By KATH GANNAWAY
WINTER was put in its place on Sunday 19 June, as everything that’s good about the season was celebrated at the WHYLD Winter Warmer.
Members of the community group WHYLD (representing the communities of Woori Yallock, Hoddles Creek, Yellingbo, Launching Place and Don Valley) put on a fun-packed gathering for families at Wickham Reserve, culminating as light faded in a fire-twirling spectacular on the oval.
Tin-can lanterns made at the on-site workshop were paraded and put in place to make a stage for the event and the audience were spell-bound by the storytelling and light show, performed by Fireworks Dance Company and locals who put weeks of practice into a great performance.
A bonfire, magic show, hot chocolate and toasted marshmellows and just a chance to catch up over a cuppa and a snag were just a few of the activities that turned the winter afternoon into a winter warming.
And, for anyone who still had a touch of the chills, the ladies from the Hoddles Creek Red Cross were there with a colourful collection of woollen beanies to cap things off.
