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At long last the Cadet Activity days have returned for the 2009 season (better late than never!!) and 14 eager Cadets (both old timers and some newer cadets) arrived at the clubhouse for 5 hours worth of fun, frolic’s, shenanigans and giggles. The Clubhouse contained the usual Cadet paraphernalia such as the Xbox, wii, board games, electronic games, arts & crafts, pool and music CDs’ also there was a table tennis set kindly provided by James Dowrick and microphones and an amplifier supplied by Tegan & Robert Pryce. The afternoon kicked off with all the Cadets getting to know one another again and sampling what was to offer, this was quickly followed by a table tennis competition, eventually won by Jess Varley (hurrah) and at 3.30 the Cadets “Porthpeans Got Talent” show began. We had a girls dancing and singing group, a couple of joke telling acts, a singing duet, an amazing reggae solo on electric guitar by Robert Pryce, a fabulous solo Macarena dance act by Matt Morley but the top award and unanimous winning decision had to go to Tegan Pryce for a truly amazing solo act of acoustic guitar and singing…….I kid you not, this young lady has to be heard to be believed and if we ever have an open mike event at the club we really must encourage Tegan to perform for all of us….she really is amazing!!! After the excitement of the show the Cadets all sat down for a feast of hotdog & chips with jelly and ice-cream to follow and as it was such a lovely afternoon they all dined alfresco on the decking area. It is amazing how quickly time does fly when you’re having fun and after a quick pool competition parents arrived to collect their angels who were very full of chocolate, sweets, fizzy stuff, ice-cream, chips….you name it they had it!!! All in all it was a very successful afternoon/evening. Hopefully we will expand the numbers further in October’s meeting and those Cadets who couldn’t make it this time will be able to attend. By Maria Eastham.
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On Saturday 8th November 18 cadets arrived at Ozzell Bowl in St. Austell for the eagerly anticipated 1st cadet outing. Three lanes were booked (six cadets per lane) and each team, consisting of younger, older and newer cadets took to their allotted lane and the fun (competition!!!) began. The team captains Adam, Luke and James were all very good and encouraged and helped all of their team mates but always kept a very close eye on the other teams’ scores after every round. There were quite a few strikes and spares during the game and surprisingly, some came from our younger members but every achievement was greeted with cheers and applause and a few good natured cat calls. The parents who stayed for the afternoon seemed to enjoy it as much, if not more than the cadets and one parent in particular (Kate!!) took a couple of bowls for her daughter Evie - just to help her out of course!!! As the game drew to a close the competition seemed to get more intense with each team eyeing the other teams scores and working themselves into a frenzy speculating who would win. Of course there had to be a winning team and despite Luans’ valiant effort from team one with strikes galore, the winning team headed by Luke eventually won. All the cadets then retired to the dining area where they were served with burgers and chips aplenty and the eating competition began!!! The outright winner of that was (I’ll let you guess…..) Every one of the cadets enjoyed themselves and were a credit to themselves, their parents and Porthpean Sailing Club and as the cadets section within the Club goes from strength to strength hopefully a cadets outing will become an annual event, well done cadets. By Maria Eastham.
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Well….meticulous planning and organisation was involved in the 3rd of our cadet afternoons. Sailors, safety boats and cadets were all
ready for our afternoon of sailing on Saturday 6th September but unfortunately the weather, once again conspired against us and I had to
make the disappointing decision to cancel our outing and retire to the clubhouse once again.
Not to be discouraged the cadets brought out the trusted games, both electrical (playstation) and wooden (jenga, noughts and crosses etc)
and the fun began but this time with a Tunisian twist.
Our holidays this year took the Eastham/Pesticcio clan off to sunny Tunisia and we brought back, amongst other things, a selection of music
which we all enjoyed around the pool and in our evening entertainment. The music had a few dance routines to go with it and with much
enthusiasm the music was on, volume turned up and the cadets were strutting their stuff!!! (James particularly enjoyed it and I’m hoping
to see more of his fancy footwork at the laying up supper). Along with the music and dancing was an Arabian headdress which was modelled
by our lovely Jessica Varley.
Later in the afternoon the cadets were filled with hotdogs aplenty along with varying amounts of chocolate, sweets and fizzy stuff….
(Sorry Mums – he he!!). I was then presented with a lovely chocolate birthday cake with many candles upon it as it was my 21st birthday
that day and after a verse or two of ‘happy birthday’ we all tucked in. Millie Bray especially liked it, as did her fingers and t-shirt!!!
It was also especially nice to welcome a new face to our little get togethers. Liam O’Laughlin joined us for the first time, of many more
I hope and we were all very happy to see him.
So what’s next for us you might ask……?
The next planned Cadet afternoon on Saturday November 8th will see the clubhouse empty as we are off to Ozzell Bowl in St Austell.
This is a well deserved treat for the Cadets as they have all gelled into a really fantastic group of youngsters who have had a great
year and have been a pleasure to represent so look out for the next instalment to see how we got on.
By Maria Eastham.
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Today was the second planned cadets’ afternoon and we were all looking forward to our beach games using the equipment that PSC had so kindly
supplied for us. This was not to be as the rained lashed down with no breaks so it was decided that we should retreat into the club house for
fun instead. 13 cadets attended and made good use of the games provided for us. There were the usual board games and the Playstation, Wii
and DVDs for us to watch. The galley was also well stocked and we spent all of the money given to us by our parents on drinks,
chocolate and wiggly worms (we finished them all again – please get some more Jenny!). A big thankyou to Tanya Bilkey who brought chocolate
chip cookies and ginger beer – they were lovely. The pool contest was eventually won by the oldest cadet in town….Ray!!! and the girls also
had a contest on the Playstation 2 which was won by Jessica Varley. We all had a great time and really look forward to these events, we
are making great friends and look forward to seeing each other, not just at these afternoons but on Wednesdays and Sundays too. The next
planned afternoon is 6th September and we are all hoping to get out on the water and have lots of fun and to learn stuff as well – we can’t
wait.
By Katie & Adam Eastham
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The Cadets have been very busy with a fund raising scheme. They have been collecting pebbles from the beach, then painted pictures on them
before applying a coat of varnish. The intention is to sell them to visitors as they walk past the Club on their way to the beach. The pebbles
are priced form £1.00 to £2.00 and the monies raised will be donated, half to the RNLI and
half to the cadets fund. As of 18/06/08 the monies raised so far amounts to £13.25
Below are some pictures of the remaining pebbles taken by Adam Eastham.
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Well today saw the very first Cadet open afternoon held at Porthpean Sailing Club. 10 cadets attended and were able to get to know one
another and let off steam while playing various board games such as jenga, noughts and crosses, labyrinth and shut the box and as well as
these we had a Playstation 2 with various games like singstar and buzz monkeys and a we also had a Sony wii with lots of fun games such as
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. The CD player was constantly in use with music that the cadets liked and we also had a hotly contested pool
competition which was eventually won by Luke Bilkey (which is argued by James, he isn't pleased). During the afternoon we were able to stock
up on goodies from the galley, especially the rainbow worms and we think we might need to get some more in as we went through quite a few!!
It was great to meet up with the other cadets that we don’t normally get to see and make new friends and I’m sure that we are all looking
forward to the next cadet open afternoon, especially as we have been told that it will be a beach afternoon and we’ll be able to use all of
the new equipment that has been bought for us. At the end of the afternoon I know that we were all disappointed that we had to go home, it
was a very successful day.
By Adam Eastham.
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