New Year’s Day in Glenlyon is renowned for quirky, old-fashioned family activities, and organisers have promised the 2018 event will not fail to draw a laugh or two.
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Glenlyon Sports Day secretary Evan Davis said he was most excited for the bull boar eating and mineral water drinking competition, both crowd favourite events.
“They’re all sort of good fun, have a laugh events,” Mr Davis said.
“The serious side of it is the wood chopping, which is well renowned within the district, if not the state, for the calibre of the talent we get there.”
The ladies gumboot throw and nail drive, pony races, show jumping, cross country horse riding, and children’s race are some of the other activities on offer.
The Glenlyon Sports Day has run in the town for almost 160 years. Mr Evans said it was one of the last remaining traditional sports days in Victoria.
“If it can stay as popular as it has been in recent years, it would be great to keep traditional going,” he said.
“We get people coming back year after year and it is always great to have new people coming along. If they can come with a picnic, an esky with food and drink, and possibly with a hangover from the night before they are well equipped for the day.”
All proceeds from the event will be donated to the community. The 2017 sports day raised $16,000 which was donated to organisations including the Daylesford District Hospital, sporting clubs and charities.
Gates open at Glenlyon Reserve for the Glenlyon Sports Day at 10am on January 1, 2018. The main events start at 12pm.
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Rochelle covers court and has a particular interest in social issues including homelessness, food security and family violence.
