{"id":51541,"date":"2013-11-25T23:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=51541"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T00:33:19","slug":"ses-members-thanked-at-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/11\/25\/ses-members-thanked-at-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Members Thanked At Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51621\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-51621\" title=\"20131117 SES Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunshine Coast North SES Group\u00a0Local Controller Stan Ryan, right, was presented with the Queensland SES Member of the Year trophy by Emergency Services Minister Jack Dempsey\u00a0(Photo: SES Queensland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51623\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51623\" title=\"20131117 SES Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0Group Leader Wondai Dean &#8216;Tiny&#8221; Wagenmakers was presented with a 25 years service medal by Member for Gympie David Gibson<br \/>\u00a0(Photo: Murgon SES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>November 25, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local SES members were presented with service medals at the recent SES Week State Awards ceremony held in Gympie.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recipients was Group Leader Dean Wagenmakers, from Wondai, who was presented with a 25 years service medal.<\/p>\n<p>Murgon SES medals were a real family affair &#8230; \u00a0 Shirley and Cecil Long each received a 10-year medal, while family members Kerrie Le Du, and Ailsa and Angela Spiro each received 15-year medals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Emergency Services Minister Jack Dempsey said the SES awards highlighted the important work of frontline services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA selection of SES volunteers from across the state who had already received regional awards have been further acknowledged with the state title in their respective categories,\u201d Mr Dempsey said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Stan Ryan, the Local Controller of the Sunshine Coast North SES Group, was named the Queensland SES Member of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStan has dedicated 32 years to improving resilience and his community\u2019s ability to prepare for, and respond to, natural disasters through the development of a number of SES volunteers,\u201d Mr Dempsey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis ability to embrace change is exceptional having dedicated his own personal time and overcoming a number of challenges to merge six SES groups into one, while adapting their training and maintaining a high level of operational response capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The Executive Director\u2019s Shield for the Queensland SES Operational Response of the Year was awarded to the Eidsvold SES Group for its response to the January floods.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51622\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-51622\" title=\"20131117 SES Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131119ses1-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Long (10 year service medal), Cecil Long (10 year service medal), Acting Group Leader\u00a0Kerrie Le Du (15 year National Medal), Ailsa Spiro (15 year National Medal) and Angela Spiro (15 year National Medal) \u00a0(Photo: Murgon SES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local SES members were presented with service medals at the recent SES Week State Awards ceremony held in Gympie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":51621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[28,1132,99],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SES Members Thanked At Awards - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/11\/25\/ses-members-thanked-at-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" 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