Orange East Public School principal Glen Bourke praised community members who donated non-perishable items or made cupcakes for the school’s drought fundraiser on Friday.
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Mr Bourke said there was about a trailer worth of goods to be distributed and at least $1000 was raised through cup cake sales and donations.
He said since Monday about $3000 in money and items were donated and now he’s passing the baton to the other public primary schools in Orange.
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Member for Orange Phil Donato dropped by and is helping the school pass the non-perishable items on the Aussie Farmers for distribution and the money raised will go to Rural Aid’s Buy a Bale scheme as well as water and fuel.
He said there were between 500 and 600 cupcakes, which sold out and students also got behind the cause by baking about 300 of the cupcakes at school while to girls also raised $52 by baking biscuits at home and selling them for 50 cents each.
“That was the grass roots of it, kids putting their pocket money in,” Mr Bourke said.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
