Newsletter – May 2024

Join us at the AGM this Tuesday

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for calendar year 2023 is being held this Tuesday evening, 21 May at 7.30pm. 

You can attend in person at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club, 253 Esplanade, Brighton VIC or via Zoom videoconference.

If you prefer to join us online, please RSVP to aacfallscreek@gmail.com so we can send you a link to join the meeting.   

Download the meeting papers here, including the Agenda, financial and committee reports, and the Special Resolutions proposed for changes to the Rules of the Club. 

Club News

Working Bee wrap 

Check out all the chores tackled at the recent working bee. As usual, our thanks to all who volunteered their weekend and elbow grease to help.

If you’d like to join us next year or have trade skills, we’d love to hear from you.

Renovation update

Work convert room 7 from a double and bunk single to a twin single room continues apace. 

The preparation is complete, as shown in the sequential pictures below. Carpenters are currently working to install the new bed frames and shelving (similar to rooms 5 and 12).

The upgrades to the family bathrooms in rooms 13 and 14 were completed in January. 

Welcome to our New Members…

Full members: Steven Mackellar, Sophie Wall, Martin Donohue and Sean Roberts.

Transfers: Nick Critchley, Diana Ketteridge.

Junior members: Jonathan Gerstner-Stevens, Gus and Ted Oostermeyer, Flynn Abroms, Hogan and Oliver Hutchins. 

Race Weekend dinner theme

The theme for our 2024 Race Weekend dinner has been set to honour the Olympics in Paris…

So all of you booked or thinking of booking to race, please also assemble an ensemble with all that is French in mind!  Vive la France!!

Membership enquiries paused for 2024

We have an extensive list of potential new member enquiries and applications as a result of pent up demand after COVID.

As the list will take some time to work through, the Committee is not accepting new applications during 2024. 

New booking system feature  

A recent update to the booking system makes it easier to book into other AAC lodges. Read more to see how it works. 

Resort News

With the blast of chilly weather and snow over the weekend, snow making has started (hooray!). Click here to read the Resort’s update. 

A new car park has been constructed, located about 400 metres downhill from Orbit. 

The retaining wall below the Lodge on Falls Creek Road is finished with a new railing near the front door. 

The Resort is hosting the Fight MND Ice Plunge on 1 June at Rocky Valley Lake, Falls Creek. 

Your thoughts, tips and requests for the newsletter are gratefully received at comms.aacfc@gmail.com – we’ll do our best to help. 

Siobhan and the Committee

You can read all the AAC Falls Creek news at aacfallscreek.com/news.html