Hi
all,
Lots to
report:
Saturday Night at the
Courts:
It was a glorious
evening. The weather was perfect, there was an abundance of wine and
appetizers, some very entertaining tennis with lots of tricky shots and good
finesse at the net and great “trash talking” from the gallery. We also had a
surprise visit during the singing of “God Save the Queen” from non-other than,
you guessed it, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. What a grand way to close
the season and celebrate our new courts!! We have quite a few people who took
photos - some of which have been posted on the blog. (see below) So, if you
were not able to attend you will be able to view the photos on our blog and
vicariously experience the evening.
Annual
Meeting:
We started with a thank
you to all of our members with a great pizza, and caesar salad dinner and then
we started the meeting. First order of business was to share that there is a
rumor going around that Sun Communities is going to redo the tennis courts with
a layer of post tension concrete. Doug Anderson shared that he had heard from
Jim Dawson, that they were going to redo the North Courts, currently numbered
5-8, this summer and courts 1-4 next summer. This has not been confirmed but
from past experience, nothing is “cast in concrete” until they actually start
the construction process. But, it does sound like they are aware of the need to
work on the tennis courts.
The new cast of volunteers
to run the tennis club for the 2013/2014 season is now in place. The nominating
committee came up with an excellent idea for reorganizing the structure and
making the jobs a bit more focused and hopefully less demanding. The following
people were voted into the new structure of the tennis
club:
CHAIR PERSONS
Glenn Carter and
Penny Mason
-Liaison with Park
General Manager, Activities Director
-Marketing/Advertising
the Tennis Club
-Invesitgate Free
Tennis-related Banners for Courts
-Inventory to
Activities Office
-Communication with
Managers
-Fundraising Through
Park Activities
Chairs/Tables: Bingo Seiny
Kouwenhoven
Craft Fair Herbert McMahon
Entertainment Claude Farley
-Weekly Update to
Members via Email Sandy Murray
FINANCE/BUSINESS
MANAGER Gerri
Dey
-Inventory Report to
Chairpersons for Park Management
-Budget to
Chairpersons for Park Management
-Cash
Flow
-Banking
-Financial
Statements
COMMUNICATIONS
MANAGERS Sandy
Hurlburt
Sandy Murray
Membership
Roster Helen
Arnold
Email Contact
List Sandy
Hurlburt
Notice Board:
Mary
Sullivan-Pondell
-Ensure all events
are posted by persons in charge.
White Board
Jill
Gaines & Kate Perrie
Tennis Club
Blog Mary
Williams
Generic Sign-Up
Sheets for all Events Mary
Williams
Tennis Club
Information Sheet for Activities Office and Club Notice
Board
Mary Williams
COURT UTILIZATION
MANAGER Jim Weaver
-Responsible for all
scheduled play court assignments during the season
On Line Booking
System. Mike
Murray
White
Board
Kate Perrie & Jill Gaines
Purchase and
distribution of tennis balls, new and used. To be
determined
Coordinate with
Captains weekly requirements for various groups on the
courts
Social
Tennis Monday Henry
Coulombe
Tuesday Mary Sullivan
Pondell
Wednesday Roger Jensen
Thursday John Blessen
Friday Jim Hemple
Spares: Annamaria Penterits, Wayne Black, Ted Knowles
Sunday
Couples Jerry and Doris
Grayson
Jack and Lorna Lennox
Monday
Ball Machine 101 Hank and Glady Olson
Tuesday
Lessons Mary Ellen Halm
Rhoda Zaph
Skip Nirenberg
Walt Krahl
Wednesday
Mixed League Jim Weaver, Janice Jensen
Wednesday
Night Couples To be determined
Saturday
Round Robin Glenn Arnold
Ladies
League (Mon) Connie Emerson
Bonnie
Morgan
Zuzanna Seba
Men’s League
(Tue) Jim Weaver
Men’s
Intermediate (Fri) Bob McConnell
Ladies
Advanced To be determined
Men’s
Advanced Mark Costello
Cactus
League To be determined
Inform
Jim Weaver of Times for Special Tennis Events
Tennis
Club Tournament Connie Emerson
Bob Gibson
Brian Younge
Cancer
Tournament Roberta Gill
Charlotte Duckett
John Blessen
Member
Mixers TBA
EVENTS
MANAGERS Helen Baggett and
Marg Wildeman
-Liaison with PC
Activities Office Director and Staff
-Book Rooms, Sound
System, Pavilion, Chairs/Tables etc.
-Support Tennis Club
Activities which may require a socializing aspect
Maintain Supplies and
Binder of Information in Tennis Shed Bins Marion Gavin
Tennis
Club Tournament
Connie Emerson
Brian Younge
Bob Gibson
Cancer
Awareness Dance
Nancy Restun
Penny Jacobsen
Happy
Hours at the Pavilion
Fall Welcome Back
To be determined
Arkansas Tennis
Mixer To be
determined
March Farewell Tennis
Mixer and Social To be determined
COURT and EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE MANAGERS
Walt
Krahl and Glenn Arnold
-Inventory beginning
and end of season to Finance Manager and Chairpersons
-Wind
Screens
-Sun
Screens
-Courts
-Nets
Ball
Machine Hank
Olson
Tennis Club
Banner Bob DeBonville
Willing
participants:
Bob Fulton
Norm Bushee
Wayne Black
Its quite a team and it
provides good omens for a wonderous 2013/2014 tennis
season!
People
Update:
I
received this email from Larry Marik with more info on the concert in which he
will be performing. I hope that there will be a lot of tennis players in the
audience to support Larry and this great concert!
Here is
some information about the March concert.
Where - Palm Creek - Swimming
pool area
Date - March 29th (last Friday
of March)
Time - 6-8:30 ( 6-7 is Piano
7-8:30 Central Arizona College Jazz Ensemble)
Tickets - get at office
$10.00
Other info - will be mailed to
all of us still here about a week before.
I hope this helps or just ask
me when we see each other on the courts..
Thanks
Larry
Marik
Thank you, Thank you,
Thank you
When Mark and I were voted
into our positions three years ago we thought that we were going to be
immediately kicked out when we introduced the idea of an “online” tennis court
reservation system. But, you graciously put up with the “new fangled” idea and
some of you even embraced it – thank you Glenn!!! Now, its three years later
and its time for us to “pass the baton.” It’s been a wonderous three years due
in large part to the amazing people who make up the Palm Creek Tennis Club. So,
to those of you who played tennis at Palm Creek this year and to those of you on
the distribution list who have played tennis here in the past (and like to stay
in touch with all the happenings) I want to say, from the bottom of my heart, a
big thank you. Thanks for all of your support, thanks for your warm and
welcoming ways, and thanks for being open to new ideas and different ways of
doing things. I know that Glenn and Penny and their team will take this club to
the next level. And, isnt that exciting!!! I am so enjoying the beautiful and
fragrant flower arrangement sitting in front of me. Mark and I want to extend
a huge thank you to all who signed the very special cards and the unnecessary,
but very generous gift certificate to BeDillon’s which will provide us with
quite a few very nice dinners!! You guys are just too good to
us!
Lastly, with a tear in my
eye because I am going to miss these weekly chats with you, I want to thank you
for allowing me the opportunity to come into your “home” every week and share
the excitement and energy of our great tennis club.
It has been one amazing
ride,
Kate
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