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Graeme at the Q500 racing
Graeme at the Q500 racing
| Month | Date & Time | Day | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 14th @ 1pm | Sunday | Electric Power Fun Fly | Marong |
| February '10 | 22nd | Monday | Meeting At YMCA | K/Flat |
| February '10 | 28th | Sunday | Duration Limited Fuel | Marong |
| March | 14th | Sunday | Glider Ramjet Trophy | Marong |
| March | 29th 7:30pm | Monday | Meeting At YMCA | K/Flat |
Seven members turned up for the first event of the year. Unfortunately before the first round was completed it was decided to abandon the competition.
This was because of the increasing wind speed.
Report thanks to CD - Roy Butterfield
It was a beautiful evening for a meeting, and we had it outdoors at the field. There was a little flying, and not too many items of business!
Of interest were these photos of an 'Unorthodox Models' event held at Keilor some years ago. If anyone can tell us when it would be good to know!
It doesn't seem like 12 months ago since I reported the last Breakup day, boy, time does go quick.
This year was to be a double celebration, with the opening of the club house on the agenda along with our normal club presentations.
First off,was the opening of the new Club house. The property owner, (our landlord) was invited to perform the official opening of the new clubhouse, which he excepted to do, which was very pleasing for us.
At about 11.30 we were all invited to come and enjoy a BBQ lunch, which was organised by Andrew and Macca, who did a superb job with the catering.
By 1pm most of the members and guests had finish feeding, a quick cleanup, then time to set the trophies and prepare for the start of proceedings/presentations.
Les called all to attention, and gave a run down on what was proposed for the day, then invited the President Mr Andrew Thomas, to start the official proceedings.
After the welcome Andrew spoke on the struggle to get the first clubhouse up and running, and now 20 years later we have this new club house thats bigger and alot better, and about the workers that got in, and prepared this clubhouse, as it is today.
Then our special guest Mr Rowlan McKinnon was introduced, and he made a short speech that was quite entertaining, before he unveiled the wall plaque.
Following that Les presented the Bendigo Council grant, to the President Andrew Thomas, for a new water tank, that is to be fitted to the new clubhouse.
Now to the Clubman awards for 2009. Fifteen members had managed to score clubman points this year. Also this year Les has got together a goodies bag for each trophy recipient who were at the presentation.
Winners were:
| One point | Roy Butterfield and Phil Organ. |
| Two pts | Gary Schmedje and Darren Tuohey. |
| Three pts | Noel Young,Steve Davis and G Sinclair. |
| Four pts | Graeme Beagley and Mal Fields. |
| Nine pts | Brian Deason. |
| Ten pts | Ian Heather,Shaun Power and Alan Uren. |
| Clubman for the year | Les Davis. |
| The Thunder Tiger trophy | Shaun Power, |
| The Mitre 10 trophy | Graeme Beagley |
| with a special prize attached, (this year only.) |
Two special awards were made, one to Graeme Sinclair for his competitive skills, and the other to Les Davis for his long serving skills as Contest Director, etc.
Our special guest was presented with a 6 pack of our clubs glasses.
There were 5 past Presidents in attendance which was great, and thankyou to them for making the effort to attend. Also honorary member Ken Thomas made the trip up from Melbourne to attend, which was nice.
The president then thanked everybody, for their support during the year, and wished everybody a safe and merry Christmas.
For next years contest Calendar, you will have to wait for the newsletter to come out, the Five man rules committee should have the rules sorted by then, as well as the events that the new rules, relate to.
There is Photos by Bill Matthews.
Report by Les Davis 5620.
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