Community & Business
4 December, 2025
Duo rewarded after years of giving
They say good things come to good people and local residents Royce and Del certainly fit that category, now celebrating as LifeFlight’s latest lottery winners.
Supporters of LifeFlight for nearly two decades, the couple were ‘floored’ when they received the call telling them they had won.
“We’ve supported lots of different charities and have never won anything major, so it was really a big surprise for us,” Royce said.
While the pair have no immediate plans to take a holiday, they are looking forward to taking the family out to dinner and making some home improvements.
“We live in the country and don’t have a town water supply, so we’re thinking of building or extending a dam,” he said.
The couple’s connection to LifeFlight goes beyond the lucky windfall, having witnessed first-hand the aeromedical organisation’s lifesaving work when their grandson Luke was airlifted to Hospital in Brisbane for a severe respiratory illness.
“When he went into the hospital, they said this child shouldn’t be alive,” Royce said.
“Flying him to Brisbane was a lifesaving thing.”
In regional and remote areas, emergency medical care can take longer to arrive and that’s when LifeFlight is there, providing 24/7 care – no matter where.
“There are other people in the same area, four or five that we can think of just off the top of our head, that all needed LifeFlight,” Del said.
“It’s something I think our whole community supports.”
