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Hawkesbury
helps kids with cancer
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Members
of Hawkesbury’s ship’s company model the bandanas
before taking to the streets after sales.
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The
ship’s company of mine hunter HMAS Hawkesbury (CMDR George
McGuire) had a change of headgear recently.
Off went the baseball caps and on went colourful bandanas. Hawkesbury
is in the process of formally adopting CanTeen, a group which
helps cancer victims, as its charity.
CanTeen stages an annual national bandana day (October 25) where
bandanas are sold. Hawkesbury’s members helped with the exercise
first packaging thousands of bandanas and then heading to the
streets of North Sydney to sell them, modelling some of the varieties.
Some of the recent fundraising efforts by Hawkesbury’s ship’s
company have included shaving heads and not shaving while at sea.
So far, more than $1,000 has been raised.
CanTeen’s mission is to support, develop and empower young
people between the ages of 12 and 24 living with cancer.
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