Well done!
The DVAC turn-out and support for the All Schools Road Relays at Albert Park was superb. Special thanks go to Robin Broberg on his planning and leadership with the running of the stall.
Thanks to the following for their support on the day at Albert Park:
Robin Broberg, Gary Hammett, Rob Wendell, David Armstrong, Linda Langford, Lyn Davis, Matt Owen, Tess Wendel, Didier Martin, Warwick Wilson, David Murphy, Rowena Deighton, Rod Mothersole, Bernie Smith, Chris West, Laura Campbell, Jessica Campbell, Sarah Evans, Courtney Peters & Michael, John Leung, Rosalie Morgan, Martin Fruin, Antony Milovac and Max Balchin.
Thanks also to the following members for their kind (and tasty!) donations for our stall
Emily Jackson, Zoe Girbau, Sarah Leeming, Maria Benke, Sam Quinn, Didier Martin, David Murphy, Linda Langford, Laura & Jess Campbell, Warwick Wilson, Lyn Davis.Once again - well done on a great effort.
2010 Relay for Life Review
Last weekend a group of DVAC members participated in a local community event. The Diamond Valley Relay for Life, held at our track at Willinda, is a fun community event to raise funds for The Cancer Council Victoria. Teams of 10 or more participants challenged themselves to keep their baton moving overnight in a relay-style walk or run. Some individual participants completed more than 100 laps, i.e. a full marathon! Attendees enjoyed a sensational atmosphere with entertainment like bands (with our own Greg Champion featuring early Saturday evening), belly dancers, DVDs and games for children and adults. Many participants decided to camp out during this balmy night. Highlights included the Cancer Survivors' Walk and the Candlelight Ceremony at dusk, which celebrates those who have survived and remembers loved ones lost to cancer. After that a couple of the main lights came on and the hard walking/running work continued with 1 team doing more than 500 laps.
The event attracted 24 teams and almost 400 participants and tents were set up along the inside of the track. 2 of the teams had links to DVAC with club members either organising or participating in a team. In excess of $50,000 was raised, an outstanding result and more than doubling last year's result.
DVAC took on the catering and to some extent the facility role for the event and a group of hard working members worked through the night to provide the participants with the required sustenance, support and enthusiasm. They are a marvellous group of people that the club can seemingly count on every time and the Cancer Council is extremely appreciative of. They are (hoping not to forget one!) Gary Hammett, Robin Broberg, Lyn Davis, Max Balchin, Karen and Roo Cowell, Angie Wilde, Tess and Remy Wendel, Linda Langford, Angela Hennel, David Armstrong, Bernie Smith, Louise (Midnight Oil) and Jeff Young, Courtney Jarry and Warrick Wilson. THANK YOU!
The event provided us, as a club, with the opportunity to connect to our community in a whole different way. All people, be they participants, volunteers, politicians or sponsors are local, from our own community and have seen a side to our club they perhaps had not experienced before.
The RfL committee sent me this memo.
"You and your team of volunteers did an outstanding job, and I congratulate your team and thank them most sincerely for all their hard work throughout day and night. They are a great bunch of people, always courteous and smiling, no matter the hour, and the feedback I received from participants, was how pleasant they were to deal with. There is little doubt the venue is probably the best there is for a RFL event, but it's even better when you have nice people to deal with. Again, I thank you for your support" (Phil Ciravolo)
Rob Wendel
2010 Relay for Life
As you may know I'm on the Relay-for-Life committee again this year, the world's largest fundraising event for Cancer, as part of our club's objective to participate actively in the community. Only recently, with the passing of Charles Taylor, we were reminded of the devastating effects this disease can have on sufferers, family and friends.
This year the event will be held at Willinda Park on February 20/21. You are more than welcome to attend either by volunteering to assist in running the canteen or by pulling together a DVAC or other team and participate!
The way DVAC will participate is to again take on the role of Catering for the event. The event will run from 4PM till 10AM. Yes, all thru the night you will need to go around and around.
Any monies we make from the catering will be equally divided between the cause and the club.
The responsibilities we will have as the Caterers are:
- To obtain the maximum amount of food, drink and disposable products for little to no cost in exchange for minor sponsor status. Prices should be set according to market rates and capacities to pay, aiming to maximise sales to assist in fundraising.
- To ensure that vendors have food handling procedures
- To ensure that all physical needs are catered for like, water dispense utility, power outlets, shelter, BBQ etc. Obviously Willinda park provides most of these already.
- Arrange for breakfast (a reasonable amount of food must be provided free of charge (fruit/cereal)), it must be cancer smart and include healthy options but bacon and eggs may be included.
- To arrange tea/coffee. I.e. a 24 hour hot water urn, milk, tea, coffee, sugar, stirrers should be made available to make a 'cuppa' free of charge. Alternatively we can engage one of those mobile coffee vans.
As last year we will likely put a canteen roster together you can put down your preferred time.
If you're not partaking as a team member than please volunteer to assist in the catering task, either by chasing up food vendors to help out or by helping on the night with the catering itself (like manning the canteen). We're particularly interested in people with food handling permits of those who man the canteen regularly at littles or otherwise.
It's a great cause. Please contact Rob Wendel or any other committee member. For the event the contacts are...
Diamond Valley Event Details:
Date: 20 & 21 February 2010Start Time: 4pm Saturday
Finish Time: 10am Sunday
Venue: Willinda Park, Beatrix Street Greensborough
Coordinator: Amy McKee
Contact Phone: 03 9635 5378
Email:diamondvalley@relayforlife.org.au
web:http://victoria.relayforlife.org.au/home.html
Great Australian Run (28 Nov 2009)
A total of 46 DVAC members and supporters turned out at the Albert Park 'Pit Lane' by 7:00am on Sunday 29th November to help support our club. Each volunteer attracted $40 to the club for their services on the morning. That amounts to a total of $1840. This is one of our major fundraisers for the year and on behalf of the DVAC Committee we would like to thank - and congratulate - each one of the 46 who supported our cause last Sunday. Pat yourselves on the back - you were terrific!
How do we know? The organisers let us know in no uncertain terms that they were very happy with the leadership taken and the effective manner in which our 'teams' worked together.
A big thank-you goes to Lyn Davis, who coordinated the effort and liaised with the organisers of the Great Australian Run.
Some of the jobs given to our people included course marshal, medal distribution, time-chip removal, food and sponsor item distribution, start line marshals and general set-up and clean-up.
There was a great spirit amongst our group and when the challenge of coping with the masses arose they handled it all with aplomb. Even when the rain started to bucket down there was not one murmur of complaint (well, maybe just a wincy one or two!). Anyway, those attractive 'emergency ponchos' that took ten minutes to get on, stopped us getting any wetter, except for the course marshals who weren't so lucky.
Well done, gang.
VALLEY VOLUNTEERS:Dianne Stirling, Amy Stirling, Lyal Douglas, Trish Douglas, Gary Hammett, Jared Hammett, Laura 'Hammett', Rob Wendel, Tess Wendel, Kris Barnes, Lindley Cowell, Jaqui Cowell, Mark Bevilacqua, David Armstrong, Didier Martin, Sue Vardy, Jem Edsall, Chris Lynch, Anthony Lynch, Michael Cusack, Anne Cusack, Damien Cusack, Jeff Young, David Murphy, Frank Peachey, Anika Peachey, Jake Peachey, Shane Peachey, Chris Rancie, Sarah Leeming, Maria Benke, Samantha Quinn, Zoe Girbau, Alexandra Warwick, Janyce Foldrin, Adam Bell, Lyn Davis, Max Balchin, Jessica Campbell, Nathan Boburka, Laura Campbell, Maddi Taylor- Wilde, Courtney Peters, Amos Fun, Aidan Smith, Ian Wilde
Willinda Park Working Bee on Sat 5 September
The Working Bee is from 10.00a.m - 12.00 P.M List of works to be completed.
- Clearing of all stormwater pits
- Clearing of all spoon drains and gutters Clearing debris from gas meter cage Checking all equipment for repairs- repairing/reporting as required.
- hurdles. attach hurdles height/distance info to carts.
- temp throwing cages
- jumps signage
- gazebo/shade structures
- Decobweb pavilion walls and windows
- Move sand in jumps pits, clear approaches Check jumps boards and reline/secure Trim weeds / grass around internal and external perimeter of track Trim grass around perimeter of throwing rings Clean bbq and surrounds Check barrier fencing along perimeter of jumps run-up
- Bunkers- sort and re-organize
- Club storage- sort and remove obsolete equipment/storage lockers etc. (1 member of each club in attendance to decide what stays- what goes).
- Decisions made re new layout and allocation of space.
- Canteen: All external locks checked for operation, lubricated etc.(Locks/chains secured) Check external tap operation
- **Removal of finishing marshals stand** (Dependant upon council permission/instructions)
- Assemble membership packs for club distribution (Lots of kids required for this job)
- Vacuum Function Room etc
- 2 x petrol "weed whackers" garden line trimmers for edge trimming (Roo to bring one, another required) Wheel barrows ( I think one is in the bunker)
LATROBE SCHOOL RELAYS - THANK YOU TO ALL HELPERS
A big thank you is extended to all DVAC people who helped out at Latrobe on Saturday 13 June 2009. This event (the AV School relays) is a major fund raiser for Diamond Valley with the running of the food stall and set up and marshalling on the course.
A total of 18 helpers attended for the club with those noted being as follows (apologies for anyone I have missed):
Rob Wendel, Remy Wendel, Tess Wendel, Bernie Smith, Gary Hammett, Sandra Wright, Warwick Wilson, David Armstrong, Max Balchin, Lyn Davis, Rebecca Deighton, Lyal Douglas, Paul Townsend, Karen Quinn, Michael Cusack, Ann Cusack, Linda Langford, Christine Johnson and Robin Broberg.
The weather stayed fine despite the forecast of showers but was cool enough to keep hungers up and ensure that we sold out on just about everything by the end of the day.
The Club raised about $1,800 on the day.
Robin Broberg
Last weekend's Relay for Life event was a great success! The Cancer Council collected close to $20,000 which will be used in the fight against cancer. A great job was done by a number of Diamond Valley and Willinda Club members and their relatives. They ensured that all participants were nourished well enough to complete 18 hours of walking/jogging/running around our track and withstand the rain, wind and cold particularly during the night. Our facility has been recognised by those who have been involved in a large number of these events as outstanding.
The event provided us, as a club, with the opportunity to connect to our community in a whole different way. All people, be they participants, volunteers, politicians or sponsors are local, from our own community and have seen a side to our club they perhaps had not experienced before.
A big thank you to those who volunteered their time to set up, clean, prepare food, sell, cook, encourage, entertain, support and what not. It was and is greatly appreciated by those affected by this terrible disease.
The only thing to do different next year is to get a team or two to participate!
Best regards,
RobAnd a big thank-you from the Cancer Council:
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Hi All,
A Huge Congratulations and thank you to you all for a terrific inaugural Relay for Life event. We did it! What a great event. Despite the cold and rain everyone seemed to have a great time, which I am sure will help us to grow the event for the future. The feedback that I have had is that it was a great community event and was very well run and professionally organised, and everyone is keen to come back next year! From a Cancer Council perspective you have achieved a great fundraising result and established a solid foundation for growth and a sustainable event for the future. You have all been a pleasure to work with and I really enjoyed assisting you in planning an delivering the event. Well Done! I look forward to catching up with you all at the debrief (except Ray - I hope you have a fabulous trip) Regards Amy McKee |
Relay for Life this coming weekend! Willinda Park April 25/26
The coming ANZAC weekend is the Relay-for-Life at Willinda Park, the world's largest fundraising event for cancer, as part of our club's objective to participate actively in the community.
The way DVAC plans to participate is to take on the role of Catering for the event to be held on the weekend of Sat 25/Sun 26 April. Yes Anzac Day! This means you can commemorate the fallen in the morning and the about to fall (from exhaustion) in the afternoon and night ;-) The event will run from 4PM till 10AM. Yes, all thru the night you will need to go around and around.
Any monies we make from the catering will be equally divided between the cause and the club.
The responsibilities we will have as the Caterers are:- To obtain the maximum amount of food, drink and disposable products for little to no cost in exchange for minor sponsor status. Prices should be set according to market rates and capacities to pay, aiming to maximise sales to assist in fundraising.
- To ensure that vendors have food handling procedures
- To ensure that all physical needs are catered for like, water dispense utility, power outlets, shelter, BBQ etc. Obviously Willinda park provides most of these already.
- Arrange for breakfast ( a reasonable amount of food must be provided free of charge (fruit/cereal)), it must be cancer smart and include healthy options but bacon and eggs may be included.
- To arrange tea/coffee. I.e. a 24 hour hot water urn, milk, tea, coffee, sugar, stirrers should be made available to make a 'cuppa' free of charge. Alternatively we can engage one of those mobile bute coffee vans.
Please volunteer to assist in the catering task by helping on the night with the catering itself (like manning the canteen). We're particularly interested in people with food handling permits of those who man the canteen regularly at littles or otherwise.
Its for a great cause. Please contact Rob Wendel or any other committee member...
Working with Children Checks
Mark Monahan called the Working With Children Check (WWCC) info line and has reported the following info to help us out in determining who needs and doesn't need a WWCC. These checks are required by 30 June 2009.
- Parents are exempt if their children are competing within the sport on the day that the parent is helping out
- If someone is paid to help out the sport then they must get a WWCC.
- Club committee's and Coaches must have a WWCC.
- If they don't fit into the above then their involvement needs to be determined if it is Regular. Regular is defined as no more then once a year come into contact with children within a voluntary capacity within your club. So a parent of person (without children competing on the day ) and they are helping out once will not require a WWCC.
- Furthermore people in supervisory roles within the sporting competition need to have a WWCC such as the head of the Canteen, Judges for 100m, etc.
Therefore for DVAC circumstance those that need WWCC are Committee members, all coaches that are linked with Bernie, and regular helpers that do not have kids competing on comp day. For training nights, their children also need to be present to be exempt, otherwise they need to get a WWCC as they are classified as more then a once off volunteer working with children.
More information can be found at the Department of Justice web site.
If you have further questions or need clarification let Mark know and he should be able to answer them after the phone chat he had.
Thanks Mark!
Merger Vote - Motion Defeated
At the special General Meeting of DVAC held on 18 September, the motion to merge with Ivanhoe Harriers was defeated. The actual vote was 24-22 in favour of the merger, but fell short of the 75% majority required to be passed. The alternative set of rules were adopted, bringing the club rules up to date.
Martin Fruin's Adventure
Martin Fruin recently made a trek in Peru. Here is a brief report:
The ultimate challenge of my trip was the Lares Trek, camping enroute of course, which is what I've been specifically preparing/'training'(!) for. It's an alternative to the Inka Trail, longer but less gradients. It's also in a very remote area and a very quiet trek unlike the Inka Trail! Well,it was a resounding success(!) and both legs held up really well!
Although it ran over 4 days ending at Machu Picchu for the last day where I somehow still managed a short but very steep climb for the best views of Machu Picchu, the 40km-ish was done in 3 days.
My choice of companies was really lucky, our guide was lovely and porters/cooks were phenomenal! Having got up at 5am this morning to get up to Machu for sunrise for our dark struggle up the hill to get there, thinking I was just physically worn out, it suddenly dawned on me what I/We had acheived and I totally 'lost it(!)' bawling my eyes out like a baby feeling totally overwhelmed with the accomplishment over the last few days(!).
I really don't know if I'd have finished without using trekking poles (for the first time) and can honestly say that this has been a life-changing experience (getting heavy here!!) for me; it's probably the furthest I've walked in my life and certainly the highest of course at up to 4,500 metres. I'll be buying my own trekking-poles very soon,and then BRING ON THE MULTIPLE KM's bigtime!!
