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Giving Mercy a hand

07/07/2015

Hoppers Club secretary Carolyn Pattison, chairman Frank Aidone, Mercy hospital nursing unit manager Deanne Layton and nurse Linda Cooper. (Joe Mastroianni)

By Charlene Macaulay

The Hoppers Club is giving a Wyndham health service a helping hand. Club chairman Frank Aidone presented Werribee Mercy Hospital’s palliative care unit with a cheque for $6500, which will be spent on revamping the unit’s courtyard, new chairs for visitors and items for the family kitchen. Mr Aidone said the Hoppers Club raised the money through a weekly raffle every Tuesday during the past year. “We’ve always been involved with the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal and we thought we should help out a bit closer to home,” he said.

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