The Queen has given the highest honours to a pillar of the Tumbarumba community, bestowing an Order of Australia Medal to Bruce Wright for his lifetime of selflessness.
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Mr Wright is known around town for his spirit of volunteerism and boundless energy, which has carried on with him into his 70s.
That energy has allowed him to overcome the Kokoda track a whopping 14 times as part of the Tumbarumba2Kokoda project, which he started in 2006 alongside the Rotary Club of Tumbarumba.
Since then he has taken hundreds of Tumbarumba students and adults to the Kokoda track as part of the project, which he started to honour the fallen soldiers and cultivate a spirit of self-confidence in the youth.
"The youth of today are wonderful, we really don't have to worry about our future," Mr Wright said.
"They'll keep our community strong."
During his time in Papua New Guinea he did volunteer work for the local children and he even built a school building with his wife Colleen.
Mr Wright has fingers in pies all around Tumbarumba, volunteering his time and energy to community projects all across town.
One of them is the Talking Tumba Times project, where Bruce narrates a copy of the Tumbarumba Times newspaper for the vision impaired members of the community.
He is also the director of the Hyne Community Trust, which spearheads local projects and events with the help of local philanthropists.
He also sits on the Snowy Valley Council, where he champions the small town of Tumbarumba across a vast council area.
His vision on council has been to turn the region into a tourism magnet for adventure cyclists, advocating for rail trails throughout the hills to leverage the region's natural beauty.