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Since 1963
Newsletter of the Bancoora Surf Life Saving Club January 2020
Dear Members We continue to receive great feedback on the newsletter
and the Committee thanks members for their participation.
Happy new year! Welcome to the January edition of the If you have any content you’d like to see, please email the
Bancoora newsletter, the ‘Banny Bulletin’. We hope all Banny Bulletin team at enquiries@bancoora.asn.au.
members had a great Christmas and New Years’ break
and spent some time at the beach. The Committee wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable
Australia Day and we hope to see you at the club for
The club Committee would like to pass on our thoughts to our member’s family night on Saturday 25 January.
those impacted by the ongoing Australian bushfires and Further details about the night are in the newsletter.
recognise the Bancoora club members who are volunteer
firefighters. In particular, we’d like to mention Michael Peel Regards,
who has travelled to NSW to fight those fires and Barry Hunt
who has fought local fires. Thank you, Michael and Barry,
for your continuing strong volunteer service at Bancoora B en Pope
and with the CFA.
Bancoora SLSC President
In this edition: LSV Under 18 Leadership Camp – Ted Page-Walker
Blue Bottle Jellyfish visit Bancoora
Nippers Continues!
Upgraded Patrol Tower
Successful Nippers Friendly Carnival at Point Lonsdale
held 8 January LSV Audit of Bancoora
Note No Nippers, Mozzies or Young Guns, Important Dates for Season 2019/20
Australia Day Weekend
Current Training Happening at Bancoora
Family Night at the club – Saturday 25 January
(Australia Day weekend) Member Profile – Fay Briggs (Young Gun and Patrol 4)
New ART Award Holders Newsletter Sponsorship Opportunities – March
New Bronze Medallion Award Holders Thanks to West Carr & Harvey for Sponsoring our
January Newsletter
Patrol Hours Ladder as at 31 December
(Thanks Rowan for doing the numbers!) Thanks to our BBQ Sponsors – Brumby’s and Pacific Meats
who donate food for our Nippers BBQs each year
New Polaris Arrives
We thank our growing list of Sponsors for Season 2019/20
Missing Scooter Incident!
Nippers 2019/20 Continues!
A big thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who are
helping make Bancoora Nippers a great and fun event.
The Committee thanks our Nippers coordinator Craig
Sherman for all the work that happens behind the scenes
to make Nippers successful and to all those parents and
friends who have volunteered their time for the benefit of
their kids and for all Nippers and Mozzies participants and
their families.
There have been some heavy waves coming through at Nippers from Bancoora and Point Lonsdale having fun.
Photo courtesy of Craig Sherman.
Bancoora Beach during Nippers and Mozzies and it is a
testament to all our water safety officers, coaches and age
group managers as to how well our junior members are
handling larger surf.
No Nippers, Mozzies or Young
The Committee would also like to thank those patrolling
members who officially patrol the beach on the Sundays Guns – Australia Day Weekend
when Nippers is on. The beach is extremely busy and many
of our patrolling members take part in Nippers water safety, We’d like to remind all members that there are no official
first aid and of course patrol duties. It is a true team effort Nippers, Mozzies or Young Guns being run on the Sunday
across the membership to make Nippers and Mozzies work of the Australia Day weekend (Sunday 26 January).
the way it does.
However, Bancoora Patrol 4 is on patrol from 10am through
We’d also like to thank Dr Penny Scott for acting as Nippers 5pm and the club will be open so if any members would
medical officer this season. Penny has been invaluable on like to come down and take out a board, please feel free to
the beach assisting our patrol members who render first come down. Just remember to sign-out and return your
aid to our Nippers who invariably take some tumbles on the equipment. If you need assistance, please ask a friendly
beach over the season. Thank you very much Penny. member of patrol.
Now that Nippers has been going on for a few weeks
and new parents and friends are getting the hang of it,
please email Craig Sherman, Nippers Coordinator at
bancooranippers@gmail.com or sign on at the volunteer
Increasing Engagement
sheet at the club before Nippers commences if you’d like to with Members – Family Night,
help out. Our Nippers and Mozzies really appreciate it.
Saturday 25 January
Our primary event for January is the members night of
Nippers Friendly Carnival with Saturday 25 January (Australia Day weekend) from 6pm.
Point Lonsdale – 8 January These nights are for new members to meet current members
and to also raise funds to support the club and to purchase
equipment for our Nippers and Young Guns. By attending
The friendly Nippers carnival between Bancoora and Point
these events, you are supporting the younger members of
Lonsdale was held on Wednesday 8 January and was a
the club.
great success with lots of smiley faces from Nippers of
both clubs. There is no cover charge and the club is providing free
pizzas. Refreshments will be available at the bar. There will
The focus of the event was participation, having fun and
also be a club raffle.
practicing the surf skills attained at Nippers. Bancoora had
25 Nippers participate and Point Lonsdale had 65. We had There will also be some fun games provided by the club
mixed teams and the Bancoora Nippers did really well and to increase interaction between members however we
were very competitive. understand that not everyone will be into games so if you
are not, please come along anyway and you can watch on if
Special thanks to Craig Sherman for organising this event at
games are not your thing. There will certainly be no pressure
quite short notice (on a weekday!) and for all the Bancoora
to take part in the games.
Nippers and parents and friends who participated and made
the event happen. We’d also like to recognise the great spirit To confirm your attendance at our members night,
and camaraderie of the Point Lonsdale members, water please see the SurveyMonkey link below:
safety, their Nippers and their families. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BZRFZ86
Congratulations to our new 1 Ted Page-Walker 45 hours
Advanced Resuscitation 2 Andrew Hunt 31 hours
Techniques award holders! 3 Leigh Reither 23 hours
4 Andrew McNeil 22 hours
The club thanks those members who were involved with the
ART course on Saturday 28 December. 5 Christine Pope 16 hours
Tegan Reither 16 hours
It was pleasing to see three families of Nippers and Young
Georgia Siddall 16 hours
Guns who don’t hold the Bronze Medallion getting involved.
Big thanks to Lisa Happ for running the course with 8 Emily Cross 15 hours
assistance from Callum and Hamish Edwards.
9 Will Magher 13 hours
Our latest ART award holders are: Ed Steenbergen 13 hours
Tim Page-Walker, Alex Page-Walker, Frey Krebs, Melissa Nicholas Williams 13 hours
Hoare, Matt Hoare, Will Hoare, Hamish Edwards, Callum
Edwards and Mackenzie Hooper.
Our New ATV –
Congratulations to our The Updated Polaris
New Bronze Medallion The updated Polaris has arrived at the club.
Award Holders! This latest Polaris has been described as a ‘stretch’ ATV
and can seat a maximum of six passengers; double the old
The club also thanks those members who have assisted capacity. As the club grows, this greater capacity will be very
with our latest crop of Bronze Medallion holders. helpful for club members and potential patients.
The Bronze is an award that takes a lot of diligence, training Thanks to Ben Pope (Club President),Ted Page-Walker, Paul
and hard work. Thanks to our trainers Callum Edwards and Henning (Committee Member), Rick Werner (Gear Steward)
Christine Pope. and Barry Hunt for organising the coating on the new Polaris
which helps protect the ATV from sea and sand damage. The
A big congratulations to our new Bronzies serving the new Polaris isn’t quite ready for action as yet and is expected
Bancoora community: to be ready for action on Australia Day weekend.
Lucy Worsley, Tegan Reither, Kya Werner, Ronan Finn, There have been rumours circulating at the club that there
Alex Gilbert, Lucy Briggs and Eva Davalga. may be rides provided in the new Polaris at our family
members night on 25 January. Bring some gold coins for a
ride in the Polaris, just in case.
Interim Patrol Hours Ladder
at 31 December 2019
for Season 2019/20
A few members have asked about who is doing lots of
hours of patrol this season.
Thanks to our illustrious Club Captain Rowan Jobling, Rowan
has done the numbers for the period ended 31 December
2019. It looks like we will have some members doing over
100 hours of patrol again this season if they keep up this
pace. We also thank those members who travel back to
Bancoora to do their patrol at Bancoora Beach.
Well done to all for the Patrol hours volunteered by
our members to keep our Bancoora/Breamlea
and Geelong communities safe.
Ben and Rick with the New Polaris. Photo courtesy of Ben Pope.
Missing Scooter Incident! BB: What did you get most from attending the camp?
TPW: The camp gave the opportunity to network and learn
On Sunday 5 January club members were asked to assist new life saving skills. It also gave me the opportunity and
police recover a stolen motor scooter which had been taken confidence to patrol at other clubs, which I did in January at
from Melbourne and dumped on the beach at Breamlea at Fairhaven SLSC where I saw how another club goes about
beach marker 48W. their set up and patrolling.
The Allan family (pictured with club members and the BB: What skills did you develop at the camp?
Victoria Police) found the scooter and were able to get the
scooter going again and rode it back to the clubhouse via TPW: There was a lot I took from the camp. The most
the beach. Our patrol members helped get the scooter back significant were:
through the cutting. • the importance of a ‘chain of command’ in emergency
situations;
This story is a great example of the club working with local
families and other emergency service professionals for the • scenario based training during patrolling, to advance the
benefit of the local beach-going community. Well done team! skills of members; and
• new first aid techniques.
BB: Why would you recommend the camp to other Bancoora
members?
TPW: It was a great networking and upskilling opportunity
and the guest speakers were interesting and very engaging.
BB: What other LSV development opportunities do you have
your eye on?
TPW: In February I’m going to LSV Head office to assist
in a training day for young and emerging leaders (13 & 14
year olds) where I can share some of my skills with younger
Found!
members. My personal goals in Surf Life Saving are to
continue to advance my knowledge, skills and learning by
completing the following:
Allan family with Bancoora Patrol members, Vic Police and the • Silver Medallion IRB Driver
missing scooter. Photo courtesy of Barry Hunt.
• Advanced First Aid (Beach)
• Training Officer’s Certificate
• Silver Medallion Beach Management
LSV Under 18 Leadership • Pool & Beach Lifeguard
Camp – Ted Page-Walker • Gold Medallion
As flagged in December, in this edition of the Banny My ultimate goal is to be a volunteer on the Westpac
Bulletin, we interview an emerging leader of the club and Helicopter / Lifesaver 1.
talk about his experience at the recent LSV under 18
BB: Thanks Ted for your insights!
leadership camp.
TPW: No problems.
Banny Bulletin: Hi Ted, thanks for joining us!
Ted Page-Walker: You’re very welcome.
BB: Can you tell us a little bit about the under 18 leadership
camp?
TPW: The camp was in early December at Anglehook Camp
in Aireys Inlet. I met young leaders from a diverse range of
clubs around Victoria who all gathered to learn new skills and
develop a young leader’s network.
BB: How did you hear about the camp?
TPW: Club Vice President Christine Pope told me about it and
suggested I should apply to attend. Ted with his December LSV Leadership Camp cohort.
Photo courtesy of Ted Page-Walker.
For further information about the personal development
opportunities in surf lifesaving, please refer to the link from
LSV below:
https://lsv.com.au/wp-content/uploads/
Membership-Leadership-Development-Pathways-Guide.pdf
To parents and friends who are new to lifesaving, this
resource is very helpful to understand some of the
professional pathways available for adults and our younger
members such as Young Guns and Nippers.
Blue Bottle Jellyfish
visit Bancoora
LSV sent out an alert in late December that Bluebottle Bluebottle Jellyfish. Photo courtesy of LSV.
jellyfish are making their way onto our Vic beaches this
summer.
Unfortunately, the Bluebottles arrived at Bancoora and some
members have been stung including Patrol members. LSV Upgraded Patrol Tower
provided some tips to keep safe around the Bluebottles.
The Club Committee would like to recognise the efforts of
Bluebottle stings can be very painful with the sting often
Barry Hunt for the improvements made to the Bancoora
appearing as a white welt on the skin with a prominent
Patrol Tower this season.
beading effect.
We also thank Andrew and AJ Cross for their assistance
What to do if you or someone else has been stung by
in helping Barry to install the new windows into the tower
a bluebottle:
and Barry for designing and installing the improved security
• Seek assistance from lifesavers and alert other grills. The Club is very grateful to the support of club friends
water users; Southern Star Windows for their very generous supply of the
new windows.
• Keep the victim at rest, reassure and keep under
constant observation; As patrol members know, this summer has served up some
inclement weather during the season. On those cold days,
• Do not allow rubbing of the sting area; the improved patrol tower is greatly appreciated by our
members as evidenced by Patrol 2 making full use of the
• Pick off any tentacles (this is not dangerous to the tower on 4 January.
rescuer) and rinse sting area well with seawater to
remove invisible nematocysts;
• Place the victim’s sting area in hot water (no hotter than
the patient can comfortably tolerate) for 20 minutes;
• If local pain is unrelieved by heat, or if hot water is not
available, apply a cold pack or ice in a dry plastic bag;
• If pain persists or is generalised, if the sting area is
large (half a limb or more), or involved sensitive areas
(e.g. the eye) call an ambulance (dial 000).
Other information sources:
Australia Venom Research Unit – 1300 760 451
Poisons Information Centre – 13 11 26
beachsafe.org.au
Information source: Lifesaving Victoria
Patrol 2 keeping warm in our upgraded Patrol Tower.
Photo courtesy of Callum Edwards.
LSV Audit of Bancoora
On 12 January the club was paid an impromptu visit by one
of LSV’s assessors to do a spot-check on the effectiveness
of Bancoora’s Patrol members.
LSV performs these assessments to provide feedback to
Victorian clubs and highlight areas where clubs can improve
their patrol performance. The Committee would like to
thank the professionalism and knowledge of patrol captains
Michael Peel and Andrew Hunt of Patrol 2 on their leadership
throughout the assessment.
More details will be provided to members once the final
report is received from LSV however some preliminary
feedback included:
• Patrol members to have fully supplied bub-bags on patrol Bancoora Patrol 2 with LSV Assessor. Photo courtesy of Barry Hunt.
including a whistle.
• All patrol members to have a red and yellow quartered
patrol cap whilst on patrol.
• Importance of all members being in uniform, even on
cold days.
• Encouraging members to have a wetsuit available at Important
short notice to enter the water.
Dates
for Season
• Have the club’s beach conditions sign up at all times
while on patrol including updated tide information and
any warnings, for example Blue Bottle Jellyfish.
2019/20
• Practice secondary assessment of patients.
• Have fins available with tubes together at each flag.
We would like to remind all members of the key dates of
• Have a minimum of one rescue board at each flag. this season!
• Have powercraft access signs on the beach to ensure
quick and safe launch of IRB.
Australia Day Weekend Family Saturday 25 January 2020
• Have all logs filled in at the start of patrol, including Dinner Night at Bancoora 6pm
members names on patrol and their awards.
Australia Day Weekend No Nippers or Young Guns
• Understand what an outpost patrol is and what the
requirements are to conduct an effective outpost patrol. Australia Day Sunday 26 January 2020
Patrol 4 10am - 5pm
During the assessment the patrol was asked to conduct a
water rescue, perform CPR and patient assessment scenario, Australia Day Public Holiday Monday 27 January 2020
tour first aid room and provide assessor with all items of first Patrol 5 10am - 5pm
aid stock requested, check spare oxygen bottles, check all log
books including IRB logs and answer a series of knowledge Sunday 2 February 2020
IRB Training Continues
questions. Overall, initial feedback appears that the patrol did 10am
a great job and this assessment was an improvement on last
year’s results. Nippers/Young Guns and BBQ Sunday 2 February 2020
Session 6 10am
The Committee will keep members informed on areas
where we can improve our performance to assist our Nippers/Young Guns and BBQ Sunday 9 February 2020
members to be the best-prepared they can be, whilst Session 7 10am
on patrol.
Nippers/Young Guns and BBQ Sunday 16 February 2020
Session 8 10am
Nippers Bancoora Sunday 23 February 2020 Easter Monday Patrol Patrol 4, 10am - 4pm
Club Carnival 10am
Bancoora Club
Saturday 2 May 2020
Labour Day Public Holiday Patrol Patrol 1, 10am - 4pm Presentation Night
Bancoora Senior Club Carnival Sunday 15 March 2020 Bancoora Annual
Tuesday 9 June 2020
General Meeting
Good Friday Public Holiday Patrol Patrol 3, 10am - 4pm
Easter Saturday Holiday Patrol Patrol 1, 10am - 4pm Please note a calendar section has been added to our
website at: www.bancoora.asn.au/calendar
Easter Sunday Patrol Patrol 5, 10am - 4pm
LSV Awards Training – Current Opportunities at Bancoora
The Committee is supporting three current course opportunities for members listed in the table below.
Please review the table and if there are any courses of interest to you, please contact Callum Edwards at
bancoora.training@gmail.com or, login to LSV Member Training From Anywhere.
https://mt.lsv-from-anywhere.com.au/login?org=lsv
Bronze LSV Award Bancoora Target
# LSV Award Season 2020/21 Min Age
Reqd Category Category Bancoora Member
Silver Medallion – Compulsory Full Patrol Bronze Medallion
1 YES 17 POWERCRAFT
IRB Driver Award for Patrol Member Holder
Compulsory Full Patrol Young Gun holding
2 IRB Crew YES 15 POWERCRAFT
Award for Patrol Member Bronze Medallion
Surf Rescue Required ACQUATIC Nippers Patrol Nippers looking to
3 No 13
Certificate for Patrol RESCUE Member progress to Patrol duties
Bill Briggs enjoying his training at Bancoora.
Photo courtesy of Barry Hunt.
Member Profile
Fay Briggs
Fay Briggs enjoying some board work at Young Guns.
Photo courtesy of Barry Hunt.
Year Commenced Life Saving
Bancoora Nippers 2012. Will, Fay, Lu
cy and
Major Lifesaving Awards Currently Held IRB Requa Andrew –
Bronze, ART, IRB Crew, CPR.
l 2019
Lifesaving Specialty
IRB Crew.
Bancoora Patrol Group Number
4 Rescue/first aid experience
Practice rescues in Bronze and Young Guns and
Why Bancoora? administered first aid on patrol (worst being a foot
Family was looking for a club focussed on Community laceration).
Service rather than competition. Friendly atmosphere at the
club, members are always helpful, easy place to make new Scariest Surf Conditions Experienced
friends and it’s great fun on patrol helping others. IRB crewing with 2-3 metre waves with Leigh Reither driving.
How has Bancoora helped you at school? Hopes for Bancoora
Taught me about leadership, helped build confidence, made Getting more Nippers to go on to Young Guns and for the
more friendships, better balance with school and time club to provide better information about the transition from
management by better balancing co-curricular activities. Nippers to Young Guns and communicating the benefits of
Also currently working towards IB Diploma and performing Young Guns to parents of Nippers.
the IB Community Service component at Bancoora.
Best part of membership
Memorable awards at Bancoora All the great people I get to spend time with at Young Guns
Third place at Bancoora Young Guns carnival 2018/19 and Patrol and the great memories being created by being at
season. the club.
Other Roles Held at Bancoora Family Members Involved at Bancoora
Member of Young Guns. Bill and Lucy.Newsletter Sponsorship
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