Cafe Chat

27 Jul 2020

1. Name: Siobhan Ross
2. What is your role/Which café do you work at?: Team Leader at DCafe and Sea Breeze Cafe
3. Have you always lived in FNQ? If not, where did you come from and how long have you been here: I have lived in Cairns for 12 years, I came here from Port Macquarie in NSW.
4. How long have you been with the Foundation: Nine years in October
6. How did you come to start working with us: Applied to Seabreeze Cafe from a newspaper advert in the Cairns Post.
7. Star sign: Capricorn
8. Interest, hobbies, past-times: Camping, bush, beach walking, reading (fiction), knitting.
9. Tell us about your family – kids, grandkids, great grandkids? Myself and adult son.
10. What do you do with yourself when you are not working with us? Camping, relaxing, watching bands, attending music festivals.
11. What do you enjoy most about working with us? The variety and helping towards fundraising for the Foundation.
13. What do you know about the Foundation and it’s role within the community? Mostly its fundraising activities and purchase of much-needed equipment for our hospital.s

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