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SIX local charities will share in close to $40,000 raised by Ipswich City Council through its popular community Christmas tradition.
The decision was made last year for the Christmas Wonderland lights display to be ticketed to best manage the event during COVID-19.
Although the event in Nerima Gardesn at Queens Park is usually free, it was used as a chance to raise crucial funds for local organisations hamstrung by the pandemic. Christmas Wonderland 2020. Photo: Jim Madden MP
A total of $47,295 was raised from the event through ticket sales but just over $8000 went towards ticketing and credit card fees.
I know people are still going through that 33 years later. This year, she and the Ipswich Hospital Foundation have joined forces to establish a fund in honour of Regina. Regina Doig pictured with her mother. (James Sturges) from the Ipswich Hospital Foundation told me he had an idea I might appreciate, Vicki said. Together, they re striving to fund local research through the Regina Doig Fund to make it possible for cancer patients to be treated locally. This research is going to help people with cancer so they won t have to go to Brisbane anymore, she said. If there had been more facilities locally (when Regina was sick), it would have been easier for her.