A CRICCIETH RNLI volunteer and supporter who has donated £11,000 were both awarded at a recent presentation by the team.

Prior to the weekly exercise on Thursday, 20 October, Lee Firman, the divisional operations manager made two presentations at the lifeboat station.

The first presentation was the RNLI’s Gold Badge and Certificate of Thanks to the station’s vice-president, Ken Roberts, who had initially joined the station as a crew member in 1975.

In 1977 he was awarded the RNLI’s Thanks inscribed on Vellum for a service to the yacht Zircon, which had run aground on Porthmadog Bar, and whose crew of four were brought ashore in rough conditions by the Criccieth D class lifeboat.

Following his retirement from the crew in 1986, he became a stalwart member of the local coastguard team.

In April 2000, having retired from the coastguard, he was appointed as a deputy launch authority and remained in that post until 2006. He was then appointed as a vice-president and still remains in that position.

The second presentation was to Nick Millard, who over the past few years has contributed a significant sum of money towards the work of the lifeboat station.

With the inclusion of Gift Aid his contribution is £71,000.

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