General News
8 November, 2024
Christmas fair at seaside
THE Christmas markets are back at Holloways Beach with a twist.
Instead of on the beachfront, which is still being repaired after Cyclone Jasper,
they return as the Holloways Beach Christmas Fair at Syd and Jane Granville Park (corner of Oleander and Cassia streets).
The organisers are hoping to emulate the success of the ‘Hello, Holloways’ community event in July which attracted more than 2000 people.
The event was designed by the Holloways Beach Community Hall and the Holloway’s Beach Men’s Shed to unite the community in the wake of the devastating floods last December and to remind folk that the suburb was not a ghost town.
Steve Habel of the Holloways Beach Men’s Shed said it would be the first Christmas fair in the suburb and was being run by the community hall committee with the shed’s assistance.
He said the council had given the go-ahead for the event on Sunday, November 10 from 8am-1pm.
“It will be virtually identical to ‘Hello, Holloways’. We will have 60 market stalls out the front, half a dozen food trucks, a coffee van and our sausage sizzle,” Mr Habel said.
“There will be an art exhibition in the hall which was extremely popular last time. They sold a lot of nice paintings,” he said.
Hall committee secretary Suzette Habel said there would be a lot of free things for children.
“We will have snow cones, face painting, sand art, a jumping castle, popcorn, fairy floss and a petting zoo,” she said.
