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Ballarat’s Biggest Heritage Book Sale Weekend

Ballarat Airport

11C Boomerang Road,
Mitchell Park VIC 3355

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  • 17 & 18 May

10am–4pm

As part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival, the Rotary Club of Ballarat East are hosting Ballarat's Biggest Heritage Book Sale Weekend at the Ballarat Airport.

Just follow Liberator Drive to the airport, signage is provided.

There will be over 30,000 books for sale, with a focus on historic and aeronautical books.

Plus, grab yourself some lunch from their barbeque which will be available throughout the day.

Prices from $1 , with children's books starting at 50 cents.

A huge range of other book genres will also be available including novels, classics, cooking, craft , biographies, travel, music, art, history, DVD's, as well as a large military selection.

There are also books of interest to collectors and a selection of large print novels.

Payment can be made by card or cash and the site is wheelchair accessible.

All profits from the sale go toward supporting local charities. Over the past year the book sales have supported The Fiona Elsie cancer research institute, hospice, the Ballarat Community Care Centre, local bush fire and flood appeals, end polio, the Smith Family, Rotary sanitation projects in Nepal and Rotary overseas medical aid projects.

This event is being hosted as part of Ballarat Heritage Festival's Entertainment of the Air.

Content: Ballarat East Rotary Club

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  • Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
  • Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.

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