Fun festival will help others

RESIDENTS are urged to get down to the Need for Feed- Cars, Guitars and Stars- Wheels and Music festival this weekend to help those doing it tough.
The festival, to be held at the Pakenham Racecourse, is a fundraiser to support the local Lions Clubs appeal for help for Victorian farmers that are still struggling from drought.
Metro Melbourne Roto-Mould of Pakenham has donated a 5500 litre rainwater tank and Adloheat in Pakenham donated a plant shade house valued at $1200 for the charity auction. A weekend’s accommodation for three couples at The Great Ocean Road Beach Houses, a fishing adventure for three families at Apollo Bay and many other vouchers are among the items that have been donated by business’ and the public in response to the local Lions Club’s appeal. Local bands that will provide entertainment over the weekend include Silver Reasons, Airway Lanes, The Aarron Daniels Band, Wild Turkey, Rick and the Legends and John Crawley and his band Eleven Fingers.
Top American blues band The Healers will also perform. The festival costs $5 per person each day or $15 for a family or a donation of a bale of hay.
Prize and cash donations are still being collected and cheques can be made out to Lions Club of Pakenham Need for Feed Appeal.
For more information call Graham Cockerell on 5944 4111.