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Wee Kids fundraiser

My beautiful niece Saskia (pic inset) was diagnosed with having a major problem with both of her kidneys when she was born, and within 3 months of her life, she had 2 sets of operations on both of her kidneys. Without the operations she would not have lived. And it is all thanks to Paddy Dewan and his staff for giving her back a normal life.

So each year the Wee Kids foundation (which includes my brother Paul and his wife Loretta on the board) get together to raise funds for all kids with urological disorders, and they do this, by running a fund raising night to get enough money to purchase machinery needed to operate on these kids.

Last year the night raised $A70,000 and this year they want to raise another $A60,000 to purchase an (ECRS) Endoscopic Computer Recording System.

The auction had 34 items up for sale as well as a silent auction, a silent auction allows you participate without the hype. You walk about tables with goods on them and write down your bidding price, the highest bidder at a certain time in the night wins (much like ebay) and the other auction is the traditional auctioneer who stands on stage with hammer and hollering at the top of his lungs, taking the bids.

My brother won a original "Bianco" poster from the 1920's and I won a commemorative signed bat by Matthew Haydon (Australian batsman), this bat was signed and framed when he broke the world record as the highest individual score of 380 in test cricket. (Brian Lara from West Indies has since brocken that record with 400 n.o).

This bat pictured is going to be placed in my study as I am a mad keen cricket lover and shown off when we get vistors, hopefully in a few years this piece of sporting history will be worth a lot of money.

posted by grechy @ 9:35 pm