SOMETIMES it takes a little while to convince people they’ve won a car!
When Lance Davis got the phone call last week to say he’d won a new Toyota Yaris, it took some convincing.
He was sceptical when he answered the phone, and received a text message and spoke to the dealer principal of Pacific Toyota, but it was only when he went in and saw the car for himself that he believed it.
The North Cairns retiree was extremely happy with the windfall, which comes with 12 months’ registration.
He bought six tickets at a shopping centre, but never expected to be the winner.
“I’ve never really won too much – I did win a barbecue in the yellow ducks a couple of years back. But I’m always buying raffle tickets so it’s nice to be the winner this time around. And of course it’s nice to support the Hospital Foundation,” Mr Davis said.
He won the car, worth $19,000, in the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation’s Car for a Cause Art Union, with funds raised going to the surgical microscope campaign.
Foundation fundraising and marketing manager Glenys Duncombe said without the vital support of people like Mr Davis, the Foundation would not be able to achieve its goals.
“We hope to have an announcement in a couple of weeks about the microscope, and that’s due to support like this,” Ms Duncombe said.
The new surgical microscope being sought will enable surgeons to see on a high definition screen the tiniest of blood vessels, in fine detail. Of particular benefit, is the fact that when tissue is transplanted from one part of the body to another, surgeons can see whether blood is flowing through which determines if the operation is a success.
