COMMUNITY NEWS
LATEST RPEQ’S Congratulations to our newest RPEQs: Michael Kinion, Development/ Design Engineer from Somerset Regional Council; Georgia Keeshan Principal Coastal Engineer, Sunshine Coast Council.
DEREK STRINGFELLOW, IPWEAQ’S SIXTH PRESIDENT It was an honour to welcome Derek Stringfellow, IPWEAQ’s sixth president (1982-1984) and his family to join us for morning tea at our facilities in Eagle Farm. The Strinfellow family is pictured in Stringfellow, the training room named in Derek’s honour. Derek praised the Every Community Needs an Engineer campaign and is pictured in front of the banner at Eagle Farm. We were grateful that Derek took the time to talk with our Media Coordinator, James Price about the life of a public works engineer in earlier times.
CAREER CHANGES
Stuart Doak, Manager Infrastructure Projects at Livingstone Shire Council retires this month following a career spanning 43 years. Stuart has worked in the private sector for contractors and as a Consultant, and has spent 25 years in engineering management roles in local government. Stuart was the first and last Shire Engineer of the former Woongarra Shire prior to amalgamation; and was formerly Director Technical Services at Gladstone City Council. In his retirement, Stuart intends to explore the hypothesis that retirees can’t understand how they ever had time to go to work!
Trevor Williams has moved to McKinlay Shire Council as CEO. Trevor was previously the Disaster Recovery Project Director at the Whitsunday Regional Council.
PRESIDENTS’ CHARITY Over the past two years, we have raised $18,107 for Rural Aid between raffles and auctions at Branch and Annual Conferences, donations and polo shirt purchases. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this wonderful cause!
Leigh Cunningham presenting funds to Nicole Johnson, Fundraising Coordinator, Rural Aid.
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Congratulations Angela Fry who is now the Business Group Leader – Roads and Highways, South Qld for GHD.
