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Red Beach and Orewa Surf Lifesaving Clubs will have more silverware for their trophy cabinets, following a raft of wins at last week’s online Northern Regional Awards of Excellence.
The awards were originally to be held last month, but the Level 3 lockdown caused a postponement, and the eventual holding of the awards online on September 9. The trophies themselves will be handed out when alert levels permit.
Red Beach took out the Northern Region Junior Surf Championships and Masters Competition Club of the Year, as well as the Northern Region Championships award, while Orewa won the Northern Region Pool Championships and was named the region’s Junior Competition Club of the year.
In the sports category, two young Orewa lifeguards were honoured – Amelia Bray for U14 Sportswoman of the Year and Kailen Brackebush for U14 Sportsman of the Year.
Akira Gardiner of Red Beach is the U16 Sportsman of the Year.
Orewa’s Faron Turner is the joint winner of Volunteer of the Year – Faron also received a life membership to his club. He has played a huge role in patrolling, examining, instructing and mentoring.
Benny Larsen, also of Orewa, is Examiner of the Year.
Red Beach’s Pete Kramer was the recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Power Craft, which recognises his work on IRB engine maintenance workshops. He is the chair of the club’s IRB racing committee, which has seen the formation of a female IRB crew for the first time in five years.
Service awards went to Red Beach’s Richard Rogers, Ian Cairns and Craig Gledhill and Orewa’s Nicole Lafferty and Cameron Lockie. Red Beach’s Debra Cairns received her Distinguished Service Award, as did Trevor Keinzley and Benny Larsen of Orewa.
