The Coronado/Mainland Shuffler

There was an intermittent drizzle Saturday afternoon, March 26th, as approximately fifty (50) CM Shufflers headed for the Club’s end of season banquet. Earlier in the day volunteers set up tables and chairs while Johnnie Conner and her volunteer crew set up the beautiful decorations. We began with a social hour at 5:00pm, enjoying the club camaraderie, discussing the past season’s activities. Barb and Don Nephew greeted us at the door and collected the tickets for the door prizes. There also seemed to be a spontaneous gathering of women, like bees to honey, around Bud Barker. What is his secret?
Allen Best gave a welcoming speech and specifically mentioned the members from the Cribbage Social Group, led by Sid Pommainville. He and his wife started the group many years ago and when Sid’s wife passed away, he continued with the program.  Allen also mentioned that this year Bob Finta was unanimously selected as a club Life Member for all his productive years with the club.
Joan Best led us in a prayer and then the Pledge of Alliegence. That’s Amore’ catered and served  a nice dinner of chicken, tortellini, green beans with mushrooms and salad. They finished the meal with Tiramisu, a popular coffee-flavored Italian dessert.

Following dinner, Allen Best recognized the club members who had played in the Northern District Tournaments and placed and/or won awards. Bonnie and Randy Radke received hats for Most Improved player embroidered on them by Beach Embroidery. Allen also recognized Rex Galushia who had placed in the most tournaments during the course of the 2015/2016 shuffleboard season.  Wayne Lockwood came in second with the most tournament placements, but was unable to attend the dinner.

John Fortini, new Courts and Equipment manager, thanked the past Executive Board members for their service and then announced the installation of the new in-coming members of the board.

The door prizes, provided by local sponsors,  were drawn and many wonderful surprises appeared.  Carol Finta had knitted a lovely blanket that was given to Allen Best for all his hard work and leadership as our club’s past president.   Thanks to all our members for their participation (players and/or volunteers) in our club activities who have helped to make the CMS Club and our 2015/2016 shuffleboard season a success! Now we are looking forward to the upcoming shuffleboard season and our Club’s 80th ANNIVERSARY IN 2017.

NOTE:  Mary Harlow also wanted to announce the seasonal CMS Club Scoring Totals which seemed to have been overlooked at the banquet.

Felix Piscatelli was High Score for the Men, with a total of 898 points.
Marguerite Fortier was High Score for the Women with 608 total points. We appreciate all your efforts in contributing to our Club’s seasonal success!

More Pictures From The Banquet

Johnnie Conners (our club VP) would like to decorate for the End of Season Banquet, this Saturday at 3:00 pm, so we need volunteers to come early at 12:30 pm to help set up tables and chairs before we play Shuffleboard at 1:30 pm ….and volunteers to help Johnnie decorate at around 3:00 pm.

Please Note that there are still tickets available and will be for sale at the door for $20.00 per person.  Thanks everyone for your attention.  That’s Amore’ has a delicious spread catered just for us.  See you at the banquet

    Saturday, March 26, 2016, 5 pm.

The CMS Club did quite well at the ND Masters Tournament held in Tavares, Florida. It is a great honor for shufflers who are recognized by being invited to compete against their peers for bragging rights and good old fun at the season ending ND Masters Tournament.

Tournament standings for the CM Shufflers are:

Pro Men match-ups – Dennis Buelk came in Third;

Pro Women match-ups – Edna Triplett tied for Second;

Amateur Women match-ups – Bonnie Radke came in Fifth;

Amateur Men match-ups – Randy Radke came in First;  Bob “Mouse” Wolven came in Second;  Rex Galusha came in Third; and Jeffry Luneau tied for Fourth. It should be noted that Wayne Lockwood qualified for the Amateur Men Masters but elected not to play.

The weather was ideal on both days and the tournament was managed flawlessly. Appreciation and thanks go out to: the Tavares Shuffleboard Club for hosting this event; ND Tournament Directors Donna King and Jack Wooten; and all the volunteers (pushers, workers, etc.) who made this tournament possible. Mary Ann Pabst, Grace Marlatt, Mona Carkmer and Walt Vilk from CMS also volunteered as pushers to support this event.

The tournament ending banquet had dinner, entertainment, presentation of Pro and State Amateur Pins, TOC Awards and Masters’ results overseen by Masters of Ceremonies Lorraine Layton, Jack Wooten and Pat King.

Volunteer pushers and workers that made the tournament possible.

More Pictures From The Masters Tournament and Banquet

Coronado/Mainland Shuffleboard Club member Bonnie Radke was presented the Frank Wilson Special Award for the Northern District Annual Amateur Women Shuffleboard TOC (TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS) Champion.  The award was presented to Bonnie by Pat King, President of  Northern District Shuffleboard, at the Masters Banquet held in Tavares on Friday afternoon, March 24th. The CMS Club will be able to display this award on its premises for one year until the next TOC tournament is held in 2017. Congratulations to Bonnie and the CMS Club.

More Pictures of Presentation

• Remember that the new DAILY PLAY season WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY APRIL 4TH with a 9:45 am START TIME (this will replace the current 1:00 pm Daily Play until October).
• Thursday Morning Four-Play’s new season will start Thursday morning April 7th at 8:45 am. This friendly competition is open to all shuffleboard clubs and will continue throughout the summer.
• A sign up sheet for the Saturday, April 9th FUN DAY will be posted in the club house.

We appreciate the eleven (11) keen shufflers who showed up for the final Singles Mingles Competition of the season. We had Five (5) Pros and Six (6) Amateurs from the CM Shuffleboard Club. The Pro Winners were: First Place – John Holder;  Second Place – Pete Peterson;  Third Place – Walt Vilk. The Amateur Winners were: First Place – Bob Tager;  Second Place – Randy Radke;  Third Place – Bonnie Radke. We would like to thank Dennis Buelk for managing the program throughout the 2015/2016 season and those volunteers who helped prepare the courts for these games. The next season, 2016/2017, will start again in October.

Pro Winners: John, Pete and Walt

Amateur Winners: Bob, Bonnie and Randy

A lot of fun loving players showed up this Saturday in anticipation of  participating in the Fun Day Challenge. Hot dogs, chips, coffee, lemonade and a great selection of deserts was made available for those interested participants.  Also a 50/50 drawing was offered. After noticing some passersby with umbrellas, we were alerted that it had started to rain.  Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, the Fun Day was called off  by Allen Best due to a Rain Out. A shoutout of appreciation with thanks goes to those club volunteers who came out early to prepare the hospitality club room and prepare the courts with Fun Day props.

More Pictures from the Fun Day Rain Out.

Just a reminder that FUN DAY is this Saturday, March 19th. If you have not participated, please come on down and meet the challenge. I have actually found that it makes my regular shuffleboard play better. Sign up in the club house so we know how many hot dogs to have. 12:00 noon for hot dogs and the games begin at 1:00 PM. See you there!

Today’s weather was perfect for the CMS Club Clean-Up Day that started approximately at 9am. Twenty-one (21) CMS volunteers got busy on the courts to have the leaves blown off, scrubbed, washed and  squeegeed before the wind blew it dry. Then the wax was rolled on all twenty courts.  Meanwhile, the bleachers were relocated, benches were washed, chalkboards were scrubbed and the sponges cleaned. The clubhouse floors were swept and some volunteers even re-painted and re-numbered the disks (vivid festive colors). We had a break for coffee and donuts before finishing up at 11:30am.

Without volunteers, there would not be a well functioning club. Thanks to all the following volunteers who came out to help maintain our courts and club facilities.

Allen and Joan Best, Rich and Candy Kordeleski, Arden and Mary McConnell, Randy and Bonnie Radke, Marguerite and Paul Fortier, Denny and Angie Wyss, Bill Boyes, John Tardif, Dennis Buelk, Jerry Jabaut, Roland Gilles, Dave Helverson, Darrel Harman, John Fortini and Bob Stock.  

A lot of us will be back at 6:30 tonight to break-in the newly waxed courts.

More Pictures from Clean-Up Day

This is a reminder that Tuesday March 15th at 9:00 AM We will be cleaning, washing and scrubbing the courts and then applying a coat of wax. We need volunteers to come help out. Men and Women are both welcome. If you do not want to scrub the courts we can use help cleaning the score boards and sweeping up the club house. Time to prepare for all the Upcoming Events. Check out all of the pictures and fun we had at previos work days on our photos link.  It is greatly appreciated when those members who want to play, also volunteer to come down and help maintain the courts as well.

Please remember to sign up for FUN DAY.  The list is in the club house.  It is scheduled for March 19th at 12:00 noon and is great fun for all shuffleboard skill levels.

Tickets are on sale for our catered Annual End Of Season Banquet on March 26th.