Our club manned a booth at the Whitehorse Spring Festival on Sunday 19th October. This is an annual event organised by the Whitehorse City Council as a showcase for local organisations. The weather was kind and the festival was attended by at least 20,000 people. On the same day as the violent protests against immigration in the city this the multicultural crowd largely composed of families were enjoying interacting with each other.
Thank you to members Shia, Hank, Bob W, Ian E, Rob and Wan for helping out at the booth throughout the day. There was a lot of interest about our club and its activities throughout the day with quite a few showing interest in our AED project. There were 4 enquiries about membership and 6 offers for potential speakers from local organisations.
Highlights of the day included:
- Meeting Jenny Donnet from Whitehorse Divers, a quadruple-Olympian who knows Ethan Newnham.
- An invitation for the club to visit the Blackburn Sikh Temple
- An offer to collaborate with our AED Project from St John’s Ambulance
