OUR local State Emergency Service – whose volunteers dedicate their time to helping others – now needs the community’s help.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
It’s storm season in the region and the SES needs more volunteers to bolster dwindling numbers.
Most people in the Bathurst community would know of someone who has been helped by the volunteers of the local SES.
Time and time again they come to the rescue of residents who are in strife because of what nature has thrown at them.
As the SES motto states: The worst in nature, the best in us.
SES volunteers come from all walks of life and there are many roles that a volunteer can fill, regardless of age, gender or ability.
With this in mind, surely there are people who live in the Bathurst region who would be ideally suited to becoming a member of the SES.
You only need to be 16 years of age to join.
Most of the action comes in times of floods, storms and other emergencies, but there are other roles that an SES volunteer can fulfil when not operational.
There are also the benefits of friendship and fellowship that come when working closely with like-minded people.
There would have been plenty of people in Bathurst who spent the last days of 2013 reflecting on their year and the first days of 2014 wondering how they could live a better life in this new year.
Studies show volunteering can bring as many benefits to the volunteer themselves as it does to those to whom the volunteer gives their time.
So if you think being part of the SES could be for you, make it a new year’s resolution to register your interest.
It would be the ultimate way of paying back your community.
