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TCB Helps “Raise
the Roof” of the Kurrajong Heights Bowling
Club
Following hot on the heels
of our massively successful sponsorship of the Mountain Lagoon Full Monty
Tractor Race was yet another event of even larger
proportions.
Saturday 27th of
October saw the Kurrajong Heights Bowling Club’s inaugural Wood-chop, Truck
Show, Bush Band event. The event was supposed to raise enough funds to help get
the roof of the club house fixed and have asbestos removed from it at the same
time.
The Wood Chopping
competition was actually part of the NSW State Championships round and so quite
a few well known competitors turned up. Several hundred people turned up to let
their children loose on jumping castles and various rides while they watched a
group of very determined men flail wildly at large pieces of timber with
extremely large axes.
Some of the local Truckies
had polished their rigs and had placed them on display for all to see, while the
antique machinery club had set up some displays with Traction engines and some
other equipment that wouldn’t look out of place in the ATO’s dungeons in
Canberra.
All of this was backed by a
bush band called the Short and Curlies that belted out some really good
Australian classics that managed to get people up and
jumping.
The Country Brewer was
invited to set up in the club house next to the bar and sell beers for charity.
To that end Chris (aka “Yobbo”) and Chris (aka “The Reverend”) put two Wetpaks
on tap, An Old Australian Porter and a European Pilsener.
While it’s always been hard
to pry people away from their beloved VB and Tooheys New, we still managed to
attract a fair bit of interest. Things started out slowly but as word spread
that what we were serving tasted not only like “real beer” but actually tasted
better, we started to move quite a bit. At $2.00 a middy with all proceeds going
to the club, even the die-hards had a taste. In fact, the regular barman of the
club was one of our best customers. In between serving VB and New to customers,
he was sucking down Old Australian Porter like his life depended on
it!
Things really picked up
when the heavens opened and enough rain to fill Sydney Harbour came down. Suddenly the club-house
was packed (not hard to do really, it’s smaller than the club-house in
Crackerjack) and we could barely keep up the pace.
Unfortunately we had to
close up by three o’clock and head back down the mountain just as things were
starting to warm up. Still, we managed to raise nearly $200 for the club
and get an invite back for next year.
All in all it was a good
day.
Chris (aka The Reverend) -
TCB Richmond
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