Santa Claus Comes Back to Town- Celebrating the Mount Gambier Christmas Parade

2022 marks the 63rd year of the Mount Gambier Christmas Parade, with the floats and spectators returning to Commercial Street for the first time since the pandemic began. 

This beloved community event attracts spectators by the thousands, and celebrates not only Christmas, but togetherness and community spirit.  

But what does it take to coordinate Mount Gambier’s largest community event of the year? How do you reinvent the parade to make it COVID safe? And where did this well-loved Community event all begin?

In this episode we chat to the Team Leader of Community Events for the City of Mount Gambier Xarnia Keding, director of the Lions Club of Mount Gambier Brass Band Festival Mr Allen Woodham, and the woman who literally wrote the book on the history of the parade Lynne Lowe, as well as a hand full of library staff who were kind enough to share their own personal memories.