EB Awareness Event – October, 2010
 

The weather wasn’t too kind to us on the day that I held my afternoon tea for Butterfly Day, and an array of wet umbrellas covered my front veranda. Members travelled from Adelaide to attend and help me out on the day. Other guests included red hatter ladies (these are a group of ladies whom describe themselves as growing old disgracefully), Kate’s art group, neighbours and a few close friends.

There was plenty of great food to eat, especially Laraine’s famous chocolate cake. My home made vanilla slice was a treat too. Guests were officially welcomed by Victor Harbor’s Deputy Mayor, Pat Chigwidden, who also drew the raffle for the signed cricket bat and the butterfly port. Both winners were from Queensland. Fay Grant won the cricket bat and our national secretary’s children won the port. The port has been donated back to us, to re- use as a prize on another occasion.

A total of $300.00 was raised on the day which went to the Debra Australia. The total tally from the raffle was $2000 and along with a donation of $1000 from the Richmond Lions Club we were able to donate this to the research team at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide. Kate presented a cheque to Zlatko Kopecki on the day.

Left: Kate presenting the $3000 cheque to Zlatko for the research team

We would also like to thank Kim Doecke and Kate’s art friend, Sue for the donations of prizes which were used for lucky door prizes.

Linda Turner
Secretary, Debra (SA)
 

Stop Press!

On behalf of Debra SA we would like to thank Aaron Mavrokefalos for such a wonderful job in filming, editing and compiling a DVD which will be used for EB awareness purposes. I believe Laraine has already used it at one of her many presentations.  Don’t forget to watch on Debra’s “You Tube” channel and linked from Debra’s website soon.

City to Bay
 

A small group of us left from Centro Kurralta Shopping Centre, on Sunday 19th September for the 2010 City to Bay. We entered the 6km section and all finished this distance with no injuries. Phew for that, something we are all very happy about. We were definitely not out to set any records, we decided to take our time and lap up the perfect weather conditions. At times we had stops to rest and also managed to have a chat with some friends that decided to come out that morning to urge us all on. Some of us collected sponsorship money from family and friends; $233.30 was raised in total. We thank all who supported us; all donations were to Debra SA. Once again we wore our bright purple tops that have the EB logo printed on them. So yes we did stand out and this hopefully in return does help to raise the awareness of this incurable skin disorder. Kate was wheeled for 5km, but she was determined to walk some of the way this year. The 1km that Kate walked was done in stages and Kate completed the race also by walking through the finish line – great effort Kate, you go girl! All in all, it was a great day for a great cause.

See you for this year’s City to Bay – Sunday 18th September 2011.

Kim Doecke
Assistant Secretary for Debra (SA)