After spending a small fortune to relocate to Mission Beach, we are already facing our next challenge. It is like paradise here and we love operating from this nature-based location – but a reliable vehicle is an absolute must here. This is especially so because we are now operating rescue activies from both Cairns and the Mission areas.
We’ve had an exceptionally good run with the car that Lion’s Club very kindly bought for us in 2008. But the car is now 17 years old and the catalytic converter needs to be replaced. We either need to find another reliable car dirt cheap in the next two weeks – or cough up at least a $1,000 for this repair.
If this were January, the repair cost would have been routine but we were tossed out of our premises in March and the relocation costs were crippling. We need to either raise the money to pay for this repair OR we need to access another secondhand vehicle in good running condition cheap.
Perhaps someone is about to trade in an automatic compact car? Or maybe someone has just had a change in circumstances who no longer needs their car. Or maybe a car yard would give us a really ‘sweet’ deal on a secondhand automatic as a sponsorship?
President Deborah Pergolotti referred to the situation by saying, “We hate having to ask for public support again to meet yet another challenge, but the smaller a group is, the less likely it has spare resources to handle life’s glitches. Bigger groups have plenty of money in the bank to cover the unanticipated but we are small and live pretty close to a “hand to mouth” existence.” We need to find another reliable car urgently or procede with the repair in two weeks when the parts arrive from interstate. Until then, we are marooned in paradise watching the cassowaries go past our front door!
Contact Deborah Pergolotti if you can help out the frog hospital.
Phone (07) 4088-6572
