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Dec 2020
Harrogate gallery 'Giraffle' raises £1,000 for food bank
A Harrogate gallery has raised £1,000 for the town's Trussell Trust food bank with a "Giraffle."
Watermark Gallery, on Royal Parade, sold 200 tickets at £5 each and pulled the name of the winner today.
A six-year-old boy called Dominic, and whose parents own Westmorland Sheepskins just up the road, won the top prize created by illustrator Jane Ray.
Jane created the five-feet tall paper mache giraffe based on the main character of a book called "Zeraffa Girraffa."
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Just as the character of that book travelled far to her new home in Paris, Zeraffa toured the Harrogate district in past few months.
The giraffe took pride of place in the windows of Catherine Smith Vintage, Bespoke Eyewear, Westmorland Sheepskins and the Little Ripon Bookshop.
When Dominic found out that he had won Zeraffa he jumped for joy out in the town centre. Anna Martola, of the Watermark Gallery, told the Stray Ferret:
Liz Hawkes, owner of the Watermark Gallery, previously said:
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