{"id":93469,"date":"2015-01-20T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=93469"},"modified":"2020-11-20T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T06:09:29","slug":"community-flavour-at-australia-day-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/01\/20\/community-flavour-at-australia-day-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Flavour
At Australia Day Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All set for Australia Day … Will Johnson (Taabinga Rotary), Nancye Jeffery (Quota), Deputy Mayor Keith Campbell, Geoff Aird (Rotary) and Tony Rossi (Rotary)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

January 20, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy’s traditional Australia Day Fun Day will have an added community flavour this year with local service clubs working towards taking over the future organisation of the event.<\/p>\n

For the past few years, the annual Community Fun Day has been co-ordinated by South Burnett Deputy Mayor Keith Campbell and Cr Damien Tessmann.<\/p>\n

They will still be available in future to assist with the event, but Will Johnson, from the Taabinga Rotary Club, has now volunteered to be the new co-ordinator.<\/p>\n

The Fun Day already involves many local groups.<\/p>\n

Kingaroy Lions Club prepares the hot breakfast of bacon and eggs, which will be available from 7:00am on Monday (January 26).<\/p>\n

Quota Kingaroy and the QCWA provide the morning tea of scones, jam and damper.<\/p>\n

Rotary and Quota club members will also be selling the tickets in the\u00a0 multi-draw raffle.<\/p>\n

This year’s Australia Day Fun Day will kick off at 7:00am with bush poetry by Brian Weier, John Tully and Dan Rutley under a shaded area in the Kingaroy Town Hall Forecourt.<\/p>\n

Music will be provided by Matt Phillips and Steve Hood, who will play a button accordion.<\/p>\n

At 9:00am, a flag-raising ceremony will be performed by Army Cadets and members of the Light Horse re-enactment troop.<\/p>\n

There’ll be face-painting and a jumping castle for the children as well as whip-cracking demonstrations by Paul Simms.<\/p>\n

Guest speaker will be Fr Nigel Sequeira, from St Mary’s Catholic Parish.<\/p>\n

Inside the Town Hall, Vocal Mayhem will perform and the traditional pie and lamington eating competitions will be held (with prizes to be won).<\/p>\n

The ever-popular cane toad racing is scheduled to get underway about 10:30am.<\/p>\n