Parents

Hello JR Parents, JD Parents, Race Team Parents and Biathlon Parents,

Our final day Winter FUNtastics occurs February 26^th 2012 Sunday 10:30 am.

In a true team spirit this event is open to all young athletes at Telemark. (Please note: Bunnies have their own activities, however if any Bunnies want to join the „big kids“ they are more than welcome .) We will have stations with fun activities for the children around the stadium and hot dogs and snacks at the end. And the Junior Race Team will be joining in on the fun.

We can’t do it without you. We need your help in order to have a truly Winter FUNtastic day. Volunteers will be needed for signing up kids, supervising activities, leading groups of kids and BBQ personnel.

Volunteer opportunities for “Winter FUNtastics” are now open. Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn’t work) to go to the signup sheet:

http://www.volunteersignup.org/QDWX4

To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do. Thank you for volunteering!

Help us make the finale awesome!
Cheers,

Iva Rozek
Volunteer Ski League Coordinator
Telemark Cross Country Ski Club
Phone: (778) 477-4721
Learn to Ski!

The highlights of Wednesday’s parents’ meeting:

– Finance report: All 2011/12 team financial obligations have been met through the end of the fiscal year.

– Telemark Executive Report: Barry shared some Junior Race / Junior Development team statistics from the gaming grant the executive is working on:

1265 volunteer coaching hours
1474 “other” hours
$29,000 in “in kind” donations to the race team
more than 100 coached training sessions
more than 35 days racing or in race camps.

– Fundraising: Another roughly $1000 profit from the last 3 hot dog events and the hot wax event. Thank you’s have been extended to the Biathlon team for giving us the opportunity to fundraise at their BC Cup race.

– Joint activities with Ski League — Wrap-up fun event on Sunday Feb 27 and “ski with the race team” on Sunday Mar 11. ALL JD and TR team members are expected to attend. This is the time to pay back your major sponsor, the Telemark X-C Club! (BC Winter Games athletes excused.).

– Head Coach Adam purchased a state-of-the-art riller kit for the team, to press structure into the bases of our athlete’s skis.

– Hoodies. You can order until Feb 23.

– New business: a spirited discussion about everything pertaining to X-C skiing. The key items I took away are a suggested alternate source for race uniforms and a candid discussion about how to get the JD parents more involved in the ongoing health of the Junior Race program. Homework assignment for the meeting attendees was to review a specific past posting and send me advice on how to make our communication effective. Here are the links for that homework assignment, in sequential order:

https://race.teamtelemark.ca/?p=783

https://race.teamtelemark.ca/?page_id=820

https://race.teamtelemark.ca/?p=824

Best regards!

Barry