Knox Little Athletics Centre Inc.

Following on form the notification of two cases of COVID 19 attending the centre last Friday, the Executive Committee can confirm that the centre facilities, and our athletics equipment was cleaned and sanitised on Monday evening in line with current guidelines and advice from DHS and LAVic. 

The Executive Committee is happy to inform everyone that all tests undertaken have returned negative results.

Therefore training will resume this evening (Wednesday) from 4.30pm and our last competition before the Christmas Break, Multi Event, Colour Run and a visit from Santa will go ahead on Sunday as planned.

We ask all families to continue to monitor for symptoms and if you feel unwell, please do not attend athletics and please get tested.

If anyone has any questions please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee have been advised that we had 2 positive COVID-19 cases attend our Friday Twilight Competition on the 10/12/2021.

We are currently notifying the relevant organisations and are awaiting advice and guidance.

At this stage, with an abundance of caution we have decided to cancel training for tonight. Our Centre and our equipment will undergo cleaning tonight.
Please do not turn up for training – there will be no access to the track and the turnstile gate will be locked until cleaning is complete.

Please await further advice from us. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

On Saturday the 18th of December from 8am to 1pm The Basin Backyard are holding a farmers market at their shop location at 1/31 Rushdale Street Knoxfield (2 minute walk from little Aths track).

There will be some great stall holders which include, French bread and deserts, dog treats, Japanese sauces, veggies, garlic plus others and of course the honey shop will be open as well.

Come down to the market and support one of our sponsors.

The Basin Backyard is a local business located at 31 Rushdale Court (directly across from the track) that provides beekeeping supplies and honey.

Honey Sales
The Basin Backyard has over 250 bee hives in The Basin, the Dandenong ranges, Gippsland, St Arnaud/Bendigo region and Mornington Peninsula. All their honey is cold filtered which leaves in all the beneficial goodness and most of all FLAVOUR. – They also provide bee mentoring, beekeeping advice and all your bee keeping needs.

$1 from every jar sold will be returned to Knox LAC if you show your registration patch or handbook.

Workshops
They also run workshops for the following: Cheese, Salami, Fermented foods, Passata, pruning, grafting, edible gardening in Melbourne, bee keeping, chicken keeping and loads more

Please support a local business and head across to the shop in Rushdale Ave or buy online and buy local.

Tonight is our first Friday Twilight competition for the season and starts at 6pm sharp. If you are on duty please arrive by 5.30pm to assist in setup.

Update for U6 and U7 Athletes
There will be no on track program tonight – U6 and U7 will do a 70m sprint instead.

The Fields also have their fundraiser BBQ on tonight.