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PAGE.
22nd January 2025
A brief report of the presentation evening at the Windsor Hotel is on the Reports page.
Sadly I have to report that Dick Weekes passed away on Monday 13th, in
hospital in Leeds where he lived. Not many would have known him as he
was a West South Wales member and ran the Saundersfoot event in the
1970's after we had passed the ownership over. Dick was also the
Calthorpe Marque Specialist for the club. Condolences to Suzie and
Jenny.
6th December
Several of us attended the West South Wales section dinner and prize
giving presentation, with our Rob collecting a few trophies. 2025
Calendar of events is now available in the Lounge. Last meeting of the year at the Llanharry club on the 23rd, see you then, if you can make it, If not have a good Christmas.
14th November
Barry's funeral on the 6th saw six of our members in attendance,
including Terry H, which was nice to be able to have a catch up.
The following meeting on the 11th was to be our charity auction and it
was decided to cancel the event due to the small turn outs at meetings
- however, I had over looked to amend the website and on the night,
several members brought items for the sale. So, after press-ganging our
Rob into being the auctioneer we proceeded to hold a sale of the items
brought. There were several cash donations, including one of £50 from
Roger T, who is still in hospital recovering from his health problems.
I'm sure that we all wish him the best for his recovery. The Auction
raised a total of £267 and it was agreed that the section would top it
up to £300. I shall be sending the money to the Air Ambulance in the
next few days.
24th October
I
have just been informed that Barry's funeral has been brought forward
to 11.00am on the 6th Nov. Bikes to assemble at 10.30, if they are to
follow the hearse.
21st October
Barry Cooksley's funeral is to take place at
Barry Crem,
Port Road, Barry 11.30am (see above) on Wednesday the 6th November.
The family have asked for anyone who wishes to follow the hearse on
bikes to assemble outside the Adams funeral parlour, Glastonbury rd,
Barry leaving at 11.00am (see above).
15th
October
Find the details and menu for the West Sth Wales section Xmas dinner on
the 6th Dec
- if you are interested. Come and support our resident Velo pot hunter
receive his awards. Have a chat with me if you need any details filling
in.
8th
October
Sadly,
I have heard that Barry Cooksley passed away this morning. I have
no further information, but will post here when I do.
7th
October
At
last the website is now up and running with a new host. Our previous
host decided to move us onto a new server and they made a right hash of
it, losing our free SSL certificate in the process. The certificate
means that we are a trustworthy website and any traffic between you,
the viewer, and the server, where the website is hosted, is encrypted
and can be trusted. When you look at a website and the HTTP name says
HTTPS, then the S indicates that the website is trusted - we weren't
after the move, but we are now that I've moved the website to a new
host. There were a few other problems, such as a price hike from £33
for two years hosting to £142 for two years hosting. Anyway, I found
another host who we pay £87.81 for 4 years hosting - so not too bad at
all.
31st
July
Vale of Glamorgan regs are available on the events calendar page - or
download here. Chairmans Run on Sunday
next, the 4th Aug, will start from the Nantgarw Multiplex cinema at
10.30am.
16th
July
Apologies
that I've been a bit tardy of late in updating the reports page, all
down to the mess created by the compulsory move of our website to a new
platform and the loss of our security certificate, which has resulted
in an increase in hosting costs from £33.10 to £201.31 for two years,
added to which is a £41 fee for a new security certificate that we had
free before. Needless to say, I can't see me keeping our website with
the current hosting company, so will be shopping around.
Don't forget the "Follow
the Velo" run is on this coming Sunday - 10.30am at the Caerphilly
Mountain Cafe, The following day is the Fish & Chip run -
7.00pm
from the south side of Cowbridge Common. Please let us know if you
intend to wish to eat, so that we can let the venue know of our numbers.