Albert Park under attack
ADI Lake attack hopes to raise $40K

TOP: Vice-President Fosters Asia Operations, Mr Gary Bett, Vice-President Business Development Asia, Mr Mark Prechelt, Account Development Manager Asian Reports Mr Terry Nicholls, and Commander Joint Logistics, MAJGEN Peter Haddad.

Lake Attack Organising Committee. Public Affairs Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund Ms Dilys Luciani, CMDR Jim Unkles, and General Manager Marketing Product Development at the ADI Ordnance Business Unit, Dr Mike Greenwood.

The launch of the 21st annual Australian Defence Force (ADF) Lake Attack tookplace around Melbourne’s Albert Park Lake last month, with some ‘huff and puff’ by the Lake Attack organisers and their major sponsor, ADI. And ADI management made sure the Lake Attack organisers had to work for their sponsorship money.

The catch was, the ADI management team were not prepared to simply hand over the Lake Attack sponsor cheque without making the ADF committee work for it.

Looking like elite athletes, wearing crafted black and white logo splashed track suits, the ADI relay team set off on a lap around the Lake, after having issued a challenge to the ADF committee to do the same.

Completing their lap, the ADI relay team handed a $17,000 sponsorship ‘baton’, in the form of an oversize cheque, to the waiting ADF committee relay team.

Upon receiving the ‘baton’ the ADF relay team completed their lap of Albert Park Lake with the $17,000 ADI cheque officially secured for charities involved in assisting children and families in need.

A $10,000 sponsorship cheque from Fosters will support the $17,000 ADI sponsorship with additional sponsor support from Melbourne talk station 3AW and Inchcape.

Since 1982 one of the primary objectives of the Defence community in Victoria has been to raise funds for charity organisations.

The ADI Lake Attack hopes to raise in excess of $40,000 for the beneficiaries: Legacy; The Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children; The Compassionate Friends and Kidsafe Child Accident Prevention Foundation.

Entrants in the ADI Lake Attack will have the choice of running or walking as an individual, or forming a family, friends or work-place relay team.

The relay team format encourages participation by all-age entrants from school children to older citizen groups.

The origins of the Lake Attack come from the annual Army road relay race from Puckapunyal to Melbourne, first held in 1982.

Over the years the relay evolved into a series of charity focused events and more recently has become a charity run/walk for the public around Albert Park Lake.

During the coming weeks talk radio station 3AW will appeal to members of the public and Defence personnel to register for the next ADF/ADI Lake Attack to be held on June 1.

Entries: www.ausrun.com.au or phone (03) 9819 9225.

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