AIDA (Qld) is honoured to announce a new
Championship event in the memory of one of Queensland’s valued Irish dance
supporters, Annette Oxenham.
The Annette Oxenham Memorial Trophy is dedicated
in Annette’s memory as she was a tireless worker for AIDA for many years.
The very proud mother of Catherine-Ann Oxenham
TCRG and Jennifer-Louise Devlin TCRG & loving grandmother to Jessica-Kate,
Olivia Charlotte and Jack, Annette followed her daughters’ dancing careers with
love and passion and was always at every Feis.
This enthusiasm led to Annette becoming heavily
involved in fundraising for AIDA (Qld) and she was not only a willing volunteer
helper at competitions, but ran the AIDA (Qld) canteen for many years as well.
She was also
instrumental in raising much-needed funds to stage the first National
Championships in Queensland. Annette
& husband Kevin readily gave up their time to help out at many events &
with many projects and we are certain they never really got the coconut from
all the lamington drives out of their Newmarket home!
