Cruise adds up for hospice

Photo by Craig Baxter.
Photo by Craig Baxter.
Cars belonging to about 80 families and car enthusiasts leave Tahuna Park in Dunedin yesterday as part of a charity cruise around Dunedin yesterday to raise money for Otago Community Hospice.

Among them was Margaret Gallacher and her grandson Jack Ingram (6).

Mrs Gallacher said her husband, Jim, spent time in the hospice before his death last year, and as car enthusiasts for many years, doing the cruise in her husband's "baby", a 1973 Mini, seemed an ideal way to do something good for the hospice.

The hospice was "wonderful" and needed all the financial help it could get, she said.

Six months in the planning, the Otago Community Hospice Charity Cruise was the second annual event organised and run by the Southern Skyline Enthusiasts car club.

Member Andrew Webster proposed the cruise after his mother died in the hospice in November 2008. The fundraiser was his way of saying thanks for looking after her, he said.

The cruise raised about $980.

 

 

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