{"id":4169,"date":"2014-04-13T02:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:52:21","slug":"the-little-towns-with-the-big-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/the-little-towns-with-the-big-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"The little towns with the big hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Words:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Lucie van den Berg
\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Tim Carrafa<\/p>\n

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Locals show therir support at the annual Berriwillock Good Friday Appeal charity auction at the Golden Crown Hotel in Berriwillock. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rising prices rattle out of the auctioneer\u2019s throat as quickly as the beer flows down the bidder\u2019s gullets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Auction item No. 64 is held high above the hundreds of heads, paraded like a sports trophy or a baby who has just been baptised.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a dirty old brick someone found in the beer garden, but tonight it\u2019s billed as bushranger Ned Kelly\u2019s doorstop. When the bids pass $50 it\u2019s clear the punters crammed into the tiny pub are not just lubricated with the local brew, they are drunk with generosity.<\/p>\n

Spuds, chooks and pot plants are soon as inflated as Melbourne\u2019s property market.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s well before midnight when a pumpkin fetches $100.<\/p>\n

But there will be no buyer\u2019s remorse in the tiny town of Boorhaman, 18km north of Wangaratta.<\/p>\n

The auction is how its 25 residents make more money for The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019s Good Friday Appeal per capita than any other town in the country last year. For the top five most generous communities it\u2019s a cause that couldn\u2019t be closer to their hearts, yet be farther from their homes.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Sunday Herald Sun.<\/p>\n

To donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, go to\u00a0goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter which town you visit, everyone knows someone who has been a patient. Read about the tiny towns supporting the Good Friday Appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}