An Update from RCSC President Dan Schroeder

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I hope this email finds you well. While I know we are looking forward to getting back to “life as normal,” I thought I would take a moment to bring RCSC Cardholders up-to-date and to clarify a couple of issues.

RCSC Management and the Board of Directors are working to finalize a plan for RCSC’s re-opening that coincides with recommendations from the CDC and Arizona Department of Health Services as well as abiding by Governor Ducey’s Executive Orders. As you may know, our Governor extended the Stay at Home Order through May 15 which includes closure of gyms and pools and we hope to know more very soon. Detailed information regarding RCSC’s re-opening will be forthcoming in the very near future. Continue reading →

Scam alert – Few other notes

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Good morning Sun City Pickleball Club Members,
I just received a note from Myrna DeBruyne, our Chartered Club Supervisor, that there is a scam going on. Evidently, this “phisher” is using a reference of the RCSC or the name of a Sun City Club, like ours, in asking for gift cards or other forms of remuneration to be sent to various charities. So, please be aware of this possible scam and check out any note of this nature!

A quick thank you to Dan Haberman for putting together this year’s nominating committee of Carol Arinno, Diana Colonna and Joe Gilfillan. Please be in touch with any one of them if you want to get more involved and, possibly, become a Board Member next year…..they are already busy!!!!

And, those of you who ordered shirts/hats and are still in Sun City, or may be coming back this summer, you might consider contacting either Frank Spina or myself and we will try to arrange a time for you to pick up your merchandise. No problem otherwise, though, I have all the shirts/hats stored safely until a better time comes about.

Be well and stay well!
Dave B

Sun City pickleball club thanks tourney sponsors

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The Sun City Pickleball Club would like to thank all our sponsors and vendors that helped to make our tournament season a success.

Those sponsors are Aetna Medicare Solutions, Franklin Sports, Spooner Physical Therapy, Pickleball Marketplace, Health and Wellness Botanicals, Fine Insurance Group, Jolt Therapy Tool, Pickleball Bling, My Home Group — Karyn Nelson, Tennis Cabana, Sweet Spot Skirts, Paddletek, Air Relax Arizona, Selkirk, Gearbox, Onix, Dinking Divas and Hat Saver.

Lynda Skaggs
Publicity Chairwoman
Sun City Pickleball Club, Sun City
From Sun City Independent…

Nominating Committee, Luke AFB Flyby

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Good afternoon SCPC Members,
Here it is May 1st already! So different not seeing everyone playing on the courts each day. As you have read inprevious emails, there are many things still happening during this “shut down” time. Several committees are still functioning as best they can considering the difficulty in getting together. As stated in our Club Bylaws, there must be a nominating committee appointed in consideration of next year’s Board elections. There are so very many talented/knowledgeable members in this wonderful pickleball club! Each year our Club Board is elected by the general membership at the annual meeting….maybe this is the year (next) that you would like to become more involved. Our nominating committee members are Carol Arinno, Diana Colonna, and Joe Gilfillan . . . so, please them know you would like to get more involved! Thank you Carol, Diana, and Joe. Board members can serve for 3 years in succession – as you know, many current Board Members have served for more than one year! A testament to the great job they continue to do! Bravo, current Board Members!

I hope you saw that very impressive “flyby” today in supporting all our first line responders!!! Very well done!! Thank you!

For now,
Dave B

Bleachers Shirts/Hats Club Homepage

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Hello Sun City Pickleball Club Members,
Well, here it is as we approach the end of April….and the temperature is beginning to hit those triple digits….a bit early this year for those temps …. maybe even some pretty old records will be broken! Keep those water bottles handy!

Some follow up from the last Club memo dated April 2 – more detailed info is listed in that email. Please reread that note if necessary . . . this is the super “update”!

We received some really great news yesterday from Chris Herring (the Assistant General Manager here in Sun City). He expects the 2 sections of bleachers we ordered for courts 2 and 3 to be delivered to Marinette by the end of this week! Yay!! They will be assembled and put in place asap. Very nice, indeed! Bravo to all those involved!!

The Club Shirts/Hats we ordered are in also. This effort took a different path than we originally planned on, but, they are here! Some nice looking sportswear! As things “open up”, there will be a plan put in place to get all this nice looking gear delivered. We all hope this is soon! It would “appear” that there is more meaning to this pickleball term of “patience” than that applied to the “kitchen line”!

Remember, too, to visit our Club Website from time to time – Bill Booth continues to keep our homepage updated with interesting articles members send in and with important information from the RCSC as it develops.

Stay well,
and,
if possible . . .
busy . . . !?

For now,
Dave B

RCSC Re-opening Status Statement

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April 21, 2020

Greetings RCSC Cardholders,

We are all anxious to get our wonderful facilities back open; however, it is evident that this is going to happen one step at a time. President Trump released his three-phase plan at the end of last week. As you know, Governor Ducey issued a Stay at Home Executive Order through April 30, 2020 which may be extended with changes, extended without changes or expire in the coming days. The Governor’s Office told Arizona mayors yesterday that the state will essentially mirror President Trump’s plan to reopen in phases, but that it’s not yet ready to take the first step. State or Regional Gating Criteria (read the guidelines here) must be satisfied before proceeding to phased opening. While RCSC is analyzing the three-phrase opening presented by President Trump, we are not prepared to make any sort of statement about how that might look for RCSC at this time. Continue reading →

Club Shirts/Hats – Bleacher Report

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Welcome SCPC Members to April, 2020,
Hope you are all well and finding various ways to cope with your “pickleball play withdrawal” symptoms!!! It has been a bit over 2 weeks since our Rec Centers closed – lots of walking going on over here – kind of nice to find out that so many pickleball Club Members live in our neighborhood!

Well, her are some updates on projects our Club started a while back …. my original email went on for many pages (a combo of much time on my hand and being a retired teacher), however, I will send the “condensed” version!

Our Club Shirt/Hat order is well on its way…the printing, etc., is scheduled to begin on Monday. Yay! Obviously, this project did not go according to “plan”, but thanks to Frank Spina and Shelley/Gary Martasin of the Pickleball Marketplace for continuing to pull all this together, we will have Club Shirts/Hats this year! More information forthcoming as things develop. Pick up and delivery will be “under construction” . . . figure all that out later!

The Bleacher purchase for Courts 1 – 4 has been presented, approved and ordered….2 sets of bleachers – one for the East side courts and one for the West side courts. This project has been “in the works” for quite a while so it is great to see the success of this venture come to fruition. You may remember the report on Club requests that Rich Peterson gave at our January General Membership Meeting. Rich continues to put many Club ideas “in motion” – he continues, too, to be on the committee planning that super reconstruction being researched for Mountain View. This bleacher plan started with the work from our 2019 Club Board and the plan was approved by our Membership at the March, 2019 meeting. Tom Jeffers and Jeff Skaggs, who were both on the 2019 Club Board, have continued this year in pursuing this purchase. It should also be noted, that Chris Herring and Myrna DeBruyne from our RCSC worked right along with us to see this through. Bravo to everyone involved!! Updates will be provided as time goes on.

On additional notes:

The Scheduling Committee met earlier in March, and, as the time to “reconvene” on the courts comes about, the “fine tuning” for the new schedule will be finished. Coordinator – Dan Haberman.

More updates to come – paddle holders are “in the works” too!

So, keep those paddles not too far – maybe see you on a “walk about” –

For now,
Dave B

More thanks on the projects above:

Donna Holick
Bill Booth

2019 Club Board – Dave Sinclair, Ed Millett, Tom Jeffers, Jan Booth, Pat Sterba, Marcia Gregory, Kevin Pates, Jeff Skaggs

2020 Board – Dave Breault, Tom Jeffers, Jan Booth, Ann Clark, Evelyn Larsen, Lynda Skaggs, Dan Haberman

And thank you, too, to so many of our Club Members who are out there volunteering in helping out, as they can, in our community right now!