Congratulations to the Australia Day Honours recipients across western Sydney. Read their amazing full story in your local paper.
■ Gareth McCray, of Castle Hill, receives a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community, to radio broadcasting, and to education. He is a presenter on Macquarie Network Radio.
■ David Bentham, now of Jordan Springs and a former deputy mayor of The Hills Council, receives a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to local government.
■ Professor Jeremy Robert Chapman (OAM), of Castle Hill, has been appointed a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for eminent service to medicine, particularly in the areas of clinical and biomedical research, to the development of ethical policy and practices for organ donation, acquisition and transplantation, and to renal medicine organisations and publications. He is Westmead Hospital’s clinical director of Medicine and Cancer.
■ AN Australia Day Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in recognition of his service to the Museum of Fire came out of the blue for chairman Mark White. ‘‘I’m incredibly honoured,’’ the St Clair resident said.
■ Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook can now add OAM to his name, being awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Australia Day Honours List in recognition of his service to the youth and the community.
■ Barbara Mitchell received an Order of Australia Medal for service to the international community of Bangladesh through humanitarian medical programs.
■ Dundas resident Kenneth Leonard Paton (not pictured) has been awarded a medal of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Australia Day Honours for his service to the community, particularly to youth through the Scouting movement.
■ After almost 50 years of service to the St Elizabeth Home Aged-Care Facility, Cherrybrook resident Clara Korompay has been honoured with an OAM on the Australia Day Honours List.
■ After a long trot of almost 40 years as a volunteer at Box Hill’s Tall Timbers horse riding school, Joan Edwards of Kenthurst has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the general division for her service to people with a disability.
■ It is for his 24 years of dedicated service to NSW Ambulance that Inspector Brian Joseph Parsell has been awarded an Ambulance Service Medal on Australia Day.
■ Rosemary Dalton of Castle Hill was honoured with an Order of Australia Medal for her service to nursing, and to medical education.
