Thank you to the sponsors and donors who have signed on to support our Trivia Night

Last year's first Trivia and Games Night was great fun, and a good fundraiser for the Hornsby Rockets. So we are doing it again on

Saturday 1st May 2010
at
Mt Colah Public School
details and ticket purchasing options are here

We are very grateful to the sponsors and donors who are signing up to support our efforts:

Prize Donations

• Berowra Village Pharmacy & Ladies of Berowra
• Fairholme Quilters
• Asquith Golf Club Limited
• Luna Park
• Sydney Ice Arena Pty Ltd
• Imax Theatre
• Australian Reptile Park
• Hargraves Nurseryland
• Penrith Whitewater
• Captain Cook Cruises
• Ledora Water Gardens
• Cricket NSW
• Coca Cola
• Chef Peter Evans
• Pancakes on the Rocks
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Taronga Zoo/Western Plains Zoo
• Sydney Tower
• Questacon
• Glenworth Valley Outdoor Adventures
• Hornsby RSL
• Cockington Green Gardens
• Skater HQ
• A Lotus Care Health & Beauty
• Chef Ed Halmagyi
• Greater Union

Trivia Round Sponsorship

• Vaughan & Monaghan Insurance & Financial Services
• Visionone Mechanical
• Greg Williams Real Estate
• The Avocado Group

Cash Donation

• Helping Hands Across Ages & Nations

There are plenty of opportunities available to donate prizes, or to sponsor a Trivia Game!

Thanks to the Bush Tele

The Bush Telegraph Weekly has been a great supporter of the Hornsby Rockets, reporting on our events and news. We'd like to thank them for publishing our tribute to Lars Emmerson (11th February issue) and for publicising our Trivia Night (18th February issue) - it's very encouraging to have the support of our community.

Hornsby Invitational Competition: 17th - 18th April 2010

We are holding our Hornsby Rockets Invitational at AMF Hornsby Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th April 2010. The committee needs to know if you are intending to take part in the event. Players must be TBA members.

A flyer and entry form has been distributed to all bowlers, but here is the information again:

Costs are as follow:
Singles $25

Doubles $25

Team events $25 per person.

All events entry is free: total bowling costs for three series will be $75 and to bowl six series will be $150.

Opening Ceremony will be at 10.00 am

Squad times for Saturday 17th April
Singles: 11.00 am

Doubles: 12.30 pm

Teams: 2.00 pm

Squad times for Sunday 18th April
Teams: 9.00 am

Doubles: 11.00 am

Singles: 1.00 pm

Entries need to be returned by Saturday 20th March 2010

Hornsby Rockets Games and Trivia Night: 1st May 2010, Mt Colah

Come along and test your trivia skills, join in the games and bid on our great auction items. Lots of great prizes to win

Saturday 1 May 2010
Mount Colah Public School
(Entry is through Pierre Close)
6.30pm for 7.00pm start

Entry: $15.00 each

BYO Drinks & Nibblies
Coffee/Tea & Biscuits/Cakes will be provided
Essential requirements:

• sense of humour, fun and most importantly
• your thinking caps as cheating is not allowed
• gold coins for bribes/raffle/auction (Cheques accepted for auction items)

RSVP by 10th April

To reserve your table of 8, or to book a place on a table, contact us at hornsbyrockets@hotmail.com

Or send your payment and details below to:

Hornsby Rockets Trivia Co-ordinator
C/- 84 Warrina Street
Berowra Heights NSW 2082

Organisation/Name: ___________________________

Return Address: _____________________________

Table Name: _______________________________

No. of Tickets _______ x $15.00 = $ ___________

Please make cheque payable to Hornsby Rockets)

Lars Emmerson 1976 - 2010

Hornsby Rockets members have been very saddened by the death of one of our much loved members, Lars Emmerson, on 1st February 2010. Lars was a very active and involved member of the club for more than 10 years, and he will be very much missed.

We know from the wonderful celebration of his life on 4th February, that Lars was a many-talented and well loved young man, with friends and connections throughout the community. As a bowler he was a real team player, welcomed new members, and got along well with evryone. Lars made many friends among the Rockets, as he did in all the facets of his busy life. He was a role member and a mate.

We were privileged to have Lars amongst us for as long as we did. We extend our sympathy to his father, Peter, his sister, Brie, family and friends everywhere.

We had a great Christmas Party - thank you Lucy!

Asquith Bowling Club hosted our Annual Presentation and Christmas Party on 12th December. Many, many thanks to Lucy Mandarano who organised the party and gorgeous decorations. The food was great, the company was fun, we had prizes and dancing - all you need for a very good night.

Note the glitzy bowling pin tree ornaments!

We were able to thank our Patrons, Nan Horne and Judy Hopwood for their support throughout the year.

Mrs Wilson has been to London this year, so she wore her pearl encrusted crown (there is a vicious rumour that it is really a tea cosy!), and carried her Very Best Bag. Does she remind you of someone?

Warren thanked Ron Crompton, on behalf of the Rockets members, for the enormous amount of work he puts into being President of Hornsby Rockets, and presented him with a gift.

We had a few speeches (see Ron's below) recognising the importance of supporters, and the achievements of the Rockets



Santa made an appearance ......






There was a lot of dancing to the excellent music of Gary Wallace (who has written a song for the Rockets!)



And some lucky winners went home with lucky door prizes and raffle prizes.

Thanks to everyone who contributed from planning, to organising raffles, decorating the room and coming along to join in the fun. We'll see you back at bowling in 2010.

A few words from the President ....

At the Christmas Party, Ron Crompton, President of Hornsby Rockets, thanked those who made 2009 a very good year for the team, and foreshadowed some events for 2010:

I would like to welcome everyone here to night & to thank our two Patrons Judy Hopwood (MP for Hornsby) and Nan Horne for their ongoing support this year.

Thank you also to Margaret and Dave McMonnies, from Building Code & Bushfire Hazards Solutions for their ongoing sponsorship of the Rockets, unfortunately they are unable to attend because of family commitments.

To Wendy Escott from Studio Artes, our thanks for allowing us to hold our committee meetings in their workshop.

On behalf of the Committee, our thanks to Lucy for organising this night for the Hornsby Rockets and supporters, a great job.

There have been some great events held over the last twelve months with our first trivia night, which was a huge success, many thanks to all the work of the committee, parents and Karen Story for helping to putting the night together. People are looking forward to next year event.

The Rockets held a social night at Michel’s Berowra courtesy of Les Abood the owner, numbers were down, but those who attended had a great evening.

The Rockets attended the Nationals in Rockhampton which was a great trip, enjoyed by all. Whilst not winning any medals the team had some great experiences visiting the crocodile farm, holding a real one, going to the rodeo at the great western hotel, were our host Rocky ensured we had great seats. Warren made a wish that a cowboy would land on his table - it did happen!

We attended several competitions during 2009:

Macarthur. winning 19 Gold, 13 Silver, 4 Bronze, 1 trophy & Club Champions Trophy.
Singleton, winning 10 gold, 8 silver, 10 bronze & 1 trophy
Strathfield - we won 20 gold, 8 silver, 1 bronze & 4 trophies.

Overall the team won a total of 49 gold, 29 silver, 14 bronze medals & 7 trophies a great effort by all players taking part in the competitions.

We also attended a fun day at Maitland, which had some eventful happenings on the day; they are working on having a competition weekend next year.

The Rockets held their first Invitational competition 18-19 April which was attended by 6 clubs, a total of 76 bowlers. Thanks to all the parents that assisted on the day and special thanks to Denis Wilson for entering the scores and preparing the final score tallies.

We held our second Challenge Night which was a huge success. People are still talking about what a great night it was, I have had enquires from people wishing to put a team in for 2010 Challenge Night, we will confirm a date later in the new year.

2010 is looking like a great year again with a trivial night planned for Saturday 1st May to raise funds.

We will be holding the Hornsby Rockets Invitational on Saturday and Sunday the 17th & 18th of April, Help will also be needed to ensure it is a successful event.

The Rockets will be travelling to Perth in for the National Disability Competition from the 29th May to 5th June with a group of 21 bowlers & carers travelling to take part in this event.

We will also be attending Macarthur, Strathfield & maybe Illawarra, Singleton & hopeful Maitland in October for bowling competitions.

I will be posting a calendar during the Xmas break with details of events for 2010, membership application form, TBA membership forms, dates of general meetings and also a roster for Saturday mornings for parents to help to organise the bowling, and allow those who regularly give up their Saturday morning, to have some time off.

All this would not have been possible without the help of the parents who offered their support and committee members who at times were tested by my demands to achieve the best for the Rockets. There are some parents that I would like to publicly thank for their support and understanding. Annette, Esther, Anna, Denis and Jill.

I would like to thank the players and parents for supporting me as President of Hornsby Rockets, who have proven to be very caring, friendly and supportive group of people to each other, as well as players and parents from other bowling teams.

Lastly I would like to thank Gary Wallace for providing the music tonight, his time & effort in putting a song together about the Hornsby Rockets.

Thank you all!