AV News 197 - August 2014
E d ito ria l
Jill K Bunting CPAGB & John Smith APAGB CPAGB
Summer is here!! - well at least it would
appear that maybe it is what with
Wimbledon fortnight, the Open Golf
Championship at Hoylake and the
'Grand Depart' of the Tour de France
from of all places, sunny Yorkshire. We
hope that you have managed to get out
and about and maybe got together some
ideas for new sequences.
By the time you are receiving this
issue the closing date for entries to the
RPS Internationals at Cirencester will
be upon you - it is the 2nd August - so if you are planning to enter a sequence
you need to get your skates on! There is, however, still time to book to attend the
event and full details of how to do this can be found on their website at
www.rpsinternational.org.uk
If you can't make it to Cirencester then we hope that you can join us for the
20th Great Northern Festival in December. Entries are starting to come in and
whilst the closing date of 1st November is still some way off - we would welcome
entries and bookings now to avoid a last minute rush. We will be available to
collect them at the Internationals in September if this makes it easier. More
importantly, may we suggest that you arrange your accomodation as soon as
possible as the hotels in the area tend to get booked up early in the run up to
Christmas. Full details in the form of a brochure plus an electronic booking form
can be found on our website at www.gnfestival.org.uk
So our 'boss' is taking leave of his post!!! We remember all too vividly when
the 'posse' of Scottie and Brian Jeffs 'persuaded' us individually that we were
'just right for the job' and that, being two of us - it would only be half a job!! Like
all jobs within the AV Group it is a labour of love - something to be done when
free time permits (but of course, sometimes to certain time constraints.) We
cannot let Keith take any blame for us not changing to the new logo for the May
issue. The magazine cover was ready for printing prior to the corporate logo
being issued...and as 'volunteers' we have a limited amount of time that we can
spend on redesigning the magazine. We also have a major problem in that most
of our cover images are taken from sequences - and of course they are almost
always in 'landscape' format'. We too were extremely surprised at the loss of the
Royal Crest - patronage and the prestige that comes with it is difficult to achieve
and maybe shouldn't be discarded. We hope you like the new look of the cover
and also our website at www.avnews.org.uk which also displays the new logo.
We will miss Keith - without any arm twisting, has written his Chairman's
Chatter and also technical Photoshop articles. He has allowed us to 'edit' the
magazine in our own way and steered the AV Group through somewhat troubled
waters. We are grateful that he will continue to proof read the
magazine for us and also write articles.
We wish him well and hope that he will soon be back.
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