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cancer and later, with ovarian cancer. Since<br />
her recovery, Yvonne has tirelessly continued<br />
her work with the Breast Cancer Support Group<br />
assisting other women going through treatment<br />
and recovery. She considers the establishment<br />
and continuation of the Group to be one of<br />
her most rewarding achievements. Yvonne has<br />
been actively involved in many other community<br />
endeavours and has a passion for preserving the<br />
unique heritage of Forbes. Through her many<br />
years as an advocate for the town Yvonne has<br />
put heritage ‘on the radar’ within the community<br />
which has seen a number of key historical<br />
initiatives take off and continue.<br />
judith simos [Scone]<br />
Judith was born in the United Kingdom and<br />
migrated to Australia in 1965 with her first<br />
husband — as ‘10 pound poms’. She made her<br />
first home in Tasmania and joined the Australian<br />
Broadcasting Commission. Judith spent the<br />
next 20 years moving between Tasmania,<br />
Melbourne and Sydney within the ABC. She<br />
later re-married and had two daughters before<br />
finally settling in Sydney. Judith became an<br />
Australian Citizen in the mid 1970s and in<br />
1985 decided to further her studies at TAFE and<br />
obtain a Certificate in Volunteering, which led to<br />
her work as a Community Services Coordinator<br />
with local government. During her career, Judith<br />
has coordinated teams of up to 450 volunteers<br />
while also volunteering in many capacities<br />
herself. She is passionate about volunteer work<br />
and spent eight years with both the Lane Cove<br />
Neighbourhood Centre and the Willoughby<br />
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City Council. She is a Justice of the Peace and<br />
a Transcare Volunteer – which involves driving<br />
clients to medical appointments and delivering<br />
Meals on Wheels. Judith has been a Committee<br />
member on the Scone Neighbourhood Resource<br />
Centre, the Upper Hunter Shire Council Welcome<br />
to Scone Committee and is on the 2013 Rural<br />
Women’s Gathering Committee. She is also a<br />
member of the Scone Probus Club and the Scone<br />
Association of Australian Decorative & Fine Arts<br />
Society. Judith devoted 10 years of her volunteer<br />
work as the Registrar of the NSW Standardbred<br />
Pleasure & Performance Horse Association.<br />
She is a Fellowship Member of the Maitland<br />
Council Heritage Committee, a Member of the<br />
Walka Water Works Trust Patron and Critic for the<br />
Maitland Repertory Society Inc.<br />
daphne simmons<br />
[Kelso, near Bathurst]<br />
Daphne has lived in Bathurst all of her life. She<br />
attended local schools and worked at an auto<br />
electrician’s undertaking clerical duties for many<br />
years. Daphne married when she was in her 30s<br />
and has one daughter and one grandchild. When<br />
her parents became elderly Daphne cared for both<br />
of them. She has been a volunteer at Bathurst<br />
Seymour Centre for the past five years and is<br />
happy to do whatever tasks need doing. Daphne<br />
is available to assist clients with activities, help<br />
in the kitchen, wrap raffle prizes and do clerical<br />
duties such as mailouts. She undertakes all tasks<br />
cheerfully and constructively and her support is<br />
wonderful. Daphne provides suggestions and<br />
ideas which help to improve our service. She also
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