Year one students from Wesley College paid a special visit to Subiaco Oval on Wednesday and hung out with the likes of Chris Judd, Tyson Stenglein, Beau Waters, Dean Cox, Jaymie Graham, Matt Rosa and Andrew Embley who took some time out from a busy training schedule to celebrate the launch of the West Coast Eagles Dig Deep car flag.

The flags are the latest initiative in the club’s fundraising efforts for the Cancer Council Western Australia, which has so far seen $217,955 raised through the sale of wristbands over the past two years.

Wesley College has been an important supporter of the Cancer Council since 2000, participating in fundraising events which have assisted in raising a significant amount of money to ease the burden of cancer in the Western Australian community and help to improve the quality of life for people living with cancer and their families.

The school is also personally involved in the fight against cancer with one of its brave students, Chloe Cutts, suffering from bone cancer. Thankfully little Chloe has now been in remission for two years, and this milestone was celebrated at the car flag launch with a special presentation from the Cancer Council and West Coast premiership player Beau Waters.

Beau presented Chloe with a red sash, which is given to cancer survivors to represent their arduous journey, and a framed photograph depicting a happy memory from the 2006 Daffodil Day.

The Wesley children were each given car flags for the West Coast players to sign which they waved merrily around in a brilliant display of support for the Cancer Council.

The yellow flags are $5 and will be sold at the following outlets: ANZ, Herdsman Fresh, Medibank Private, Retravision, SGIO, Toyota WA, Video Ezy, Vodafone, the West Coast Eagles Team Store and the Cancer Council Subiaco store.

Volunteers will also be out in force selling the flags before the round 20 clash with Richmond at Subiaco Oval on Saturday, August 18, which is Dig Deep Day.

The aim is to sell 20,000 flags and raise $100,000.

All funds raised from the sale of the car flags will remain in Western Australia to help the Cancer Council continue its important work in patient services and support, vital cancer research and cancer education and prevention programs for our state.