FOLLOWING last year\u2019s success, Ararat families will again be able to enjoy a family carnival later this month.<\/p>\n
The carnival will be at a new venue \u2013 Kokoda Public Reserve \u2013 and will offer a fun, safe event for people of all ages.<\/p>\n
Running from the 18th<\/sup> to the 20th<\/sup> of February, the carnival will offer families all sorts or rides and amusements including dodgem cars, jumping castles, twister cha cha, Wallygator Kids Ride, Bungee trampolines and the ultimate party machine.<\/p>\n Carnival spokeswoman Christine Woodall said her team are looking forward to entertaining the Ararat community once again.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really enjoyed coming to Ararat and not only is it a beautiful city, we discovered it has lots of beautiful restaurants,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re at Kokoda Public Reserve, we would have preferred the previous location (Gordon Street) but there is work going on there,\u201d Ms Woodall said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe would like to get more people along to the fireworks. People don\u2019t realise, it costs a lot to put on the fireworks and we would love more people to come to the carnival on the Saturday night to enjoy them.\u201d<\/p>\n The carnival will be held over three days – Friday 18th February 5pm-10.30pm, Saturday 19th February 12pm-10.30pm and Sunday 20th February 11am-5pm.<\/p>\n The fireworks display will be held at 9.30 on Saturday night and pet owners near Kokoda Public Reserve are asked to make sure their animals are restrained.<\/p>\n Admission is $2 per person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOLLOWING last year\u2019s success, Ararat families will again be able to enjoy a family carnival later this month. The carnival will be at a new venue \u2013 Kokoda Public Reserve \u2013 and will offer a fun, safe event for people of all ages. Running from the 18th to the 20th of February, the carnival will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-aY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}