The Winter Social was held 2/20 at the Deauville Inn, where members enjoyed a great evening. The Florida Southern Social was held at the same time at the Finz restaurant in Stuart. This is the second year this southern get-together has been held, thanks to Mike Mazzeo, who made all the arrangements. About 20 people attended in Florida.
Here, President Randy Roash presents Strathmere Fire Chief Bruce Riordan a $1,000.00 check from the SFEC.
Randy also presented awards for their service to the club to former Executive Board members who stepped down at the end of 2009. Here Randy presents a plaque to Dick Shetler for the outstanding job he did as Treasurer for many years.
Also receiving awards were Dick Omrod for the many jobs he did: PR Officer, Corresponding Secretary, osprey platforms, and many more. Robin Henry received an award for her great work as Corresponding Secretary.
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Randy then presented awards to the winners of the 2009 Striper Tournament.
The overall winner was Bud Lyon:
and 2009 category winners were as follows:
Beach Boat
1st Ed Dimarcantonio 1st Bill (Bucktail Willy) Shillingford
2nd Richard Vandegrift 2nd Tom Starr
3rd Randy Roash 3rd Mike Jarvis
Many winners could not attend. Here Tom Starr receives his plaque.
And many, many thanks to Debbe Starr for once again doing a marvelous job of organizing everything!