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Thank you!

November 29, 2016 RTF Events, News No comments

Hello everyone!

The RTF Team would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who was able to come to the trivia night. Thanks to all of you, it was a big success.

A special thank you to our trivia team Andrew, Kylie, Stuart and Jill. The Country Road Kidswear, Homeware and Menswear teams, Stephanie and Paige for the great Raffle Tickets and Jay Besanko for raffle prizes. Simoco Girls, Mark Carter and their families for everything they have done!

Thank you to everyone who donated prizes for the event:
Sandra O’Brien for the Keysborough Egg Farm
Southbank for the Teatro Restaurant voucher
Annette and Danny Notting Hill Pub Voucher
Adam at Hampstead Dental
Daniel Taylor for the Nine Lives Tattoo Voucher
Graham for the Lamborghini ride
Rad and Vicki Ivanic for the racehorse
Kivanc for the Gold Class Vouchers

And last but not least, thank you to our extended family for always being there:
Pauline, Sean, Monique, Brandon & Natarsha
Andrew, Kylie, Katie & Ben
Dad & Annette
Michelle, Olivia, Molly & Mitchell
Daniel Taylor – Nine Lives Tattoo
Lauren, Dylan, Selma and Kivanc
Laura & Fraser
Anne, Mark, Taylah & Sarah
Rudy, Shirley, Marc & Claude
Annette, Danny, Alyssa, Rowan & Jett
Lorraine & Steve
Robyn, Bruce, Bret, Cory & Channelle
Efi, Pete & Gino
Tom, Carla, Tori, Daniel, Georgia & Billy
Andrea, Rob, Kayleigh & Callum
Diana and Olivia
Sandra and Anthony O’Brien
Sue, Barry, Dylan, Linda & Ebony
Dani & Mason
Sharni & Andrew
Joe & Adam
Joey, Alex & Bea
Sam
Nada and Michael
Sean and Eliza
Shelley and Family
Chris and Liz

We had so much fun and hope you all did too!

Ricky’s 18th Celebration

February 16, 2016 RTF Events, News No comments

Saturday 13th of February was Ricky’s 18th Birthday. We thought it was a good idea to celebrate for him, so the RTF Team, along with some very amazing people, threw a party in honour of his big day. We would like to say Thank You to everyone who attended. It was a great night, one that Ricky would have been proud of.

We would also like to say a big heart felt thank you to everyone who helped make it happen including Jason for DJing, Daniel at DLF Photography for being our photographer for the evening, Josh, Reece, Luke, Chris, Stephen, Shari, Diana, and Rochelle for being the band entertainment for the evening. Also we would like to thank Henry Roth, Kayleigh, Shai, Marno, Shirley, Anne, Lorraine, Annette, Alyssa, Taylah, Sarah, Andrea, Efi, Rudy, Steve, Dan, Mark, Tom and Carla for all their help with everything they have done for us including food prep and set up/ pack down on the night! Without all of you this night could not have happened. If we have missed anyone Thank You to you as well!

We hope you all had a great night and enjoy looking through the photos both on this post and on our Facebook Page

The RTF Team

The RTF Trivia Night Fishing Trip

January 13, 2016 RTF News No comments

Our Fishing Trip adventure
By Mark Carter

My dad (Barry) and I went with Darren and Tom on the Ricky Taylor Foundation Auction Fishing Trip on Sunday 10th January and had a great day. We headed off a 630am from Warneet boat ramp after queuing with more than 50 other fisherman with boats trying to catch the outgoing tide before the boat ramp was out of water. We carefully navigated the shallow water (~1m in places due to low tide) to start off near the mouth of the Tooradin river along with another ~30 boats including a charter boat.

After a short period of time we caught the first fish: Darren – a toad fish, shortly after it was Barry’s turn another toadfish, then Mark with a toadfish so we moved into slightly deeper water and Mark caught the first of the King George Whiting while everybody lost more bait to toadfish then Barry and Tom caught a Whiting each while Darren kept catching toadfish (Darren’s new nickname “Toad King!) At 9.30 am it was time for some of Tom’s favourite snacks: a thermos of coffee with sugar and the first of Ham, tomato, cheese and relish, and or a cup of tomato pasta soup that he’d brought.

The tide had now turned and was rising so we moved to another position near Mud Island. We moved around a few more times on our way toward French Island then headed out toward Hastings, near Esso Long Island where we saw an old rusting World War II submarine moored (see photos). Now the tide was high and we caught Calamari Squid, a few more Flathead and a few more King George Whiting.

Then the tide was going out again and by this time it was now ~4pm and we headed for the boat ramp wanting to get out before the boat ramp was out of water. We now had a moderate haul of 13 Whiting, 5 Flathead, 1 Leatherjacket, 2 Calamari amazingly mostly caught on pippies, squid and an appropriate sinker and circular hook. As the boat ramp no longer has an area to clean fish, we headed to Tom’s house to fillet the fish and cleanup.

I must say a big thank you to Tom Antoniou and iFish Cranbourne for providing the equipment, bait, boat and expertise as it made for a memorable trip, one which I hope to repeat.

Mark Carter

‘Tis the Season

December 24, 2015 RTF News No comments

Good Evening Everyone!

The Ricky Taylor Foundation would like to wish you all safe and happy Holidays. We hope that it is full of joy and time well spent with loved ones

The RTF Team

Joy 94.9 FM Interview

November 16, 2015 RTF News No comments

Today was a good day for the Ricky Taylor Foundation! Two of our committee members, Kayleigh and Danni, were invited to Joy 94.9 FM. The girls had a great time and got to talk all about Ricky and the Foundation.

All the team at Joy were fantastic and helped them relax as it was their very first appearance on radio. We would like to thank everyone especially Joe and Bea for having us. We hope to be invited back to Joy FM again and hope to see some of their listeners at our up and coming events, especially our celebration concert for Ricky’s 18th birthday on 13th February that we are trying to get organised now!

The RTF Team

The RTF – 2nd Annual Trivia Night

October 9, 2015 RTF Events, News 2 comments

After the success of the Trivia Night held last year on 17th October 2014 we will be holding our 2nd Annual Trivia Night this Saturday 24th October 2015. The event will take place at St Johns Regional College.

This year we will also be announcing the launch of The Ricky Taylor Foundation, the launch of the website and what we hope to be the beginning of what will be the success of the foundation and our partnership with the Monash Children’s Cancer Centre to assist teenagers with their treatment for cancer while in hospital.

The success of the Trivia Night will help The Ricky Taylor Foundation Inc launch their foundation nationwide and to run annual fundraising events to help raise funds to a worthy cause that Ricky believed in. Without out the support of those who have contributed and will be attending the event, The Ricky Taylor Foundation wouldn’t be possible, so we would like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.

Stay tuned for updates on The Ricky Taylor Foundation and what we hope to be a huge success at our 2nd Annual Trivia Night, we will be posting photos from the night, thanking our generous donators who contributed raffle prizes and auction items and everyone who attended the event.

– The RTF Inc Team