By KATRINA BRANDON
OUR Kinda Country Club held its annual Royal Children’s Hospital fundraiser at Traralgon’s Flanagan’s Irish Bar on March 29.
This year marked the 15th running of the event.
About 60 people attended, where they listened to music and networked, raising $3604.55, topped up to $5000 from the Our Kinda Country Club.
Bill Rowley, Evan Platschinda, Chris Newman, Wayne Sutton, Bryce Wright, Margaret Wilson, Colin Sellings, Hanny Forster, Karla Clancy and David Graham were a selection of the musicians to keep the tunes coming.
Mr Rowley and Mr Platschinda emceed. Assisting the duo with the auction was Member for Morwell, Martin Cameron.
“I have been able to come down and do this every year,” Mr Cameron told the crowd.
“It’s a great thing we do, raising money for the children’s hospital. Most of us, or someone in this room, has been touched, whether it has been their own child, a family member, or a friend, where they have needed to rush a child down to the Royal Children’s Hospital.”
Mr Cameron praised the efforts of the event’s attendees and organisers.
Keeping Mr Platschinda motivated to continue auctioneering, he told the crowd his daughter had previously needed hospital assistance.
Now, she herself is helping to raise money for the hospital, working alongside fundraisers in Melbourne.
The RCH has been providing care to Victoria’s children and their families for more than 150 years. While the state government funds the hospital’s standard operating costs, donations support clinical excellence. The programs and initiatives funded by donations deliver outcomes that go above and beyond the hospital’s normal day-to-day activities.
