THE WELSH NATIONAL FLYING CLUB 2010 ANNUAL PRESENTATION NIGHT

The welsh national flying club and the welsh north road federation held their annual joint presentation at the ferns club in Newport on sat 4th dec 

114 guest ,members families and friends congregated to congratulate the achievements and recipiants from both organisations for 2010

Myself ,gaynor and our party arrived early for the final check before everyone started to arrive around the 6pm mark as requested with a lot to get through during the night we thank everyone for arriving on time
WITHEVERYONE DUALLY SEATED Mr terry tremeer as chairman of the wnfc welcomed everyone to the evening and after grace the meals start to appear a traditional three course xmas meal was dually served with more than enough to go around at this time we thank all the catering staff at the ferns for their swift serving

With the tables dually cleared away it was time to welcome the committee and members of the welsh north road federation to this fine venue to award there trophies to the winners of both open and section winners plus the customery prestigious awards to the graceful recipients mr glyn picton ,mr m mayo and fed secretary john humphries dually came forward to carry out this task

With that over it was onto the main event of the night in the presentation of the welsh national flying club winners of 2010 each in turn received a set of four etched wnfc glasses in presentation boxes as the photos show for their achievements
one thing to note which highlighted the occation was that nearly every table laid out for our guests consisted of a previous combine winner , multiple national winner at all levels there was even high rate of past whpu queens cup and other major trophy winners also present  a statement that we are proud to aknowledge within our orgaisation
 this just shows the competition and class  dedicated pigeon flyers tht the wnfc and the wnr federation consists of week in week out

  The presentation itself got underway with with mr mel mayo vice president of the welsh north road federation being asked to come forward to carry out the proceedings and to award the trophies on our behalf
the Malcolm gibbons sponsored dover national race 1st south section kidd & cooke 1st north section d k flowers 1st centre section 1st open went to the loft of iddy davies of barged

You may notice as the night went on that there no photos of I davies this was because his wife had booked themselves an holiday which co-insided with the presentation night

The west country products sponsored lilliers national were the next awards to be presented 1st south section mr & mrs k upham ,1st centre section lovell bros 1st north section 1st open mr & mrs I Bromley

Two weeks on from that race we went to reims and we all new what sort of race that was ,however in every race there`s a winner or winners ,1st north section preece bros & sons 1st south section kidd & cooke and ist centre section first open lovell bros

The pieter kos and proff sport of Holland sponsored metz national 1st north section d k flowers 1st centre section lovell bros and 1 st south section 1st open kidd & cooke

It was then that the dramatic decition was made to drop back into Folkestone on the east coast for the next national event sponsored by Cambrian trophies supplies1st north section m sparey 1st centre section lovell bros ,and 1st south section 1st open for the second week running kidd and cooke

Moving on to 500 miles for the versele laga and paget pet supplies sponsored saverne national race 1st south section went to fishlock bros & son ,1st centre section morris & lucus and 1st north section 1st open winning the versele laga and the welsh north road federation longest race trophy was d k flowers

We swiftly moved on to the young bird racing first up was the a kidd sponsored Maidstone national 1st south section went to g Bryant 1st north section c long & son and 1st centre section 1st open I davies

Richie elliott and the south west one loft race organisation down in Plymouth sponsored the next event from Folkestone along with the jack jenkins memorial trophy when 1st south section went to s proctor 1st centre section lovell bros and 1st north section 1st open going to the partnership of Williams bros and sons of Tredegar

The swol voucher kindly donated by Richie elliott to the wnfc for a free entry into the 2011 event was won this year by mr & mrs k upham

we now move on to the final race of 2010 lilliers ybs 1st south section was a,j & s attley ,1st centre section h minett finishing off a remarkable season was the loft of d k flowers with 1st north section 1st open

With the race presentations over there was a few averages and other trophies to present the first was the versele laga saverne two bird average winner which was awarded to d k flowers and the versele laga best oppersite sex to the savenre winner claimed by fishlock bros the fianal trophy to be presented was the mr mrs t harris young bird average winners trophy dually won by I davies for the second year

Mr clive hughes our resident photographer and sponsor of a colour photo of all the years open winners was requested to come forward and present these he was then thanked for his continued support once again and we are hopeful this will continue into 2011

It was hen the ladies turn to awarded for there input to the running over the past twelve months first up was mrs rosemary Humphries this lady has the thankless job of going through all the race sheets on a weekly basis as a mini audit which assists us in declaring the final prize monies for each race so quickly

Next up was gaynor who puts up with me and the phone seven days a week next was mrs Christine tremeer our chairmans wife and finally the last flowers to be presented were to the landladies of the ferns club for providing us with their excellent services

 before closing the presentation ceremony the partnership of fishlock bros and son were invited to the trophy table for the aknolwledgement of their award of winning the whpu queens cup with performances achieved within the wnfc and the wnr federation in 2010

With that the lights were lowered for our artist to kick off the entertainment by the name of darryl wyn who sang songs for all generations followed by an outstanding disco which also catered for all ages bringing nearly everyone to there feet on the dance floor until the early hours

So that was it the 2010 presentation evening drew to an end ,may we take this opportunity of thanking everyone for their attendance we were only six short of a capacity attendance of 120 and resulting on the compliments received everyone was more than happy with the way the night went

With the 2011 season soon upon us its time to thank all the workers of 2010 namely our transporting organisation and their race controllers and convoyers for there thankless job they do on our behalf our sponsors who have supported us since we formed two years ago and finally our membership and co -committee men for their backing over the past twelve months

Tom harris