Jetty Carnival
JASC report
Results
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Cooloongatta
Jaco Golf Day
Gold
Need
SAWTELLUL8R
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Helpers
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november
2016
sawtell
slsc Message from the President PROFICIENCy dates
SLS is all about team work, dedication, passion, compliance, communication, goal setting,
Sunday 20 November 8am
stand for. Our members have a huge variety of different skill sets and we volunteer our time
Sunday 11 December 8am
inclusion, engagement, leadership and resilience. I am so proud of our club and what we in a challenging and rewarding organisation. We are constantly striving to make Sawtell SLSC and our beach the best that it can be to offer a safe environment for all, providing training, education, Nippers, competition and a unique community that everyone can be
MEMBER’S SHOWERs To ensure that only
part of and be proud of. The above is shown in so many ways everyday with our members and community, and again proven with the successful Jetty season ‘opener’ carnival.
members use the showers
A great team effort from not only Sawtell but
a massive effort and the more people who help
a lock was placed on
also all the clubs in our Branch of which we
the easier it is to do.
the entrance to these
should all be proud. By working together we
showers meaning that only
build better relations and enjoy the benefits of a
those with a key could
strong Branch.
access such showers. The Club does have a duty of care to its membership. Hence the locking of the door. Could the person(s) who saw fit to remove this padlock please return it to its designated place.
I also want to thank Alison Haley for her incredible organisational skills with organising the BBQ and food for the
My personal thanks to
day, as well as Alex Fraser,
Garry Howe and Andrew
Shelley Foster, Holly Foster,
Martin for volunteering
Belle Watkins, Tyra Roff and
their time and running
Murray Watkins. This was a
an efficient carnival, our
massive job and this team
officials without whom
worked hard together all day
the carnival would not run (Scott Rayson, Fiona Lane, Megan Pengelly, Raelene Carey, Tony Nolan,
with skill and happy faces; Thank you all very much.
Susie Haley, Nick Murray, Kerry Clancy), our
An enormous thank you to our JASC Secretary
water safety, Age Managers, Competitors and
Michael Meacham for helping everywhere and
helpers for set up and pack up. We know this is
making sure all was in order.
Results from the carnival have Sawtell on 622 points, Coffs 349,
having fun. Congratulations to some of our nippers who completed
Woolgoolga 99, Urunga 61, Nambucca Heads 5 and North Beach 3.
their first ‘Iron person’. As we know this is a challenging test of
It was wonderful to see our kids competing and getting fantastic results, all the hard work paying off with great rewards. My committee also wants to stress the importance of competing with good sportsmanship – always play by the rules, and treat all competitors and officials as you would like to be treated yourself. It’s fantastic to see all the hard work paying off for our competitors
endurance and everyone should be proud of their efforts first or last – you were all in the water doing it. To finish I also want to congratulate our first ever Coolangatta Gold Team (see later report). Well done Grace on organising a team for this event and hopefully starting a tradition for the coming years with more Sawtell teams competing. By all accounts you all enjoyed the race and must be chuffed with your efforts.
that train hard; with great results and it is equally rewarding seeing
See you on the beach,
our competitors who are not as strong simply competing and
Leanne James
Message from Club Captain We are all settling in to the patrol season with most of the initial teething problems which occur at the start of every season behind us. We are still having some communication problems with SurfCom by radio on some days due to issues with the repeater on South Solitary Island. When this occurs other clubs have sometimes coordinated communication with SurfCom for us and we always have the option of phoning SurfCom on 02 9471 8092. Patrol Captains and Vice Captains should have this number in their mobile phones. The new radio in the Ute has now been programmed so that it
tower for a long time each day and they would appreciate it being
turns on and off automatically with the vehicle’s ignition so there
kept clean and tidy as well as fully secured after use by us on
is no need to use the power button on the radio. That radio is
Patrol.
normally set to Channel 2 so it should always be possible to contact the Ute whenever it is being used.
I’m sure that everyone appreciates the need to
Due to the generosity of the NSW Police we now
patrol. The responsibility for this rests with the
have an additional Hytera handheld radio. As we
person who needs a sub and they should contact
already have 5 for use on patrol this radio will be
their mates in the first instance to obtain a
kept in reserve for use as a spare if one of the main
sub. To facilitate this mobile phone numbers of
5 radios fails. While on the subject of radios it would
almost all patrolling members are listed in the
improve the life of the radios if all of them are kept in
members only section of our Web site. Only if this
waterproof protective bags when on patrol. We have
fails should you request that a text be sent to all
5 of these in a couple of designs so this should be
patrolling members through the SurfGuard system
relatively easy to achieve.
by me most of the time or by Shelley Lantry (the
obtain a substitute if they cannot make a rostered
Vice Club Captain) on 0438 518 103 when I’m
Congratulations to Pete Dawson and Keith
away. (I will be away until 21 November.)
McPherson who recently gained their IRB Crew Certificates and to Rick Fischer, a recent transferee from Coffs who obtained
In order to improve the safety and security of the fuel stored in the
his Silver Medallion IRB Driver qualification. These are great
IRB Shed a lockable fuel storage cabinet meeting the Australian
qualifications to have as every patrol must have at least one IRB
Standard is being sourced. The cabinet should arrive in the next
Driver and one IRB Crewperson.
few weeks. When it arrives a safety procedure will be developed and it will be important that the cabinet is kept locked at all times
I have been reminded by the Council Lifeguards of the importance of ensuring that the Beach Tower is carefully locked up at the end of each patrol day. There have been a number of instances of it being unlocked or unsecured overnight and some of the window shutter lock pins have been lost. The Lifeguards are often in the
when not in use. See you on the beach.
Steve
Rayson
0429 025 845
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Message from Chief Training Officer
CARNIVAL DATES
A new Bronze Medallion course has just started and it is not too late to sign up. Please let me know if interested now. This season, all members who are wishing to update/renew their awards will have the opportunity to:
b ranch Carnival
> 1. Complete the relevant on-line skills maintenance via the member portal - lifesaving online
13 November 2016
- courses - click the ‘go to online learning now’ button. This will re-direct you to Australian Life
Woolgoolga
Saving Academy training. Members then click on the tab ‘all my learning’ and scroll down
interbranch
to the Skills Maintenance 2016/17 tabs (resuscitation, power craft, Advance Resuscitation (ARTC).
10 – 11 December 2016 The Lakes
Once complete, members are requested to print out a certificate by clicking the down arrow next to the ‘Personal Learning Plan’ tab, selecting certificates, highlighting the ‘Skills
branch Carnival
Maintenance’ that you have completed then the print button, at the bottom left of the screen.
29 January 2017
Then bring the certificates to the proficiency testing days and hand to one of the assessors.
Urunga C ountry
OR alternatively but not encouraged:
4 – 5 February 2017
> 2. Complete a written proficiency (click for hyperlink) Proficiency Papers – [radio workbook,
South West Rocks
power craft workbook, & resuscitation workbook]. Complete the workbooks and bring these to the proficiency testing days and hand to one of the assessors.
State Titles
One of these options must be completed prior to doing any assessment. That means that if you
Feb/Mar 2017
have neither certificates nor workbooks you will not be able to do the assessments.
Swansea Belmont
Full Bronze Course
UPCOMING DATES
Full Course 8 -10 weeks > Cost $175 which includes 2 years membership plus manuals
Andrew Martin 0419 485 401
“Jaco” Memorial Golf Day 13 November Sponsors’ Thank You 20 November
CLUBHOUSE SURROUNDS The great state in which our Clubhouse
tas Bronze Medallion training
surrounds are maintained is almost
28 November-2 December
entirely due to the efforts of Mick McGavigan. Many, many thanks Mick
Last Day of nippers before christmas break
for your ongoing involvement and interest in the Club.
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community
planning
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Message from Junior Activities Sub Committee
What a great start to the season! Our Registrar, Jo McKeon, tells me that Sawtell has almost 180 nippers registered for 2016/17. In teenager parlance - OMG! And isn’t it just fantastic to see so many of these kids actually on the beach. Sawtell’s beach is crawling with Nippers now, and in years to come it should be well-supplied with volunteer life savers. We’ve had a few changes to the management team over the
The second carnival is also upon us - Woolgoolga on
past month or so. Two of our members, Gavin and Shantelle
13 November. Again, all juniors are encouraged to participate
Winchester, had to leave the JASC for other priorities. We thank
- Nippers, please indicate your intentions to Julie Blaxland, our
them dearly for their past contribution to Nippers and wish them
Competition Manager. This is also the last carnival where U12s
both well in all their endeavours.
and up can earn points toward selection for the Interbranch
Gerard Klinkers (U12 Age Manager) however, has
Championships in December. Good luck to all!
enthusiastically taken up the vacated Vice Chair role and Alison
But the Carnival we really have our eyes on this season, is
Haley has very smoothly adopted the Social Coordinator role.
Country! The Country Championships will again be in South
Thank-you to you both. We also have Tim Ruge who has offered
West Rocks - in February, and we encourage all U8’s and up, to
to take on the U10s as Assistant Age Manager - welcome Tim!
participate. It’s a fabulous 2-day spectacle and we all go out to
Parents, we always need Assistants to provide backup support for our Age Managers. Some have recently put their hand up to help which is just fabulous. But there are still a couple of Age Managers who could use another assistant - there is the odd occasion when an Age Manager can’t make a Sunday morning and having Assistants to step in, makes everyone’s life so much
dinner on the Saturday night and kick back. More later! A point on Carnivals: Nippers, you don’t have to be a ‘winner’ to enjoy carnival participation. Sure, some are faster than you that’s fine. But there are also other nippers out there, who aren’t so fast and they would love for you to join them out there. If you come last, that’s absolutely fine too - you’ll be better for having
easier.
given it a go, and everyone will appreciate the fact that you got
The first carnival of the season has also just passed. For those
make sure you’ve passed your ocean proficiency swim first.
who didn’t participate - Sawtell Nippers performed very well at Jetty carnival (no scores yet as I write) and I believe we had around 60 competitors - many being first-timers. Well done kids for joining in, pushing yourself and creating a wonderful spectacle for us on-lookers. I tried to watch as many events and age groups as I could on the day and every nipper that I saw had a certain kind of smiling determination- whatever their place and circumstance. It was also great to see so many onlookers cheering the Nippers on - even from other Clubs. This is very important - we’re all out there to make for a good time for everyone - we owe it to each other.
in! If you’ve never done so before, please consider joining in, but
Finally, a thank-you to Mark Sherrin and crew for providing IRB support to some of our Sawtell training sessions recently. Mark has been helping our excellent Coaches maintain the requisite Water Safety support for our young athletes and it is very much appreciated by the athletes and the parents. It’s also nice to hear the various echoes of “Thank-you Mark!” in the IRB wash-down area as the kids leave the Club after a session.
Michael Meacham Secretary, JASC
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COOLANGATTA GOLD
award
congratulations
Congratulations to the following members who have recently successfully completed awards.
silver medallion Aquatic Rescue Andrew Martin
Four members of Sawtell SLSC recently
advice to her team mates (after completing the
formed the Club’s first ever team entry in the
event last year).
“Coolangatta Gold” Short Course endurance event on the Gold Coast last Saturday (15 October). Team “SAWTELLUL8R” comprising; Grace Foster (U19), Kate Murray (U15), Richie Goddard (Open) and Sarah Tisdell (Open), completed the 32.4km course in 4 hours and 6 mins and finished a credible 8th out of 11 mixed open teams and were the only mixed
s ilver medallion beach management Shelley Lantry David O’Leary
Grace paddled her ski 14.6km from Coolangatta to Miami, Kate ran 2.1km to Burleigh where Richie swam 2.5km before handing over to Sarah for a 6.1km long board
Go Pro Raffle
paddle to Currumbin and then Kate ran the
The club currently has a
final 7.1km to finish the race at Coolangatta. All team members were very happy with their achievement and enjoyed being part of a team
team to include 3 female competitors. The
for Sawtell and were grateful for the support of
team was formed/captained by Grace and
their handlers, families and the Sawtell
Sarah took on the role of mentor, offering great
Surf Club.
raffle going for a GoPro camera. $5 per ticket. Tickets available at the Club.
Pacific Palms SLSC
Club Webpage
Pacific Palms SLSC have advised they will be
The Club webpage is your webpage.
struggling to maintain patrols over the busy
Any constructive criticisms are always
Christmas period and if any of our members may be
welcome. Please direct to
holidaying down there they would appreciate any
[email protected]
help that you may be able to offer. NIPPERS BOARD
Phil Jacobson Memorial Golf Day
Bakers Delight have agreed to
The Phil Jacobson “Jaco” Memorial Golf Day has been set down for Sunday 13th November.
sponsor Nippers a $1100 board.
The date chosen is always the date nearest to Jaco’s birthday. This year unfortunately it clashes
Many thanks.
with a Branch carnival at Woolgoolga meaning many of the regular helpers are unavailable. Di Clark is after helpers so please contact Di if you can assist on 0407 408 109.
community
planning
p r o fici e n c y
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The Club, as a beneficiary of this day, needs to assist. Any member prepared to help out is asked to contact Di Clark on 0407 408 109
sponsors
contact Sawtell Life Saving Club Fourth Ave Sawtell NSW 2452 Ph (02) 6653 2164 www.sawtellsurfclub.com.au
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