Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year from your 2012 Tennis Executive.
The Executive held our first meeting on Saturday January 7. I am pleased to confirm that the Executive members for this year are Regina Dirk (Treasurer), Janet Church (Secretary), Brenda Watson (First VP), Dominic Fung (Second VP) and Cheryl McKeeman (Pres). Many thanks to Edlira Gjoshe and Carol Liber for all their excellent work with our group last year.
Our fabulous webmaster Karen Eddy is away on her honeymoon right now, but when she returns we'll get the website updated. In the meantime, we have posted the schedule of events for the coming year.
In terms of courts: it looks like the Parkade will not be ready for the first part of the season, so we have requested that we use the Jericho courts on Wednesdays and Fridays, at least until the Parkade is ready. I expect to have the court situation finalized in mid February.
This year, we will be doing registration online. As you know, Carol and Karen worked very effectively last year to get our event registration online using PayPal and, as far as the feedback we received, that process was very good. So this season we'll be doing our membership registration online as well. We have kept the membership fee at $70 for the season. The online registration system will open to you (our returning members) on February 27th, and will remain open until March 10. Registration will be capped at the first 90 returning members. On March 11th, we will open registraton to the rest of the world - so former members and any returning members who forgot, and the general public including people on our waitlist.
Registration will continue until we have our maximum 130 members.
You'll see that our Annual General Meeting (usually referred to as the Wine and Cheese party!) is scheduled for April 15th. You have already received the financial statements for last season (thank you, Carol) and so April 15th is your chance to meet new players and re-acquaint yourself with 'old' members, and to meet with your Executive.
A change that I want to alert you to is that we will require all players to wear white at all times. Just kidding - I wanted to make sure you were paying attention! A change you'll notice in our schedule is that we have moved the May opening mixer to the Delta Town and Country (T&C): we've been rained out too many times in May, so playing indoors will ensure that our first mixer of the year is a 'go'. We have a Mexican buffet planned, so think about how you'll dress for this Mexican Fiesta!
By the way, we do know that the T&C is not everyone's first choice of venue, and your Executive is committed to hearing from you about making some changes for the 2013 year --so don't be shy with your ideas!
Enough for now -please mark your calendar for the February 27th first day of registration
Cheryl, for the Exec (Regina, Janet, Brenda, Dominic, Cheryl)
fctc.pres@gmail.com
604-753-9023