Yandina Street Fair to make a post-Covid comeback
By Janine Hill
IT’S back! The Yandina Street Fair will be held this year for the first time since the care-free, pre-pandemic days.
The fair, an annual event for more than 40 years, will make its return on 20 August thanks to an organising committee comprising some enthusiastic fresh faces.
Chairman Greg Corbin, who moved to Yandina with his wife and committee secretary, Terri, two years ago, has been told to expect an attendance of about 5000.
People, food and entertainment will fill Stevens Street from Farrell Street through to the Yandina Hotel and Railway Street to the eastern end of Low Street from the afternoon into the evening.
Scattered along the route will be about 60 food, beverage and art and craft stalls and three entertainment stages.
Children’s rides and amusements will be positioned off Railway Street and there will also be a petting zoo, roving puppeteers, stilt artists, acrobatics by AerialCatz, and custom and classic cars to see.
Bush poet Noel Stallard will perform a poem celebrating Yandina and Sunshine Coast Plein Air artists will paint local scenes before the event to display for sale in the Connections Hall on Low Street
Local groups including the RSL, the Men’s Shed, the CWA, schools, the rural fire brigade, Yandina Raiders and the Baptist church will be involved in the fair, which will wrap-up with a light and laser show.
Greg said the fair was sponsored by local businesses and the Sunshine Coast Council had carried through a 2020 grant.
“I think it will be a nice day when Yandina and districts can be proud to show off and people can feel proud to live here,” Greg said.
“We’ll draw visitors from coastal and hinterland tourism hot spots and it will help create a lot of awareness about what Yandina has to offer.”
If you would like to hold a stall at this year’s Fair email ysfstalls@gmail.com for info. More info: helloyandinastreetfair@gmail.com.
