Weekly Update - Sunday 12/18/2011

There is a sign up sheet posted for the January 8^th Tennis Club Soup and Salad social.  This has historically been one of our most popular socials.  The food is always delicious and it is a great opportunity to connect with all your tennis friends as well as a great opportunity to meet some of our new members as well as our members who are returning to the park.  Please take the time to sign up.   I can’t stress enough how important it is and how much it helps our volunteers who work very hard to make this a fun event.    

There is also a sign up sheet posted for the very popular Club Team Tennis.  Robson Ranch has two teams and Mission already has one team and may have one more team.  We match the Palm Creek players into teams to ensure everyone has a challenging match.  Each team generally has 3 ladies and 3 men.  Each team member rotates in so no one is playing all of the matches.  The details of how it works can be found on the bulletin board.  We do encourange courteous “trash talk” on the court as well as cheering on your fellow team mates.  You have to experience one of these to get the true feel for this event.  The January session runs on January 12, 19 and 26.  Club team tennis starts at 2pm followed at 4 pm with the tennis club happy hour.  Everyone brings their own “adult” beverage and an appetizer to share.  It is always a lot of fun and  it is so well attended that we at times ran out of chairs.  But, I think I have that taken care of with the additional chairs that have now arrived.   If you are not able to play all three times for this session we do need subs from time to time so please let us know if you would like to be a sub and what weeks you will be available to play.    But, please put these dates on your calendar and if you are not playing, come out to cheer on your friends and mix and mingle during happy hour with this great group of people!  If you want to be certain to get on a team, please get signed up before the January 1^st. 

The water fountain has arrived, but there are some glitches so it is, to the best of my knowledge, not yet operational.  But, they are working on it.

Pickleball club has the layout for their new center and it was presented to their membership at their meeting last week.  They still do not have the final count as to how many pickleball courts will be installed this year but the Pickleball club is pushing very hard to get all 22-24 courts installed.  Right now the construction is not set to start until March.    I will keep you updated.

Remember that the coffee and hot water for hot chocolate and tea supplied by the pickleball club is also offered to our tennis club members.  Please remember to drop some money in the container provided to offset the cost of the coffee and supplies.  Edie Priest (who heads this up for Pickleball) commented that she has not seen any monies in the container so I would like to encourage our tennis players to set a good example and show how much we appreciate their efforts by dropping in some money to help offset the cost.  It is nice to have it available on these cold mornings we have been experiencing!

I got a lot of comments as to how much everyone enjoyed the updates on their tennis friends so I thought I would pass this one along - I recently got an email from Joan and Jack Cashman.  They will not be returning to the park this year but they do expect to come back to the park next year!