The nets are all up, the
lights have been cleaned and hopefully maintenance has cleaned the courts and
the water fountain. When you go out to the courts look up at the lights – its
amazing you can actually see the light bulbs!! We will have Social Tennis
beginning on November 5th. And November Men’s League will
begin on Tuesday, November 6th. There will be a sign up sheet
for Men’s League posted on the tennis club bulletin board. If you are not here
yet, but would like to play in November Men’s League let me know and I will get
you signed up.
New
Courts
The Pickleball courts are
still a “work in progress.” At this point, Wendell shared with me, they plan
on starting work on the conversion of the tennis center pickleball courts to
tennis courts beginning in December. We will have to keep our fingers crossed
and keep positive thoughts that they will be ready for play in January.
Organized Play
Handout
You can see the new
schedule in the attached Tennis Club Handout. This covers from now until we get
the additonal courts. When we get the additional courts I will print a new
handout. Right now the following changes are planned:
January
Ladies Advance – Changes
to 9:30-11:00 when the new courts open
Ladies 2.5-3.0 –
9:30-11:00 will be offered on Thursdays
Saturday Round Robin – can
expand beyond the current three courts
Men’s /Ladies Adv – can
expand beyond the current two courts
Prime Time – When the new
courts are available all court times not scheduled for organized play will be
open for permanent court time scheduling
If you don’t have a
printer, Organized Play schedules will be available in the Activities Office and
hopefully by the white board in the Tennis Center. If you have any questions,
or suggestions, please let me know. Always looking for your ideas.
Volunteers
Thank you to all those who
volunteered as court captains this year. Please see the handout listing of the
organized play, the court captains and their in park phone numbers. Feel free
to give them a call if you have any questions on their organized play. A huge
thank you to Penny Mason for an exceptionally successful nominating committee
effort for the 2012/2013 season. In addition to all the court captains listed
on the handout, our volunteer list is rounded out by the
following:
Marion Gavin –
Treasurer
Sandy Hurlbert –
Secretary
Walt Krahl/Glenn
Arnold/Bob Fulton – Court Maintenance
Helen Arnold –
Membership
Bob Gibson – Tennis Ball
Captain
Marg Wildeman –
Publicity
Mary Williams – Tennis
Club Blog
Mary Sullivan Pondell –
Bulletin Board
Hank Olson – Craft Fair
Set Up
Sieny Kouwenhoven – Bingo
Take Down
The last two noted
volunteers leads me into the next topic…
Chair Set Up
Hank and Sieny graciously
volunteered once again to chair the Craft Fair and the Bingo chair
responsibilities. In addition, this year, with a very busy entertainment
schedule, the park has requested tennis, along with pickleball and softball, to
participate in chair set up for some of the entertainment events. The good news
is that in addition to the $700 we will be reimubursed for the Bingo take downs,
we will receive another approximately $665 for the event chair set ups. The
park supports our tennis club in many ways, especially this year with the
conversion of the pickleball courts back to three additional tennis courts.
This is one way we can help them out and also get reimbursed for our efforts.
Hank Olson chairs the Craft Fair Set Up and Take Down. Sieny Kouwenhoven chairs
the bingo take down. However, I need a volunteer to chair the 5
entertainment event set ups. This is a little easier than the bingo take
down as you don’t have to deal with any tables – just setting up chairs. The
schedule for the events we are responsible for are: Friday, 2/22 noon,
Sunday, 3/3 -3pm, Wednesday, 3/6- 3pm, Wednesday, 3/13 – 3pm, Sunday, 3/17-3pm.
I will help this volunteer by sending out a request for volunteers in my
weekly update letter the week before you need the help. This person will be the
one who coordinates with Activities on how to set up the chairs and direct the
volunteers. PLEASE GIVE THIS SOME CONSIDERATION – OUR TENNIS CLUB IS ONLY AS
GOOD AS LONG AS OUR MEMBERS GET INVOLVED!!!
People
Update:
-Sandy and Rod Hurlbert
celebrated their 70th birthdays by hiking across England. You can
see their journal at http://www.trailjournals.com/location.cfm?trailname=13995
-Carol Mason will not be
joining us this season as Don is going in for open heart surgery. We send our
thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
-Carol Heinz has a new
series of chemotherapy which has been yeilding more positive results. Although
it is fatiguing her she has been cleared to go visit her daugher’s family in San
Antonio the week of 10/4. We look forward to see Larry and Carol in
January.
Roster:
If you have not done so
already, please take the few minutes to send Sandy Hurlbert your roster
information. We have received quite a few responses but there are still many of
you who have not yet responded. This year we are asking
for:
First and Last
Names:
Arrival Date: If
known
Departure Date: If
known
Site #: If
known
Self/USTA
Rating:
Cell Phone
Numbers:
We are asking for cell
phone numbers especially for those of you who do not use the park phone system
or who do not have a messaging service on your park phone.
Please send this
information to Sandy Hurlbert at rshurlbert@q.com as soon as possible. Your
quick response helps our valued volunteers. Let’s all make life easy for our
volunteers and show them how much we appreciate their work to make our tennis
club the great organization that it is. Thanks to all those who have already
responded and thanks in advance to all of you who are going to click on Sandy’s
email address and send her your info.
Desert Cactus
League:
The Desert Cactus League
has ladies playing on Mondays at 2pm, men playing on Fridays at 2pm and Mixed
playing on Saturday at 2pm. Our ladies league is on Mondays from 11-1. This
will leave you with time to make it to the league play. Connie and I have
looked at all the opportunities to move ladies league but it would then create
conflicts with other events our ladies participate in at the park. So, for
those of you who play in the Palm Creek ladies league you can play in both, or
pick one or the other. Isn’t it great to have options. This also holds true
for the Intermediate Men’s Group that will be playing this season from 11-12:30
on Fridays. This will give you time to make it to the 2pm scheduled start of
Desert Cactus League Play. If you have any further questions, please let me
know. I will be attending the captains meeting on November 17th and
will share with you all of the information that is available at that time. If
you have any questions you want me to ask, please let me
know.
Save the
date:
Please get out your
calendars right now and save these dates:
Sunday, January
13th – Our Arkansas contingent is going to host a tennis/pot luck
event
Wed/Thur/Fri – January 30,
31 and Feb 1 – Cancer Awareness Tennis Tournament
Saturday evening –
February 2nd – Cancer Awareness Awards Dinner
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday – February21, 22, 23, and 24 – Palm Creek Tennis
Tournament
Sunday, February
24th – Tennis Tournament Awards Celebration
Thursdays – January 10,
17, and 24 – Club Team Tennis
Sunday – March
17th – Annual Tennis Club Meeting – San Tan
Room
Membership
Dues:
I
will let you know when Helen Arnold is in the park and ready and available to
receive your dues. So, hang on to your monies until then. I also want ot
share with you why I think Palm Creek Tennis Club Membership is such a good
investment.
·
Organized play – you get
many opportunities to play tennis without having to find partners or schedule
court time
·
Permanent Court Time –
Only members of the tennis club can book permanent court time. This gives you a
set schedule for your tennis matches without having the hassel of going into the
tennis court reservation system (www.reservemycourt.com) on a weekly
basis.
·
Free tennis lessons – Skip
Nirenberg and his team offer great tennis lessons/opportunities to hit lots of
tennis balls
·
Social Events – The tennis
club has some great opportunities to get to know the other members of the club
and just the meals offered by the club offsets the cost of your dues. So even
for the non-tennis player spouses, the couples membership is one great
deal!!
·
Weekly updates – Lets you
know what is happening in the club on a weekly basis
·
Tennis Tournaments/Club
Team Tennis – These events are an additional cost if you are not a member of the
tennis club
Hope you agree and we look
forward to your membership to help support our tennis
club!
Looking forward to seeing
you back at Palm Creek for a great 2012/2013 tennis
season,
Kate
