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Issue #244 – Wednesday, 6 August, 2014
Albury Wodonga’s largest circulating newspaper
Grand designs Local designer team Jillian Franklin and Maxcelle Hall’s expectations were blown out of the water at the Franklin Hall Country Hope Fund-raiser over the weekend. FOR THE FULL STORY TURN TO PAGE 8
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We wouldn’t be here unless we loved it … It gets in your blood… Laurie Evans
Laurie’s new base By KRYSTEN MANUEL AS ALBURY’S brand-new $4 million ambulance station officially opened last Thursday, one particularly proud officer stood by, watching the event unfold. Duty operations manager Laurie Evans has worked as a local ambulance officer for nearly 40 years and wouldn’t have it any other way. “We wouldn’t be here unless we loved it,” he told NewsWeekly.
“It gets in your blood.” As NSW Premier Mike Baird opened the facility he made special mention to all local paramedics, specifying that they are what the celebration was really about. “In any community we need our heroes and to me, I really want to pay tribute to the paramedics,” he said. “They silently go about their work and all of us are safer because the paramedics are there.
“When we need them the most, and it comes unexpectedly, the assurance of seeing them turn up with their skills, training and passion is something we take for granted but we should celebrate. “I just want to say thankyou to all of the paramedics here.” Of all staff, Mr Evans has been with the Albury ambulance service the longest, having arrived in 1978 from Grong Grong.
what they’re going through is really good. “You can deliver a baby, or there’s some things we can reverse with a simple injection, as quick as that.” Mr Evans said one of the great joys of having been in his profession for so many years was seeing the many medical advancements and applying them to his work. Continued page 2
“I worked in a rural community and came down here as a mechanic for the ambulance service,” he said. “One of the other officers at the station talked me into becoming an ambulance officer. “It’s a very rewarding job, I’ve enjoyed it. There’s a lot of tough times but there’s a lot of really good times. “Even if things don’t go right for people, the fact that you’re there and you can actually help them deal with
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