Sale raises record amount

The ninth biennial Pearl Beach Craft Exhibition and Sale was held over the long weekend of October 1 and 2.

Large crowds visited the Pearl Beach Memorial Hall, despite heavy rain on the Sunday, with a record amount of $6000 raised by the Pearl Beach Craft Group.

Funds were shared between Medecins Sans Frontieres ($3000), The National Stroke Foundation ($1200) and Scleroderma Australia, as well as the local Rural Fire Service and the Pearl Beach Progress Association for its newly constructed hall deck.

A raffle was also held at the event as part of the fund raising with first prize, a handmade quilt, awarded to Phil Gordon, second place, an antique doll, to Sonia Redell, and third and fourth prizes, both two for one zoo entries, were won by Richard Bridel and Benjamin Haynes respectively.

The separate raffle of a doll's house was won by Ms Margaret Lynn of Coal Point.

Media Release, 10 Oct 2011 Bev Lapacek, Pearl Beach Craft Group