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CROUCH VALLEY

KOI CLUB REVIEW

THE YEAR 2022 PART 1
Steve Rollins.

I thought I would share what activities Crouch Valley
Koi Section (CVKS) put on in 2022 to give you a feel of
what it is like to belong to a small but active section of
the BKKS. As it was another busy year I’ve split the
Review into 3 Parts.
JANUARY
As always, on a cold night in January, we met for our
AGM. Never an exciting affair but a key event none the
less. A chance to reflect on the year gone by and how
we had kept the Club active despite Covid still hanging
Steve Rollins. over us and to look forward to an exciting new year and
a calendar of events that had already started to come
together under the existing committee. Formalities
done, a new committee elected, including a new
Chairman to give the long standing incumbent a break,
we were up and running. What’s more, the Membership
Secretary confirmed, the cost of a Family Membership
would remain at just £25 for the year.
FEBRUARY

By the time we met the following month for a
presentation by Syd Mitchell of water quality fame, the
new committee had already had its first meeting and
was also able to confirm we had a full calendar of
activities for the year. Syd (or Manky Sanke as he is
known) provided lots of information during an
interactive session and kindly took away water samples
from our ponds for subsequent analysis. We also had
our first prospective new member of the year at the
meeting – note Crouch have a policy of ‘try before you
Syd Mitchell kindly took
away water samples from buy’ – come along for a couple of meetings and see if
our ponds for analysis. you like what’s on offer before committing to a
membership.
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