Food, drink and snow weren’t the only things in plentiful supply at last weekend’s Chill N Glen Festival.
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Cash registers were jingling as business boomed with thousands drawn into the main street for the European festivities.
“We’ve achieved what we set out to and that was to have a lot of people floating around in the town during normally what is a quiet time of year,” Business In Glen’s Jim Ritchie told The Examiner on Tuesday.
But of course there is still room for improvement, he said.
“I think we’ve probably got to play around with the stall design to allow our local businesses to benefit a little bit more,” he said.
“It’s hard to know at this point whether they’ve done more business or not, without having much discussions with them.”
But from what organisers know so far, things are looking good.
And the main goal was achieved.
“We ended up enticing a heap of people to town,” Mr Ritchie said.
Organiser Kylie Hawkins said the festival achieved success in uniting all aspects of the community.
“The other goal we had with the event was to try and pull together the community to get back to what community is all about,” she said.
“Where we all pitch in and do something great where we can all benefit.
“I think the festival was an absolute success in achieving that goal.”
Ms Hawkins said many businesses took advantage of the increased activity, including Super Strawberry owner, Cecily Tarrant.
“One that stands to mind, Cecily Tarrant from the Super Strawberry brought her [food] bus to the town square for the event on the day,” Ms Hawkins said.
“She said she’s never been as busy as she was on Sunday after the event as well – she was absolutely blown away.
“She ran it solo which is really quite astounding.”
“Peppermints coffee lounge were also busy.”
Mr Ritchie said Kwong Sings also had a lucrative day.
“They said they had a really good run,” he said.
“It was fantastic.”