william writes "We have another table of ergo scores, not restricted to half-hours only for the hard core. Please see http://tinyurl.com/chesterton-ergs and even better contribute your own."
Posted by webmaster on Sunday, March 08 @ 19:47:37 EDT (426 reads)
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Proposed Jesus Green development
Excapitain writes "The City Council is proposing a 2.5 million pound face-lift for Jesus Green.
A BIG THANK YOU to all who sacrificed their time and helped with The Great Cam Clean Up last Saturday 15th
March 2008.
The day was a fantastic environmental success story for the river Cam and Cambridge. With the aid of more
than 170 volunteers, we collected over 400 bags of recyclable and general rubbish from the river and riverbank
which stretches over 12 miles from Grantchester Meadows to Bottisham Lock in Waterbeach.
Hard working Grapple teams recovered a whopping 100 bikes from the riverbed, 3 motorised scooters were
retrieved from Stourbridge Common and unfortunately the odd needle found in the children's play area!
I would also like to thank the staff from Cambridge City Council who helped to dispose of the rubbish, Tesco who
provided the funds for the BBQ, the Cambridge Cheese Company for hosting the BBQ and The Fort St. George
for providing us with the venue, not forgetting Outspoken Delivery and Mike at sheepshank.org. Anglia Water
River Care deserve a big mention for helping to organise the event with the Camboaters committee and its
members.
As many of you know, the beautiful river Cam winds its way approximately 12 miles from Grantchester Meadows downstream to Bottisham lock. We are all disgusted when we are confronted with unsightly rubbish littering the river, its banks and riverbed. Camboaters have organised the river Cam Clean Up in previous years and wish to invite you to partake. This is the perfect excuse to express your environmental ethic and collective love of rivers and wildlife. Last year over 120 volunteers turned out to make the day a huge success.
The river Cam Clean Up will take place on the 15th of March 2008, commencing at 10:00am at the recycling centre below Elizabeth Way Bridge and concluding with a Barbeque at the Fort St. George on Midsummer Common. We aim to collect and recycle all litter, glass, metal, paper and plastics found. Dredging the river for bikes and shopping trolleys will be a top priority of this exercise, last year there were more than 80 bikes and trolleys pulled from the river.
Areas for rubbish clearance from the river, banks and riverbed are: Grantchester Meadows to Jesus Green Lock, Jesus Green / Midsummer Common to Stourbridge Common, Stourbridge Common to Baits bite Lock, Baits Bite lock to Clayhithe moorings, Clayhithe moorings to Bottisham Lock.
The spoils from the Clean Up will be deposited at recycling centres and collection points along the river, which will then be taken away by Streetscene, a division of City Services who are responsible for street cleaning and grounds maintenance throughout Cambridge.
We really hope you can help, if you can assist in recruiting volunteers, provide equipment, food/water or simply require more information, contact me, Luther Phillips, details below. Already, RiverCare (the Anglian Water/Keep Britain Tidy initiative) is working with us. We are also looking for qualified First Aiders.
Let's make this another environmental success story for Cambridge.
Yours sincerely
Luther Phillips
On behalf of Camboaters
PO Box 223
Cambridge CB4 3ZJ
luther_p at hotmail.com
Please may I ask you, and as many colleagues as you can persuade, to
sign the online petition, as by doing so you will be putting pressure on
Cambridgeshire County Council to speed up progress on the camToo
alternative bus route into Cambridge.
Thank you in advance
--
Richard Moseley
Posted by excapitain on Wednesday, November 07 @ 13:47:31 EST (393 reads)
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tekne_tamircisi writes "A revised constitution was agreed at the 2007 AGM. Please go to downloads section and check that the amended constitution, draft 1a, is correct."
Posted by excapitain on Wednesday, October 31 @ 08:42:43 EDT (409 reads)
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I know Emily is hard at work on minutes for the AGM, and I also know
that these will take some time to prepare.
So on behalf of our *new* Hon Sec, here's the official list of elected
offices and the new officers.
Once again, many thanks to everyone who helped us through this year.
It's been an interesting one, with the Head of the Cam having been fully
handed over to Chesterton RC and Hornets (we were helped by X-Press last year)
and indeed we're going to do it again this year. Many of you have taken
up or improved your sculling, we've replaced our ancient model B ergs
with much newer model C ones, and gained the use of a further two
machines, making four available for practise. All the very best for the
coming year!
Club captain
James Howard
Men's captain
John Aspden
Women's captain
Anne Roberts
Honorary Secretary
Elspeth Nicol
Membership secretary
Jeanette Miller
Race secretary
Andy Southgate
Treasurer
Sally Dowding
Head coach
Chris Braithwaite
Water safety advisor
James Tidy
Equipment officer
Andy Nicol
Webmaster
Andy Southgate
Kit secretary
Chris Wood
Funding secretary
Emma Bonsall + Emma Cosham
Social secretary
Janice Day
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chrisw writes "Thanks to those of you who have already confirmed your kit requirements. I will be placing the order Wed 4th April.
If you would like kit but have yet to contact me, please confirm your requirements by Tuesday 3rd April - see your email for size and price information.
cTphR "
Posted by webmaster on Saturday, March 31 @ 07:56:43 EDT (461 reads)
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JAnice writes "Our Camboaters residential boating community, who moor along the river Cam in Cambridge, wish to invite us to partake in the best opportunity to give our environment and much-loved river a helping hand, through participating in a river clean up.
Are you disgusted when confronted with unsightly rubbish littering the river, its banks and riverbed?
The Cam CleanUp is the perfect excuse to get out there and do something about it!
We’ll also be expressing our environmental ethic and collective love of our river and its wildlife.
The Cam CleanUp will take place on Sunday the 15th April 2007 commencing at 10:00am and winding up with a Barbeque on Midsummer Common courtesy of Cambridge Cheese Company and Tesco’s.
The aim is to collect litter and recycle all glass, metal, paper and plastics found.
Areas for general rubbish clearance from the river, banks and riverbed are:
Jesus Green / Midsummer Common to Stourbridge Common.
Stourbridge Common to Baits bite Lock.
Baits Bite lock to Clayhithe moorings.
Clayhithe moorings to Bottisham Lock.
The spoils from the CleanUp will be deposited at the recycling centre below Elizabeth Way Bridge and taken away by Streetscene, a division of City Services who are responsible for street cleaning and grounds maintenance throughout Cambridge.
Gloves, litter pickers and bags provided.
The organisers are providing insurance too.
If you wish to help, please give your names to Luther on 07980 621761 (e lutherp1@orange.net) so that they can be added to the volunteer list for insurance and bbq numbers.
Poster Link
http://www.camboaters.co.uk/camcleanup/cleanupposter.pdf
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silent writes "We have collected all our sponsorship for the charity row. The total raised overall is still increasing. We are not the last club to finish collecting !! Thanks to all again for raising the cash."
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