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Award wins: Pictured with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council mayor Cr Simon Brooks (third from right) are Life Time Achievement
recipient Greg Fitzgerald, Citizen of the Year Nancy-Joy Gardner, Dromana Australia Day Committee chair Ray Robertson, vice-chair Alan
Trigg and secretary Julie Allen, Life Time Achievement recipient Bruce Foster Turner and Young Citizen of the Year Hannah O’Loghlin.
Awards for community’s most ‘outstanding’ MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council has recognised some of its most outstanding citizens and groups at the 2024 Australia Day local awards ceremony. Nancy-Joy Gardner was chosen as Citizen of the Year for her commitment to road safety over the past 25 years. Her nominator says, “Auntie
Nance”, as she is often referred to, was someone who “shakes up her community and is a force to be reckoned with”, someone who “knows how to make events happen and get people involved”. Gardner has run road safety programs on the peninsula and south east Melbourne for 30 years with Wiser Driver Programs.
Since 2016 she has run senior driver expos, to help older drivers improve their driving skills and knowledge of road rules. Gardner is a volunteer judge of junior awards for the Lions club and has been involved in the Sir Hubert Opperman Bicycle Education Competition for more than 20 years. The event encourages grades five and six
students to show their bicycle skills and compete against other primary schools in a friendly environment. Gardner is a Justice of the Peace and a volunteer for the Coast Guard at Safety Beach. The mayor Cr Simon Brooks said Gardner’s contribution to the peninsula was highly commendable. The Young Citizen of the Year,
Hannah O’Loghlin, 16, has several volunteer roles in the community. For four years she was involved with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Youth Advisory Group, now known as the Youth Advisory Committee. In 2023 O’Loghlin was invited to apply for the 2023 Mornington Peninsula Shire Citizens Panel. Continued Page 4
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