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Glittering night of stars

Saturday’s dance winners - Andrew Egan and Holly Menchin tied with Craig and Shannon Schofield
Posted by Jessica in Entertainment on 01 Jun 2010 at 09:54 am

Cooma once again showed itself to be a small town with a huge heart last weekend, when more than $120,000 was raised by the ‘Dancing with Cooma Stars’ gala event. On both Friday and Saturday night, 400 people packed into a transformed silver and hot pink MultiFunction Centre to support their favourite of 13 dancing ‘stars’ for the major fundraising event organised by the Monaro Committee of Cancer Research (MCCR). MCCR president, Sue Litchfield said the event exceeded all expectations, with $88,000 raised by Friday night – excluding the ticket sales. The running total, at time of going to press, was about $121,000, all of which will go to cancer services in the Monaro region. Mrs Litchfield was also authorised to announce that Cooma Hospital has been approved to begin breast cancer biopsy services. More details of this service will be made available later. What began as a “little idea” from MCCR vice president Sandy Schofield and Caroline Ewart for an alternative fund raiser, grew exponentially until 800 people enjoyed a theatre restaurant style of entertainment and another 280 enjoyed a matinee performance on Saturday afternoon. Mrs Litchfield said the event had touched the whole region and beyond, with donations coming from near and far. She paid tribute to the 13 dancer...
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