Curtin Volunteers is a non-profit student-run volunteer organisation of Curtin University of Technology and this year they are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the program.

Rebecca Kelly from the Moora Shire applied for Moora to be one of the rural towns to participate in the weekend. This is the third year that the shire has organised this for the community.

“The volunteers were noticeably busy on race day in their bright green T-shirts carrying out all sorts of duties which kept them busy throughout the day,” Ms Kelly said.

“The students finished at 5pm and were able to return to the track to take part in the evening entertainment, but were up at 8am the next morning assisting with the cleanup at the track which was much appreciated by all.

“The Moora race club were very impressed with the assistance that they received.”

The remaining half of the volunteers travelled to Watheroo where the main activity was preparation for the Watheroo P and C’s Race Meeting which is on next Saturday, October 17.

This included making posters advertising their sponsors, cutting and counting ‘money’ and creating general signage.

Some of the volunteers organised, sorted and cleaned a storeroom for science, technology and art resources at the school.

Teacher Jan Millsteed said, “This sort of activity is time consuming, dusty and boring, but the group achieved a great result.”

Part of the group also worked on the local herbarium. This involved sticking samples on cards, placing these in folders and producing and applying labels.

Mrs Millsteed was impressed with the amount of work the volunteers achieved.

“This task is quite time consuming for an individual and to have a group work on it, made for an easy exercise,” she said.

“Jackie Riches and I were very impressed with the high standard of the work they did and their general attitude and enthusiasm to the tasks.”