Communities across Ararat Rural City have again thrown their support behind the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, raising over $50,000.<\/p>\n
In Ararat, CFA volunteers and dozens of local children scoured local streets on Good Friday, collecting $10,102.<\/p>\n
A further $4,235 was collected at the traffic lights and more than $1,000 was raised at a concert two weeks ago at the RSL.<\/p>\n
Coupled with collection tins (also known as Wellbys), individual fundraisers by groups like Ararat Motorcycle Club and direct pledges to the Good Friday Appeal hotline, Ararat\u2019s grand total was $36,506.<\/p>\n
Ararat CFA Captain Daniel Ramsdell said donations were on par with last year, although volunteer numbers had dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the same money wise but there weren\u2019t as many people, because of school holidays I\u2019m hoping,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe probably lost 30 to 40 kids. We usually have five busses with 20 on each but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA big thanks to the volunteers, they have done a massive job,\u201d Captain Ramsdell said.<\/p>\n
In Willaura, approximately $11,000 has been raised for this year\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a wonderful result for the Children\u2019s Hospital, and the committee is thrilled with the generosity shown by our community,\u201d said Willaura Branch President of the appeal, Jo Byron.<\/p>\n
In particular, Ms Byron was delighted with the response to the raffle, donations through the Community Bank Welbys as well as bidders in the wood auction.<\/p>\n
The wood choppers were Les Bright, Justin Coote, Mick Ryan and Pararway Pastoral Company, and their efforts contributed close to $2,000 to the Willaura tally.<\/p>\n
Winner of the raffle was Zoe Brain and the donor hamper was won by Jo Armytage.<\/p>\n
Last week the Advocate reported on the Maroona Hotel\u2019s amazing $488 donation to the RCH Good Friday Appeal via its over stuffed \u2018Welby\u2019 tin.<\/p>\n
The good news is that when Willaura RCH Good Friday Appeal Committee treasurer Colin Easton dropped into the pub on Good Friday afternoon he found that after just two weeks, patrons had tossed in another $360, taking the total to a very generous $848.<\/p>\n
Even better, when the drinkers realised how close they were to the thousand dollar mark they rallied around on the spot and scrounged enough to take the final total to $1,003!<\/p>\n
Well done Maroona!<\/p>\n
The Pomonal community raised a staggering $35,000 \u2013 mostly from a classic car show.<\/p>\n
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Communities across Ararat Rural City have again thrown their support behind the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, raising over $50,000.
\nIn Ararat, CFA volunteers and dozens of local children scoured local streets on Good Friday, collecting $10,102.
\nA further $4,235 was collected at the traffic lights and more than $1,000 was raised at a concert two weeks ago at the RSL.
\nCoupled with collection tins (also known as Wellbys), individual fundraisers by groups like Ararat Motorcycle Club and direct pledges to the Good Friday Appeal hotline, Ararat\u2019s grand total was $36,506.
\nIn Willaura, approximately $11,000 has been raised for this year\u2019s appeal.
\nThe Pomonal community raised a staggering $35,000 \u2013 mostly from a classic car show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_6411-3-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-eL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}