The Coronado/Mainland Shuffler

Having participated at other shuffleboard clubs this tournament season, I was impressed with these clubs being hospitable, accommodating and well organized.

I just noticed that we only have two (2) volunteers signed up for the upcoming Northern District Tournament being held here tomorrow, Thursday thru Friday, Nov 3-4. We will have approximately 28 teams visiting our club and that is why we will need more than two volunteers to sweep the courts, wax the discs and bead the courts between matches.

If you are not playing in this tournament and will be in the area, it would be greatly appreciated if you would volunteer to help out your CMS Club. Please let us know ASAP if we can count on your support.  Call Allen Best at (302) 841-0251 or Bonnie Radke at (386) 402-7105. Thanks

We have finalized the shirts that we will be selling for our 80th Anniversary. They will be polyester and the base color is light gray. We have shirts in the cue house for you to try on (to make sure you order the correct size.). They seem to run a bit large. We have S, M, L, and XL for $16.00 and if you need 2XL we can get them for $17.00. We are taking orders for the shirts. As soon as we have 50 shirts ordered and paid for we will have them printed. Please speak with Allen Best, Dennis Buelk, Bonnie Radke and Richard Kordeleski if you need us to get the (try-on) shirts out of the store room for you. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Shirt Front (pocket size)

Shirt Back

Bob Finta would like to get a message to our members to support Dorothy Hukill for state government. She was instrumental in getting $76K for improvements to our club as a state grant. That money prompted the City of NSB and the Village Improvement Association to kick in $$$ to pay the bill for : the public bathroom, refinishing the courts, putting covers on courts that didn’t have covers, giving us the light poles we have now, new AC and heater for the clubhouse, painting the aprons around the court, repiping the drainage, new disks, etc.
Without her cooperation we would have nothing done. When I approached her she gave her approval for the project and appointed an aide to sheppard the request through the legislature. He would appreciate it if you would consider voting for Dorothy again this year. Thank you for your support.

This tournament was held at Mid Florida Lakes’ shuffleboard courts on Thursday and Friday of this week. It was well attended by 36 participating teams, interested observers and attentive volunteers. Sixteen (16) CMS Club members participated.  The Tournament Director was Jack Wooten who was assisted by Donna King.  Jack was also the tournament sponsor.  The tournament was very well organized and administered to.  The Mid Florida Lakes Shuffleboard Club were excellent hosts.

Note:  During this tournament Jack Wooten announced that Randy Radke had received State Amateur Status.

THE CMS CLUB FINALISTS WERE:

MAIN EVENT – Second Place: Dennis Buelk/Randy Radke,   Fourth Place: Stan Williamson/Jeff Luneau.

Congratulations to all the participants and finalists for matches well played!

Randy Radke and Dennis Buelk

Jeff Luneau and Stan Williamson

Jack Wooten and Donna King

In a day or so, please follow this link to the Northern District Website to view the detailed tournament results.  You can also click on the links at the top of the page to the Northern District Website.

More Pictures from the Tournament

NOV 1st Tuesday we start our Daily Play at 1:30PM

NOV 3rd and Nov 4th we need help for the Northern District Pros and Amateurs Tournament. There will be no daily play on these two days. Please sign up on the Volunteer Sheet in the Cue House to help. We need morning and afternoon volunteers.

NOV 5th Saturday is our first Board Meeting @ 10:30AM, a Club Member meeting will follow @ 11:30AM. We have much to be discussed, so please plan to attend. We need your suggestions to see what works best for keeping the CMS Club fresh and exciting.

NOV 18th is our THANKSGIVING POT LUCK DINNER. The club will supply the turkeys.

NOV 19 will be our first Saturday FUN DAY OF THE SEASON. Hot Dogs at Noon with play to follow at 1PM   Please come join us for a great time.

As you can see this is quite a busy schedule so please mark your calendars and make sure your dues have been paid for the year.  Thanks for your continued help and support.

From Nov. 1 til Nov 30, our the Coronado/Mainland Shuffleboard Club is having it’s 2nd Annual Food Drive for local needy families. Every Tuesday, Joan Best will take collected food to 1 of 4 different NSB churches for their food pantries…motto is “We Share”. We have plenty so let’s give back….Bags will be in the cue house for drop off…

Thank you, Joan Best

The CMS Shuffleboard Club in New Smyrna Beach was the host for the Northern District Any Doubles Tournament on Thursday and Friday, October 20/21. Twenty-nine (29) avid teams showed up to meet the challenge and place for cash prizes and bragging rights. Rich Kordeleski and John Fortini put canvases up to cover hurricane induced missing roofs on the courts. Candy Kordeleski, Barb Fortini and Arlene Jabaut came early to set up the coffee and donuts. Joan Best took care of the 50/50 distribution.

Club President Allen Best, with the help of volunteers (Rich, Arlene, Don Nephew, Cindy and Zak Wonson, Tim Pergrem, Gerry Bousquet, Debbie Evans and Charlie Jones with his blower), swept, cleaned and preped the courts for the competitive matches. Barb Nephew, Connie Bousquet and Betty Buccini manned the table for filing Tournament registrations and entry fees. Thanks go out to Richie and Carolyn Burrell, the Northern District Directors, were in charge of administering this enjoyable and well organized Tournament.

We began the day with some announcements from Allen Best and Pat King (President of the Northern District). Pat King picked the 50/50 ticket and Mouse Wolven won the pot.  We had a Prayer from John Holder followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Recognition was given to those recent members and acquaintances who have passed. A big hand goes out to all the volunteers and participants who made this  Tournament possible and a success.

THE WINNERS WERE:

Main Event, First Place: Charlie Jones/Darrel Harman,  Second Place: Mary Ann Pabst/Rick Enright, Third Place: Tom Rimmer/Dennis Buelk, Fourth Place: Guy Godman/Bob Tager.

Consolation Event, First Place: Walt Bartels/Gary Deso, Second Place: Pete Peterson/Walt Vilk, Third Place: Jeffrey Luneau/Mouse Wolven, Fourth Place: Edna Triplett/Dee Metz.

Congratulations!

Darrel Harman/Charlie Jones

Mary Ann Pabst/Rick Enright

Dennis Buelk/Tom Rimmer

Guy Godman/Bob Tager

Walt Bartels/Gary Deso

Pete Peterson/Walt Vilk

Jeff Juneau/Mouse Wolven

Dee Metz/Edna Triplett

More Pictures From The Tournament

The next time you go into the CUE/Club House, you will notice that there has been a great deal of work done.  Tim Pergrem (have paintbrush will travel) has done an outstanding first rate job in painting the Cue House floors and some of their walls.

NOTE: The new room for Cues is now available for cue storage (only on it’s left hand side). A sign up numbered sheet is available on a first come basis for Club members interested in securing a storage space for their Cues.

Allen Best has also painted the Club House bulletin board wall and continues to help frame related shuffleboard event pictures. A whole wall, with Debbie Evan’s help, has been created for some of our shuffleboard club’s history.

The walls between the windows will be honoring the CMS Club’s State Hall Of Fame Members: Dorine Bessette (2013), Edna Triplett (2009) and Stan Williamson (2008).  I have attached their profiles for your perusal.  You will also notice that Joan Best has put together a group of  club library books that you are free to borrow and/or add to. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer.” A great big THANK YOU to all the volunteers for their hard work on behalf of the club.

MORE PICTURES OF THE COMPLETED WORK!

stanwilliamson     dorine-bessette       edna-triplett

Wednesday, November 2nd starts the first game of the Inner City Tournaments. The CMS Club plays against Deland, Orange City and Ormond Beach Shuffleboard Clubs. Rich Kordeleski is still looking for shufflers to play on his White Team. If either a single player or a team of shufflers is interested in playing in this fun competition between cities, please contact Rich at 1-440-752-0673 or 1-440-315-9592. See you on the courts.

Between 8:00 am and 9:30 am nineteen (19) eager volunteers showed up this Monday to sweep, wash, wax, and clean up the shuffleboard courts. We finished up at approximately 11am. Our volunteers totally cleaned and washed the cue house so that Tim Pergrem could paint the floor after he finishes painting the cue room. The scoreboards were all washed along with the sponges/erasers. All the discs had already been painted. Allen and Debbie worked on the Historical Bulletin Board in the club house. We would like to thank all of today’s volunteers: Allen and Joan Best, Gerry Bousquet, Dennis Buelk, Mona Carkner, Debbie Evans, Darrel Hartman, Dave Helverson, Arlene and Jerry Jabaut, Wayne Lockwood, Carolyn Menosky, Don Nephew, Tim Pergrem, Bonnie and Randy Radke, Ron Raymond, Joe Rossitto and Mouse Wolven. Allen Best understands that some of our members may have had a conflict of interest that may have prevented them from participating in today’s Clean-Up. If your name was not included in today’s clean up list, Allen looks forward to your volunteering for the next clean up and/or working the next local shuffleboard tournament.   PEASE DO NOT ENTER THE CUE HOUSE OR USE THE SHUFFLEBOARD COURTS UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHTS REGULAR SHUFFLEBOARD PLAY.  AGAIN, THANKS TO ALL!

More Pictures From CMS Shuffleboard Clean Up Day.