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:...
Year: 2020
Vollie Q&A
1. Name: Janis Stevens 2. Have you always lived in FNQ? If not, where did you come from and how long have you been here: I have lived here all my life, the family cane farm near Gordonvale has been handed down through the...
Bunnings boosts cardiac
The Bunnings community sausage sizzle is BACK!!! – Great News Cairns The smell of cooking sausages and onions will once again be a hallmark of a Bunnings shopping session. The Far North Queensland Hospital...
It’s on!
IT’S ON! In a stunning chain of favourable events, the QSuper Cardiac Challenge has been confirmed for a September start. With the announcement that Cape York will be opened to visitors from July 10 and...
Donor supports women
WOMEN and their neonatal babies will have more support now and into the future thanks to the generosity of a local philanthropist. The Northern Frontier Foundation (NFF), established by local businessman Dean Pradal, has...
Putting out the call
THE community and the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation are well on their way to answering the call put out by hospitals for extra resources to help battle the COVID-19 epidemic as it rolls out over coming months. “The...
Sea Breeze to reopen
We’re getting the band back together, baby! The Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation’s Sea Breeze Café will reopen on Monday (June 8) after being closed since March. Foundation CEO Tony...
Volunteering still happening
VOLUNTEERING at Cairns Hospital looks a little different these days but it’s still happening. Coordinated by the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation, the volunteer program is in its 23rd year with more than 960...
FNQ nurses honoured
The Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation recently sponsored the inaugural nursing awards at Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service. To celebrate the World Health Organization declaring 2020 as the...
Meals for staff
CAIRNS Hospital staff have been provided with free meals at work, courtesy the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation. Cairns based philanthropists Alex and Violetta Sekler have donated a total of $6000, providing 600...
Community supports staff
Member for Cairns Michael Healy and Mayor Bob Manning have joined together to thank the Cairns and District Chinese Association (CADCAI) for their kind donation of more than $25,000 worth of face masks and protective...
Honey, dijon, chicken foil packs
Jazzy chicken tenderloins in fruity sweet spiced sauce with fluffy couscous seasoned with mint roasted almond slivers and pomegranate seeds What you need 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts; 3 tablespoons...
Vollie Q&A
1. Name: Ed Diniz 2. Age: 61 3. Have you always lived in FNQ? If not, where did you come from and how long have you been here: Born in Portugal, moved in Perth in...
Cafe Chat
1. Name: Tuanna Mirri 2. Role: Cafe chef 3. Age: 63 4. Have you always lived in FNQ? If not, where did you come from and how long have you...
COVID-19 in FNQHF sights
LOCAL communities outside Cairns will have the best equipment to tackle COVID-19, thanks to contributions from the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation. Foundation chairman Dr Ken Chapman said the team was now working...
Coronavirus Donation
AN extremely generous philanthropist has stepped forward to donate a massive amount of money to help manage an expected surge of COVID-19 cases in the coming months. Just as the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation...
It’s all about the babies
It’s all about the babies this Sunday when the annual Cairns Pregnancy and Baby Expo takes over the Cairns Pullman International Hotel. More than 60 stalls of everything related to babies from nappies to strollers...
Cancer patients days brightened
PATIENTS undergoing chemotherapy treatment at the Liz Plummer Cancer Care Centre will have a brighter welcome thanks to community support. Dawn Evans and financial advisor Matthew Parrish of Parrish Financial, this week...
Crafty ladies raise funds
INCREDIBLE, is one of many words used by the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation’s new CEO, to describe the organisation’s work. Tony Williamson has spent the past few weeks settling in to the role and...
FNQ babies kept warm
PRECIOUS neonatal babies in Cairns can put more energy into growing, rather than keeping warm, thanks to generous community support. Two Cosytherm mattresses have been bought by the Far North Queensland Hospital...
New members join board
WITH the new year now upon us, the Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation has announced new blood joining its board. Robyn Boundy, Danae Jones and Joanne Parisi are joining chairman Dr Ken Chapman and fellow board...