Above Water

Full wrap-up

and photo’s

from the 2014

Country

Championships

Junior Country Wrap-up

Benny’s Bar Wrap

Patrols

From The Sweeps Nest

Get Fit Quicker!

01Editor.

Jamie Marschke

jaden66@gmail.com

02Photographer

Cath Ninness

03Contributions

Grace Beach, Paul Ninness, Ben McCall,

We hope youl like the look of your new club

magazine. You will find club news as well as

informative articles to keep you interested. Like all

publications we are always looking for more

contributors, the more you can give us the more

we can pack into the pages!

Sit back and enjoy your very first CHSLSC

emagazine.

Ed.

Cover image Rebecca Blay.Photo: Taylor & Em Girard

Hi everyone, on behalf of the Board of Directors and Staff, I hope you all enjoyed a happy and safe festiveseason with those close to you and best wishes in your endeavours for 2014.Wow it seems the first half of the patrolling season has gone so fast with so much happening around theClub in that period of time both from an active point of view with Surf and Beach Activities, Award / Com-petition Training, Clubhouse operations, major events as the 40th C. ex Coffs Interstate Surfcraft Carnival,Hugo’s Island Classic, the Australia Day Fun Run as well the behind the scenes meetings and ongoing ad-ministration of the Club from a day to day as well as future planning perspective. I am sure other Club Of-ficer’s will provide further information on the various happenings but would like to all members for theircontributions big and small so far this season and look forward to your continued support and efforts on theway through to when the season finishes in April.I am pleased to report that the Board is working together as a collective to further enhance the fantastic workthat the previous Board lead by Life Member Terry Maher had undertaken. With our Club facilities and sur-rounds now the envy of many, the Board is now concentrating on some longer term planning issues as wellas reviewing our Corporate Governance and the welfare / well being of our members. Whilst the Board arecurrently sharing the duties of the vacant Director of Members Services position, the opportunity is stillavailable to join the Management team to lead the Club in this most important portfolio and should you orsomeone you know be interested, expressions of interest would be most welcome just contact the Club of-fice with your details to arrange a follow up get together.On a more sombre note, on behalf of the Club, I would like to extend our condolences to the families ofGeoff Beavis and Chris Simpson who have recently passed away, our thoughts are with you and we are allpoorer for the loss of two wonderful members of our community.Looking forward to what lies ahead for the remainder of the season, best wishes to those members represent-ing the Club at Branch, State, National and the North Coast Surfboat Series Championships, our patrollingmembers living up to our organisation’s old motto of “Vigilance and Service” as well as our Lifesavers ofthe future and their helpers in the Junior Activities team. It is also time for members to start thinking aboutpositions on the Surf and Beach Committee and Junior Activities for next season. With the bi annual elec-tion of the Board of Directors, the current Board will be serving the Club again next season which providesthe opportunity to call for expressions of interest for the above positions and appointment by the Board earlyto enable a smooth transition and planning between the season change over. It is anticipated that expressionsof interest will be called for in March with the appointments to be confirmed at the May Board meeting, sokeep an eye for the notice.A final thank you to Jamie for pulling this newsletter together and hope to see you all down at Parky in thenear future.

Cheers

Paul Niness

Happy 25 + ??

Birthday Box

NEW HOFF’S

A Word (plus a few more) from the Pres

First of all we would have not got anywhere near the results wedid if every single kid didn’t put in the time and effort to train.In preparation for our lengthy 10 hour trip south we were boardtraining 3 times a week and most of us were doing squads at least twice a week.

The first day of the carnival was water events. We started off with a bang with Ethan Hart taking out the under 8male wade and at the other end of the beach Sean O’Reilley won the under 14 male swim. The day went on withgreat success, by the end of the 12 hour day the medal tally was an outstanding 31 medals. We were already all do-ing so well and having a great time.

Saturday was really hot which made it even harder to run on the very soft sand but that didn’t stop us from havinganother great day winning 16 medals. Once again our all age relay did really well by placing 3rd. another stand outwas the under 10’s sprint relay who on their last change went from 4th to winning the race.

The whole weekend was really fun and a huge success. For me the most memorable part about the weekend was thegathering we had at Ulludula Caravan Park were the majority of us were staying. We had a very healthy fish,chips, pizza and soft drink for dinner. Afterwards we all played games on the jumping pillow and finished the nightoff with watching a movie on a big projector screen at the caravan park. Overall the whole weekend was really fun,enjoyable and a great experience that I’m sure no one will forget.

I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped make country so enjoyable. Our trainers Sean Golding,Tony Nolan and Matt O’Donnell for giving up their time to help us compete the best we could. All the parents be-cause without them we wouldn’t of got anywhere. Mick Canning who is always helping with setting up, fixingboards and solving problems. The Bray Street Butches and Chicken Butchery for supplying the great meat andchicken trays for our raffles to help raise money for our team dinner. Last but not least Jo Hickey and Brad Beechfor organizing many things to help make country 2013/14 so memorable, for example the blue country shirts withour names on them and the money raised for the team dinner.

By Grace Beech

Country Championships – Mollymook

Dean Crockett

The year has definitely been another with thedifference to date Alas its been Waldo heldthe place together with all his chores aroundthe place. Fixing this, changing that, attendingthis seminar and making sure all those thingsthe Boat Captain is supposed to have done areactually getting done. Good boy Waldy.

I always say it's a bit like herding cats gettingthis lot organised but the girlies have beenleading the way in getting going. YoungsterGeorgia Smyth has taken to rowing like aduck to water. Please don't make us take Lillytoo. That'd be 3 of them. No reputable sweepdeserves that sort of punishment.

Competition been a bit quiet last month or so.No crews went to Mollymook. Couldn't getorganised and things just didn't fall into place.Not to worry, we are planning a big Feb. Wehave Crescent Head this weekend. Agro,Youngen, Old girl, Giggly and Waldy are offto Stockton the following weekend, Coffs car-nival and presso's the weekend after, Pacpalms the following and State 2 weeks afterthat. Go team. Juniors are getting going and

FROM THESWEEPS NEST

the old boys should be hitting the water at theCoffs carnival and hopefully State. Still a lotof guys in the wings that we hope will returnand build this club back up.

Peter Hawkes and Vicki have welcomed newdaughter Marni (spell check needed) into theworld. Congrats Vick and Pete. Being fatherof the decade, I shall steer Pete well into therights and wrongs of raising daughters. Don'teven think about it Angus. I got that in thebag.

Anyway short and sweet. We have got a greatlittle mob in the boats and partners. I feel agood BBQ coming up prior to State.

I do believe the boys out body surfed the girlsafter training by far last week. Except forBacko's fear causing a call of  no 2's

Crocko

Firstly, I would like to thank those stepping up to do higher awards, it is great to see

and will benifit not only the club, but the person doing the awards. We will have a

second round of these awards early this year and posibly throughout winter.

Congratulations to all the new Bronze and SRC members in our club, always great to

see smilling faces at the end of a course.

Please make sure you have been getting club emails, I regulalry seend out upcoming

cources for members to enroll in. If you do not get regular emails please send your

details to Julie info@coffsharbourslsc.asn.au

Well that’s my rant for this new look club newsletter, thanks for reading and see you

next issue.

Jamie Marschke

Well patrolling legends, we arehalf way through and patrolstrengths have been good.Before we know it we will be atthe tail end of our patrols, thishas traditionally been a slackertime with members missing orjust not showing up for patrols.Can we please stay vigilant andremember to organise a sub wellin advance. Lets smash it!

We have been assisting NorthBeach with a couple patrolswhich they are very grateful for.If you feel like helping them outfurther please see Rachael ormyself. We will have a patrol tohelp out with at Nambuccaaround April, so please let usknow if you can help.

Our higher award plan iscoming along nicely, remember,the more awards you have themore patrols we can add nextseason.

Please take care when drivingthe IRB’s, in particular youshould never run an IRB up thebeach with the motor in gear,this will suck sand into themotor and damage them.

Always put the motor into neutralbefore it hits the bottom.

We have all the information that youmay need about setting up patrols asfar as what equipment you need aswell as radio channels in the Log Bookbox. Have a read while you havenothing to do.

We will soon have delivery of a watermanikin, this will be a great trainingaid for us to use on patrol.

Remember, if you have any suggestionsplease let us know. And as usual...You areall doing very well!

JamieVice Club-Captain.

PATROLS

It has been a sad time with the passing of two well respected people the SurfLife Saving community. Long time club member Chris Simpson and GeoffBeavis. I am sure all the club members pass on their condolances to the

families. Next newsletter we will pay our respect to the great lives these men

Education Officer

Don’t forget for yournext Function, Wedding

or Conference please callNicole Donovan on:

6652 9870

Stupid Facts

Board with swimming up anddown the pool and getting upat 4am? A lot of the past great

Olympic swimmers playedwater polo to help with theirspeed and endurance. WaterPolo is a fun way to get super

fit as well as playing a teamsport.

For more information seeJamie or go to

www.chwp.com.au

We try our hardest to get outinformation. But unless you update

your records you may niss out.

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than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on

ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they

do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are

recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use

personal ads for dating are already married.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116

or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not

downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over

an inch every year because when it was built,

engineers failed to take into account the weight

of all the books that would occupy the building.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Table tennis balls have been known to travel off

the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the

English language.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth,

but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

(hmmmmmmm)

A snail can sleep for three years.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be

made using the letters only on one row of the

keyboard.

DO NOTBEND

Hello all,Firstly I would like to introduce myself.My name is Ben McCall, I am Coffs Harbour Surf Club’s Bar Manager and have been here in theHospitality Industry for over 12 years.Over the next editions of this Club Magazine I will be filling you in on what is happening in @ CoffsHarbour Surf Club.I would like to invite all of you to come and visit the Club if you haven’t already done so upstairs in theRestaurant and Bar Areas of Coffs Harbour Surf Club.Why not pop in and have a Delicious Meal and Beverage from the Bar and enjoy the great view you getwhile you dine with us (some may say the best in town) which is our little secret.Every month I am going to pick a product of the month so hopefully I might see you here in the club soonto try one.

Benny’s Bar Wrap

Product of The Month

This beer is one of the Best Boutique Beer’s I have tried and tasteslike a true Pale Ale and is very popular as it is a part of the JamesSquire Range and is also particularly popular with the ladies sogirls come have a try.

Hope to see you at the club soon!!!!!!!!CheersBen McCallCHSLSC Bar Manger