A sea of maroon (with a few dots of blue) filled the Mackay Senior Citizens Hall as Golden Years showed their colours ahead of State of Origin last Wednesday.
A morning of smoko, tea and coffee, live music, dancing, raffles and bingo for just $3 is reason enough to turn up to Golden Years every Wednesday, but celebrations like State of Origin make it all the more fun.
“We celebrate anything that is, as I usually say, worth celebrating,” said Club President Michele Shepherd.
Just like the punters at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday night, attendees enjoyed meat pies thanks to Byrnes Good Food, as well as the usual homemade sweets.
“We always do pies and peas and plenty of sauce, they absolutely love that,” said Michele.
Betty and Bruce Kearney provided entertainment alongside some friends.
Everyone joined in on a singalong of ‘aye aye yippee yippee aye’, with dancing and a conga line getting everyone to their feet, Chris Harle being the leader of the celebrations.
“(Chris is) very special,” said Michele.
“She said ‘can I bring something?’ and (Betty) said ‘bring six balloons, we might do something with balloons,’ well she brought six bags,” she laughed.
“We’ve got some lovely people like that,”
Golden Years happens at the Senior Citizens Hall every Wednesday morning from 9am – 11am and is open to everyone.
“They don’t have to register, they don’t have to pay any membership fee, it’s good value for $3.”
“Go the Maroons!” say the volunteers of Golden Years
A morning of meat pies, tea and coffee, music and dancing was enjoyed by many Maroons, and a few Blues' fans
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