{"id":16592,"date":"2012-11-18T21:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=16592"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T05:44:16","slug":"volunteers-earn-service-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/18\/volunteers-earn-service-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Earn Service Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16610\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16610\" title=\"20121117 SES Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanango SES members Valda Weaver and Les Pearson with their Meritorious Service Medals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16611\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16611\" title=\"20121117 SES Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121118ses2-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingaroy SES member Peter Verbakel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>November 18, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three South Burnett SES volunteers were presented with Meritorious Service Awards at a North Coast Region SES Week ceremony held in Gympie on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Nanango SES members <strong>Valda Weaver<\/strong> and <strong>Les Pearson<\/strong>, and Kingaroy member <strong>Peter Verbakel<\/strong> were presented with medals marking 10 years&#8217; service.<\/p>\n<p>The medal is available for volunteers who have given 10 years of active and diligent service to the organisation. An additional clasp is given for every subsequent five years of service.<\/p>\n<p>These will be the last service medals for South Burnett volunteers awarded under the North Coast Region structure.<\/p>\n<p>Following a restructuring of \u00a0Emergency Management Queensland &#8211; in which seven regions will be reduced to three &#8211; the next award event will be under the banner of the South East Queensland Region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Photos: Peter Verbakel]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three South Burnett SES volunteers were presented with Meritorious Service Medals at the North Coast Region SES Week Awards ceremony held in Gympie on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[21,30,99],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Volunteers Earn Service Medals - 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