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The Brigades 15th Birthday - December 2010

The Brigade celebrated it's 15th birthday in December 2010 to cap off a year full of changes at the station including another extension and a new car park. Joanne Miller MP joined members, families and friends for the birthday celebration and naming of the two new rooms.

Inside the station there is a heap of new open space.

Outside the station we have a new carpark thanks to Steve Phillips and his team as well as our new Memorial Stone thanks to Daniel Feeney who created it by hand in his spare time.

The Brigade would like to thank Thiess at Swanbank for the donation of the carpark materials.

The new meeting which was built under the supervision of Dave Morris and his team serves as a training and multi-use room. It seats around 40 people theatre style and enables the use of movies and other training presentations to assist members learn in a better environment than the open bays of the station as we used previously. The Brigade would like to thank Boral for donating the concrete and gyprock used in the construction of the room.

The new room has been named 'The Bora Room' in recognition of the original inhabitants of the area currently serviced by the Brigade.

Then as a surprise recognition to Dave Morris' outstanding service to the Brigade over many years, the new maintenance area was named 'Dave's Den'

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The Brigade also issued out the 'Not Awards' to this years winners. These awards are also part of our end of year celebrations where we look back at all of those funny aspects of brigade life where things did NOT go according to plan.

Dave Morris (Chairman) and George Ganzenmuller (First Officer) cut the Brigade's 15th birthday cake.

We would like to thank all members, family and friends for coming along on the day as well as all of those members who made the day possible through their considerable efforts.

Here is a quick look at the creation of the new extension and carpark.

Over 300 cubic metres of fill was brought in, spread out and then compacted over many weeks to extend the carpark base.

The pad for the new room was laid in September with Boral helping out the Brigade through the significant donation of the concrete.

Dave Morris was the project coordinator for the new room and spent many hours keeping an eye on the construction.

Adro put the frame up in only a few days.

Then over the next few months; the extension was lined and painted. Another team under Matt Mulroney's coordination installed all of the security and IT hardware to the room to make it a state of the art training and meeting room.

Over 200 cubic metres of chitters was then brought in to finish the carpark extension which was donated by Thiess Enterprises as the surface material which was graded to surveyed heights, and rolled to the desired finished levels.

With a new fence across the front of the station and carpark finished, Steve Phillips, coordinator of the carpark project could finally relax.

A shipping container was brought in to store our flammable liquids and generally free up space in the station proper completing the works of 2010's projects.

 

 

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