As you can see it was all hands on deck. Celia was there too. Thanks to Sule for getting involved and looking the part too. Thanks to Phoebe and Mary who, with Mari's help, raised $122!! It's a new record. You girls are legends.
Ticket sales from the market were $485.60 so together that's $607.60! Amazing.
Over at Fairfield we had a two support crew members down - both Pete and Doug had the lurgies which meant Jacqui had to step in and be a soccer mum. Jax was on the phone organising her friend Louise to come down and help for couple of hours. Louise is also having a garage sale next week at her place in Ashby Street with all proceeds going to our fund!! At 12 o'clock, in walked Emma who had come from her 5.30 start at the markets to fill the gap in the Fairfield roster then started selling away.
At the shopping centre, it was much quieter than last week. The petting zoo wasn't there and there were a lot less people milling about - perhaps because of the long weekend. AND no Truly the spruiker on the microphone. But we did have a small but steady stream of well-wishers and customers including people who were quite open about having cancer themselves. It was at times a lot more sobering and emotional than I had expected. There are quite a few ticket holders out there who don't want that gym membership... or the bike! Having the list of items has been great - people have enjoyed checking it out. One guy today went all the way down the list and when he saw the Sol Breads voucher at the very bottom of the list he pointed at it and said that was the one for him and fingers crossed!
After my shift had finished I went home and did a quick hour-long ride. It was great to have a "i know who you are!" type of beeping behind me as I rode along Dornoch Terrace. It was Cate who must have been on her way to do her shift at Fairfield.
I don't know how much we made today at Fairfield yet so watch this space.
Sunday edit: Fairfield's total was $473.90 which is pretty amazing considering how few people there seemed to be. The total for the day was $1081.50! We all deserve a celebratory beer. What an effort.
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