By JESSE GRAHAM
A HEALESVILLE bakery is throwing its support behind cancer research after tragic news close to home, and is encouraging locals to stop by and support its fund-raiser.
Healesville’s Wild Grains Bakehouse is running a fund-raiser for the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation, from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 July.
Wrist-bands and lapel ribbons will be on sale at the business, with all profits going to the foundation, and Julie-Anne Demanuele from Wild Grains said $1 from each coffee and $2 from every specially made cake pop would also be donated.
Ms Demanuele and her colleague Brittany Anson told the Mail that the fund-raiser was organised after the tragic news that their co-worker’s husband, who is living with the disease, had just weeks left to live.
The bakery is aiming to raise at least $1000 for the foundation as a show of support, and Ms Demanuele said that donations would be accepted after the fund-raiser ends on Sunday.
She said the staff would also be sporting beanies – one of the more public symbols for brain cancer awareness.
Wearing a beanie for brain cancer awareness was made famous earlier this year, when The Project presenter, Carrie Bickmore, wore a beanie at her Gold Logie acceptance speech for her late husband, Greg, who died of the disease.
According to the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation, the disease has a very high mortality rate; roughly two in 10 people diagnosed survive for more than five years.
For more information about the fund-raiser, visit Wild Grains Bakehouse at 201a Maroondah Highway, Healesville.
For more information about brain cancer, or to donate to the cause, visit www.curebaincancer.org.au.
See next week’s Mail for the result of the fund-raiser.
