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Kylie and Grant Geddes with Dr Sam Stevens, centre … Dr Stevens is an adviser to the group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Burnett First Aid Volunteers Inc, a not-for-profit group set up by Murgon paramedic Grant Geddes last year, now has a permanent home thanks to a generous donation by the Murgon Girl Guides.<\/p>\n

The Guides have handed over their former meeting hall in Macalister Street, Murgon, for use as a training area by the volunteers.<\/p>\n

The State Government has also transferred the lease of the land to the group, and the South Burnett Regional Council has signed off on the transfer.<\/p>\n

A small ceremony was held at the meeting hall on Thursday night to mark the opening of the facility.<\/p>\n

Members watched as Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff and Cr Roz Frohloff cut a bandage to signify the opening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grant said the volunteers had been busy providing first aid services at local community events, including the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival and the recent Abbey Medieval Festival in Caboolture.<\/p>\n

“Sixty something patients came through the doors at the Abbey Festival, although many of these were just requests for Panadols,” Grant said.<\/p>\n

“At the Pumpkin Festival only about 20 patients came through.”<\/p>\n

Grant also thanked Council for the donation of four digital UHF hand-held radios, which means the volunteers can speak to each other on their own channel and not be overhead by other listeners.<\/p>\n

Cr Roz Frohloff, a former paramedic herself, has been named Patron of the new group.<\/p>\n

She said the first aid volunteers were “an absolute necessity” in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

“We need more volunteers like this to get out and help in the community,” she said.<\/p>\n

Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff congratulated Grant and everyone involved in the volunteer group.<\/p>\n

“If anyone believes in community, it is Grant,” she said.<\/p>\n

The volunteers will be assisted financially by First Aid Training and Services<\/a><\/strong> (FAIS), a South Burnett-based business which also offers services in Gympie and the Sunshine Coast and has associated volunteer groups.<\/p>\n

FAIS runs commercial first aid courses and sells first aid equipment.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff and Cr Roz Frohloff cut the ribbon … er, bandage … to officially open the new training centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Warren Hill, a Sunshine Coast Coast volunteer; and Kerrie Le Du, a Gympie volunteer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grant Geddes at the official opening in the new training space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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