FOR Laura Cameron, one of her most treasured childhood memories was the much anticipated weekend of the Griffith show.
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"I remember sitting on the grass, watching the fireworks with my friends and I think about how good it was when we were young, I don't want the kids today to miss out because it really is one of my more treasured memories,” she said
“It really brought the whole community together.”
It is a drive to bring something back to her community that has spurred Miss Cameron to organise Griffith's 2016 show, set to be held Sunday, October 2.
It’s a tricky business organising a show from the ground up and Miss Cameron has a full-time job, two casual jobs and is studying beauty therapy on top of it.
It’s a workload that she says takes up ‘all of her time’ but she maintains she is surrounded by people who have been ready and willing to lend her a hand.
“When I was young I always used to come to the show and I really enjoyed it but I never realised all of the work that goes into it,” Miss Cameron said.
“I couldn’t do it without Yvette McKenzie and Kerry Brill and all the men and women who had the experience and the ASC has also been really helpful.
“It has been hectic, but rewarding.”
Despite having to cut the schedule back to only one day to make the show a reality, Miss Cameron has promised the city they will still see all their old favourites on the day.
“We want to move back to being an agricultural show and we also want to get it back to being a family fun day with novelty events between shows,” Miss Cameron said.
“There will be rides and showbags, a food court, the Miss Showgirl competition, wood chopping, all of the horse events scheduled and of course the fireworks as usual.
“But there will also be some new events running like ‘wife carrying’ which should be great.
“We’re trying to get it back to basics, we have a completely new committee – we have started again and we are on track.”
The Griffith Show wasn’t held in 2015 after it was put in recess by the committee.
At the time, Griffith Show Society treasurer Denny Fachin said he didn’t think the show would be held again.
“Last year was difficult because we couldn’t find volunteers to do certain jobs so we had to pay people to do certain jobs then some of our sponsors pulled out,” Mr Fachin said.
A large crowd attended an emergency meeting and vowed to help in years to come if the show was held again.
