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What an amazing start to our new contest season.

A huge warm welcome to all our new and returning Supergroms and their families we hope you had a wonderful day.  Today saw kids and families everywhere with over 70 kids competing.  Congratulations to all Supergroms on doing so well and ripping in some testing conditions.  All the results are attached.

The swell forecast during the week did not disappoint.  Huey managed to deliver swell which allowed us to run our first event.  Despite the challenging winds and sweep along crunchie point all our grommies did well and all tried their best.

The day provided us with 2-4ft surf at crunchie point on a rising swell, strong cross to offshore winds, sunshine and the occasional shower. This rising swell allowed us to split the event to the more protected and small spot of Treloar reef for the younger age groups.  Despite being a logistical nightmare it proved to be a very success move in terms of surf, which is fantastic.  Thanks to Harry for facilitating this move and Mick Fowler for his assistance judging.

Many thanks to all out wonderful parents whom assisted in running the event today.  However we always require further assistance particularly in the following areas:  judging, setting up, photography, spotting, cooking the bbq and water safety.  If you are unsure how to do any of these activities please ask and we can teach you in no time.  We are all volunteers and an event of this nature cannot be run successfully without everyone pitching in to some degree.

Particular thanks to the following people:

• Sue Strauss, Claire & Ellen Easton for taking memberships, tallying and providing yummy homemade pastries for the judges!!  Very nice Ellen!!
• Sarah Bounds for doing an amazing job as singlet Marshall and heat coordinator despite being hit in the head by a flying surfboard earlier in the day.
• Al Bounds for judging & water safety
• Andrew Strauss, Bernie Everitt, Chris Clarke, Pete Lucas, Matilda Shannon, Trav Cargill, Cam Newman, Jon Ford for making the effort to be water safety throughout the day when there kids were no longer surfing.
• Tim & Jodi Hollands for cooking the mighty BBQ!!
• Mick Fowler for judging for hours on end!
• Mark Harrison for being water safety for first 3 hours then running our split contest at Treloar reef with very few resources!
• Deb Clarke and Tash Lucas and for just being handy and ready to assist constantly through the day everywhere.
• Skip Easton for coming straight from a hard day at work and going straight into it!  Good onya Skip!
• Several of the new parents whom names escape me who were eager to learn to judge and help on many occasions.

Annual Snow Sale
It's on again and this one could be the biggest ever !

Trigger Bros E.O.S.B.B.Q 2012
The BBQ was back this season thanks to a mountain load of snow still on the ground.