Wood Wine & Art

The Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival Committee wishes to thank all its Festival supporters for their assistance in creating a successful 10th Birthday Celebration despite the wind, rain and cold. We thank al our wonderful stallholders and volunteers and also all of the following.

Kilcoy Residents Special Events Assn, Kilcoy RSL, Kilcoy Lions Club, Kilcoy Toastmasters,

Kilcoy Classics On Wheels Crew, Mt Kilcoy Dance Group, Woodford Community Bus Committee, Toogoolawah SES, Somerset Singers, Pterdactyl Helicopters, Luke’s Supa IGA, Stanley Hotel, Complete Dentistry, Duffy’s Mitre 10, Robyn Gilbert, Macks Mowers and Motorcycles Woodford, Woolworths Woodford, Mike Street Jaycar Woodford,Gold Real Estate Woodford,Fascination,

Black Sheep Boutique, Woodford Hotel, JVA Technologies, Cr Adrian Raedel, Michael Wallis,

The Best Family, Desley Cobbin, Kylie Chambers & the Kilcoy Kindy team, Jamie Retschlag,

Bryce Tinney, Rodney Kunde, Peter & Chris Rice, Ellie-Rae Smith, Jayne Curtis & Wendy Smith, Jane Gilbert & The Fun Rovers, Lorna Sherwood, Pudding Lane, Coolana Olives, Ida Moffet & many other ticket sellers, Lyn Harmer, Michelle Ledwith, Marilyn Brackpool, Marilyn Cooper, Laine Kennedy, Regional Arts Development Fund, Queensland Govt Arts, Somerset Regional Council, Mayor Graeme Lehmann, Fiona Moorhouse, Richard & Jan White, Staple House B&B, Dallas Wallin, Amanda Close, Pauline Lawson, Fay & Tony Mollenhagen, Noela Lowien, Harold Alford, Sharon Walker, Phil & Gail Close, Snow & Susan Pratten, Ian & Lyn Badman, Michael Dunn, David Matthews, Ron & Margaret Duffy, Kilcoy Tyrepower, Kilcoy Auto Essentials, Hobart’s Garage, Somerset Regional Towing, The Kilcoy Sentinel & Community News,The Somerset Newspaper,

Valley FM 95.5 and 101.5FM Caboolture and everyone who did even the smallest task towards the success of the Festival. THANK YOU! Also Ken & Iris Kuhn, The Kilcoy Historical Society and Dan Sheehan of Jigsaw Concepts.

Multi Draw Raffle Results

Drawn Sunday 11th September 2011

1st Original Robyn Gilbert Painting donated by Robyn Gilbert valued at $1000

Winner V. Best

2nd Red Cedar Coffee Table donated by Desley Cobbin               valued at $500

Winner A. Best

3rd JVA Electric Fence Kit donated by JVA Technologies         valued at $400

Winner B. Smith

4th Brush Cutter donated by Mack’s Mowers Woodford            valued at $400

Winner Heidi

5th Assorted vouchers, gift cards, shopping bag full of goodies valued at least at $200 donated by Luke’s Supa IGA Kilcoy, Woolworths Wordford, Staple House B&B and others TBA

Winner P. Kendall

6th Printer donated by Officeworks Morayfield  and Cordless Tool Kit donated by Duffy’s Mitre 10 Kilcoy valued at least at $200

Winner F. Purcell

7th 10 Bags Searles Potting Mix donated by Michael Wallis

Winner Simone

8th Turned Wooden Bowl donated by Dennis Donnelly Wood Turner

Winner B. Watkins

THANK YOU to all our raffle sponsors, ticketsellers and ticket purchasers. Thank you for your support.

Funds from this raflle will be supporting the  Woodford Community Bus, Kilcoy 50’s Plus Club, Hazeldean Rural Fire Brigade and others.

Raffle organised by Woodford Community Bus Management Committee

Fathers’ Day Raffle

1^st Prize Helicopter Joy Flight x 1 person

(Saturday only) and

Double Weekend Pass to the

Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival

2^nd Prize Dinner for two at Stanley Hotel,

 Kilcoy

and Double Weekend Pass to the

Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival

3^rd Prize Double Weekend Pass to the

Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival

Tickets $1 Tickets $1

Drawn Tuesday 30^th August,

6pm at

Hall of History, Yowie Park,

 Kilcoy

Thank you to our sponsors

Pterodactyl Helicopters &

 The Stanley Hotel

Supporting local charities, clubs & groups

Fathers’ Day Raffle Results

Kilcoy WW&A Festival Drawn 30/8/11

1^st Brooks

2^nd J Gault

3^rd V Mollenhagen

Thank you to our sponsors

Pterodactyl Helicopters

Stanley Hotel

Thank you for your support.

Multi-draw raffle still selling.

ph. Marg 5498 1285

What a wonderful weekend under blue skies. Kilcoy really turned it on. The town looked a picture and the showgrounds & camping area was a buzz with happy, friendly people. Wendy Wine-Taster, the Festival mascot, completed her Festival duties by welcoming patrons to the Festival & showing them the Festival Directory, which was needed with so much to see & do. After the early morning Fun Run , ably organised by Jayne Curtis & Wendy Smith, it was off to The Big Star Circus workshops. These were a hit, with the Bungee being a favourite. Thanks so much too the Regional Arts Development Fund for supporting these workshops (click to see outcome report) & also the Pastels Workshops with Tony Zammit for the Kilcoy Art Society.

The Morrow family of the Big Star Circus performed with professionalism and enthusiasm. As did Maurice Hardy country singer & song writer, who returned to entertain in the Big Marquee. The Kilcoy High School’s drama students brought their street theatre to the Festival & during Saturday dancers abounded, beginning with the Kilcoy Dance Academy & the Kilcoy State Primary School Dance Troupe giving talented & energetic performances out on the grassed area and drawing a appreciative crowd. The Mt Kilcoy Dance Group showed their style in the dining room, with visitors able to join in Old Time & New Vogue dances.

Mayor Graham Lehmann officially opened the Festival just after lunch, which was followed by the Just-4-Me Fashion Parade. The parade has become a Festival tradition and another tradition has developed where by models for the parade are gathered from among the campers. These ladies prove yearly that they are super duper models and have a lot of fun along with the local girls. This year a special parade of past Fantasy Fashions was also shown in support of the Kilcoy Hospital Auxillary. These recycled fashion awards will be back in 2011, so get your creative ideas together.

The SEQld Wine Tossing Championships & the SEQld Disc Bowls Competition, attracted many entrants, keen to win one of the beautiful trophies designed & lovingly made by local Peter Rice. The Kilcoy Residents Special Events Assn organised the all day BBQ once more & catered evening meals & breakfasts along with the Kilcoy Lions Club. A huge thank you to Noel Baker campoven cook extraordinaire & helpers, for his organisation & cooking of the campoven meals and feeding the hoards before the Campfire Concert on Saturday night. Kilcoy Unplugged launched their wonderful CD at the concert & gave great performances on a cold night.

Sunday started early with the Poets’ Breakfast in the Big Marquee providing early morning laughs. Two coachs arrived mid morning , one from the Gold Coast & the other from Brisbane to savour some country hospitality, along with the MG Car Club. Sixteen vehicles were given centre stage. The Qld Art Gallery made a return visit with curator of Modern Australian Art to 1975, Angela Goddard, presenting a talk on “Vida Lahey- Colour & Modernism”. An exhibition of Vida Lahey’s works will begin at the Gallery from the 16th October & is well worth seeing. A second cousin to Vida Lahey, Mrs Young from Burpengary travelled to Kilcoy especially to be at the talk. She commented that as a child she didn’t realise the significance of her cousin’s artwork, but could appreciate it now. The Woodford Scouts’ Monster Multi Draw Raffle provided 9 prizes for lucky winners & 2 Lucky Coupon draws saw 2 winners share over $900 worth of gift vouchers & prizes.

The Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival committee appreciates all the assistance, volunteer time, sponsorship & donations given to the Festival that helped it once more come to fruition, as always there are too many to thank in this small space. The Festival was a real WINNER. Thank you one & all. Next year the Festival will be celebrating 10 years since starting as a Wood Expo behind the Stanley Hotel, it’s come a long way and it will be time to really show-off. If you, your club, charity or business would like to be involved please contact Marg on 5498 1285 or Snow on 5497 1504. Thank you Kilcoy for your support.

Countdown To Wood Wine & Art

With less then eight weeks to the Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival preparations are well in hand. Members of the Kilcoy Art Society & the Festival committee got together at Winya Wines for a sign painting morning at the end of June. The signs will help point Festival-goers in the right direction to find the various stalls, displays, demos, entertainment & free workshops that will be available at this year’s Festival.

Lots of old favourites will be back. Jim Marshall the rocking horse man will be demostrating his craft;

Pudding Lane with their delicious Christmas, chocolate & various flavoured puddings; local Fay Mollenhagen with her beautiful folkart; singer/songwriter Maurice Hardy will entertain daily and the Hazeldean Rural Fire Brigade with ripe spring strawberries & cream, yum.

Among the new delights for this year are Seat-on-Fire chilli chocolate & other products made using organically grown chillis. A restored 1960’s Mr Whippy Van; award winning extra virgin olive oil from Rash Valley Olives; Malleea Cheeses with gluten & preservative free cheeses and the Dutch poffertjes van serving also Belgium waffles & Dutch donuts. Good coffee, wine & food tastings and lots more.

Kilcoy Unplugged will have their very popular Campfire Concert on Saturday night, along with the improved Campoven meals. Kilcoy Residents Special Events Assn will again handle the bulk of the catering on both nights and have their BBQ stoked up during the daytime.

Kilcoy Art Society is running free pastels workshops over the 2 days, with talented local artist Tony Zammit. These workshops are made possible by funding from the Regional Arts Development Fund. Please phone 5497 1238 for more info.

Captain Mike and the ground crew of Pterodactyl Helicopters will provide joyflights and currently there is a joyflight ticket plus 2 Festival weekend passes valued at $75 being raffled, watch out for ticketsellers. The Festival’s multidraw raffle will also be selling soon. Watch this space for more info as it comes to hand.

Ian, Lyn & Jeanette

Noel, Harold & Marg

Wendy Farewells Nirvana

Wendy Wine-Taster, mascot for the Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival spent an enjoyable month at Nirvana Estate Winery at Sandy Creek. She did live up to her usual occupation of “scarecrow” by frightening Julie Doolan, until Julie was used to having Wendy around. They then enjoyed warming cups of coffee on cold mornings and taste-tested Nirvana’s enjoyable fortified wines, a good drop for winter evenings. After a farewell toast last Friday, Wendy accompanied Marg Cortis & Lyn Harmer to Woongooroo Estate at Mt Archer, on Doyles Road, were she will stay for a while.

Wendy was welcomed by the Close family and enjoyed pumpkin soup and damper in the restaurant. Wendy has booked in for the Christmas in July celebration at Woongooroo and looks forward to greeting visitors there anytime through July.

Wendy Attended Kilcoy Hospital Fete

Always one to support local events, Wendy Wine-Taster got along to the Kilcoy Hospital Fete on Saturday 29^th May. It was a bleak morning in Kilcoy but all the preparations and setting up had been done and the Fete was ready to start with keen volunteers from the hospital & community ready to support the hospital in it’s fundraising quest.

Wendy found herself a cosy place on the verandah so she could watch the entertainment and meet and greet the locals and visitors in her capacity as mascot for this year’s Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival. Her message being “ A Date To Remember In September”. The date of course being the second weekend of September, Sat 11^th & Sun 12^th.

This year Pterodactyl Helicopters will be back and Captain Mike has kindly donated 2 joyflight tickets to be raffled. One ticket along with a weekend pass to the Festival will be raffled before the Festival, so look out for ticket sellers who will be out and about from the 24^th June. The other ticket will be raffled on the weekend of the Festival. Proceeds from this raffle & other fundraising will be returned to the community via donations made by the WW&A committee after the Festival. As Wendy noticed at the hospital fete it takes people doing the hard work & making it fun to keep the local community alive & vibrant. If your club, charity or organisation is interested in receiving one of these donations please contact Marg on 5498 1285 or Snow 5497 1504 for details.

After bidding farewell to all the dedicated helpers, workers & volunteers at the hospital Wendy moved on to Nirvana Estate Winery on Sandy Creek Road to spend some time. Call out some time and say hello.

Wendy Enjoys Local Markets

Wendy Wine-Taster bid a fond farewell to the Higgins family at Hunting Lodge Estate, Mt Kilcoy, wishing them well on their future travels & many thanks for having her stay. As mascot for the Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival 2010, Wendy attended the Kilcoy Markets at Yowie Park on Sat 8^th May. What a wonderful morning! Great autumn weather; a huge variety of stalls & lots of lovely people to pass the time of day with, visitors & locals alike.

Wendy had info on “A Date to Remember In September”. Mark it on your calendar & in your diary, Sat 11^th & Sun 12^th September 2010 for this year’s Festival. Several stalls & exhibits have already confirmed their attendance, including singer/songwriter Maurice Hardy & Captain Mike of Pterodactyl Helicopters. The Kilcoy Art Society will be back with their excellent display of artwork, plus art workshops with a well-known local artists. More details as they come to hand.

A reminder to local clubs & charities, participate in the Festival & take advantage of funds that must be distributed after the Festival. Local businesses are again invited to have a free display at the Festival. Contact Marg on 5498 1285 or Snow on 5497 1504 for details or attend a meeting held on the 2^nd & 4^th Tuesday at 6pm at the Hall of History, Yowie Park. Check the website at www.woodwineart.com.au.

Wendy will spend some time at Winya Wines on Sandy Ck Rd, but plans to return to the Kilcoy Markets, she had such a great time. See you there.

New girl about town, Wendy Wine-Taster was spotted kicking up her heels at the Kilcoy Show over the weekend. Wendy was there on behalf of the Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival committee and was an entrant in the Scarecrow Competition.

Friday, the first day of the Show had promising weather & Wendy handed out Festival flyers in the Wine & Cheese Court, while enjoying tastings of both wine and cheese. With the rain on Saturday she joined the rest of the Scarecrow Clan in the undercover area to enjoy the entertainment and hear the result of the Scarecrow judging.

It was during this time that Wendy’s life was put in peril. The close shave occurred during the whip cracking demonstration when her hat was removed from her head by an errant lash of the whip!

Wendy, trooper that she is, stood her ground and was later seen congratulating distant cousin Sarah from Springdell Fruit Wines, who was the Scarecrow winner.

Wendy plans to visit local wineries over the coming months to promote the Kilcoy Wood, Wine & Art Festival which is on the 11^th & 12^th September, culminating with springtime & bud-burst in the local vineyards.

Watch out for Wendy out and about and currently at Hunting Lodge Estate Winery, Mt Kilcoy. Wendy says check out the Festival website at www.woodwineart.com.au.

Wendy kicking up heels at the 2010 Kilcoy Show