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Upper Hutt Roller Skating Club Newsletter

June 2006

 

UPPER HUTT OPEN COMPETITION: We enjoyed a most successful Open Competition over the weekend (June 24 and 25) with skaters attending from Manawatu, Hawera, Nelson and Upper Hutt clubs. Thank you all for your support!!!. A special thanks to the officials – judges, scorers, marshals and announcers – who gave their time voluntarily to ensure the smooth running of the competition. Thanks to everyone else who helped too but preparing food, manning the shop, cleaning up and setting up before the event, cleaning up and packing down afterwards. A lot of work goes into getting everything we need to the rink and set up – thanks everyone.

                            Special Awards

Congratulations to this year’s winners of two special awards presented annually:-

 

Emma Hazelwood (on the right) won the Ian Mackie Memorial Plate for,

The most artistic performance of a Freeskating or Creative Solo Dance programme, by an UHRSC skater, for her high scoring in the Cadet Creative Solo Dance, the ChaCha. This is the second year running that Emma has won the award, last year being for her Freeskating routine – well done Emma.

 

Kyra Thomson (on the left) won the Scorers Choice Cup for exceptional performance by and UHRSC skater for her achievement in Juvenile Solo Dance Compulsories. Congratulations Kyra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PATCH PASSES:  We welcome Crystal Jones to patch class as supervisor. Thanks Crystal we appreciate your time and expertise!!!! Several skaters have achieved patch passes in the last months. Congratulations Grace Cooper, Leigh Bathgate, Hayley Patten (Patch 1), Holly Rausch (Patch 2), Nadia van Dalen (Patch 3) and Sarah Pratt (Patch 4.

 

MEDAL TEST PASSES:  Several of our members passed medals at a testing session at Riverstone Recreation recently. Thanks to our judges, Leigh Hudson from Napier, Barbara Colville from Christchurch, Margaret Grant from Napier and our own club member, Raewyn Hailes for giving up their day for us. 

Congratulations to the following people who passed:- Figures Medal 4:  Tanya McCarthy. Figures Medal 5:

Emma Hazelwood. Figures Medal 6: Emma Patrick. Freeskating Medal 5: Laura McKenzie. Solo Dance Medal 1: Chantelle McCarthy. Solo Dance Medal 3: Kyra Thomson.

A precision medal testing session was also held. Congratulations to Kimberley Dean, Emma Patrick, Tanya McCarthy, Nika Thomson, Kelsi Linney, Oliver Ewert and Stefanie McCallum who all passed Precision Medal 3. Thanks to our judges Paula Boulcott and Karen Reader who came out on very cold night for the session. At this session Roger Boulcott also passed Figures Medal 2 – congratulations Roger. Thanks to judges Karen Reader and Maz deFeu.

 

NEW MEMBERS: It’s great to welcome Holly Rausch as a club member. Holly has been doing really well at patch class passing two patches in the past two months. We are sure she will enjoy the sport.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy Birthday to Cody Bowkany, Paula Boulcott, Roger Boulcott, Vanessa Bowden, Stephanie Challis, Duncan Elgar, Ashleigh Jenkins-Hoult, Jacqui Jones, Janie Martin, Chris Picard and Nick Thom, . We hope you enjoyed your special day.

 

CONGRATULATIONS WELLINGTON SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR FINALIST: Congratulations to Upper Hutt club member and NZFRS President, Roger Boulcott, was one of three finalists in the Wellington Sportsperson of the Year awards, Sports Administrator category, announced earlier this month. Roger did well to face off a huge number of nominees from the greater Wellington region to become a finalist. While he did not win, the two men who shared the award were both full-time professional administrators who have plenty of business dollars behind them in promotion. The fact that Roger as a volunteer, and Roller sports was up there alongside people whose full-time job is sports promotion and administration is a credit to Roger and something to be proud of. Thanks for all you do for the sport Roger!!!!

 

SPECIAL NIGHT DISCO:  If you haven’t done it already, mark July 29 7-9.30pm in your diaries now. We’ll be running a special night disco – great theme, great prizes, great games, great music. All proceeds will go into our international travel fund to help subsidise club members who travel overseas to represent our club at competitions. We are lucky to have a great group of top level skaters in our club – and I am sure more to come in the future – its great if we can help them out….and have fun doing it!!! Please encourage your friends and family to come to this so we have a good night and raise as much as possible. Entry is $7 including skates or blades for non-club members and $5 for club members.

 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PUBLIC SESSIONS: School finishes on June 30 for the holidays. We will be running public sessions six days a week in the holidays – they are a great activity to invite friends to. Sessions are Mon-Fri 1.30-3.30pm (starting Monday July 3) and Saturdays 3-5pm. Members paying rink fees get in free – so it’s a cost effective school holiday activity. Also please check booking sheet for private bookings during the holidays

 

AREA MEDAL TESTS: Area medal tests will be held at Pascal Street Stadium, Palmerston North on August 19/20. Medals from Medal 1 up can be sat. Registration form is on the notice board - closes July 13 @6pm.

 

PLEASE RETURN CLUB SKATES: A reminder to those of you with club skates on loan that these need to be returned at the latest on Tuesday June 27 after patch class for use in the school holidays. Please remember to check them in at the desk so they are marked off as returned in the book. You will be able to borrow them again after the school holidays.

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING:

Our Annual General Meeting will be held at the rink at 6.30pm, Tuesday July 18 (immediately after patch class). It’s generally a short meeting when the financial report, president’s and coach’s’ reports are presented. We need a quorum of voting members for this meeting so please try and be there. Just a reminder, that the rink will be closed for skating during the meeting.

 

CLUB COMMITTEE: The committee consists of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, 6 ordinary members and a junior representative. You may nominate a club member for a specific office or as a general committee member. Nominations forms will be posted on notice board by the end of the month. Completed forms MUST be with the Secretary, Debs McCarthy by Sunday July 16 @ 3:00 pm. If you are interested in becoming a part of the committee and would like to know more about what is involved please speak to one of the current members. Their names and contact numbers are at the end of this newsletter.

 

JUNIOR REP: We have a junior representative on the committee. If you are older than 12 and would be keen to be the voice of our younger members please talk to Chris Hazelwood for more details. Nomination forms for this position must be to Debs by July Sunday 9.

 

REMITS: Anyone wanting to put a remit forward at the AGM please have a copy to Debs McCarthy by 6.30pm Tuesday July 4.

 

COACHES:  Coaches are asked to submit a report on coaching of your skaters over the last year. This report will be read out at the AGM and recorded. If you cannot be at the meeting to present your report, please e-mail it to bing.c@paradise.net.nz , post to Bruce at PO Box 40835, Upper Hutt or give to a committee member by July 17. Thanks to all coaches for the effort you have put into our skaters over the year.

 

YOUR SUBS: Because of the increased costs in maintaining our building – for example rent and power – we have to bring in more money in to offset costs to members. We have managed to keep the annual subscription fee unchanged again this year – but on the basis that our public sessions will bring in extra revenue. If this doesn’t happen, we will be forced to increase subs. To keep our public sessions operating we need club members to take their turn on the roster – lately many have just not been turning up. We respectfully request that you check the roster which has been e-mailed to you if you receive your newsletter by e-mail, or pick up a hard copy from the rink and make sure if you can’t make your allocated spot you swap with someone else. If public session help from members doesn’t increase – fees will – and no-one wants that.

 

PUBLIC SESSION PRICE INCREASE: Because of increasing costs to run our facility, we have been forced to increase the price of public sessions slightly. The entry charge will rise July 01 to $5. Blade hire will remain at $3 and skates free. This will obviously not affect rink fee paying members who will continue to enjoy being able to get into these sessions free. Hopefully the long promised membership cards will be available when subs are renewed this year – you will need to show your membership card to gain free entry.

 

FUNDRAISING PRODUCTS IDEAS AND EVENTS: We will need to rely more heavily on fundraising also if we want to keep our subs and rink fees down. If anyone has any access to products which could be purchased at a low cost, that we could sell on at a profit please could you let Mary-Anne (5289127) know. Also if you have any suggestions for fundraising events – or can run an event, please talk to Mary-Anne.

 

RINK USAGE: Its great to see so many people skating, but as a result the rink is becoming more crowded and more than ever there is a need for all members to observe rink etiquette.

If you are a patch card fee payer, this means you are only entitled to skate during the 5.30pm-6.30pm patch class and at public sessions. Please remain seated until 5.30pm and after 6.30pm so as not to obstruct those skaters who are paying to use the rink at that time.

If you want to skate more often you can transfer to a different fee structure.

A part card allows you to skate patch class, public sessions and one nominated day per week (this can be Tuesday outside patch class). You must transfer to part card rates if you wish to skate at any other time than patch class and public sessions – this includes just before and just after patch class.

A full card allows you to skate every day and is ideal for those who have private coaching and also want to practice between times. If you would like more information about fee structure please talk to our treasurer, David Linney.

 

SKATES AVAILABLE FOR LOAN, HIRE, SALE:

We are often asked where members can get skates from. The short answer is don’t buy them in the shops, The skates available in shops are generally not suitable for artistic skating. They don’t have enough ankle support and are mostly too heavy. We can loan, hire, sell you second hand skates or point you in the direction of companies in New Zealand who sell new skates and skate parts.

For more information please feel free to ask Chris or Mary-Anne.

 

UPCOMING COMPETITIONS/MEDAL TESTS:

Please Note: Dates/Venues maybe subject to alteration. Please check with event management

 

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