AUSTRALIA DAY CELEBRATIONS-HIGHFIELDS PIONEER VILLAGE SUN JAN 26 2025.

PROGRAM 2025 (Building number)

9:00am                  Entertainment by Reboot Band (62) Outdoor Stage

9:30am                  Milking the cow & butter making (19) Dairy Pavilion

10:00am                Bee Keeping Demonstration (12) Blacksmithing (10)

10:15am                Schools In & judging period costume (59)

10:30am                Working Draught Horse (20)- Billy Tea & Damper all day (8)

                                Entertainment by Anita Ree (8) Damper Shed Stage   

10:45am                Tour of the Toowoomba Fire Brigade Museum (61)

11:00am                Indigenous Dance Workshop: Don Nikkelson (62) Market Stage

11:20am                Tent Pegging Demonstration by the 11^th Light Horse (GPA)

11:30am                Sheep Shearing & Spinning (60) near Transport Museum

                                Damper Making Demonstration & Volunteers Comp (9)

12:00noon             Lunch Break Sausage Sizzle (8) Damper Shed

                                Visit from Pinky the Koala (62) Outdoor Stage

12:30pm                Entertainment by Cacoblastis (62) Outdoor Stage

Mary Poppins (63) Market Stage

1:00pm                  Bucket Making with David Harriman (63)  

1:15pm                  CPR Demo & Snake Bite Talk Ambulance Museum

1:30pm                  Official Opening of the Wood Arts Guild by Mr. Trevor Watts MP

                                Wheel Tyring (10) Blacksmiths’ Shop

1:45pm                  Gum Boot Throwing Competition & Sheaf Tossing (63) Markets

2:00pm                  Welcome by MC Gordon Patterson Highfields FM (62) Under Flag

                                Didgeridoo performance by Don Nikkelson.(62)

Flag Raising and singing the National Anthem (62)

Guest Speaker-

Wayne Mann “What Australia Day means to me”.

2:30pm                  Affirmation read by Trevor Watts MP for Toowoomba North

Bee Keeping Demonstration (12)

3:00pm- 4:00pm                 Afternoon Tea Billy Tea & Damper (8)

3:00pm – 5pm      Entertainment by Greg Carter, sponsored by Heritage Bank (8)

Other Attractions during the day:-
Blacksmithing, CPR Demonstration, Animal Nursery 10am to 4pm, Mini Train & Model T Bus rides, Stationary Engines, Beekeeping, Markets, Raffles, Sausage Sizzle, Food & Drinks, Billy Tea & Damper, Entertainment by Reboot Band, Andrea Ree, Don Nikkelson, Cactoblastis, Greg Carter, 11^th Light Horse, Indigenous Art Display, Antiques, Bushranger Café near Big Cow- Coffee, Pancakes & Milkshakes. PCYC Emergency Cadets Sausage Sizzle, Face Painting 11:30am with Mary Poppins!