Bottle Drive Sunday 27th September, 2009
On this Sunday we had a cool day to collect bottles, and we managed to collect a new record $1,150 worth, which is a fantastic result considering only 2 helpers, who worked hard all day from 8am - 4pm to help collect the bottles, with a few trips to the Bottle depot in Adam's RAV4.
Thank you very much to the people that helped out with this bottle drive. Notably Adam Zur Eich and John Pearce - who had heaps of bags at his house mostly collected from his amazingly regular "Dawn Patrol efforts. Adam & John worked tirelessy all day as no one else could turn up, I find this hard to believe and think more could make an effort. It would still be nice to see some new faces there next time. Other people that made contributions of bottles were the Shierlaw's, the Symes', the Hooper's & the Lutze's.
A bottle drive is one way that an athlete who receives a subsidy can help their club. It is always great to have more helpers at the Bottle Drive rather than just the usual ones that turn up each time. Your help is required to collect bottles donated by our local community for collection.
We definitely need more helpers so we can collect bottles from the residents of more streets, instead of just a few streets. I'm sure there are more members out there that can help besides the usual few people that attend as the club has almost 60 members.
If by chance you can not make it on the day, another idea is to raise some funds is collect up all your bottles & then go and cash them in at a bottle depot or organise to drop off the bottles. Then you can pass the money you raised onto a committee member. If just some of our members collected just $10 worth of recyclables we could raise another couple hundred dollars!!!!!!!!!
Our next Bottle Drive will be in early in the New Year, so it would be good to have some new faces to help collect bottles as this one will be a busy day.