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How do I use this gadget!
Phillip Petersen SESVA Committee member reports that Gosnells SES Unit hosted a GPS familiarisation workshop on Sunday morning. This was initiated by the Operations Officer at Gosnells, Graham Fixter. The idea was to educate more volunteers on how to use a GPS correctly. So there was discussion about using correct map datum’s and some other basics of using a GPS.Held at Hillside Farm which is on the edge of Darling Scarp in the City of Gosnells, there was a variety of terrain and locations for learning and to challenge volunteers.
There were 39 volunteers who participated. They were from the following SES units:
- Armadale;
- Canning;
- Communications Support Unit;
- Gosnells;
- Kalamunda;
- North Shore;
- Rockingham;
- Stirling;
- Swan.
Some Picture taken during the Workshop
The boys from Stirling SES Unit
The girls from Armadale SES Unit
If only this gadget would understand me !
Graham Fixter of Gosnells SEs Unit has a hard earned drink of tea.
The Association met with FESA's ACOO Metro SES (Gary Gifford) and ACOO Training (Darren Klemm) on Thursday afternoon (2 Feb). FESA has given an undertaking to forward to the Association within 7 days of the above meeting, the strategic document outlining where the SES training for Volunteers and associated staff are situated in the new structure.
Although the ACOO SES Metro stated that the document on the Association's website was not balanced, the Association supports and stands by the submitted document as being representative of the views of many volunteers.
Association President, David Price, gave FESA an undertaking that the article will stay off the website for the next 7 day. A review of the situation will be conducted after that date.The Association has taken the above article down as a sign of good faith, subject to a meeting scheduled with the ACOO SES Metro and the ACOO Training on 2 feb 2012 where they have requested to give a reply to the article. Subject to the outcomes of that meeting the training article may be returned, modified or put on further hold.
Please note that the number of hits on this article, far exceeded any previous article ever posted on the SES-VA website, as training is of great importance and a large part of The State Emergency Service Volunteers participation in the Service
Signed by the Executive of the SESVA
