THE winners of the 2021 Australia Day awards were announced at ceremonies across Greater Shepparton yesterday.
Camuran Albanoi was announced as the overall Greater Shepparton Citizen of the Year, with Natalie Dobbyn named Greater Shepparton Young Citizen of the Year. Quarry Chorus won the Greater Shepparton Community Event of the Year.
Greater Shepparton City Council Mayor, Cr Kim O’Keeffe, congratulated all award recipients and acknowledged the outstanding contributions they have made to Greater Shepparton.
“It was wonderful to be able to acknowledge and celebrate our community and nation after a challenging year, we have many individuals in our region who continue to make Greater Shepparton proud, and it was fantastic to be able to honour them in the way of an Australia Day award,” Cr O’Keeffe said.
“Thank you to those who took the time to submit a nomination to recognise their fellow citizens, it is fantastic to see both individuals and groups doing great things for their community and it is important that we recognise and celebrate them.”
Awards were presented in Arcadia, Shepparton, Dookie, Mooroopna, Murchison and Tatura and the Greater Shepparton Citizen, Young Citizen and Community Event of the Year were chosen from these regional winners.
Winners
Overall Greater Shepparton
Citizen of the Year: Camuran Albanoi
Young Citizen of the Year: Natalie Dobbyn
Community Event of the Year: Quarry
Chorus
Shepparton
Citizen of the Year: Camuran Albanoi
Community Event of the Year: Quarry
Chorus
Young Citizen of the Year: Alana Cook
Senior Citizen of the Year: John Painter
Sports Award: Michael Clarke
Mooroopna
Citizen of the Year: Cath Birkett
Young Citizen of the Year: Natalie Dobbyn
Dookie
Citizen of the Year: Leiticia Harmer
Community Event of the Year: Dookie
Delivery Team during COVID19
Senior Citizen of the Year: John Milligan
Murchison
Young Citizen of the Year: Bree McLarty
Citizen of the Year: Bruce Smith
Tatura
Citizen of the Year: Kaye Watson
Community Event of the Year: Rodney CWA
– Bush Fire Relief Stalls
Arcadia
Citizen of the Year: Ineka Berkama
