By Charlene Macaulay
A lantern festival along the Federation Trail and a pop-up park in Point Cook are among a host of Wyndham-based festivals, art installations and community projects vying for a piece of state government funding.
Wyndham residents can cast their vote across 48 ideas as part of the Pick My Project initiative, with voting open between now and September 17 for residents 16 years and over.
Projects with the most votes in the western metro region will share in $1 million funding.
Ian MacGowan from the Williams Landing Residents Association is pushing for a lantern festival in April along the Federation Trail between Sayers Road and Skeleton Creek, which would include installations by artists, lanterns made by the community and decorative lights.
Point Cook Action Group’s Susan McIntyre, one of the driving forces behind a pop-up park at Point Cook Town Centre’s restaurant precinct along Murnong Street, said the park would give Point Cook locals “vibrancy and connectiveness right in the heart of our town centre”.
Other project ideas include:
•Transforming the Southern Rural Water water tower in Werribee into a giant artwork by painting a mural on its surface;
•Repairing bikes dumped at the Wyndham Waste and Recycling Transfer Station and making them available to local schools and disability, community and service groups;
•Hosting a tea and coffee festival that aims to share and celebrate cultural hot drinks; and
•A new score shed and storage garage for Wyndham BMX club.
Go to www.pickmyproject.vic.gov.au to vote.
