However, he had no such reservations in the name of a promotional photograph involving his six-year-old son, Harry, who gladly donned his father’s protective headwear, threw a hose over the shoulder and posed in a CFA jacket to promote this week’s Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
Harry was a regular at the hospital before he turned one, but has had a significant improvement in his health and is a perfect example of the life-changing services offered by the hospital to children in their formative years.
Harry’s mother, Heidi, is the co-ordinator of the Good Friday Appeal in Rochester, completing the connection between her husband’s CFA captaincy and her son’s formative experiences at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
The appeal will be given a head start on Thursday with the Rochester Business Network Easter market, which will see a stretch of Mackay St from Gillies St to the IGA car park laneway closed down for the evening.
There will be no doorknock in Rochester due to the difficult living conditions of many people and because of the number of displaced residents. People who want to contribute cash can do so by calling in to the Mackay St CFA station or going online to the virtual tin rattle.
To contribute via card, people can scan the QR code or hit the link to the Rochester Good Friday Appeal page. Even punching in your postcode via a computer, phone or tablet will link you to the Rochester fundraising page.
Rochester fire station will be open to the public and brigade members will be in the street fundraising for the annual appeal.
Thursday’s market will run from 4pm to 8pm, with a host of activities for children and a large selection of market stalls.
Since 1931, the Good Friday Appeal has provided more than $421 million to The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
There is a QR code available at the Rochester CFA Facebook page, while Rochester’s Good Friday Appeal page can be found at https://fundraise.goodfridayappeal.com.au/.../Rochester...
