Lottery draws near

As I write this I feel personally responsible for not selling enough SAL Lottery tickets to provide sufficient money to do everything possible for these local lads to have the best medical attention possible. Believe it or not I have had many sleepless nights trying to think of ways to sell all these tickets.

Stan Brouard has provided £10,000-worth of prizes at our Garden, Leisure and Furniture Store and 60,000 lottery tickets and have had the support of the 80 places below where the SAL Lottery tickets can be purchased.

I would like to thank the thousands of members of the public who have purchased the lottery tickets so far and for the fantastic Guernsey media support received.

Anthony has had his first operation this week. His second operation is due in eight or nine months' time. All the money raised will be in vain if Anthony cannot have his second operation. About a further £20,000 is required, and the huge sum of £165,000 is not forthcoming for Jonah to continue his life-saving medication beyond the end of August this year.

About five weeks ago I made contact with chairmen of The Confederation of Guernsey Industry (CGi), Guernsey Building Trades Employers Association (GBTEA) and Guernsey International Business Association (Giba). Giba represent the following seven associations: Association of Guernsey Banks, Guernsey Association of Trustees, Guernsey Commercial Bar Association, Guernsey International Insurance Association, Guernsey Investment Fund Association, Guernsey Investment Managers and Stockbrokers Association and the Guernsey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants.

All these associations emailed their 400-plus business members on my behalf the SAL A3 poster and a list of all the places that the SAL Lottery tickets can be purchased from for them to put up on their office notice boards and an email from me asking for all businesses to consider bulk-buying lottery tickets and donating them to a charity of their choice.

The only two responses I had from businesses were:

l One phone call from a person who wished to remain anonymous who donated £10,000 to SAL.

l The MD of Aero Pacific purchased £1,000-worth of SAL Lottery tickets and donated them equally to The Cheshire Homes and Grow Ltd. If a prize is won by either of the charities they can obtain whatever they wish to the value of the winning ticket.

This generous man also added a prize to the raffle of a private jet day trip for up to six people to Southampton.

I knew how much money was required on top of all the other fundraising that many others were carrying out, so we printed 60,000 lottery tickets knowing that if they were all sold the problem of the two lads could well be solved. Jonah's medication costs £12,600 per fortnightly infusion or £900 per day.

Jonah's UK doctors have confirmed that almost certainly his condition is not hereditary, meaning that it is far more curable.

In fact, there is a very strong possibility that if Jonah can continue with his medication until the end of February 2017 he may not require it afterwards.

Currently his heartbeat is almost back to normal and his kidney function is slowly improving.

With less than two weeks to go before the draw I am asking for four things:

1. Would the management and staff of all the places stated below please make one final push to ensure the A3 SAL posters are in the best possible position and that SAL Lottery tickets are in full view near every till.

2. If you have not already done so please purchase as many SAL Lottery tickets as your finances will permit.

3. Member businesses of any of the above mentioned associations or any other businesses please purchase for your staff, yourself or on behalf of a charity or charities of your choice, as many SAL Lottery tickets as you can.

4. I would respectfully request that if you are a wealthy resident living in Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or Herm you please purchase as many SAL Lottery tickets as you can and either keep them for yourself or donate them to charity.

The only two reasons Stan Brouard became involved in the promoting of the SAL Lottery was for the benefit of the two young lads.

If as many people living in Guernsey purchase as many SAL tickets as possible these two lads' medical problems could be solved by the end of February 2017 and their lives would be changed for the better for decades to come.

Other than purchasing SAL tickets in the 80 locations below, if anybody would like to block-buy tickets for donation to charities of their choice they can contact me at the address below.

Winning tickets can purchase anything from indoor and outdoor furniture, barbecues, lawn mowers, gardening machinery, compost, numerous other products and gifts.

RODNEY BROUARD,

Managing Director,

Stan Brouard Group.

Tel: 252521

Home: 264732

Mobile: 07781 102514

Email: rodney@stanbrouard.com

List of locations selling SAL Lottery tickets

Stan Brouard

Forest Stores

Aladdin's Cave

Guernsey Post incl. post office at Waitrose, Rohais.

Co-Op incl. nine stores, Grand Marche, Locale and EnRoute stores.

Le Friquet Garden Centre

Earlswood Garden Centre

Alliance

R. H. Gaudion

Creasey's & Sons plus three Marks & Spencer Foodhalls

Graham Crabb

Craftwise

Guernsey Flooring

Mint Brasserie

Valpy's

St Peter Port Constables

The Doghouse

Headmasters

The Farmhouse

La Grande Mare

China Red

Marina

Norman Piette

Capelles Building Stores

Guernsey Electricity showroom

DHS

Mon Plaisir Stores, Sark

Guernsey Indoor Bowls Centre

Guernsey Table Tennis Club

Barras Car Centre

Thompson Auto Restorers

Saints Football Club

Liberation Group: The Deerhound Inn, Dix Neuf, Houmet Tavern, Harbour Lights, Ship & Crown, Red Onion, Thomas De La Rue, English & Guernsey, The White Hart, Albion Tavern, Britannia, Captain's Hotel, Dorset Arms, Longfrie, Pony Inn, Plough Inn, Barbados/Laska

Sandpiper Group: Manor Stores, Iceland at Cobo, Admiral Park & Landes du Marche, Convenience at the Bridge, Capelles, Collings Road & L'Islet, Food Halls at St Peter's, Le Pollet, Perelle, Manor – Wine Warehouse.

R. W. Randall: The Last Post, Queen's Hotel, Venture Inn, Imperial Hotel, The Red Lion, The Yacht Inn, St Jacques Tavern, La Fontaine Inn, Princes of Wales and Coal Hole, Rockmount, Hampshire Lodge.

Sarnia Hotels: Hotel de Havelet, Les Rocquettes Hotel, Moore's Hotel.

Christies Group: Boathouse, Crabby Jacks, the Swan, Christies, Villa.