ABN: 49 076 209  813

Updated: September  2010

URL: www.sefhg.org 

Email: info@sefhg.org 

14 Stuckey Street,  Millicent, SA 5290 

Phone: +61 8 87331100

Mary MacKillop Street Festival- Where It All Began

Penola, Sunday 17 October 2010

The festival is themed Where it all began and will celebrate the formative years Mary MacKillop spent in Penola, arriving in 1860 aged 18 as a governess at Penola Station, and her subsequent inspiration to establish the first St Joseph’s school for poor and isolated children in a six-stalled wooden stable 1866. It will culminate in the canonisation of Australia’s first Saint.

Event Schedule

10.00am-9.00pm   Street festival

2.00pm-2.30pm     Procession from Mary MacKillop Pk to outdoor stage

3.00pm-4.30pm     Penola’s Mass service on stage

4.30pm-6.30pm     Dinner break and entertainment

6.30pm–9.00pm    Live TV broadcast of canonisation from Rome

 

SEFHG Open for Group Visits or Request a Speaker

If you are a member of another organisation or social group that may be looking for somewhere different for an outing why not suggest a  visit to our resource centre? This regional centre, is available at all times, other than our regular opening afternoons of Wednesdays and Saturdays. We will supply a ‘cuppa’ and biscuits. BYO Lunch if planning a longer visit. Wheelchair access to the library is available, (but not to the computer room).

Alternatively you might like to have one of our members speak at your group meeting regarding our facilities and resources, history or genealogy or perhaps run a short course for your members on researching their family history.

Please contact one of the committee to get an information pack or make arrangements , or email info@sefhg.org

 

On Our Site

you will find information related to these places within the Limestone Coast region of South Australia:

Allendale, Beachport, Canunda, Caroline, Carpenter Rocks, Cape Jaffa, Compton, Donovans, Drop Drop, Glenburnie, Glencoe, Gran Gran, Harris Range, Hatherleigh, Kalangadoo, Kangaroo Inn, Kingston, Kongorong, Lucindale, Mil Lel, Millicent, Moorak, Mt Burr, Mt McIntyre, Mt Gambier, Mt Muirhead, Mt Schank,  Mundulla, Murrimbum, Nangula, Nangwarry, Naracoorte, OB Flat, Penguin Island, Pt MacDonnell, Penola, Rendelsham, Robe, Sebastapol, Snuggery, South End, Suttontown, Tantanoola, Tarpeena, Tintinara, Tatiara, Wandilo, Wyrie, and Yahl.

 

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