Shufflebums

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Power tools do the trick?

Yes this BLOWER is a new purchase by our membership.
Prevention is the name of the game!
After our games you may have noticed that our member volunteers sweep the remaining wax mixture from the courts. This in turn is recycled for use the next day. But what about the rest of the wax that is scattered in the alleyways or the courts? Of course we leave it there for the dove buffet?? Well no more feeding the doves!!! Unfortunately the doves leave their deposits everywhere on our courts and alleyways. This makes clean up each morning more time consuming and labor intensive. Therefore, the new blower will quickly disperse the wax mixture to the corners where it will be sucked up and dispensed with. The PLAN is to eliminate the food attracting the birds to our courts.

THIRST NO MORE!!

Feast your eyes on our new water cooler & cup dispenser. With over 140 members, this is a very welcome addition to our shuffleboard courts. Thank you MaryAnn!
We have the umbrella stands now, so hopefully the umbrellas themselves will make their appearance soon. 😉

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

February 4th Saturday, last day of the Cancer Awareness Tournament

February 4th and another beautiful day for shuffleboard. Medals are on the line today!! Remaining teams that have no losses or just one loss are still alive and vying for medals.

Close game to get into the 'A' finals

You know Claude is getting serious about his game when he takes his left hand out of his pocket!!

More goodies to boost energy levels for our 2nd game.

Do they appear tense??

What a game!! Well done!! In the finals now against Norb & Claude.

Happiness is😎😎

What a partner! Thanks for the memories Barb.

Medals awaiting distribution.

Nice looking group.

Gold medal winners Tim & Dionne. They won all four games. Congratulations.

Second was won by Norb & Claude

Cal & Dave won the 'B' Event. They had 1 loss so received a Third.

Bill & Kathy won the 'C' Event. They had one loss. So received a Third.

LOVING MY PARTNER!

Ralph & Laurier won the 'D' Event. They had one loss. Third medals for them too!

Diane Gaines received our cheque of $400. Diane spoke briefly about selfless angels working on behave of the Cancer Awareness Program. Our Shuffleboard Executive posing with Diane include Bruce Barrick, Marion Potter, Barb Stolz, Rene Maurier (Chair), Irene Hall (Sec/Treas) & missing from picture is Marg. Tremaine.

A big thank you to everyone for making this event such a success.🙏

Cancer Awareness Shuffleboard Tournament February 3rd & 4th

What a wonderful idea Rene to raise money for Cancer Awareness! Rene Maurier, our chair, suggested his plan to our committee. Everyone was totally "on board." Eight of our best courts were chosen which would enable 32 players to participate in this Tournament. The remaining eight courts would be set up for regular play. We agreed on a $5.00 entry fee.

Thursday Feb 3rd, all players randomly drew courts and partners. These would be their partners for the two day tournament. The goal was to win games regardless of the score. This was a Team Effort, not an individual one. What a concept! The competition was on! No nicey, nicey..... this was serious stuff. Just looking at the determined look on some of those faces meant we were in for a lot of fun and close scores.
There were 4 draws or events. Two games were played on Feb 3rd. If your team lost both of those games, you were out of the Tournament. Winners of both games and those who just lost one game were to play on Saturday Feb 4th.