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Nippers season commencing October 11 with a new training start time.

Junior Training this season starts on Saturday October 11 at 12.15pm for a 12.30pm start, please note the change in starting times this season.

You can register and pay online now or register in person at the club on Sunday 28 September time to be confirmed.

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Want to be an Age Group Manager for Under 13s or 14s?

Age Group Managers required for Under 13’s and Under 14’s for the season, please contact Pat on 0419816911 if interested.

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Junior Committee Meeting 23rd September 7pm

All juniors coaches and managers please be note “the next Junior Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday 23rdSeptember 7.00pm at the Club”.

We hope to see you there.

From Pat Larven. Any questions or comments please see the Juniors Page.

Volunteer Bakers and BBQ chefs required

We are looking for volunteer bakers and BBQ chefs to help to cook and serve a BBQ for the upcoming Port Districts Primary Schools Cross Country carnival.
It is being held on Friday 19th September between 9.30am to 2.30pm right alongside the club at Point Malcolm Reserve.

We will be selling sausages in bread, home-made cupcakes and cold drinks.

This is a great way for us to promote the club to potential nippers just prior to the season starting.

If you are able to donate some cupcakes or some time on the day please call or text Brad Tunbridge on 0412 073 688 or Trudy Tunbridge on 0408 824 789.

This event will help kick start the season for the mighty Red Black & White.

Uniform shop open this weekend.

Time to think about getting organised for the start of the season.
Patrol Uniforms and Club bathers will be available for purchase from the club this Saturday September 13 9.30am – 11.30am and Sunday September 14 9.30am – 11.30am.
There are also a few ‘sale’ items available but you’ll need to get in quick to get the best pick of these.

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Keep 1st November clear for the Community Family Fun Day

We are hosting a whole community family fun day that will showcase surf life saving, we are partnering with city of Charles Sturt council & an upmarket food vendor, it is a whole community free event with rides, outdoor movie, food drinks, lots of surf sports & demos so keep date free 11am – 9pm.

More info to follow.

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Announcing the new Semaphore SLSC logo

We are proud to launch our new club brand and announce our new Semaphore SLSC logo. On behalf of the BOM, I would like to thank everyone for providing feedback of what they wanted to see reflected in the new brand / logo, taking into account our club history, previous used logos & fonts ,review of over 50 other surf club & sporting club logos, the various areas of the club Juniors, Seniors & Boaties, reviewing the 60th anniversary book & significant help from Dave (from Isshoni Creative our creative designer we can be proud of being part of creating new history.
Once again thank you everyone for your input.
Heather Sibley
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2014/15 membership payments and renewals now online

You asked for it and it’s finally here! You can now renew your membership and pay online!

No more waiting inline at the club. This year online membership payments and renewals are finally here. You can even pay your competition levy at the same time and get an itemised receipt. For all the details of how to do it, go to the membership page and see the handy how-to video or follow the step by step image guide at the bottom of the membership page.

The process is pretty straight forward but you will need to ensure you input the correct amounts and itemise your inputs manually. Unfortunately this is a limitation of the payment gateway provided to us however there is a handy price list both on the payment screen at lifesavingonline.com.au and on the membership page.

Early birds before 26/10/14

If you pay before the 26th of October (online or at the club) you will get an early bird discount. Full discount details are available on the membership page and dates and times for membership payments and renewals in person will be published soon.

We really want you to pay online!

We understand that not everyone has a credit card or likes to pay online but paying at the club does result in a lot more manual work. So as a special reward for online payments before the 26/10/2014 you will also receive 10% off at the Bistro. Just bring your online receipt (an email on your phone/iPad or a printed version) in before the end of October 2014 and show the staff when ordering to claim your discount.

 

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Communicating to you in 2014

Getting the word out about what’s going on at the club is a big job. We have a lot going on! Just like all the great work that gets done by volunteers around the club it happens through no small effort of the people involved. This year we are trying to take the communications at the club to a new level. We want to build on the great work of the previous years and make sure that we don’t hear the words “I didn’t know that was on” come from anyone. Ambitious I know. To that end I am enlisting the help of all who are willing and able to take ownership of our communications and join me in forming the club communicators group.

At the moment we use a number of channels to get the message out. Semaphoreslsc.com.au, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Mailchimp, Surfcom, SMS and standing on a chair and shouting. Some methods are more effective than others but if you take a channel away you reduce the amplitude of the message you are pushing. We already have a group of people who have been posting to our channels over the last couple of years, this year we want to add to the coordination of that and reduce the barriers for the different sections of the club in getting their message out.

If you have previously been frustrated because “you didn’t know that was on” or if you are interested in being part of this new coordinated communications machine, please come to our SSLSC comms group meeting on Thursday August 7 at 630pm. If you can’t make it but you are keen nonetheless, talk to me, Heather Sibley, Karin Humphrey, Georgia Robbins or Sean McKenzie to find out how you can participate.

 

 

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2014 Juniors Age Group Managers and Assistants Needed

As another surf season rapidly approaches it is time to get together and start getting organised for the season ahead. So I would like to invite you and anyone else who you know that expressed interest to Brad in either becoming an age group manager or assistant age group manager or helper to join us in meeting on Wednesday 30th July at the club at 7.30pm to start planning the 2014/15 season.

I have shared with a few people some ideas I have for the season and have asked a number of people if they could lead some additional training sessions during the week on top of board training on a Friday afternoon.

Ideally I would like a session dedicated to beach events, that includes sprints, flags beach relays and wades that would be open to the Under 9’s and upwards.

Another session would be open for Under 11’s and upwards that would concentrate on board rescue and iron person training. These additional sessions will only take place if we can get enough volunteers to assist in co-ordinating the sessions along with ensuring we get enough water cover to make it happen.

Please come prepared to share any thoughts or ideas you have. For those who are really keen carnival dates are already listed on the SLSA website, although venues have not been released at the moment.

I hope you can make the meeting, if you are unable to attend please feel free to give me call.

Regards

Pat Larven
0419816911

juniors@semaphoreslsc.com.au