Fiona Scott (Lindsay, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This Saturday Penrith will come alive with between 15,000 and 20,000 people taking to the streets to enjoy the Penrith City Festival. The festival is firmly entrenched in the community calendar as a family fun event bringing valuable tourism dollars to the region. This year, for the first time, the festival has added a schools business challenge, where four local schools will face off in a block styled competition to build a sustainable home. There will be over 100 food and business stalls. The parade, which I will be participating in, starts at 12.30 pm and will feature local schools, the best dressed vintage queen, stilt walkers, astronauts promoting the much-awaited iFLY Downunder, an indoor sky-diving facility which will be the first in Australia, free community games including noughts and crosses, snakes and ladders, bowling and much more. Local businesses and charities will be on show. The festival promises to be a fun-filled day for families across our region.

To add harmony and colour to the festival, the NRL will be at Jamison Park from 10 am, featuring football games and stalls as part of its Harmony Day activities. I look forward to catching up again with my good friend Nathan Pentecost and his wheel chair rugby league team. I encourage you all to make your way to the foot of the mountains this Saturday because we have it all happening in Penrith. And if there is still not enough for you to do, at 4.30 pm the mighty Panthers will take on the Canterbury Bulldogs.