IN preparation for Wednesday’s special school holidays Farmers’ Markets, market organisers are looking for child labour - (in exchange for gelato!).
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Market co-ordinator Tricia Ashelford is rounding up "Kidz Beach Bumz" to help with a Black Beach clean-up.
‘‘The beach currently has lots of seaweed on it and isn't looking its best, so with a group of kids on school holidays we are going to have a little working bee,’’ Ms Ashelford said.
‘‘All the kids that participate will be given a voucher to receive a free gelato from The Pines.’’
After a number of false starts while the heavens opened, the Kiama Farmers’ Markets lantern event will happen on Wednesday.
This market will run from 2-6pm with music, kids’ games and activities.
Kiama Council supplied the management committee with 125 silk lanterns in a range of colours that were a gift from Kiama’s sister city Hoi An in Vietnam.
“There will be a kids’ spud hunt on the beach and the market will run an hour later, until 6pm, so people can shop later and have dinner at the harbour,’’ markets co-ordinator Tricia Ashelford said. "There will also be music and floating lanterns on the water, weather permitting.”
“Hanoi on Manning will have a Vietnamese food stall for this market as we are celebrating the friendship agreement between Kiama and Hoi An in Vietnam.
From 2pm - Adam Guthrie Kids Cooking Class kicks off; 3pm - Free kids "spud hunt" on the beach - find a spud to get a strawberry; 5pm - 6pm - Light the flares on the beach and launch the floating lanterns and turn on the fairy lights on the stalls.
If the harbour is calm, children will launch the lanterns on the water.