Service awards announced at Easter: 
Congratulations to Garingal couple Ron and Barbara Junghans, who won the prestigious Silva Award for Services to Orienteering.
The Duffys Forest residents have been at the heart of all things O for close on 40 years. This lifelong dedication culminated in Barbara organising last year's Australian championships at Bathurst and Hill End.
The Junghans also took out the ONSW President's Award in 2017 (pictured).
At the recent Sydney Summer Series final event presentation (Tuesday) , Ross Barr was presented with his Garingal Life Membership medallion by club president Ross Duker (pictured). This was well deserved and probably long overdue; Ross, Enjoy!
In other news from the evening: Ted Woodley set a cracking course centred on Chatswood Golf Club, and the presentations afterwards were attended by a good 70-80 people. Garingal members won 6 age classes in the 27th Sydney Summer Series.
GO winners were: Keelan Birch (Junior Men), Glenn Horrocks (Masters Men), Warwick Selby (Legends Men), Karin Hefftner (Super Veteran Women), Carol Jacobson (Legends Women), and Sue Thomson (Immortals Women). Toni Bachvarova narrowly missed out on the title in Veteran Women by the count-back rule.
Final SSS 2017-18 results can be viewed here.
Garingal members Istvan Kertesz and partner Nikolett Halmai took out the 2018 O'Shea 2-days on the Central Coast in a closely-fought tussle over 3 runs at the weekend.
Only four minutes separated the first three teams in the Long Pairs division.
They were third after the opening relay at Rumbalara, then took the lead at the night event from local brothers Mark and Ken Schaefer (150m10s) and held on throughout Sunday morning's team score event to finish in 147m50s.
Istvan's sister Aniko and husband Peter Fozo led after the relay but lost five minutes at night as the new Mt Penang map was unveiled. The Garingalites hail from Hungary and are loving life in Australia.
Overall results can be viewed here. Thanks to Central Coast for a great weekend.
