Garie Surf Life Saving Club Annual Report 2020-21

Statistics

96 Rescues
84 First Aid Cases
63 Marine Stings Treated
920 Preventative Actions
3114 Total Patrol Hours
16104 Emails Received
4378 Emails Sent
58 Online Meetings
> 50K Grants Funded

Welcome to the 79th

Annual General Meeting

I take pleasure in presenting for your consideration, the 79th Annual Report and Balance Sheet of
the Garie Surf Life Saving Club Incorporated for the Season 2020-2021.

On Saturday 28th August 2021 at 2.00 pm, the 79th Annual General Meeting of Garie Surf Life
Saving Club Incorporated will be held via zoom, and I cordially invite you to attend. The order of
business will be as follows: -

Agenda

1. President's welcome to members and guests.
2. Apologies.
3. Proxies.
4. Reading and confirmation of minutes of the 78th Annual General Meeting.
5. Business arising from the minutes.
6. Presentation and adoption of the Annual Report and Balance Sheet.
7. Election of officers for the 2021-2022 season.
8. Motions of which due notice have been given.
9. Urgent general business.

Patricia Dillon
Director of Administration

STATUTORY STATEMENT
In the opinion of the board of directors, the past year's operation and activities are faithfully recorded
and the Income and Expenditure accounts and Balance Sheets are a true and accurate record of
the club's financial activities during the season of 2020-2021.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GARIE Surf Life Saving Club Incorporated

THANK YOU

We would like to say

THANK YOU

To o“TTuhoar ndokuorynodouorsnf,ooarrsyd,ovsuoprcooanntsegosor,sin,aagnnsddupadpvoortc.”ates
supporters

National Sponsors toClub Supporters
Surf Life Saving Australia
Ampol Surf Life Saving NSW
Surf Life Saving Sydney Branch
WelcomeDHL SLS Foundation
Isuzu Sydney Airport
NSW Dept. of Justice
Westpac NSW Dept. of Sport and Recreation
NSW Dept. of Health
BRP National Parks and Wildlife Service
The Hon. Gladys Berejiklian MP
Dulux va Network 10
Lee Evans MP
State Sponsors Craig Kelly MP
Cornerstone Advisory
Your Local Club Little Garie Cabin Community
Deputy Garie Kiosk
Envirobank Bundeena Service Centre
Sharkskin Lhyriel Smith
Midford Neville Nolan
Dolphin Peter Johnson
Team Building With Purpose John Quinn
Energy Locals Peter Collins
Keith Midson
Peter Stewart
Tony Graham
Belgravia Leisure
Swim Sisters
Different Strokes

Presidents Report

Well, that was our first full season living with COVID, there were a few bumps along the way but we at
Garie handled these issues with great professionalism. Again we were very fortunate to have the
assistance of our fellow surf clubs boosting our patrols throughout the season and this year we also
had the Sydney Branch Support Operations Group trial a jet ski based out of Garie to support the
clubs in the Royal National Park. Thanks to everyone’s involvement we can say there were no lives lost
at Garie during patrol hours, a proud record we have maintained since our foundation in 1938.

During the season we applied for several grants, fortunately we were successful with many of these
enabling us to continue with our building maintenance and the upgrade of our ageing rescue
equipment. We are now in a great position to commence the new season. I must give a big thank you
to the team at the Surf Life Saving Foundation’s Grant Seeking Unit, without their help in the
preparation and submission of the various grant applications we would not have had the success we
enjoyed.

Network 10 continued their partnership with our club and their contributions made it possible for us
to provide our members with nipper’s uniforms, nipper boards, safety and training equipment.
Partnerships such as this are vital to small clubs like Garie to enable us to train and educate tomorrows
lifesavers.

Again, our hard working Education Team, lead by Mikala Welsh, put in many hours to recruit and train
new members as well as ensuring our current members were proficient and upskilling with new
awards. This is a very enthusiastic team that assisted our members to increase educational awards for
the season from 62 the previous season to 124 this season, a fantastic improvement and I'm sure we
will keep seeing great things from this team in the future.

This season saw a new Area Manager, Brendon Neilly, come in for the Royal National Park. Brendon
along with the Area Ranger, Mel Keith, have continued to be very supportive of our club and Surf Life
Saving within the Royal National Park. Mel has been the Project Manager for the building works on our
clubhouse with all maintenance works from Stage 1 now complete. Over the next couple of months
Stage 2 of the maintenance works will commence. We also saw the reintroduction of paid lifeguards
at Wattamolla, as well as Garie, over the Christmas School Holiday period. Because of the Wattamolla
Lifeguard being on duty this season, a fisherman washed off the rocks at Providential Point on Friday
22nd of January is alive today. The fisherman’s friend ran from out on Providential Point back into
Wattamolla to alert the lifeguard that his mate had been washed in, he was not wearing a lifejacket
and required rescuing. The lifeguard then called in the Sydney Branch Support operations team to
coordinate the search and rescue for the now missing fisherman.

This rescue at Wattamolla saw the Sydney Branch Support Operations Team activate Garie's IRB call
out team to assist in the search for the missing fisherman. Garie's IRB call out team, Jess Hay, Louise
Skjeime and Paul Cootes, attended Garie, set up the IRB and headed north to Wattamolla to join in
the search. On their way up, about 1km south of Wattamolla and 600 meters out to sea, the IRB crew
thought they heard a faint noise. The crew looked around but couldn’t locate anything, so they
headed

toward where the noise came from. As they proceeded, they located the fisherman, he was totally
exhausted and starting to go under. Louise dived in and grabbed the fisherman to support him above
water till the crew could get him into the IRB. Once in the boat they checked the fisherman out, he
had swallowed a lot of water and his condition was deteriorating fast. The IRB crew radioed the
Branch Coordinator who directed the Toll Rescue Helicopter, who were also taking part in the search,
to Garie’s IRB and they winched the fisherman on board where he was then transport to hospital.

As mentioned, the Sydney Branch Support Operations Group conducted a trial of a Branch Jet Ski
being based at Garie during the busy Christmas School Holiday period to back up the three surf clubs
in the Royal National Park and extend our lifesaving coverage between Figure 8 Pools and
Wattamolla. The trial was an outstanding success with the Ski performing 42 rescues and it is hoped
that this will be a continuing extension of the Branch Support Operations Group in the coming years.

As always, our members are being encouraged to further their lifesaving experience by joining the
Branch Support Operations Group. This season we again had members patrolling on the Branch Jet
Skis and Surf Rescue 30 as well as taking on roles on Branch Committees. We also had members
patrolling and competing in other club’s IRB racing teams. By becoming involved in these other
lifesaving activities our members are furthering their lifesaving skills and knowledge which they are
then able to put into practice when doing patrols at Garie.

The Sydney Branch Awards of Excellence were held at Sth Maroubra SLSC this year. Garie had finalists
in ten categories, one of which was Branch Club of the Year. Unfortunately, we did not take out any of
the major awards this year but everyone who attended had a great night.

I must say all our achievements would not have been possible without the assistance of our local
Federal Member, Craig Kelly MP; our local State Member, Lee Evans MP; Surf Life Saving NSW; Surf
Life Saving Sydney; the Surf Life Saving Foundation's Grant Seeking Unit and our fellow surf clubs. All
these people give tremendous support and assistance to ensure Garie SLSC is providing a
professional community service to the public who visit the Royal National Park and Garie beach.

Of course, our members must be congratulated and thanked for their time and support during the
season as well as our very keen and hardworking Board and club officers who, together, made this
another positive and progressive season.

See you all in the coming season.

Brad Taylor

President

Administration

Dear fellow members,

It is with pleasure I present to you the Annual report and financial statements of Garie Surf Life Saving
Club Incorporated.

We take two steps up the ladder, only to be forced to relinquish one. Never the less, a great deal
progress has been made as you will read in the following pages.

These times are unprecedented for our generation, I dare say that the last time that we saw such
upheaval of our organisation was the national disbandment during WW2. As was the case in that era,
there were members that worked towards the inevitable, when all would be well again, operations
would resume and could again re-join their mates on the beach.

One thing that the generations before us did not have at their disposal was the technology that
helped us overcome problems that in the past would have been unsurmountable. I must record here
how very proud I have been to work with such an intelligent, level-headed team of people, who were
forced to modify pretty much every system under their portfolios to enable our continued functioning,
and to maintain our rightful place as a valuable and trusted part of the community.

However, in adversity there is also opportunity, and we should be justifiably proud of the milestones
that were set and achieved by the board and our committed membership this past season.

Our education and upskilling of members continues to go from strength to strength winning most
awards in district. Thats right! We are second to none.

Patrols are strengthening in numbers being fed from the education drive and the guidance of the
Director of Operations by seeding newer members into patrols.

Regular competition events with attendance and interest growing.

Upskilling of members to IRB drivers and crew, building an increasingly stronger power craft section.
It will be very interesting to see where they go in the years ahead.

Replacement of major equipment.

Ongoing repairs to the clubhouse.

Nominations in 10 categories of SLS Sydney awards of excellence.

And of course, most importantly, people having fun.

None of this would have been possible without the ongoing support from Surf Life Saving NSW and
Surf Life Saving Sydney Branch. In the earliest days of the pandemic, we were very dependent upon
their guidance and leadership, and they did not disappoint. It makes our jobs on the ground a lot
easier when we have faith in a strong and informed plan of action. Our gratitude is due here.

I would also like to acknowledge the support of the many older unsung members within our ranks that
we don't get to catch up on regularly. You, as younger club members may see names on the
membership list of our annual reports, but you may never meet them at the beach. These are
members that have patrolled and served the club before many of you were even a thought. In
essence our backbone, with membership spanning years from the 1950's and onwards, it is only
because of distance or health reasons that they cannot be amongst us. Thank you all for the support
you have shown by your long dedication, donations, and faith in the continued operations of Garie
SLSC, you are very much valued and appreciated. And we hope we have done you proud during
recent times.

Of course none of our continued operations would be possible without the ongoing support of others
outside our movement that also believe in, understand and encourage our essential and iconic field
of endeavour, thus our thanks and continued admiration to Network 10, Lee Evans MP, Craig Kelly
MP, and the National Parks and Wildlife service is heartily extended.

As I am writing this report from our current lockdown in Sydney, I would feel remiss in not closing by
extending an added thankyou to our members who have helped at the very highest levels, be it as
serving military, police, doctors, nurses, ambo's, we are proud to have you amongst us.

Patricia Dillon

Director of Administration

Operations Report

This season continued to throw everything at us between advancing our plans in developing the
club, covid and all the normal seasons activities. However, it has been a season in which our
lifesaving community came together to expertly navigate both on and off the beach, I commend
and applaud you all for your vigilance, volunteerism, and enthusiasm.

We kicked off with the annual pre-season gear inspection in September. A big thankyou to all the
members who helped not only servicing our gear for the inspection but also those who came to
the working bee prior to the opening of the season, getting our buildings and facilities up the
scratch, making the commencement of the season seamless for our volunteering members.

With the gear ready for full-service activities, we hit the beach with 5 patrols of roughly 8-9
members. Even with the difficulties of covid and losing some members to maintaining their health
during covid, we managed 96 rescues an increase from last seasons 27 rescues, we performed 84
first aids, including 3 fractures, minor cuts, and abrasions and 63 documented marine stings. The
active patrolling members also conducted 920 preventative actions. These actions include verbal
education, searches, shark alarms or warning signs being erected. Some of these verbal
education sessions really diversified this season, with some of our newer, more culturally diverse
active patrolling members being able to communicate to our very diverse visiting population. All
together the active patrolling members completed a combined 3,114 hrs at Garie this season,
however it would be inappropriate not to mention that the other Sydney clubs who volunteered
at Garie, sending down huge amounts of members also racked up just over 2000 hrs. More on
this program later in the report.

The education team were as busy as ever this season, completing, again, huge array of awards,
despite the lack of courses running through branch due to the restrictions about group training. The
team goals for the year were to extend the education training team, put through more active
members for us and upskill our original members awards. Both Mikala as our Education manager
and Nick as our Chief training officer have gone above and beyond their job roles this season and
committed to Garie like not many others have. Together along with the education trainers and
assessors they put through 124 awards. Congratulations team! I will leave them to mention the
specific education achievements this season in their reports.

Our IRB crew and drivers awards has grown significantly this season. With the introduction of in house
training. With Owen gaining his training cert and taking on the IRB training role we now have the capability
to train our own boat crews at Garie. Over the past few seasons, we were sending applicants, wanting these
awards, to other beaches and learning skills on there. But as we’d all appreciate Garie can be very different.
Not having to go through somewhat of a re training process once these awardee’s gain their respective
awards has been a huge advantage to us this season. Thanks to Owen and Louise for putting through these
fantastic squads. Luckily we were also approved through a government grant the approval for another IRB
and motor. With some bigger additions coming for the IRB space hopefully next season.

Being somewhat between gear stewards this year we had a few people pitch in when asked to complete
smaller jobs. Coming out of this season we have a larger number of board repairs needed to be done,
however all fixable. We will be looking into doing up the gear trailer in the off season and adding a few
things here and there to make the use of the gear shed simpler for visitors and members. Owen Skjeime
will be taking over a gear steward and ATV captain next season, all issues should be directed to him.

After a big clean out of first aid gear at the start of this season we were able to see where we wanted to aim
our grant money and where more extensive improvements could be made. We started with adding training
defibs, new batteries and pads for all operations defibs. Added some different first aid items to our kits. We
also made noted that we required additional cabinetry, a possible drug cabinet for future operations and

This season we saw the growth of some of our smaller patrols, with the introduction of last years bronze/ SRC/
Award cohorts beginning their first full season and the cohorts we put through during the season beginning with
our patrols. With the assistance of our very competent patrol captains and vice captains this transition has been
incredibly smooth, and the trainees have gained the most efficient information they could of in their first few
seasons as volunteers. Thankyou again to the existing patrols, PC’s and VCs for their leadership and enthusiasm
in accepting our newest members.

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Garie was pleased to assist Era SLSC in their annual Beach Ocean Challenge. A brilliantly organised event by Era
SLSC and Garie was happy to host the starting point. A small number of members helped with first aid, water
safety, the set up and pack up. Congratulations to Era on the event and the large number of locals it brought to the
RNP. We hope to see more events like these pop up between the RNP clubs over the coming seasons.

With the assistance of numerous SLS Sydney grants and council government grants Garie was able to further
update numerous assets this season. With a new TV, training defibs, boards, IRB’s, manikins (including updated
internal systems for old manikins), patrol utilities (flags, signs, binoculars, patrol uniforms). Without the support
from our local members and SLS Sydney these luxuries are untouchable to us. Supporters come in many shapes for
us this season, with the continued support of Sutherland Shire council members, Swim Sisters, Different Strokes
Swimming, Belgravia Leisure centres and Sydney Branch club education training family, just to name a few. Thank
you to all supporters of Garie over the past season.

The visiting club Saturday program was yet again an amazing success for Garie but also for those who volunteered
their time. With a huge effort from 12 Sydney branch clubs including, Elouera, Cronulla, Wanda, Coogee, Tamarama,
North Bondi, Clovelly, Maroubra, Bondi, Bronte, North Cronulla, South Maroubra and we were lucky enough to host
the Lifesavers with Pride as well. We had Mona Vale SLSC and North Narrabeen from the northern beaches hold a
youth weekend which was again an awesome experience for the fresh SRC holders. Likewise, we held the ALBERT
at Garie weekend, in November, where participants took shifts to patrol the beach. Id personally like to thank
Gilbert Olzomer once again for managing the Visiting Patrols Program from a branch level. Without his coordination
and work each week the clubs would have been under resourced and unmanaged. As mentioned, these patrols saw
members donate 2,026.51 hrs, although Garie appreciates every single hour these clubs have given to us it should
not go unnoticed that Coogee SLSC did a huge 457.67 hrs at Garie. This program has always been a hit for these
clubs, often utilised as education, bonding, juniors or training weekends. The future of this program is strong and
will continue however it was always the goal for Garie to recover and begin full patrolling capabilities once again. As
the dates become less and the opportunity becomes smaller for clubs to come down, we suggest getting your
dates in earlier for the 21/22 season.

As the RNP become more popular with visitors during lockdowns or just increased visitation, the possibility of
accidents rise. This season the Garie Call out team was active twice. One of which call outs resulted in a huge
rescue of a rock fisherman washed off Providential point at Wattamolla, the man was located 3+ km from his last
known location. This rescue received January rescue of the month from Sydney branch and was a nominated finalist
at the Sydney branch awards of excellence. The resources that Garie possess and the capability of our members
has an obvious impact within the emergency services. We were also able to be left on standby during the flood
earlier in 2021 in Sydney. Luckily we were not needed.

Once again, our race secretaries successfully ran many of our annual memorial, perpetual, and President point score
races. These races provide those who choose to compete the opportunity to show off their skills and brings out
their competitive edge. Next season the club will be looking at increasing our presence at carnivals, so these races
are a great way to practise these skills in a competitive field.

Furthermore, I wish to commend all the award winners from this season, from our larger club awards to our race
and education awards. The commitment you have shown towards the club is to be congratulated. You are all
commendable and valued members of Garie SLSC and we cannot wait to see where your future with us takes you.
Due to the health circumstances unfortunately, we are continuously postponing our awards evening to give out our
club awards but hopefully we will get there sooner rather than later.

All in all, it’s been another rewarding season across the board and I would like to reiterate my thanks to all
members who have patrolled in all capacities this season. I would also like to thank the Life Saving Committee for
their hard work, and of course the Garie board, without the dedication and commitment that you present to the
club, it would not be in the shape it is today and the positive flow we are moving for the future. I look forward to
seeing how we recruit and further advance Garie in the coming season. Diversifying and adjusting from the old ways
is the way forward for us. No matter what next season looks like, your lifesaving team will be ready.

Jessika Hay

Director of Lifesaving

Junior Development Report

Well, what an interesting year it was.

Due to the strict COVID-19 restrictions at the beginning of the season Garie SLSC elected not to offer a programme
to our younger age Groups U6-U8. Expressions of interest indicated that few of our nippers would be returning
during the lockdown, so we progressed with a programme for our U9-U14 age groups only.
We had a total of 6 registered nippers for this season, with one transferring to the SRC programme.
Unfortunately, the Kurnell Skills Clinic, organised annually by Era SLSC and supported by the Bate Bay clubs, didn’t
eventuate this season, but we are hopeful that next season will see a return to this wonderful event. It generally
kicks off our season and is a great way for the 3 RNP clubs to get together at the beginning of the season.

RNP District Carnival
The district carnival was attended by two of our nippers and supported by Garie Age Managers on
the day. The weather was excellent, and a great time was had by all. Thanks to Era SLSC for hosting
and Burning Palms for supporting again this season.

Thank You’s
First and foremost I would like to thank Network Ten for there financial support this season, with their
support we have purchased new boards a tent and other goodies for the junior section, I would also
like to thank the Club Captain Jessika Hay, the Patrol Captains, and our patrolling members for
supporting the junior program on the beach each Sunday. Our nippers on the beach were run
beside the active patrol, and this proved to be very successful.

I would like to especially acknowledge Tony Graham as Age Manager, and Dave Cross as Age
Manager Assistant this season. Sometimes wrangling fewer nippers is more challenging than a full
compliment.

Stephanie Griffiths

Director of Junior Development

Nipper Awards 2020/21

Awards Completed Certificate / Medallion
U10 Rajaa Hamdan Medallion
U10 Lucas Cross Medallion
U11 Ivy Lewis Medallion
U11 Patrick Graham Medallion
U13 Zaid Hamdan Medallion

Awards Nipper of the Year Perpetual trophy
Patrick Graham

Race Secretary Report

As race Secretaries this season we saw some real stand out competition, along with some new and
older members competing and giving it a go and that is all we can ask for as our club grows in
numbers. Again, we were challenged with surf conditions, stingers, covid 19 and heat waves. We
achieved 6/10 President Point score and 4 designated memorial and perpetual trophy days
between September to April, only being cancelled due to conditions. It was nice to see the
competitor’s confidence increase as the season progressed, the eagerness to race increased and
the competitions became tighter. Congratulations to all the competitors and winners from this
year’s races. Thank you to all the active patrolling members for coming down and having a go, it
really adds to the community Garie is creating. These races give patrol members the chance to test
their lifesaving skills and an opportunity to have their names engraved within Garie’s history. We
hope to see you all again next season, bring a friend.

Glenn and Mary-Jane Hay

Race Secretaries

Presidents Point Score Surf

Male – Brett Jamieson Female: Louise Skjeime

Presidents Point Score Beach

Male – Zaahir Edries Female: Louise Skjeime

Robert Hoffmann Sprint Champion

Male – Brett Jamieson Female: Louise Skjeime

Owen Hailey Surf Swim Champion

Male – Thomas Hay Female: Louise Skjeime

Bunta Burns Flags Champion

Male – Blake Dyer Female: Louise Skjeime

Alf Taylor Ironman

Male – Brett Jamieson Female: Louise Skjeime

Board Champion

Male – Gary Penman Female: Louise Skjeime

John O’Donnell Hard Luck Trophy

Yasmine Lewis

IRB Report

I want to start off by saying well done team, we got through another season with our gear holding up
and having the arrival of our long awaited Thundercat Hull and 25hp motor, which I know a few of you
will be keen to go for a spin in the in the coming season.

This season we started off very early in the winter months with dawn starts for one of our members
completing his IRB Drivers course with the help of Bondi IRB Captain for making a spot available for us.
We also gained within our section a new IRB trainer, this is a very warm welcome to help grow our
section and to have on board. He did not miss a beat with starting training straight away under the
watchful eye of assessor David Cross. Where we completed two IRB Crewman courses which saw our
ranks grow by 13 crewman, we also at the very tail end of the season gained one IRB Crewman which
was a delayed assessment due to injury giving us a final number of 14 crewman and one IRB Driver
giving us now two female IRB Drivers.

I would like to thank our two assessors, Michael Hodsdon who trekked into Burning Palms for our first
crewman's course and David Cross who came down to Garie for our second crewman's course and a
second time for our stragglers at the end of the season.

This season we also saw the trial of a RWC (Jetski) in the RNP from January until end of March. It was
welcomed with open arms as space was made in the gear shed for its temporary home. It is rostered by
Support Operations RWC qualified volunteers who were doing all day shifts from 10am to our varied
finish time of 3pm, 4pm & 5pm. During its time at Garie it was well utilised in covering the known black
spots that we must deal with on a regular basis. During its time at Garie the RWC did have its fair share
of beautiful quiet days to our beautiful busy days and finally to our disgusting weather where the beach
was shut but we were still on standby ready to go if needed.

The RWC saw 3 call outs during its stay at Garie, one such occasion the rider being one of our own.
Owen, just as he was doing final preps to pack away for the afternoon right at the end of patrol, we
Garie patrol received a call -out which saw the RWC come racing back out of the shed, launched and
on scene in less then 10 minutes going into a nasty head wind and chop. Fortunately we had a good
result on this one. The RWC also assisted with the Garie to Era Ocean Swim making sure all swimmers
were escorted along the course upon returning to Garie after a successful swim there was another call
out where the result was not as favourable.

And finally I would like to thank the board for their continued support throughout this time with helping
develop and grow this section by people and gear. Also thank you to all patrols for the assistance and
support throughout the season and now onto another great season.

Louise Skjeime

IRB Captain

Member Services

Dear members,

I invite you to review the Director of Member Services report as I summarise activities for the 2020/21 Surf
Life Saving season at Garie SLSC.

Following on from a successful 2019/20 season, this season welcomed the return of many longstanding
and new members despite the COVID-19 restrictions, challenges, and continuing adjustments to how
Lifesaving and Garie SLSC has traditionally operated. However, what I am most proud of- is our clubs
unique ability to adapt and excel.

I consider the 2020/21 season as an honest representation of the clubs’ motivation to embed the
changes and movements from the previous years and Garie’s Strategic Plan. I impress this point with
reference to recruitment, education and training, patrolling members and visiting club patrols, nippers
and junior activities, member and patron safety (i.e., COVID-19), member retention strategies and a
renewed emphasis on member recognition.

As a longstanding member of the club, and the current lead for Member Services priorities; I am
incredibly proud of our achievements at the Sydney Branch 2020/21 Awards of Excellence. We may not
have been awarded the outright winner for a given category (below), but what is important, is that our
members contributions are being recognised at a Branch level and among their peers at Club level. I
acknowledge that we are all volunteers, and every contribution, no matter how big or small -is meaningful
and progressive to this club. Garie SLSC congratulates the following members/teams who were Finalists
at the Awards of Excellence:

Surf Lifesaving Sydney 2020/21 Award Finalists

Club of the Year Surf Lifesaver of the Year

Garie SLSC Mark Forland

Administrator of the Year Patrol Captain of the Year

Mikala Welsh Jessika Hay

Assessor of the Year RWC Member of the Year

David Cross Owen Skjeime

Trainer of the Year Community Education Program of the Year

Owen Skjeime Garie Vanguard

50 Years Long Service

Peter Collins, Robert Ford

40 Years Long Service

Bradley Taylor, David Dillon

30 Years Long Service

David Cross, Peter Sullivan, Stephen Quinn, Michael Bretherton

25 Years Long Service

Patricia Dillon, Robert Glasson

20 Years Long Service

Anthony Graham

15 Years Long Service

Louise Skjeime

10 Years Long Service

Shaun Hudson, Jonathan Kilbane, Jessika Hay, Anthony Farquhar, Owen Skjeime

5 Years Long Service

Brett Walker, Brett Jamieson, Michael Lynch, Lhyriel Smith, Dean Storey, Blake Dyer, Alex Tasker,
Nick Tyler, Mark Forland, Robin Bowley, Aimee Clarke, Claire Cleal, Sean Cummins, Paul Goodyer,
Thomas Hay, Samuel Haynes, Peter Cross, Jacob Way

The dedication of these members to Garie SLSC and Surf Life Saving is profound and deserves utmost
recognition. It is necessary to acknowledge the contribution of these members despite the constantly
evolving landscape of society and community we operate within, personal demands, and requirements in
Surf Life Saving. From the Board, thank you for all that you do.

Finally, thank you for the opportunity to lead Member Services for the 2020/21 lifesaving season.

Lhyriel Smith

Director of Member Services

The Garie Vanguard

Following the success of the inaugural Garie Auburn Surf Life Saving initiative in 2019, we adapted
and refined out approach for the 20/21 season. We created extra value (and challenges) by
extending the Bronze resuscitation component to be an ARTC qualification. Additionally we added
the senior first aid course during the 10 week period, meaning that the majority would come out of
the program with three awards.

We delivered a hybrid delivery approach involving theory and board and tube training at Auburn with
the beach practical components at Garie. The trainers and admin also had to cope with the additional
challenge of the new Bronze/SRC training and assessment structure.

True to form, Garie Beach didn’t make life easy for the squad but they persevered, and really
surprised their assessors with the knowledge and skills. We had some truly inspiring performances in
the water under very challenges surf conditions

The award numbers from our Auburn squad continues. With bronzies, SRC, ARTC, First Aid, Radio
Operators, Silver Beach Management, IRB Crew and more to come ( we have IRB Driver in training
now and a cohort really really wanting that Silver Medallion Aquatic Rescue - subtle hint SLSNSW)

Quick story on how well qualified the squad was. During the bronze assessment - in the CPR
component, the squad were all ARTC qualified so they went seamlessly into the use of the oxygen
equipment, exactly as trained. The look on the assessor’s face when this happened was priceless. He
conceded rapidly that they did in fact know how to do CPR.

It is important to note that at Garie we see all participants as being able to do more. Our Radio
Operators did their First Aid and ARTC. Along with our SRCs they ALL did the full Bronze course. It is
an integrated training program. All participants are equal because we all have to patrol together. It
was a challenge for the trainers too - as there are multiple skill levels and training outcomes we have
to train simultaneously.

A big big thank you to Brett Walker for his time. leadership and skill in training.

Nick Tyler

Chief Training Officer

Education Report

What a very interesting year this has been! Once again COVID was an issue. And yet not only did we
get there, but we exceeded our expectations. Thank you to the Garie Board for their support this year.
Much appreciated.

Before we go any further. What we did this year could not have been achieved without four things –
our amazing education team, the tremendous support from the Garie patrol members, the external
SLS teams (thank you Branch and NSW) and the desire to learn from our training participants. Thank
you.

A couple of years ago we said our key strategy was to grow the training team. This is a continuous
strategic pillar. Our growth as a club is predicated on the skill and size of the team. Well, we have
ARTC IRB crew, IRB drivers plus Resus, Radio and both SRC and Bronze trainers and assessors. And
we are close to expanding our Cert IV Assessors and Trainers.

BUT all these training skills are held by just seven people. SO, a big thank you to Owen (BM/SRC/IRB
crew/driver), Jess, Mikala and Nick (SRC/Bronze), Lhy (ARTC), Hayley (First Aid, BM/SRC), Brett
(SRC/Bronze/ARTC) and Crossy (IRB Assessor). So please, hands up if you want to become a
SRC/Bronze trainer. Please – I will be asking again later!

The team trained and assessed across a range of Surf Clubs including in the RNP with Burning Palms
and Era and out across the Sydney Branch to Bondi, Tamarama and Cronulla. We bring a welcome
addition to RNP training family. And we want to thank Peter Pierce, Gary Daly and Marissa (Bondi) and
Mark Anders (North Cronulla) for their support and guidance.

We gained a new TV this year – which was well received in our training programs and by our external
trainers. It has proved a real asset. But it was not the only new bit of kit. 4 new mannequins and QCPR
upgrade kits. The QCPR kits also allow us to use an app to extend our training – for you to see your
results and where to improve. And let us run CPR races! We also got a new training defib which was a
huge help in getting us over the line during training. From a kit perspective we aim to get another
training defib and possibly a new dummy for wet spinal.

Our annual proficiency battle was, as ever, a challenge - and we nailed a near 100% rate. Thank you to
our Patrol Captains for helping achieve this. We aim to go early this year and get as many
proficiencies done for the season start.

Gloat time. We won the RNP race for most awards. Again. Putting the gloat to one side. Upskilling and
increasing our membership is a very important activity for us as a club and for our RNP/ Beach visitors.
The more skilled we are – the better place we are in to deal with emergencies. One thing to also say –
we are in the top of all SLS Australia when it comes to the % of awards to the number of patrol
members. We may not get the most awards but we nail it proportionally.

This year, we continued running the combined SRC and Bronze training courses. And we ran both a
long course and lightning course (the lightning is run over two weekends) both with 100% success.

As indicated earlier - COVID did impact our training – a special shout out to Catherine, Zaahir, Olly
and Lily who were about to quality in early 2020 when all training stopped. All four came back and
successfully passed 2020 – great effort.

Our lightning course was a cracker this year, targeting those who are beach and sea proficient, with
strong sea skills, advanced swim times and who already hold other qualifications. This course is
intense, involving 3 full days of training but this squad made it look easy.

Upskilling this year was almost a breeze. But it is the effort by all our members to make the time to
further their skills that help keep our beach safe and to support the patrols they are on. We will always
support this and continue to encourage all our members to see what else they can do next, while of
course practicing everything they have learnt. Unfortunately, the Silver Medallion Aquatic Rescue
courses did not run this year but we are hopeful Branch will have plenty of courses next season for
everyone who is keen.

Education Awards

Surf Rescue Certificate Bronze Medallion

Lily Beck Oliver Bechhio Neanne Alnafta Zaahir Edries

Rameen Malik Antonette Jayona Lauren MacDonald

Catherine Milner Matilda Cootes

Ryan Beeby Ben Stapelbroek

First Aid Yaseen Hussain

Brad Taylor Rachel Knight RADIO Yasmin Zaman
Mark Forland Neanne Alnafta Will Mclean
Oliver Becchio Paul Cootes Mifrah Mahroof
Asma Fahmi Tony Graham
Yaseen Hussain Antonette Jayona Asma Fahmi
Mifrah Mahroof Lauren Macdonald
Michelle Ricketts Casey Wilson Advanced Resuscitation (ARTC)
Paul Wilson Yasmin Zaman
Brett Jamieson Lily Beck Matilda Cootes Lucas Cootes
Carmen Beck Will Mclean
Owen Skjeime Paul Cootes Sam Haynes

Brett Jamieson Pat Laurence

Ben O’Flaherty Gary Penman

Neanne Alnafta Zaahir Edries

Asma Fahimi Lauren Macdonald

Resuscitation (HLTAIDOO1) Antonette Jayona Mifrah Mahroof

Owen Skjeime Mikala Welsh Rameen Malik Yazmin Zaman

Brett Walker Jessika Hay Yaseen Hussain Eloise Newbury

Brad Taylor Nick Tyler Elsa Stapelbroek Sophie Raynor

SSV – Side by Side Vehicle induction

Jessika Hay Thomas Hay Mikala Welsh Owen Skjeime Louise Skjeime
Lucas Cootes Paul Cootes
Brett Jamison Yasmin Lewis David Cross Zaahir Edries Sam Haynes
Koen Stapelbroek Troy Dillon
Robert Glasson Paul Goodyer Anthony Graham Paul Wilson Nick Tyler

Mifrah Mahroof Catherine Milner Ayla Yuyucuoglu

Craig Lacey Michael Lynch Brian Mobbs

IRB Crewman’s Certificate IRB Drivers Certificate

Murtaza Ali Patrick Lawrence Mark Forland Elsa Stapelbroek

Ben O’Flaherty Yasmine Lewis

Gary Penman Lauren MacDonald Silver Medallion (First Aid)

Zaahir Edries Neanne Alnafta Brad Taylor Nick Tyler

Antonette Jayona Ben Stapelbroek

Yaseen Hussain Nick Tyler Silver Medallion (Beach Management)

Brett Jamieson Antonette Jayona

Bronze Medallion Assessors Jacob Way Zaahir Edries

Brett Walker Mikala Welsh Gary Penman Ryan Beeby

Nick Tyler Koen Stapelbroek Yasmine Lewis

Training Officer - BM Training Officer - ARTC

Mikala Welsh Jessika Hay Lhyriel Smith

Owen Skjeime

Training Officer – IRBC/IRBD

Owen Skjeime

Thank you so much to everyone for their time and effort and well done all. We will of course be doing BM and
SRC courses this year and want to put it out that we want to think about everyone doing an additional awards this
season. Come see us or send us an email if there is something that interests you and we will do our best to
make it happen! OR if you want to help the training team with training. assessing or water safety

Finally

You got this far. Well done. Remember, we need your help. Spread the word. Talk to your friends, families, work
colleagues etc. Oh, and while off season keep up practicing as we will run proficiencies and skills weekends
early on. Sure – you need a break. You deserved thank you. And to those doing their IRB drivers course right
now – bet you love Covid.

Mikala Welsh & Nick Tyler

Education Manager and Chief Training Officer

Club Awards

100% patrol efficiency

Louise Skjeime Jessika Hay Brett Jamieson Owen Skjeime Mikala Welsh Nick Tyler Mark Forland Ben Oflaherty
Paul Cootes Robert Glasson Paul Goodyer Brian Mobbs Sean Cummins Jono Kilbane Karen Cook Jacob Way
Gary Penman

Horses arse award

Robin Bowley

Trainer of the Year

Owen Skjeime

This is Owens first year as a trainer. Becoming a bronze and IRB trainer in one season. Successfully putting
through 2 crewmans courses and currently completing an IRB drivers course. Owen has been voted trainer of
the year by those who have been trained by him. Congrats Owen and thank you for your dedication to those at
Garie SLSC

Junior of the Year

Ben Stapelbroek

Ben joined Garie along with his family this season as a dual member with Mona Vale after visiting us with the
Mona Vale exchange program. This season Ben has completed his bronze, cert 2 in public safety, IRB
crewman’s and basic emergency life support. Ben is extremely supportive to other junior lifesavers, is constantly
helping in the gear shed and in water safety activities and has been seen at numerous events across the
season. Thankyou Ben for being a essential part of Garie this season.

Under 15 of the Year

Oliver Becchio

Oliver stepped up and completed his SRC this season, along with an updated first aid cert. He has completed
all his allocated patrols and additional ones with his mum, Mikala. Olly has also helped on numerous occasions
with water safety for nippers and other bronze and IRB courses. Olly has shown great initiative in the water and
beach races and competed in the annual resuscitation competition. Congrats Olly, we cannot wait to see where
your future will go with Garie.

IRB operator of the Year

Paul Cootes

Paul assisted with the ALBERT program again this season, he has dedicated his time yet again to being on call
and apart of the emergency call out teams. He was also as member of the rescue of the year and January’s
Sydney branch rescue of the month. Paul continues to push numerous members into doing their crewman’s
including his son. Thankyou Cootesy for continuously, over numerous seasons being an integral part of Garie.

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- Paul Cootes, Louise Skjeime, Jessika Hay
- A significant rescue took place 22/1/21, near Wattamolla Beach in the Royal National Park.

At 2:47pm, the Sydney Rescue Coordinator was notified of a person last seen being washed out
to sea at Providential Point & immediately began coordinating a significant response. 2x Duty
Officers responded, along with Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter, NSW Ambulance and Police.
It was determined that the person was a rock fisherman, swept off the rocks in large surf. He was
not wearing a life jacket.
The RCO tasked Garie SLSC’s Callout Team, and two RWC Jetskis from Cronulla. After a lengthy

Champion Patrol

Patrol Ford

Captained by Paul Cootes this patrol are always on top of their game. With the highest percentage of 100%
attendance rates, highest award growth and numerous members consistently backing up other patrols, helping
during preseason working bee’s, gear inspection and events; they are extremely deserving of this award.

Rescue of the Year

Paul Cootes, Louise Skjeime, Jessika Hay

A significant rescue took place 22/1/21, near Wattamolla Beach in the Royal National Park.
At 2:47pm, the Sydney Rescue Coordinator was notified of a person last seen being washed out to sea at
Providential Point & immediately began coordinating a significant response. 2x Duty Officers responded, along
with Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter, NSW Ambulance and Police.
It was determined that the person was a rock fisherman, swept off the rocks in large surf. He was not wearing a
life jacket.

The RCO tasked Garie SLSC’s Callout Team, and two RWC Jetskis from Cronulla. After a lengthy search, the
Garie IRB located the male person floating in the water, some 2km’s from where the helicopters and jetskis
were searching. The Garie team found the man clinging to a fishing pole, moments from drowning, Louise
Skjeime had to leave the IRB to physically help the drowning man into the IRB as he was now a dead weight to
the 2 other crewman on board. Due to the mans deteriorating health he was winched out of the Garie IRB and
into a waiting Toll Ambulance Rescue Helicopter Rescue 206, conscious and breathing and transported to
hospital - after being in the water for an estimated 2 hours.

Assessor of the Year

David Cross

Crossy assessed our IRB crews and IRB driver candidates, gave incredible feedback and came back on an
additional day just to assess people who were unable to finish their assessment due to injury. Crossy has been
a Garie assessor for many years and an incredible resource for the club.

Rookie of the Year

Lauren McDonald

A new award for this season, diligently awarded to Lauren who has completed numerous additional hours
above her own rostered hours. Completed a huge number of awards including Advanced resus, Bronze
medallion, Cert 2 in public safety, IRB crewman’s, First aid cert, Basic emergency life support, CPR cert and is
soon to complete her IRB drivers certificate. Thankyou Lauren for your exceptional commitment to Garie. We
are so excited to see where you go with Garie.

Most patrolling hours

Jessika Hay

Branch and Garie Most Patrolling Hours

Brad Taylor

Century Club

Mikala Welsh, Louise Skjeime, Jessika Hay

Nipper of the Year

- Patrick Graham
- Patrick Graham was one of 5 nippers this season, Patrick obtained 100% attendance, and participated in

Hilton “Blinky” Hawker Resuscitation Champion

Oliver Becchio

Olly entered the scenario just having completed his bronze medallion a few weeks prior, all the information fresh
in his brain. He was given the scenario, assessed the patient and dangers very proficiently, began his ABC
actions and successfully completed the scenario. Using the IPAD to assess how proficient Olly did his
compressions he received a mark of 99%. Receiving an overall mark of 9.5/10, the winner from over 9
participants on the day. A huge achievement for a new active member up against some of our highly qualified
senior active members. Congrats Olly

Nipper of the Year

Patrick Graham

Patrick Graham was one of 5 nippers this season, Patrick obtained 100% attendance, and participated in all
activities with excitement, commitment to learn, and participated in everything thrown at him.

Encouragement award

Glenn and Mary-Jane Hay

Throughout the years this husband and wife couple have supported their kids and numerous other club
members through nippers, carnivals, junior life saving, senior life saving, club events, gear and equipment
maintenance, and over the past 2 seasons have taken on board the job of club race secretaries. Continuously
encouraging everyone they come into contact to achieve their best, to laugh along with everyone and celebrate
all the clubs achievements.

Administrator of the year

Mikala Welsh

Mikala has helped in numerous areas of the club, from her own department in education processing 124
education awards to helping nippers and helping them to process all 5 of their awards and 67 long service
awards. An administrative role within any surf club is no small feat. Thankyou Mikala for you continued
volunteerism, vigilance, and professionalism in your role.

Patrolman of the Year

Mark Forland

Mark successfully completed 100% of his patrols, plus additional when the call went out. This season Mark
received his 5 year National patrol service award, updated his first aid certificate, completed his Advanced
Resuscitation Techniques Certificate, Provide Basic Emergency Life Support Certificate, and his Silver Medallion
IRB driver and has applied for the training to become a jetski operator for Sydney branch. Mark participated in
his first ALBERT program learning a range of advanced IRB skills and techniques. Mark also spent 3 days on
call during the march floods across Sydney on call as an IRB driver. This season Mark stood up and assisted
his patrol as a patrol captain on numerous occasions with high reviews from his fellow patrol mates.
Congratulations Mark. Your development and commitment to Garie this season is the reason you have been
awarded patrolman of the year this season

Clubman of the Year

Mikala Welsh

This year Mikala was seen at gear inspection, working bees, development strategy meetings, coordinating
numerous education programs, helping train new members. Assisting with hours of endless administrative work
for education junior development and member services. She has taken the time to come to numerous club
events and has become the go to person for many of the new members. Mikala’s hard work over the past few
seasons since joining Garie has not gone unnoticed, she spends endless hours working on education
programs, communicating with members, trainers and branch delegates to make everything run smoothly. The
clubman-ship that Mikala has shown to Garie is remarkable.