The weather over the long weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, could possibly be the nicest we have had in the Snowy Monaro for some time.
The fine conditions allowed the Berridale Lions Spring Fair the chance it deserved to attract a bumper crowd.
Well done to the Berridale Lions Club for staging another terrific event.
The club hosts the popular Easter and Spring Fairs, and the Christmas markets.
The driving force behind these Berridale events over many years has been Lion Iain Schofield.
Iain was unable to attend the event on Saturday but the Postman is sure he would have been proud of the club’s efforts.
The Berridale Lions is a small but mighty club.
If you attended the spring fair and thought what a great annual event this is, the Lions Club would love your input and and even better, love you to become a member.
We have run stories in this masthead over a few months now highlighting the struggles many local organisations face in attracting new members.
The Berridale Lions is one of these clubs.
Snowy 2.0 will now cost more than $12 billion to complete. Snowy Hydro is undertaking a ‘cost re-assessment’.
Initially forecast to cost $2 billion, which we now know was well off the mark, a Snowy 2.0 project reset in mid-2023 revealed it would cost at least $12 billion to deliver the project.
Last week, Snowy Hydro CEO, Dennis Barnes, said while the need to re-assess the cost of delivering Snowy 2.0 is disappointing, the importance of the project to electricity users across the network has not changed.
With all footy codes finished, the Postman now looks forward to the Monaro cricket season starting this weekend.
Not long until the Ashes either.
