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Community & Business
16 December, 2022
Big efforts allow for ventilator purchase
THE Cairns RFDS has been given an additional $11,000 courtesy of the RFDS Near and Far Auxiliary and Atherton Rotary as two separate cheques were presented at their last meeting of the year recently.
RFDS Cairns Base Manager Samuel Okposin receiving the Atherton Rotary $5000 cheque by rotary members Pauline Spackman, Glenda Smith and Leigh Woltman, and Auxiliary members Lorna Lavaring (back left), Brenda Agius, Cheryl O’Keefe and Susanne Gane.
Over the course of the year, the RFDS Near & Far Auxiliary has been able to donate just shy of $50,000 to the Cairns RFDS, enabling them to outright purchase a ventilator – a vital piece of equipment during evacuations.
At their last meeting of the year the Auxiliary was able to hand over a $5000 donation from Atherton Rotary while the Auxiliary themselves donated a $2000 cheque thanks to the efforts of the Weipa community's Running of the Bulls event.
Mr Okposin being presented the $7000 cheque by Auxiliary members Lorna Lavaring, Brenda Agius, Cheryl O’Keefe and Susanne Gane.
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