By Abbey Cannan
The Noosa Show Society has cancelled the 111th Noosa Country Show, which was previously postponed to October this year as a Community Show.
Noosa Show Society president Charlie Pattison said the decision was not an easy one to make.
“Unfortunately, and after further lengthy discussions within our committee, along with Queensland Ag Shows (formerly known as QCAS), our Show sub-branch, Noosa Council, major stakeholders and the best interests of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have finally had to cancel the 2020 Show entirely,” Mr Pattison said.
“I would personally like to apologise to everyone who has offered their support, help and enthusiasm with our scaled down Community Show we had planned for October this year.
“The new outbreaks of COVID-19 have created major issues for us to have to deal with and there is still no guarantee that we would be able to run the Show at all this year.”
He said it had been a very trying predicament for them to be in and one that will be ongoing for an indefinite period of time.
“The final contributing factor for us in cancelling the 2020 Show was the loss of $10,000’s of dollars of funding that was withdrawn due to COVID-19,” Mr Pattison said.
The Noosa Show Day is a gazetted public holiday, and it has ben confirmed that Friday, 11 September 2020 will still be a public holiday in the Noosa Shire.
