Club Torque Spring 2021

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people became run leaders for the first time and new members joined the group. I had a lot of fun as the Illawarra Run Coordinator over the last 12 months and would like to thank the members for their support. You made the job easy. I especially appreciated the wisdom, advice, consultation, support and humour given to me by Hella, Brendan, Bryan and Jan. Now that lockdown is easing, I am looking forward to catching up with everyone at the Dinner Meeting (4 November), Mazda’s, Journey to Nerriga Pub (20 November), and the Christmas party at Figgy Bowlo (12 December). Brendan never lets us down so information and booking buttons are now

up on the events page on the website for your perusal. I’ve now retired as Illawarra run coordinator and at the moment, we don’t have a replacement. James is carrying the can, in addition to being our chapter Convenor, but it’s unfair to expect him to do both for the long term. We need a new run coordinator for the year ahead. Much of the work has been done for you already because there is a catalogue of runs and weekend trips that were planned but got COVID-ed. Please let James know if you’re interested in stepping up. We need you!

These weekends have already been well organised so new leaders would be welcome to take over if the original members are ‘over it’. So, that completes the year from October 2020- 2021. Fiona Shedden, our new Regalia Officer showed her feisty side, Bryan and Wesley kept us informed of the club committee activities, and Brendan tried to be witty with event information (he made it halfway). As a chapter, we didn’t do too badly considering some of the road-blocks we had to contend with. In seven months, we had 14 actual ‘Runs’ to somewhere in and outside of the Illawarra area. Some

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