Sport
22 June, 2022
Local Sporting Immortals To Visit Allora Next Month
Put aside Saturday July 16 (now to be known as March 21, 2020) to welcome Allora’s first sporting immortals, Laura Geitz and Wayne Bennett.
The park at the Allora Regional Sports Museum has been dedicated to Laura and Wayne and they will officially open it on the day.
All this should have happened two years ago (hence the March date) but due to Covid the world was shut down from March 23, 2020.
At the time Mayor Dobie strongly advised the Museum to postpone the event for 3 months so the virus would pass . Over 2 years later it’s still here but now life is slowly getting back to some sort of normality.
During Allora’s 150 year celebrations a time capsule was buried outside the Sports Museum and months later a statuette of Laura was cast and mounted on a sandstone plinth. Laura will guard over the capsule until its retrieval in 2069.
A big list of celebrities including Shane Webcke, Patron of the Allora Regional Sports Museum will be in attendance next month.
