Hay bales have become much more than a means of satisfying the appetites of hungry farm stock in the Tongala community — they have become representative of the ingenuity and enthusiasm of a small town to spread the word of its aim to maintain relevance in a fast-growing world.
At the Easter Hay Bale Trail launch on the Thursday evening before the Easter holiday period began, a large gathering of community members again celebrated the work of the town’s development group.
An Easter egg hunt was run in conjunction with a cake stall organised by the town’s primary school Parents and Friends Club, while celebrating the work of volunteer artists who had again created amazingly colourful hay bales with messages to match.
The hop-themed hay bales were accompanied by an Anzac Day hay bale, fittingly located a little closer to the RSL headquarters to the east of the Potts Village Green location of the celebration.
Organisers of the Easter Hay Bale Trail launch were again ecstatic with the response to the event.
In recent years they have had tremendous success with the Eats and Beats food and music festival, along with the Christmas Hay Bale Trail which extends from one side of the town to the other and has almost 20 locations.