Since his first kick in the under-15s in 1946, Brian Millett has been a Brigades man through and through for eight decades.
In the years since, he's played, fundraised and helped build the club rooms, served on the committee and run the bar.
Mr Millett only played a handful of seasons, but where he's had the biggest impact has been off-field. Mr Millett travelled hundreds of kilometres to the south west to bring up the 1965 Bel Air Chev which he decked out with an ice box and champagne glass holders for weddings."They rung up, they wanted to hire it but I wouldn't let them, I said, 'You use our premises', so it worked."Mr Millett held the position of vice president for 12 years and was always on call for maintenance.He recalls trying to fit a wind-sock without a ladder.
Not only did rock lobsters replace chooks as valuable raffle prizes, they would also be used to lure potential talent.Volunteers are Australia's invisible workforce … but many organisations are facing a reckoning as community stalwarts get older and are forced to take a step back. "The problem was if one of them got the job the other one wasn't going to play, so Brian used his initiative.
"It's extremely hard to see anyone stick around as a club volunteer for 10 years, let alone 80," he said
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