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2nd August, 2004
I think I recognised this person.
Kim Foster at Sop Swem & Sherrie
Hi Everyone,
We are nearing the new season, which is going to be very exciting for us, seeing that the Nationals are to be held in Germiston in March 2005. We are hopefully going to have a HUGE team participating, old and new members. We are going to do our absolute best to take the cup back from Cape Town Masters. Talking about the old members, we don’t mean in age, just the ones that used swim Masters and have stopped for different reasons. We miss them. Lets see if we can get them back in the water for this season!
Firstly, we would like to congratulate all our swimmers for their great performances at the Masters World Champs in Riccione, Italy. We are very proud of you all. Especially Edith Otterman, who came back with nothing less than a WORLD RECORD. Also to Joanne Cowell for her great times achieved at the Prestige Gala held in Durban in July.
We had a wonderful turn-out at our mid-year Bring and Braai at Rietvlei Dam. It was so nice to see all the ‘old’ friends and faces once again, as you can see from the following photos!
Marieke, Danie and Shaun
Bouwer.
Anton with the young girls again….Joanne Cowell and our new member, Megan
John and Cathy Rolt with Koos Meyer and Melanie Roodt
SUBS: So far we had a really good response from our members, paying before the end of July, and managed to send off 56 renewals for the new season down to SAMS. These will be put into lucky cash prize draw for early renewals. The members that still have to renew, please do so as soon as possible. The cut-off date will be 10th September, 2004. It all has to be down in Cape Town by 30th September, and Derek still has to compile it all and collect all the monies etc before then. Please, Please……….. New members may join anytime, but must be a paid up member to be able to swim in any Masters Galas. The Coelacanth 1500 is an exception. You may bring anyone even if they are not Master member, get them keen, to meet all of us and we are sure they will sign up as a Coelacanth!! They will be hooked!!
Please fax your confirmation of payment to Ann for subs that are due.
BANK DETAILS : ABSA BANK HATFIELD, ACC NO. 9050002318 Branch No. 632005 Coelacanth Masters Swimming Club. Amount R200.00
UPCOMING EVENTS:
21ST August, 2004 Sams Winter Challenge - Hillcrest - 10am to 12am
Lane 1 and 2. Afterwards, those who would like to braai,
bring along your meat and drinks. There is an order form on
the entry form for a T-Shirt if you would like one. All you have to
do, is swim as much as you feel like in an hour. The very unfit
can come along and do 500m. It all adds up points for the club.
R10 to enter. You may also do the Winter Challenge in your
own time at your closest pool. Get family or friend to count and
fax your form with deposit slip of R10 to 012 667 4247 before the
end of August to the above bank account. The braai will be at
Hillcrest Pool. I am sure SAMS has a surprise gift for all.
28th August, 2004 Tshwane Short Course Gala - Linden 8am for 9am Sat
Please, we would like you all to make an effort to be there, and
to help where possible.
11th September, 2004 Easterns Spring Handicap Gala – Delville – 2pm LC Sat
This gala is great fun. All you do is give in the time you think you
might do, and the one closest to his three times wins some cash
9th October, 2004 Coelacanth 1500 Swim. Hillcrest 8am to 2pm Saturday
There are new medals for all finishers! We also need your help
once again with timekeeping
16th October, 2004 SUN CITY DAM SWIM
31st October, 2004 SAMS Short Course Championships- St. Benedicts- 10am
Bedfordview – Sunday. Entries will be out shortly and may
be faxed to Helen Lawless (will be on entry form) or handed
in at Sun City Dam Swim. The events are as follows:
400 IM, (Interval of 5 minutes) 100 Back, 50 Fly, 400 Free
(Interval of 10 minutes) 100 Breast, 200m Fly (Interval)
50 Back, 50 Breast, 50 Free. A swimmer may enter max 5
REGISTRATION PAPERS AND LEVIES HAVE TO BE IN CAPE
TOWN BY 8TH OCTOBER, 2004 to be able to participate.
The schedule for the season is almost complete. I will forward to you all asap.
I will tell you all about the Sop, Swem and Sherrie last……keep you in suspense!!!!!
OPENING CLUB BRAAI NIGHT will be the 5th October, 2004 at DSG School for Girls
Bring along your booze, meat, rolls and friends to join, oh, and your costume.. 5.30pm on.
We will then arrange for our Coelacanth 1500 etc.
BIRTHDAYS: Happy birthday to you all…..many more healthy ones to come.
June: Norman Barkley 6th, Jackie Lamb 7th, Marieke Bouwer 8th, Brian DuGuid 12th,
Rita Burger, 14th, Jeffrey Mann 15th, Marijke Kostelijke 15th, Anton Harrop-Allin
18th, Harriette Lemke 25th, Ted Beukes 29th.
July: Braam Snyman 3RD , Juanita van Vuuren 5th, Edith Otterman 8th, Tony D’Ameida 9th,
Sue Bolt 13th, Dinel Barnes 15th , Olivia Belcher 15th, Charles Rogers 17th, Roger
Cable 28th, Sanette Du Preez 28th, Vilma Grobler 30th, Charlie Merritt 31st July.
August: Trevor Morgan 2nd, Frans Lotz 2nd, Tony Cawood 8th,Maryanne Harrop- Allin 15th
Sandy Dorlas 16th, Johan Keet 24th.
September: Greig Kothe 4th, Carl Loader 4th, Kobus du Plooy 5th, Liz Ledbitter 11th, Chris
Niewoudt 11th, Sabine Verryn 14th, Carola van Dam 15th, Nerina McAll 17th,
Roland Pearce 22nd, Wendy Muir 24th, Salomie Hurwitz 29th,
October: Hugh Cable 3rd, PAUL MULDER 9TH CELBRATING HIS 80TH……YAHOO!
Deon Slier 17th, Terrence Fletcher 24th, Barbara Pearce 31st
THOUGHTS:
Our best wishes to Gerrie Dorlas who had yet another back operation. He says it was the worst one ever! He doesn’t think he will be able to swim again but he will definitely be beside the pool at galas to cheer Sandy and us all on. Gerrie we hope you are not in too much pain. Get better soon. Also to Ted and V Beukes who are not 100 %. Hope you get well soon. Ralph, we hope to see you again soon, even if it is only to cruise along!! We know that your back is also giving you a pain … in more ways than one.
A big thank you to those members and friends that went to support Alec Hack at Maryllia’s funeral. She will be greatly missed by all.
I am so sad to hear that maybe Barbara and Roland will be leaving us to join Meryl and Daryl in Aussie. It is great news to know that they have been accepted for their sakes, but we will really miss them. Barbara has still to confirm……….
You want to know what happened at the Sop, Swem and Sherrie ?
Anton picked us up at 8.30 and we all piled in the Rooi Volksie Bus…. Having a great time, coffee, croissants, samies, boerie sticks, boiled eggs, champayne and orange juice and all…… Tony D’Almeida, Marieke, Terry Downes and Kim, Derek and myself and Maryanne and our driver Anton. We joked and chatted and phoned Charlie Merritt and sang Happy Birthday at the top of our voices..just then, booofff, a cloud of smoke came out the back of our Rooi Volksie…..
The oil button was beeping, we were in trouble…… Lucky for us it was about 2 ks away from the Engen at Kroonvaal, so we pulled in there only to find out at a later stage the rings were kaput….now what do we do, go back or forward or maak a plan…. Anton made a plan, and 3 hours later after coffee and rugby at the Wimpy, lying in the sun on the lawn with all our baggage, we finally went forward to Bloem in two hired cars. The Freestaters are the best…..they held the gala back so that we would be in time for 3.30pm, which we were….our teamates, Carola, Kobus, Soretha, Charlie, Annamarie and Edith all waiting to welcome us. We had a wonderful gala and of course Coelacanths won. The Freestaters were wonderful hosts, food, sop and plenty of sherry, prizes for all, and then they still gave us a party, which of course we took over, once again……. Proof of all our happenings!!
We then received a call from Ann Hanson that they also packed up and had to call the AA but luckily they were already in Bloem…..
‘n boer maak ‘n plan
Waiting for the hired cars to arrive…. Thanks to Anton se plan…….
By the way it was all Tony’s fault……. He is a bad omen……remember East London
When he and Owen broke down on the way to Champs ……
Keep well , see you all soon and keep swimming!!
Joyce.
p.s. We need all Id No.s Please fax or phone or Email to us urgent for Swim South Africas files. Thanks