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Christmas morning at the club - no need for words!

Note - Lemony Devoy's A Series Of Unfortunate Hot Ports

Turkey Race 2004!

Dear Clubs and fellow paddlers,
I am delighted to announce to you details of this years Charity Christmas Turkey Race, December 19th 2004 at 2pm from Templemills, Celbridge to Leixlip's Salmon Leap in aid of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Following the success of last year's event, in addition to the Classic Canadian race we are including a Senior and Junior fun race with optional fancy dress for both classes.
With safety a prime consideration we would not encourage juniors or others without river experience to participate, given the time of year and the likelihood of a flood or high water conditions. While we encourage fancy dress and look forward to seeing your costumes on the day (note: there is a prize for the best fancy dress!!) it is also imperative that paddlers are suitably attired with cags, helmets and buoyancy aids.
Last year, thanks to your participation and generosity we raised a whopping €1500 and we hope to exceed that figure this year! Celbridge Paddlers has pledged to donate all entry fees gathered on the day. Official sponsorship cards are available from SVP head office only and are easily obtained upon phoning 01- 8380527 - ask for Louise. The SVP are expecting your calls and will post out cards to individual addresses or in bulk to a club address, so we would ask each club to encourage those who wish to participate in the Turkey Race this year to go ahead and phone the SVP for sponsorship cards and let the fundraising begin (note: there is also a prize for the best fundraiser).
If you have queries on any of the above, or you wish to make a donation or contribution of a spot prize for the raffle please do not hesitate to contact me on 086-4083790 or email jewilson@tcd.ie.

Is mise le meas,

Jean Wilson, Celbridge Paddlers Canoe Club

For your information: Society of St. Vincent de Paul National Headquarters, 8 New Cabra Road, Dublin 7. Phone: 01 838 0527 Fax: 01 838 7355 email: info@svp.ie

Tragedy on the Barrow

Two canoeists were tragically drowned on the river Barrow on Saturday (30th October, 2004). The two men were with a group canoeing from Graiguenamannagh to St. Mullins when they got into difficulty on the weir above St. Mullins. We extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the two paddlers.

Celbridge Paddlers Fancy Dress 2004 (an eye witness account by Shrek!)

On Sunday October 24th I invited all of my friends to visit me at the Swamp aka Barnhall Rugby Club. Unfortunately none of them turned up! Instead I was met by a multitude of complete strangers including the President of the Irish Can-You Union, a pirate and an assortment of witches, ghouls, fairies and freaks! Even Seven of Nine was there (very cryptic)! It was, of course, the First Annual CPCC Fancy Dress Party.

A great night started bang on cue at 8:00PM, when Barry Watkins paid to get in! Morticias friend arrived and scared the bejaysus out of the kids! Prizes were awarded for the best costume in three categories: Best Boy, Best Girl and Biggest Eejit! The Best Boy was Harry Potter (gotta keep it (loosely) in the family!) Laura Fitzsimons (The Little Witch!) and the Biggest Eejit was Hugh Hefners mother, sorry, that should read Cathy Fleming! As the night wore on and people got a little peckish, the kids were treated to a party bag; after all it was a party. While they were munching away on that, the girls from Absolutely Fabulous were busy preparing some scrumptious Sweet & Sour Chicken and Beef Stroganoff, the meat for which was supplied by Young's Butchers. If you want to know how nice it was, just ask Chewbacca's ferrets! After the meal we had a little raffle, prizes for which were supplied by Damien's, Lynches, Carry Out Off Licence, Blake's and Walsh's Chemists. Xtra Vision threw in some vouchers and the supermarket up in Castle Village gave us a bottle of wine as well. Tesco's and Jimmy's did our teeth no favours by donating a box of sweets each. My thanks to all of them and to the Chairperson of the local branch of the Poor Mouths Association, Geraldine Burke, for getting the prizes.
As the night wore on more people arrived, including one guy who had just got off the river. Well, I think he just got off the river as he was still in his gear at 11 o'clock at night! Another guy came straight to the party after landing at Shannon (another cryptic one). A poor nurse was minding her own business, waiting at a bus stop, when it started talking to her. She hasn't been the same since! She gets cabs everywhere now! At one stage I thought Barnhall was being rebuilt because Duncan and his crew arrived in their Hi-viz jackets and yellow helmets!
While the fossils sat chewing the cud, the bright young things of the club set up a mosh pit in the middle of the floor. Anybody who was nobody was in it! We had a baby, a priest, a transvestite schoolchild and a few Leppers! Even MTV sent along one of the lads from Pimp My Ride! and I have to say, he looked too comfortable in that coat!!! He even brought a couple of young maids with him. The old maids stayed up at the bar.
Some guy was annoying Harry Potter so he turned him into a pumpkin and the DJ was so fed up with people asking him what he was that he wrote a description on his back! There were a couple of truant schoolboys from Feckoff College, and there was even an old lecher, eyeing up a bunny, (Check out the photos).
I could bore you to death with a list of everybody who was there…… so I will. Nah, I'm only messing, I won't. Suffice it to say a great night was had by all and such was the response that there have been a number of enquiries for tickets for next year's party, from people from Barnhall! So get your tickets early or you will have to go on the cancellation list!

Finally a Big Thank You to Edina and Patsy for all their help. The food really was delicious. Also to our sponsors and to Barnhall. And a big Thank You to all of you also because without you the night would have been a flop. And just to wrap up, for those of you who don't know who Seven of Nine is, have you ever watched Star Trek: Voyager? Well, there's this Borg, with a camera sticking out of her head………..Sorry I couldn't resist it! Until next time…

Shrek
PS If you have any photos can I have them so we can try and get them posted on the website?

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