A message from the President

EXCITING NEWS FROM THE PRESIDENT
July 2010
January 2010

EXCITING NEWS FROM THE PRESIDENT

As I told you in an earlier newsletter Committee members attended the Awards of Excellence Gala Evening. It was the best evening we have attended in that our Club received two major awards.

There are 57 patrolling Life Saving Clubs in Victoria. Our club was the winner of the Patrol Efficiency Club of the Year. What an outstanding effort our Patrol team leaders and patrol members have done this season especially the members on duty when we had a visit from the LSV patrol inspectors receiving top points

Each and everyone one of the patrol team are to be congratulated for your participation and dedication.

As your President I say thank you to the Club Captain Luke and the Patrol Co-Ordinator Kerry for the time spent on rosters and administration and your leadership with our patrols.

Our Club will be awarded a piece of equipment for patrols..

CONGRATULATIONS WELL DONE ALL PATROL MEMBERS WELL DESERVED.

The other major award for our Club was Trainer of the year for Victoria and Kerry Bell was the winner.

As we all know Kerry has shown dedication as our Training Co-Ordinator with all of our Club courses, and this in turn means we have had very highly trained patrol members on duty. Kerry now goes onto to represent our state for the national trainer of the year. I know all members will wish Kerry good luck in the next stage at the national awards committee.

These awards now show the work and dedication that has been put into our Club by everyone and makes me even prouder to be involved with Edithvale Life Saving Club especially as your President.

WE ARE A FABULOUS CLUB AND YOU SHOULD ALL BE PROUD.OF OUR WIN.

Your President,
Dianne G. Montalto. ESM.

July 2010

I hope everyone is coping with this cold winter if you are like me you can't wait for summer and some hot weather.

It was great to see the members at our presentation evening in May. For those who did not join us you missed a fantastic evening. It was different format from previous years and I believe it was good for us to have the seniors presentation as a sit down dinner with a guest speaker in between presentations. Phil Wall who is a member at Chelsea SES gave us an interesting speech on the importance of volunteerism. In speaking he confirmed what we all know, what it is like to be a volunteer in the community.

The evening was very well received by all those present and as usual there were quite a few surprises in the presentations. This evening, like our junior presentation night, is a chance to recognise the time and effort that our volunteer members give to the club and in turn the members of the public who frequent our beach. This year all patrol members received recognition with a special presentation.

I stated on the night that Edithvale LSC and all of the members are a very dedicted family in life saving as you have shown over the last season with no fatalities on our beach thorough your dedication to patrols and I am very proud of all of you.

The executive felt that with the outstanding effort our members have contributed last season, we should nominate the club for the LSV Best Club of the Year. Our secretary Kara Edwards prepared the nomination and Kerrie Mussert put together the slide show with Kerry Bell and Lesley McGurgan giving the require presentation to LSV Honour and Awards committee. I was present as a member of the LSV Honour and Awards comittee and the presentation was excellent. There were five other nominations with the winner to be announced at the LSV Awards of Excellence evening on the 17th July along with the winner of the Trainer of the Year which our club has nominated Kerry Bell. Our club will be representated by members of the committee along with our 100 plus patrol hour recipients. Good luck to all our recipients and nominations.

MORE EXCITING NEWS - Recently we applied for an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) to assist with our patrols and to make it easier to launch our IRB. The was applied for through the Government CECSP grant and we have just received notice that our application was successful. So we now have more patrol equipment to back us up and this means we can get to a situation very qickly if required. Well done to the members who put in the time with the application.

I know our Training Co-ordinator is due to commence winter training with the first course beginning on First Aid, so be ready to put your name down if you want to attend.

You will have received notice from Lesley McGurgan that the committee has been revising our constitution. Once changes have been discussed and accepted by the committee you will be given notice of a special general meeting to discuss and vote on these changes. So please make sure you read your notices.

I hope all of our students enjoyed their holiday break and that the parents survived.

I have been so pleased to bring you this newsletter with all the exciting news and even though it is our winter break, your committee has still been meeting and carrying out all the various tasks for you.

Your President

Dianne G. Montalto. ESM

January 2010

I hope all our members had an enjoyable Christmas and a happy new year. Now that the festivities are over it is business as usual at the club.

It is very pleasing to see that our award training has seen our members pass their requalifications and a number of new patrol awards have gone through. This has enabled our patrol numbers to grow which means that patrol members do not have the workload and are therefore committed to manning less patrols. It is great to see our increase in numbers and all members still very keen to carry out patrol duties. Teams have been working well to enable the public to have an enjoyable day at our beach. Our patrols have been very busy with preventions, rescues and first aid cases. This year again we are involved with the police in the beach program and the police have been visiting the beach in cars and also the beach buggy.

I am sure that patrol members are not aware o the time that it takes to put a patrol roster together. Team leaders and patrol members have to be selected so that we have a strong patrol with members being chosen for not only the awards they hold but also being appointed to the areas they are comfortabel in on their rostered day.

Thank you to our Patrol Manager, Team Leaders and patrol members for the dedication and committment you have shown with the patrols for December and January you are doing a great job.

Over summer our changerooms have undergone a facelift with a new paintjob and spring clean, thanks to Darren Bell and Dean Hard.

We are still seeing new members joining our club, which is very pleasing, this is not only in the nipper ranks but also senior and families. A warm welcome to our new members.

I hope everyone was able to cope with the hot weather we have been having it sure meant we had to have our air conditioners on. Especially the mums with little babies and our elderly.

Keep up the good work everyone so that our club can continue to grow and also continue to be recognised as a strong and committed club to lifesaving and the public.

Your President

Dianne G. Montalto. ESM

Celebrating 50 years of resuscitation

This year is the 50th Anniversary of modern resuscitation in Australia. As National Board Director I was invited to the symposium celebration held in Sydney at the Royal Prince Alfred hospital. This was a very interesting event as I could relate to all previous resuscitation techniques I had been taught over my years in Lifesaving...

There were several guest speakers Professor Barry Baker spoke on the history of resuscitation and then Rob Bradley spoke on the turning point in histroy while Dr. Peter Tralaggon covered the topic on the continuing evolution of resuscitation. Dr Richerd Franklin and Mrs Caitlin Vasica covered community outreach of resuscitation in closing Professor John Pearn spoke on advancing mediacl knowledge with volunteer research subjects and altruism.

The highlight of the symposium was in Rob Bradley's topic where he had the chance to introduce Mr Allan Simpson who was actually involved in the research of CPR and was able to give an account as to how he volunteered for this very important project. He explained how he had been put to sleep and then various tests and types of resuscitation were carried out on him and then finally he was brought around. Other volunteers were also involved but one is deceased and the other was present on the day he also was able to give an account of the events on the day.

There was also an ABC film which was shown and we could actually see these men and the doctors going through the processes and then the resus being performed. From this very important day came the CPR we use today. There was a special medal struck for the occasion and presented to all guests.

From the symposium, the National Honours and Awards Committee have formed a CPR Club for any volunteer who does CPR whether they are successful or not. These volunteers will have to meet a criteria and go before a selection.

Your President

Dianne G. Montalto. ESM