How do we top this? That was the question Alexandra Blossom Festival organisers were pondering after a massively successful 60th birthday celebration over the weekend.
Fine weather, a bumper crowd, great atmosphere and masses of activities combined to make a memorable occasion, organisers and patrons said.
“What on earth do we do next year?” event manager Martin McPherson asked.
Going by ticket sales, about 15,000 people went to Pioneer Park after Saturdays festival parade, he said.
Thousands lined the towns main street to watch the parade of trucks, vintage vehicles, bands, floats and mini-floats, called “florreys”, built around a supermarket trolley.
In the park afterwards, there was something f…
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