May 2023 Update: Taieri Recreational Tramping Club
Hi everyone
hopefully our weather settles down again, Wednesday’s are starting to get a bad weather reputation for walking – it’s broken the rhythm and I’ve been guilty of getting some times wrong, especially now we’re into winter hours.
Welcome
A ‘formal’ welcome to Avis Williamson, Bill Cubitt, Kay Seddon and Margaret Maxwell as confirmed new members. We are enjoying walking with you.
Mid-winter / 35th Anniversary Celebrations
All club members and partners are most welcome to attend our 35th birthday lunch on Wednesday 5 July 2023, at the Taieri Bowling Club commencing 11.30am. The cost is $15 per person. Numbers and payment please to Eleanore, Jill Dodd or Jenni by Friday 23 June.
You are welcome to pay online or cash directly to one of the above. Online if you don’t have the club’s bank account details recorded: 11-8367-0204225-11. Please use your name and 35th lunch as reference.
If you have any dietary requirements, let us know.
Andrew Simms, Chair of the Taieri Community Board will be our guest speaker.
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
This will be held on 24 August at the Taieri Presbyterian Church Hall at 1.30pm. Jonah Kitto-Verhoef, Project Manager, Predator Free, Halo Project will be our guest speaker. This will be timely as a follow-up to the coming week’s planting out day, and will provide a bigger picture perspective to what has happened to date and what the future will bring. We will provide the AGM agenda in due course.
Kelvin Heights: Arrive Sunday 25 February 2024 – depart Friday 1 March 2024
Anne Ward has some planning underway so pencil in the above dates. Accommodation is at Lakeland Park Christian Camp, $30.00 pp per night. Anne has booked the Shotover Block (lounge/dining, commercial kitchen, outside patio and bbq area; the block has 7 dorm rooms with bunks for 4 people in each and unisex bathrooms. Also booked 6 cabins that are suitable for 1 couple each, but will have to use the shared facilities in the main block.
We are planning 4 days of walking for both hikers and trampers, no biking this time. We will have more detail later but feel free to contact Anne at [email protected] if you need any more information at this point in time. Thanks Anne for all your work to date.
Website Password
As previously advised this change will be made very shortly and will be advised separately to everyone by the Web team
Fuel reimbursement
Just a gentle reminder that the club will reimburse trip leaders who undertake a recce for a trip costed at $10.00 and over, on the basis of the programme set trip fee, times 3 passengers. For audit purposes, an email to the TRTC Secretary ([email protected]) setting out the date on which the recce took place and your bank account is all that is required.
Thanks everyone, I look forward to catching up ‘in the hills’ and remember ‘some people walk in the rain, others just get wet!”
Phil Keene 28 May 2023
Link to President’s Update information Library for previous updates