Fun and frolic at festival

THE Upper Beaconsfield Village Festival is back again this weekend.
The Tower to Tower Charity Challenge six kilometre fun run will mark the start of the festival at 9am on Saturday.
Proceeds from the run will help support local CFA, cubs, scouts and venturers.
This year, runners will be started on their way by Gembrook MP Tammy Lobato will the with trophy presentations and the awarding of the Upper Beaconsfield Citizen of the Year at 10am by Cardinia Shire mayor Graeme Legge.
Join the residents of Upper Beaconsfield in their idyllic bushland setting as they celebrate “community” and the end of Community Week, which remembers the Ash Wednesday Fires of 1983 and the sense of community and support that it instilled.
The ever-popular Animal Nursery outside the Upper Beaconsfield Indigenous Nursery on Halford Road, the rock climbing wall, and bungy trampoline keeping the unique collection of motor bikes and cars company outside the milk bar are some of the entertainment and amusement for the kids and the young at heart.
Follow your nose to the CFA to get your sausage in bread, and slide down the giant slide.
With heaps of stalls to browse and music to entertain, there will be something for everyone at the Upper Beaconsfield Village Festival on Saturday 20 February.
The race will start at 9am from the Charring Cross Reserve, on the corner of Beaconsfield Emerald Road and Salisbury Road.
Entry to the race costs $15 adults (early bird deadline), $20 (race day entries), $10 students.
For details go to http://ubvillagefest.org.au