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The 2010 South Burnett Wine and Food In The Park Festival has been
made possible by the support we've received from our major sponsors.
Here's some background information about each of them:
Thiess’
Australian mining business is responsible for more than a dozen mine sites
nation-wide and has in excess of $4 billion of work in hand. Thiess
mines more than 40 million tonnes of coal, 20 million tonnes of ore and moves
240 million cubic metres of overburden each year.
As the owner and operator of one of the largest mining fleets in Australia,
Thiess projects have the advantage of securing heavy duty machinery whenever
and wherever it's needed. Thiess continues to set industry benchmarks for
best practice in safety, workplace satisfaction, environmental management
and sustainable community partnerships.
Thiess is engaged by Tarong Energy Corporation to operate the Tarong Coal
Project - Meandu Mine. This mine supplies coal to the adjacent power
stations that provide power to South East Queensland. Thiess is also one
of our Festival's major sponsors and without their invaluable assistance
we'd be unable to bring you the South Burnett's signature wine and food event
each year.
The
Peanut
Company of Australia (PCA) are the largest peanut processing
company in Australia and one of Kingaroy's major industries. PCA process
and market the overwhelming bulk of Australia's peanut crop and they're world
leaders at producing the best peanuts on the planet.
In the last few years the company has unveiled exciting new varieties of
hi-oleic peanuts that's made Australia a world leader in this
field. PCA have also invested more than $6.7 million in an Innovation
and Technical Centre to further the development of peanuts and opened
Australia's largest peanut plantation at Katherine in the Northern
Territory.
This year PCA are sponsoring the South Burnett Regional Culinary Cook-Off
Competition for the eighth year running. They've helped to turn it into
one of the great regional cuisine cook-offs in Australia as well as a major
Festival attraction in its own right!
Sunnyvale
is a master planned community to be developed by Tapwood Developments
on the corner of Youngman Street and Taylors Road in Kingaroy. Civil works
will commence in 2010 with the first stage being a link road connecting
Youngman and Fisher Streets.
Tapwood have developed numerous residential projects in South East
Queensland over the past 20 years and have won a prestigious UDIA award for
one of them. The success of the company can be attributed to providing the
market with carefully planned projects. All Tapwood developments maximise
resident lifestyle whilst providing environmentally sustainable amenities.
When completed, the Sunnyvale community will consist of a shopping centre,
a tavern, a motel, an RV park, an over 50's lifestyle resort, a self storage
complex, a child care facility, a commercial precinct for bulky goods, a
retirement village with attached nursing home, a gated small lot affordable
housing estate, apartments and tradition housing lots.
The
South
Burnett Regional Council was formed from the merger of the
former Kingaroy, Nanango, Wondai and Murgon Shire Councils in March 2007
and is now the local government that covers most (but not all) of the South
Burnett.
Kingaroy Shire Council had always been a loyal supporter of Wine & Food
In The Park and we're delighted that the SBRC is continuing this tradition.
Our Council helps us with numerous important aspects of the Festival
- anything from street banners and public health issues to Festival set-up
and knock-down, refuse removal and grounds cleaning. And the Council's
Visitor Information Centres (in Blackbutt, Nanango, Kingaroy, Wondai
and Murgon) provide assistance to the many visitors who come to the South
Burnett during the Festival .
The South Burnett Times is the publisher of the South Burnett's bi-weekly
newspaper. The Times circulates right through the region covering the major
towns of Kingaroy, Wondai, Murgon, Goomeri, Nanango, Yarraman and Blackbutt
and surrounding districts. Published every Tuesday and Friday,
they're the mainstay of our region's print media.
The Times are part of Australian Provincial Newspapers, who also publish
several other newspapers including The Central and North Burnett Times and
the South Burnett Mail along with a wide variety of other annual publications
(eg: The Burnett Bridal Guide, Touring The South Burnett etc) from their
Kingaroy office.
This year - for the seventh year running - the South Burnett Times is a major
sponsor of the Wine & Food In The Park Festival. They play an invaluable
role in helping to publicise our Festival and we're very pleased to have
them aboard.
South Burnett
Online is our region's Internet portal and was established
by the South Burnett's former councils in 1999. Over the last decade it's
grown to become the largest rural portal in Queensland with an annual
audience in excess of 700,000 visitors, as well as our region's trusted
online face.
South Burnett Online provides live daily news, 7 day weather forecasts, our
region's most comprehensive daily calendar of events, central information
databases and much more for residents and visitors alike. They also operate
a large number of web sites for many of our region's biggest community and
private sector organisations.
This year - as they have every year since 2001 - South Burnett Online have
donated this web site and its associated hosting costs to the Festival, as
well as provided us with very valuable publicity and assistance.
C-FM
89.1 is the most listened to radio station in the South Burnett
with a target audience of people 18 to 45 years of age and it reaches over
20,000 listeners. It’s a contemporary radio station with an attitude
that reflects fun and excitement and it's “Your Number 1 Hit Music
Station” (which means more of your favourite music from the 90's to
today).
Each morning (from 6:00am to 10:00am), listeners wake up to Hamish
and Burgo, the CFM Morning Crew, who kick-start the day with their out-of-control
antics and heaps of fun contests. There's also news every 30 minutes,
listener-driven phone topics, the daily Crazy Call, and the latest hit music.
CFM’s Workday – which begins at 10:00am each weekday - gives
listeners 10 In a Row every hour, chances to hear what they want while they
work, and plenty of great contests. Benchwarmers Adam & Joe then take
over at 3:00pm with their own unique look at the world - a great way
to wind down the workday! And Monday to Thursday evenings at 6:00pm,
Craig Lowe investigates the pop culture brilliance of America through its
brands, monuments, sports, politics, religion and celebrities! Then on Fridays,
the Big Kahuna's Download Show at 6:00pm looks at a new album release and
hears how it all came about as Big K speaks with the artist.
C-FM 89.1 are the Wine & Food In The Park Festival's major radio sponsor
for 2010 and we're very pleased to welcome them aboard.
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Thiess
Peanut Company of Australia
Sunnyvale Estate Kingaroy
South Burnett Regional Council
South Burnett Times
South Burnett Online
C-FM 89.1