2010/11 Street Series - Call for Planners - URGENT
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
CALL FOR PLANNERS - NOW URGENT
The time has come to start planning for this years summer street series. This very popular series is once again set down to begin in October.
Malcolm Roberts has specified map/dates combinations in an effort to utilise areas in an efficient manner. Please contact Malcolm if you can assist by setting one of these events. Of course there is flexibility in all of this if need be.
The latest version of the planning calendar can be found here.
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Latest Newsletter Available
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
New editor Daniel Orr has completed the next installment of our newsletter.
Get it here or via the newsletter page.
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Todkill and Enderby take out 2010 Hunter Valley Champs
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Event: Hunter Valley Championships
Date: Sunday 1st August 2010
Location: Wallaroo State Forest
Map: Wallaroo Hill
Planner: Denis Lyons
Organiser: Margaret Peel
Setup: Mick Kavur, Denis Lyons
Rego: Cheryle Todkill
Finish: Denis Lyons, Peter Newton, Margaret Peel
Collection: Rudi Landsiedel, Robert Preston, Denis Lyons, Russell Blatchford, others?
Entries: 102
Steven Todkill and Jenny Enderby have taken out the Hunter Valley Championship, Men's and Women's titles contested at Wallaroo on Sunday 1st August.
The rain had cleared overnight to produce a brilliant orienteering day which many took advantage of. The area was adjacent to the previous weeks State League, with the longer courses having a little overlap.
Results
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SL9 & SL10 results
Monday, 26 July 2010
HANDICAP RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE
Newcastle Orienteers hope you enjoyed the weekends events. It was very much a team effort with almost everybody helping to some degree, but special mention goes to our two setters, Graham Fowler and Daniel Orr as they spent plenty of time out in the forest readying this event.
Results, splits, routegadget and a few photos are now available via the links below.
SL9 - Abernethy
Results
Splits
Handicap Result
RouteGadget
Photos
SL10 - Wallaroo
Results
Splits
Handicap Result
RouteGadget
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NOY6 Results
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Event: NOY6
Date: Sunday 4th July 2010
Location: Kitchener
Map: Poppethead Decapitated
Planner: Malcolm Roberts
Organiser: Peter Newton
Setup: Mick Kavur, Peter Newton, Malcolm Roberts
Rego: Cheryle Todkill
Finish: Denis Lyons, Nicole Haigh. Tim Hackney
Collection: Rudi Landsiedel, Alex Massey, Denis Lyons, Joy Guy, Shane Jenkins, Malcolm Roberts & Russell Blatchford
Entries: 95
Another fine club event in a great area. Some long legs caused a bit of navigation mayhem for a few of the Red course runners that lacked concentration over the entire leg. Thanks to Malcolm for setting the courses and tor Peter Newton for assisting him by looking after the gear side of things. This arrangement works well as the course setter can just worry about course related matters. We are looking for more people (not the same old ones) that may wish to assist course setters at upcoming events by being gear orgsanisers. You do not need to be technically proficient at orienteering at all to assist with this so stick your hand up and assist the club in the running of its activities.
Results
RouteGadget
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Photos
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Assistance Request
Friday, 2 July 2010
Newcastle Orienteering Club is hosting State League 9 & 10 on Saturday 24/7 at Abernethy and Sunday 25/7 at Wallaroo.
A variety of helpers will be required at the events for a range of tasks including erecting and dismantling tents, transporting gear to and from events, starting and finishing activities, parking, control collection, etc.
The more helpers that are available spreads the work load and will allow everyone who wants to, to run in the events.
Please talk to the event organisers Peter Newton (SL9-Saturday) or Peter and Maria Orr (SL10-Sunday) for more details.
Maria can be contacted via pmorr AT idl.net.au
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Hunter Regional Schools Results
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
From Colin Bailey (Organiser) Thanks to Malcolm Roberts, Carolyn Rigby, Keith Dove, Diana Charlton,
Denis Lyons, Graham Fowler, Maria & Tamara Orr and Course Setter Geoff Todkill for helping run this event. RESULTS
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Sydney Series1 & NOY5 Results
Monday, 28 June 2010
Event: Sydney Series 1 and NOY5
Location: Pelaw Main (Standford Scrubs)
Weather: Fine, mild
Organiser: Margaret Peel
Planner: Denis Lyons
Controller: Geoff Peel
Newcastle Club members hope you enjoyed this event. A report, results, splits, RouteGadget, photos and even the opportunity for (constructive) feedback is now available via the links below.
Report
Results
Splits by Course
RouteGadget
Comments
Photos
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36 Years of Dedication to “Orienteering in Newcastle”
Friday, 11 June 2010
Edition 211 of “Orienteering in Newcastle”, the Newcastle Orienteering club’s newsletter, is at this stage rather unique. It is the first newsletter in the clubs history that has been produced by someone other than Allan Wright. That’s (W)right, Allan has been responsible for creating this valuable publication for an incredible 36 years, in fact the newsletter actually predates the club by several months.
During that time, Allan has not only been responsible for the newsletter content, but also all that goes along with that, including the collection of material from numerous sources, the data input and newsletter layout, the printing and collating, the folding and placing in addressed envelopes and the licking of thousands of yucky tasting stamps. No doubt his wife Dot has also been involved in this process and we thank them both wholeheartedly for their dedication to this task over such a great number of years.
As a foundation and life member of the Newcastle Club, Alan is a font of knowledge regarding all things orienteering, especially the history of our sport in the Hunter region. Allan announced his retirement from the post in edition 210 and the article has been reproduced below.
At this stage Daniel Orr has agreed to take on the position of caretaker editor. If anyone else has a flair for this vocation and is interested in a term as newsletter editor (for probably less than 36 years) they should make it known to someone on the club committee.
Note: Edition 211 is now available via the “newsletters” page on the Newcastle Club website.
From OIN210……
Timeline
The first OIN Newsletter was in May 1974, months before NOC was formed. OIN2 floated the idea of forming a club, and announced NOC’s first contest (Clarencetown, August 74). At that event memberships were taken for the yet to be formed club ($1 for local juniors up to $5 for families including affiliation with OANSW – is that why they talk of the ‘good old days’?).
The club was formed in September 1974 and keeps growing – evidenced by membership, events (number and type), participation in organisation of events, event entries, and success in state and even international events.
In the early years the newsletter was mostly prepared on old Gestetner stencils with occasional spirit stencil pages. In the mid 80’s this moved to mostly typed pages being offset printed. Computer use started with OIN89 in 1986 with most pages coming form an Apple 2 via a dot matrix printer. Print quality improved as from OIN176 with Msdos computers and bubble jet and then laser printing. All that remains of the old format is the scanned use of the ‘Orienteering in Newcastle’ masthead on the first page.
The future?
After 36 years and 210 editions, Allan Wright is retiring from the editor’s chair. With the AGM imminent it is time for someone else to take over and decide future directions….hopefully involving some rationalisation between what appears on-line and what is needs to be printed – but with the club still initiating communication with its members (and the many non-members we welcome to our events and essentially look on as potential members).
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Dark Hill minor results
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Event: Minor
Location: Dark Hill (Seaham)
Weather: Fine, mild
Organiser: David Kitchenerthur
Rego: Ann Kitchener
Finish: David Kitchener, Denis Lyons
Collection: David Kitchener, Joy Guy, Denis Lyons
David and Ann Kitchener opened up their property to club members for an exciting dash around their "yard". While normal Blue and Green courses were available the Orange and Red competitors got to try out a bush score event. Both were 45 minutes, with different maximum points available. There was also a Map Memory course available for those brave enough to try it. David is keen for everybody to plot their routegadget courses so he can see how people tackled the score course challenge. Results
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