STUDENTS from Mount Isa State Special School shared a laugh with the wacky and wild Northern Territory Variety Bash Crew as the convoy rolled through town on its way back to the Top End.
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The travellers dressed as devils, cowboys and Indians, Bollywood actresses and Santa Claus for their red-themed visit, much to the delight of the students and staff they shared lunch with.
Mount Isa State Special School principal Reno Tieppo said the lunch stop was an opportunity for the school to thank the team for donating $1000 to help them build a glasshouse in the school’s vegetable garden and purchase more seeds and soil. “We’ve had our garden going for a while now but what we did need was to take it to the next level and that’s through our students with the propagation program,” he said.
“So, teaching them skills about collecting seeds and propagating plants and then nurturing the plant to get it to grow.”
Mr Tieppo said the school’s Parents and Citizens Group president Sue McBride deserved credit for working with the Northern Territory Variety Bash Club to organise the visit for the kids.
Variety NT Bash chair Michelle Pederson said it was “very humbling” to be able to contribute to the students and their garden glasshouse.
“Hopefully it will give the children many hours of joy,” she said.
“I have also promised to one day come back and have a lunch with the kids and eat all the wonderful produce they have grown.”
The Variety NT “bashers” were in their 10th day of travelling from Pennant to Tennant (Creek) and spent Monday night in Camooweal before heading back across the border.
The 24-car convoy raised more than $348,000 for disabled children before setting off to Sydney on August 17 to kick off this year’s Tri-State Variety Bash.
