Weekly News Bulletin – 24 November 2014

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Nov 24, 2014 / in Weekly News Bulletin / by

It was a quiet morning at Main Beach on Sunday with no Nippers due to the branch carnival at Lennox Head. 27 Nippers represented our club in very challenging conditions. Most surf events ended up being run in Lake Ainsworth as the surf conditions were too treacherous. Yamba Nippers came away from the carnival with a total of 13 medals, 5 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze. Congratulations to U10’s Kalani Ives who won gold in all her events; swim, board race, flags and beach sprint. Malik Elabbasi won gold in the U10’s male board race and narrowly missed a medal placing fourth in his board event. Sam Earle won silver in the U9’s male swim and Alani Berry won bronze in the U9’s female swim. Carissa Miltiadou won bronze in the U11’s female beach flags and just missed out on a second bronze medal in the beach sprints, placing fourth. Cameron Varcoe won silver in the U11’s male beach sprints. Carissa and Cameron teamed up with club mates Tamia Griffin and William Earle to win silver in the U11’s beach relay. Tyreece Kapeen won bronze in the U12’s male beach sprints and just missed a medal in the beach flags, coming fourth. Jorden Elabbasi won bronze in both the U13’s male surf swim and board race. All Yamba SLSC Nippers competed well and we are proud of all their achievement, well done kids! A special mention to club members, Roger Varcoe and Andrea Miltiadou, who rescued a young nipper competitor who fainted during a swim event at the Branch Nipper Carnival at Lennox Heads on Sunday. After a couple of week’s disruption, Nippers will be back at Main Beach this Sunday 9:30-11:30am.

Rough conditions at Main Beach on Sunday made for a tough surf race for swimmers participating in the Carl Schaffer Handicap Swim. First place went to Charlie Bindon, swimming off 100 seconds, second was Joe Dougherty, off 220 seconds and third was Lindsey Wall off 210 seconds.

Good luck to the two Yamba Surf Boat Crews heading to Coffs Harbour on Saturday for the Coffs Craft Carnival. The U23 and Reserve boat crews are hoping to continue the Yamba Boaties success at recent carnivals.

Education Director Kim Morgans would like to advise members that a Gold Medallion course will be run if there are sufficient numbers. If you would like to do this course please contact Kim Morgans so a date and venue can be confirmed. You must be proficient in the following, BM/Cert11, Apply [Senior] First Aid, SMPC or SMBBM, ARTC and Spinal Management and be at least 17 years.

Yamba SLSC meat raffles are on every Saturday evening at the Yamba Golf and Country Club. John Barnier, Sachie Ardrey and Keith Bradley will be selling tickets from 5:30pm with the draw staring at 6:30pm. With 33 meat trays up for grabs, come along and try you luck!

Patrols for this weekend are:

Saturday 29th 9am-1pm Patrol 6– Roger Varcoe, Will Brighton, Brendan O’Mahony, James Browne, Sam Kapeen, Marc Adamson, Eleanor Varcoe, Lizzy Hyne, Vincent Bolton, Zac Brotherson.

Sunday 30th 9am-12:30pm Patrol 7 Brent Sahlqvist, Josh Ryan, Joe Dougherty, Andrew Bell, Joe O’Keefe, Zac Robison, Cassie Maria, Angela Eke, Hannah Smith, Josh Robinson, Billy Holloway, Morgan Holloway.

Sunday 30th 12:30-4pm Patrol 8- Pat Ridgway, Jim Wheeler, Linda Horton, Caitlin Cooney, Patrick De Billot, Ed McGrath, Helmut Klein, Sue-Ellen Hyne, Melinda Whitehouse, Colleen Hage, Chelsea Bridges, Emmerson Anderson.

Yamba SLSC thanks all their sponsors for their continued support. Sponsors for the 2014/15 season are Gold – Elders Real Estate Yamba, Clarence Valley Council, Yamba Golf & Country Club; Silver – Waratah Constructions, Westlawn Finance, Yamba Shores Tavern, The Yulgilbar Foundation, Pacific Hotel, The Northern Network, Yamba Bowling Club; Bronze – Harwood Hotel, Clarence Valley Review, Maclean Variety Meats, Belinda’s Store, The Daily Examiner, Yamba Lions, Yamba Rotary, Radio 2GF, Coastal Views.

The 2014/15 Yamba Nipper sponsors are Yamba Flooring Xtra, SunSense Sunscreen, Stand Up Paddleboards Yamba, SeaFire Restaurant @ Yamba Golf & Country Club, Sassafras Pasta and Pizza Restaurant, Yamba Physiotherapy, Signcraft, Maclean Variety Meats and Back Home Bakery.

All club information, including newsletters, membership details, training courses and coming events, is available on the website yambaslsc.com.au

The club office is open on Monday 9am-12 noon, Tuesday 2:30pm- 5:30pm and Friday 10am – 2pm.

Alanna Colwell leading the Yamba team in the March Past and Harry Whitehouse in full stride in the beach relay.

Alanna Colwell leading the team in the traditional march past event. Harry Whitehouse in full stride in the beach sprint relay