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Disaster Strikes at Hollowell

What’s Left of the Gazebo

 

Our have-a-go at Hollowell was abandoned at the last minute after disaster struck on Friday 6th July.  We had the volunteers, all the Club’s equipment had been checked, arrows were fletched and gazebo marked up for easy erection. The crew arrived and everything went together, but you can’t account for the British weather. There had there been torrential rain, and even so it should still have happened. But – after all the hard work wind struck (again), destroying the whole set-up. Thanks to all who helped – NAC soldiers on. (Further write-up later from Leigh).

 

 


The aftermath – and still there are smiling faces

“A Walk in the Park” at Wootton

Rockingham’s Steam Transport and Family Show was cancelled due to ground conditions after this year’s persistent inclement weather.  NAC had hoped to be there to put on our Have-a-Go. However the club had also been approached by our county’s Archery GB rep. to provide a similar input at Wootton’s “Walk in the Park” on the same day, Saturday 30th June. The cancellation at Rockingham,  several phone calls and some swift re-arranging by our now flexible club, meant that it would could oblige the request for Wootton. A miserable wet start to Saturday morning greeted our volunteers arriving at 8am to prepare our range. The rain thankfully  was short lived and apart from a further downpour towards the end of the day, the event went very well with crowds of potential archers having-a-go.  A remarkable number of our club members  came along to help –  and a splendid time was had by all. Thanks to all who supported us and also to Ronnie for the photo.

 

 

Club Records Update and Presentations.

Our club records have been updated today, with David Quemby and Susan Corless continuing to be our record setters in tournaments across the county. David has beaten his old York record by scoring 1106 at Wicken, whilst Susan has set new records for National, Short Metric and Windsor rounds, with scores of 364, 483 and 752 respectively.

Susan also has had the honour of being presented with our outgoing Chairman’s Trophy for her achievements last year. At the same presentation  Susan was also awarded her 2nd Class GNAS Classification Badge.