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Fundraiser for Stacie
By Jo Kennett
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THE TWEED Coast American Motorcycle Club is holding a big fundraiser for a local resident undergoing cancer treatment in Germany, and would love to see the community turn out in support at the Riverview Hotel, Murwillumbah, on Sunday, July 16, from 10am to 2pm Club treasurer Therron Hayes said that Stacie Walker has been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and unfortunately no further treatment was available to the young mum here so she is getting advanced treatment overseas.
“It’s really, really expensive,” Therron told The Weekly.
“It’s costing them around $1,300 a day for the treatment and the accommodation is on top of that, so all up it’s about $2,000 a day.
“They have been gone a month and a half but they will be back for the fundraiser as her first course of treatment is over.”
Stacie is the brother of Murwillumbah Mustangs first grade player Adam ‘Stretch’ Walker and has a five-year-old daughter who is staying with family while her parents are away.
“Her partner Matty is self-employed as a tiler so funds are slim while he is over there,” Therron said.
“We have gone around all the local businesses mainly in Murwillumbah and asked for donations for raffle prizes and everyone was so supportive and contributed thousands of dollars in prizes.
“We will be doing a major raffle with smaller raffles during the day.
“Tweed Escapes’ Michael Simmons has donated a three-hour boat tour for 30 people and a barbecue boat for 12 people for a day, so we will auction those off during the day.
“He has done that before for another person we were fundraising for, he’s been fantastic and he has a great business.”
Therron said there will be plenty of raffles and
HELP NEEDED: auctions on the day as well as $20 motorbike rides for people that want to jump on the back of a bike for a quick run.
“We have donated $3,000 to Stacie already from our annual run but the treatment is going to cost them $100,000 all up so we are trying to make it a bit easier for them.
“This donation will take us over $150,000 raised for people in need in the last 13 years.
“We don’t do big charities, we donate 100 per cent of what we raise straight to the people that need it.
“We’d love to see as many people come along as possible because the more people that turn up the more we can donate to Stacie and her family.”
To donate via Stacie’s GoFundMe page please Google or web search: ‘Fund Stacie get Advanced Cancer treatments she needs’.
