THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 26 30 Issue No. 1947
27 Oct- 2 Nov 2022
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FINISHING TOUCH Linda Hall CAROL NEWTON, one of the Mojacar FaXtor organisers, re cently contacted the Euro Weekly News with a surprise postscript. The successful Ukraine fundraiser, which concluded with a €5,001 cheque for the Red Cross, included a raffle with a first prize of a seven night break for two in a studio apartment at the San Antonio fourstar hotel in Malta. This was available because Carol had recently been diag nosed with breast cancer and, aware that they could not take their usual holiday, she and her partner instead added the holiday to the raffle prizes. “Let someone else enjoy it,” she declared when the Eu ro Weekly News first spoke to her in June. The Mojacar FaXtor initia tive followed on from Carol’s head shave that raised €2,011 and which she handed over to the Ukrainian Refugee Relief Fund. Then came an even brighter idea. Why not organise a talent contest to help the victims of the wartorn country? This evolved into Mojacar
Photo credit: Carol Newton
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Carol Newton waiting to leave Huercal-Overa hospital.
FaXtor, with heats held in multiple venues in Mojacar and the surrounding area throughout the summer. Each heat winner secured a place in the Grand Finale that was held at the Miraflores Bar in Los Gallardos, with runners up entering a local semifinal. The overall winner was Julie Marshall, although there were also prizes for those in second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth place. The €500 prize money, raised from the raffle, was in creased to €660 to ensure a cash prize for the six finalists
and, after deducting minor as sociated expenses of €80, the Mojacar FaXtor was able to hand over €5,001 to the Red Cross. There was also a heart warming and unexpected se quel to the project, whose beneficiaries were nearer home. “Good news!” Carol told us on October 22, shortly after returning home following her cancer operation at Huercal Overa hospital. “The Malta holiday was donated back by the winner who was unable to use it,”
Carol said. “It was run as a separate raffle for the Vera and District Lions Club at separate events at the New Bar International in Arboleas and at the Mi raflores Bar in Los Gallardos.” This raffle, which raised a total of €700 for the Lions was drawn on Tuesday October 18 and went to a Miraflores resident, owner of ticket number 408, Carol said.
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