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USAPA Members - Pickleball Magazine- May/June edition
Check out familiar face on p.52
Update on Referee Certification
List of approved pickleballs for tournament play

Our Members Who Served

We Celebrate You

Congratulations!!!

Lisa is an integral part of the growth of our club. With her support we grew to 32 courts and have contracted with USAPA for the National Tournament.  We will miss seeing Lisa at the courts and our monthly club meetings,  We Congratulate her on a well deserved promotion.

Lisa Harold

Palm Creek General Manager

Dear Residents,

I am pleased to share a special announcement with you. You may be aware that Sun is in the process of a very exciting acquisition set to close in the next few weeks, which will bring many new resorts to our portfolio, spanning from California to Florida and beyond. As part of the reorganization to accommodate these new sister communities, I have been offered and accepted a new role as a western Regional Vice President effective June 9th.

In this new role, I will continue to oversee Palm Creek as part of my portfolio and will stay very involved with the resort. Palm Creek has many working parts, and rest assured that we will select a replacement for my position who will continue to manage the resort to the highest level. Once the position has been filled, we will send a notification out to everyone.

Holding the position of General Manager has been a great honor and privilege. I have had the good fortune of working with a phenomenal team and I leave the resort in very capable hands. Palm Creek will always hold a very special place in my heart, and I treasure the time I have spent with all of you. I look forward to being a partner in leading the resort through new exciting projects to come.

Thank you for your residency and support during this transition!
Sincerely,

Lisa Harold, General Manager
Palm Creek Golf & RV Resort

Lisa Harold
General Manager
Palm Creek Golf & RV Resort
1110 North Henness Road | Casa Grande, AZ 85122
Direct: (520) 876-8941 | Fax: (520) 876-8962 

lharold@suncommunities.com

Pickleball Goes Mainstream

Bev Youngren Snapped these pictures at Sams's Club, pemium most likely not,

Could be good fun for the Grand Children

April in Paradise

When so many club members headed home, to not great weather

I thought it mean to post pictures of all the fun club members who stayed 

Hope all that are home, are now enjoying good weather!

The First US Open

Multiple Medal winners 
Marsha and Byron 
Registered as Palm Creek club members
made us a part of pickleball history!

(Great Players not so good pictures)

 Marsha Freso
Gold Medal - Mixed Doubles
Silver Medal - Women's Doubles

Byron Freso
Silver Medal - Men's Doubles
Bronze Medal - Mixed Doubles

   

Getting Ready For Inter-Community

The crew is getting our courts in tip-top shape for summer play, we are really lucky to have volunteers that take pride in our facility.

A Normal Day at the Courts

Instead of getting smaller the group grew to 40 Players

Singles Anyone?

John & Judy DeBarbieri 

(Look closely and you will see the winning shot)

35 Club Members

Having Fun

and  enjoying 80 degree weather

The group is looking forward to inter-community play starting next week

In The News

Long Time Club Member

Neal Renga

click on link

Summer Inter-Community

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Steve Carter

Gold - Mixed Doubles 4.0

Marge White

Silver - Women's Doubles 3.5

Gary Baker - Lance Thiede

Gold - Men's Doubles 4.5

Around The Town

News Bulletin:

Did you subscribe to the "Pickleball Magazine"

If you are having "only" your first class mail forwarded, the magazine will not be forwarded to you.

You will need to contact them and provide a change of address

If you are having "ALL" your mail forwarded to you, than you will receive it when you mail is sent

When not at the pickleball courts club members

wonder off to other courts

Tom Gearhart - Michelle Raph - Stephanie Royo - Carol Lindow

not in picture Jeanne Gearhart - Lynn Raph - Ann Earley - Lance Thiede

What are these two up to?

Lance Thiede and Carol Lindow

Some club members took off to Mesquite to play in the Senior Tournament

Congratulations to :

Steve Carter - Gold Medal - Men's Doubles 4.0 and Silver Medal in Mixed Doubles 4.0

Mike Cooper - Silver Medal - Mixed Doubles 4.5

Sally Dobson - Gold Medal - Women's Doubles 5.0

Barbara Durrant - Gold Medal - Women's Doubles 4.0 

Carol Lindow - Gold Medal - Women's Doubles 5.0

Maurice Parobec - Silver Medal - Men's Doubles 5.0

Nancy Schwarz - Gold Medal - Women's Doubles 4.0 and Silver Medal in Mixed Doubles 4.0

(Sorry - Medal Winners did not send pictures to post)

On Board

Welcome 

Our Board of Directors for 2016 - 2017

Reed Cowen (Member at Large) - Susan Baldwin (Secretary)  
 David Wight (Vice President) - Donna Christiansen (President)  
Don Bruce (Treasurer)Jocelyn Barr ( Member at Large)  
Tom Lindley (Member at Large)

Our Sincere Thanks

For Your Service

Roger Fellows - Kate Perrie - Marg Ouimet -  Ken Shabenthal 

Roger Fellows - served as Vice President from 2011-2012, he than stepped up to fill the vacated position of Treasurer in 2013, was unanimously elected to the position in 2014 with his term ending March 31, 2016.  During this time Roger wore many hats from assisting with the training clinic program to coordinating the Tournament Raffle. Roger will always be remembered for moving our club forward for implementing club membership fee.  New members do not know what it was like to always have quarters available to play or as in the last season of the the "old way" collecting 27,000 quarters!

Kate Perrie - served this season as Secretary.  Setting up the club roster on Constant Contact, brought the club e-mail system to an entire new level. No easy task, as she contacted many club members to attain accurate contact information.  Coupled with maintaining the roster and recording both board and general meeting minutes, Kate was always busy!

Marg Ouimet - served as a Director at Large for two years and was than elected to the position of Vice President, to fill the vacated seat. Regardless of the many things that Marg has been involved; our club members immediately think of Marg as setting up "The Best" medical program. As coordinator Marg made us proud of the "Pickleball Float" that was entered into the Casa Grande Christmas Light Parade.  Marg also brought to all Palm Creek residents the "File for Life" program. (see link under Club Information)

Ken Shabenthal - served as a Director at Large for the past two years.  During the this time Ken worked on the Board's special projects. Managed the asset inventory . Listened to our club members and recounted to the Board the needs and desires of our club members. Additionally, for both Nationals and our Club tournaments, Ken worked with both check in and the tournament desk