Ashburton Community Festival
Matt FREGON (Ashwood) (13:05): It has been a very busy couple of weeks down in Ashwood, and I kicked it off by going down to the Ashburton festival on High Street with my federal colleague the member for Higgins Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah. It was good to see our local government colleagues Cr Gary Thompson and Cr Di Gillies also in attendance, and it was great to see what the Ashburton traders had put on with assistance from the council. We caught up with local traders; Ashburton United Soccer Club; the Ashy Redbacks; the CWA, who do great work in our community; the Alamein neighbourhood house; the Pied Piper Toy Library, who I have got a bucketload of Duplo to give to now that I know they will take it; and the Ashburton Bendigo Bank, always good in our community.