Halloween in Bligh Park

I haven't always been a Halloween fan, but when I went doorknocking several years ago in Bligh Park in the Hawkesbury part of my electorate, I started to see the fun of it. There were houses decorated with spiderwebs and pumpkins, and such a sense of fun and community. Now it's one of my favourite afternoons, as Bligh Park Community Services has picked up and run with the theme, holding a huge event at the Tiningi centre, bringing volunteers in from local schools and elsewhere to help. There is face-painting, ghoulish games and a very scary-looking haunted house adventure, and babies through to grandparents are there in costumes of all descriptions. The pair dressed up as Beetlejuice and the magnificent Day of the Dead characters were real highlights this year. Congratulations to Bligh Park Community Services and all the volunteers involved. To the Bligh Park residents who decorate their homes and take part in the event, you show an incredible sense of community through those actions.