COUNTRY PUB RAISES THOUSANDS FOR CHARITY

COUNTRY PUB RAISES THOUSANDS FOR CHARITY

THOUSANDS of dollars have been raised for charity by members of the Peak Crossing Pub social club this year with the support of local publicans Bruce Kennaugh and Peter Bell.

A total of $8500 was raised by the social club through weekly raffles and the annual Peak Crossing Pig Races.

The club chose to donate half of the funds to the Rural Fire Service, the cheque was accepted on Tuesday night by head of the Flinders Peak Rural Fire Service Robyn Outen-Scott.




"Head of Peak Crossing Rural Fire Service Robyn Outen-Scott and co-owner
of the Peak Pub Peter Bell enjoy a drink after the cheque presentation."

The money will be used to upgrade the rural fire support vehicle, turning into an on-site command centre with a functional generator, computer and printer.

“I didn’t know what we were going to get, I didn’t think it would be that much,” Ms Outen-Scott says.

“It would have taken us years to raise the money needed to upgrade the support vehicle, it’s just overwhelming.”

The Peak Pub Social club also donated $2000 to the Fassifern Junior Rugby League club, $1000 to the Harrisville Lions Club, $1000 to Variety Queensland and $500 to the Peak Crossing Hall committee for renovations at the local community hall.

Fassifern Junior Football Club committee member Karen Ward says she was ecstatic to receive the much needed $2000 donation.

“I am absolutely blown away, I have goosebumps, we just did not expect this,” Ms Ward says.

“This donation will go a long way, it’s massive.”

The $2000 will go towards purchasing a new electronic scoreboard as well as brand new jerseys for the junior football club.

Co-owner of the Peak Crossing Pub Peter Bell says he is happy to support the ongoing charity work of the social club.

“We couldn’t raise this money without the club, they helped set up the pig races and do a really great job of organising to raise money,” he says.

According to the president of the Peak Pub social club Neil Freeman the club is always looking for more members and aims to further its charity work in 2014.

“We are looking at doing a bigger and better year of fundraising next year,” Mr Freeman says.