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July 2005
Well our grand idea of having an open day, started of with some pretty modest publicity work, a little column in the city news, a handful of flyers around town. I had enough keen people to run a trip with 8 to 10 people. It wasn't till a week before the event was to happen Gail from the city press rung me up and asked if she could do a story on the event. I was away that day so I teed up our International publicity officer - Brian B to talk with her. Brian said it went well, and I assumed that we may make the 5th page.
The rest of the week came and went and Wednesday I got home, took the paper from the letter box, and low and behold of famous Brian was on the front page, my phone number also appeared in the article, and then the phone calls began, I had a few calls on Wednesday, a few more on Thursday, but my phone went crazy on Friday, I had someone ringing me every 20 mins, we soon had about 32 people, the max that we could take on the day, and just had to apologize and take bookings for the people who missed out to join us on another occasion.
Sat morning rolled around and people started to show up, I had lots of club members to help out, Dave, Frog, Mark, Kath, Kurt, Travis, Brian, and myself, This allowed us to run 4 trips of 8 people, with groups leaving at 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 and another one around 1:30. The day went well, groups all came out of the cave in one piece, all wet and dirty, and I think we got a lot of people interested in caving.
All in all a success, we will have to run another one in a few weeks time to cater for people who missed out last time - any volunteers?
A great quote from Brian. One that will go down in the annals of HTG history.
(Reprinted from The City Press)