ISSUE Nos.157                                                                                                      JANUARY 2009           

 

Dear Members,

          HAPPY NEW YEAR and ALL that……

                       

CLUB NEWS 

S.A.A. Annual General Meeting Sunday 7^th December 2008

 

For those of you who did not attend the meeting, which is all of you, Derek and myself, or, have not been on the S.A.A. Website there now follows the high-lights of the meeting.

(1)AFFILIATION FEES.

All fees for 2008/09have been increased as follows:-

Senior  £26  to £27

Junior Club  £38  to £40

Disabled Club  £47  to  £49

OAP’S (Over 60’s)  £19.50  to  £21

However, these new fees will not apply to us as we are all affiliated to September 30^th2009. After that date they will increase to the new levels.

 (2)TOURNAMENT LEVY FEE.

In an effort to raise much needed income a proposal was suggested that all tournaments where a SAA Judge is officiating (practically all tournaments) then all archers taking part would pay a £1-00p levy per day which would be added to the entry fee. This proposal was also put forward at the 2007 AGM and then as now the proposal was defeated.

(3) A NEW SAA LOGO

 The top 3 designs were voted upon and design No.12 received the most votes. A copy of the designs are on the notice board.

(4) DEREK SANGSTER

Towards the end of the meeting Honorary Life Membership of the S.A.A. was conferred on Derek. This  means he has a complete set of Life Memberships of GNAS, S.A.A. and The Club. I suppose that just leaves the Knighthood.

 

GNAS CARDS

By now you should have your new cards for 2008/09. As I explained some time ago there had been a major foul up at GNAS and it is due to Sir Derek who had business down at GNAS HQ just before Christmas that we finally received the cards or I am sure we would still be waiting for them! As you will have realised this is a new design of card and replaces the previous card, which you kept but had to add a new sticker to on a yearly basis. The new card also allowed GNAS to change form the medieval archer to the new Archery GB logo. Personally speaking I cannot see why the old system could not have been retained as it must have cost a fortune putting the new style cards on fancy A4 paper!

 

 

under the new system 5 posts on the committee became vacant and the following were elected to serve a three-year term until 2011. They are as follows:-

 

 

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY – 2009

 

JANUARY

Sunday 18^th                                Eastern Area Championships  / Round- Portsmouth

 

Thursday 22^nd                             Club Committee Meeting at 7.30 pm.

 

FEBRUARY

Sunday8th                                    S.A.A.Championships / Round –FITA 18m

 

MARCH

Sunday 1^st                                       Indoor Open Round / Double Portsmouth

 

Saturday 14^th                                          Club Championships / Round / TBA.

 

AND FINALLY

Subject Bran Flakes…….

 

They were both 85 years old and had been married for sixty years. Though they were far from rich, they managed to get by because they watched their pennies.

 Though not young they were in very good health, largely due to the wife’s insistence on healthy foods and exercise for the last decade. One day, their good health didn’t help when they went on a rare vacation and their plane crashed, sending them of to heaven.

They reached the pearly gates, and St… Peter escorted them inside. He took them to a beautiful mansion, furnished in gold and fine silks, with a fully stocked kitchen and a waterfall in the master bath. A maid could be seen hanging their favourite clothes in the closet. They gasped in astonishment when he said, ‘Welcome to Heaven. This will be your home now’. The old man asked Peter how much this was going to cost.  ‘Why, nothing,’ Peter replied, ‘remember, this is your reward in Heaven’.

The old man looked out the window and right there he saw a championship golf course, finer and more beautiful than any ever- built on earth. ‘What are the green fees?’ grumbled the old man. ‘This is Heaven,’ St Peter replied. ‘You can play for free every day.’

 Next they went to the clubhouse and saw the lavish buffet lunch, with every imaginable cuisine laid out before them, from seafood to steaks to exotic deserts, free flowing beverages. ‘Don’t even ask,’ said St Peter to the old man. ‘This is Heaven, it is all free for you to enjoy.’

 The old man looked around and glanced nervously at his wife.’ Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol foods and the decaffeinated tea?’ he asked. ‘That’s the best part,’ St Peter replied, ‘you can eat and drink as much as you like of whatever you like and you will never get sick. This is Heaven.’

 The old man pushed, ‘No gym to work out at.’ ‘Not unless you want to,’ was the answer.’ No testing my blood sugar or blood pressure or…’ ‘Never-again. ‘All you do here is enjoy yourself.’

The old man glared at his wife and said ‘ You and your bl…y bran flakes, we could have been here ten years ago!’

 

 

Issue concluded,

                                  Donald.