Celebrating volunteers

A JOB well done… With one of the walk’s iconic sections in the background Friends of the Great South West Walk volunteers were presented with awards for service on Monday. Pictured are Bill Rowbottom and Bill Pike (20 years), the founder of the walk Bill Golding (who was surprised with a 90th birthday celebration a couple of days early), new life members Alvin Cram and Gordon Page, and Lou Florakx and Hella Huppatz (both 10 years). Absent was John Legg (15 years). Picture: OLIVIA COTTIER 220214oc04

By Chalpat Sonti

February 19, 2022 | 6:30 PM

VOLUNTEERS are becoming harder and harder to come by for many local organisations, as seen in recent editions of the Observer, but for the Friends of the Great South West Walk getting and keeping them has been a huge part of its success story.

And the Friends know how to honour those volunteers, doing so again in style at Cape Bridgewater on Monday.