President’s Report

In Appreciation of our Support

As most of us are now aware, we unfortunately lost the life of a loyal Pier to Pub swimmer in January. The work of our water safety patrol, along with the aid of our beach patrol and professional first aid personnel enabled us to give the swimmer another chance at life, but he unfortunately passed away some days after the event.

Gordon Briggs’ family has kindly send a thank you card to the club and we have attached it for those who wish to read their generous thoughts and appreciation for what our people did to help try and save the life of Gordon.

All of us here at the Lorne Surf Life Saving Club share the deepest sympathy with the Briggs family in this tough time.

Please view the card here.

Position Vacant — Administration Officer

• Permanent Part Time Position
• Opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment.
• Salary to be negotiated.

Our Club is a not for profit organisation with around 700 members and 300 nippers. With this volume of members, the Management Committee requires someone who has excellent management skills and an eye for detail to manage our general office administration requirements and make an important contribution to the future of our club.

The successful applicant would be required to:

• Be extremely organised and able to multi-task. This is a must.
• Have experience with MYOB software and excellent bookkeeping skills.
• Have excellent communication skills and a good telephone manner.
• Be capable of managing the Clubs membership system
• Be experienced in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and basic database management systems.
• Assist members and non-members, directors, committee representatives and other staff with their necessary requirements.
• While directly responsible to the Executive Committee, you would be required to liaise with the Pier to Pub chairman.
• Be responsible for the general administration of the office which would include duties such as the newsletter, emails, mail, record keeping and database management, meeting agendas and minutes.
• Team work skills are essential.
• Be able to cope with the seasonal nature of the Club.

If you think you are the suitable person and are interested in applying for this position, please send a cover letter with an accompanying resume to:

Lorne Surf Lifesaving Club

Attention: Tim Boness
PO Box 142
Lorne VIC 3232

or tim.boness@boness.com.au

All applications close on Friday, 8th May 2009

AGM

Team Managers Report

A team of 20 of us went to Scarborough for the Aussies.  The maters Comp saw Lorne take home 3 medals!!
Congrats to Sonia Grundy on her GOLD in the Masters Board Race and followed up later that day with a silver in the Masters Ski race. She dominated the board race from start to finish and after almost missing the final, Sonia powered home in the ski race to finish 2nd behind local paddler Ruth Himan.

The Masters Boat crew did a flying visit and in that time scooped up a Bronze. Fantastic effort guys. Swept by Al McCombe the bronze medal was a fantastic effort.

Well done to Tristan Read 5th in the Masters Swim and 6th in the Masters Ironman Race. Well done to the rest of the Masters teamon great result - Tim Stanley, Karl Russell and Matt Webb.

The rest of the boat crews arrived early in the week and I am sure Muggo will provide a run down on the mixed results.

All in all a great carnival and everyone was so well behaved!!! Thanks to them I had quite a nice carnival and enjoyed the racing at Scarborough Beach.

Look forward to next year!


Bec

The Team

The shore break at Scaborough

Nippers Vic State Titles

The 67 person Lorne junior team was greeted by the flat, nearly clean water, Spirit of Tasmania, jelly fish and Sandridge Surf Club for the Junior State Titles.

The word surf has well and truly disappeared from the word Life Saving as the biggest wave of the day came when the big red boat headed for Tassie.

The spirits of the competitors were high as newly appointed club coach Tristan Read led the group through their warm ups on both Saturday  and Sunday. Our club members preformed admirably with competitors from all age levels, making state finals an effort they can all be proud of.

Summary of our finals performance:

Under 9

• 6th Boys wade relay

Under 10

• 4th Oscar Coutts in the Wade
• 4th Girls Beach Relay
• 6th Girls Surf Team
• 6th Lucy Gough in the Swim

Under 11

• 6th Surf Teams (with U/9 team members)

Under 12

• Gold Boys Surf Team
• Morgan Williamson
• Will Sincock
• Dominic Brew
• Matt Smith
• Silver Louis Myer in the Boys Wade
• Bronze Morgan Williamson in the Boys Surf Race
• Bronze Aqua Cameron Boys Relay
• Louis Myer
• Morgan Williamson
• Dominic Brew
• Darcy Chandler
• 5th Georgia Chester in the Girls 1km run
• 6th Emily Fitt in the Girls 1km run

Under 13

• 5th Girls beach relay

State Nippers Championships 2009

As can be seen from the results the outstanding age level being our U/12’s with Peter Williamson the dedicated Age Level Manager and coach – Peter’s hard work, knowledge and competitive prowess proved to be a major combination to the success of his group. Great work Peter!

A special thank you to all who helped make the weekend a success and particularly the following;

Age Level Mangers

• U/9        Brydie Murrihy
• U/10      Jenny McMenomy
• U/11      Andrew Westacott
• U/12      Peter Williamson          
• U/13      Bruce Lanyon

“Last minute Water Safety Officers”

• Geoff Sincock
• Brad Weetman
• Peter Williamson
• Gary Smith

March Past

Our traditional Vic Titles camping weekend took on a new dimension as team headquarters became Hotel Barkly in picturesque St Kilda. All went exceptionally well but for the “proposition” to Water Safety Chief, Charles Meredith from a friendly female member of the St Kilda foot patrol.

The 2009 Junior State Titles long be remembered by the performance of U/12s, the jelly fish, the Spirit of Tasmania, the flat water and the working girl!

Thanks to all who participated and helped.

Ian Stewart

 

Boat Captains Report

Some mixed results finished the boaties 2008-09 season off this year.

Podium at Scarborough

After a promising state championships, the club took some confidence leading into the Aussies in Perth. Our Masters Men’s crew of Alistair McCombe, Francis Pamminger, David Love, Alan Cruse and Phil Grant had a fantastic carnival and finished up with a bronze medal in their masters division. A great result for the boys especially for their first year together.

For the rest of us it was our reserve grade crew who flew the flag for us by reaching the semi finals, just missing out on a place in the final. Inconsistency and a little bit of bad luck cost our open crews getting through to Saturday.

At the Victorian Championships at Ocean Grove in 3-4 foot choppy conditions, the club achieved the following results:

• Open Mens Surfboat – 2nd Lorne Axemen, 4th Lorne Pocket Rockets
• Open Womens Surfboat – 4th Lorne Lazerettes
• Reserve Grade Mens – 4th Lorne Yahoos

We would also like to extend our congratualtions to Francis Pamminger (Rowdy) who was awarded life membership from the Victorian Surfboat Rowers League. Rowdy has been an elite and loyal rower with Lorne for many years now and we hope to have him on board for many years to come.

We would like to thank everyone who has helped out the boat rowers in any fashion this season, we greatly appreciate all the support we continually receive from members, friends, family and sponsors. We are already looking forward to next season and bringing home some gold again for Lorne in 2010.

For anyone who wants to row with Lorne or is thinking about getting a crew together, don’t hesitate to give me a call on 0409 963 449, and we’ll organise a time to get together on the water.

See you all at the AGM on the 18th of July at the surf club.

IRB Report

As the patrol season draws to a close, the IRB season is just around the corner. So close you can almost smell the 2-stroke! The team has put in a lot of hard work over the season, and we welcome many keen new faces to the team this year.

The next training session will be in Lorne on Easter Sunday at 10am. Everyone with an IRB crew or driver certificate is welcome to come along as we can still make room in our fun-filled team for anyone who’s eager learn more about the art of high speed rescues.

We are also chasing someone who is willing to become our team manager for the 2009 season. The position comes with an attractive remuneration package - great company, and a fabulous work environment - the beach, with the opportunity travel. The role is not without its small hazards, the weather mainly, but nothing a good rain coat can’t fix.

Finally, we are looking for those interested in joining the team as an official. For each male team entered this season, we need to supply 1 official for the carnival. LSV are running courses in April & May to get you qualified for the role.

So really anyone can join the Lorne IRB team. To be part of this dynamic team in any area, please don’t hesitate to contact either:

• James Carew – 0439 833 809 - jwcare@deakin.edu.au
• Scot Kerr – 0407 438 734 - kerrscot@hotmail.com or
• Richard Knight – 0400 938 707 - richard.knight@natfoods.com.au

Below are the 2009 IRB carnivals dates and venues.

Cheers,

Jimmy

Round 1

Sunday 19th April @ Mordialloc LSC

Round 2

Sunday 3rd May @ Pt Leo SLSC

Round 3

Saturday 16th May @ Ocean Grove SLSC

Round 4

Sunday 17th May @ Barwon Heads/13th Beach SLSC

Southern States Challenge

Saturday 6th June @ Port Norlunga SLSC (SA)
Sunday 7th June @ Port Norlunga SLSC (SA)

Round 5

Saturday 27th June @ Apollo Bay SLSC

Victorian Championships

Saturday 11th July @ Jan Juc

Australian Titles

July 24th, 25th, 26th @ Kawana Waters (QLD)

Coach’s Corner

Hi all, who said that Scarborough has no surf!! On arrival the members of the Board and Ski team managed to unload the trailers and were happy to find all our equipment in one piece. Thanks to all involved in the designing and construction of these racks, it ensured our equipment arrived safe and sound and on time. Well done and thanks to Tim Stanley, Al McCombe, Neil and Pete VD, I believe this was a great investment for the club.

On the beautiful 37 degree day, the board and ski team members were ready to blow out the cobwebs from their long flight over. A one hour training session involved the senior members sharing their Scarborough experiences and was great to experience the interesting ‘shore break’ that this beach offers.

Conditions wear near perfect with no Fremantle Doctor in sight, and the water was flat as a tack! The only issue was practising starts and finishes with the huge back shoots running back off the beach and into the ocean. Something that has to be experienced for yourself, almost like catching a wave off the beach then contending with the oncoming beach break.

The board and ski area had a couple of days to fine tune their skills for the masters competition, but we weren’t prepared for what the heaven were going to throw at us. We were welcomed to a 4 to 5 foot shore break as well as wind and a massive back shoot off the beach that would put you in the crunch zone. So it was important to do warm ups to get a feel of what we were in for and this had great results.

Sonia Grundy once again showed why we call her the big wave specialist taking out the hotly contested board race for her age group and paddled home hard in the ski race to finish second on her new charger, which handled the conditions perfectly.

Karl Russell, Tim Stanley, Matt Web and I also had some encouraging results. We hope these results can keep the team focused for the following Summer season with the Aussies returning to Kurrawa. There has been ongoing talk of training sessions over Winter including Melbourne, Geelong and the Lorne area. Karl Russell has kindly agreed to share his vast surf ski/kayak experience with any younger member wishing to join the Board and Ski team. Please contact me if interested.

The Boat Area was exciting to watch. Condition saw at least 2 people taken away on spinal boards. Congratulations to the master’s crew for their flying visit in for a bronze medal in their age group. The trip was well worth the travel and shows that age is no barrier... Well done.

Tim Stanley stood out in his single ski campaign after his disappointment at the Vic titles making it through to 3 rounds of the open ski. Tim has been consistent with his training in the off season and this showed with his performances at Scarborough. Well done again to Sonia Grundy who came 9th in her semi-final and missed a place in the women’s ski final by one place. Age was no barrier for Sonia, she was one of the last Vic girls left in the women’s ski semis. Mat Web and I teamed up in the double ski and showed how you can survive on a ski without breaking it.

The boat area was very unlucky over the comps as Mugo will report on later in the Mower. The open crews were both eliminated earlier than expected in fickle conditions. The reserve crew had fantastic results. As the new coach it was fantastic that the whole team were able to get together for a team dinner organised by our new Team Manager Bec Read.

This was a great opportunity for us to share our experiences and hopefully organise some combined training sessions over the Winter. Please keep an eye out on the website for further details of these sessions. I have placed a few programs in the coach’s corner on the Lorne surf club website for people to refer to as a guide. I am more than happy to discuss other programs for groups and individuals of all levels.

I am looking forward to doing another coaching course at LSV in April. This covers all disciplines in surf life saving as well as pool events and IRB. It is now a requirement from LSV to hold this qualification as a coach or Senior / Junior co-ordinator.

I would like to thank the club and all its members for giving the Lorne team the opportunity to compete at the Australian Titles. Without the help and support from you we would not be able to represent the club at the highest level.

Lorne Community Hospital

Have you enjoyed a drive down the Great Ocean Road? Had a meal or a cuppa in Lorne? Walked to Erskine Falls? Bought some fresh seafood or fished from the Pier? Visited the Split Point lighthouse? Walked on the long stretch of beach at Fairhaven? Cycled to Wye River? Participated in the Pier to Pub swim? Attended the Falls Festival? Or simply enjoyed the beauty of the surrounds? If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, we consider you connected to the Lorne area and we need your help!

Lorne Community Hospital is asking all supporters of Lorne to donate to our annual Easter Fundraising Appeal so we can continue to provide high quality health care services at our small rural hospital.

 Whether you are a visitor, resident or holiday home owner in the area we know you'd be reassured that Lorne is home to the only hospital on the Surf Coast and is ready to respond to people's health needs. We provide 24 hour acute and urgent care, residential aged care and respite care, dialysis services, home nursing, and more.

To help us continue to improve our services, we are gratefully accepting all donations to our annual Easter Fundraising Appeal at the following secure online giving station:

http://www.everydayhero.com.au/charity/view?charity=658

We would also appreciate you forwarding this email on to other people connected with Lorne in your email address book for their consideration.

 Yours faithfully,

Janelle Bryce, Chief Executive Officer