Weekly Update - Sunday 2/6/2011

First a huge thank you to all of our tennis club members who supported the Tennis Club’s Cancer Awareness Tournament. Despite the unseasonably cold weather we played every match scheduled! A huge thank you to all (players and volunteers) who faced some pretty cold wind chill factors and still came out to make this worthy event such an outstanding success. Our chairs, Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson outdid themselves putting on a first class event. With patio heaters taking off the chill our members enjoyed the Italian Themed Awards dinner of Lasagna, Caesar Salad and Garlic Bread (not to mention the Lemon Cakes and the Brownie Bites for dessert). It was a great site: the Tennis Pavilion filled with tables covered with Red and White Checked Table Cloths and all of our tennis buddies clinking wine glasses and enjoying the fun of a “raucous raffle” emceed by our own Mike Kirsch. The final tally is in and the Tennis Club has $1343 in net proceeds from the tournament (this is after $272 for food and $45 for balls), and $209 from the raffle for a total donation to Cancer Charities of $1,552! This far exceeds our donations in the past and, it is important to note, our past donations were then reduced for the costs of the park provided shirts and lunches.


Everyone who participated was a winner but those scoring the most game points included:

Women’s Doubles: AM: 1st: Bev Nirenberg and Penny Jacobsen, 2nd: Betty Scofield and Carmen Allen PM: 1st: Susan Manganaro and Patti Blessen, 2nd: Charlotte Eicher and Leta Babb

Men’s Doubles: 1st Skip Nirenberg and Jack Hardy, 2nd Ken Civiello and Glenn Arnold

Mixed Doubles: AM: 1st: Jim Weaver and Rhoda Zaph, 2nd: Mark Costello and Rita Yates PM 1st: Susan Manganaro and Hank Verhoeff, Tied for Second: Pete McGannon and Helen Arnold tied with Steve Allen and Kate Perrie

Photos are posted on our blog: www.palmcreektennisclub.blogspot.com. Just click on this link and it will take you right to the site. I hope you enjoy my impressions of the event. Sorry I did not get any photos on the courts but at least I remembered to bring my camera to the Awards Banquet!!!

Please remember you can get a full listing of the tennis club members on the roster posted on the blog site as well under the link on the right side titled Tennis Roster.

On a sad note, we have lost a dear member of the tennis club, Al Bovluger. Carol Bovluger has invited the members of the tennis club to a Celebration of Life event on Saturday, March 12th at 11 AM in the Ballroom. Carol is planning a lunch and in order to help her plan we will have a sign up sheet posted on the Social Bulletin Board. Please save the date, sign up and come out to show how the Tennis Club supports our own.

The Palm Creek Tennis Tournament, February 17 – 20th is getting close so don’t delay, find a partner and come participate in this great event. Currently we have 5 Men’s teams, 6 Women’s teams and 10 Mixed teams. Our goal is to have 16 teams in each category so we need your support. One of the things I hear from our members is that they want challenging play. Well, here is your chance. After your first match if you win, you will move up to compete against the other winners. If you lose your first match you progress to the consolation round and play against another team who also lost their first match. If you want help finding a partner, please give me a call or reply to this email. We would love to see all of our brackets filled with no byes so we need you to sign up by February 15th at 2pm (the date of the seeding event) and share in all the fun!

As the seeding event is on Tuesday, February 15th we will not have tennis lessons on that Tuesday. But, the tennis lessons will be held this Tuesday (2/8) at 2pm so come on out and join in. No matter what your level, it is great practice to hit lots of balls and also quite helpful to have an unbiased third party on hand to give you some insight on your play.

Next Sunday, February 13th at 11:30 AM in the San Tan Room is the February Brunch Social/Meeting. This is a lot of fun and always interesting array of delicious foods. We love homemade but store bought is always welcome. Bring a brunch item that feed 6-8 and join in the fun. Please sign up on the sign up sheet by Friday, February 11th and bring your Valentine out for an early Valentine’s Day Celebration Brunch.

Club Team Tennis will start up again on March 3rd - March 24th for our final 4 week session. Don’t miss out on the event that everyone is talking about. If you are interested in playing in the March session, regardless if you have played in the past sessions, we need you to call, send an email or just sign up on the sign up sheet posted on the bulletin board.