News from the Warrington Surf Life Saving Club

The Life Guards finished patrolling the beaches on the 11 March. Thank you to all our Life Guards for the wonderful job you have done this summer. We do realise it has been a rather difficult season with our number of active life guards being low, we do appreciate all you efforts.

Our existing and future Surf Life Guards are preparing for next season already. Swimming at the "Moana Gow Pool" at Hawkesbury is up and running again thanks to our great coach Cherie.

On 10th March the South Island IRB champs were held in Warrington.

We had a great Closing Day for the Season on Sunday 18 March: handing out our club trophies to support all our achievers.

Special Thank You to the following people:

• Les Rainbow for fixing the flag poles.

• Pru Casey for her continued efforts at obtaining Donations and Grants to enable us to extend our facilities.

• Peter Ibbotson for fixing the taps in the Girls changing room

• Lee Hunter for securing sponsorship from Fulton Hogan, enabling us to purchase the lovely warm micro fleeces.

• Lyn Hastie for the organising and ordering of the fleeces

• Steph Kelly for the organizing of all our current barbeques

• Errol Ferguson for the donation of the deep freeze.

• Lyn Hastie for her assistance as Manager, cook, organizer, on our very successful trip to Christchurch to the Ocean Athletes Surf Life Saving Champs. This was a great trip and the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves, gaining many medals, and all participated with great enthusiasm.

Huge congratulations to Elise Dickson who was selected as part of the team in the Otago U14 Development Team. As a result she recently had a very successful and enjoyable trip to Red Beach in Auckland. A wonderful achievement, we are very proud of you.

We will be holding a Garage Sale at the up and coming Blueskin Bay A & P Show. This is an excellent way of raising some funding to put towards our building. So keep this day free as we will need everybody's assistance to transport the goodies, to set up, price everything, clean it etc.

by Lyn Hastie, Kaye Burns and Peter Dowden

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