NEWSTRACK
MARCH
2008
After the box office failure of The Golden Compass, plans to
film The Silver Dibber and The Bronze Control-Description Holder have been
abandoned
Newstrack is the magazine of
Editor: Neil Forrest, 40 Riber View, Close, Tansley, Matlock,
Derbyshire DE4 5HB
Tel: (01629) 583899
email:
neil.forrest899@btinternet.com
Editor’s Opener
Welcome to the March issue of Newstrack. By now the ‘o’ year
is well underway with a range of events to test all grades of competitor. It is
worth remembering that events happen because clubs organise them, negotiating
land access and preparing and updating maps. This requires a lot of volunteer
time that proves the old adage that the more you put in the more you get out.
DVO member Peter Bourne who died suddenly in late February was someone who
epitomised this philosophy, Peter got a lot out of orienteering but he put a
lot in as well.
Readers of British
Orienteering’s magazine ‘Focus’ may have registered the new vision for the
sport encapsulated in the slick marketing acronym MP3. This stands for more
people, places and podiums (or should that be podia? – your editor’s pedantry
is ever challenged by Latinate plurals). Always willing to engage in flights of
fancy I envisage the club pursuing the last MP with a special purchase of
lightweight, all terrain podia that individuals can buy or hire and climb onto
whenever they feel good about themselves. These could be known as I Pods!
This Newstrack is a bumper
edition thanks to all your articles. Keep them coming – next issue due out late
June. The April arrival of this March issue is due to the excellent local
printer man going on an Easter holiday.
Neil Forrest
DVO FUTURE
OPEN MEETINGS
Wednesday April 9. Run from Belper Sports Centre 6.30 pm.
Meeting
Wednesday July
9 National Stone Centre,
Run
6.30 pm. Meeting 7.30 pm.
Club
Officials you may need to contact:
Chair : Ranald Macdonald. Tel. 01629 734307; e.mail r.macdonald@shu.ac.uk
Secretary : Helen Finlayson. Tel 01629 583899; e.mail neilentansley@yahoo.co.uk
Fixtures Secretary : John
Armstrong. Tel 01335 348238 e.mail armstrongjm@talk21.com
Coaching Co-ordinator : Val
Johnson Tel. 01773 824754 e.mail
Gmjandfam@aol.com
Club Captain : Graham Johnson Tel. 01773 824754 Gmjandfam@aol.com
Thoughts from the Chair – March
It was with great sadness and
shock that we all heard of the sudden death of Peter Bourne at the end of
February. Peter had suffered from a heart condition for quite a while but it
was only the week before that many us saw the happy smiling face and engaged in
light-hearted banter with him at Beaudesert. He will be sorely missed by the
Club as he put a lot of time into Controlling and helping and was due to
Control at Crich Chase the week after he died. We have to thank Mike Godfree
for standing in. Our thoughts are with
Ros, Simon, Chris and the family and they have agreed to us dedicating a Club
Trophy to Peter’s memory. The
Missing from Crich were Liz
Godfree and Paul Addison who had been selected to run for
The evening before Crich Chase
saw the annual Club Dinner at Wirksworth Town Hall with catering yet again by
DVO Catering (Fairly) Limited – Val
Johnson, Viv and me. Over 80 people came and hopefully enjoyed
themselves – the kids certainly sounded as if they did! We were also pleased to
welcome Mike Hamilton, BOF Chief Executive and his wife, Jill, Pauline and
David Olivant, Steve and Margaret Buckley, and Jenny and Alan Shaw. Awards were
made to Paul Addison as DVO Orienteer of the Year, Harriett Lawson (Junior
Oienteer of the Year) the Gordon Family (Most Enthusiastic Newcomers) and Fiona
Sellar (Most Improved Orienteer). The assembled throng also awarded the Sports
Personality of the Year to Graham Johnson (again), though Ben Berrisford and
Zoe Gordon gave him a close run, and the Newstrack Editor, Neil Forrest,
awarded Journalist of the Year to Paul Wright.
In the lead up to the JK at
Easter and the British Orienteering Championships in Scotland in April there is
plenty of orienteering going on, including our own local and district events.
Unfortunately, we got knocked out of the CompassSport Cup but it was good to
see so many of you turning out to represent the Club.
There will be an Open Meeting on
Wednesday 9th April at which I will present some proposed changes to
the constitution and report on issues discussed at the recent committee
meeting, including a change to the Club Championship format to award trophies
for the fastest er the line in each category.
It can be somewhat invidious to
pick out one individual as so many of you contribute so much time and energy to
keeping the Club fit and healthy. However, I particularly like to highlight
some of the things Paul Wright has been doing, including getting our equipment
in order – hopefully everyone has noted with admiration our new event signs and
banners – making sure Club news appears in the local media, and instigating the
Woodland Regeneration Project at Littlemoor Woods, ably project managed by Tony
Berwick and assisted by a small, but enthusiastic, group of volunteers. This
will give us access to an attractive new wood which we have already seen at a
couple of events. Paul is also co-ordinating an event for the Club’s 40th
anniversary in 2009 – more to follow.
Also, thanks to Ann-Marie
Duckworth, Val Johnson and Steve Kimberley for re-vamping the summer evening
events which, together with some more Street Os, should provide some variety
over the next few months. There are many more I could thank but the message is
that a Club is only as good as the people who volunteer and compete, i.e. YOU.
Hopefully in my next Thoughts I
will be able to report on our successes at the major events of the year and
look forward to the foreign trips that many of us are planning for the summer.
Ranald Macdonald
Peter Bourne
Where does acquaintanceship end
and friendship begin? Since we heard the
sad news of Peter’s death I have been reviewing our friendship looking for the
magic moment and have concluded that it was at the French 5 Days in 2003. A casual remark about where we were staying
close to the beach and Ros’s wish for a swim led to Ros and Pete coming to our
apartment. From that little beginning
developed our firm friendship. I have
got to realise Pete’s deep commitment to orienteering as more than a sport but
a way of life. In all of the walks we
took together the subject inevitably got round to orienteering and he
demonstrated not only his interest in the immediacy of the latest course but
all of the rules, guideline and ‘politics’ of British Orienteering.
He was the controller for two of
the events that Jen and I planned and we found his attention to the details of the controller’s task to be just
what is required to make the event a success for all competitors. The advice and assistance he provided to us
as planners was first class and will benefit us long into the future. I am sure Peter always had this aim of
developing the sport through the people he was influencing.
Peter’s heart problems stopped him running competitively but
it did not keep him out of the forest.
His home in
We lost a good friend when Peter
died and orienteering lost a major contributor.
This loss is of course insignificant compared with that felt by the
family and our thoughts go out to Ros and the family.
Derek Gale
(There was a collection at the Crich
event in memory of Peter which raised £80 for
Captain’s
Slog
Only two months into the year but already, the CompassSport
Cup is, for DVO anyway, history, the JK relay teams have been entered and the
British Relays are an irrelevance for all but a very few. Nothing to this Club Captain’s lark – my
successor, a mere six months away, please take note.
Last year, I took DVO to task for its lacklustre
CompassSport performance at Greno Woods, but this year represented a massive
improvement – though we still got knocked out, we were only 180 points off the
winners compared with 370 in 2007.
Special mention must be made of Ben Beresford who scored a maximum 100
points, coming first on Orange, and of John Duckworth and Michelle Mackervoy
who rolled back the years to register 8th places on Brown Men and
Blue Women against the likes of the mighty Johnsons, Oli and Jenny (sadly no
relation).
We’ve managed 18 relay teams at the JK, which I think is a
record – prove me wrong, saddoes. The
classes entered and the members included are all on the website so I’m not
going to repeat them here. No doubt,
there’ll be someone I’ve forgotten or someone who selfishly gets themselves
injured so I won’t be finalising the teams until about five minutes before the
deadline as per usual - the downside of entering 54 members is that I have to
copy out 54 BOF and E-card numbers on the team declaration forms.
Graham Johnson, Club Captain
Club Membership Explained
An orienteer associated with the
club has recently queried the current status of categories of membership and
asked the committee to review it. The committee did this at a recent meeting
and this article attempts to explain and clarify the position.
The club’s constitution states
that it is affiliated to the national body – British Orienteering. The club has therefore adopted the membership
categories currently advocated by this body.
There are three categories of
membership – DVO national, DVO local and social.
DVO national. This is the full subscription giving membership to British
Orienteering, the East Midlands Orienteering Association and DVO. It entitles
you to any discounted rate of entry fee at events and the ability to compete in
the British Championships. You can take
part in open meetings of each body, stand for office and become an event
official. You will receive communication material from each of the bodies plus
other benefits detailed on the relevant websites.
Current subscription rates
are: senior - £20.50; junior
- £4.85; family - £28.00.
DVO local. This rate of subscription gives all the same benefits as
above except that your event entry discount will only apply in the
Current rates are : senior - £10.60; junior - £1.00; family - £17.00.
Social
This category caters for those
who wish to identify with the club but who may be members of other clubs or are
not currently fully active in orienteering. You will be able to enter events
that have an open entry up to Regional level together with the DVO closed club
championships but you will not be eligible for entry fee discounts. You can
attend DVO open meetings but not vote; assist with the organisation of events;
attend club training and social activities and receive a copy of
Newstrack. Current rate : £5.00.
Applications for membership can
be made directly through British Orienteering or through the club secretary.
N.B. to claim your event entry
discount you must show your current membership card when entering at an event,
so carry it around with your essential equipment and be polite to officials
asking to see it. On – line entries require you to quote your membership number
for a discount. It also helps entry processing if you write your membership
number on the entry form given out at entry on the day events.
Any
queries regarding this article should be directed to the club chairman.
DVO Diary
Dates
For full details see www.dvo.org.uk.
Events and venues can change at short notice. Please confirm before you set off.
|
Wed 2
Apr |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 4
Apr |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Wed 9
Apr |
Belper
(Sports Centre/ Queen's
Head) |
Training
Run & Open Meeting |
|
Fri 11
Apr |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Wed 16
Apr |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 18
Apr |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Sat 19
Apr |
|
Local
Event |
|
Wed 23
Apr |
Allestree
(Mackervoy's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 25
Apr |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Wed 30
Apr |
Belper
(Station Car Park at back of Somerfield) |
Night
Street-O |
|
Fri 2
May |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Wed 7
May |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Thu 8
May |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Development
Committee Meeting |
|
Fri 9
May |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Wed 14
May |
Allestree
(Mackervoy's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 16
May |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Sun 18
May |
Hardwick
Hall |
District
Event |
|
Wed 21
May |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 23
May |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Tue 27
May |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Fixtures
Sub-Committee Meeting |
|
Wed 28
May |
Allestree
(Mackervoy's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 30
May |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Wed 4
Jun |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 6
Jun |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Sat 07
Jun |
Ilam
Hall |
Summer
Series Local Event |
|
Wed 11
Jun |
Allestree
(Mackervoy's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Thu 12
Jun |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Committee
Meeting |
|
Fri 13
Jun |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Sat 14
Jun |
Ashbourne
? |
Footpath
Relay (to be confirmed) |
|
Sun 15
Jun |
Ashbourne
(Town Car Park / Godfree's) |
Summer
Series Street-O & Barbecue |
|
Wed 18
Jun |
Belper
(Johnson's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 20
Jun |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |
Circuits
and Keep Fit |
|
Sat 21
Jun |
Elvaston |
Summer
Series Local Event incorporating Schools Champs |
|
Sun 22
Jun |
Carsington |
District
Event |
|
Wed 25
Jun |
Allestree
(Mackervoy's) |
Club
Training Night |
|
Fri 27
Jun |
Sawmills
(Village Hall) |