March 5, 2015
Six months of fundraising will come to a head next Friday when the Charlotte The Emu Memorial Committee hold an on-air auction on CROW-FM’s breakfast show.
The auction will offer dinners at local restaurants, jewellery, artwork, a family portrait photo shoot… even a genuine (and now genuinely rare and valuable) Beatles tea-towel from the 1960s.
The Emu Memorial Committee hope the result will also spell the end of six months of fund-raising activities that they’ve been pursuing since late September.
The group has a simple aim: they want to raise $10,000 to build a steel statue that will immortalise the town’s beloved emu, who was run over last May,
So far they’ve held one previous on-air auction and two outdoor movie nights, as well as put collection tins to receive public donations at selected businesses in Wondai, Murgon and Kingaroy.
“We’re very pleased with how we’re moving towards our target,” committee spokesman Chris “Corky” Corcoran said.
“We’re very close to achieving our goal now, and we’re hoping the on-air auction will raise enough to push us over the finish line.”
Corky said the memorial project was particularly nice because it was entirely community driven.
“The suggestion for the memorial came from the community in the first place. And all the funds that have been donated for it have come from the community, too,” he said.
“So when the Charlotte statue is unveiled, it will belong entirely to the community.”
The auction will run from 6:00am to 9:00am and Memorial Committee members will be manning the phones at the radio station to relay bids to the breakfast crew.
“We’re very excited – we’ve got some great auction items already and more are rolling in every day,” Corky said.
“And if we do manage to reach our target, expect to hear bells go off!”
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