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25.01.2022 The Friends of Mary Wandering Weeders received a grant from the BMRG for a portable pump to water the seedlings they planted along the Mary River Walk in Gympie.... Graham Parr and his band of happy weeders will be at it again this coming Saturday, 1st February from 7.30 am. If you'd like to help, meet at the rear of the Touch Footy Club and please wear suitable clobber for the job? Morning tea provided for all hard workers! See more

24.01.2022 It's that time again!! Our first planning meeting for the Mary River Festival will be this Thursday 13th Feb 2020 at 4.30pm Kandanga - brick building opposite the school at the Community Reserve. There will be plenty of ideas up for discussion, including:... brainstorming the theme funding opportunities workshop ideas options for changing the festival date and location ideas. You can join our facebook group to keep up to date with whats happening and put in your input even if you can't make it to the meeting in person, just follow the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/179939305387300/?fref=nf We are looking for volunteers who are keen to join in and lend a hand where they can, but also looking for some people interested in taking on a bit more coordinating including looking after areas such as; sponsorship, marketing, raffles, volunteers and workshops. Please forward on to anyone who may interested in coming along with some creative ideas and welcome any feedback.

23.01.2022 Scarecrow season is almost upon us in the Mary Valley Have you registered?

23.01.2022 Can you help us CLEAN UP MARY this coming Sunday 1st March at the Six Mile Rest area from 8 am onwards? And feel free to BYO secateurs to free some trees from C...at's Claw Creeper vine! All participants will be treated to a sausage sizzle at 11 am. RSVP to the MRCCC for catering numbers please 5482 4766 See more

22.01.2022 Calling for volunteers to help with Gympie Bunnings sausage sizzle on Sun 30th Aug. If you can help please contact Glenda on 0411443589 or send a comment back to this post as we need to confirm our fundraiser opportunity today.

15.01.2022 Live event streaming into your living room tonight at 7pm. Lets support these events so artists can get some gigs during covid crisis #supportlocalartists #lovelocal #lovegympie

13.01.2022 Thankfully social distancing is nothing new to our volunteers and organisers... due to busy lives we often coordinate via phone and email already. So we would like to take this time to emphasise just how much actually goes on behind the scenes to pull this festival off each year and thank some of the people involved. Dawn Johanson of Mary Valley Lions is there every year on the front gate and helps bring in volunteers. ... Glenda Pickersgill has been with us from the start organising and coordinating and keeping us all on track, sending out emails and meeting minutes to ensure we are all well informed. Lyndall Ensbey -is our wonderful treasurer and takes care of our bills and makes sure everyone gets paid (just not the organisers as we are volunteers) Along with many others these great volunteers will continue planning and working together (from a safe social distance) to bring another great festival to the community.

11.01.2022 **ANNOUNCEMENT** Mary River Festival decides on a cooler change... Across the length and breadth of the nation, events are being cancelled or deferred, or diminished or taken online. But the change in store for the popular Mary River Festival has absolutely nothing to do with COVID-19 restrictions. ... For the last ten years, the Festival has been held on the second Saturday in November, as close as possible to the anniversary of the then Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's memorable announcement, "It is my intention to say NO to the Traveston Crossing Dam". And last year's Festival, a decade of reflection, was a very special one, with Peter Garrett making a very popular return to Kandanga, Queensland. A current review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation legislation (which stopped the dam) has highlighted the Traveston decision was one of but a few (less than one per cent) where legislation actually stopped a proposal. Anyone who has attended a Mary River Festival will attest to the fact that November in Kandanga can be very, very hot, not to mention being subject to thunderstorms (memorable a few years back) and even bushfires (as in surrounding areas last year) In an organiser's meeting earlier this year, before COVID-19 was even a word let alone a dominator of the news, that spirit of reflection continued with a decision being made to move the Festival to a cooler time of the year, July, and to begin this in 2021. Festival Co-ordinator Glenda Pickersgill says she's excited about the change, not only for the comfort of those taking part, but also for the hard working volunteers who toil to put up and take down the Festival. "It's a celebration the community plainly wants to see continue," she says, "but we're just looking to make it more comfortable all round." "And", she adds, "we're always looking for volunteers to help." If you would like to join the organising committee or assist in volunteering for the Mary River Festival you join and share your interest here Mary River Festival Volunteers and Coordinators. We will be needing volunteers very soon to assist with one of our most popular fundraisers... Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

09.01.2022 Did you catch the Spring in the Mary photo competition yesterday? Some amazing shots!

08.01.2022 Who enjoyed Reverend Billy at last year’s festival? Be sure to head over to his Facebook page and give him a

07.01.2022 Joolie's collection

06.01.2022 For all those lovely people who attended the festival this year, we would love you to fill in a small survey. Takes about 2 mins. We value your feedback. http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8GJ2M7X

01.01.2022 The Sister’s of Mary... out of their habits and working hard to pack down after a great event! Thanks Joolie Gibbs, Glenda Pickersgill and Susan Zela's Sustainable Services for all the hard work you put in each and every year!