Aldinga Beach CFS is asking for your help again we will be doing a bottle drive around Aldinga collecting all your cans and bottle. The bottle drive will be held on Sunday 29th Aug 2010 and will be starting at 9.30am so please help your local cfs so we can help you.

A very big thank you to all that donated on Saturday at the elections you helped raise $1200 which will help purchase equipment to help the community. Again a big thank you for everyone involved and who donated.

Thats right another Federal Election is apon us. Aldinga Beach CFS will be at Aldinga Primary school on Saturday 21 August 2010 so come on down and show your support. We will have the trucks and Smokey The Bear collecting donations. Hope to see you all there.

Congratulations to Rick Ewins who last week got voted into his new position as Senior Firefighter 3 And Lachlan Ophof who was Promoted to Senior Firefighter 2. Good luck in your new positions.

Congratulations to Firefighter Brady Starfield who till last week was Aldinga Beach CFS Senior Firefighter 2, Brady has now been promoted to Deputy Group Officer 2. Brady will still be a firefighter for Aldinga Beach when he gets the chance to respond. Congrats to Brady and good luck in the future.

A Big thank you to everyone that donated to the guys and girls in yellow you helped raise over $1300 for equipment for Aldinga Beach CFS. It was a good day all round with lots of the little ones have a squirt of water on the hose and getting to have a look over the truck. Thanks to the Firefighter that volunteered there time to help fund raise.

Today was jammed back of excitement in Aldinga today as a heap of business opened their doors to the public so they could have a look around. Aldinga Beach CFS was the same we opened the doors at 11am for the public to bring thier kids down and have a look at the trucks, squirt some water, see lots of pictures, get some information on the CFS, see Smokey the Koala and mess around with the sirens on the trucks. It was good to see so many people from the community turn out and have some fun. The public also got to see us in action when our pagers dropped and we had to rush of to a car accident. Photos from the day will be uploaded to our gallery for all to look at. if you took some photos and would like them on the website you can upload them yourself via the gallery. Big thanks to all the volunteers that helped put today together.

Aldinga has just had its 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM) this year we voted on new officer positions it was a fairly length meeting with someone special guest including David Przibilla (Kyeema Group Officer) Jeff Hockley (Deputy Group Officer) Richard Brooks (Sellicks CFS Captain) a big congrats to David Lee who took out this years Peter Sutton Fire Fighter Of The Year award. also a big congrats to the new Officers who take over the roles on the 1st of September 2009, Luke Trewartha is our new Captain Richard Davis new Lieutenant 1, Michael Smale new Lieutenant 2, Daniel Tinker new Lieutenant 3, Tanya Norman new Senior Firefighter 1, Brady Starfield new Senior Firefighter 2, Lochlan Ophof new Senior Firefighter 3. May the next year be as good as the last.

Congratulations to Dean Norman who has moved from Captain to Group Officer, Andrew Ridington who has moved from Lieutenant 1 to Deputy Group Officer. Also a congratulations to Rick Ewins who has been elected Group Communications Officer, Sue Schmitke who was elected Group Logistics Officer and Richard Davis who was elected Group Cadet co-ordinator Good Luck to them all.

Congratulations to Dean and Tanya Norman who have both been awarded their National Medal for 15 years of diligent service to the Country Fire Service.  The National Medal recognizes long and diligent service by members of recognized organizations that help the community during times of crisis. The National Medal is Australia’s most awarded civilian medal. In the last year Brady Starfield and Andrew Ridington have also recived their National Medals