Dear members,

 Well, did you make any New Year resolutions? Perhaps, that you would do more to help in the running of YOUR Club? No? Didn’t think so! Oh well on to this month’s news……

CLUB NEWS

NEW MEMBERS

Our latest beginners class ended just before Christmas and out of the 7 students 4 have decided to join our Club. We have 2 new juniors our first is Charles Guest, the latest member of the Guest dynasty to join us. In addition to his elder brothers and his elder sister Elizabeth this means that we only need 2 more Guests to go, to complete the set of six! Our second new junior is Ashley Hamilton whose father Andrew has also joined us .The last of our new quartet is Leon Kitely a new senior member.

On behalf of the Club, Greetings!

S.A.A. LOGO

By the time you have received this newsletter most of you will have been given a copy and short questionnaire with regard to the S.A.A. logo. The S.A.A. have been informed that the current shield logo is illegal and would cost the S.A.A. £900 to register it with the Lord Lyon’s office if we were to keep it. Some people now feel that as we are in the 21^st century that a more modern logo is needed as the current one is older than I am! So if this is of interest to you then please return your completed forms to me by Saturday 19^th January if you have not already done so. Can I also remind you that all Scottish archers ARE the S.A.A. and that includes yourselves. Remember, a portion of your affiliation fee goes to the S.A.A. so don’t say you did not get a chance to voice your opinions.

P.S.

If any of you wish to make your views known to a captive audience then get yourselves up to the S.A.A. EGM on Sunday 3^rd February at 1pm. The AGM back in December was not quorate and this has resulted in an EGM.

ARCHERY U.K.

The occasional  plea again to those of you who wish to donate any un-wanted copies of A.U.K. to me. They can then be passed on to new members who have yet to receive their own copies. I f there are more than one of you are staying at the same address then you can ask GNAS to stop sending you any extra copies. This will help to prolong the life of a few trees!

MOVING HOUSE

Please notify the Club if you are changing your address or leaving the Club, as GNAS have to be notified of any address change so you can still receive any correspondence from them e.g. “Archery U.K.”.

TOURNAMENT SCORES

Another reminder to those of you who enter tournaments, and there are several members also competing away from Lasswade, is to give your scores to David R. who is our Records Officer. This means he can give you an up-to-date classification / handicap especially if you are in the senior ranks. Go-on, make his day! For those of you who don’t know who he is he is the wee baldy man with the glasses who sometimes shoots a recurve or compound bow!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

All events are at Lasswade unless indicated otherwise.

JANUARY

Sunday 20^th                        Eastern Area Indoor Championships.

                                            SRS /Portsmouth

FEBRUARY

Sunday 3^rd                          S.A.A. EGM at Cluny Clays, Fife.

MARCH

Saturday15th                       Indoor Club Championships (Round / TBA)

Hear ends the 145^th issue

                            Donald

And Finally

This month’s item (repeat from 2002) may be useful if you are going to this year’s Olympics in Bejing!

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