PickleBallFix:August7 ,2 020
Amazing! It's already the end of the first week in August. The August Pickleball Magazine free from Pickleball USA, previously named USAPA, is now available. If you haven’t signed up yet, you might want to get your complimentary copy via email. This issue features instructional articles on pickleball drills, how some of the experts are playing the game and much more. https://view.joomag.com/pickleball - magazine-5-4-wd/0796073001596546013?short&
Last week's “Fix” also had several photos of Club members who were medalists in Club tournaments. If any of you had time to identify them, the answers to your photo game are listed at the end of this week's “Fix.”
TPPC Committees and Volunteers
The focus for this week’s “Fix” is on the TPPC Committees. At the March TPPC 2020 Annual Meeting, newly elected President Marie Knowlton announced the desire of the new BOD to involve as many members as possible as volunteers to help run the Club. She described an updated Club committee structure designed to involve more members in Club duties. At that meeting many of you signed up to participate on some of the different committees. It's time to get members more involved in the Club's committee structure.
How the Committee Structure Works
The TPPC Committee structure includes a Director as a liaison, at least one leader and a list of volunteers for each committee. Each committee has a list of tasks with individual items to be completed for each task. Members who sign up for each area of interest will be helpers under each task. For example, the Player Training & Development Committee has as Liaison Deb Howard. Helpers would include Lacek, K. LaMirand, Staples, S. Fortin, and C. Hamblen with tasks such as lessons, drills, coaching, and using the ball machine, each with a leader. The PDF attached below contains a list of the committee names, a liaison and leader(s) followed by a list of committee duties and members that have been assigned based on their interest.
Knowlton and other board members have contacted various Club members with expertise and interest to be leaders of committees or helpers to perform tasks within the committee. Suggestions from Board members included Rooks (equipment), Thayer (medical), and S. Fortin (website).
Club members, please review the attached PDF containing the various committees as you might be on one. New players especially are encouraged to sign up for a committee(s) they may be interested in with the understanding that the Club might not have the ability to invoke the committee this year due to COVID. Volunteering provides an ideal opportunity to get to know your fellow pickleball colleagues and share your expertise to make the TPPC that much better. To sign up for a committee, send your name, committee of interest, email, and/or telephone number to www.pickleballclub@gmail.com.
Den Enhancement
Some members have had difficulty signing up a "friend" for specific events on the Den Sign-up Sheets. A new enhancement should make this process easier. Currently, click Sheets > View Sign-up Sheets and when you select your day and time of play, you have the option to “Sign up a Friend.” That entry has been changed to “Sign Up a Club Member.” Click the link and add the member’s name and click the check box to add the player to the event. To remove that player, just click the check box for the day/time. Note that you can add comments under any player that is signed up. You can also sign up a visiting guest who is not a Club member by clicking “Sign up a Guest.”
PARC Update
August will be a busy month for the pickleball court construction. Courts are already graded with footers and rebar in place waiting for County approval. The courts base coat will be completed by the end of the month, along with plumbing work and poles and electric for lighting. The TPPC PARC committee will tour the site and work completed along with the BOD after the base material is finished.
Last week the “Fix” announced the upcoming tennis match starring some of our pickleball colleagues. The date set for the tennis match is Sunday, August 9 at 7pm. Join picklers at the PAC Tennis Courts to cheer on your colleagues Don Rooks, Dave Dwyer, Karen Toof and Marie Knowlton. It should be fun and lots of laughs!
Be safe and keep on picklin', Marie Knowlton, TPPCP cc: Bev Crane, Communications Photo game answers:
Photo 1: Event: Donnie Rooks practicing his pickleball skills on the court he created in his garage when the pickleball courts were closed. For those of you who know Donnie, he makes sure to practice every day and often with the ball machine at the courts!
Photo 2: Now for the hard one. Each photo is of winners in the Bill Schneider 2020 Memorial Tournament. All are Club members and play regularly at the Courts. Peg Patton is the only snowbird and the rest live in Timber Pines year-round.
Upper left: Randy Taylor/Philomena Rodriguez; Upper right: Rob DelVecchio/Deb Howard; Lower left: Peg Patton/Tom Asbel; Lower right: Don Rooks/Marie Knowlton