Purple for Prostate win Community Event of the Year

Katrina Winzar, Anne Sackley and Gay Hall, Westbury’s Purple for Prostate ladies
are committed to raising community awareness of prostate cancer. Photo supplied

WESTBURY’S UNIQUE Purple for Prostate ladies have been awarded the Community Event of the Year in the Meander Valley’s Australia Day awards.

Katrina Winzar, Anne Sackley and Gay Hall raise funds to support sufferers of prostate cancer.

Over three years they have raised $36,000, donated to the Tasmanian Cancer Council to fund men who can’t afford scans for the disease.

The women have run market stalls selling homemade preserves, relishes and coathanger covers and held auctions. Dying their hair purple and shaving their heads netted $10,000 in one event.

Purple for Prostate paid credit to local Rotary and Lions groups, and to Pearn’s Steam World for their support.

Katrina said, ‘Community support has been unbelievable. I don’t know where you’d find a better community. They open their arms and their pockets.’

‘We started out to raise awareness of prostate cancer’, Anne said. ‘A lot of men don’t have wives to remind them to get checked.’