Batley Track

DianneH · #1 10-03-2008

For those who want to see the Club survive so that the NE keeps one of its outdoor venues, on behalf of the Club, I would like to thank the few volunteers who turned up yesterday to spend some time clearing up after the flood. The container is now in a state where racing can be controlled but the track still needs some more work on it.

It is the intention to meet at 10 am prior to racing on Sunday, weather permitting. It will be interesting, yet again, to see how many turn up at 10 am and how many arrive when the work is finished.

As you all know, I am not a racer, my son Mark is no longer a racer, I am still recovering from a serious illness, yet I turned up yesterday to help with cleaning, mopping up excess water, sweeping etc. I work for the club voluntarily - why? I do not want to see the Club disappear like so many before it - I am disappointed that a lot of you do not feel the same way!!

super__dan · #2 10-03-2008

Taken from other thread...........................................

Good news and bad!

There was l lot of work to do and not many to do it (thanks to those that came), we did our best though. The heaviest bits of mud were taken off the astro and jet washed (takes AGES), the container was completely cleaned out and sorted (mowers and generator work) and we painted round the handrail and stuff at the top of the rostrum that Jim made so well last year.

More good news is that the hard work we did levelling the straight last year seems to have been unaffected so with a liile more work the track will be great again. The best thing for the track now is actually to race on it!

Dianne has a calender put together, which is quite large inc deliberatly clashing with some nationals so NE people that don't get in can still race locally. The first is next weekend I think.

Also for meetings on the calender what we propose is that all meetings will be ON unless the weather is too bad on the day at which point Dianne will post here on oOple by 9am that the meeting is OFF. Also, Dianne is setting up a text message group on her phone which you can opt into to get a text if the meeting is OFF.

Dan