A FUNDRAISING fete will return to Millicent and District Hospital this spring after a break of more than 20 years.
Combined with an open day, the fete has been scheduled for October 20 and will feature stalls and guided tours of the hospital.
Expressions of interest have been invited from local businesses, producers, community groups, schools, craft groups and individuals to hold stalls.
They must be lodged by September 13.
Stallholders will be selected by a committee of community and Millicent Health Advisory Council members.
For much of the post-war period, the Millicent Hospital Parade and Carnival was held each autumn and was regarded as a highlight of the Millicent social calendar.
George Street and Mount Gambier Road would be temporarily closed to vehicles and hundreds of school children, community members and floats would parade to the hospital grounds for entertainment and stalls manned by hospital staff and members of the eight hospital auxiliaries.
The 2019 event will not have a parade.
Details of the hospital fete were brought into the public domain on Tuesday night at the monthly meeting in Millicent of Wattle Range Council.
They were provided by councillor Kevin McGrath who has represented the council on the Millicent Health Advisory Council for over four years.
Cr McGrath said the occasion would be an old-fashioned fete.
“It is about making people aware of what is happening at the hospital,” Cr McGrath said.
October 20 coincides with the second day of the annual long-running junior basketball tournament in Millicent.
