Final Series Volunteers needed

To All Members

The Ferntree Gully Eagles Junior Football Club has once again been awarded 4 weeks of Junior finals hosting at Wally Tew Reserve.

Hosting Finals is a very big 'win' for our club and helps to generate a substantial profit for us. However to do this we need YOUR help and this year we will need it more than ever.

We could possibly end up having 7 sides playing finals and as such a lot of helpers may find themselves unable to help out when they normally would have. We need people to do 1 or 2, 2 hour shifts over the 4 days. We will have a Ground Manager who will co ordinate all activities and all you will have to do is work the designated job for a few hours.

Roles will range from Gate Attendant, BBQ, Canteeen, Kitchen and food handling, Scoreboard, Bins and very general tasks that ensure all goes smoothly on the day. It is very likely that if we get enough helpers overthe 4 weeks we will only need our volunteers to do 1 shift. Over the next week we will put out a roster for each week and within that roster we will allocate a role to each age group.

We need these time slots filled and we NEED you to help us out. Remember this is for your kids.

Please keep an eye out for a roster and it is very likely that this will come out via your Team Manager.

With so many sides likely to play finals we are going to need a big effort from all our members to make this successful.

Many Thanks and we look forward to seeing you all there.

Noel White
President

Club Members mentioned in State Parliament…..

Last week (20th of June)our Local State Member of Parliament and great supporter of the Eagles, Mr Nick Wakeling made his members statement to Parliament and acknowledged the recent recipients of awards at our Dinner Dance.

Nick statement read as follows….

"I recently attended the Ferntree Gully Eagles Junior Football Club annual dinner dance and would like to congratulate those who received awards for their outstanding and continuous efforts for the club. Congratulations to Graeme Gardiner on being awarded life membership of the Junior Club. Greg lawson and Paul Eacott (PJ) on their best club person awards and Sam Cavarra on being recognised by the Eastern Football League for services to football plus having a perpetual award named in his honour."

Thanks to Nick for formally recognising our volunteers and its great to know their names are now recorder in hansard (Parliamentary Records) for ever ……

Noel White
President

AllAbilities State Team

Congratulations to our very own Jordy Green - selected in the Victorian AllAbilities Football Team to play against South Australia in Adelaide this coming Sunday 8 July 2012. The Ferntree Gully Eagles Junior Footbal Club is proud of your achievemnent and we wish you well in this game. Jordy is the first of our players to have made this team - well done!

Also, congratulations to five of our players (Chris Woods, Jamie Phillips, Daynah Hopkins, Sean Double and Jordan Green) all of whom represented our Club at the recent North versus South Game played at Parkville. Great effort boys - you have made us all very proud!  

Congratulations Jaidyn

Congratulations to Jaidyn Stephenson whom recently was presented with a very prestigious State Sporting Award. Jaidyn, who plays in the Under 13A side was awarded the sole Primary School Award for the state, for outstanding achievements in his sport (Australian Rules Football).

The Sporting Blue is identified around the world as an accolade of sporting excellence by young people, and is distinguished by a two-coloured blue ribbon attached to a traditional bronze medallion.13A side was awarded the sole Primary School award for the State, for outstanding achievements in his sport (Australian Rules Football).

The award has been presented since 1994 and Jaidyn was very excited to be sitting next to Matthew LLoyd at the ceremony

Congratulations Jaidyn on an outstanding achievement and the Ferntree Gully Eagles Junior Football Club are very proud of you.

Noel White