As the weather warms up and the change in season begins attention is starting to focus on the 2016 Spring into Corrimal festival in Illawarra’s northern suburbs.
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This year’s event on September 11 is once again shaping up to be the largest free, one-day festival in regional NSW.
The annual event organised by the Corrimal Chamber of Commerce is about bringing together community for a day of fun, laughter and social interaction.
Chamber president Paul Boultwood said 2016 was the 35th anniversary of the festival which will again feature a grand parade.
“We are expecting more than 50,000 people to join in the fun,” Mr Boultwood said.
“I’m confident this will be our biggest festival to date. Last year Spring into Corrimal harnessed the power of the community to help those less fortunate by encouraging donations in support of charity organisation Need a Feed.
The success of the initiative has guaranteed its return and organisers are once again asking visitors to bring along an item of non-perishable food to donate on the day.”
On September 11 Spring into Corrimal will also be raising awareness for the Autism Spectrum Australia South Coast School.
Support by Corrimal RSL has helped the organisers plan three entertainment stages in 2016.
There will also be more than 200 market stalls and a giant car boot sale.
A highlight of the event will be the announcement of the Corrimal Citizen of the Year Award in Memorial Park which will also be the location for an international food court.
In The Loop
The popularity of Illawarra’s own Youtube digital television program In The Loop continues to grow.
This month’s episode will be released on Wednesday and features a look at the Olympics In The City, Lorenzo’s kitchen, family cycling, the new iAccelerate business incubator, microlight powered hang-gliding and Professor Julie Quilter talking about the importance of women in research.
Show producers Relativity also caught up with Wollongong fashion designers Melissa Core and Rick Caballo from Dead Horse Branding on a recent visit home from Nashville.
Legacy Lunch
The 2016 Legacy Luncheon is being held this Friday at City Diggers in Wollongong.
Guest speaker is Peter FitzSimons who will share the story of Fromelles and Pozieres he researched extensively for his best-selling book, Fromelles and Pozieres: In The Trenches of Hell.
It follows Wollongong and South Coast Legacy junior legatees Tayla Hogno and Sophie Barnes recently being given an opportunity to lay a wreath beneath the Arc de Triomphe as part of their Pozières….Our Legacy 2016 tour in Paris.
They were among 75 young Legacy ambassadors aged between 16 and 25 who had all lost a relative because of defence force service.
Ms Hogno and Ms Barnes travelled to Belgium and France for the Centenary of Pozieres where hey learned about the role Australia played in supporting France on the Western Front during World War I.
Each participant had studied an Australian soldier who died on the Western Front and had the privilege to stand at that soldier’s gravesite and speak about their life and sacrifice.
The official Centenary of Pozières ceremony was held on July 23, 2016.
Greg Ellis
Almost four decades in electronic, print and digital media. A writer, presenter, emcee, photographer and videographer with degrees in business management, marketing and human resources and tertiary qualifications in photography.
Almost four decades in electronic, print and digital media. A writer, presenter, emcee, photographer and videographer with degrees in business management, marketing and human resources and tertiary qualifications in photography.
