The dinner at the Polish Club on Riverway was again a great sucess.
Very many thanks to Joan & Dave Preece for their time and effort (lots of it involved) in organising it again. . I understand that they would like a break from it next year, so ANY VOLUNTEERS ?
And thanks to Tom Hobbins for the snaps of the award winners and to Liz Stanyer for her photos of the party.

Our guests for the evening were Mr & Mrs John Graves. John is currently Chairman of England Athletics and was previously chairman of Tamworth Athletic Club for several years.
John graciously agreed to spend the evening with us to present our member Awards - and is consequently featured in the photos of award winners.

Award winners this year were:
Lady Newcomer of the Year.......................Liz Stanyer
Male Newcomer of the Year...................... Chris Owen
Most improved runner of the year..............Robert Simpson
Veteran Runner of the Year........................Paul Douglas
Team Manager’s Award..............................George Mafu
Club Person of the Year... ..........................Graham Williams
and the two Club Runners of the year
Lady Runner of the Year.............................Jill Ross
Male Runner of the Year..............................Tom Hobbins



Trophies were also awarded to the Top 3 in each Group in the Club Challenge 2009 (here are some of them) :

AND, Jill Ross was also awarded the Champagne Moments Trophy by Bill Whitworth for her epic four day run - a circuit of Mont Blanc in the Alps crossing through France, Italy & Switzerland, 245 Km & 21,000 metres of ascent in 114 hours !! (See her Race Report dated 30/08/09)

Special thanks in the form of a bouquet of flowers was also given to each of the ladies who man our Refreshments tent at all the events that the Club stage; particularly Jackie Grant who prepares most of the fresh food herself.

. No questions, no lies !

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The Elvis Fontenot band and three support acts appeared at the Perkins Sports and Social Club on 27th November 2009.
All proceeds went to NACCPO and all artists are appeared for free to support the charity.

A great time was had by all - by the look of these photo’s at least!
The annual night out to celebrate Jill, Pete & Ed’s November birthdays took a bus out to Penkridge to enjoy the delights of the local pubs.
Some of our older inebriates have been replaced by younger beauties.
Will they ever live down (or up to?) their new found reputations??
I’m told by one participant that the Wolves fans in the pictures were drowning their sorrows after that hammering on Saturday!

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Get your Posh frocks out!
We had a Halloween Masked Ball on October 31st 2009 to raise funds for the stroke unit where I work in Wolverhampton.
. . WHO AM I ? WHO ARE THE OTHER HARRIERS?

THE HARRIERS ENJOYED A GATHERING AT SHUGBOROUGH ON FRIDAY NIGHT
FOR AN OUTDOOR PICNIC & MOVIE SHOWING OF MAMA MIA (as below)

And the winners are...........

For those of you who were unable to attend the Harriers Awards Ceremony you missed a spectacular, glittering evening that had members of the paparazzi snapping away at Harriers with their clothes on, (Well Bryan Dale was there). The voting for the various awards had been going on for a few weeks and the winners of the main awards were as follows.

Newcomer of the Year....................Mike St.-Dunn
Most improved runner of the year......Tom Hobbins
Veteran Runner of the Year...............Pete Sarson
Club Person(s) of the Year... Frank & Jacquie Grant
and the two Clubs Runners of the year
Lady Runner of the Year...............Judith Colman
Male Runner of the Year...............Mike St.-Dunn

Congratulations to all of them and a big thank you to Dave and Joan Preece for organising the whole event.

Judith Colman and Mike St-Dunn getting their awards from Bryan Dale.



Here are some more photos of the presentation evening. For the details of who the winners were in the Challenge awards, check the Challenge page. Bryan Dale does appologise for the quality of the photos he had problems with some settings.

Ralph Wedlock and Jane Bisiker

Captions please for Tony . . . .Lew Badger looking happy.
Baker and Karen Davies.
Best Caption so far.
Ventriloquist Karen’s Dummy is saying “Is that a telephoto lens you have in your pocket?”
Another
Karen “You could have filled it with red wine”

Eddie Smith and Mark Bentley celebrating.

Tom Hobbins with his Most improved runner award and Nigel Addison

Our Chairman Mike Jones with his award.


What is the caption for this last one? Is it the Rev Ian Paisley?

CHARITY DONATIONS
In 2008 the Harriers have continued to make donations to local charitable causes
from funds raised from the races we organise (Staffs. Knot & Shugborough Relays)
and from our run around the Canal Circle earlier in the year.
Payments have been made as follows:
Katherine House - £625
Oak Tree Project - £500
Greenhall Nursery - £500