26/03/2024
There’s some seriously sad people in this town, I get a lot of anonymous posts or fake accounts posting how much they want to see me fail at this Gladstone Country Music Festival next weekend.
First I’m really thick skinned.
Second I’m doing this for the community.
So I knew I was going to have those that loved it, as well as those that hate it. Our BEAST Promotions posters had the same thing happen.
We put up 12 GCMF posters, and after only 1 poster remaining, we made another 15 large posters from our mates Robert and Danielle from Reef City Tinting, and then last week ordered another 20 smaller size express posters.
So that’s 35 I’m putting up today. I feel sad for you if you are that petty, that ripping down our posters and cutting them in half on the side of the road gives you any amount of satisfaction.
One day when we have enough funds raised and events running to support the building of our BEAST Super Stadium, with the inclusion of 16 Not For Profit sports clubs, a soup kitchen running 3 days a week for our poor and homeless, a function hall that’s free to hire, an approved Olympic training facility so we can become a hub of athletic excellence in our region, across as many sports as possible, the small pokies area that is being used to fund $3 meals for Veterans and Pensioners, 7 nights a week, a restaurant with a train the trainer program for various apprenticeships, 2 large undercover pavilions so the Gladstone Show Society has overhead buildings for all our stalls, side show alleys, and things like that, I hope you drive by and look at it and feel proud that you’re contribution was “pulling down and cutting up signs”.
Once you see how big these plans are, and the stages to achieve over the next 5-20 years, you will be proud that your kids and grandkids are growing up in a town with these state of the art facilities.
I have one arm and a back that’s only just working, but it won’t stop me spending a few hours today and tomorrow putting these 35 new signs up around the town.
Gladstone, if you see one disappear please just send me a message, I’ll go and find it if I can, tape it back up, then hang it up again.
I have an Unbreakable Spirit, especially if it’s the biggest legacy I want to leave behind before I pass the Great Divide.
Spend your time trying to make a positive contribution to the people and community that you represent. Everything else about you goes with you to the grave.
The only things that people can’t take from you, are the memories and moments from your life, that defined your character and your spirit. That will be enduring long after you pass, if you did things right.
LIFE IS A FIGHT - NEVER GIVE UP
Gladstone Country Music Festival
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