By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS
MEMBERS of CFA groups from across the Yarra Valley were at the MCG over the weekend fund-raising for their respective brigades.
The members of the brigades were out the front of the Hawthorn versus Essendon blockbuster shaking their buckets for donations.
There were four CFA organisations in attendance including Yellingbo, Macclesfield and Seville CFA as well as members of junior brigades from all over the Yarra Valley.
About $7000 was raised on Sunday that was split between the four CFA groups.
Macclesfield was raising money to replace a brigade-owned tanker.
“The tanker we have at the moment is not four-wheel drive and it doesn’t hold much water,” Macclesfield’s Captain Sharon Merritt said.
“We have to get most of our water from dams and without a 4WD tanker we can’t access dams.”
Yellingbo was raising money to maintain and replace equipment as well.
“We need to replace a support vehicle,” Yellingbo’s Captain Paul Spinks said.
Captain Spinks also said the members of the junior brigades were planning to put a large majority of their donations together to help a village in Cambodia to assist disabled children.
