Noah and Matej

Fundraiser for Newport man in fatal road traffic accident hits more than $7,000

The best friend of Matej Gruber, who tragically died in a road traffic incident last month, has raised more than $7,000 to help support Matej’s family.

Newport resident, Matej (pictured right), was involved in a single-vehicle collision on Ningwood Hill on 23rd July 2022.

Fundraiser to support Matej’s family
As you might expect, when his best friend, Noah Weinstein (pictured left) heard the news, he and his wife were devastated. They immediately set up a fundraiser to support Matej’s life partner and daughter, Trudy and Jess.

Noah, who lives in Montana, USA, told News OnTheWight,

“I really want to do everything I can to help Trudy and Jess get through this with the least stress possible.

“I am so far away and it is the least I can do.” 

Show your support
If you can spare some cash to help with the fundraiser, head over to the GoFundMe page that Noah has set up.

There he explains how he met Matej and how their friendship grew over the years.

He has said that one hundred percent of the funds raised will be turned over to Trudy upon completion of the fundraiser.

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Geoff Brodie
29, May 2018 12:19 pm

Maybe a 37% increase in actual votes, but only a 4% increase in vote share and still a very distant third. Only Labour, comfortably second last time, with the right candidate can challenge the Tory MP.

profoundlife
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
29, May 2018 2:51 pm

You sound like a LibDem leaflet, Geoff ;-)

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  profoundlife
29, May 2018 3:06 pm

I know. They rammed that message down Labour’s throat for 40 years on the Island prior to the Clegg sellout of 2010. The boot is now very clearly on the other foot.

electrickery
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
29, May 2018 3:14 pm

Which foot is that, Geoff? Mainstream, Independent Labour, Militant, Blairite or Momentum? Even you, Geoff, otherwise our best hope, have shown that you can’t tolerate the Labour in-fighting. Oh, for an Opposition!
Whoever you/they choose, please _not_ Julian “Sandpaper” Critchley.

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  electrickery
29, May 2018 3:46 pm

The choice is nothing to do with me. As for which foot ? As ever supportive of the current Labour leader, with whom I have agreed for 35 years.

ian123
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
30, May 2018 12:25 pm

Not really. In the right circumstances, it is possible to see the Tories being defeated at parliamentary level on the island by a LibDem, a Green, or an Independent. But the probability of a Labour win remains as close to zero as makes any difference; the second place scored last time is likely as high as Labour can get given the island’s electorate. All the Labour votes… Read more »

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  ian123
30, May 2018 2:20 pm

Nonsense. So in 2015 17,000 Labour voters should have jumped over to the deposit-losing LibDem with their 2,700 voters or the deposit-losing Independent with her 1,600 votes ? Or, in your dreams, even the Greens ?

ian123
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
30, May 2018 4:07 pm

With respect, you are missing the point, which is how and who can get the extra votes that would be needed to beat the Tories. There are enough people on the island who will never vote Labour to make sure that, for any Labour candidate, it cannot be done.

ian123
Reply to  ian123
30, May 2018 4:11 pm

p.s. Yes, the voting system is unfair, but then Labour should have kept its promise to change it when it had the chance.

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  ian123
30, May 2018 4:11 pm

And enough people on the Island who will never vote anything but Labour. In my 30 years on the Island I have seen one election where voting tactically, but not Labour, worked. And that was 21 years ago…….

electrickery
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
31, May 2018 10:24 am

All the more reason why Labour should encourage them to vote for a party morally and politically aligned with Labour, to ensure a result acceptable to both. Time you started to make more positive noises about the Greens, Geoff.

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  electrickery
31, May 2018 11:41 am

What is it about ‘will never vote anything but Labour’ that is so incomprehensible to Greens ? Build on the Labour vote by abandoning votes for third placed parties – wasted under FPTP.

electrickery
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
31, May 2018 5:08 pm

Sorry your ex-colleagues are so blinkered, Geoff.
But what a shame the government you used to support reneged on its promise to reform our voting system. FPTP defeats democracy.

electrickery
Reply to  Geoff Brodie
31, May 2018 5:23 pm

That’s not “building the Labour vote”, that’s hijacking votes cast in good faith for others. In some countries you can get severely punished for that. Here, anything goes as long as the Tories win.

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  electrickery
1, June 2018 7:19 am

Isn’t ‘hijacking votes’ what your Greens and their candidate in perpetuity advocated at the last two general elections !

bigj
31, May 2018 2:50 pm

People will always blindly vote for an ideology, without considering the consequences.

Having read the comments of Councillor Chris Whitehouse in last weeks County Press, I think I will certainly not be going for the Green Party party at the moment.

I now think Geoff may have a valid point.

electrickery
Reply to  bigj
31, May 2018 5:23 pm

bigj, what makes you think that Cllr Whitehouse has his finger on the pulse? Until he stood down recently he was part of the system that destroyed education on this Island; now he seeks to pass the blame to others for not undoing his and his colleagues’ mistakes. Have we heard him, a champion of education, suggest forming a Trust to take on the Studio School? No,… Read more »

Steve Goodman
Reply to  bigj
1, June 2018 1:04 am

This tip-off just led me to look at a CP to see what the disgraced Private Eye content provider was trying to get away with now.

‘Angry, Ruthless, Self-serving, Exploitative’

Writing about what he is familiar with? At least he is using his own name this time.

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