Patricia King and Peggy Cox from Noble Park CWA helped to serve up a great day by selling tea, coffee and homemade cakes.By Shaun Inguanzo
SPRING weather conditions visited Noble Park early this year to top off a successful community expo at the town’s longest-running community centre.
Organisers now say the expo, held for the first time on Sunday, could become an annual event given the support it received from the community.
The Noble Park Community Expo Living Your Leisure attracted about 400 people to the Noble Park Community Centre in Memorial Drive last Sunday, according to centre project officer Max Bartlett.
The day offered the community a chance to investigate which clubs and groups were available to join in Noble Park.
But Mr Bartlett said it also gave the stallholders a chance to see what other clubs were doing.
“It has been great also from the participants’ point of view,” he said.
“They have been offering each other tips and advice on how they run their groups.”
Mr Bartlett said the community centre hall contained smaller stalls manned by niche community groups.
He said the outside area contained large exhibits from local emergency services, the Lions Club of Noble Park, Scouting groups and the Noble Park’s own Cormac McCarthy Irish Pipe Band.
Stalls ranged from the Noble Park Country Women’s Association through to lawn bowls and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Australia – a stall exhibiting the Koran in more than 80 languages.
Mr Bartlett said preparations were now under way to celebrate the community centre’s 50th birthday later this year.
