Chairman’s
spot
Here we are in
deepest winter and looking forward to the festivities. Winter is a loose term
these days given the changes in our weather and unfortunately the lack of a prolonged cold snap this year means
that brambles are still up making many areas less enjoyable than they usually
are by this time of year. We have just had the warmest October since records
began and November 30th saw the highest temperature ever reached on
that date. Combine this with increasing amounts of rainfall and we find
ourselves wondering when best we can use some of the areas in the region. Many
areas of mostly flat forest or flood plains are becoming less attractive and
members are going further afield in search of good running at the expense of
many local events. This is of course having an effect on club finances and I
would ask you all to seriously consider supporting local events as otherwise you
will find ever decreasing numbers of them available to
you.
The dramatically
lower numbers attending some events has also made a bit of a nonsense of the pricing arrangements
for e-punching within EMOA. The flat rate ‘simple’ system we adopted is now
actually deterring the use of SI when numbers are expected to be low as the cost
becomes disproportionate.
We will have to
review this before the next AGM but in the meantime we have decided to assist
LOG who are particularly badly hit. Clubs with a larger spread of events can
cover the odd shortfall and whilst not as productive as they used to be, badge
events do still help top up the coffers.
The same thing
applies to Northampton events which are put on by LEI to support the few
orienteers down there and to try to promote the sport in that area. BOF through
EMOA asked LEI to service that area when NVO folded but despite great efforts
most events in that area are not well supported.
The executive
committee agreed at the December meeting to make a grant of £125 to LOG to fund
their use of SI at their next event, with the profit generated, which would not
otherwise have been received, being kept on one side to help any shortfalls on
future events. This has been taken from the development fund which is now almost extinguished and
will be closed down until we appoint a Development Officer at which point the
whole strategy and funding of development activity will be re-visited on the
lines suggested by that officer (see advert
elsewhere)
That meeting also
agreed the major events for the next two season. Advance notice for your
diaries, The Midlands Champs 2002 will be at the Wrekin on April 7th
and 2003, Chatsworth on April 13th. The East Midlands Champs will be
at Clumber, Feb 17th and Belvoir March 30th. The two 2003
events are of course still to an extent provisional.
Still on the subject
of major competitions the Gallopen presentation will be at Burbage Common on May
12th .
Another major event
on the horizon is of course JK2004 day two which we are to run. The committee
had two volunteers for this position both backed by very able teams and given
the distances involved in that the event will be in Cumbria, we can be proud as
a region of having such committed members. LEI are providing the organiser for
the event and one point made in discussions about the planner was that the jobs
should be spread around the region if it is an EMOA event.
To avoid
personalities coming into the equation the executive had a secret ballot
collected and counted by the BOF Chairman and only he knows the number of votes
cast but the successful team now has the backing of the whole
committee.
Steve Buckley will be
planner subject to the approval of BOF technical committee and is a of course a
very experienced competitor. He is a grade 2 controller although more often
found in an organising role given his expertise in that field. He is backed up
by John Duckworth who has planned several badge events.
I should like to
thank Peter Hornsby, the other volunteer who was not successful on this
occasion. Peter is also a grade two controller and has planned and controlled
badge events in the past and did plan the highly complimented courses for the
regional heats of the CompassSport Cup last year. He would have been backed up by Sue Bicknell of LEI and OD
who is working towards regaining her controller grade two status after it lapsed
whilst she spent some years abroad. She has in fact controlled a National event
in the past. The third member of that triumvirate would have been Roger Phillips
(providing a young pair of legs) and I would like to thank all five volunteers
for their interest and willingness to put themselves out for
us.
I should also like to
congratulate those young orienteers from the region who took part in the junior
international at Pembrey. England once again won both the individual and relay
competitions but with a revised scoring system it was much closer than in
previous years. David Hodkinson, Colin Olivant, Alison O’Neil and Rose Hodkinson
all featured well for England and Sian & Rhys Roberts for
Wales.
I am pleased to
advise that we now have a volunteer to take over the EMEWS editor role and I
would at this point like to express my sincere thanks to John Cooke for so ably
holding the fort whilst we filled
this position. Mike Gardner of DVO will be taking over after this edition. He
has in fact done the job before albeit many years ago. We now hope to revert to
our traditional 6 editions a year which will follow each of our executive
committee meetings. These are usually held on the first or second Mondays
of August, October, December,
February, April and June and anyone wishing to have articles printed in the
editions due out in those months should try and get material to the editor,
preferably in electronic form, by the start of those
months.
EMEWS also appears on
our web site which continues to develop and members can now see our development
plan on the site which may be of interest to any potential applicants for the
Development Officer post.
Finally I am sure I
speak for all the orienteers throughout the East
Midlands and beyond in
offering Andy Jackson our deepest sympathies for the
tragic and sudden loss
of Karen.
Roy J Denney
MINUTES OF THE 37th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
OF THE EAST
MIDLANDS ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION HELD ON
MONDAY
SEPTEMBER l0th 2001 AT THE RED LION,
KEGWORTH
Present: J.Woodall (NOC), M.Godfree (DVO), L.Godfree (DVO), D.
Walker (DVO ), R.Bames (NOC), P.Olivant (NOC), H.Palmer (NOC), E.Williams (LEI),
R.Denney (LEI), A.Bennett (LOG), J.Bennett (LOG), R.Edwards (LEI), R.Alderson
(NOC), Jim Morton (LEI), G.Johnson (DVO), A.Hawkins (DVO).
1. Apologies
for absence: R. Mcdonald, P.
Leake, J. Cooke, C. Philips, J. Holt, T. Spalton, S. Ford, H. Rice, J. Palmer,
D. Woodall.
2. Minutes of
the 36th AGM. These were accepted as a true and
accurate record of the meeting.
Proposer R.
Bames
Seconder R.
Alderson
3. Chairman's
report
This has been a very difficult year for everyone, but
clubs in the area have all managed to run some sort of programme. Electronic punching is now being used by
the clubs where appropriate but mapping has been on hold and members will have
to accept that some maps used will be a little stale. We now have this new venue for our
meetings which is very welcome although still a bit distant for members
travelling from LOG.
I am pleased to report that since the last AGM Ranald
Macdonald has accepted the position of Vice-chairperson with the thanks of your
committee and offers himself for formal election by the members this
evening. Similarly Mike Godfree has
been co-opted as mapping adviser and with members' approval his position will be
formalised tonight. We seek your
approval of the creation of a position of Development Officer and also to some
tidying up of the constitution.
I would like to re-iterate my congratulations to the
various class winners at the East Midlands Championships. It seems a lifetime since I presented
the prizes amidst the flurries of snow at Blidworth last
February.
We had no night league last year due to the slowness of
clubs getting events arranged but we have already agreed next year's league so
this problem has been resolved. Our
Galoppen was truncated due to the outbreak of disease but we decided to award
prizes on the best four from seven basis.
This worked out very well in that of the 14 classes NOC, DVO and LEI each
got 4 winners, with LOG and WBS each getting one. The prizes will be presented at this
years first Galoppen event which will be at Ratby, all being
well.
Juniors in the area again did well and must be
congratulated for being selected for representative competitions or training
camps. As far as I have been able
to identify them these are:-
Liz Day, Helen Palmer, Nick James, Sian Roberts, Colin
Olivant, David and Rosemary Hodkinson, Sarah and Alison O'Neil and Tom Billam of
NOC, Chris Williamson of LEI and Matt Dickinson of DVO.
I am grateful to John Cooke for stepping in as a
temporary measure to produce our newsletter but hope for a volunteer tonight to
relieve him of this extra duty. I should also like to thank all the other
officials and representatives for all their work and in particular Bob Alderson
for his excellent work as treasurer as his three year tenure draws to a
close.
During the year DVO have been awarded a grant of £500 to
assist their work in producing maps and promoting events through the streets of
the various towns on their patch. I hope my second year will see a bit more
activity although foot and mouth is still breaking out in the
area.
I must end on a sad note in recognising the contribution
made to the sport in our region by Judy Buckley who passed away during the
year.
4. Secretary's
report
EMOA has started to make an annual collection of
statistics, so that year by year developments can be accurately charted. Some inaccuracies in this process were
identified, and it is hoped they can be addressed next year. Amongst the figures collected, EMOA had
just over 400 members last year (2000), and put on a total of 79 events of
various levels.
5. Treasurer's
report.
Members numbers are almost the same as last year. The accounts have been affected by the
outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
Event levies were down, but coaching opportunities and therefore costs
were also down. Some of the grants
to up and coming juniors are now paid direct by Sport England. Insurance has had to increase to cover
Electronic Punching equipment. The
net result of these changes has been that income exceeded expenditure by a
substantial amount.
Thanks were given to Bob Alderson for his prudent
handling of the Association's finances.
6. Approval of
Balance Sheet and Income & Expenditure Statement
Thanks were given to Dave Walker for his work in
"independently financially examining" the Association's books. The final accounts for the year ended
31.08.01 were circulated and accepted.
Proposer:
E. Williams
Seconder:
J. Woodall
7. Amendments
to the Constitution
7.1
That rule 2.2(b)- Additional Officers- be amended by adding Mapping
Adviser and Development Officer
Proposer: R.
Denney
Seconder:
C. Phillips
7.2
That Rule 6.1 (General Meetings) be amended to read "The Association
shall hold an AGM within 120 days of the end of the financial year" This is to
enable the AGM to be held early in the autumn as usual, but taking account of
the earlier end to the Association's financial year.
Proposer: R.
Denney
Seconder:
C. Phillips
7.3
That Rule 6.3 be amended to read "Notice of the AGM or an EGM must reach
voting members 14 days before the meeting.
Included with the notice should be an agenda and any proposed amendments
to the constitution. In the case
of an AGM all proposed amendments must be received before August 31st and notice
may only be given after September 1st each year. A quorum at a general meeting shall
be 15 voting members"
Proposer: R.
Denney
Seconder: C. Phillips
All three of these changes were carried
unanimously.
8. Election of
principal officers
The chairman stepped
down and John Woodall took the chair.
Chairman -
Roy Denney (who then resumed chair)
Vice Chairman - Ranald
Macdonald
Secretary -
Andy Hawkins
Treasurer-
Bob Alderson has to step down after three years.
There were no volunteers for this post at the meeting, so Bob has agreed
to hold the
fort .
9. Election of
other officers
BOF Council -
Ray Bames
Mapping Adviser
-
Mike Godfree
BOF Technical
Committee - Emie
Williams
BOF Coaching
Committee -
Hilary Palmer
Fixtures Secretary
-
in lan Whitehead's absence, to be decided later
Development
Officer
There were no
volunteers for this post at this meeting.
10 Appointment
of Independent Financial Examiner
Dave Walker agreed to
continue in this role.
11 Appointment
of EMEWS Editor
There were no
volunteers for this post at the meeting.
12 Budget
projections (for year to 30.6.2002)
No significant
changes were proposed from this year's budget, but, in the light of rising
costs, it is expected that Emews will move to four issues per year, in place of
the previous six.
13 Fixing of
charges
No change in
membership fees, although these have not been changed since
1995,
so the new Treasurer
may be obliged to increase them next year.
No change either in Event levies or hire charges for Electronic Punching
equipment.
14 Plans for
the coming year
Chairman: Looking forward to the season ahead we
have an exciting Galoppen in prospect.
We have thirteen scheduled events spread throughout the region and your
best six efforts will count towards the league. The rules of the Galoppen have been
refined and are outlined in Emews by the co-ordinator, Roger
Williamson.
Presentation to last
year's Galoppen winners will take place at the C4 at Ratby Woodlands on October
7th which is the opening event of this year's competition. Next year we hope to revert to normal
practice and present them at the first C4 after completion of the
league.
We also have an
interesting programme of seven night events, two each from NOC, DVO and LEI and
one from LOG. We intend to run
these as a league as has been done in the past and are currently looking for a
volunteer to process the overall results.
The development
competition in its present form will not be run this year pending the
appointment of a development officer and in any event the development fund is
now fairly low. If we decide on a
programme of development which requires funding we will have to agree some
mechanism for topping it up.
Amongst the items
causing much discussion at present is the report of the BOF Membership Working
Group chaired by our Vice-Chairman, Ranald Macdonald. As I understand matters the main aims
are to simplify membership structures, define the relationships between BOF,
Clubs, Associations and ordinary members and to give more of a say to clubs and
members by the vehicle of an annual club conference. It also addresses the definition of
'family' membership. It concedes
the need for the retention of local members but suggests these would be de facto
members of their regional association if one exists, without the need to pay
additional membership fees. The
refining of membership structures will have an impact on how regions run and the
following open forum will be a good opportunity to have a say as to how you feel
EMOA should go forward.
This report will be
discussed at length on the Saturday afternoon before the Newborough Forest
B0C2001 event next month.
Looking further
ahead, we are to run day 2 of the 2004 JK and are currently putting together a
team.
Meeting closed at 8.30pm, and was followed by an
interesting and thought-provoking open forum, centring mainly on how we might
attract more adult newcomers to the sport.
Wanted
Development
Officer
EMOA are looking for
someone with an interest in promoting the sport both by increasing membership in
our heartlands and introducing the sport to new areas and
populations.
The job is a new position and can be
tailored to the skills or interests of the successful applicant and the job can
be very much what you want to make it.
We see the need for someone to keep
updating our existing development plan and direct our efforts towards the aims
contained within it and to work on those areas where they feel they could have
most impact.
All out of pocket expenses will be
paid.
We would like to see someone in place by
the early part of next year as the first major opportunity to have an impact
would be during National Orienteering Week (NOW)
June 8th - 16th
2002
During this week clubs in the region
intend to have some form of activity on every day.
For further information or a copy of the
existing development plan contact the EMOA Secretary - Andy Hawkins 0115 9854
2634
or
speak to the
Chairman, Roy Denney on 0116 233 8604
On yer
Bike
DVO
are holding another Bike-O as featured in the editor's illustrated article in
the last EMEWS on Saturday 2nd February. Same format of 3 hour score event
(you are welcome to take less time if you wish). Using a specially drawn
1:100,000 map which extends to Ashbourne, Leek & Buxton, so the whole event
fits on an A4 sheet for your handlebars. This time it is based on
Hartington Youth Hostel (SK 132603) with a mass start at 12:30 p.m.
All are
welcome but please phone the organiser, Mike Godfree on 01332 515862 a few days
before so I can gauge the number of maps to print. Cost £2. All on roads or
the trails.
Mike
Godfree
BRAMCOTE LORNE
SCHOOL ARE DECLARED BRITISH SCHOOLS ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONS
A Story of
Perseverance and Preparation
Bramcote Lorne
School, from Retford, North Nottinhmashire, have been crowned British Schools
Champions in the sport of orienteering. The success came at the recent British
Schools Orienteering Championships, held in Sherwood Pines Forest Park, near
Edwinstowe. A remarkable achievement when you consider that the school only has
got 110 children from Year 3 to Year 8.
Orienteering started
in the school as an evening activity and a small team entered the British
Schools Championships for the first time in 1993, when they were held in Clumber
Park. The first results were encouraging but it became apparent that to achieve
the highest honour both the coaching staff and the squad had to have more
experience of orienteering technique and competition.
During the next four
years results in the British Schools Championships improved steadily and in 1997
the team achieved 2nd place overall in the Middle/Preparatory School
Championships, held at Farley Mount, near Portsmouth, being beaten by
Millfield.
Encouraged by this
the team kept trying and achieved 3rd place in the 1999
championships, at Watford and 2nd again in 2000 when they competed in
Huddersfield. To achieve their goal and to be crowned National Champions needed
that little extra, it seemed that every year the team were being beaten by a
small margin.
What was to be done
to finally make the breakthrough and actually be the best
?
Team coach and Deputy
Headmaster Mr Robert Parkinson, always one who likes to prepare children well
for competitions, decided to start earlier than ever before. In April, some six
months before the next National Schools Championships, he selected a team of
Year 4 and Year 5 children to compete in the Bassetlaw Youth Games Orienteering
Event, held in Kings Park, Retford. The children competed in pairs and performed
superbly, winning the team trophy and filling the first four places in the
event. The mould was set and these children were to be the backbone of the squad
for the next Schools Championships.
Experience was gained
at the Nottinghamshire Youth Games when the children helped Bassetlaw District
to take 2nd place overall.
Once the new academic
year had started the squad trained every Monday evening, using the map of the
school that was drawn with the support of the Nottinghamshire Schools
Orienteering Association. On Saturdays they attended the SMILE events (Saturday
Morning Lowkey Introductory Events) organised by the Nottinghamshire Club and
also travelled to other Schools events in the local area.
Preparation was going
well and included competing at the British Schools Score Championships, held in
Sutton Park. The Boys finished 2nd overall and the Girls
3rd overall in this event (not 2nd and 3rd
again we all thought). This meant that of the twenty children who attended 16
returned with medals.
With the National
Championships approaching it was time for team selection and a decision to run
in pairs or singles had to be taken. Once the team was selected it was a case of
the fine-tuning and some fitness work, all leading upto the big
day.
On arrival at the
event we soon saw that all of the ‘big guns’ where there. Barnardiston Hall
Preparatory School, who were last years winners, Kingswood from Bath, Oldfield
Hall Middle School and Sandford Middle School, to name a
few.
Off to the start and
away the children went into the forest. Back to the finish dashed Robert
Parkinson to count them in and then the wait.
It was with great
pride that we saw our hard work come to fruition and children getting into the
top ten individual placings. As the results came in it became apparent that it
was going to be a very close fought contest between Barnardistion Hall, Sandford
Middle and Bramcote Lorne.
It was announced that
Bramcote Lorne were second at one point to Sandford Middle School but all we
could do was wait until everyone had finished and the results had been
calculated.
So it was off to the
prize giving. This was very efficiently organised but it is always a long one
and of course the whole school awards are always at the end. Eventually the
announcement came. Yes, we had done it ! The Bramcote Lorne contingent greeted
the result with great cheers.
It had taken eight
years to win this event and in a way it seemed sweeter for it. We were at last
the Middle/Preparatory School Orienteering Champions of Great Britain. Truly a
story of perseverance and preparation.
Sports
Club of the Year 2001
Derwent Valley
Orienteers was awarded third place in the Sports Club of the Year Award 2001. The award was made by The
Foundation for Sport and the Arts, funded by the football pools firms, at a
dinner as part of the Central Council for Physical Recreation’s National
Conference on 28 November. As well as a splendid plaque the Club received a
cheque for £1,000.
We were surprised to
reach the last three - out of the over 80 nominations - given that Walton
Chasers won the award a couple of years ago. The winners were a surf life saving
club from North Devon, with second place going to a sports club for the disabled
based in Windsor and Slough. Eight members of DVO – the Godfrees, Johnsons,
Macdonalds and Shooters - attended the dinner, representing some of those most
actively involved in the activities which were recognized for the
award.
The nomination,
together with that of CLOK, was made by BOF and we are grateful for their
recognition of what we have been doing over recent years as part of our
Development Plan. This includes extensive mapping of schools, old coal mining
areas and the Royal School for Deaf in Derby. Further maps have formed part of
our Urban Orienteering programme which also recently won us a £500 grant from
EMOA. We have also been active as part of the Derbyshire and Peak Park Sport and
Recreation Forum and hope soon to achieve Active Sport status, which will see us
receiving additional funds for training courses for coaches, instructors,
organisers, mappers, etc.
Further details of
the nomination will appear in the next edition of Newstrack and on the DVO
website.
Ranald Macdonald
Vice-Chair and Development Officer
Derwent Valley Orienteers
LOG
News
Many people when
thinking about the East Midlands Orienteering Association think of DVO, LEI and
NOC (strictly alphabetical order you will note, no favouritism). However there is another club out there
(ignoring closed clubs such as college or universtiy) and that is LOG. John Bennett has written the following
note to enlighten us on their current position and maybe to dispel a few myths
about them.
We are by far the
smallest non-college based club in the region, with about 50 'membership units'
(individuals/groups/families) and as such are not able to put on as many events
as our larger neighbours. A badge event is still a distant dream, but you never
know. Neither do we have the spectacular areas that other clubs have, but I'd
hate anyone to think that we are an orienteering backwater. As a small club we
know that if a few crucial club members leave the area we could fold at any
time, so we have tried very hard in recent years to recruit and spread the word
of orienteering in Lincolnshire. We have some very good media contacts and press
coverage has been great this year. Consequently we are in the happy position of
a consistently rising membership year on year, despite natinal trends, and every
year we put on more events. We currently produce 3 C4 events, a night event, a
summer league, a summer relay and various CATIs throughout the season. On
January 27th we will have our first e-punching event at Stapleford, please
support it. Largely because of fixture clashes we have failed to break the 100
barrier at our last three C4s, despite having nearly 300 at Stapleford and
Bourne not too long ago. I would like to formally thank EMOA committee who are
giving us a development grant to cover the whole cost of the SI kit for
Stapleford, just in case we have a low turnout again. All clubs have
low-turn-outs at some point, but recently we haven't had the big crowds to
offset them. So please keep an eye on LOG events, we always get good feedback on
our courses and organisation, so don't let anyone tell you we are an
orienteering backwater. Oh yes, next June 12 of us are off to Aviemore to train
on some real terrain, so watch out for next season!
John
Bennett
Karen
Jackson
Many of you will
already be aware of the sudden, unexpected and tragic death of Karen
Jackson. Karen had lived in the
East Midlands for a number of years and was a member of DVO and formerly of
LEI. I suspect most peoples
reaction was much the same as mine when they first heard the news, a stunned
disbelief , had I heard it right?
had there been an accident?
Gerry and Thelma
Spalton of LEI remember when Karen first came to the East
Midlands:
Karen Jackson
nee Karen Heap
It is very hard to
believe it must be almost twenty years ago – even in those days though Thelma
and I were fairly new to orienteering Thelma was already club secretary – when
we received a phone call from a new student at the University of Leicester
wanting to know how she could continue her involvement in orienteering while she
was a medical student.
Karen was a slim,
fresh faced, quiet and eager young woman who already had more experience than we
had of high quality orienteering.
She was then a member of MDOC and joined the University orienteering Club
(remember that!), and was eager to go to as many events as possible. We well remember many Sunday mornings
waiting in the car outside the student residences on Ratcliffe Road at the crack
of dawn for Karen to appear so we could get to some distant Badge Event. Karen could never tire of orienteering
even then. She seldom had a bad
run, but never complained if she did.
Karen joined LEIOC as a full member in 1986 and became involved in
planning and organising events for the club.
At Karen’s
memorial service, the photograph on the service sheet captured the spirit of the
same young woman we had met all those years ago – we can hardly believe she has
gone and the world is poorer for her loss.
Gerry Spalton/Thelma
Spalton
Earlier this year
Karen‘s commitment to fitness and general attitude to life were recognised at
the DVO Club Dinner where then Chairman Ranald Macdonald made the following
announcement:
“Finally,
nominations and voting took place for the Club Personality of the Year. Normally an opportunity for ritual
humiliation, this year we were able to recognise commitment and human endeavour
of the highest order - tinged perhaps by an element of lunacy - as the award
went
to Karen Jackson. Karen had been to circuit training on the Friday
night, took part in the Badge event at Blidworth on the Sunday and gave birth to
Matthew on the Monday - he probably thought he'd had enough of all that activity
and wanted to get out for a rest. The following week she was back at circuit training
with Matthew not quite emulating his sister, Nicola, in urging Andy on to work
harder!"
My own memories of
Karen are of a very fit competent orienteer, but one who was not above making a
total mess of a course occasionally.
Greatly to her credit she accepted these setbacks with
equanimity.
I remember at one
major event, I think it was a JK, I had spent 20-30 minutes vainly trying to
relocate only to eventually discover that I had been off the map. Having relocated, I was wading through
some chest high bracken when I found a control card with the name Karen Jackson
LEI on it. It wasn’t a lot of
consolation, but I thought, well at least I am not the only one having a bad
day.
I am sure that I
speak for everyone in the East Midlands orienteering fraternity in extending the
greatest sympathy to Andy, Nicola and Matthew in their
loss.
John Cooke
Editorial
As I said in the
first issue that I edited, I am only doing it on a temporary basis. That temporary basis has extended to
five issues, however we now have a volunteer to take over the task. From the next issue your editor will be
Mike Gardner of DVO. Mike has
edited EMEWS before, albeit some time ago.
You can find Mike’s details on page 2, so there is no excuse not to flood
him with copy for the next issue.
With a new editor I believe the idea is to revert to the bi-monthly
format that coincides with the EMOA committee meetings. The copy date for the next issue is 28th
January, which is hopefully after you receive your copy of this edition but as
it is now the first week of January as I write this, it is by no means
certain.
Whilst on the subject
of time I apologise for the lateness of this edition but unfortunately several
thing came together at the same time.
The main one being planning
the Yvette Baker Trophy final at Beacon Hill (see report elsewhere). I had forgotten just how time consuming
planning an event can be. Together
with producing LEI News and sorting out permissions for LEI this meant that
something had to suffer and I afraid that EMEWS had to take a back
seat.
NOC win Yvette
Baker Trophy again
Congratulations to
NOC on winning the Yvette Baker Trophy for the third time in a row. In the five years that the event has
been staged NOC have been Joint 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st and 1st.
The final this
year was staged by LEI at Beacon
Hill on Sunday 9th December (presumably on behalf of EMOA?).
This is a competition
for young orienteers based on Yellow, Orange, Light Green and Green
courses. The event also included a
standard colour coded event for all comers. In total over 500 competitors
participated.
NOC’s continued
success in this event is a tribute to their Youth Policy and bodes well for the
future success of the club.
Andrew Kelly,
the English Development Officer for
BOF presented the trophies on the day. He also later thanked LEI and
complimented the club on the organisation (Roger and Ursula Williamson) and
planning (modesty forbids me from mentioning names) connected with the event which was
controlled by Chris Bosley.
Ed.
ps. the more eagle
eyed amongst you will have realised that no expense has been spared and that
EMEWS had two photographers covering the event as evidenced by the fact that
both shots were taken at more or less
exactly the same time.
Final
Result
(unconfirmed)
NOC 777
SO
762
WCH 756
OD
756