BINGARA ORANGE FESTIVAL IN BRIEF
BINGARA ORANGE PICKING
The Annual Orange Picking Ceremony will take
place on Friday 30th July 2010. This year marks the
50th anniversary of the first orange picking
ceremony.
We would like to encourage everyone to come
along and help celebrate this unique Bingara
tradition. If you know the whereabouts of ex students
or teachers of Bingara Intermediate High/Bingara
Central School or St Mary’s Catholic School please
encourage them to come along. If anyone has any old photos from the orange
picking over the years we would love to make a
copy of them to put on display at the festival.
BINGARA ORANGE FESTIVAL
Saturday 31st July is the date for this years Bingara
Orange Festival. There will be FREE live entertainment
by Matt Zarb, Little Poppy for Kids, Rodney the
Clown, market stalls, food and wine, amusement
rides, pastels in the pub art exhibition, festival
parade, Roxy Theatre Tour at 1.30pm, football at
Gwydir Oval Bingara Bullets V Inverell.
MARKET STALLS
We have had a number of early registrations for
market stalls and sites are filling up fast. If you or your
community group would like to have a stall at this
years festival please get your forms in ASAP.
$100 prize for best stall display
FESTIVAL PARADE
Since it is the 50th anniversary of the first official
orange picking this year we have decided that
‘Oranges’ should be the theme for the parade. The
ideas are limited only by your imagination.
Suggestions are: Orange or oranges, history of the
trees, heroes that went to war, heritage of Bingara,
50 years/golden anniversary, military, school uniform
through the years - the possibilities are endless.
$300 Best Large Float, $200 Best Small Float
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For information please contact: Bingara Visitor Information Centre 02 6724 0066
