Friday 4-Jan-2013

Arrivals from 6:30pm, dinner 7:15pm. Finish at 1am!

The 2013 Awards Dinner Dance will be at a new bigger venue:

The Village Hotel

The organiser this year is Andrea Millington.  She deserves our thanks!

Last years dinner reached its limit in early December, so book early if you want to come.  We had to turn away 10 people last year who left their booking late...

Introduction

Every year Spectrum Striders hold an Awards Dinner Dance.  In recent years, the evening has been held just after Christmas, as a meal before would be much more expensive before Christmas and in the rush to get everything ready for Christmas Day adding a dinner dance in to crowded schedules is just unwanted extra stress for us all, so we believe after Christmas is best.

The evening starts with arrivals from 6:30pm.  Please remember we will have 100+ people, so arrive with enough time to get a drink at a busy bar and find your table.  The meal is served at 7:30pm.  After the meal, there will be a speech from the Chairman, presentation of the Club Championship trophies, awards, and Club Standards certificates.  There is then a disco until 1:00am.

Cost & Booking Details

The 2013 Awards Dinner Dance cost will be £27.50 each for a club member and for your partner, and £30 if you wish to bring any additional non-Club guests.

As usual, table places are allocated  so if you know who you want to sit with please let Andrea or Julian know.  We may hit the fire limit so please book early.

When you book, please send a cheque for the full amount payable to "Andrea Millington" (not to the running club please) before 30th November please.  (Julian will also be pleased to accept bookings, but still make the cheque payable to Andrea...)

Don't forget to include your menu choices when booking, also include any special dietary requirements.  Please don't give us cash as it's impossible to know who it came from!

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Travel directions

This years event is at at new venue, the Village Hotel.  The address is:

Centre Park
Warrington
WA1 1QA

From the roundabout at the junction of Chester Road (A5060) and Wilderspool Causeway (A49) you go over the blue bridge into Centre Park and the Hotel is round to the left.

Slightly reduced price rooms may be available if you wanted to stop the night.  Currently, the rate is £69.00 per room based on a double or a twin room.  This price includes full English breakfast and use of the leisure facilities and must be paid in full at the time of booking.  Please contact the hotel directly on 0871 222 4612 .

Menu

When booking, please specify what you would like with your cheque and clarify who is having what.  Andrea will keep a record of your choices and it will appear on the reverse of the place setting, so you can forget it once you have ordered!

Starters:

• Chicken Caesar Salad - Chicken, Bacon, Gem Lettuce and Caesar dressing
• Goat’s cheese and red pepper roulade with toasted foccacia
• Cream of Vegetable and Herb Pesto Soup
• Orange and Grapefruit Terrine , Set on a cranberry jelly with raspberry cream

Main course:

• Traditional Roast Beef, Rich Gravy, Yorkshire pudding and Creamed Horseradish mashed potatoes, roasted parsnips, carrots and beans
• Salmon fillet Black olive & new potato crush and Caper hollandaise
• Thai style vegetable curry with Lemon, coriander rice
• Traditional Roast Breast of Turkey accompanied by Sage and Onion seasoning, Chipolata sausage, rich cranberry gravy 

Dessert:

• Lemon Tart with Vanilla Mascarpone Cream - A Pastry Base Slice filled with a sharp Lemon Curd
• Chocolate and Orange Roulade with raspberry coulis
• Christmas pudding
• Cheese Platter – selection of cheeses with biscuits, celery, grapes and fruit chutney.

Followed by:

• Speeches
• Club Championship trophies presentations
• Standards Certificates presentations
• Disco, 1am finish

Drinks

• The Club will pay for a bottle of red wine and a bottle of sparkling water on every dinner table.  (Almost none of the white wine provided in previous years was drunk and it went to waste.)  If you really prefer white wine, tell Andrea when you send in your menu order.
• The usual range of drinks (soft drinks, beers, spirits etc.) are available for purchase at the bar.