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Craig Palermo, President

President's Message - April 2020


Happy Spring to all our pickleballers. 


Thank goodness Sun City Festival shut down our courts! With all that 
extra time, I was able to compose my “End of the Season” letter from 
the president. 
 
A lot of wonderful things have happened this year. Thought I should fill 
you in on a few. 
 
For some reason the ball no longer skips off the lines at Wagner courts.  
Hard for me to remember how irritating that was until I go to Sun City 
Grand and play. A huge thank you goes out to all un-named helpers.  If 
that alone was all we accomplished it would have been a fantastic year! 
 
New larger gravel will be spread around the courts at Wagner this week.  
No more pea gravel all over the courts! Thanks to all those who voted 
yes on this project. Don’t forget to give Tom Karas a big hug (after the 
risk of spreading the virus is over) for his negotiations with Pulte to make 
this wonderful project happen. It would never have happened without 
him. 
 
We purchased a new Lobster pickleball machine this year. We moved the 
old machine to the Sage courts. We now have a ball machine at both 
court locations for the first time. Bill Fisher (I have already hugged him) 
was in charge of this project. Thanks to Brock (more hugs) for designing 
a reservation program so we can reserve the Lobster on-line. 
 
We also purchased two new laptop computers for the in-house 
tournament. If we would have gotten to play things would have gone 
very smoothly. A big thank you (and hugs) go to Katie Fender for 
volunteering at our annual meeting, to run the in-house tournament. 
The amazing John Woollums was ready to pass the torch and Katie saved 
the day.

We have continued the player development modules that (I hope you 

have hugged him by now) Ernie Jerome engineered. A brand new weekly 
beginner class has been added to the schedule for players new to the 
game. We had over 100 participants in that class this year. Ila Haas has 
volunteered to fill our board position for player development. You rock 
Ila! 
 
We had a volunteer celebration planned this Spring. It was the least we 
could do for all the wonderful folks who have given their time to make 
our club better. Don’t worry keep volunteering as we will have another 
celebration next year. I can not emphasize how important all the 
volunteers are to our club. If you have been reading this email you can 
see what happens when people volunteer. If you have not volunteered, 
don’t worry. There are plenty of opportunities. 

In fact, we have added a volunteer coordinator position for next year.
This will not be a board position but would definitely streamline our
​organization.  More information about this role will be coming out shortly. 


We enjoyed a very successful Dink-a-thon this year. Some new rule 
changes were made to help us improve our level of play. I will try and 
give more clinics next year on the Ernie and “around the post” shots. 
 
We also planned a new tournament in conjunction with the Fire 
Department. A nice way to raise charity funds for the Firefighters. 
 
I could go on and on. I am so proud of the board members: Tom Karas, 
Lynne Owen, Darrel Spiczka, and Ila Haas. It is hard to laud them without 
including Brock Taylor and Katie Westermann our two computer and 
email blast folks. This group of people care so much about our pickleball 
club! Please remember to smile when you see them. There is no better 
response you can give a volunteer. 
 
Keep smiling on the courts. 
 
Your club president, Craig Palermo ​
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​"Alone we can do so little, 
together we can do so much." 

  Helen Keller
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