal setting (not a formal meeting) but it will still be a chance to get together with fellow business operators and hear about the latest happenings at each location, while enjoying a drink and nibbles or a sausage sizzle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Murgon Men&#8217;s Shed will be hosting the first of these new Meet and Greet evenings on Wednesday, June 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So come along, take a look around and hear all about their plans for a Railway Museum,&#8221; Lorraine said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These occasions are open to all business operators,\u00a0not just MBDA members, so please encourage others to come along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Entry will be via gold coin donation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To RSVP, contact the MBDA by <a href=\"mailto:murgonbusiness@bigpond.com?subject=Business After Hours (from southburnett.com.au)\">email<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MBDA&#8217;s regular breakfast meetings will continue every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Murgon Business and Development Association is testing an after-hours &#8220;meet and greet&#8221; concept which seems to have proven popular with the KCCI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":255861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[28],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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