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Name: Danielle O’Loughlin Brigade: Berry's Creek Brigade Position: Captain - 3 years Why do you enjoy volunteering with CFA?Being a busy person running a beef and dairy farm and a mother to four active children under the age of eleven, means my involvement in the brigade gives me some time to myself to do something I really enjoy.What job or tasks do you dislike the most about volunteering?Coal mine fires can be a bit tricky. How would you describe the community you live within?A very small rural community, mostly farming properties. Why did you join CFA?
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Name: Garry J H Nash Brigade: South Wangaratta - Captain Years of Service: 32 plus years Why did you join CFA?Third generation family member - grandfather, father were very active. This created my interest. I could not think of a more caring, helpful and flexible organisation with which to work and be involved when giving something back to your community. What’s your favourite part of volunteering with CFA?
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“Being a member of CFA is a great privilege. It affords you the opportunity to acquire and develop skills and knowledge which would not in ordinary circumstances be available. As in anything, you only get out of it what you put in.” What do you do when you’re not volunteering?Work, developing and running our real estate business with my wife and a great team of 18. |
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Name: Caelli Greenbank, Junior brigade member (15 years old) Brigade: Creswick Years of Service: 4 years What’s your favourite part of volunteering?I enjoy getting together with the other people in my Junior Brigade and doing different things every week, from visiting the Senior Citizens in the hospital to orienteering to Easter egg hunts. Most of these people I probably wouldn’t have known otherwise. I also enjoy messing around with the trucks down at the station. How would you describe the area and community you live within?I think Creswick is a good-sized town – big enough that there are plenty of people to meet and activities to get involved in, but still small enough that you know the chemist, postie, publican, supermarket owner and all the cashiers by name. It’s also good because we have just about the biggest rural brigade in the area and everyone in town is either involved with the brigade or knows someone who is. Living in the middle of the bush as we do means there’s always a big threat of bushfires in the summer, but the scenery out here is always beautiful, and there’s really nothing to compare with the views. Why did you join CFA?It’s a family thing. My dad is the Community Education Officer for our brigade and he was also the one who got our Juniors up and running so it was kind of one of those things that was always going to happen. I joined up at 11 as the first Junior Volunteer in our Brigade and I’ve been there ever since. What do you do when you’re not volunteering?When I’m not doing Juniors stuff I spend a lot of time involved in other activities such as the netball club, school band, youth theatre group and Girl Guides. I do a lot of public speaking in the community and also manage to fit in frequent trips to Melbourne for the Spirit of ANZAC work I’m involved in. There is some homework in there somewhere, too. |
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