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| Official Session Start Dates |
Updated 26/1/12 |
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The first official night for the adult club is Monday 30th January.
The first official session for Midweek is Thursday 2nd February.
Friday night junior club still to be advised.
The Club is desperately short of volunteers to help run club sessions. There is no need to come on the Board to help out!
The old story “many hands make light work” applies so if you can help out in some way, even if in a very small
way please approach any Board member or session organizer.
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| New Session Fees for 2012 |
Updated 26/1/12 |
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Dear Members,
I am writing on behalf of the Board to inform you that, regretfully, club session fees will increase with effect from 1st January 2012.
The last increase in session fees was on 1st January 2009. In 2010 there was a GST increase that we absorbed. Now, on top of this,
we have recently been informed that our insurance premium is increasing by $3,000, as a consequence of the Christchurch earthquakes, and this we cannot absorb.
The new session fees are:
| All Financial Members | $4.50 |
| Juniors | $4.50 |
| Non Members | $8.00 |
| First Time Attendees | $4.50 |
| Multi Session Tickets | $45 for 12 Sessions (20% saving) |
We are pleased to announced that there will be no increase in either senior or concession (senior citizens, beneficiaries, tertiary student)
annual membership subscriptions. These have not been increased for several years.
Chris Williams, Chairperson, Empire Board
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| Closing Dates |
Updated 30/11/11 |
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Monday Senior Club: 12th December (please bring a plate)
Tuesday Midweek Club: 20th December
Thursday Midweek Club: 15th December
Thursday Evening Coaching: 15th December
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| Annual Dinner |
Updated 30/11/11 |
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The Annual Dinner and Prizegiving was held on 19th November at the Maungaraki Chinese Restaurant.
A good time was had by all. A report and photos will appear in the next newsletter.
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| Volunteers |
Updated 30/11/11 |
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We are looking for more people to help us run the Monday night (Senior)
and the Friday night (Junior) clubs. We really appreciate the work done by the current volunteers and hope that they will still be
available next year but some need a well earned break and we need more helpers.
The Monday and Friday roles are similar. They involve:
- Welcoming members when they arrive
- Take night fees and subscriptions and entering the information on our computer
- Using the computer to generate the matches for members during the evening
To do these roles you do need to be comfortable using a computer
If we can get enough people we can organize a roster to spread the work load throughout the year.
If you are interested please contact Chris Williams, Chairperson, on 527 8629 or williamsck@xtra.co.nz
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| Grading Nights |
Updated 21/10/11 |
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There will be no grading nights in November or December 2011.
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| Annual Dinner |
Updated 21/10/11 |
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This will be held at the Maungaraki Chinese Restaurant, 139 Dowse Drive,
Maungaraki on Saturday 19th November at 7.00 pm. Prizes will be given out, special trophy winners announced and the final raffle of the year drawn.
We have booked the restaurant out and at $20 per head and wine supplied this promises to be a good but cheap night out!
So think about coming along and joining the Board to celebrate another good year of table tennis at Empire.
If you are thinking where is Maungaraki don’t! Coming along the motorway turn off at the Dowse Drive intersection and drive
up the hill to the shopping centre – the restaurant is located at the southern end of the shopping complex.
To attend please RSVP to Rose by Friday 12th November at services@empirett.org.nz or phone 569 9904
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| 2011 National Championships: Medal Winners |
Updated 21/10/11 |
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Several Club members played in the 2011 National Championships held in Palmerston North recently. Medal winners were:
Thom Nguyen: Gold: Open Men’s Doubles, Silver: Under 21 Men’s Singles, Silver: Under 21 Mixed Doubles.
Depak Patel: Silver: B Grade Teams, Bronze: Over 30 Men’s Singles
Ian Talbot: Bronze: Over 30 Men’s Doubles
Congratulations to them and well done all other members who participated.
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| Winter Interclub: Series 2: Play Offs: 4th October 2011 |
Updated 7/10/11 |
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Winter Interclub concluded with the final play off in all three grades on Tuesday night, 4th October.
Congratulations to Empire Dangerous (Bruce Connolly, Uy Tang and Chris Williams) for winning Premier Two and to Empire Xiong
(Martin Xiong, Adam Xiong and Ellen Xiong) for coming runners up in Premier Three.
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| Midweek Doubles Tournament: 15 September 2011 |
Updated 4/10/11 |
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Our annual doubles tournament was held on 15th September with 96 participants.
As well as Empire members, players came from Kapiti, Levin, Wairarapa, Wainuiomata, Tawa and Miramar.
Congratulations to Alfred Chin & Stan Joe and Ken Moy and Karl Johnston who were Empire Winners.
Many thanks to Arthur Lee and Melanie Armstrong for organising the events and to all the other people who helped to make this event a success.
Thanks too to Wellington Star, the Mercedes Benz dealer in Wellington, for sponsoring the tournament and to Norman Chan for securing the sponsorship.
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| Wellington Representatives |
Updated 22/09/11 |
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Congratulations to the following Club members who have been selected to represent
Wellington at the National Championships to be held in Palmerston North on 12/13 October:
Thom Nguyen, Depak Patel, Paul Solt, Kai Xu, Jason Giles and Chris Williams.
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| New Board Member |
Updated 14/09/11 |
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We recently welcomed Martin Young to the Board as Communications Convenor.
Martin's main responsibilities will be for IT and the club newsletter.
We look forward to working with him and wish him all the best in his new role.
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Thom Nguyen once again became the Open Men's champion of the Empire Table Tennis Club. Seven different players were winners in the finals.
Results of the finals were:
| Event | Winner(s) | Runner(s) Up |
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| Open Singles | Thom Nguyen | Depak Patel | 11-8, 11-8, 11-7 |
| Open Doubles | Thom Nguyen & Dzung Nguyen | Chris Talbot & Ian Talbot | 5-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-7 |
| Division 2 Singles | Dzung Nguyen | Paul Solt | 11-2, 11-3, 11-5 |
| Division 2 Doubles | Tony Rutledge & Martin Young | Graeme Jackson & Malcolm Wong | 11-9, 9-11, 11-9, 11-3 |
| Division 3 Singles | Maggie Dyer | Cameron Irving | 11-8, 12-10, 11-9 |
| Division 3 Doubles | Dawn Dorresteijn & Maggie Dyer | Rod Weston & Richard Blaikie | Round Robin |
| Division 4 Singles | Melanie Armstrong | Joy Mozer | 11-9, 11-8, 13-11 |
Preliminary round results are available via the following links:
Open Singles Division 1&2
Open Doubles
Open Singles Division 3&4
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