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Amazons Perth Dragon Boat Club

50 Clarkson Road, Maylands.

We’re on the Web!

www.amazonsperth.com.au

Training: Tuesday & Thursday at 5:30 Saturday at 8:00

Dates for your Diary

Weekend 29th

& 30th

March 2014: (BOTH DAYS) State

Championships at Champion Lakes.

Weekend 4th

& 5th

April 2014: ‘girlie weekend’ at Jan’s

Preston Beach Holiday House. You can stay 1 or 2

nights, speak to Jan about the arrangements.

Sunday 6th

April 2014: MSRC busy bee. If you can

attend, your efforts will be appreciated.

Weekend 16th

– 18th

May 2014: Denmark Marathon

details re Amazon involvement to follow.

Saturday 28th

June 2014: End of Season Wind-up

June 28th

to August 2nd

: End of season break from

paddling.

October 2014: International Breast Cancer Paddling Commission (IBCPC) Participatory Dragon Boat Festival – Sarasota, USA. Last chance to join in this great adventure as registrations close at the end of March. Talk to Susan T if you’re interested.

Board Meetings 5th April, 10

th May, 7

th June

Breakfast in Bunbury…

Amazons enjoyed baked eggs with bacon for

breakfast after a great paddling session the previous

evening in Bunbury at the Aqua Spectacular.

Apparently there was an interesting post planking

session.

March 2014

Andrea has a contact for dragon boat

jewelry that you may wish to buy. They look Gold in these photos but it must just be the lighting, they are in fact Sterling Silver and look Silver in the flesh, not sure why they look as they do in the photos.

Dragon Boat, 39mm long, $94

Dragon & Paddle, 32mm tall by 25mm at its widest part, $88

Dragon, 32mm tall by 35mm at its widest part, $94

Jennie in Sydney

Last month Jennie travelled to Sydney to attend the 2013 NBCF Patron’s Award Presentation. She received the ‘Voice of NBCF’ Award in recognition of her nine years as a volunteer speaker at corporate functions.

Sarah Murdoch, NBCF patron presented the awards.

Amazon Monthly Memo

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Amazons Perth Dragon Boat Club

50 Clarkson Road, Maylands.

We’re on the Web!

www.amazonsperth.com.au

Training: Tuesday & Thursday at 5:30 Saturday at 8:00

Bacon & Egg Burger Fundraiser

Amazon Volunteers had an early start at the recent Gourmet Bacon and Egg Burger stall at the Cedric street markets on Sunday 9th and 16th March. Just over $1500 was raised over the two days and will be split between the club and the team travelling to Florida in October. Many thanks to the willing helpers who were there supporting our club. Special thanks to Susan for being a great co-ordinator and being there for both days. Great effort ladies!

From the Coaching Team This weekend we have the final regatta for the season, the State Titles. You know that a squad of Amazons accepted the challenge to train for a position by selection in a 10s team to compete in this event. We wish them well in this endeavour. This season has been a mixed bag for our club, we were thrilled to win ‘silver’ at the Geelong Masters Games in October and have built on this to improve PBs (personal best times) during the season. However, we’ve been dogged by illness, injury and all manner of commitments and these have had an impact on our training program. In the meantime we are set to go for the State Titles, so bring it on!

Fundraising and Social Committee

Preston Beach Weekend: More info about what to bring and where to go for the girlie weekend at Preston Beach will be sent out later this week. Keep in mind that it’s “voting day” on 5

th April. There will be a polling

place at Preston Beach but you can also do a postal vote (http://www.aec.gov.au/wa-senate/postal-vote.htm) or early voting is available in the city or at Perth airport the week prior to the election. End of Season Wind Up: The end of season get together will be held on Saturday 28

th June at 4.00pm.

Venue to be advised!

Mothers Day Classic: The Mothers Day Classic is a 4 or 8 km walk or run around Langley Park on 11

th May

(Mothers Day) to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. If you’d like to join your Amazon buddies and their family/friends, you can register via this link: http://www.mothersdayclassic.com.au/event/wa/perth . Once you enter your email address, the site will ask if you want to join a team. Simply type Amazons into the drop down search menu and our team name will appear. It costs $35.00 per adult to register and early bird registrations close on 9

th April. You can continue to

register after that date but the cost will increase.

Looking forward to autumn paddling