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The
Lloyd Elsmore Park Junior Badminton Club has seen tremendous growth
over the 2007 season. The year has been a great success in
many ways – from an increase in our interclub teams, to the
continual growth of talent participating in our Open Tournaments.
Sadly, as the season comes to a close we will be saying farewell to
a handful of truly valued committee members and volunteers.
Firstly,
we would like to say a big thanks to Charles Simms, who has been
involved with the junior club since the hall was first built in
1981. He has been a session coach for a many number of years
and has been a huge driving factor behind a number of changes to our
Primary and Intermediate sessions. His involvement in
badminton extends beyond our club, where he is a regular Auckland
team coach. He will be leaving us to spend more time with his
family. His regular contributions and fresh views will surely
be missed.
Next
we would like to farewell Gloria Chan. Gloria has been with us
as secretary for the past 2 years, in which time she has been
responsible for contacting our members, either by phone or through
mail. She has also been responsible for organising all of our
meetings and I’m sure things would not have run nearly as smoothly
without her.
And
finally, a big thanks to Michael Chi who has been both coach and
club chairman for the past 3 years. Also another driving
factor behind many of the changes seen in the club, Michael has been
involved many projects within the club, including the reinvention of
our club logo, introduction of new matching Tshirts, promotions and
organisation of two very successful open tournaments as well as the
successful orchestration of our prize giving evenings in recent
years. He will be leaving us to focus more on his current
studies, and will also be missed.
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