So here we are less than 7 weeks till Xmas and the Surf club season is in full swing. For those of you that are new to the Hat Head Surf club “WELCOME” and enjoy the ride.
Stage one of our facility upgrade are complete and apart from a few small matters we are up and using our new rooms. The gods have provided great rains since the laying of our turf and once it is established we can remove the barriers and walk on the new lawn. {insert Date Here 7th 11th 2015 }.
For those of you that haven’t received one of these newsletters before it will become apparent that it has a mind of its own, a nasty case of tourrettes syndrome and little regard for editorial brilliance!
Our nipper numbers have now increased to over 90 which is a tremendous thing for all concerned, we have a new batch of bronze and SRC coming through, a team of juniors in the carnival at SWR tomorrow and the fledgling beginnings of a casual but robust boat rowing group. Greg Steele from patrol No 4 , a rower in his former days, is undergoing the necessary training to become a sweep and the timber training boat restored by Peter Hull is waiting for a group of keen unskilled boaties to take her for a spin in creek, river or the safe waters of front beach. Greg is wanting to have a meeting with any interested persons this Wednesday at a place and time to suit all to discuss getting up and going, he has organised co training days with crescent head on Tuesday or Thursdays in town on the river. The only requirements are that you are a current financial member and holding a bronze award. Gregs mobile number is 0409 116179 so give him a ring or at least reply to the clubs facebook page so he can get things going.
For those who don’t know the upcoming holiday season is our time for major fundraising and we need a group of enthusiastic helpers to help raise some urgently needed dollars. Our renovations were not fully funded by a grant and we had to use around $70, 000.00 of our own money raised by club members over the years to get what we have now, and we soon have to look at replacing our rusted out ATV, carrying on with stage 2 {Covered walkway and toilet area for the hall upstairs} and general running costs, so when the call goes out please be ready to have a go so we can all benefit.
Last year I would sit down every week {in the words of Billy Joel “At Wine O Clock On A Saturday” } and write up a weekly update of events, happenings , rosters and upcoming courses and dates for the next week, but this year we have all the info you need on our Website www.hatheadslsc.org.au or on our facebook page. These are the places you can check out what’s coming up or ask a question and have someone help you out. The website has a calendar of events and courses and the facebook site contains promotional and off handed funny comments about ourselves. These old style direct emails are hard to do and time consuming as we don’t have everyone’s email details, so it’s much easier if you track us down on the three WWW’S.
Next Sunday is annual proficiency day at 9 am, turn up early all you patrollers and if you have done your on line skills update please print out and bring along with you. If you haven’t done this yet or are having trouble Mike has left pretty good instructions on the facebook site how to find, complete and print out your forms, and others have left comments along the same lines so just log in and have a go.
PATROL STUFF
Crescent Head club has contacted me to see if we can help with BBM , Driver and Crew members on some occasions as they are having troubles already with not enough qualified members till more courses are run, so if you have these awards and can help out please let me know so I can speak with Crescent and confirm dates when help is needed.
Not sure if there are any other important things coming up soon , the last couple of working bees have had great roll ups, the nippers crew seem to be rolling along nicely with plenty of helpers already {But any of you other SRC or Bronze members that would like to do a bit of extra water safety on Sundays it would be a great help as 90 or so kids need a lot of sheparding in the water}, patrol numbers are good but there maybe a little shifting of members soon to help out cover the ground, and I suppose we have a dam good shindig coming up to celebrate our upgrade or the Xmas season whatever comes first.
So if you need anything the people to contact are;
KEN our mighty president PARISH
MIKE the king of paperwork STEVENSON
SUE the dollars in dollars out queen CROAD
IAN by gees that’s a lot of nippers WEBSTER
NAT I have the shirts, sausages and paperwork MEALING
PETER what! something more to repair HULL
ANDREW I have three boats and four motors MEALING
NICOLE what group is my kid in BROWNE
And Me The Overpaid, Under worked Club Captain
Andrew Kirby 0428 655773 rtbp1@bigpond.com
Have a great week see you on the beach
{Disclaimer the views expressed hear are not an accurate representation of the thoughts of any normal sane person let alone any one of rational thought or appearance Hoping these sort of comments will get me a section one A and I will be relieved of my duties faster than corporal Max Clinger from the mash 4077th }
Stage one of our facility upgrade are complete and apart from a few small matters we are up and using our new rooms. The gods have provided great rains since the laying of our turf and once it is established we can remove the barriers and walk on the new lawn. {insert Date Here 7th 11th 2015 }.
For those of you that haven’t received one of these newsletters before it will become apparent that it has a mind of its own, a nasty case of tourrettes syndrome and little regard for editorial brilliance!
Our nipper numbers have now increased to over 90 which is a tremendous thing for all concerned, we have a new batch of bronze and SRC coming through, a team of juniors in the carnival at SWR tomorrow and the fledgling beginnings of a casual but robust boat rowing group. Greg Steele from patrol No 4 , a rower in his former days, is undergoing the necessary training to become a sweep and the timber training boat restored by Peter Hull is waiting for a group of keen unskilled boaties to take her for a spin in creek, river or the safe waters of front beach. Greg is wanting to have a meeting with any interested persons this Wednesday at a place and time to suit all to discuss getting up and going, he has organised co training days with crescent head on Tuesday or Thursdays in town on the river. The only requirements are that you are a current financial member and holding a bronze award. Gregs mobile number is 0409 116179 so give him a ring or at least reply to the clubs facebook page so he can get things going.
For those who don’t know the upcoming holiday season is our time for major fundraising and we need a group of enthusiastic helpers to help raise some urgently needed dollars. Our renovations were not fully funded by a grant and we had to use around $70, 000.00 of our own money raised by club members over the years to get what we have now, and we soon have to look at replacing our rusted out ATV, carrying on with stage 2 {Covered walkway and toilet area for the hall upstairs} and general running costs, so when the call goes out please be ready to have a go so we can all benefit.
Last year I would sit down every week {in the words of Billy Joel “At Wine O Clock On A Saturday” } and write up a weekly update of events, happenings , rosters and upcoming courses and dates for the next week, but this year we have all the info you need on our Website www.hatheadslsc.org.au or on our facebook page. These are the places you can check out what’s coming up or ask a question and have someone help you out. The website has a calendar of events and courses and the facebook site contains promotional and off handed funny comments about ourselves. These old style direct emails are hard to do and time consuming as we don’t have everyone’s email details, so it’s much easier if you track us down on the three WWW’S.
Next Sunday is annual proficiency day at 9 am, turn up early all you patrollers and if you have done your on line skills update please print out and bring along with you. If you haven’t done this yet or are having trouble Mike has left pretty good instructions on the facebook site how to find, complete and print out your forms, and others have left comments along the same lines so just log in and have a go.
PATROL STUFF
Crescent Head club has contacted me to see if we can help with BBM , Driver and Crew members on some occasions as they are having troubles already with not enough qualified members till more courses are run, so if you have these awards and can help out please let me know so I can speak with Crescent and confirm dates when help is needed.
Not sure if there are any other important things coming up soon , the last couple of working bees have had great roll ups, the nippers crew seem to be rolling along nicely with plenty of helpers already {But any of you other SRC or Bronze members that would like to do a bit of extra water safety on Sundays it would be a great help as 90 or so kids need a lot of sheparding in the water}, patrol numbers are good but there maybe a little shifting of members soon to help out cover the ground, and I suppose we have a dam good shindig coming up to celebrate our upgrade or the Xmas season whatever comes first.
So if you need anything the people to contact are;
KEN our mighty president PARISH
MIKE the king of paperwork STEVENSON
SUE the dollars in dollars out queen CROAD
IAN by gees that’s a lot of nippers WEBSTER
NAT I have the shirts, sausages and paperwork MEALING
PETER what! something more to repair HULL
ANDREW I have three boats and four motors MEALING
NICOLE what group is my kid in BROWNE
And Me The Overpaid, Under worked Club Captain
Andrew Kirby 0428 655773 rtbp1@bigpond.com
Have a great week see you on the beach
{Disclaimer the views expressed hear are not an accurate representation of the thoughts of any normal sane person let alone any one of rational thought or appearance Hoping these sort of comments will get me a section one A and I will be relieved of my duties faster than corporal Max Clinger from the mash 4077th }
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