{"id":280,"date":"2011-01-09T09:32:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackrussell.cobradah.org:8196\/wordpress\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-01-26T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T10:10:08","slug":"crest-scores-a-trifecta-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"CREST scores a trifecta for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">\n<h6>Monday, 26 October 2009<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } -->Over the weekends of 17 \/ 18 and 24 \/ 25  of October 2009, CREST provided communications, marshalling and traffic  control at 3 events for charity.<\/p>\n<p>CREST assisted the Juvenile Diabetes  Research Foundation (JDRF) in the annual walk on 18 October, this year  held at Parramatta Park in Sydney.  The team provided traffic control at  the park&#8217;s entrances and guided the walkers around the course.  The  walk is a lap of the park that weaved  its way past games of cricket,  kids playgrounds and the historical Government House.  At the time of  publishing, donations are still possible via their website at  http:\/\/walk.jdrf.org.au<\/p>\n<p>It was then off to Lake Macquarie on  Saturday 24 October where the multisport organisation Max Adventure  provided the Great Adventure Challenge for the Starlight foundation.   Corporate teams of 4 competed a course from Wangi Wangi to the Watagans  and back consisting of kayak, mountain bike and rogaine (running) legs.   Teams could swap members from a pool of 8 to complete the course and  all had support crews to keep them sustained for the event.  CREST  operated a safety radiocommunications network between each of the  transition areas and also provided timing information back to the start \/  finish line.  Last year&#8217;s event raised over $50,000 and organisers are  hoping that this year&#8217;s total will be a new record.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sea of pink on the Newcastle  foreshore the following day where 18 CREST members assisted the Avon  Race for Research a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Institute of  Australia.  3100 people entered the 5km walk or run along Newcastle&#8217;s  beaches.  CREST provided traffic control, marshalling and safety  communications over the course.<\/p>\n<p>CREST&#8217;s State Operations Director Des  Cottle said \u201cThe events are part of our regular yearly programme of  events.  They allow us to self-train our teams in preparation for times  of disaster but also we enjoy supporting other organisations to raise  funds for their very valuable work\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\">Last Updated ( Sunday, 15 November 2009 )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 26 October 2009 Over the weekends of 17 \/ 18 and 24 \/ 25 of October 2009, CREST provided communications, marshalling and traffic control at 3 events for charity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}