NIKKI WEBSTER LEADS CANCER COUNCIL EVENT

By Denice Barnes

Nikki Webster with Heidi Hill, 3, from East Gosford and Bonnie Brown, 5, from East Gosford at the Daffodil Day launch. Photo by Peter Clark.

ENTERTAINER Nikki Webster is Central Coast ambassador for Daffodil Day and spent a day at Erina Fair to help launch the annual event.

Daffodil Day aims to raise money for cancer research, prevention programs and support services for patients and their families.

Webster, helped by team leaders and volunteers, guided 15 children from the Gosford Library toddler storytime group who participated in a “field of hope” event where they coloured in stencils of daffodils and glued them to paddle pop sticks.

The paper flowers were collected to make a small garden of hope which is on display at Gosford Library.

Their garden is one of dozens around the Central Coast where schoolchildren have also participated in the colour-in event and made their own gardens.

Sarah Russell from the Cancer Council’s Central Coast office said she was thrilled Webster had agreed to come on board as the ambassador.

“Nikki wanted to be part of it because of her mother and aunty’s experience with cancer,’’ Ms Russell said.

More than 10,000 volunteers are expected to staff more than 1400 Daffodil Day sites across the country including 600 in NSW.

Source: Central Coast Express Advocate