March 2010 Newsletter

Welcome Marketeers! Our March BCM and only nine more to go until BCM celebrates 30 years of welcomes and countless marketeers & visitors.

We’ve put together a pretty full day for our visitors out for a BCM experience. Starting with you and the spectacular offerings you present to arrivals.
Our other entertainments include musical Mullumbimby madness from Broadfoot in their debut appearance at BCM. Baby boomers to youth will find something to like with the bands music which mines the musical influences from other times and transposes to the modern idiom.

We’ll be also be richly entertained by the multi talented pupils of Bellingen Public School. They’ll be presenting both a choral performance at 10am on the BCM stage as well as a later performance by their string ensemble. Maestro music teacher Elizabeth Scott has worn her baton to a nub polishing the schools musicians to a radiant musical lustre. Moreover this active local school has mucked together and grafted willing parents and teachers to perform as this month’s BCM Community Group. Well deserving of your encouragement and support try to find the time to catch just one piece and applaud with abandon or, by raffle ticket (great prizes!), or pop a glittering coin in their collection buckets; to be found strategically placed on all major gates.

Jack, with Molly the Wonder Dog! , will absolutely win over the crowds with their performances through the day. Molly was given special dispensation by Bellingen Shire Council to perform in recognition of her status as a professional canine performer, just so she could appear at our otherwise ‘No Dogs Allowed’ Market. With her partner Jack, this clever kelpie has been a ‘howling’ success as they busked from one end of the country to the other.

On now to more mundane matters items worthy of your attention to be found elsewhere on this page.
Today you’ll have been given (separately) your BCM Census form (finally). For more info read ‘BCM Census’.

If you are using electrical equipment at our Market it’s that time again. “What time?” I hear you think, time to read “Watts Up” it could save you a little or a lot of money.

Another money saver is the item headed “Food for Taught” and definite reading for any BCM food vendors.
At least three or four times a year comes I get a little query by phone or email from the same group of women asking to confirm our next BCM date. The ‘Port’ ladies are a mysterious group of women from Port Macquarie (I’m assuming it’s their location and not their preferred beverage.) who, in something approaching a traditional pilgrimage hire a bus and driver to spirit them to Bello to plunder our Market, and then away! If you encounter one of these women be sure to give them a big BCM welcome from us all and send them and the rest of the people you meet thinking (fondly) BCM - not just a marketplace but great place to be.