General News
7 November, 2022
Pumping heartbeats
EDITORIALEARLIER this year, we wrote an editorial on the value and importance of staging local events. We had seen the start of a revival after lockdowns of the COVID years took away famed and celebrated occasions and activities. The tentative nature...
EDITORIAL
EARLIER this year, we wrote an editorial on the value and importance of staging local events. We had seen the start of a revival after lockdowns of the COVID years took away famed and celebrated occasions and activities.
The tentative nature associated with reinvigorating momentum needed to drive community cohesion and passion has made several appearances in the form of major events this year, wonderful occasions that put smiles on faces whether the Serpentine Centenary Air Race or the Boort Show and on Sunday there will be the Wedderburn Garden Expo.
This week’s Loddon Herald has an article on efforts to bring back to life the iconic Rheola Charity Carnival.
For the past three years, this annual gathering has been stuck waiting to make its 150th appearance. A small committee is ready and hopefully able but as president Peter Mason says, more volunteers are needed - the grounds have missed their annual spruce and there’s a power of work to be done.
Rheola’s carnival has the aura of country events that some of our city cousins may find quaint and interesting. That alone is a selling point.
We urge all our readers to consider putting the hand up to bring life back into this wonderful carnival - a heartbeat of the district that brings people together and also raises funds for, among others, Inglewood and Districts Health Service.
This week’s edition of your Loddon Herald also talks with new Inglewood Development and Tourism committee president Peter Moore. He has identified creation of a calendar of events to bring more people to the town and indeed the Loddon.
Businesses have soldiered through COVID and now floods. Their generosity to support local communities , however, remains undiminished.
An full event calendar will keep the heartbeats of all our Loddon communities pumping regularly, giving reason for people from further afield to come into our part of the world, spending a dollar here and a dollar there.
In the rush to Christmas, let’s re-create the momentum for a bumper 2023 of local celebrations in our towns and strengthen our spirit and bonds, plus the local economy.