The Pride of Workmanship Award Scheme has been run by the Rotary Club in Guyra over the past six years highlighting the great work of many employees and thus resulting in a sense of pride on the part of the awardees as well as their supervisors.

Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional people that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.

Rotary Clubs undertake service projects under four main themes – Community Service (e.g. Christmas Parade and Carnival), International Service (e.g. fighting Polio and Malaria and assisting a school in Tanzania and hospital in Vanuatu), Youth Service (e.g. student exchange, RYAG and the Youth Leadership Award) and Vocational Service which is where the Pride of Workmanship program fits in.

This year’s award program was organised by Rotary’s Director of Vocational Service, Tessa Capsanis who said: “Members of Rotary believe ‘Pride of Workmanship’ – the sense of responsibility to do a job well and exceed expectations is one of the greatest assets that people working in our town can bring to building our community and making our town a better place to live.

“It is not a competition for the best employee - rather it celebrates a job well done and it is a recognition by the business owner, the customers or clients, other businesses and members of our community of the important contribution made by the awardee.”

The awards dinner was addressed by Mayor Hans Hietbrink, who thanked Rotary for giving employers in Guyra the chance to publicly acknowledge the great work of their employees.

Guest speaker for the evening was Mr Bill Miller, Distribution Manager for the New England Credit Union. Bill remarked that Guyra was proving to be one of the fastest growing business centres for the Credit Union thanks to the go-ahead atmosphere in the town and the great work of NECU’s local staff.