Hi
all,
People
Update:
On behalf of the entire
tennis club we send our heartfelt condolences to Jack Hardy on the passing of
his lovely wife Lois. If you would like Jack’s email address, please let me
know and I will send it to you. Jack’s mailing address
is:
525
Montroyal Place
North
Vancouver, B.C.
V7N 3E5
Canada
Lois’s
Obituary
It is with great sorrow we
announce the passing of beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend to many,
C. Lois Hardy on November 10, 2012 after a brief battle with
cancer.
Lois was born on a farm near
Donavon, Saskatchewan, on January 11, 1930 and settled in North Vancouver in
1957 with her husband Jack. They met in Hamilton, Ontario in 1953 while she was
training as a dietician after completing her degree in Home Economics. She
worked as a dietician until giving birth to her son, Jim and daughter, Dana and
then dedicated her life to being a full time mom to her children and a partner
to Jack in his retirement.
Lois and Jack have been blessed
with many great friends and Lois loved entertaining them at home with her
excellent cooking skills. She enjoyed curling, skiing, golf, tennis and
traveling, and later in life took up painting. In the last 25 years, since
Jack’s retirement, they spent winters in Arizona, escaping the rains of
Vancouver.
Lois is predeceased by her
brothers Willard and Gerald and will be lovingly remembered by her husband Jack,
son Jim (Deb), daughter Dana (Mike), granddaughters Ellen and Alexa, brother
Arnold, sisters in law Joyce and Loretta and numerous other extended family and
friends.
There will be a celebration of
life in the Jim Graham Lounge at The North Shore Winter Club, 1325 E. Keith
Road, North Vancouver on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 2:00 pm.
In lieu of flowers, donations
to the BC Cancer Foundation would be welcomed.
The Palm Creek tennis
season is starting to kick into gear:
Organized
Play
-Thursday evening tennis
(it used to be Wednesday evening but was changed because there were lots of
conflicts on Wednesday evenings) begins on 11/15 at 6:30 pm. Bob and Jean
McConnell x 7066 and Larry Marik x7647 are the co chairs for this The sign up
sheet is posted on the bulletin board.
-Men’s Intermediate will
start on Friday, 11/16 at 11 AM. Sign up sheet is posted. Original sign up
sheet was in error showing a Thursday start but this organized play is scheduled
for Fridays . Bob McConnell x 7066 chairs this organized
play
-Couples Open starts on
11/18. Gwen and Wayne Black x 6917chair this organized play. This week’s play
11/18 will be from 2-3:30 followed by a “byob/bring a snack” happy hour. After
this week the Sunday Couples Open will move to a 1-2:30 time slot. As Gwen so
aptly put it “You don’t need a marriage license to play.” So find a partner and
sign up!
Court Captain
Badges
I
just received the court captain badges. This year they did not put a year on
the badge so we can use them from year to year. If you are in the area of site
#459, please stop by and pick it up. I will make every effort to get them to
you or get them to someone who will be seeing you on the courts. Please wear
your court captain badge when you are in charge of an organized play activity.
And, it would be helpful if you wore them when you are on the tennis courts so
if someone has a question, they can quickly identify you as someone who can help
them. Thanks. I have also ordered court captain badges for all the volunteer
positions. Thanks to all of our volunteers – you make this club the great
group that it is!
CPR
Sieny Kouwenhoven and
Brian Younge are going to represent the tennis club at the CPR training. I am
sure there will be more CPR classes offered so I will be looking for more
volunteers as spots open up. It is a huge benefit to everyone to have more
people who have been trained on the new equipment down at the tennis courts.
Last year someone collapsed on the pickleball courts and luckily they had
someone who was very knowledgable on the courts to help.
Evening Entertainment
Chair Set- Up
A
big thank you to Ken Swanson who has volunteered to head up this project. It is
only five nights later in the season ( from 2/22 – 3/17). It helps the tennis
club because we get paid for doing it, and it helps the park because it would
cost them a lot more to pay their employees to do it. I have received emails
from members of our Arkansas contingent in their willingness to help out as
well. The more people we get to help out the faster we get it done. I will let
you know when we need help for this in the weekly email message for that week.
Volunteer
needed
Sorry to be going back to
the well once again. This year, we created a volunteer position to manage the
inventory of paper plates, napkins, cups, plastic cutlery, etc. in the social
bin. Carol Miller volunteered. But her arrival has been delayed. This is not
a large time consuming job so my hope is that someone will step up and take care
of this for us. Our tennis club is run entirely by volunteers. Here is your
chance to join in the volunteer base that makes our club so
great.
Desert Cactus
League
Registration is now open.
But, you need to register by December 14th is you are going to play
in this league. If you have a 4-6 players then you can register as a team. If
you don’t, then you can register and they will try and put you with other Palm
Creek tennis players to form a team. If there are not enough Palm Creek tennis
players then they will put you on a team with players from the other venues.
This league will rotate play between Palm Creek, Robson and Mission so your
matches will rotate from week to week. I will have more info on this league in
the next weekly update.
Court
Maintenance
Glenn Arnold has been
working at getting our courts cleaned up but it is not an easy job. If you can
help, please contact Glenn x6865. We will wait until Walt Krahl arrives the end
of November to get the windscreens put in place.
Pickle
ball
The new pickle ball courts
will officially open on Thursday November 15th. This should greatly
reduce, if not eliminate, the pickle ball play at the tennis center. I have not
received a date yet as to when the conversion of these courts to tennis courts
will take place. I will let you know as soon as I hear
See you on the
courts,
Kate
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