AV News 175 - February 2009
Editorial
Jill K Bunting CPAGB & John Smith APAGB CPAGB
Doesn't time fly when you are having fun?
Another New Year has come and gone
since our first edition of this magazine
hopefully popped through your letter box at
the beginning of November. Possibly you
are all being very polite, but from the
comments we have received, it would
appear that we have been successful in our
joint efforts to produce an interesting,
informative and diverse magazine ... and
that you 'couldn't see the join' between ours
and the wonderful issues previously produced by Joan and Glyn.
Firstly may we especially thank all those people whom Jill has pounced on
at the start of an AV event and 'persuaded' them to take the time and trouble
to write a report; or maybe an article on their winning sequence. It really does
make our job so much easier when we can just concentrate on editing rather
than having to write ourselves.
It is both pleasing and somewhat surprising that we are now discovering
just how many clubs there are out there which have some interest in AV. It
was one of our aims when we took on the magazine to try and broaden it's
appeal, to report on what the smaller clubs were doing and to support and
encourage them through publicity. 'Around The Clubs' and the 'Events Diary'
page in the magazine and also on the www.avnews.org.uk and
www.avg.rps.org websites are there to do just that and we hope that you
will continue to send us information on all your forthcoming events and
maybe a magazine report and pictures afterwards. Also we will be pleased
to add a link to your club's own website - all we ask is that you reciprocate
with one back to ours. Maybe your club has a publicity officer - if not, then
why not ask for somebody to kindly volunteer to do that job? We then will
have a 'one stop' contact name, email address and telephone number for
your club making communications so much easier.
So what have we been up to since the last issue - well John was one of
the three speakers at the Yorkshire Photographic Union's Keithley Memorial
Lecture Day at Selby and we did a joint talk for the November RPS Yorkshire
Day at the Media Museum in Bradford. It was nice to see everyone at the
Great Northern Festival at Wilmslow and talking of Wilmslow, Jill won the
Christmas Carol competition held on the 19th December and became the
fourth recipiant of the the Brian Proctor 'Spring' Memorial Trophy. There are
actually three of these trophies in existance - the largest is now in Jill's
posession, the middle one is competed for at Brian's club, Prestwich Co-op
CC and the smallest is the AV trophy at John's club in Rochdale and guess
who won it this year - yes we are now both highly sprung!!
Well we have run out of space now so we wish you all A Happy New Year
and hope you continue to enjoy the magazine.
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