Committee for Lorne – 2019 Doug & Mary Stirling Community Cup awarded to Carly Enticott

The Doug and Mary Stirling Cup, a community biannual award to honour outstanding service to and leadership in the Lorne Community, was first awarded to Doug and Mary Stirling at a community dinner in 2013.

The Cup was an initiative of the Lorne Lions Club and it has also been awarded to Henry Love in 2015 and to Jan and Peter Spring in 2017.

The Cup was forged in the 1920’s and was once a door-stop in a Scottish ancestral home. As is befitting a cup made of Stirling Silver, it is now the symbol of Lorne’s leadership and service award, a far more worthy use.

At a Lorne Lions Club meeting earlier this year the Club agreed to accept the recommendation of the organising committee, to award the Doug and Mary Stirling Cup to Carly Enticott.

Carly moved to Lorne in 2006 to work at the Lorne Community Hospital as a registered nurse. She immediately began to be a diverse and tireless volunteer and organiser in our township. She took on a leadership role as the coach of the Lorne Football Netball Club, not in one grade, but in all grades of netball in the Club. Carly married Wes Enticott in 2008, when she found the time to participate in the Murray to Moyne cycling event which raises funds for the Lorne Community Hospital. The list of her continued involvement in our community is a formidable one, including:
• a driver and volunteer for the Murray to Moyne cycling event
• resuming, in 2011 coaching the A grade and under 17 netball teams
• organiser of the Relay for Life for the Cancer Council
• a member of the Committee for Lorne, in 2012 until the present time
• organiser of Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
• in 2014 Carly started a social women’s basketball competition
• in 2015 she became a netball umpire
• Carly became in 2015, a committee member of the Lorne Football and Netball committee, and in 2019 she became vice president of the Club
• also in 2015 Carly started collaborating with the Great Ocean Road Coastal Committee to refresh the Erskine Paddock
• in 2016 she joined the Stribling Reserve Committee, maintaining this commitment until the present time
• in 2017 Carly ran the New York marathon and also managed to coach the Lorne A grade netball team to a premiership – remarkable and she also started Catch, Chat and Play aiming to improve the fitness and health of young girls
• in 2018 Carly joined the Community Liaison Committee of the Lorne Community Hospital
• whilst maintaining all of the above responsibilities, Carly started this year, Parkrun at Lorne as its co-event director.

Added to the above, is Carly’s commitment to their small business Lorne Larder (formally Lick and Sip started in 2007) and most importantly of all she is mum to Kobe and Neve.

We can all recognise and help to celebrate Carly’s service to our community at a dinner to be held at the Lorne Hotel on Friday October 25, so please enter this date in your diary. The details of the booking process will soon be announced in the local press and posted on our local Facebook page.

Well done Carly!

Stephen Hishon
Event Coordinator