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The 2010 picnic will be held on Sunday December 19th. The 2009 picnic was held on Sunday 20 December 2009.
Every year in December the Association has its Xmas Picnic. It is held at the Diamond Valley Miniature Railway Lower Eltham Park (Melway map 21 ref. H 10). Year after year the numbers attending this most popular activity increase. It is a great day out for the family, the kids get to ride the trains and see Santa. We have our own platform and train for two half hour rides (usually
11am and 2pm) Rod and Sharon organise the event including lollies and drinks and
in recent Come along, you won't be disappointed! See you again in 2010! REPORT OF 2009. The weather was very
kind to us again this year and the facilities
Thanks to Rod Westgarth we had use of a hired portaloo, We had a bumper crop of
kiddies this year, many having what looked like their As per usual we had two 30 min train
rides exclusive to us and many tickets
Santa arrived by train and was his usual popular self, he also appeared to be Each kid,
both big & small jumped up when their name was called and sat on
Rod & Sharon provided a BBQ yet again with a steady sale of snags and burgers The
raffle prizes included many great items supplied by members and the association Tommy called out
the winning numbers but I think his version of the English language Plenty of
soft drink was supplied by the Association for the kiddies as were bags of Santa had his usual two
helpers, Lauren Westgarth and our President Darryl Pinner. All in all it was a great day and we look forward to seeing everyone again next year. Dave White. (committee member)
PHOTOS OF 2009; KIDS WITH SANTA.
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