DOES GRAEME LEHMANN HAVE 80G UP HIS SLEEVE TO SAVE TOOGOOLAWAH MOVIE NIGHTS?

One little tradition of bygone yesteryear in the Brisbane Valley continues to this day at Alexandria Hall in Toogoolawah every second saturday night, barring holiday periods and the other odd occasion when it's used for another function, that being the movie night, when the grand old hall is transformed into a cinema, and when local folks of all ages, but mostly kids as it usually turns out, can come and watch one of the latest box office films in little old Toogoolawah.

Sadly there is now speculation in town that all this could come to an end, not because of the hall itself or the lack of patrons when movie nights are held, but because of the need by the local Progress Association to convert their movie projector over to digital, they being responsible for organising everything to do with staging the movie nights.

I believe it's inevitable, because very soon, possibly as soon as July or August, the new digital movie reels which the movies are recorded on will be incompatible with the hall's outdated and soon to be obsolete analogue projector.

The price tag to get a new digital projector is modestly estimated to be $80000. That is the sort of money that obviously the Progress Association doesn't have, they would need to put on sausage sizzles around town for 10 years to even get close to raising that sort of capital.

Somerset Regional Council is the obvious next stop to go looking for a sum of money like that, although 80 grand is a lot of dough in local government terms it must not be forgotten that SRC just recieved a whopping $500000 cheque from the federal government to re-develop the old Nestle condensery in Toogoolawah as a cultural precinct. Question is does mayor Graeme Lehmann have 80G up his sleeve?