By DES ADSETT
FOLLOWING our first meeting with our new committee, Coolum Tennis Club had a working bee on Saturday morning.
This proved a huge success with the removal of three large trailer loads of garden rubbish as well as filling a number of bins.
We have never achieved so much at a working bee before.
It was a tremendous effort by all involved and a great start to the year.
I would like to thank Doug Bosworth, Leon Nguyen, Henry Plint, Des and Annette Adsett, Noelene Cook, Arvid, Ian White, Joy Denton, Kerry Glover and the junior parent helpers, Trish Mc Waters and Rachael Willis for their help.
Adam has also put up the new noticeboard, where as well as being able to write up fixture and tournament matches, we will now have a list of jobs that need doing.
This will allow any willing tennis player with the time and expertise, to complete the task and hopefully lighten the load for the few dedicated workers who continue to give so much of their time.
At our committee meeting, we welcomed three new members, Leon Nguyen, Emma Wagstaff and John Gallagher.
They are invaluable for fresh input into growing our club.
By the time you read this, we should have new lights installed on the hard courts ready for the new format night fixtures.
Let me remind you that there will be play on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.
The format will suit social players as well on both Monday and Thursday night.
If you are interested in joining in the night time tennis, please ring Adam on 0400 214 419 for more details.
There is a notice at the clubhouse giving details of formats and prices. For convenience, this can also be emailed out to you on request at coolumtennisclub2@bigpond.com
Our other upcoming projects are a new computer system, a sandpit and a meeting room. All projects have been given the go ahead and should be happening very soon.
In other news, it was great to see the juniors back in action.
As the Noosa District does not start fixtures until next term, Andrew with the help of Adam and Kurt is running in-house fixtures for juniors on Friday night and Saturday morning.
If you are interested please ring Andrew on 0421 391 505.
We are looking forward to a great year of tennis and we would especially like to welcome all our new members.
