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Shire recognises, rewards community works Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au HASTINGS resident Aline Burgess has been named Mornington Peninsula Shire’s 2016 Citizen of the Year. The awards were announced at Rosebud Memorial Hall on Australia Day. The shire’s Young Citizen of the Year, Tia McLean, is a year 12 student at Mt Eliza Secondary College, and Event of the Year is Balnarring Community Sustainability Fair, with the award presented to coordinator Pea Saunders. Ms Burgess’s role as foundation secretary of the Peninsula Carer Council in 2004 was said to be a continuation of her tireless advocacy for people with mental illness over 30 years, having moved to Hastings to be near her son who was living independently. “I am grateful and appreciative and accept it on behalf of all the carers on the peninsula,” Ms Burgess said. The Peninsula Carer Council provides support and resource information to carers of people with a mental illness on the peninsula and advocates on their behalf under her mantle: “No carer is ever left alone”. Ms Burgess’s citation reads: “Through her selflessness and compassion for others, she has raised public awareness and understanding of people with mental illness, their families and carers.” Peninsula Carer Council is now said to be recognised locally, state-wide and nationally, with a monthly drop-in centre, web page, 1300 number linked to Ms Burgess’s mobile and 154 members on its books. “My job is to refer people to members’ representatives on the committees,” she said. Recalling the early days of the PCC, Ms Burgess said its first piece of hardware was a filing cabinet. Continued Page 10
Top citizens: Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Citizen of the Year 2016 Aline Burgess at the Australia Day awards ceremony at Rosebud, above; Young Citizen of the Year Tia McLean and Louis Cooke, above right; Akashdeep Singh, Amit Kumar, Harjit Kaur and Saanvi Kakkar, left, were among 69 people granted Australian citizenship at a ceremony at Rosebud Memorial Hall by the mayor Cr Graham Pittock. Pictures: Yanni
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