As we enter 2009 its time to reflect on another successful year; our last event was on the 18 th December. Over the year we have had several new experiences: - at one cycle road race around Steyning we suddenly found ourselves marshalling in a snow storm. The race was stopped however locating the riders in the near zero visibility was difficult, one rider was “rescued” by one of our mobile vehicles and it took ages before he stopped shivering even with the car heater on full bore (the mobile vehicle driver was dripping in his winter clothing!!).

REAC successfully marshalled two events simultaneously namely the Durrington Festival and the first day of the Parham Game Show.

A few days later came another first, marshalling the St Barnabas Solstice Walk which started at midnight and finished around 0600. We have never marshalled one thousand women before.

In December we covered three events at Lancing College in less than 3 weeks: - the first for Queen Alexandra Hospital Home, the second for St Barnabas Hospice and the third was for the BBC.

Some thanks are also due, primarily to our members
for all their efforts in sun, rain and snow.

Also thanks to the Excelsior Explorer unit for helping us on events where we needed extra manpower, and to Domino's Pizza for supplying us with food on one of the Lancing events. Thanks are also due to Tesco Express who supplied us with some marshals for one event and a donation as part of their policy of helping the local community.

We have been fortunate to gain some new members this year; however we are still looking for more people to help us in 2009.

We have 22 events on our events list for 2009 so far, some are new for us whilst others are regular events that we cover every year.