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| Tom - bringing in the sausages from Boutique Meats |
Grateful for the rain having made
way for a crisp and sparkling Toowoomba Sunday morning, Greg and Ruth Skippen
arrived in town early with boxes and eskies full of BBQ supplements to set up
for the Esk Community Choir’s big fundraising day at the Toowoomba West
Bunnings Store. Twenty minutes later,
Greg emerged from within hauling 2 meters of timber, bulging bags of potting
mix and all manner of building and gardening accessories, reinforcing the
theory that the good people of Bunnings could be possibly pumping something
into their air conditioning system sending shoppers temporarily insane but not
so much that the aroma of sizzling sausages and onions does not become
irresistible to these weekend warriors on their way out. And so it was on November 19th,
when conga lines of customers, managed to munch their way through almost 70
kilos of Boutique Meats’ sensational sausages, several slabs of sliced bread
and multitudinous mounds of onions all smothered in the sauces and mandatory
mustard.
It has to be said that a slow
start had our willing workers a little worried that the previous week’s
official opening of ‘the other’ Bunnings store may have thrown a bunnings
spanner into the potential profit-making experience. However, it was not long before people laden
with purchases were lining up for their sausage snacks, served to them by a corps
of choir members cooking, preparing, and managing the money and drinks in a
choreographed sequence of alternating shifts, some lasting the length of the
day.
By 4.30pm with all but a few of
the sausages sold and the clean up completed there were few who that night would not
have had any trouble sleeping the sleep of the exhausted, satisfied in their having
not only reaped the rewards of their hard work but having again put capital F U
N into FUNdundraising!
To Ruth and Greg Skippen who took
hold of the organizational reins of this with the competence, grace and
selfless spirit we have come to know in them both; to Damien FitzGerald and his
Boutique Meats for his generous sponsorship of this important fundraiser and to
the 13 choir members who gave so
willingly of their time and allowed us all to forget that it was supposed to be
work and not fun and, along the way, made it the success it has been on so many
levels, A BIG THANK YOU!!
By: Sue Walker
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| Marina and Brian |
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| Saucy kids - Carolyn and Judy |
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| Greg - totally focused |
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| Jan - keeping an eye on the til |
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| Miss Johanna - or is it Poirot? |
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| Eating the profits !!!? Kathie and Sue |
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| Lloyd, Gary and Di |
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| Roger and Eric |
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| Suzanne and Jan |
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| Co-ordinator extraordinaire - Ruth. |
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