It’s another beautiful day in Tasmania and we had promised to lend a hand at the Craft Fair. I resigned from Rotary years ago but we still help out with their activities from time to time. The Craft Fair is Deloraine Rotary’s main fund raiser. I directed four Fairs in past years and probably turned over close to a million dollars in the process. Of course, the profit is only a small proportion of that but a lot of crafts people, suppliers and other organisations do well out of it.
With Covid, the last two Craft Fairs were cancelled, so a lot was riding on this year’s effort. Mainland exhibitors could not be invited so a reduced Fair was set up with about 160 local artists involved. We were only there for the last afternoon but, apparently, crowds were good over the weekend, exhibitors have made some money and the Club will have turned a profit.
The Government insisted that everyone involved wear a mask. At Ulverstone yesterday, there were something like 150 people in the little theatre with not a mask in sight; today, at the Deloraine Showground where we were stationed, there might have been 150 people at any one time in an area of about 2Ha, in the open air, and everyone was wearing a mask. Seems a bit odd. Still, it was great to see that nobody was whinging and everyone was happy to go along with the regulations.
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