{"id":570,"date":"2015-03-23T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-08-20T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T04:53:42","slug":"founder-of-crest-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Founder of CREST passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Eulogy delivered at by the CREST Executive at a wake to honour Bill Payne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the creation of CREST in 1976 by Bill, the organisation has seen many changes.<\/p>\n<p>The initial aim of providing a Monitoring Service to assist travellers and others in times of emergency saw the organisation spread across the country.<\/p>\n<p>As technology moved on and the Mobile Phone became more affordable, this monitoring service provided by CREST appeared to have outlived its usefulness.<\/p>\n<p>While still providing this monitoring in some areas, CREST finds that the emphasis is now on Safety Communications for organised sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>CREST Members in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland regularly turn out to assist Marathon Runs, Triathlons, Adventure races and a myriad of other events.<\/p>\n<p>This is a legacy of Bill.<\/p>\n<p>By Des Cottle (NSW 1)<br \/>\nState Director<br \/>\nCREST NSW Inc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bill-Payne-order-of-service-12-03-15.pdf\">Bill Payne order of service 12 03 15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Eulogy delivered at by the CREST Executive at a wake to honour Bill Payne Since the creation of CREST in 1976 by Bill, the organisation has seen many changes. [&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-570","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\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}