After 30 years of membership with the club Gary Saunders was awarded life membership during the 2022 season Presentation Night.  The 80-year-old veteran has ran 467 club races and won 17 of them in the 30 years. He still is an active runner with the club challenging himself with the longer distances of up to 10kms. Gary started running with the club when his son Philo Saunders, now an Olympian coach, started running with the club back in 1992. He said in his thank you speech that he had started running the year earlier, but the Stawell City Brass band practised on Sundays, when they changed the rehearsal times he could then run with the club.