On Sunday 28th February Judy & I teamed up with the KidsFest crew to present a KidsFest/Communities for Children display at Wings over the Illawarra. This community event is growing every year and highlights the fabulous resources of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) at the Illawarra (Wollongong) Regional Airport, Albion Park Rail. HARS and their near neighbour The Illawarra Light Rail are both strong supporters of KidsFest so we all turned out to support them on their big day.
There were hundreds of exhibitors; planes, trains, automobiles and more. Connie (The Super Constellation) was still the crowd favourite but there were lots of other highlights, like the Roulettes and their death defying tricks, the vintage cars (love a red MG) and all the different aircraft from models right up to the Neptune and Catalina.
Carla and her family set up the KidsFest display and her son Douglas was a terrific helper. Not only did he help set up, run messages and take some great pictures including this one of Connie, but he also composed the quiz sheet for school children that we had on our table. He is quite an aircraft expert and told me lots of great facts, he also pointed out an error I had made on the picture matching sheet (Thanks Douglas!).
One of the most rewarding experiences I found while standing at the display was the number of people who came up and said – “Oh great – KidsFest, when is it on again? It was great last year and we don’t want to miss it!” The word is out there................
Thanks Judy, Carla and Family, Wendy, Wayne, Paul and Jeanette and any other SHAPE crew I did not see. I am sure the effort was worth it.
Tessa
C4C Program Manager
There were hundreds of exhibitors; planes, trains, automobiles and more. Connie (The Super Constellation) was still the crowd favourite but there were lots of other highlights, like the Roulettes and their death defying tricks, the vintage cars (love a red MG) and all the different aircraft from models right up to the Neptune and Catalina.
Carla and her family set up the KidsFest display and her son Douglas was a terrific helper. Not only did he help set up, run messages and take some great pictures including this one of Connie, but he also composed the quiz sheet for school children that we had on our table. He is quite an aircraft expert and told me lots of great facts, he also pointed out an error I had made on the picture matching sheet (Thanks Douglas!).
One of the most rewarding experiences I found while standing at the display was the number of people who came up and said – “Oh great – KidsFest, when is it on again? It was great last year and we don’t want to miss it!” The word is out there................
Thanks Judy, Carla and Family, Wendy, Wayne, Paul and Jeanette and any other SHAPE crew I did not see. I am sure the effort was worth it.
Tessa
C4C Program Manager
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