Project follow up from the Otago Daily Times.
Original project article at: http://rotarystories-nzandpacific.blogspot.com/2013/09/carisbrook-fundraiser-stripped-rugby.html
From the remains of Carisbrook, dozens of Rotary
volunteers removed 23,000 seats fixed by 42,347 nuts and sold them to hundreds
of people and organisations from all over New Zealand.
That Carisbrook Rotary Project culminated in a
$100,000 cheque being presented to Southern District Health Board chief
executive Carole Heatly on Saturday.
Ms Heatly said the money had gone towards the children's ward facility, which now ''sets the bar for the rest of the hospital, and we want the rest of Dunedin Hospital to look as good as the Rotary Children's Ward''. Dunedin Rotary clubs, alongside those from Milton, Taieri and Mosgiel, worked on the project, which was expected to raise about $290,000 at its conclusion. In addition to selling seats, organisers were also inundated with people wanting to buy chopping blocks salvaged from the former ground's seats.
