Club Meeting NoticesThe Greater Toronto Dragon Boat Club will be holding an initial planning session in preparation for the upcoming dragon boat season.(11/20/99)
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Times Bar & Grill 100 Front St E (ph 416-955-9799)
Prior to holding a larger general club meeting, this smaller group will focus the past year in review and draft an approach for next year in several areas which will include coaching, training packages, club crew concept, social committee, site development, web site/communications, marketing. We hope that you can attend.
Our first formal club meeting for the year 2000 will be held on Wed. December 8, 1999 (date is preliminary). Location of meeting will be at the Times Bar & Grill. Details of this meeting and agenda will be based on the outcome of our initial planning session (noted above). All GTDBC organizing committee members are invited. General members/paddlers that are interested in our club activities are also welcome.(11/20/99)
GTDBC will be Racing in World Championship in Nottingham, England (06/0599)
Wanted: experienced masters paddlers for World Championships Team.
We are putting together a Toronto-based masters mixed team to compete in the Dragon Boat World Championships in Nottingham, England August 26-29, 1999. This is the first time that a separate masters category has been established for this top level international competition. The national men’s open team will also compete in Nottingham.
All paddlers on the team must have turned 40 by January 1, 1999. While we are sounding out corporate sponsorships, there is no guarantee of financial backing. The likely cost per paddler if no sponsorship comes through, is $1,600 to $2,000. Paddlers must be available for team selection and practices in Toronto during July and August, and to travel with the team August 23-30.
If you are interested in trying out for the team, please contact Denny Creighton by fax at (416) 368-3322, or, preferably, by e-mail at dewkLHOOQ@aol.com, A.S.A.P. Please identify yourself, provide a contact e-mail or other coordinates, and indicate relevant paddling experience (dragon boat and other), current dragon boat team, and the side on which you paddle.
Let’s make a splash this summer in Nottingham
11th Annual Toronto International Dragon Boat Race
Festival
June 26 & 27, 1999 -- Toronto Centre Island.
The Parade for the Dragon Boat Race Festival is on Sunday, June 20, 1999. The Rally Party is on June 24, 1999. Team captains or managers please read or download the following forms in order to register for the parties:
(All past year forms have been removed.)
MEMO
To: Dragon Boat Captain and Teams
From: Festival CommitteeRE: PARADE OF DRAGONS
The Parade of Dragons will be marching its way through the streets of downtown Toronto on Sunday, June 20, 1999 to officially launch the 1999 Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival.
Your company / team can participate in this colorful and unique spectacle with a float or a parade of your own team. We encourage you to develop your own concepts.
The Parade will start at Queen’s Park at 12:00 p.m. and will finish at Nathan Phillips Square at 2:00 p.m. Please see map.
If your company or team would like to participate please fill in above registration form and fax it back to the festival office at (416) 595-7334 no later than June 11, 1999
The parade is a great way to get into the spirit and to meet other participants, teams and sponsors.
For further information please contact us at (416) 595-0313.
GTDBC will be Racing in Hong Kong (05/0199)
The Greater Toronto Dragon Boat Club will be sending a Dream Team to race in the Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Festival on the first weekend of July. In order to be qualified for the try-out of this team, a GTDBC membership is required. Each GTDBC-registered team is encouraged to appoint up to 4 of their best paddlers to the try-out.
Flight to Hong Kong will be provided by TCBA. Team members will be responsible for their own hotel and meal expenses. More information will be made available shortly. For more information now, please call GTDBC office at 416-598-8945 or email us.
The Mixed Team Representing the Club at the Hong Kong Festival:
At our last club meeting, the rules for selecting the above team were discussed and confirmed:
1, Anyone trying out for the team must be a club member (team or individual)
2, Each team can forward a maximum of 4 names of team members (preferably 2 lefts and 2 rights -- the male/female mix can be any ratio). Please send these names as soon as possible but before May 12, 1999.
3, All prospective members must do a fitness test (a rowing erg, a resistance push or pull, and possibly a run). We are aiming for the middle of may for this test.
4, The paddles with the top fitness test results will be evaluated by the coaches for one water practice and the team will be picked after that.
5, Each person picked for the final team or their sponsor must pay a sum of $600 to help finance the trip. We expect to leave Monday, June 28, 1999 and return around July 05, 1999.
GTDBC Coaching Clinic
Date: April 10, 1999 (Experienced
Teams) & April 17, 1999 (Novice Teams)
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 2nd floor Conference Centre
of Times Bar & Grill Restaurant
100 Front St. E., Toronto, Ont. (Front & Jarvis)
For more information, please call
GTDBC office at 416-598-8945 or email us.
The GTDBC Organizing Committee April executive meeting:
Meeting Location: Sunnyside Cafe,
Lakeshore Blvd. West
(at the Sunnyside Pavilion, adjacent to the club practice site)
Date & Time: Monday, April 26,
1999 at 9:00pm., after the water practices.
GTDBC Steersperson (Coxing) Clinic
Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999
Time: 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Sunnyside Cafe &
Sunnyside Pavilion, Lake Shore Blvd. West
The Greater Toronto Dragon Boat Club Steersperson Clinic will take place at the Sunnyside Pavilion at the above time and date. It is intended for people who wish to learn how to steer a dragon boat. There will be theory instruction for about an hour, and then there will be actual water time for the novices under the supervision of experienced steerspersons.
If your crew wishes to get some extra water practice time (free) as guinea pigs for the novice steerspersons, please contact Fred or show up at 12 noon. See you there!
For more information, please call GTDBC office at 416-598-8945 or email us.
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