Keilor Gift
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To start Friday afternoon/evening, have a game of barefoot bowls at the Keilor Bowls Club. Lots of fun for both young and not so young.
Bowling balls and basic tuition provided.
If you are hungry, come in and enjoy a very reasonably priced dinner prepared by the chef. Not you standard quick meal. Activities will start at 6.00pm with meals available from 7.00pm.
On Saturday afternoon, join us in the festivities to celebrate over 86 years of the running of the prestigious Keilor Gift. Joining the runners will be a bevy of wood choppers. The event will commence at 1.00pm.
Watch athletes of various ages ply their talents!
To keep the children amused, various rides and activities will be available.
Food and beverages will be available throughout the day and evening.
The climax of the night will be the running of the two gifts, male and female.
The fireworks will follow the gifts. A very spectacular and fitting finish to the event.
The Keilor Gift is an event that was first held in 1933 and is a now a tradition which continues annually.
The Keilor Gift started as a localised event, but soon extended to adjacent districts, and now we get country and interstate entrants.
The Keilor Gift has historically been a precursor to the Stawell Gift, and consequently is a critical event on the Victoria’s Athletics League calendar.