Chairman's News No. 16

Dear Members,

GOOD news? BAD news time.

Friday 13th. The friendly AV night at Basingstoke was not so good for the club. On one of the worst weather days of the winter 10 of us and 2 ex members we almost out numbered the combined home and Woodley CC attendance!

Ian Bigg was the judge for the night and his vast experience showed with his critique and scoring. Woodley CC from Reading were the winners with 89 points then North Hants PS with 87 and we managed to crawl in 82 points.

So on reflection we were on average one point adrift on each of our AVs, not that far behind. The theme Ian was looking for was a story line and those AVs scored better.

Monday 16th. At the SPF reps meeting it was announced that starting next year they would be running an annual print competition, details will be published soon.

Tuesday 17th. A mixture of news from the fund raising evening, Stan Roberts gave an entertaining show which appeared to be much appreciated by those attending, while the number of visitors were on par the membership was poorly represented. This may have been that we saw the show a few years ago however the numbers is disappointing.

The raffle was well supported with some 25 prizes, my thanks to all of you who gave items. Jean and Janet did a great job selling tickets and my thanks to them, sorry I was remiss in not thanking them on the evening.


Wednesday 18th. Received news that Liz Whitemore had taken a bad fall and spent all day in A & E, Jack assured me that it was not the lack of water in her drinks but a pure accident, latest news is good though and we wish her a speedy recovery.

Thursday 19th. Over to Colbury memorial hall for the first round of this seasons league matches. George Atkins gave me a concern with his late arrival, he had the prints, it's them SatNavs you know. However, a very good evening with Glyn Edmonds in the judges hot seat resulted in winning both the prints and the PDIs sections. The results sheet is attached however well done to Peter Read and Roy Lambeth for their 10's.

Diary/program change. April 8th 2010 ( Thursday) we have accepted an invitation from New Forest CC to take part in a friendly competition at their venue. This is a return fixture as we had them over last year for a similar evening. We have agreed that we will have 12 prints and 12 PDIs and they have already asked Leo Rich to judge, so we should have a fun evening.

Next week, we have, I'm told 31 entries for the Digital Panel Trophy. So Alan Cooke will be busy and we need to get started on time.
Hope to see you then
Regards & keep snapping

Terry