Annual Presentation Night

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ANCHOR 18 MAY 2018

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We recently celebrated the end ofanother great season with everyonegetting together for our AnnualPresentation Night. We had over 120people join us and it was a lovelyevening. As a small club we have aunique opportunity to get everyonetogether - both juniors and seniors.

It's heartwarming for all the adults tosee the achievements and excitementof the young Nippers and SameWavers and the young kids lovesharing the room with all the adults,many of whom they know from joiningpatrol with Patrol Buddies.

The following were among thoserecognised for their outstandingachievements over the past year:

Club Person of the Year Robert Johnson

Cadet Club Person of the Year Liam Russell

Junior Club Person of the Year Brodie Rixon

President's Award for OutstandingContribution to the Club Rachel Wallbank

Maggi Shield Jack O'Sullivan

Athletes of the Year Ruth Burgess (Senior) Sam Glasson (Junior Male) Faith Matthews (Junior Female)

Congrats to all for a great season!

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1. What country would you visit to see the

Panama Canal?

2. How many women go out with the men

on an episode of Studs?

3. Who was known as “The Young

Pretender” – Paul Keating, Bonnie Prince

Charlie or Napoleon Bonaparte?

4. What is Swan Lake – a ballet, a

painting or a wildlife park?

5. What large dangerous fish has a head

resembling a carpenter’s tool?

6. What country always leads the march

at the opening ceremony of the Olympic

Games?

7. What is the official language of West

Irian?

8. Who wears the beanie – Snap, Crackle

or Pop?

9. Which British coin was minted from

silver until 1672?

10. What was Miranda commenting on

when she observed: “O brave new world”?

11. Which chemical element has the

shortest name?

12. What sport has dock starts, beach

starts and scooter starts?

New Training Awards

7 FSC Branch members recentlyundertook a 3-month training course toreceive their RWC Operator Certificate(jet ski). 6 from Bermagui and 1 fromNarooma completed the course andour thanks to our trainer Tony Vellawho travelled down to Bermi for eachsession. The new operators are:

Rowan Blake Andrew Curven Warren Marshall Cheryl McCarthy Andrew McCaughtrie Euan McKenzie Steve O’Sullivan

One of our Same Wavers, MichaelMinett, keeping the jet ski warmbefore training.

RWC Operator

We had 11 Bermagui patrollers completetheir ART Award in April bringing us to over70% of our active patrollers with that qual.

Brett Guthrie Nathan Hawker Mark Huxley Robert Johnson Poppy Logue Paul McCarthy Jen O’Connor Van Osgood Steve O’Sullivan Liam Russell Hannah Vaughan-Smith

5 members from other clubs in Branch joinedus and Bruce McAslan also got signed off asa facilitator to run this award in the future.Congrats to all.

Advanced Resuscitation

THE SUNKEN ANCHOR QUIZ End of a Successful SeasonIt was a great end to a successfulseason as the flags came down on29th April. We had to rug up a littlefor that final patrol but it was still apretty perfect day at the beach.

It was a huge season at Bermi withlots of new members, and 48 newtraining awards. Not bad for a clubwith 43 active patrollers with anumber of people upskilling in morethan one qualification over the courseof the season.

We finished the season with 5 rescuesand two emergency call outs.

One of the rescues - a triple-rescue ofthree young boys caught in a rip -received "Rescue of the Year". PatrolCaptain, Van Osgood, was on hand atthe Presentation Night to present LiamRussell, Ben Burgess and RowanBlake (not in picture) with their award.Along with their awards they receivedcopies of the beautiful cards that two ofthe youngsters delivered to the teamthe next day to say thank you.

Great effort by all keeping all of thevisitors to our beach safe this season.

A R O U N D T H E C L U B

To submit information and/or photos for an

upcoming newsletter email Cheryl at

bermisurfclub@gmail.com

Bonus Quiz QuestionGeneral Sir John Monash has been inthe news recently and our residenthistory buff, 2017-18 Club Person ofthe Year, Robert Johnson, has sent ina bonus quiz question.

Question: General Sir John Monash, Australia'smost accomplished militarycommander, had a conversation with anotable Australian when he was just 14years old. He later recounted, "ASunday school superintendent couldn'thave given me better advice as tohuman conduct." Monash laterrecounted the two greatest moments ofhis life were cracking the HindenburgLine in 1918 and that conversation hehad as a 14 year old.

Who was the conversation with andwhere did it take place?

Club Working Bee

Our congratulations to Holly Abbey whowon gold in the recent AussieChampionships in Perth in the U15Flags.

Holly generously donated her time tocome down to Bermi last November withher coach, Sean Hendry, to give ourNippers a Beach Masterclass.

Our kids loved the session and it'sexciting to know they were coached byan Aussie Champ. Well done Holly, soglad to see all the hard work paying off. And nice work to coach Sean too!

We'll be holding a Club Working Bee onSaturday, 2nd June. We'll start at 9 amand will provide lunch and somebeverages.

This is a chance to get a lot of thoseniggly little jobs done that we don't get achance to cover during the season. There's a huge range of things to do,from tidying up to some building andmaintenance work.

We'll have the jobs, tools and supplieslined up, we just need some willinghelpers. Even if you can only come foran hour or two we'd really love thesupport.

Email us at bermisurfclub@gmail.com ifyou're planning to come down so we canget the catering numbers right.

Port Macquarie IronmanEight incredible competitors fromBermagui took part in the recent PortMacquarie Ironman race. We've seenyou all out training and have enjoyeddoing water safety for some of yourocean training sessions but it was justamazing to watch the effort you all putin, finishing between 10.5 hours and 15hours. What a race!

Bermagui SLSC patroller, MickButterfield, was one of the competitorswith the full list of Bermi athletes being:

Kate Butterfield Mick Butterfield Paul Callaghan Jess Caves Barb Phillips Kate Power Ross Scott Michael Whalen

Well done to all, our hats off to you. Maybe a George Bass Marathonsomewhere in your future as the nextchallenge???

Annual General Meeting

Congratulations Holly

The Bermagui SLSC Annual GeneralMeeting has been set for Sunday, 5thAugust, 2018. It will be held at the clubhouse starting at 3:00 pm.

We'll be sending a formal notice shortlybut please mark it in your calendars. TheAGM is not just about electing people topositions for the coming year, it's aboutcelebrating the season we've just hadand recognising the outstanding work thewhole team does. We'd love to see asmany people there as possible.

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1. Panama, 2. Three, 3. Bonnie Prince Charlie, 4. A ballet, 5. The Hammerhead shark, 6. Greece, 7. Bahasa Indonesia, 8. Crackle, 9. The halfpenny, 10. “Mankind”, 11. Tin, 12. Water-skiing

Bonus Answer: Ned Kelly during the siege of Jerilderie on 10 February, 1879. (Source and quotes from "True Girt" by David Hunt.)

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