Welcome back to 2026. The Summer Series is in full swing. The Thursday Northern Series concludes on March 12 at the Ruffey Lake Park, with an end of year BBQ and presentations. Welcome to Laurel Johnson as our new club secretary. Thank you to Rex Niven for carrying out the role of Club Secretary for such a long stint.
Melbourne Summer Series Park Street Championships, Tuesday Feb 24 Entry Details Course planner: Stuart McWilliam; Organising club: Nillumbik Emus Start location: Delahey Recreation Reserve, Copperfield Drive, Delahey
Bike-O 75 #2, You Yangs – Saturday, February 14 Enter Now Course Setter: Andrew Turner Organisers: Rob and Helen Edmonds This is a 75 minute Maprun score event with innovations in scoring. Starts from 6pm – 6:30. Volunteers welcome to assist to put out and collect control flags and assist with admin.
Maxi Hepburn Diggings Sunday, March 22 Enter Now Course Setter: Rob Edmonds Course Advisers: Derek Morris and Helen Edmonds Catering Organiser: Lauris Stirling Organisers: Helen and Rob Edmonds Trailer: Ron Frederick This is a score event with the option of 90 minutes or 3 hours. Go solo or with a partner(s). Starts from 10am. This event has a great assembly area in the picturesque surrounds of the Hepburn Springs Mineral Complex. Volunteers to help with admin, catering and control collection. Online Entry Deadline 19th March
Club Website: If you would like to follow our club website https://emuorienteers.com/, please shoot me an email. You can also register on our club’s private Nillumbik Emus Facebook Group Further News The president of OV, David Jaffe mentioned in a recent OV Weekly Bulletin that the coming OV Council meeting will be held at Heathcote on Sun 22 Feb. He said: “We hope that meeting will have a strategy focus and … each club might like to bring “one thing” that they plan to do differently to increase participation in 2026 so that it can be a sharing of ideas!
Ron Frederick has indicated that he is able to attend. If you have any ideas, please let Laurel Johnson and Ron Frederick know if you would like to attend. The Bush Hagaby will be run on the Argyle map at Heathcote that morning.
There’s an OA-organised “DiscoverO Launch” zoom 8pm this coming Monday evening (Feb 9).
The information about it and its zoom link is on Eventor here:
Eventor Australia – Event information: Discover Orienteering LAUNCH
OA Merit Badges: Badges were awarded to Geoff Armstrong, M70 Silver – Mark Baxter, M65 Bronze – John Carberry M60 Bronze – Helen Edmonds, W70 Bronze – Ron Frederick, M75 Silver – Ben Greenhalgh, M14 Bronze – Izzy Greenhalgh, W16 Gold – Xander Greenhalgh, M16 Gold – Eofy Greenhan, M10 Gold – Opus Greenhan, M12 Gold – Victoria Greenhan, Gold – Carolyn Layton, W50 Silver – Joshua Layton, M14 Gold – Matthew Layton, M16 Gold – Jayden Styk, M16 Gold
The badges have arrived for all the juniors. Please get in touch with Christine Prentice to arrange collection of your badge.
Vic Schools O – Sprint Champs – March 30 – RMIT Bundoora! Entries are opened on Eventor. There is also an entry form for schools, they don’t need to go via Eventor. Entry is open for students in Years 3 – 12.
Membership Renewal Login to Eventor go to My pages … My memberships and hit the Renew button in the bottom right hand corner and follow prompts. Orienteering Victoria’s membership fee are $40 for adults and $8 for Juniors. Please get in touch if you need further help.
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