SCHOOL FETE

The Edward School Fete was a much loved and special event that featured on the school calendar for well over two decades.

The date (the first Saturday after the Melbourne Cup) was inherited from Geroge St School when it closed down. The fete was a twilight event, commencing at 4pm and continuing through to dusk.

Every year parents cooked, sewed, baked and propagated plants for the various stalls – sewing and crafts, sweet and cakes, plants and produce.

Pony and Harley rides were favourites on the back oval and one year a huge hot air balloon was tethered to the back oval – offering amazing views over the town.

Doug McBurnie and Jan Quayle were long time co-ordinators, and everyone pitched in to provide affordable family fun.

Bottle shops, Adrian Parker’s chook wheel, hot dogs, hot donuts and fairy floss were always popular attractions.

The bottle shoppe was a favourite but one year after a bottle of home brew exploded in the principal’s office in the lead up to the day, fermented beverages were off the donation list!

Peter Robinson selling ride tickets, and Robyn Lutton, June Armytage and Julie Follet on the White Elephant Stall were long time features, as was John Edwards turning ice into slushies with his big mincer from his Maher St Butchery.