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Subscriber only Belt buckles are polished and boots are almost on with the rodeo set to hit Nambour for the first time in more than a decade. A major fundraiser for Reimagine Nambour, the Ray White Nambour Rodeo is expected to draw a crowd of 2000 people to Nambour Showgrounds on Friday. Ray White Nambour principal and owner Matt O Grady, who organised the rodeo alongside Bianca Nash, said they d sold more than 1000 tickets already and he expected the remainder to be snapped up quickly. He said tickets would be capped at about 2000 and he encouraged people to by them online in advance to avoid any disappointment at the gate Friday afternoon.
Having gained federal funding for their bid, the time has come to bring Nambour into the future with a CBD revitalisation project. $500,000 has been allocated to the revitalisation and it s mostly creative lighting and some artworks, Reimagine Nambour facilitator Kerry Brown said. Branding Nambour is all about marketing and communication through a separate grant we received which is worth $60,000. Nambour used to be called the friendly town and the sugar town because we had the sugar mill and all of that sort of thing and that was great and fitted then but now we need to find our new identity and who we are.