Weekly Update - Sunday 1/2/2011

Before anything else this updatecomes to you with wishes for a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Fun New Year to all of our tennis friends.


Its January and the Park is filling up fast. For those of you who signed up to play on the Leagues – they start at 12:30 PM on January 3rd for Ladies and January 4th for Men’s. Great news – we have filled all of our courts for both Men’s and Ladies!!! If you are not going to be able to play, please call a sub from the subs listed on the league sign up sheet. Please remember it is your job to find a sub if you will not be able to play in any session of league play!

The Club Team tennis January session is scheduled to begin on January 6th and runs for 4 weeks. Mark has been working hard to fill in teams and he is still waiting for some responses but we should have 8 teams for the January session! If you are not on a team, please come out to the courts on Thursdays at 2pm to cheer on your tennis buddies. Good natured trash talk is encouraged so come on out and join in the fun and stay for the Thursday Tennis Club Happy Hour which starts at 4pm!

Save the date: The January Meeting/Social is Sunday January 23rd at 4pm in the San Tan Room. This is our famous Soup and Salad pot luck. Please stop by the bulletin boards (pavilion side - Social) and sign up to bring either a soup (in a crock pot) or salad. Then show up on January 23rd for an amazing array of wonderful foods. Please, make it easier on our volunteers, who work very hard to make each event very special, and sign up. I just can’t stress enough how important is for you to sign up.

The Palm Creek Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament is scheduled for Wednesday February 2nd (Ladies Doubles) Thursday February 3rd (Men’s Doubles) and Friday, February 4th (Mixed Doubles). Please sign up on the sheets posted on the bulletin board (pavilion side – Upcoming Events). You don’t need to find a partner for Men’s or Ladies or Mixed Doubles as each player will be matched at random. This year Jean McConnell came up with the excellent idea to move the tennis tournament out of the weekend timeframe so that we don’t compete with the other club’s tournaments. Also, we will not be giving out shirts this year as we had problems over the year in getting the correct sizes. If you want a shirt you can participate in one of the cancer awareness events in the park that gives out shirts, or you can purchase a shirt at the Activities office. In addition, we will be having our own awards celebration on Friday after Friday’s matches for all those and their spouses, who participated in any of the Tennis Club Cancer Awareness tournament events. We can then all walk over to Palm Park to witness the lighting of the luminaries here at the park. The fee for participating is $25 per individual for one event and if you want to add on the mixed doubles event the total cost is only $5 more for a total of $30. All of our profits will be donated back to the Palm Creek Cancer Awareness Donation.

Speaking of shirts, our tennis club shirts are in and I will be picking them up tomorrow. If you ordered your shirt in the November order I will bring them to the tennis club happy hour this Thursday, so please make sure you stop by to pick up your shirt!

Gwen and Wayne Black and Gail and Hank Verhoeff have volunteered to co captain Couples Open on Sundays at 2pm. This is a great opportunity for couples to have a fun game of tennis with other couples in the park. Each couple draws from a deck of cards for the couple they will be competing against. They then play the best of 3 games with the winners moving up and the losers moving down. There is a sign up sheet (pet park side – Sign up sheets).

I am working hard tonight to get the tennis club roster fully updated to post on the bulletin board. I am going to fill in all of the people who are on my distribution list for these emails. You should be able to tell who has arrived in the park by the notation showing if they have paid their membership dues or not.

I can’t end without a “standing ovation” for our court maintenance team of Walt Krahl and Glenn Arnold. The new wind screens are installed and the old wind screens have been powerwashed, the courts have been blown off weekly and everything is in working order. Our courts look GREAAAAT…Hats off to a job well done!