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Court Wash, Bylaws, Photo Op, Vols, Lessons, Scotch Tape

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The following Bylaw changes will be voted on at our October 21 Membership Meeting:Elections:
Following “paper ballot will be required”
An absentee ballot may be submitted by mailing the candidates’ names and offices sought on a plain piece of paper to the Club Membership Chair. The outside of the envelope will have the voting member’s name and the last 3 digits of his or her RCSC Member or Privilege card. The Membership Chair will verify the voter’s membership and pass only the ballot to the Club Secretary to be recorded.
Officers – Executive Board:
Following “have voting rights”
A candidate must not reside with or be related by marriage or birth to any other officer or candidate.

A photographer from the Wall Street Journal will be at the courts Thursday around 9. This would be a great day to show up in your brightest PB attire!

Volunteers are needed to help Lis Smoot with our Paddle Play program. This is a tremendous learning opportunity, but it is also a tremendous amount of work. You can help by working with players of a slightly lower skill level – 2.5s can mentor 2.0s, 3.0s can help 2.5s and so on. You will learn while you teach – and fulfill your volunteering responsibility while on the courts! Contact Lis

Lessons for pay are not allowed on our courts except by Independent Contractors approved by the Club Board and RCSC.  That is currently only Dee Davison, a teaching professional from Surprise. Violation of this RCSC rule will be dealt with harshly, both for the students and the teacher. 

Scotch tape, or generic equivalent, applied over the magnet on your magnetic name tag will greatly reduce the chance of rust and corrosion.

NAME TAGS MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES AT ALL CLUB FUNCTIONS  – INCLUDING DROP IN.  Our Bylaws require this and wearing one makes it much easier for us to identify one another.

FUN DAY, Lighting, Membership, Tutor, MV Projects

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Our first FUN DAY of the season will be Wednesday from 5 to 7 at Marinette! Come out and play a little pickleball, visit with some old friends and meet some new ones! Many of our Snowbirds are returning, so this may be your first opportunity to see some folks you haven’t seen for several months! Bring a snack to share and your drink of choice (no glass bottles, please). The Club will provide tableware.
The Marinette lighting project will take place next week. The following from the Clubs Office: “The projected installation dates are 10/14/19 – 10/18/2019. The installation will be on one court at a time with an entire quadrant marked out of use to create a safety zone during installation. Walkways and connected entries to the quadrants being worked on will also be closed off as a safety precaution. Once the order of the quadrant installations are defined, I will give you a further update. As always, we will appreciate the Pickleball player’s cooperation and flexibility during these installations.” The walkway closures may require 4 courts at a time being closed. We have been waiting either several months or 4 years for this to happen, depending on to whom you talk, so losing 4 courts for a week seems a small price to pay. If the work runs into Friday the ladder would need to be cancelled.
Club Membership for those 80 years and older, per a vote at last October’s Membership Meeting, is free. You must still fill out a Membership form each year.
The “Tutor” pickleball teaching machine is now at Marinette for our use. It does, however, require an extension cord to operate, so it is currently functional on a very limited number of courts.
Mountain View updates: No, nothing exciting, but we have purchased a roller/squeegee for those courts and have RCSC approval to purchase 10 foot umbrellas to replace the 8 footers currently in place. The latter will require approval at the Membership Meeting on October 21 at 4PM at Marinette before we can make the purchase. The larger umbrellas will increase the shade in the seating area by over 50 percent.

SCW Reciprocal, Leagues, Punch Cards

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Our first Reciprocal Play of the season with Sun City West will be October 20 at Marinette. Players are needed at all skill levels. Full information and sign up are available on our Club website. These events are always fun and are a great opportunity for competitive play in a low key atmosphere.

Sign ups are also available on line for the Women’s League and Men’s League. The organizational meeting is scheduled for November 4, and you need to have registered before then.

Sign ups for ladders should be available next week, and those for many of our upcoming lessons and clinics should be available the week following.

Just a reminder: when you purchase a Punch Card to bring guests onto our courts, that punch card is yours and is to remain with you. Your guest is not to have the card to check himself/herself in. If the wrong person happens to be around when a guest tries this, the penalty can be severe.

Enjoy this great PB weather!
Dave

Club Tournament, Clinics, Corrected Dates, Simon

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Our Club Tournament date has finally arrived, and the event will take place from 0700 – 1100 Friday and Saturday.  We will be using court #8 and #10-20 on Friday, and #13-20 on Saturday.  All other courts are available for Drop in, INCLUDING  all 7 courts at Mountain View!  PLAYERS PLEASE NOTE: Registration will begin at 0700. Please be on time! Play will start promptly at 0730!  All games will be “Win by ONE”. The number of games and the score to which you will play has been determined by the size of each group. We expect to be done by 1030. Temps are not supposed to be excessively high, but be sure to hydrate!

As yesterday’s email noted, the date for the Referee Training Clinic has been established as October 19. You must sign up on Sign up Genius in order to attend.  The Line Judging Clinic mentioned last week will be October 25 from 1000-1200 at Marinette.  Both are available to Club Members only. Tom has done a lot of work getting these lined up for us prior to the Roundup.

Sign up for the Men’s League and Women’s League are both available on our Website. The Meeting date for those playing in the leagues has been changed to November 4 at 1300 at Marinette. Please change that if you already had it on your calendar.

Simon as been sold. Thanks to those who offered to give him a good home!

Thanks! 
Dave

Upcoming, For Sale

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First, I need to take a few lines to thank Tom Jeffers for all his work on our behalf. All our emails for the past two months were Tom’s work. He also brought the Lobster to and from the factory in CA for repairs, and is now working on a couple of clinics for us in October. So, THANK YOU TOM, for these and many other things!

Cut off date for entries in our Member/Member & Member/Guest Tournament is this Sunday, September 15. We’ve had a very encouraging response, but could use a few more teams. Other Club activities on September 20 and 21 will be cancelled. There will be plenty of room for Open Play.

RCSC has mentioned several times, from several places within, that there is a limited number of times a Guest may be signed into an RCSC facility in a calendar year. That number is 14. How, or if, this will be addressed is still open. Just be aware the regulation is there – and is not new.

We have a lot of things coming up following next week’s tournament:
10/09 Fun Day at Marinette – 5:00
10/15 Fun Day at Mountain View – 5:00
10/?? Mid month Line Judging Clinic
10/?? ” ” Referee Clinic
10/21 Membership Meeting – 4:00, Marinette
10/29-31 Roundup Tournament
11/11 Color Team Tournament – 2:00, Marinette
11/18 Meeting for Men’s League and Women’s League – 1:00, Marinette
11/16 Volunteer Luncheon – 11:00, Marinette Patio Have you volunteered yet?
12/06 Membership Meeting – 1:00, Marinette
12/07 Christmas Party – 4:30, Bell Center
There will be more events, and more info will be forthcoming. Dates for the October clinics will be sent as soon as they are confirmed.

Simon, our original Pickleball Training machine, has outlived its usefulness to the Club. It still works, but can be finicky and therefore no longer meets our needs. He will be sold to a Club Member for $100. If there’s no interest, we’ll advertise elsewhere.

Thanks!
Dave

Member/Member, Upcoming, Lights, Safety, Lessons

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Thank you to the early registrants for our Member/Member & Member/Guest Tournament coming up September 20 & 21! We’re off to a great start, but need lots more! There is plenty of time, but we all know how time flies, so don’t procrastinate too long! This is a great opportunity for those who haven’t played a major tournament to try it out on a smaller, much more relaxed, scale. It’s also a chance for those of you who have quit playing tournaments, for whatever reason, to get out and enjoy the experience again!

We have two Fun Days coming up in October, followed by our Pickleball Roundup at the end of the month. There’s also a Club meeting on October 21st. Looking beyond that, there is a Color/Team Tournament November 11, followed by our Volunteer Luncheon on November 16. Our last Membership Meeting of the year is December 6th, followed by our Christmas Party on the 7th.

Have you volunteered this year? Sign ups will be out soon for the Roundup, but we also need volunteers for all our Club events. These vols are no less important than those who work the major tournaments, and will also be honored at the Volunteer Luncheon.

The lights for Marinette have been approved and it is reasonable to expect them to be installed before the Roundup at the end of October. There is no guarantee, however. The exhaust fans we requested are not being considered at this time, partly due to the solar panels covering half the Pavilion roof, but mostly to see how the existing “natural” ventilation system works once the light are up and some of the screens are down. The Lobster for Mountain View has been ordered and will be in place by te time play resumes there in September or October.

We mentioned being careful to stay hydrated in the last email. We also want to make sure we are under control at all times as we run (such as that is) around the courts. We’ve been told to not run backwards, but any lunge, reach or stretch that pulls us off balance is an invitation to disaster! I have a picture of one of our members, who says it’s ok to share, with an ugly gash, missing hair and 5 staples in the top of his head, when the trip after a cross court volley ended up leading to a crash into a fence post and a trip to the ER. Bad as it was, it could have been worse! Be careful! Know your limits!

Lessons are a great way to learn – when the recipient is ready and willing to absorb one. Please refrain from giving your unsolicited advice to those with whom you are playing! Many of us are glad to have it; many of us are not! No one, BTW, is currently authorized to charge for lessons given on our courts. Violation will have consequences.

Thanks everyone! Next one will be much shorter!
Dave

Independence Day Breakfast and Play

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Our Independence Day breakfast and round robin event today was a great success! We had a great member and guest turnout for our club event. Special thanks to PK for organizing the breakfast, to those who brought dishes to share, and to our volunteers for assisting with the food service and the round robin play. Also, our thanks to the Marinette staff for setting up the tables and chairs in the perfect shady patio location. What a great way to burn some calories and work up an appetite! On the social side, this was the perfect time to catch up with our fellow club members on summer plans and sharing stories of travel and adventure. See you on the courts!

Breakfast

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The procrastinators among us still have a few hours to register for our July 3 Independence Day breakfast. Please do so ASAP, if you have not already done so and wish to attend.

Those wishing to participate in a Round Robin on the 3rd should plan to be in the Pavilion by 6:50. Courts will be available for open play as well, both for those attending the Breakfast and those who just can’t hang around til 8:30 for it to be ready.

As has been the norm lately, this event is being coordinated by PK Klepadlo and her group of volunteers. Please take a moment to thank them profusely!

And while you’re thanking people this Independence Day, thank a Veteran!

July 3rd

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One last reminder!

Our Club’s Annual Independence Day Party will take place next Wednesday, July 3rd on the Marinette Patio  from 7 – 9AM. Coffee and a few breakfast munchies will be available about 7, with breakfast (a breakfast casserole, breakfast sandwiches, etc) at 8:30. Feel free to bring breakfast snacks to share, and bring your beverage of choice if coffee, orange juice and water are not enough .There will be a Round Robin for those who wish to participate, and open play for others.

While there is no fee for this event, you must sign up by Friday, June 28.