Community event to commemorate Pink family’s loss

Following the sad loss of three members of the Pink travelling show family in a vehicle accident last month, their community is to come together this weekend at a music showcase to remember the three siblings.

Jack Pink, aged 19, and his sisters Marina, aged 17, and Destiny, aged 15, were killed instantly in a collision near Boggabilla in northern NSW while travelling back to their home in Logan, Queensland from a show in Dubbo in late May.

On a day that should be celebrating Destiny Pink’s 16th birthday, the Entertainment Extravaganza – Pink Family Charity Concert is being held at the Logan Village Green on Sunday 18th June.

The music, food and fete festival will be held from 11am until 3pm.

Entry will be a gold coin donation and stalls will donate a percentage of takings to the family.

Following the deaths, the Light It Up Pink movement started circulating on social media spurring family friend L-Jay Walters to organise the event.

Walters explained “I really wanted to be able to help in some small way.

“I wanted to have a music concert for the kids and it turns out the date we picked will be Destiny’s birthday.

“It has become so much more than just a concert and I hope it will just help people gain some closure.”

Organisations including the Showmen’s Guild of Australasia have been offering support to the family while A Go Fund Me page has already raised more than $191,000 of a $250,000 goal to help the for the family.

The Queensland Chamber of Agricultural Societies Inc (QCAS) is one of a number of groups and people to share their condolences with the family.

QCAS General Manager Karen Wolf said they would stand with the Showmen’s Guild of Australasia and would offer their support where possible.

Wolf told Queensland Country Life “it’s a shocking event and it has just affected the show movement very deeply in Queensland.

“We of course convey our condolences on behalf of all of our members to the Pink family and the Showmen’s Guild members themselves. We understand the Guild is rightfully shocked and deeply troubled.

“It is difficult to understand how dreadful it is to lose so many (children) so young from one family.”

The sibling’s funerals were held on 8th June at Canterbury College, Logan.

For more information on the Entertainment Extravaganza – Pink Family Charity Concert go to www.facebook.com/pinkcharityevent/

Click here to go the GoFundMe page.

Image: Marina, Jack and Destiny Pink with their mother Jaze (second from left). Courtesy of Facebook.

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