Katherine Country Club recognised as Good Sports

Good Sports is an Australian Drug Foundation community program that helps community clubs and sporting clubs manage alcohol responsibly.

Good Sports works with Club Managers to develop a club where alcohol is managed responsibly and to facilitate a safe and family-friendly environment.

The Katherine Country Club signed up to Good Sports and was recently awarded with Level 1 accreditation. Katherine Mayor, Fay Miller, who is a supporter of Good Sports presented Katherine Country Club Manager, Frank Dalton, with his Level 1 accreditation certificate.

Frank Dalton Participated in Good Sports in Order to lead by example, “We already have in place a lot of what Good Sports teaches Clubs – it is part of our day-to-day duties.

I Thought Katherine Country Club would lead the way, as I wanted all the sporting clubs we sponsor and that use our facilities to partake in this program and learn more about responsible service of alcohol and duty of care, especially to their club members and players who are under 18 year old”, said Frank Dalton.

^{AHA Hospitality Outlook August/September 2013}

New weather station for town

For months residents of Katherine had to rely on weather data from Tindal – 25km south of town – as their only source of weather forecasts, after the weather station at the Katherine Aviation Museum shut down.

But a new manual synoptic weather station has now been set up at Katherine’s Golf and Country Club, where manager Frank Dalton and his team have taken on the task to report their weather observations – including dew po9int, humidity, temperature, wind speed and rainfall – twice a day, at 9am and 3pm.

“We’re a community club and the community needed a weather station based in Katherine,” Mr Dalton said.

“Reporting our observations is our contribution to the people of the Katherine community.” Bureau of Meteorology Regional Observations Manager Rob Chapman said it took two days to move the weather station from the Aviation Museum to the club, but operations were now running smoothly and reported its first 24 hour rainfall – 12mm- last Wednesday. The Katherine weather station is one of 27 manual stations across the Northern Territory that report weather observations to the Bureau twice a day. “Together with 40 automatic weather stations and the radars at Tindal, Darwin, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs the annual stations help to contribute to the overall weather forecasts for the Northern Territory,” Mr Chapman said. All data reported from NT stations can be found online at www.bom.gov.au.

^{Katherine Times Wednesday February 1, 2012}

Local club first to become Tourism NT accredited

A Katherine business is the first – and only – licensed club to be accreditired with Tourism NT. The Katherine Golf and Country Club spend 18 months working on sustainable operations, business and marketing plans to lift the standard of its business in aim to be accredited with Tourism NT.

The Golf and Country Club has now been listed as tourism orientated business alongside major tourism operation in the Northern Territory, such as Kakadu National Park’s Gagudju Crocodile Holiday Inn and Darwin’s Crocodylus Park. “To become accredited meant we had to look at responsibilities and duties and change some procedures and rules,” Club Manager Frank Dalton said. “But it was all worth it – the staff are happy and it means we’re able to provide a better environment for our customers and tourists,”