Palm Creek Tennis Club Update 12/4/2011

We have a tennis club event scheduled for this coming Sunday, December 11th  starting at 12:30pm.  This includes a free lunch and tennis.  All tennis club members are invited to attend for free.  Everyone who signs up is assigned to play either in the first grouping or the second grouping.  While the first grouping is on the courts, the second grouping can socialize in the tennis pavilion, enjoy some lunch and/or cheer on their favorite players.  After 20-30 minutes of play, the whistle is blown and the first grouping comes off the court to socialize and enjoy lunch and the second grouping goes on the court.  We go through this process twice so you get to play twice with a different group of players each time.  This is a great opportunity to meet some of our new members as well as reconnect with your tennis friends.  Spouses are invited to join us for lunch and to cheer on their favorite players.  The sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board on the side facing the tennis pavilion.  Remember to stop by and sign up for Sunday/Funday!

I will have some tennis club shirts available for sale at the Sunday/Funday event.    These are still only $25.   Don’t forget to bring cash or a check with you to the event so you can take home one of these high quality Antigua shirts with a Palm Creek Tennis Club logo.

If you have been by the tennis pavilion, you can’t help but notice all the new tables and chairs!!  Hopefully, this year we will have enough to seat everyone at our tennis club happy hours.  The solar lights are in place to light the walkways and are also located by the switch to turn on the court lights.  This should be very helpful on those moonless nights.  And, the new water fountain, next to the tennis shed, is in the process of being installed.

 Social tennis is in full swing so don’t forget to stop by Monday through Friday at 9:30 and get in line to rotate on the courts.  We do ask everyone to respect the queue so that all players have an equal turn to participate.

 Our membership chair, Helen Arnold will be available at the Sunday/Funday on December 11^th.   Please help our tennis club by signing on as a member.  Membership dues of an amazingly reasonable amount of $15 for a couple or $10 for an individual make it possible for us to offer fun events, repair and maintain the ball machines, purchase tennis balls for events like club team tennis as well as provide for some minor communication needs like the bulletin boards and the white board.   Thank you in advance for your support of our tennis club.

 Update – I just wanted to update you on the status of some of our tennis friends:

Kenny Civielo reports that his achilles is healed and his legs are as good as new and he and Ginny will be back at the park in January

Gwen and Wayne Black have had a wonderful vacation in South America.  Wayne had rotator cuff surgery and Gwen had some back problems but they are hoping to be back on the tennis courts when they get back to the park

Ken Babb had a bad motorcycle accident but Leta reports he is recovering quicker than expected.  He was recently released from the hospital 9 weeks from the day of the accident.  Ken thinks he will recover much better in the sun so they are now planning on making it back to the park before the season is over.

Sieny’s wrist has healed and although it is not perfect she is back on the courts.

Carol and Steve Land built a home in the Robsen Community in Denton Texas.  They sold their RV and they are currently on a 70 day cruise of Asia and Australia (where Carol is from).

Skip and Bev will be back in January and the Tuesday tennis lessons will then begin.

Carol Heinze let me know in August that her chemo treatments did not work as planned but they were working on a “new game plan” and they were planning to return to Palm Creek this winter.   Please keep Larry and Carol in your prayers.

Rick Jaccarino is getting a knee replaced this year so he and Susan will not be returning this year, but we hope to see them next year.

Tom and Diana Langstine are still in Florida.  Diana reports that Tom is getting in some tennis.  They are very much missed here, especially when Mark and I start to work on the Tennis Tournament that they did such a good job in initiating.