Monto Magic

Tom Curtain – Katherine Outback Experience Speak Up Tour
2018-12-16 16:00 - 16:15 (Australia/Brisbane) | Monto Showgrounds, Oxley St, Monto QLD 4630, Australia
Multiple Golden Guitar winner and horseman extraordinaire Tom Curtain will be performing his Katherine Outback Experience show of real horse training and working dog demonstrations followed by a live music performance.
Online tickets are available at :
https://www.tomcurtain.com.au/tour/
Adults $30.00 plus online fee and GST $2.74 = $32.74
Student (6-17yrs) $15.00 plus online fee and GST $1.91 = $16.91
Kids 5 yrs and under FREE

Magical Monto Christmas Celebration
2018-12-21 17:00 - 21:00
Gear up for Christmas with the Magical Monto Christmas celebration. There will be live entertainment, market stalls, ham wheel, kids rides, bbq.
Some stores will be open however please check with individual stores for their trading hours.

Monto Community Christmas Lunch
2018-12-25 11:30 - 11:45 | Monto Community Hall, Newton St, Monto QLD 4630, Australia
The Monto Elves invite you to attend their Community Christmas Lunch.
RSVP is essential to the Monto Library.
Any donations towards the event would be greatly appreciated.

Monto Meet Up – Eidsvold Station
2019-02-17 09:15 - 09:30
Meet up at the post office park Newton Street at 9:15am to head off at 9:30am. We will head to Eidsvold via Abercorn road taking the scenic Cythia Range arriving at the Historical Complex where we will enjoy a stroll around the center taking in their extensive displays and use the shelters to enjoy our morning tea. The Historical Complex has an Entry fee of $5 for Adults and children are free, well worth it. They also sell historical books of Eidsvold for $30 if interested. We will then head off to Eidsvold Station and explore the original homestead filled with history, Please support this by dropping a donation in their box. Lunch will be in the Tolderodden Conservation Park beside the Burnett River before a drive out to Kirar Weir then heading home along the Highway with a stop for afternoon tea at Ceratodus, time permitting. This Trip offers a scenic drive, Historical Icons, Local Knowledge presented by a lovely couple John and Jan Mossman. A Glimpse into what Eidvold has to offer. What to bring: Hat, Camera, Lunch, morning/afternoon tea, chair and entry fee of $5

Monto Markets
2019-03-02 08:00 - 08:15 | Lister Street Artwalk, Lister Street, Monto
All Stall Holders Welcome
BBQ – Plants & Herbs – Cakes – Picture Frames & Art – handmade Soap – Patchwork – Crochet – Jewellery – Salt Lamps and much much more.

Monto Golf Club – Golf Clinic
2019-03-02 14:00 - 17:00 | Monto Golf Club
FREE – All welcome
Want to improve your golf or would to start plaing golf?
Come on out to Monto Golf Club for some free lessons and tips.

The Mayors Ball
2019-03-02 18:00 - 18:15 | Monto Community Hall, Newton St, Monto QLD 4630, Australia
Music will be provided by Max and Thelma Netz.
For more details Text or ring Ivan Dunkley 0419650651

Monto Show
2019-04-27 06:00 - 2019-04-28 17:00 | Monto Showgrounds, Oxley St, Monto QLD 4630, Australia
A great weekend full of events, rides and food.
Keep an eye out for the Schedule. Also available on the Monto Show website.

Monto Craft Group
2019-05-16 09:00 - 15:00 | Monto Sports Complex, Thomson St, Monto QLD 4630, Australia
Are you interested in joining a craft group in Monto. This group is for no specific crafter, anyone with any interest in craft is welcome to attend. Some ideas include:
 Sewing
 Knitting
 Crochet
 Scrapbooking
 Macramé
 Patchwork/appliqué
 Jewellery making
 Or any other craft not mentioned above
All you need to bring is morning tea to share & your own lunch, we will supply the coffee, tea, sugar & milk.
Please feel free to foward to anyone who think may be interested.

Abercorn Goodwill Games 2019
2019-05-25 - 2019-05-26 | Abercorn State School
This is a fantastic fun day for the whole family.
More details to come.

Monto Meet Up – Monal Goldfields
2019-05-26 08:30 - 15:30
Meet up at the post office park in Newton Street at 8:15am to depart at 8:30am. A huge thank you to Helen Goody and her Family who have organised and will lead this trip, her family has a long association with this area and are happy to share their local knowledge and history of the area. This is a very scenic drive in an area steeped with history and the chance to explore the remnants of a once productive gold mine. Things to bring: lunch/smoko, chair, hat and camera

Monto & District Show Society – Cattle Drive
2019-06-08 07:00 - 2019-06-09 16:00
Date Claimer: More info to come

Monto Silver Buckle Challenge
2019-06-14 06:00 - 2019-06-16 17:00 | Monto Showgrounds, Oxley St, Monto QLD 4630, Australia
Save the Date for the Monto Silver Buckle Campdraft & Challenge.

Mungungo vs The World Cricket Day
2019-09-21 - 2019-09-22
Keep this date free for a great day of cricket entertainment

Jackson Dunn – All the Feels Tour
2020-02-28 19:00 - 19:15 | Kalpowar Community Hall, Kalpowar QLD 4630
WOW! Kalpowar is hosting AUSTRALIA’S NUMBER ONE BEER BOTTLE SLIDER – Mr Jackson Dunn. This will be a night to remember CHEAP ALCOHOL beer cans $3 and spirits $5. Food van available. FREE camping. Come and party with Jackson in the Kalpowar Hall.
Tickets: $15 Adults – U/16 Free

About Kalpower
The Kalpowar Hall was built in 1954 using locally milled timber from the Kalpowar Forest, built only by voluntary labour and without debt.
The village of Kalpowar is situated in the foothills of the Burnett Range, beside the Kalpowar State Forest which protects a mosaic of forests. Patches of dense rainforest with towering hoop pines remain between open eucalypt forests and hoop pine plantations. More than 150 plant species occur in the hoop pine rainforest which was first logged in 1918.
The word Kalpowar means either Pine Tree or Copper in Indigenous language. Kalpowar is home to a very unique carnivorous snail. The snail has been named Pedinogyra Kalpowar (or Kalpowar flat-coiled snail) as it was first located and identified in Kalpowar State Forest in 1982.
The little village was voted top 50 small towns in Australia in 2016 and voted as Australia’s best kept secret. This place has something for everyone and is so warm and inviting, you will never want to leave. Kalpowar been highly praised for our 4WD, camping, horse trail riding and motocross tracks in the State Forest.

Monto RSL Trivia Night
2020-02-29 18:30 - 18:45 | Monto RSL Club, 7 Rutherford St, Monto
Gather a gang and get competitive!
Get a table of 6 together and get read to battle it out at the Monto RSL Trivia Night.
Cost is $60 for a team (up to 6 people).
Contact the RSL to reserve your table.

Mungungo Sports & Recreation Club AGM
2020-03-05 18:00 - 18:15 | Mungungo Pub
Mungungo Sports & Recreation Club will be holding our AGM at MUNGUNGO PUB 6:00 pm on Thursday 5 March 2020.
The meeting will take a little longer than usual as Vicki & Steve will be stepping down as members and office-bearers to be re-elected before kicking the meeting off.

It is with regret, as advised in our previous meeting some months ago, Steve Alford & myself will be stepping down as president and secretary for the coming year and 2020 event.
We have found involvement in this event each year has developed great friendships and has been so very rewarding when you see how many cricketers and their families have enjoyed their day. It is also a pat on the back to our small committee for the funds that you have assisted raising continually each year to our forever grateful charities.
We encourage you as members to discuss these roles among your friends and colleagues to see if there is any interest from the community in taking on these roles.
Steve and I will continue as members and provide handover and support to ensure we continue this very worthwhile community event.
Thank you everyone for all your support over the past, the help on working bees and the dedication you have all shown in ensuring this event stays on the annual calendar 😊
Cheers guys
Vicki & Steve

Art Lovers – Mixed Media Workshop
2020-03-07 09:30 - 14:00 | Family Refreshments Cafe Building, 28 Lister Street Monto (Opposite Lister Street Art Walk)
Come along to this art workshop to learn new ideas in your practice & create unexpected visual effects.
Bring your collection of various pastels, watercolours, crayons, graphite, pencils, inks etc. together with think paper, glue, newspaper etc.
Tea & coffee is provided. BYO lunch.
Bookings essential.

Queensland Women’s Week ‘Celebrating Strong Women’
2020-03-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Monto CWA Rooms, Rutherford Street Monto
Celebrating Strong Women
Free: morning tea, activities and give aways
Guest Speaker: Natalie Mann – Raindrop International College Director
Location: Monto CWA Hall
Contact details: Facebook event or see flyer below

More about Queensland Women’s Week:
Queensland Women’s Week recognises and celebrates the achievements of Queensland’s women and girls. Everyone has a role to play in creating a Queensland community that respects women, embraces gender equality, and promotes and protects the rights, interests and well-being of women and girls.
The theme for 2020 is ‘Celebrating our diverse community of strong women’

St Patrick’s Day Cent Sale
2020-03-14 13:30 - 13:45 | St Therese Hall Monto
St Patrick’s Day Cent Sale
Celebrate with a cent sale at St Therese Hall
Saturday 14th March 2020 – 1:30pm
Admission $5 (includes afternoon tea & entertainment)

Festival Committee Meeting
2020-03-15 15:00 - 15:15 | Lister Street Art Walk
Festival Committee Meeting
To discuss all things Festival 3pm 15th March – Lister Street Art Walk

“Meet the Candidates” Evening
2020-03-16 19:30 - 19:45 | Monto Shire Hall
Meet the Candidates
Monto Ratepayers Association will be holding a “Meet the Candidates” evening.
Monday 16th @ 7:30pm
Monto Shire Hall
All candidates for the upcoming council election have been invited. Opportunity for anyone to ask questions.
Supper provided

Mungungo School of Art – Social Dance
2020-03-21 19:30 - 19:45 | Mungungo Pub
Mungungo School of Arts
Social Dance
A fun night of old favourites to dance the night away.
$10 Entry – super provided
Luck spot, Raffle & Monte Carlo

Basstasstic Teams – Round 2
2020-03-28 - 2020-03-30 | Lake Cania, 30 mins outside of Monto
Registrations are now open for the 2020 Round 2 Teams Event at Cania Dam.
When: 28th & 29th March 2020
Registration: You will need to register your team via the link below to enter into Round 2.
https://tournaments.trackmy.fish/registration/915120d8b033f118db61af94e899107a9ee6a14d
More details on the event will be coming out shortly.
Please spread the the word on the NEW 2020 registration process for teams and singles events, they will not be having manual paper entries at the events in 2020.

About Lake Cania:
Cania is situated 30 mins from Monto. While the lake was built on Three Moon Creek in the early 1980s Aboriginal people occupied Cania Gorge for at least 19,000 years prior, dating back to the height of the last Ice Age. As Australia was a much colder and drier during this time it is thought that Aboriginal people may have used gorges, as they offered access to predictable water and food resources.
There are nine recorded Aboriginal art sites in Cania Gorge, but these are not accessible to the public. Paintings include handprints and images of animals and their tracks.

Les Hampson travels through Cania Gorge while returning from Coolangatta to his property Nestorvale in 1926. Photo Credit: Beryl Bleys

The area around Cania Gorge has had a varied history over the past 150 years. Thomas Archer was the first European to explore the headwaters of the Burnett River.
Cania Station was established during the 1850s and ran sheep until 1883, when beef and dairy cattle were introduced.
Gold was discovered just to the north of Cania Gorge in 1870 and the township known as ‘Cania Goldfields’ soon sprang up along Three Moon Creek. The township’s population fluctuated over time until mining finally ended in the early 1920s. The waters of Lake Cania eventually covered the remains of the goldfields after Cania Dam was built on Three Moon Creek in the early 1980s. The tops of buildings can still be seen when the dam is low. Last seen in 2010 before the floods of January 2011.
The area in Cania Gorge, east of the picnic ground, became a scenic reserve in 1924, but it was not until 1977 that it was gazetted as a national park. A further addition to the national park was made in 1979, and in 1989 the Francis family, owners of Cania Station, donated the land that comprises the central section of the park.

Cania Gorge Nation Park – Board walk to Dripping Rock. Photo Credit: North Burnett Regional Council

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The Overhang – Cania Gorge

Sunset over Lake Cania. Photo credit: Misty Neilson-Green

Monto Races
2020-03-28 - 2020-03-30 | Monto Race Course, 31 Airport Road, Monto
For a fun filled afternoon of racing come to the Monto Races on the 28th March 2020.
Monto Race Club is renown for “Fashions on the Field” Event with large crowd participation for all Sections. All entrants model their stylish attire in front of the crowd and judges for the $1500 in cash and prizes. Entry nominations are taken on the day prior to Race 1 at 1.30pm. All age groups are catered for.
SECTIONS
Best Dressed Boy or Girl U12yrs
Best Dressed Boy or Girl 13/U18yrs
Stylish Couple
Gents – Stallion & Steeds (Winner into Final of BOTF)
Elegant Ladies (Winner into Final of BOTF)
Contemporary Ladies (Winner into Final of BOTF)
Stylish Millinery
Monto Club will also be Hosting – Heat 4 and Finals of “Best of the Burnett” ~ Fashions on the Field 2020.
This concept was created in 2018 and is run in conjunction with Eidsvold, Gayndah and Mt Perry Race Clubs. This would not be possible without our fantastic sponsors and we THANK them sincerely for their wonderful Sponsorship. We are proud to be associated with them and support their Businesses.

WHERE IS THE CLUB LOCATED?
The racecourse is located a short distance from the centre of town on Airport Road, turning at the Monto Hospital.
PARKING AVAILABLE AT TRACK?
Free Parking is available at the Track.
They offer a bus that runs prior and after the Races from the Main Street and we also have a local Taxi Service.
WHAT IS THE ENTRY COST?
Entry is $10 for Adults – $5 for Pensioners/High School Children and Primary School age and Under is Free.
WHAT FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE AVAILABLE?
Full Licensed Bar with a vast variety of drinks available, Canteen and BBQ Stalls, Ice Cream Van for big and little kids too!
WILL WE ENJOY OURSELVES?
Most definitely! Excellent afternoon of Racing, Fashions, Food, Drinks, Socialising and we promise you will be back again!!

CALM C-A-R-E Workshop
2020-04-04 09:00 - 13:00 | Monto Town Hall, Newton Street Monto
What you will learn:

How to approach the person and make connection
How to determine if suicide is in their thoughts
What to do about it, to ensure the persons safety is addressed and they are protected from suicide
How to use the ‘Calm Care’ app so that support is ongoing for the person as they work through their pain and distress

Cost:
Free (normally $150pp) – Kindly sponsored by Central QLD, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN
Contact:
Central Queensland Rural Health on 4992 1040 to register or online at admin@cqrdgp.com.au
♣ Click here for more details

MMTAG Meeting
2020-07-28 17:30 - 18:30 | At the Monto Railway Station Precinct, Bottom of Newton Street
MMTAG meeting
At the Monto Railway Station Precinct

RSL – Dinner Every Firday Night
2020-07-31 18:00 - 20:00 | RLS, 7 Rutherford St, Monto QLD 4630
MEALS every Friday night @ Monto RSL
Reasonable prices, family friendly, raffles & pokies.
The menu is subject to change.
Monto RSL Facebook

Festival of Three Moons
2020-10-03 - 2020-10-04 | Town Centre & Old Rail Station near Lister Street Art Walk, Newton Street, Monto
Festival of the Three Moons (Photo credit: Ron Mientjes)

POSTPONED!

Festival of the Three Moons (Photo credit: Ron Mientjes)

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 this event has been postponed.
Previously planned as:
A day and evening of fun, food, entertainment, street parades, markets, activities and much more!
This years theme is ‘Legends of the Three Moons‘.
The festival starts in the Newton Street before proceeding to the Old Rail Station near Lister Street Art Walk for entertainment well into the night.

Late Night Christmas Shopping & Markets
2020-12-11 17:00 - 21:00
