Hello,

With the Alphington Show community day around the corner we need to ask for some help.

If you are free we would really appreciate some assistance with our sausage sizzle!

Please email us here with the time you are available to help between 10.30am -2pm on March 26th.

Thankyou!

The Alphington Show just wouldn’t be complete without …. the world famous (and terribly funny) Alphington Dog Show!

Bring your fur baby along and join us at 1pm on Saturday 26 March for this family friendly neighbourhood activity. You’ll find the full list of entry categories on the entry form, which you can download here.

To check out photos from previous years take a peek at our Alphington Show page here.

Yay! The official posters are complete and we’re getting excited about the upcoming Alphington Show!

Kalimna has been looking into booking the pony rides again (how cute were they last time) and we are firing up the BBQ and the CWA is cooking up a scone storm for devonshire teas …

If you are a local maker who would like to be part of the Makers Market you can book a stall here. Only $20 and we’ll have our fingers crossed for the weather (note it is an outside market).

And if you are skilled in the domestic arts (calling all jammers and preservers, bread bakers, flower growers and arrangers, sewers, knitters, crocheters, vegetable growers, olive harvesters etc.) PLEASE enter our show! The full list of categories is below. It only costs $1 to enter … and perhaps become a proud neighbourhood winner!

Download your entry form (with all the categories clearly listed) and see photos from previous years here.

Alphington Grammar

With our new podcasting equipment in place and our four local maps recently published, it is an exciting time to join the 3078 History Group. If you are interested in coming along the first meeting will occur in April. The group meets as a rule on the second Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm here at ACC.

The scheduled regular meeting dates through to the end of June will be :

• Tuesday 12 April at 7.30pm

• Tuesday 10 May at 7.30pm and

• Tuesday 14 June at 7.30pm.

At the second meeting on Tuesday 10 May we will run a formal ‘introduction to podcasting’ session, to enable the group to start exploring the possibilities around recording oral histories from locals in the area.

If you are keen to find out more or register to come along you can email us here or call us on 9499 7227 so that we can add you to the group email list.

This week we are starting planning for the Alphington Show.

We’re partnering with Alphington CWA to run this event that celebrates the ‘domestic arts’ … if you are into bread baking, jam making, preserving, knitting and crochet this is your chance to shine! The show also celebrates the home garden … admiring your most impressive vegetables, homegrown eggs and gorgeous flowers … along with celebrating your floristry skills … and cake decorating skills.

We’ll publish the full list of categories shortly,

But in the meantime … finish that beanie you started, dig out your family scone recipe and encourage your children to perfect their lemon slice (and cook their own snack for school lunch at the same time … win/win).

The Alphington Show will run on Saturday 26 March here at ACC.