MEMBERSHIP FEES NOW DUE This is to advise that your 2024/25 membership fees are now due. These can be renewed via the member portal https://members.sls.com.au/SLSA_Online/modules/login/index.php. Simply login, if you are not prompted on the front screen, select Membership > Renew, Pay .. The new streamlined process introduced this year will prompt you for credit card payment straight away. NOTIFICATION OF AGM As per the June Blu-ing, notification of the AGM was issued on the 18th of June. For those that missed it is a copy of the extract below and attached Notice is hereby given that the 66th Annual General Meeting of South Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club Inc., will be held at the South Maroubra Surf Club on Sunday 28 July 2024 commencing at 2.00 pm. Meeting Agenda
CALLING FOR POSITION NOMINATIONS The club can only efficiently if members put up their hand and help out, there are roles of all sub-committees that need to be filled each year. Please have a look at the list on the attached and nominate for a position. The description of each role is available in the Club Regulations. If there is something else you think you can help with but there isn't an official posititon please reach out to any of the Board of Management. ![]()
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Congratulations to all our club award winners for the 2023/24 season
CLUB AWARDS - MAJOR Club Member - Uri Teitler Outstanding Senior - Kellie Ellis Outstanding Junior - Christopher Kondilios Outstanding Cadet - Ffyon McCabe / Ryan McNamara Associate - Cindy Redmond CLUB AWARDS - COMPETITION Beach - Luke Newrick Swim - Grace Madden Board - Willow Skene Surf Board - Aidan Renford Ski - Georgie Keirnan Masters - Edel Dickson IRB Competition - Joshua Ricamara Surf Boat - Ryan Robbie Lifesaving Event - Vectis Buckett RnR/March Past - Emily Henville Coach - Andrew Newrick CLUB AWARDS - LIFESAVING Rookie Trainer - Genevieve Andersen Training Officer - Codie Wem IRB Person - Kirsten Newrick Patrol Captain - Remi Defina-Sperando Junior - Mia Smith Senior - Ashleigh Breaden Welcome to the June edition of the Bluing Newsletter. We hope you are recharging your batteries for the rapidly approaching 2024/25 season and looking forward to it as much as we are.
Since our last edition, much has been happening during the off-season including;
So what’s coming up June/July?
Plenty happening as you can see. I would ask you to please keep an eye out for potential club sponsors for lifesaving, competition and club house renovations. We are currently looking for one, or several companies/individuals for the new boat on order sponsorship, expected in September/October. We can provide a sponsorship proposal to you, but briefly cost is $38k x 4 years exposure, logos, names would be placed in primary and secondary positions on the boat and club house, website etc. A christening where sponsors would be involved followed by a light lunch and refreshments with crews and the club would be scheduled. It’s a rare opportunity to sponsor a traditional piece of lifesaving equipment, we’d love to hear from you! See you next Sunday or on a Social Sunday! Paul ‘Stretch’ Fownes APM OAM President Congratulations goes out to our Club's Branch Awards of Execellence Winners
Our Winter IRB Team have been competing in the 2024 Sharkskin NSW IRB Premiership Series.
This year there is only 4 Rounds and then onto State and Aussies. There will also be the Lifesaving World Championships in September. For those interested to see a spectaular, the next few rounds are relatevely local with a short drive up to the central coast. Premiership Round 1: Collaroy SLSC, 10-12 May 2024 Premiership Round 2: Fingal Beach SLSC, 25-26 May 2024 Premiership Round 3: North Avoca SLSC, 8-9 June 2024 Premiership Round 4: Ocean Beach SLSC, 22-23 June 2024 After Round 2, South Maroubra is sitting equal 2nd on the overall pointscore tally behind Caves Beach with Kiama Downs. See video of the team in action here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/KNgoQykZhFyN3i7v/?mibextid=QwDbR1 QUICK! There’s 3 chances to win $1,000 CASH! Now's your time to secure tickets in both Draw 223 and Draw 224.
Simply purchase a ticket book of $10 value or more in both draws, between 3 – 10 June* and you’ll go in the running to win $1,000 extra cash! Draw 223 the Buderim Beauty is in the final weeks. Can you picture yourself relaxing by a sun-drenched north-facing swimming pool, taking in spectacular Hinterland views? First prize package also comes with $20,000 in gold bullion! Draw 224, Hilltop Haven has just opened, featuring breathtaking views above the treetop canopy, down to the coastline horizon and beyond. The modern design and seamless indoor-outdoor living surrounds you with tranquil beauty. The first prize home package comes with $10,000 in gold bullion! The chance to win $1,000 CASH is for a limited time only! Click the link below and select from both Draws. https://surflottery.com.au/club/southmaroubraslsc Hello to all of our members live from the Australian Titles where many competition members from Youth, Masters and Open are proudly flying the colours of South Maroubra Surf Life Saving Club, and welcome to the April edition of the Bluing. I would like to thank our many coaches, officials, supporters and Board Members who supported this year’s efforts, results from Aussies will be announced in later editions. So where are we with season 2023/24? On Anzac Day 25/4 in addition to rostered patrols and Anzac Service in the morning we invite you to our very successful Anzac Day ‘Two Up’ event and invite all 18 and over friends and members to join our host Matt to watch the fun of this once a year event in the Heritage Room. Bar services will be open from 12pm so make a point of popping down. Our Surf Patrol season comes to an end on Sunday 28/4. On this same day we will be conducting our Major Fundraiser being the Ocean Swim. A call has gone out to all members in particular our Lifesavers as we need maximum rescue and competition board paddlers, all of our IRBs in the water so 2 crew x 8 boats, we need BBQ cooks, set up and pull down crews, lunch prep people and parking control members. Here is the link to volunteer for one or some of these jobs so please step up for this important event: https://forms.gle/rwso21xq9jXixyKm9 Following the Ocean Swim, we will be celebrating the end of our Lifesaving season with a free BBQ, live band and free refreshment, so it works well - Ocean Swim duty first for all of our lifesavers followed by party time in recognition of a great season so please sign up and come along for the day. Other issues to consider include nominations for Club Awards, Branch Awards, and our Presentation Night to be held on 1 June. Congratulations to our new SRC and Bronze members and welcome to our great club. Big thank you is extended to our instructors for your hard work in getting so many wonderful candidates through. As I mentioned to a few of you, your skills training continues on boards etc so feel free to pop down, grab a board over the off season and continue to work on those skills in preparation for next season. Also, other course will be available to you so keep that enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge going! Please be sure to join our clubs Facebook page where news, photos and information is posted daily along with opportunities to be involved in Surf Sports and other activities. Sunday Socials are there for all our members, your families and will continue each Sunday throughout Winter. Whilst speaking about Sundays in the off season why not join the Winter Swimmers who assemble each Sunday at Wylie’s Bath at Coogee for some friendly handicapped swims followed by a lovely hot brunch back at the club, a great friendly aquatic community. Thanks again for a wonderful season to date and please remember to sign up to our Ocean Swim followed by season celebration. Paul ‘Stretch’ Fownes APM OAM President ![]() Make sure you join us for the traditional 2-UP on Anzac Day Dolphins starts up for the Winter Season
Annual Nipper Trivia Fundraiser NightOn Friday 1st March we held our Annual Nipper Trivia Fundraiser night. And what a night it was! We had a fantastic turn out with 250 nipper parents attending, the biggest so far. Thank you to all that attended, because of you we raised approximately $18,000 for our nippers! Monies raised will go towards much needed equipment that we need to run this wonderful program for our kids. A big thank you also goes to our sponsors:
2024 NSW Surf Life Saving Championships Over the next 4 days (7-10 March) the NSW State Age Championships will be held at Manly.
We have a competition team of 117 athletes battling it out against all of the Surf Life Saving clubs in NSW. We wish them the best of luck and may they showcase great sportsmanship in and out of the water, inspiring others with dedication and fair play. It’s with great sadness we announced on 30 January the passing of Life Member Ray Robinson after a long illness.
Vale Ray and thank you for your friendship, commitment to South Maroubra SLSC, our Nippers in their early days, education and officiating throughout the organisation and of course your great character we had the pleasure of enjoying over many years. Ray was a long time Sydney carnival official, scrutineer, coach, trainer, assessor and all things nippers. He was successfully nominated for Life Membership in season 2007/8 and later recognised by Sydney Branch for the Presidents Medal in 2012 for his significant and outstanding voluntary service to Surf Life Saving Sydney. Below is an extract from the 2007/8 Annual Report detailing his LM nomination and achievements at that time. Our apology for the delay in getting the latest Bluing magazine out, its certainly been an extremely busy start to 2024 with action aplenty on many fronts. Why so you ask? Well allow me to explain. Linda once again ran a very special ‘Remembering Our Members Day’ on Sunday 14/1, where we came together to recognise valued members that have passed most notably this year Horst and Tony Brown. We successfully conducted our Sportspersons Day in January after months of planning, thanks are extended to table captains, record attendees and of course event sponsors who provided goods for the day. A fantastic day was had by all with plenty of laughs, great range of guest speakers, wonderful food via Top Cat Catering along with MC Chimes who was in great form. All funds raised went to our Australian Touring Teams as did the Spring Festival funds. An early reminder (and diary entry) for next year Sunday 2/2/25 is our scheduled Sports Day due to when Australia Day falls. We conducted our annual Australia Day bbq shortly after Sportspersons Day another great day with equally big turnout. Nippers returned from their Christmas recess late January. We said goodbye to another Life Member in Ray Robinson who passed after a long health battle and joined together after the funeral to celebrate this top bloke. We ran our Gold Members Day and invited all of our Life Members along to enjoy the food, refreshments and good company. We also conducted our very special ‘THANKYOU LUNCHEON’ and sponsored equipment display in acknowledgment of current sponsors that support our club operations and as we hit 2000 members and operating 12 months of the year now I take this opportunity to reach out for additional support. Can you, a friend, an organisation assist? Also in the first couple of months we took possession and set up our new storeroom (the old public mens changeroom) where all club signage, files and property are now stored that are used infrequently. Last weekend our nipper committee conducted Nippers Trivia night with record turn outs, ran Social Sundays throughout the season wth great success and popularity with members and public alike. Participated in Branch Championships, completed selections and budgets for State Nippers and Australian Touring teams and with the overwhelming support of our IRB drivers and crew, managed to secure sufficient unprecedented water safety numbers for State Nippers, Masters and Open carnivals allowing us to compete. We took possession of our new ‘Clovelly (Bendigo) Community Bank’ trailer and as of next week head to the Northern Beaches for State Nippers, Masters and Open Competition. On that note we wish all of our members good luck whilst representing South Maroubra, have fun and always display great sportsmanship. Finally and in recognition of the hard work by all of our Lifesavers during what has been a very busy surf season with some memorable moments we installed an afterhours rescue equipment stand located near the kiosk ensuring our members have quick access day and night to equipment if they need to rescue swimmers in distress. So what does the next few months hold? Yes there is so much more!
Wow what a season and guess what? It all starts again in September. See you at soon Paul ‘Stretch’ Fownes APM OAM President. |
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