For more than 20 years, the Bennett family of North Narooma have decorated their home in Warbler Crescent with thousands of Christmas lights and held a Christmas eve street party with the view to raising money to help sick kids and their family.
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The lights are out for another year and I would like to thank the town of Narooma
- Trevor Bennett
This year the Bennett’s chose to donate the money raised to Narooma’s Hardy family to help towards expenses related to the treatment of their daughter Jasmine who suffered a stroke while she was still in the womb in 2012.
At seven months old a MRI confirmed that Jasmine had suffered a stroke in utero and she was diagnosed with Hemiplegia, a type of cerebral palsy.
Jazzi’s treatment takes the family to the Randwick Children’s Hospital in Sydney for several weeks, five to seven times a year to participate in intensive rehabilitation programs.
Trevor Bennett has spent the last couple of days taking down the Christmas lights and is thrilled with the result.
“The lights are out for another year and I would like to thank the town of Narooma for their great support in helping little Jazzi,” he said.
“We raised $3060.10 which has been passed along to the Hardy family.
“I couldn’t have done it without the help of some special people and I would like to thank Bob Bennett, Whacker’s Photos, John and Margaret Gellibrand for the lollies, the Abbott family, Jeff Rapley for the sausages, ABC Bakery for the bread, Narooma Ice Creamery for boxes of sweets, Gab, Warner and Ziggy who manned the barbecue on Christmas eve, Graham Osborne and his daughter for the music they played, Heidi Moritz, the Dalmeny Ice Cream Van who donated $600, neighbour elfin John and my lovely wife Karen for putting up with me.
“I’d also like thank my neighbours who went to the trouble of decorating their homes and for their lovely light displays that added to whole affect,” he said.