AMBULANCE WEEK AWARDS FOR OUR LOCALS
Cameron Dick MP (at left), and Russell Bowles ASM, Commissioner QAS presenting Doreen Spillman with her 20 year service badge, for her continuing service on the Dayboro Local Ambulance Committee.
Cameron Dick MP (at left), and Russell Bowles ASM, Commissioner QAS presenting Marian Krause with her 20 year service badge, for her continuing service on the Dayboro Local Ambulance Committee.
On Wednesday 9th September 2015 the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) held the 2015 Commissioner’s Achievement Awards at the overflowing Kedron Park Auditorium in the Emergency Services Complex, Kedron.
The Honourable Cameron Dick MP, Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services, together with the QAS Commission, Russell Bowles ASM, presented a vast array of Achievement Awards to the services’ staff and volunteers.
The awards presented covered QAS Long Service Medals, QAS Commissioner’s Achievement Awards, and QAS Local Ambulance Committee Badges as well as National Emergency Medal, National Medal and Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal. There was certainly an element of ‘catch-up’ – as evidenced by the fact that Dayboro LAC Member Marian Krause, who received her 20 years service badge, will actually be due for her 25 year badge next year. These Local Ambulance Committee service recognition badges are in relation to the time served with QAS, so don’t take previous service under their former name of QATB (Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade) If this was taken into account there would be many more years of service clocked up by Marian Krause as her involvement with Dayboro’s Ambulance Service began prior to the 1980’s.
Dayboro Station’s OIC (Officer In Charge), Peter Fletcher, was presented with his 10 years Long Service Medal.
Another member of the Dayboro Local Ambulance Committee, Stephen Durley, achieved his 5 years Service Badge. This was presented, along with the accompanying Certificate of Appreciation, at the State Conference that Stephen attended up in Tully earlier in September.
Congratulations to all of these locally connected award recipients.
Recipients of awards in Ambulance Week 2015 included paramedics, first responders, office staff and members of local ambulance committees. This year there were two worthy recipients of the QAS Commisioner’s Achievement Award – Advanced Care Paramedic Darrell Thompson who was the first paramedic on scene following the horrific explosion at the Ravenshoe café and Gladstone Ambulance Station officer-in-charge Leia Spencer.
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CPR AWARENESS: The Dayboro Local Ambulance Committee are offering sessions titled CPR Awareness. The first public session will be held at the Dayboro Community Hall on Sunday November 22nd at 1:30pm. The sessions are offered free as a service to the community but donations will be appreciated. For more information call Stephen Durley on 0412 734 982. (see “Save a life” article – on page 4 of the actual edition.)
DAYBORO CELEBRATING 100 YEARS IN 2016
In 2016 Dayboro Ambulance will be celebrating its centenary. Stay tuned for information about events planned.
