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C'mon, surely not everyone who is coming up for Deca will be driving??

At this stage with the lack of volunteers I am starting to wonder why the commitee bother putting the effort into organising DECA when they cant even get enough volunteers in advance and are left chasing people on the day. Maybe it will take a cancellation of DECA on the Saturday morning for people to realise we arent saying that the event will not run if we dont have the volunteers just for fun? Why should we be left chasing people on the day?? I've only been helping out a few years but each time we run DECA it peeves me off to no end the fact that Bec, Ryan, Wayne, Martin etc are all chasing around asking people if they can help on the day. It's not that hard to volunteer a few hours in the morning and get plenty of runs in the arvo with mates. /end rant

I think possibly youre forgetting the fact that alot of helpers are friends of those entered or going up for a look.

In this case these people are not actually active on the forum. I know for a fact one of my mates came up for a look last time and ended up helping, he isnt part of this forum. He will probably help again.

Of course it would be wonderful if all of the spots could be filled prior to the event but you cant really expect not to have the chase people on the day.

Hey guys Jett has just informed me that he's signed up to drive. Sorry to stuff you around, I did try to get some helpers this time around and had 3 lined up originally!

As always we can help between runs where needed.

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