WAGGA’S Paul Pitstock has been volunteering all his life.
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It started when he enlisted for military service in Vietnam at the age of 20, when he was 26 he became captain of the Captain’s Flat bush fire brigade.
He has spent years working with Legacy and Scouts Australia as a leader since the mid-1980s.
Since 2009, Mr Pitstock has been the go-to man and volunteer manager of Wagga’s Camp Kurrajong.
Murrumbidgee Rotary Club and Mr Pitstock started working together in 2012 for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) in Wagga.
The club have named Mr Pitstock a Paul Harris Fellow.
“I have had the privilege of working closley with Paul over the last three years to organise RYLA camps,” RYLA co-ordinator Lauren Slater said.
She said Mr Pitstock had worked so the community’s youth succeeded.
“Nothing is ever too much of an ask for Paul.”
“No matter what he we asked for, Paul made it happen.
“Funny food requests, facilities, bonfires, wheelbarrows and of course, the famous scones.”
Mr Pitstock said volunteering was “something I’ve always done”.
“This means a lot to me.”