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YOUNGSTERS LESSONED AT CAMPUS
The young men taking part in the second event of the Short Course Series at the Wits Education Campus on Sunday, were quickly shown the way round by veteran Orienteer, Garry Morrison !. Our Bradley Lund did however put up a good fight to finish second. The top five runners all within 42 seconds of one another. Stephanie Courtnage blitzed her way around the ladies course to record a double win within a week. Full details for the rest of you (84 cards entered) will be available in RESULTS. Heather Wimberley was the winner of the Novice Course, that saw these youngsters - Josh, Mimi and Keagan - have a huge lot of fun !
SATURDAY MORNING TRAINING - EVERYONE WELCOME
Special Training Sessions, very much geared for beginners, is available Saturday mornings in the Randburg area. Give Tania a call or e-mail her for details : 082 902 6097 or mwtapa@mweb.co.za
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Be sure not to miss the next three week's events:
- 7 February - Mountain Bike Orienteering (Groenkloof Pretoria)
- 14 February - Short Course event (Brescia School - Sandton)
- 21 February - Short Course event (Zoo Lake - Parktown)
Details can be found in EVENTS.
RACO AGM-SOCIAL LUNCHEON
Once again our members - the backbone group - contributed to the superb spread of cold meats and salads, at the annual get-together on 23 February. The event kicks off the 2010 season with the election of a new Committee as well as paying tribute to individual performances of the year past - here the club age category winners for 2009.
In her farewell speech, outgoing Chairperson, Claudia, paid tribute to all the members of the club, who in a miriad ways contributed to ours being a very successfully run operation in SA Orienteering once again - last year with a membership of over 130.
HUGE TURNOUT FOR SEASON OPENER - AT A SOGGY ZOO
A great turnout, especially the number of newcomers, rewarded our club who organised the first event in the 2009 Short Course Series at the Joburg Zoo on Sunday (over 130 cards). Winners were Stephanie Courtnage (women) and Alex Pope (men), with newcomers Cameron & Katie taking the prize on the Novice Course (watch for official results in RESULTS shortly).
NEW CHAIRPERSON AND COMMITTEE
With the standing down - after many years of faithful service to RACO - of a number of committee members, we have some new faces join the crew with a new Chairman in Paul Wimberley (a member himself since 1995). There remains some continuity, with the re-election of Charles Raban, Tom Scott, Richard Lund and David Pilling. New faces are Val Brentano and Glynn de Klerk. We wish you all a great year of administration - under the determined eye of Paul (shown here begging Claudia to let him take over the reigns of the largest O' club in SA !!!)
PRESTIGE AWARD IS SHARED
The Ken Bieheuvel Memorial Award - for outstanding service to the club - was shared for the first time by a group, who were the lead members of the 2009 World Ranking South African Orienteering Championships Organising Committee, held in Sabie. Well done to Charles, Cally, Claudia, Albert, Pat and Neville (not in photo).
TWENTY YEARS FOR RACO
Our club will proudly reach the grand old age of 20 years since inception (the club was started by Honourary Member, Albert Epprecht) this year. We trust the new committee has an appropriate birthday party up it's sleeve !!!
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