The Beavertown News April 2021
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The Beavertown News April 2021 MARLBOROUGH ULYSSES RESCUE RIDE. TH SATURDAY 24 APRIL. Raising Funds for the NELSON/MARLBOROUGH RESCUE HELICOPTER. Meet at Picton Marina Carpark off Waikawa Rd, 11-30am. Depart 12-00 mid-day & ride through to Blenheim, ending at Brayshaw Park Carpark. Bar-B-Que Sausages, onions & sauce with bread $2-00 each. Badges $10-00. Open to all registered bikes, scooters & three wheelers. All Proceeds to The Nelson/Marlborough Helicopter. Organised by Marlborough Branch of Ulysses. 1 BRANCH COORDINATOR Tim Wills Ph 579 2363 [email protected] SECRETARY Melissa Wills Ph 579 2363 94 Howick Road, Blenheim 7201 [email protected] TREASURER Allan de Reeper Ph 579 1173 COMMITTEE MEMBERS Jock Woodley Ph 573 9139 John Sinclair Ph 578 7110 Carol Spaulding Ph 021 872 443 Kelvin Watson Ph 577 6822 Neil Dixon Ph 0224676409 Andrew Noble Ph 578 2443 CLUB NIGHT ORGANISER Kelvin Watson Ph 577 6822 WELFARE OFFICER Chris Donaldson Ph 027 853 3670 [email protected] RETREADS RIDERS (Thursday Rides) John Sinclair Ph 578 7110 Grant Johnson Ph 578 0901 BRANCH SHERIFF Jock Woodley Ph 573 9139 [email protected] BRANCH QUARTERMASTER (Ulysses gear orders) Evan Teale Ph 03 972 0481 COMMUNITY NOTICES COORDINATOR Evan Teale Ph 03 972 0481 WEBMASTER Bob Marks Ph 547 1177 [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Louise Pearce Ph 027 448 9290 [email protected] 2 Coordinator’s Word Hi everyone Welcome to April’s addition of the Marlborough Ulyssian it seems like just the other day I did the last coordinators word the months are flying by. Just another reminder that on the weekend of the 9th – 11th April it is National Rally and AGM at Lake Karapiro in Cambridge. For those of you that are going I hope you have a great time and bring back some story’s’ to tell and maybe write something to add to the newsletter. For those of us that are not able to go, no worries as Kelvin has an awesome club night planned for Saturday 10th April at the Yard Bar at 7pm. Come along it will save you hav- ing to cook and do dishes, unless you forget your wallet then you’ll be doing dishes all night. Please let Kelvin know if you are going. Put in the diary the weekend of the 24th April for the Marlborough Ulysses Rescue Ride. This year we are supporting the Nelson/Marlborough Rescue Helicopter. Please meet at the Picton Marina carpark next to St Johns Ambulance and coastguard building from 11:30 departing at 12pm heading for Brayshaw park where there will be a BBQ and no doubt plenty of laughter. Please support this by coming along and let all your mates know. This is a great cause that hopefully we don’t have to call on but good to know that they are there. Bring some gold coins for the BBQ and $10 for a Badge. We are starting to plan for the Mid-Winter dinner to be held in June. Date and time to follow. Keep your eyes and ears open as I hear our penny-pinching sheriff is on the prowl looking for some fines to dish out or maybe you want to dob someone in. if so, have a quiet word to Jock Woodley. It’s always a good night and a great turnout. If you have anything to add to the next Marlborough Ulyssian can you please send it to Louise by the 24th of the month. C’mon don’t be shy. Well, that’s about it from me for now so get out there and be disgraceful. It gives us something to talk and laugh about. Cheers Tim Wills #9600 3 Marlborough Ulysses Branch Committee Meeting Meeting: 17th March 2021, A & P Park Portacom, Maxwell Road, Blenheim. Meeting start: 7pm Attendees: Tim Wills, Melissa Wills, Allan deReeper, Carol Spaulding, John Sinclair, Louise Pearce, Andrew Noble, Neil Dixon, Jock Woodley, Kelvin Watson Minutes of previous meeting: True & Accurate John/Jock Matters arising: None Inwards correspondence: Bereavement notice Margaret James-Kelvin, Feb Natcom minutes, Marl AGM minutes-Suzie Pen- telow, Newsletters-Canterbury/Manawatu/Nelson/Nth Harbour/Tauranga. Tauranga branch not renewing post office box emails to [email protected] and correspondence to [email protected] - Tony Doms, Deposit $85 John Warren? -Debbie Morgan, Ulysses Nat Rally reminder-Tim Stewart, Invoice Dallies Dunnies $161-Kelvin, Mistake/Revised Membership form-Tim Stewart, MMSS (Marl Multiple Sclerosis society 10th April Runway Café-Gaby Watson, Apex Trophies Order-Hope, Nat Raffle update tickets-Wayne Painter Outwards correspondence: AGM meeting minutes 2021 to Suzie Pentelow Treasurers Report & Accounts for Payment: Allan discussed profit/loss for our bank account. Dallies Dunnies $161.00. Paul & Muff Newton $1,100.00 Kaituna Back to basics meal. Apex Trophies $493, Blenheim School $50. $1804.00 in total to pay. Allan moved that we pay accounts/Jock Allan moved treasurers report be accepted/Jock General Business: AGM Date 2022: February 16th 7pm, Tim to book Redwood town hall closer to the time. MMSS at the Runway café 10th April, Kelvin said we will be there just turn up. Club night April: 10th Yard Bar 7pm. Rescue Ride update: Badges ordered; Kelvin will contact the Sun newspaper to organize an article going in for this. Kelvin has forwarded poster to the Patriots, Vintage people and the Motorbike shop, Jock will put on Facebook. Mid-Year Dinner: John Sinclair will book the Clubs of Marlborough for the 26th June 5.30pm. Melissa will contact Debbie to find out who is due a 10, 15…. year badge. Everyone to bring a grocery item for raffle. Tim moved that we subsidise the meal by 50% each member/Allan Tim would like Louise to update the details of our Coordinator etc. on our monthly magazine. Tim said the cut off date to send articles to Louise for our magazine is the 24th of each month. Kelvin will continue to distrib- ute them. Jock suggested Bruce Ramsey to do sign boards to advertise the Ulysses club, we need to think about the wording, some- thing bold. Maybe Marlborough Ulysses Club, Andrew said Caring for our community. We will each think and bring our ide- as back next meeting. Jock needs fines for mid-year dinner. John said 11 riders are coming for Karamea, weather is going to be good. John said 3rd October Bearings/brakes/BBQ’s. We will be asked to help cater for this. The Ride Forever Courses were well attended, 12 riders. John said he heard good comments about our train club night. Carol will be away for our next meeting. Allan said we need to change signatory on our account. Allan moves that we bring on Tim Wills as a signatory for our bank account and remove Kelvin Watson as he has been replaced as Coordinator by Tim/Jock John said our Club trailer needs to be registered, it is registered under John Sinclair but it belongs to the Marlborough Ulys- ses Club. John has donated payment for the Registration. Louise is resigning from the Committee as she is moving to Hamner Springs, she will still do our monthly newsletter. We are very grateful to Louise for continuing on with doing our magazine Meeting Closed: 7.45pm Next Meeting will be at 7-00pm on 21st April. 4 Retreads to Whites Bay, 4th March As predicted by JG the weather was overcast but fine. We met as usual at Burleigh at 11.00am with our picnic lunches and beverages. I looked desper- ately for Murray Brooks to help me with all the names but he was not to be seen. I was pleased to have the support of Bob Moss, Andrew Nobel (who lead the motley crew), Terry Moloney, Pete Beckett, Kelvin Watson, who can now stand to his full height as the weight of responsibility is off his shoulders! He was very helpful with the names of people and also offered to be the "sweeper". Neil on the big Triumph was ready to tackle the Port Underwood metal along with Paulette and Malcolm on their Yamaha. Garry Tyson, Bruce Morton, Evan Teale, John Rodger, John Hadfield, Malcolm V4 Honour, Chris Devlin, Wally Allen, Allan Graham, Graham Howarth (another promising Port Underwood likely), Arend Wasink, Peter Nelson, and trickling in at the last minute who else but Bob McCrindle. It was a team effort to negotiate what course we would take out of Benheim. I omitted the stop just out of Blenheim, by mistake ,but was saved by the usually frustrating road works! The forced stop allowed us to get back together. I had been promised by Andrew Nobel that if he was not riding with JG he would be the very best lead rider and keep velocity to the recommended limits. He was as good as his word and did a fine job. The road surface was excellent with no gravel or wet patches so we all arrived at Whites Bay to see Murray Brooks and Lindsay Learmonth by their bikes. Great to see Lindsay riding again after a fair while . I opened the Surf Club rooms and we put the chairs out on the deck. It was warm, sunny but we were pleasantly shaded and ate our food in fine company. It was Arend's first time over to Whites Bay and it was a treat for his Birthday! He had brought sweets for all and they went down very well with tea (and whatever Hadfield has in his thermos). Murray wisely suggested we got a photo of all on the deck, which I hope we can show you.