Print rallies around McManis family with support

The print industry showed its generous heart, using a GoFundMe page to rally around the young family of Sydney printer Adrian ‘Aido’ McManis,  raising $45,000 to support them as they grieve the popular figure.

Print friends, colleagues past and present, companies, and industry strangers, all contributed to the fund, which will be used to help Aido’s wife Jaimi and two young children, Toby aged three, and Oscar just one, get past the next few months.

Aido succumbed ot his cancer, passing away last week, and was cremated on Friday, with just ten people in atttendance due to Covid restricitons. There will be a bigger event for the broader family, friends and colleagues once lockdown has ended.

To contribute to the fund and make a donation to help the family at this difficult time please click here or go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-aido-with-the-fight-of-his-life.

McManis, aged just 35, was diagnosed with cancer during the Covid time, however, treatments were not successful, and it spread to an advanced stage in his liver.

With a mortgage and no life insurance the family faces a difficult future, but the kind support of printers will ensure some breathing space for the family, who had exhausted all their savings on Aido’s treatment. Aido's supporters have set a $50,000 target, with the funds shooting up since Wednesday from $5000 to the $45,000 currently given; nine tenths of the way there.

Latterly at Rawson Print Co, McManis has spent his whole working life in the print industry, spending 14 years at Lindsay Yates before joining Rawson three years ago. He started in print at Lindsay Yates as a junior customer service rep, working his way up to be senior account manager.

Ian Lindsay, former owner of Lindsay Yates who took McManis on from school, said: "It would be wonderful if people contributed, Jaimi and the boys are going to find it very hard. Adrian was a great guy, he worked hard to progress his career, he put himself through night school and did really well. He was a very popular member of staff at Lindsay Yates."

Rawson Print Co paid the following tribute, saying, "Sadly we have lost one of life’s true characters with the passing of our senior account manager Aido. Whether it was his huge personality, comical character impersonations, loud and infectious laugh, or his outrageous moustache, you couldn’t help loving the guy and his generous nature. Always positive and caring about others until the very end… he will be missed. Vale Aido McManis."

 

 To make a donation to help support Aido's family please click here.