General News
24 November, 2024
Hunt on for detecting volunteers
THE call has gone out for volunteers to help at Wedderburn’s annual Detector Jamboree next March. Organiser Karen Fazzani said planning was well underway and the tourism committee would welcome more helping hands for the town’s biggest event...
THE call has gone out for volunteers to help at Wedderburn’s annual Detector Jamboree next March.
Organiser Karen Fazzani said planning was well underway and the tourism committee would welcome more helping hands for the town’s biggest event.
Karen said the Labor Day weekend would again include a monster town garage sale.
“Just remember what you may think is trash can become someone else’s treasure, so make some pocket money on that trash,” Karen said.
The junior gold panning completion sponsored by the Inglewood and Districts Community Bendigo Bank being held on the Saturday while Minelab senior detector token hunts will be held on Saturday and Sunday.
Karen said the top prize of a Minelab GPX 6000 detector valued $8999 would again attract participants from across Victoria and interstate.
She said the popular weekend would include a gold panning knockout competition and detector demonstrations.
Many modern gold hunters will stay at the jamboree’s Hard Hill Reserve site or the town’s caravan park where recent special detector weekends have seen a spike in park patronage and growing interest in amateur gold detecting in the area.