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Minutes of the Vintage Softball Club June 5th, 2012 Board Meeting League Commissioner Reports WEEKNIGHT LEAGUE Roger mentioned that between fifteen and twenty folks are showing up to have evening fun at Santana Field. There is room for more players, please join them every Wednesday (game time is 6:00pm at Santana) FUN LEAGUE Substitute commissioner Murchison in place of Frank Kadlecek mentioned that between 20 and 28 players are showing up. Monday the 4th we played in the rain and most went home soaking wet. Yes, they are hearty folks. TUESDAY/THURSDAY LEAGUE The commissioner of these two leagues, Jack Boniface announced the draft will take place on the 19th or 21th of this month. Mise may be lost as a place to play on Tuesday and Thursday mornings so Jack is looking at Columbus. It has two fields, restrooms, and fences. SATURDAY LEAGUE The draft has been set for June 23 rd . The meeting adjourned five minutes early. Faithfully submitted by Larry Murchison and edited by Mike Friedman and all the board members and commissioners. The Goal of Vintage is to be FUN and FAIR and SAFE. PLEASE NOTE THE ADDITIONAL MESSAGES ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES Page 4 of 6
Minutes of the Vintage Softball Club June 5th, 2012 Board Meeting ADDITIONAL MESSAGES SAD NOTE, WE LOST BOB STRAND: As you may know, our fellow Vintage member and webmaster Bob Strand was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in May of this year. He passed away at home on Saturday June 9 th . Besides being a great guy and ballplayer, Bob has done an outstanding job of creating, maintaining, and updating the Vintage website at no cost at all to us, even though he moved away and hasn’t played with us for years. Bob deserves our gratitude and will be sorely missed. Bob’s family has created a web site with information where people can comment if they choose. Anyone can read and comment. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/bobstrand IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SATURDAY LEAGUE PLAYERS: Your Club officers and directors have been informed by Bob Bilikas, our club member and benefactor at Moffett Field, that there is a strong likelihood that Vintage Softball will not be able to use the ball fields come February of next year, due to a World Tech Fair that NASA-AMES desires to host. They want to use the land now occupied by the ball fields to house 5,000 tents, so that means the fences will have to come down and the sprinkler systems will have to be removed. The fields will probably be totally demolished. There is also talk that they will re-build the fields after the Tech Fair, but there are conflicting reports and circumstances that make us doubtful of that happening. Your officers and directors are keeping a close eye on developments at Moffett, through Jim Gross, our liaison with Bob Bilikas. Bob is trying to monitor what is or what is most likely to happen at Moffett, to keep us informed. In the meanwhile your Club is taking steps to locate and secure other alternate fields for Saturday League play, come February of next year. Unfortunately, our only source of alternate fields at this time is San Jose Park and Rec. We all know these are not well-kept fields, but they may be our only choice for awhile. In the next month or so, we will have to submit our reservations and payments for fields we want to rent and play on from August through March, so we may need to ask for additional fields/dates for Saturday play beginning in February. It is not guaranteed that we will be displaced from Moffett, or if it does, when it will happen. But the talk about using the fields for something else is still going on at Moffett- AMES, so we have to consider that there is a strong possibility we will have to make alternate arrangements for Saturday League play starting in February. It is even possible that the schedule for demolition of the fields could be accelerated to as early as August of this year, in which case we would have to move out much earlier. Page 5 of 6
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