Mark August 18 on your calendar. The Glen Innes Lioness Club is holding their annual trivia night, raising money for two sick children.
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The club hopes to raise $10,000 for six-year-old Poppy Challacombe, diagnosed with leukaemia, and 11-year-old Bradley Knox, diagnosed with a bone tumour.
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The trivia night starts at the Glen Innes and District Services Club at 7pm. Attendees will be able to get a bar meal from 6pm.
The theme will be “Through the Decades”, with trivia questions asked from each different periods.
There will be an auction on the night, and raffles on the street. Items include a TV, kitchen package, handbags, wallets, and jewellery.
“All the money raised will go to those two kids,” organisers Heather Black, Kay Arthur, and Katrina Brewer said.
The Lionesses say new members are always welcome.
“We do a lot of stuff in town,” Kay Arthur said, “and if anybody’d like to join, feel free! We won’t turn anybody away.”
Poppy Challacombe
Six-year-old Poppy Challacombe was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on Valentine’s Day. Within two hours, Poppy and her mother Casey were on a flight to the nearest children’s oncologist, 450 km away in Newcastle.
Poppy has a good prognosis and a fantastic team on her side, her family said. She has had multiple blood transfusions, a few minor surgeries, and numerous daily medications.
Poppy and her family are living between John Hunter Children’s Hospital and the Newcastle Ronald McDonald House. They are expected to be away from home for up to eight months.
When they finally leave the hospital, Poppy will have to take oral chemo and make monthly trips back to Newcastle for another two and a half years.
This little family have had a rough time the last three years.
Poppy’s mother Casey has been sick for months with gall bladder infections. She finally had surgery at the end of January, only two weeks before Poppy’s diagnosis.
Her father Murray also battled cancer in his youth with multiple rounds of chemotherapy for lymphoma. They just can’t believe it’s happened again.
Her parents had to shut their restaurant, only a couple of months before Murray’s parents were killed in a car accident.
The family lost their support system and their home. They sold the family farm, and moved to Glen Innes for a fresh start.
Murray worked hard to support his family, but when Poppy and Casey headed to Newcastle he had to quit working nights and look after four-year-old Percy.
The family are all in Newcastle, and want to stay together to support Poppy in her battle with cancer.
Bradley Knox
Bradley Knox was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone tumour, in April, shortly before his eleventh birthday.
He will be in Sydney until the end of the year, undergoing chemotherapy at the Westmead Children’s Hospital, Sydney, and staying at the Ronald McDonald House.
His sister Annabell Knox had her head shaved last week to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.
She raised more than $1000 before the event – and another $50 came in while she was in the barber’s chair.
A second fund-raising day will be held at Glen Innes School. Half the money will go to a brain cancer foundation, and half to the World’s Greatest Shave.
If you want to sponsor Annabell, you can do so on the World’s Greatest Shave webpage.