Membership forms will be sent out and available at the club on the 3rd of September. I’m looking forward to a year of great fencing and fun at the club. Wrexham Fencing Club has a history for producing top class fencers. I believe this club will produce fencers for Wales and Great Britain, we can all be part of it.

Peter.

Chair of Wrexham Fencing Club.

This well deserved honour, MBE, Member of the British Empire, is for “Services to Healthcare and to Fencing in Chester and Wrexham”. I would like to say we at Wrexham Fencing Club are very proud and wish Mike a great day at the Palace.

“I would like to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you on behalf of Wrexham Fencing Club to Andy Roberts and Gareth Lawn, former chair and vice chair of the club. For all their valiant work for the club over the years, this included all the behind the scenes work which sadly goes unnoticed. I’m very pleased to say both will still be at the club and have offered advice, when I need it. I can only hope I don’t let them down over the next year”.

“The AGM was a great success last Friday and votes were cast for junior and senior fencers of the year. Junior fencer was George Dolan sadly not at the meeting but the trophy will be delivered in person. Senior fencer was Dave Gregory who was on hand to accept his trophy; which comes just a few weeks after his success at the Wrexham Open”.

“Next Saturday we propose to check all the clubs equipment to see what needs repairing or replacing. So if you have any items at home, can you fetch them along on Friday or let me know size, left or right and what condition it is in”.

The DE’s out of the way, brought George against the towering experience and quality of the 1^st and 2^nd seeds.  This would mean George would have to use all the skills gained from his coaching from David and Valeriys, a very calm, cool and controlled fight ended with the semi final score of 10-7 against a fencer who has been very successful all this season and onto the final. Another sporting event was said to be going on at the same time, but all concentration was on Georges final against a very good fencer.  This again finished 10-7 and a very pleased Golden George shook hands and walked from the piste.

The Golden Grove
2 course £15 or 3 course £20

Starters

Homemade Soup Of The Day – Always homemade, always piping hot, served with a warm crusty roll.

Grilled Goats Cheese - Served on a herb infused crostini with caramelized red onion marmalade and rocket salad.

Creamy garlic mushrooms – Mushrooms tossed in white wine, cream, garlic and fresh herbs on a crispy crouton.

Chicken Liver and Brandy Pate – Served with chilli jam, crisp salad and a crusty roll fresh from the oven.

Prawn and Apple Cocktail – Braeburn apple and Atlantic prawns bound in garlic mayonnaise on a bed of mixed leaves finished with paprika and a pesto dressing.

Mains

Roast Shoulder of Welsh Lamb – Tender Welsh lamb on a bed of dauphinoise potato, red wine and rosemary gravy and fresh vegetables.

Paprika Chicken on Mushroom Risotto – Juicy strips of paprika coated chicken on a classic mushroom risotto, finished with parmesan shavings, fresh herbs and rocket leaves.

Cajun Swordfish Steak – Marinated in Cajun spices and  pan fried with olive oil and lemon juice, served on a chiffonade of cucumber strips in sour cream.

Vegetable parcels – Roasted mixed vegetables wrapped in filo pastry and smothered in a provencal sauce

Asparagus and Sweet Pea Risotto – Pan fried sweet garden peas, herbs and onions combined with a rich and creamy white wine risotto topped with grilled asparagus spears and parmesan shavings.

Goats Cheese and Red Onion Tart – Caramelized onions and shallots with  a thick slice of Goats Cheese in a shortcrust pastry case with salad and your choice of  potato.

Steak and Guinness Pie – Lean steak, shallots and mushrooms slow braised in Guinness and red wine gravy and topped with a puff pastry lid, served with your choice of potato and fresh vegetable.

The Golden Burger – A juicy 6oz handmade burger on a fresh bun with a slice of cheddar and bacon, served with crisp salad and chunky chips.

Classic Fish and Chips – Fresh haddock in our crisp beer batter with our chunky chips, peas and a fat wedge of lemon.

Pork and Leek Sausages – Locally produced sausages, grilled to perfection with cheddar mash, port and red onion gravy and deep fried crispy parsnip strips.

Classic Caesar salad with chicken breast – Crisp little gem leaves, fresh ciabatta croutons, crispy smoked Italian bacon, our homemade real Caesar sauce, with parmesan shavings, cracked black pepper and a poached egg, topped with a grilled chicken breast.

Desserts

Eaton mess

Classic tiramisu

Chocolate and Cointreau mousse

Apple and summer berry crumble with vanilla ice cream

Children

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Garlic Bread

Soup of the day

Fish and chips

Golden Burger

Pork and leek sausages and mash

Asparagus and sweet pea risotto

Eaton mess

Apple and summer berry crumble

Ice cream

2010 Wrexham Open – Mens Foil

2010 Wrexham Open – Womens Foil

2010 Wrexham Open – Mens Epee

2010 Wrexham Open – Womens Epee

2010 Wrexham Open – Mens Sabre

2010 Wrexham Open – Womens Sabre

Fresh from an 18 hour plus coach journey, our guests from the Continent showed that they can more than compete with one on Wales premier fencing clubs, and their strength in depth eventually came to the forefront, enabling them to take home the overall trophy.

The Ludenscheid team brought over in excess of 40 fencers to do battle with Wrexham’s elite. Their foil and sabre teams were made up  from members of the Hagen Haspe club, whilst the epeeist’s came from the  LTV 1861 club. Wrexham fencing club relied on support from Packwood School and Wrekin Sword Fencing Club to bolster their numbers. After suffering a relatively substantial defeat at the the hands of their guests last year in Germany, Wrexham were more than hoping to make a fist of things this year.

On Friday the individual competitions took place. It was decided to mix the genders and have an overall winner in each individual weapon. Junior and Senior competitions ran alongside each other and Wrexham came out on top. The three senior events were all won by Wrexham fencers, much to the surprise of the Ludenscheid team. David Gregory took the epee prize, Daniel Lumb the sabre and Carolyn Benson the foil, even after having to attend hospital halfway through the competition. The winners exploits were however overshadowed by the performances of Jannis Selbach from Ludenscheid and Ben Hughes from Wrexham. Jannis was runner up in both the senior foil and sabre events, whilst Ben, who is not renowned for his ‘activity’, came third in the senior foil and epee.

In the junior competitions, excellent performances from George Dolan, who won the foil competition, and Keir Club, who won the smaller sword epee, made sure that Wrexham ended the day on a high. Wrexham’s winning streak was dented though by winning performances from Paul Busch in the larger sword junior epee and Valerie Fabrice in the junior sabre.

After the very encouraging results in the individual competitions, Wrexham went into Saturday’s team events full of confidence. With the ‘trophy’ at stake for the winners of the team events, it was imperative that all of Wrexham’s fencers performed to their full ability.

The ‘trophy were contested by teams in the Junior Foil, Senior Sabre, Senior Womens Epee and Senior Mens Epee. This was where the strength of the Ludenscheid squad shone through. They secured victories in the Junior foil and the Senior Womens epee. Wrexham managed to pull an unlikely victory out of the Senior sabre and were within a point of securing a more than creditable draw. In the Senior epee match David Gregory managed to pull the fight back from the brink of defeat and take it into a last minute decider. Similar to the ‘golden goal’ in football and the nearest you get to a penalty shoot out, there was only going to be one outcome. Sure enough the Ludenscheid team won the final point to ensure the ‘trophy’ returned home to Germany.

I am sure that everyone present will agree that the whole event was a massive success, It was superbly organised by Gareth Lawn and there were valuable contributions from so many that it is impossible to thank them all individually, but they know who they are. Without the hard work of Lynn Halley, Peter Morris, Rose Gregory and Mike Norfolk then the event would not have been possible.