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At yesterday's social evening we were delighted to make a number of awards to different people for their paddling over the last year. For the record, these were as follows:

Most Improved Slalom Paddler - Matt Whittle

Hasler Marathon Shield - Dave Barnes and Kate Jinks

Karan Porter award for most improved whitewater paddler - Dave Reevy

Swimmer of the Year - the Wavehopper K5 team of Ellie Barnes, Tim Bevan, Will Bevan, Marcus Whittle & Hayden Gauge

Comedy Moment of the Year - Dave Barnes & Kate Jinks

Open Boater(s) of the Year - Christine Barstow and Dorothy Haughton

Young Boater of the Year - Florence Whittle

The club also recognised the achievements of all its paddlers across many disciplines - Slalom, Marathon, Sprint, White Water, Open boating, Bellboating and Recreational.

Finally, thanks were expressed to everyone who has been involved in the club during the course of the year - through coaching, fixing things, driving people around to races and training events, organising trips, raising money, working on the rebuild of the shed or just through coming out and enjoying their paddling!!

Hello everyone and happy New Year. As you may have seen from my emails we’re going to be having a club social and awards evening on SATURDAY JANUARY 30th at 6pm in West Felton Village Hall.

The last one worked just fine so we’re not changing much and so we’ll split the evening into three chunks.

We’ll start from 6 with just an open social event. Like last time please bring along your own food and drink and enjoy sitting having a natter with friends and team mates. If you have Photos from any of the year’s events can you let Andy or deb know and we’ll try and put some kind of display together.

At somepoint in the evening we’ll move onto the awards ceremony where we
* Review all the good things we’ve got up to over the last year or so
* Bring you up to date with what’s going to be happening over the rest of this year
* Hand out a few awards for various things to deserving people

Finally we hope to be able to give you all the opportunity to get up and dance the rest of the evening away and work off your dinner - well it was either that or bring the Ergo along ! Watch this space for details.

Hopefully we’ll see lots of you  there on the 30th. Any questions or queries (or things you think I’ve missed out) then please give Deb or Andy a shout.