Former Wattle Range Council and Millicent District Council chief executive Frank Brennan has been appointed as the coordinator of the 2026 Beachport Crayfish Festival.


For over a decade, he has used his tertiary qualifications and experience to run Frank Brennan Consulting Services at Beachport.


As well as being a past Millicent Football Club secretary and former Mid South Eastern Football League Junior Committee chairman, Mr Brennan has previously served as the State Government appointed presiding member of the Millicent-based South East Water Conservation and Drainage Board and the now-defunct South East Natural Resources Management Board.


His current interests include a Justice of the Peace and being an independent director of the Limestone Coast Fishermen’s Cooperative.


For the Beachport Crayfish Festival, there is a general organising committee of over 30 led by Mr Brennan.


Meetings are on Skype, with work being done around sponsorship, programs, catering, logistics, markets, funding and media.


As in 2022 and last year, the February 28 event will showcase the best of the lobster industry within the Limestone Coast region.


A range of locally made food and wines will be incorporated within a program filled with art, music and children’s activities.


The first such festival was staged in 2022 and was enthusiastically embraced by a large gathering of locals and visitors.


The financial success of the 2024 festival meant $23,000 could be distributed to local groups and charities and the Beachport New Year’s Eve fireworks.


Around two decades ago, the Beachport Festival By The Sea was a popular annual drawcard.


It culminated in 2000 with a free outdoors evening concert alongside the Beachport jetty by 60 members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.