Whanganui news in brief: Music festival raises big dollars for charity
15 Mar, 2021 05:44 PM
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Whanganui Chronicle
Festival raises $11k
The annual Pauls Road Live music festival raised more than $11,000 for Gabby s Starlit Hope Charity. The charity was set up by Gabby Devine in early 2014, after she was diagnosed with Ewing s sarcoma the previous year. Devine died in 2015 aged 13, but the charity has continued in her honour. Three Whanganui and New Plymouth families with children who have cancer have been gifted $3770 each. The charity thanked festival organisers Fred Loveridge and Kerry O Sullivan, the Butlers for hosting, all the local bands that performed and everyone who attended and supported the event.
Whanganui s Pauls Rd Live music festival back for a good cause in 2021
28 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
The Pauls Road Live music festival in Whanganui East is back again this year, and proceeds will be given to Gabby s Starlit Hope Charity.
Tickets go on sale on February 1.
Whanganui residents Dean and Marian Butler have opened their property at 42 Pauls Rd to the public every year since 2008, and the money raised at this year s event will once again go to Whanganui families who have children undergoing cancer treatment.