60 year Reunion Labour weekend 2010 Register by 30 September
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Times FM Mid Winter Swim 8 August Register 10 am for 11 a.m. swim. Gold coin entry. Lots of prizes to be won. Fundraising for Westpac Rescue Helicopter which will be there.

Orewa takes pretigious award at Northern Region Awards of Excellence
Orewa won the prestigious Competition Club of the Year at the Northern Region awards of Excellence on Saturday (12/6/10). Orewa’s consistency and all round strength across all surf sports disciplines this year were key factors in winning the award. Orewa’s Head Coach Andrew Towns attributes the clubs success to the emergence of their beach sprint squad and some outstanding results from the boat arena. “We’ve continued to be successful in the board and ski arena, but our sprinters and boaties stepped up, giving us strength right across the beach.

The U14 Sportsman was taken out by Adam Parker. Adam’s exceptional season included being named the U14 Northern Region Team Captain and winning 9 medals, including 7 gold at this year’s District Championships.

Luke Siddins won the U16 Sportsman of the Year following a stellar season which saw him named U16 Northern Region Team Captain and winning 10 medals including 5 gold at this year’s District Championships. At the National Championships, Luke won a silver and bronze medal.

Rachel Clarke won the Sports Woman of the Year Award following an outstanding season. Rachel’s achievements this year include winning 4 medals at the Northern Region Pool Championships as well as 5 medals at the National Pool Championships. At the Northern Region District Championships, Rachel won 10 medals including 3 gold and at the National Championship she took the full set of a gold, a silver and a bronze. The highlight of Rachel’s season was being named in Surf Life Saving New Zealand Team to compete at this year’s World Championships in Alexandria, Egypt.

Wayne Franich, the current Orewa Club President, was named Surf Official of the Year for his work as carnival controller for Northern Region, as well is an arena referee at NZ level.  Wayne also is a member of the Northern Region Sport Operations Committee. Service Awards were given to Orewa’s Robyn Green, Stuart Handford, Graham Taylor, Faron Turner and Karen Young. Distinguished Service Award for long term service were given to prominent Orewa members John Chapman, present Club Chairman, and Alan Franich.
	Wayne Franich	John Chapman

Rachel Clarke is on her way to Melbourne with the New Zealand Team to compete at the Australian Pool Lifesaving Championships this weekend.
Competing against the Aussies will be a great indicator of Rachel’s early preparation form ahead of the World Championships in Egypt later this year.
Kick some Aussie butt Rachel! We’ll be following your progress via the website
 http://www.royallifesaving.com.au/www/html/318-australian-champs.asp

17 Orewa Athletes Selected in the Northern Region High Performance Squad read more

Business House Sponsors Support Orewa
Lucky draw winners from the 2009 Business House recently got a chance to view the gear that will proudly display their company name during it's life on the beach. Business House Sponsors had a one in 20 chance of having their name drawn last year and seeing their name on new sports equipment, along with other benefits.
Thank you to all of our Business House Sponsors for your support. We will be doing it again this year. For enquiries please phone the club 426 5058.

Gregor from In Toto Ltd	Brackebush & Co	Horizon Homes, Orewa

Teneale Hatton & Lisa Carrington win GOLD at the World Cup in Vichy, France, in the K2 1000m. (10/5/10)
To read more on the official website follow this link. http://www.canoeicf.com/icf/NewsMedia/News/German-Domination-of-Medals-on-day-2-in-Vichy.html

Newly Qualified Lifeguards May 2010 Congratulations to (L to R): Jenny Sweeting, Ben Sutton, Gemma Dixon, Nicola Clarke, Rachel Rowley, Rebecca Scott (front) Mike Graham (back), Mike Tolich, William Green, Jarrod Olsen

Orewa Ironwoman set to take on the world (16/4/10)
On Thursday night Surf Life Saving New Zealand named a 12 person team to contest this year's World Championships in Alexandria, Egypt. One of the new faces in this year’s team is Orewa Surf Life Saving Club’s star ironwoman, Rachel Clark. read more

Rachel Clarke & Teneale Hatton selected in NZ squads read more

Teneale Hatton begins competing at the Australian Championships today read more

Zac Fanich and Sam Wilson named in CRNZ U23 Team read more

NZCT Surf Life Saving Champs 11 - 14 March, Ohope Beach
Our Most Successful Nationals Ever. We won more gold medals, scored more points and had more medal winners than ever before. read more

Junior Surf Survey
We are currently reviewing our junior surf club season. 
The purpose of the survey is to find out your thoughts about the season. We plan to use the results of the survey to improve the experience your child/ren and you have of our club. The survey will help form a planning document taking us into the future. It helps the club plan for new initiatives and helps us make decisions about the 2010/11 season. We want you to help us plan for the future. Please click on the below link to complete the survey, thank you for your time.
Junior Survey

Orewa 2nd at Trillian Trust District Champs, Ruakaka
Final score tally places Orewa 2nd by only 14 points after surf boat events were added. Congratulations and well done team. (Red Beach 553.5, Orewa 539.5, Mairangi Bay 431.0)

Win for U23 surf boat crew
Last weekend at Waihi Beach (6 & 7 Feb) the Orewa under 23 surf boat crew came away with the North Island surf boat title for age group men.  read more

Orewa 4th Overall at NRC's
After bad weather cancelled many of the events on Sunday, Orewa finished 4th overall at the recent NRC's at Mt Maunganui. Results

Congratulations to our newest lifeguards Qualified January 2010 L to R: Courtney Jenkinson, Warren Coogan, Holly Coogan & Gabby Shields

Orewa Surf Lifesaving Club hosted Tamati Coffey and the TVNZ One Breakfast show, organising their Junior Squads including the 3-7 year old Sprat & Tadpoles to demonstrate their training and competition disciplines. Lots of people turned out to enjoy coffee and Danish pastries to watch the show being filmed, on what was one of the most beautiful mornings on Orewa Beach.                                                                            Photo courtesy of Amanda Wignell Photography

Congratulations to our new lifeguards Qualified October 2009 L to R :Drue Matich Adam Parker Nick Miklejohn Callum Thomason Georgia Simpson

New 'Fitness for surf' sessions with Andrew read more

Calender and training times for seniors go to coach's page

Orewa Members Named in SLSNZ DHL 'In It For Life' Honours 2009
A celebration of Surf Life Saving took place in Wellington, 20 September 09, as National honours were awarded to past and present Surf Lifeguards at the 2009 DHL ‘In it for Life’ Awards. Over 30 of New Zealand’s elite Surf Life Saving members were officially recognised for their hard work and dedication to Surf Life Saving.
“We are a volunteer organisation and without the sheer dedication of our members we wouldn’t be able to deliver the essential service that we do.” said Geoff Barry, Surf Life Saving CEO.
Orewa members that were recognised for their commitment were-
DHL Official of the Year: Wayne Franich
DHL Instructor/Examiner of the Year: Faron Turner

Club rows 324km Saturday 26 September in support of Shaun
In 2010 a Mairangi Bay Boatie (Shaun Quincey) is planning to row solo from Australia to New Zealand. This has only been done once before – by his father. Funds raised from this challenge are being donated to Surf Life Saving New Zealand. To promote his challenge he planned a world record attempt to row 1,000,000 meters on a rowing machine (erg) over 5 days from 23rd to 27th September.
Orewa Surf Club set up 5 ergs at Orewa New World on Saturday 26 September and in teams, rowed a total of 324km in support of Shaun. 250km was the target but the rowers managed to exceed that in the time allocated. Funds were raised on the day for Orewa Surf Club with rowers obtaining sponsorship for their efforts, an on site BBQ and life guards taking donations at the event.
Thank you to everyone who supported this event, clubbies and public.

Chance to Support our Fund raising Opportunity
You are all no doubt aware of the impact that the current economic recession has had for sporting and non profit organisations where our funding and sponsorship income has fallen significantly.  The Executive Committee has been looking at new ways to generate much needed income to allow us to continue to provide life saving and other equipment, coaching and to meet overhead expenses. read more