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CA NBERRA BUSH WALKING CLUB INC NEWSLETTER it GPO Box 160, Canberra ACT 2601 VOLUME 32 JUNE 1996 NUMBER 6 • JUNE GENERAL'MEETING. Dickson Library Community Room Wednesday 19 Julie, 8.00 pm Speaker: Nic Bendeli: Memories and Moments Nic will show great action slides and recount ski stories as he spans 30 seasons of skiing in Australia and overseas. After the slide show there will be a demonstration on How to make your skis turn more easily without having to endure bruises during the process!!! Come along and see some exciting ski destinations and pick up a few tips on how to maintain skis for optimum performance. Make the most of the evening and join other members at 6. OOpm for a convivial (BYO) meal at the Vietnamese Restaurant at O'connor Shops (the one on the corner). Tiy to be early to ensure there will be ample time to. finish and still get to the meeting in comfortable time. (Conservation Notes) is a letter from ORCA to the PRESIDENT'S PRATTLE I Confederation of Bushwalking Clubs NSW. Would you like the club's emblem, the Corroboree In an endeavour to provide a greater service to the club Frog, to be used as the ACT emblem? The Committee members Wild Card Walks are now in operation. has received a letter from the ACT House of Assembly Terence Uren has also proposed putting on Stand-by asking for ideas for a fauna! emblem. The frog has Ski trips. None of these take the place of the regular been suggested by four sources, including conservation program, just supplement it. Thank you to Rob and associations. At the last general meeting there was the Terence. On June 5th A Nature Trail on Cooleman suggestion that if our frog wereto be used it should at Ridge was opened. Gosta Lynga, a founding member least be depicted in a different stance than the one on of CBC was one of the prime helpers of this project. IT and our stationery. Please let us know if you are in favour or not of our frog being used as the Emblem at Just a reminder for all members, particularly the newer the next general meeting. Thank you. ones - our magazine name is IT as in"It is a lovely day", not IT as in Information Technology. CBC is still involved with NORLI) (now known as ORCA) as I think it is important that the Club has Happy Walking everyone ... until the snow arrives! some idea of what registration or certification is proposed for leaders in outdoor pursuits. In this IT Janet Edstein P Canberra Bushwalk/ng Club IT June 1996 page 1 SPECIAL SOCIAL EVENTS I I BUDGET MOTIONS FOR JULY Check the program for the Winter Solstice Weekend Two motions for expenditure will be proposed at the 22-23 June. Brandy Hut is the focus for walks and July General Meeting. Time will be set aside for BYO gourmet food to celebrate the return of the sun! debate separate from social activities. Kathryn Brooks, Social Secretary ft Motion: That the Club purchase 200 cloth badges at $2.95 each, from the General Account, to be IT COLLATION distributed on This is the social event of the month and you too renewal of membership by request. could be seen here! Moved: Sybille Davidon Seconded: Frank McKone Note: The Membership Renewal Form would include a Based on the old adage that many hands make light box to request a badge and members would be required work (or is it too many cooks stuff it up?), everybody to include a stamped envelope. who is anybody in the Canberra Bushies ... and even ad4ressed you can make this scene ... turns to with the sticky tape Motion: That $200 be made available from the and the labels so that each and every IT newsletter can General Account for book purchases to extend the get into the mail all trussed up in a format approved Library. by Australian Post. This then results in your copy, and everyone elses, arriving safely and in time in Moved: Rob Horsfield respective letterboxes. Seconded: Chris Roper Of course we all converge on coffee and goodies when the job's all wrapped up. What better place is there - to IWALKS SECRETARY'S WAFFLE I be where the action is and on the scene!? All members have right of entry & no cover charge! Special note for leaders: its good that lots of people are leading but some of you may not be aware We're even happy to have nominations to hold an IT of the need for accurate Search and Rescue records Collation at your house in one or other of the coming which we need for day and weekend walks, ski trips, months - usually the second Tuesday. Give me a call canoe trips, climbing trips. and we'll set it down. The Club Booking Form is reproduced near the Activity Program in this issue of Davidson 282 4325. ft IT so you can photocopy it and use it when people book in. Please remember to leave a copy in your mail box at home, so that if anything goes wrong on your walk the Search and Rescue team can find out easily who was on the ICOMING SPEAKERS I walk, and their contact addresses and phone numbers. Please remember also to ring the Check-In Officer JUNE (Wednesday 19th) (currently Alan or Sue Vidler 254 5373) when you get back safely, otherwise they have to chase you to Nic Bendeli: Memories and Moments make sure that S&R is not necessary. Frog Emblem decision (see below) Paul Rustomji JULY (Wednesday 17th) P Budget Motions for General Meeting decisions (see below) plus speaker. I MEMBERSIIIP MATTERS I Kathryn Brooks, Social Secretary ft Prospective new members: Anthony Whitford; Lisa Spillers; Wayne Hunt. I MOTION FOR JUNE MEETINGj New members: Graham and Glendcn Andrews Roger Edwards ft Motion: That the Club agree to the use of a corroboree frog, not being the same representation as used by the Club, by the ACT Government as the fauna emblem of the ACT. FROM THE EDITOR Moved: Janet Edstein Internet: There are no phone numbers or addresses or Seconded: Sybille Davidson leaders names on the web page. If people want to Canberra Bushwalking Club IT June 1996 page 2 contact the club, they must first e-mail me and I'll put process. NORLO was established as a representational body from within the industry to coordinate this them in touch with the person they need. 1ff feel, from development. The NORLD Board was formed and the nature someone's message, that there could be of tasked to establish a nationwide network, and through any problems, I will discuss the message with the consultation, determine what the industry believed President and Leader before replying. should become standards. Ignoring the push to develop standards was not an option. If the NORLD Don't forget that the closing date for copy for IT is project had not been promoted, standards would still have always the Committee Meeting each month (1 e 4th been developed, but not in a coordinated fashion and Wednesday). probably without the input of practitioners in the field. This is one reason we have encouraged all groups to have in put I do the final processing in Word for Windows 2 or 6. into the project. We hoped to promote ownership of the Send copy by e-mail, by fax or on disk (IBM PC standards within the industry, and targetting existing organisations allowed easier dissemination of information fonnat). Save your file as Word for Windows or as and unified response. Text Only. You mention opposing views within the Confederation You can contact me by towards participation in standards development. I would phone: 2545902 encourage involvement by any organisation, in all fax: 254 5462 matters which may affect the wider arena in which it exists. The Confederation represents a large number of e-mail: frankmckoneJpeg. apc. org people with a vast wealth of knowledge and experience. If the process of developing standards is denied access to http://www.pcug.org.au/'-amikkels/cbcprog.html such groups, the outcome must surely suffer. Such action Frank McKone P also denies the opportunity, as you have mentioned, for groups to have input and thereby some element of influence in the direction the industry takes. ICONSERVAT1ON NOTES I At this stage, I am unsure as to the extent it is likely that leadership standards will become mandatory for volunteer groups. You have identified this issue as a ORCA Outdoor Recreation Council of Australia major concern of the Confederation; it is certainly a concern shared by many across the nation. I don't believe This is the core information in a letter (26 February it will be a rule, law or whatever, that volunteer in reply to 1996) from Robert Ridley CEO of ORCA organisations must abide by to exist; however, I can see concerns expressed by the Confederation of in time, land management agencies stipulating Bushwalking Clubs NSW about NORLD: leadership standards as a condition of entry for groups into controlled areas. 1 also believe this will be applied NORLO, (the National Outdoor Recreation Leadership across the industry, to commercial and volunteer Development project), has evolved into a new organisations alike. Land managers have been amongst organisation known as the Outdoor Recreation Council the leaders in pushing the industry towards the development of standards. ORCA is committed to of Australia. This was necessary for a number of reasons, continuing discussions with these agencies as to the not the least being that NORLO in its original form was a application of any control measures across industry process, rather than an entity.