If you spend any time at all at the Bellingen Showgrounds, then Caroline Joseph's smiling face will be familiar to you.
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Whether it is walking her dog of an evening or preparing the pavilion for an event, making sandwiches in the kitchen or cleaning toilets ... or even chasing wayward horses in her pink pyjamas late at night, Caroline has been a part of what goes on there for the last 15 years.
And now, like many at this time of year, after three terms she is stepping aside from her position on the Bellingen Showground Trust.
"This has been a very special, much loved part of my life," Caroline said.
"When I first started the Trust, the Show Society and the Art Society were all one. I remember making corned beef sandwiches in the kitchen with Yvonne Tyson and her mother. I actually got to know the members of the Trust through my time in the kitchen - and cleaning toilets.
"I've done every job you can imagine. My first year on the committee I was the 'Minister of Weeds'. In those early days John Tickle did the mowing, as did my husband John Joseph. For me being on the Trust was a way to build bridges in our community.
"The showgrounds are for everyone - they are accessible and they are safe, and for campers, they are affordable."
Reflecting on the achievements of the last decade or so, she said calling all the user groups together to create the ten-year-plan for the showgrounds was an important achievement.
"There were hundreds of people - all the different equestrian groups, arts groups, music groups, education groups. And that plan was approved by Crown Lands and the Bellingen Shire Council (of which we are entirely independent). It guides our growth.
"The purchase of the additional 10 hectares next door is another achievement I am proud to have been part of. Paul Hoschke did much of the negotiating and it took five years but we got there."
Caroline has been instrumental in sourcing grants to re-roof and insulate all the buildings, redo all the internal roads, upgrade the bathrooms and build an disabled toilet.
"The camaraderie between the trust members has been so special - we have become friends through hard work and mutual respect."
Solar panels on the pavilion roof is however one project not yet achieved - something for the new committee.
