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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016
$52 1 1 1 5 21 years collecting for the RCH Good Friday Appeal ■ NEXT WEEK’S Good Friday Appeal Collection in Yea will mark the 21st anniversary of Cheryl O’Halloran’s role as voluntary local co-ordinator. Since 1996, Cheryl, her husband Robert, daughters Lyndal and Rebecca, and a team of volunteers, have collected more than half-a-million dollars for the Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal. Yea has featured prominently each year on the Victorian country board on the Channel 7 telethon.
● Cheryl O’Halloran, Yea’s local co-ordinator for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
● It’s a family affair for the O’Hallorans: from left, Darby Tait on Robert O’Halloran’s knee, twins Charlie Grant and Charlotte Grant behind, and Bridie Tait on Cheryl O’Halloran’s knee.
Local volunteers will be taking collections on Thursday and Friday (April 25) at the intersection of High St and Miller St, Yea. The O’Halloran family first started collecting as volunteers in 1996 with local Kerry Tull and her family, taking over from Yea Apex Club which had previously collected, but had stopped for a few years. Over the years, both the O'Halloran and Tull families have grown in numbers (recruiting part-
ners, and now their own children) adding to the volunteers numbers. Significantly, Brendan Tull, Robert O'Halloran, Lyndal Tait (nee O'Halloran) and Rebecca Grant (nee O'Halloran) have not missed one year of collecting and counting money. Cheryl and Kerry decided to recommence the collections locally, as Yea had not featured on the rural collections board for a few years, and they felt a need for the local community to support this important Victorian charity. Along with highway collections, a number of other fundraising activities have taken place over the years. These have included cake and produce stalls, raffles, auctions, trivia nights, garden parties; street tin collections, dance nights and catering. Other local community groups have run their own functions to make significant contributions to the local tally. The Yea Dance Group, headed by Lesley Cassell, has donated a generous cheque every year. Members of the local CFA have given their time over more than 15 years to help with the highway collections. Turn To Page 6
Half-a-million raised for hospital Yea’s yearly totals 2015 - $42,290 2014 - $43,800 2013 - $33,260 2012 - $50,000 20 11 - $3 7,700 2011 $37 2010 - $36,000 2009 - $33,500 2008 - $32,000 2007 - $31,758 2006 - $29 2 $29,,17 172 2005 - $24,379 2004 - $21, 121 $21,121 2003 - $19,055 2002 - $18,039 200 196 20011 - $13, $13,196 2000 - $16,527 1999 - $13,085 1998 - $11,233 1997 - $8500 1996 - $6500
● From left: Cheryl O’Halloran, Brian Phillips, Robert O’Halloran, Cindy McLeish and Al Tait.
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