{"id":367857,"date":"2025-12-16T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=367857"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:24:16","slug":"thank-you-to-council-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2025\/12\/16\/thank-you-to-council-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You To Council Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_367858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367858\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-367858\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251216awards-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Kathy Duff,\u00a0 Jason Webber, John Howard, Kerry McArthur, Kerri Thompson, Tony Jenkins, Pat Coughlin and CEO Mark Pitt (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>December 16, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Burnett Regional Council held a staff awards ceremony in the Council Chambers on Tuesday morning to recognise the milestone service of several long-serving employees.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Kathy Duff and Council CEO Mark Pitt presented award certificates as a thank you to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>20 years&#8217; service<\/strong> &#8211; Kerri Thompson, Kerry McArthur,\u00a0Jason Webber,\u00a0Pat Coughlin, Geoffrey Waldron and Steven Carroll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>30 years&#8217; service<\/strong> &#8211; John Howard, Tony Jenkins and Samantha Dunstan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Absent were\u00a0Rikki Steinhardt (20 years) and\u00a0Greg Pryor (30 years).<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Duff said she would like to thank the employees for their long and dedicated service to the South Burnett Regional Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_367971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367971\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-full wp-image-367971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251217trio-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Carroll, Geoffrey Waldron and Samantha Dunstan (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awards ceremony was held in the Council Chambers to recognise the milestone service of several long-serving employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":367858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[1131],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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