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DALBY DELICIOUS AND DELIGHTFUL FESTIVAL
The seventh annual Delicious and DeLIGHTful festival is over for another year and has been hailed an enormous success by both the organising committee and those who attended the event. Held each year in August, the festival celebrates our multicultural community through entertainment, food and activities and hosts the regions only night time lantern parade. A small, dedicated team make up the Dalby Welcoming Community Committee, the volunteer group who are responsible for the roll out of this important community event. Along with its sponsors and supporters, community and organisation volunteers, the flagship event continues to grow and evolve to provide a quality festival that fits the vibrant nature of Dalby and the surrounding region. Festival favourites include a full entertainment program, food stalls, the amazing lantern parade and fireworks and the many activities for adults and children to enjoy both on Saturday and Sunday. This year was a year of change, with many new additions to expand the festival and give the community much more to participate in and enjoy whilst attending.
The multicultural volleyball competition was a huge success, with ten teams fighting it out for supremacy during Saturday afternoon, with hundreds of onlookers cheering on their favourite teams. The event was graciously run by the QUT Big Lift team and after three rounds and 14 games, the Cook Islands Oakey group took out the top prize, closely followed by Brumby’s Bakery Highlander team, in third place was the Dalby Filipino Group. It was a nail biting final with very close scores adding to the excitement of the main festival day.
For the first time this year, the festival included Make-it, Bake-it, Grow-it market stalls on both days offering creative people the opportunity to sell their wares over the entire weekend. Our food vendors were encouraged to stay for Sunday to offer second day festival goers more variety of food. Even the festival site grew with the inclusion of a special children’s area over The very first multicultural performance the footbridge with the volleyball court, making competition saw almost three hours of fantastic more room within the main festival arena for entertainment on Saturday that included enjoying the food and entertainment. community groups, soloists, school choirs and everything in between; a host of high quality Returning for another year was the Continental acts that were vying for the top three spots Challenge run by the Dalby Junior Chamber on and to take home the generous prize money Sunday morning alongside the BBQ Cook-off, donated by Associated Grain. Winners included market and food stalls and entertainment by the Cook Islands Group in first place, the local groups JAM and Ship of Fools. Sunday Australian-Filipino Community in second place hours were extended and hundreds of people came to enjoy the lovely weather and all the and Andie Walker in third place. festivities. Competitions were a new part of this year’s events, where locals were challenged to join the volleyball, multicultural performances or cooking competitions during the weekend event with lots of prize money and trophies that were taken home by the lucky winners of each.
With perfect weather, a huge crowd, a visit from Dalby’s own Luke and Cody, ABC’s David Illife as entertainment MC, wonderful multicultural performances from locals and Brisbane based performers this year’s festival will go down as one of the best events ever! Dalby Delicious and DeLIGHTful Committeee Image: ASV Photographics
RURAL FOCUS
FARMERS UNITED VOICE HELPS WIN VEG LAW VOTE “It is so disappointing though that Labor tried to pass these laws by demonising farmers. And even though we’ve had this win, we can’t be complacent as Labor simply won’t give up on their ongoing campaign to secure the green vote.
Member for Nanango, Deb Frecklington, has congratulated the thousands of primary producers who united to voice their concerns about potentially devastating changes to Queensland’s Vegetation Management laws.
“All along Labor have claimed they had to make these changes to help protect the Great Barrier Reef. But facts show that UNESCO approved the Great Barrier Reef 2050 Plan at a time when the current laws (those introduced by the LNP) were in place. They did that because they recognised that the laws struck a sensible balance between protecting the Reef and allowing agriculture to voices of thousands of farmers and ag sector thrive. businesses who stood up and said these extreme changes to the laws should not be “I’d encourage all primary producers to remain passed,” Mrs Frecklington said. united on this issue and to keep advocating “To all the people who attended my forums strongly for the rights of farmers.
in Kingaroy and Toogoolawah, to those who “The LNP Opposition recognises that farmers marched in Brisbane and Bundaberg and the are responsible stewards of our land and we many who took time to write to State Parliament will continue to back them in their daily job of Members, these efforts made the difference and growing our food and fibre,” Deb said. helped us secure this win. “I am so proud to have added my voice to the Deb Frecklington Mrs Frecklington said their combined voices helped achieve a common sense win for primary producers, with the changes being successfully voted down in Parliament last week.
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