A BEAUTICIAN and emergency services volunteer was awarded the under 25 Active Citizen of the Year for Bridgetown-Greenbushes at the Australia Day Breakfast.
Jessi Michelle Holroyd, 21, is currently training as a beautician at Beauty-Biz Salon in Bridgetown, through Avon Beauty College in Perth.
Ms Holroyd said she was pleased to take up this career path.
“I am going well with my studies,” she said, “and I really enjoy working at the Salon. I was working at a local timber mill, but I wanted to do something with a good career path attached to it.
She is kept busy outside of work and study riding horses and being involved in the Fire Bridgade and St John’s Ambulance.
Ms Holroyd has lived all her life in Bridgetown, attending school at Bridgetown and Kearnan College in Manjimup.
As a member of the Hester Brook Bush Fire Brigade, although she was too young for the front line during the fires of 2003, she insisted on helping out with many jobs behind the scenes. She helped out as an active fire fighter in 2009.
Ms Holroyd is currently a lieutenant in the Brigade.
She is currently the youngest member of the Bridgetown St John Ambulance team, and has attended 15 call-outs in a voluntary position over the past year.
Clearly a motivated young woman, Ms Holroyd’s voluntary work with the Bridgetown-Greenbushes emergency services makes her a good role model for the youth of the Shire, and a successful nominee for the Premier’s Australia Day Active Citizenship Award for a Person Under 25 Years.
