General News
7 April, 2024
Trots prove a winner for Amity Club
COLLECTIONS at Boort Trotting Club’s two race meetings have helped the town’s Amity Club again add to the Good Friday Appeal coffers. Members Lynette Clarke and Margaret Piccoli spent several hours on Friday afternoon counting money collected in...
COLLECTIONS at Boort Trotting Club’s two race meetings have helped the town’s Amity Club again add to the Good Friday Appeal coffers.
Members Lynette Clarke and Margaret Piccoli spent several hours on Friday afternoon counting money collected in tins at local businesses over the past year.
They waited until later in the day to allow Lynette to compete in the town’s annual tennis tournament.
The two have been co-ordinating Amity’s efforts for the Good Friday Appeal for almost a decade while the club’s involvement went back further.
Lynette said the trotting club meetings were the major contributors to fundraising efforts.
Boort Trotting Club was also part of a state-wide Harness Racing Victoria effort last year to support the Royal Children’s Hospital.
This year’s appeal raised a record-breaking $23,368,724 with regional hospitals, including Bendigo, to be assisted through the appeal for the first time.