Posts by Matthew Hayward
Meet our Volunteers: Emma Dean
Emma, like Claire Forster (see previous article), is undoubtedly reducing our volunteers’ average age considerably – good on you for joining our Wheelchair Team! She immigrated from the US of A (New Jersey) and holds a Permanent Resident visa, intending to apply for full Australian citizenship. By profession, she is a qualified Occupational Therapist. Along…
Read MoreMeet our Volunteers: John Shaw
“I heard the call for volunteers to help at this place on Radio 4CRB, where my wife volunteers, and I thought that would be a good place for me to work” he explained when I asked John how he found out about us. Born in Brisbane, he moved to the Gold Coast in 1954, and…
Read MoreMeet our volunteers: Ron Thomson
“I was born in Port Douglas” Ron proudly declared. To my question whether that was before the emergence of that town in Queensland’s Far North as a major tourist destination, he added “well, there were some 50 hotels already then!” After High School, Ron initially worked in Retail, then at 21 years of age, decided…
Read MoreMeet our volunteers: Jimmy Pearce
… “So you’re retired?” I asked him. Yeah, right! Jimmy is one of these people who will never be inactive! He was born some 67 years ago in Invercargill, on the very southern end of the New Zealand South Island. (Yes, they breed them tough down there; there isn’t much between that town and Antarctica…) Jimmy’s vocation…
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