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Yakkerboo Awards & Winners

Yakkerboo Parade Awards

• Best Commercial Entry – Battery Zone
• Best Dedicated to Theme Entry – Cardinia Primary School
• Most Entertaining Entry =- KokoWeeRup Secondary College Band
• Best Community Entry – Pakenham RSL & Vetride
• Entry with Most Appeal to Children – Australian Miniature Pony Society
• Champion Yakkerboo Float 2012 – Bayles Regional Primary School
• Honourable Mentions to – Hoimegarth Kindergarten, Pakenham Main Street Kindergarten, Pakenham Consolidated School & Pakenhan Childcare on McGregor
• 2012 Yakkerboo Unique Vehicle Cavalcade, Judges Choice – 1926 Chevrolet Roadster (Travers Scott)

Coles Yakkerboo Sponsorship Awards

• Andrews Community Kindergarten
• Pakenham Consolidated School
• Homegarth Kindergarten
• Bayles Regional Primary School
• Pakenham Main Street Kindergarten

Colouring Competition Winners

• 6 & Under – Madeline Hovey, Pakenham
• 9 & under – Madi Booth, Pakenham
• 12 & under – Kate Peach, Pakenham

Raffles

• Girls bike – Ben Aurish ticket Red B75
• Boys bike – Fiona Lester ticket Blue B87
• BBQ Angela, Pakenham Black 47
• Camping Set – Lloy ticket black A36
• Massage – Brian O’Oconnor, Pakenham Black D31

For uncollected prizes, phone Joan Vogels 5940 1926

Sun, Stalls, Floats and a whole lot of fun

Not only were there record crowds, a record number of parade entries, a record number of market stalls but there was a whole HEAP of fun. Video clips from the parade are being added to the YouTube channel over the next few days, so keep an eye on that, and there are loads of photos going up on Facebook.

Thank you to EVERYONE who came along last night and today, and don’t forget, the Yakkerboo Art Show is on next weekend! Let’s make that a fantastic event as well!

Fireworks and Market Stalls

What a fantastic night. Hope you all got along to the fireworks! If not, you can check out some photos from the evening on Mr. Yakkerboo’s Facebook page.

Here’s a quick sample

Tomorrow, we have:

• Cavalcade of Unique Vehicles
• Parade of Floats with a record number of floats entered (11:00am)
• Main Street Market with a huge number of stalls
• Carnival in Bourke Park
• Mr. Yakkerboo’s Birthday (Sound Shell 2:30pm – includes presentations of trophies and raffle draws)

See you there!

What’s On

TONIGHT: FIREWORKS at 9:00pm @ Bourke Park (near the Train Station)

Saturday 21st April

• Carnival in Bourke Park (from 4pm)
• Fantastic Fireworks (approx. 9pm)

Sunday 22nd April

• Cavalcade of Unique Vehicles
• Parade of Floats (11:00am)
• Main Street Market
• Carnival in Bourke Park
• Mr. Yakkerboo’s Birthday (Sound Shell 2:30pm – includes presentations of trophies and raffle draws)

President’s Report

This year is the 36^th Yakkerboo Festival and my first year as president. After seeing all the hard work that the committee did for this festival last year and that they were struggling for volunteers I decided to get on the committee and help them this year. What I didn’t expect was to take over as President. However the previous president, Graeme Moore, had just become a councillor for the shire and felt he needed to step aside to ease his workload, not sure if this has happened as he still puts 110% into Yakkerboo. It has been great working with the current committee, mostly the same people as last year but with a few new ones too. We would welcome anyone wanting to get involved in Yakkerboo for next year, we only meet about 8 times for the year so it isn’t a big ask and many hands make light work so we would love to see new people.

Last year I asked the then current committee if we could take Yakkerboo and promote it on social media. They agreed and so Yakkerboo was set up on Facebook, we currently have 622 friends and this continues to grow every day. We use it as a way to communicate to locals and keep them up to date with things in relation to Yakkerboo. Please feel free to add Yakkerboo Festival as a friend.

We also now have a website thanks to Ben Macdonald of BGM IT who not only set it up for us free of charge but also maintains and updates it regularly. There is an opportunity for a small fee for businesses to place an add on the website which goes towards helping the Yakkerboo Festival funding. The website is www.Yakkerboo.org.au . All forms for the parade, market, unique vehicle cavalcade and the art show are all available on the website.

We also now have a You Tube account and have a few videos on there. Graeme Moore was recently given a DVD of the entire 1983 parade. We have uploaded a snippet of the parade and will endeavour to get the whole 43 minutes uploaded soon. I loved looking at Pakenham way back then, it looked more like the 60’s.

Yakkerboo is a non profit festival and we rely heavily on donations, sponsorships and grant funding from the Shire. This year after talking to a few of the councillors about the fact that the Yakkerboo Committee hadn’t had an increase in funding for many years even though their expenses went up every year, we managed to get an increase in our grant for which we are very appreciative.

We also have the fireworks again this year and have hired more rides so we are still chasing our tails looking for more funding again this year. We have booked dodgem cars which normally would be out of our reach but Pakenham Central Marketplace have very kindly offered to cover the cost of this ride. The committee were thrilled when told of this. We rely on local businesses for helping in whatever way they can and if anyone wants to help it isn’t too late, you can contact our secretary, Joan Vogels on 5940 1926.

This year we have the carnival in BourkeParknear the station on the Saturday night April 21^st from late afternoon/dusk through till the fireworks around 9.30pm. Then on Sunday 22^nd April the parade will go alongJohn St from the Library right down to Safeway then turn left and go around the back to IGA then finish inBourkePark near the station. There will be market stalls set up all day between the 2 roundabouts inMain St and around into StationSt. Bourke Park will have all the family activities, rides and entertainment. The following weekend is the Yakkerboo Art Show.

For the 1^st time this year 5 floats will win $100 courtesy of Coles Pakenham judged by their store manager. This is as well as the usual awards that are handed out every year. Coles Lakeside will be giving out free bottles of water inBourkePark. We thank both the Coles stores for their offers.

We hope you all come on down and enjoy the day, we try our best to make it a family fun day that is free for families. Lets hope the weather is kind to us.

Yakkerboo President, Michael Porter

Yakkerboo Art Show Sausage Sizzle

Yakkerboo Festival Art Show is having a sausage sizzle this Saturday at Mitre 10 so before heading off to the Pakenham Show drop in for a snag and while you’re there purchase a couple of raffle tickets to win a beautiful pastel by award winning artist Rosemary Todman Parrant valued at $650. Tickets only $1

Drawing Competition

Hey kids!

Here’s a picture of Mr Yakkerboo for you to colour in – just ask mum or dad to save it (by right-clicking on the image and choosing “Save As” from the menu that pops up) and print it, and when you’ve coloured it all in, send it in to the Yakkerboo Committee secretary,  Joan Vogels, at P.O. Box 146, Pakenham, 3810.

Almost there

Welcome to the New Year, and as Mr. Yakkerboo’s birthday comes closer, the committee are working hard to make sure everything goes smoothly. The website is almost done – all of the pages are now up, although some are a little threadbare. But they’re being added to all the time, so check back often to read the latest – or visit Mr. Yakkerboo on Facebook.

Now, this site is close to being the one-stop-shop for everything Yakkerboo. If you’re not sure what Yakkerboo is, you can read a little bit about the festival here, check out an interactive map of everything that’s happening here, enter the Parade, Market or Cavalcade through any of the links under Get Involved, and you can contribute toward the successful running of the Festival by becoming a web-sponsor here.

And speaking of sponsors, each and every year, the Festival could not go ahead without the amazing support from both Cardinia Shire Council and the Pakenham Gazette. Thanks to both of those bodies for everything they do!

And now for some very exciting news. This year, we’ll be broadcasting (at least some) of the Street Parade live on the web! Watch this space!

Welcome to the New Yakkerboo Festival Website

It’s great to have you here. Very soon, this will be the one-stop-shop for all things Yakkerboo. But for the moment, we just have the front page for the latest news, and the Socialise page, where you can find links to our Facebook page and our YouTube channel.

Keep checking back soon – we’ll shortly have entry forms for the Cavalcade, Parade and Market stalls up, plus loads of more useful information about the Yakkerboo Festival for 2012.

P.S. We’re also looking for photos and video/film of the Festival from years gone by, so if you have any, or know of any, and are willing to share them with everybody else, please get in touch here or call Ben on 0434 350 540.

Update: Unique Vehicle Cavalcade entry form is available here, Market Registration form is available here, Street Parade here and if you’d like to become a Web Sponsor you can check it out over here! All of these links can be found under ‘Join In The Fun’