Three fun events over Valentine's weekend brought Cooktown's contribution to the Queensland Disaster Appeal to over $35,000. Not bad for a small town!
With the starlit backdrop of the Endeavour River, mouth-watering food, questions all about love, and, mostly, romantic prizes (not sure about the meat cleaver) the I Love Trivia Night was a roaring success, raising $1,080 for Cooktown Cares.
Every table was booked, the competition was fierce, but Cooktown's Chamber of Commerce team, The Chamber Pots, finally won the goody bags of wine and chocolate, which they donated back to the appeal for a future event.
Our big thanks to Dogged Bookkeeping's Jan Howard, who organised the wonderful evening and devised the fantastic questions, the team at Restaurant 1770 and Gill'd & Gutt'd, the businesses who donated the prizes, and to young helpers Zayne, Erryn and Ben, who kept everyone digging deep in their pockets for the cause.
On Saturday, the sale of pre-loved items at Bargain Bonanza II raised an amazing $2,600, bringing the total of the two Bring and Buy sales to a whopping $5,756.
Organisers Nicki Darvell, Sayah Scott and Rae Vela would like to thank everyone for their generous support and donations, the numerous volunteers who worked tirelessly unpacking and packing, sorting and selling, and Cook Shire Council for the use of the Shire Hall.
The items remaining will soon be going into St Vincent de Paul's storage, but if you would like to use any for a fund-raising event of your own, please contact Sayah on 07 4069 5203 as soon as possible.
On Valentine's Day, lovers of James Cook dressed in their best black to commemorate the anniversary of his death at a Mourning Tea at the James Cook Museum. Museum manager, Penny Johnson, kept everyone entertained with obscure historical facts from the era together with excellent coffee and chocolate cake, raising another $121.00 for the Appeal.
It was standing room only on Friday night at the RSL Memorial Club's fund-raiser in Cooktown, where the band CN3D kept everyone dancing, and a massive $15,000 was raised for the Queensland Disaster Appeal.
Over 40 local businesses donated a fantastic range of prizes including free gardening, outboard motor service, tours, meals, food, wine, accommodation, and a pizza a week for 40 weeks! The door prize, a day's fishing and snorkelling on Mr. Bill, was won by Graham Duncan.
Cooktown's donations to the Queensland Disaster Relief Appeal now total over $31,000 - an awesome amount for a small town. And there's still more to come!
Our thanks to everyone who has given so generously, and congratulations to Suzi, John and all the team who worked tirelessly to make the event such a roaring success.
