NEW Mount Isa show chairman Tony Toholke said he hoped to help reinvigorate the show to "build the status of the Mount Isa Show into being a very important district event that everyone comes to".
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Long-time Mount Isa Agricultural Show Society president Ian Saunders is stepping down from the role after 30 years at the helm.
Mr Saunders will retain his title of president but all duties of the role will be conferred to the organisation's new chairman Tony Toholke.
Mr Toholke said Mr Saunders was too valuable to lose.
"Ian has given 30 years of service to the show and now he wants to take it a bit easier so this is our way of trying to keep him involved and not letting him disappear," he said.
Mr Toholke, who has been in Mount Isa five years, said he decided to join the show society two years ago when he grew tired of hearing people complain about the slipping standard of the annual event.
"Instead of whinging about it I thought I'd better join up," he said.
"We've only got a very small amount of helpers; so if anyone in Mount Isa has ideas they're more than welcome to help us," he said.
Mr Toholke said he would like to address one of the most common gripes about the Mount Isa show to be held mid-2012; the lack of animals.
"We'd love to do it [have more animals] but we're just constrained by the venue and unfortunately there isn't anywhere else to go."
"It's just a matter of working with everybody and working with the groups within Buchanan Park to see what we can do."
Members of the Mount Isa Agricultural Show Society meets on the first Tuesday of the month at the Buffs Club.
