Rotary Club of Ashgrove/The Gap - Carols & Fireworks

Rotary Carols By Candlelight Concert

Here we are again Around the Christmas Tree Family and Friends With Santa for Company.

Yes, that’s right folks. Time to start getting into Christmas mode.

Only 18 days to the next big Rotary Carols by Candlelight night which will follow closely after the Rotary Santa Sleigh excursions around The Gap and West Ashgrove.

The Rotary Club of Ashgrove/The Gap invites all in the community to our free family friendly Christmas Carols Concert at Dorrington Park, Mirrabooka Road, Ashgrove, on Saturday, 10 December, 2022 from 4.15pm to 8.00pm.

We have a super Concert Program arranged for the enjoyment of all ages. All our wonderful concert musicians and artists will be back.

Leading off will be the stirring National Servicemen’s Memorial Pipes and Drums followed by the Rocus Big Ban with great swing band renditions to get the toes tapping.

A short interval will allow Santa to pay a visit after which our wonderful MC, the ABC’s weather girl, Jenny Woodward, will introduce the Carols segment of the Concert.

The Tessitura A Capella Singers will lead followed by the 45 piece Queensland Wind Orchestra under the baton of Rachel Howley and the 60 plus Choiristors of the Ignite Choir under Music Director, Harmony Woollett.

All the words for the Carols will be on our big LED screen for the audience to join the choir.

And then the big finish, with our famous Ace Fireworks presentation of their usual dazzling Fireworks Finale.

For all of our community business supporters, we invite you to consider an advertisement or simply a Christmas greeting to your customers or clients on the big LED screen to help us allay the costs of this great Concert.

There is a special covered area for people with disabilities and/or wheel chairs or otherwise needing assistance.

The Face Painting and the Gingerbread House Raffle is on again and Christmas Candles and other goodies are available.

Food and drink will be on sale at the grounds.

Although there will be a Credit Card reader available, to ease the queues bring CASH

Of course, none of this could proceed without the assistance of the 12CE Army engineering personnel from Gallipoli Barracks, local workers, businesses and organisations, and the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund Program and both Enoggera and The Gap Ward Councillors. Thank you all.

For further information, including if you would like to advertise your business, send Christmas greetings, or any other message on the big LED screen, contact John Giles on 0412 740 360 or email at jga@it-unlimited.com.

As the song says “it’s the most wonderful time of the year”. See you there.

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Society

Visitors are encouraged and very welcome at the Ashgrove Historical Society meetings held at the Ashgrove Library on the first Saturday of the month 10am-noon (except January). The first meeting for 2023 will be held on Saturday 4 February. The topic will be Oakleigh State School – The Early Years presented by Lindy Sugars.

Oakleigh State School, Ashgrove, will be 90 years old in 2024. Officially opened on 3 March 1934, Oakleigh was one of a number of public buildings constructed during the Great Depression. Lindy coordinated the school’s 75th anniversary events in 2009 and has a keen interest in Oakleigh’s history. Her presentation will describe the very beginnings of the school through to the 1950s when enrolments peaked at 1100 students. Photos and memorabilia from the 1930s-1980s will also be on display. Lindy looks forward to meeting students, parents and staff from the past and present. She is encouraging people to begin the process of organising a class or grade level reunion as soon as possible so they can take place during the school’s 90th anniversary year.

There will be a shared morning tea following Lindy’s presentation which will provide the opportunity to chat with her, view the photos and memorabilia and meet other people interested in local history.

Need a last-minute Christmas gift for someone interested in our suburb’s history? Look no further than the society’s publications which make interesting presents. Local Government in Ashgrove: A History by John Laverty (published this year) is available for $30 for Ashgrove Historical Society members and $35 for non-members. Other books include Lost Ashgrove, an easy-to-read pictorial record of Ashgrove then and now (members $20, non-members $25); the revised Ashgrove Heritage Tour (2019) $10; Ashgrove 150 Timeline ($6) provides added information on the plaques that are in place along the Enoggera Creek bikeway (Ashgrove Sportsground section); Brisbane: People and Places of Ashgrove (2010) $15. Due to another covid outbreak, our sales stall on 2 December was cancelled. If you would like to make a purchase, please contact the secretary, Julie by email: ahs.secretary@bigpond.com or phoning her on 3366 4621 and she will make arrangements for you to collect it or receive it by post.

If you would like to become an AHS member or purchase membership as a gift for someone, fees are $10 single per annum (1 July - 30 June), or $15 couple/family. Membership includes discount on our publications and the quarterly newsletter, Tram Stops. Please contact the secretary, Julie, (ahs.secretary@bigpond. com) and she will let you know the EFT details. Alternatively, you are most welcome to come along to a meeting. Funds raised from memberships, raffles and sale of our publications supports the research, preservation and recording of Ashgrove’s history.