This only became evident yesterday when a Panmure person (who wishes to remain anonymous) unexpectedly turned up, asked how much money we still needed, and promptly handed over all $14,768 of it. We couldn’t be happier. We can now start the procurement process for this desperately needed theatre equipment to help meet the growing demand of local men requiring a prostate biopsy.
We NOW have just one big thing left on our 2025 wish list: and that’s three children’s interactive play panels for the rooms of our Warrnambool, Portland and Camperdown Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) programs. Earlier this year we fundraised for two of these $5,400 panels for the new paediatric waiting room in our Warrnambool Emergency Department and the Hamilton CAMHS program space in our new Hamilton Mental Health facility. This distraction therapy for children aged three-years-and-up has proven to be such a hit we now want all of our CAMHS kids having access to it. This is the focus of our Christmas Appeal – our final fundraiser for the year. The online raffle that goes with it will start before the month ends. You’ll hear more about this soon. Meantime, we’d like to thank the Rotary Club of Portland Bay for its $1,000 donation towards the cost of the Portland CAMHS interactive play panel.
PHOTO > Bernie Bishop (left) and daughter Angela McNaughton (right) deliver their Koroit & District Angling Club’s very generous $1,552 donation to our SWH prostate cancer nurse specialist Nikki Payne and surgical services deputy director of nursing Eby Eapen Mathew.