Spring Ball 2008 Newsletter

SPRING BALL 2010 NEWSLETTER June 10, 2010 – Please read all the way to the bottom

- Dryden Dairy Day is this Saturday, June 12th. We are hoping for the best turn out ever and look forward to seeing all of our players marching, along with their coaches, in the parade this year. The Dairy Day organizers would like to see children, parents and coaches getting in line shortly after 8:30 AM. The line-up starts at the Cattle Sale Barns next to the old town hall on East Main St (Virgil Rd). I have been told that East Main St. will be shut off on the morning of the parade. It is recommended that you park at Dryden Elementary School and walk over to the line-up site. The parade starts at 9:30 AM sharp and ends at the back entrance (Elm Street side) of Montgomery Park. If you are not walking in the parade with your children, this is where you would pick them up. For the younger age groups, parents are more than welcome to walk with their children. The Dairy Day committee is sensitive to age of the children and the amount of time standing around prior to the parade, so the ball player have been assigned as group number one right at the start of row number three.

- Dryden Kiwanis hopes to sponsor a Summer Ball Softball team in the same Cathy Stage League that we played A Softball in this spring. The hope is to get 15 girls and a coach to sign–up in the next 2 weeks. The team will be a U12 team which means it is open to player age 12 and below. Games will be played Monday to Friday with generally two games a week. If you are interested, please send an email to [email protected] and let me know.

- The Dryden Kiwanis Major League Baseball (Old A League) will be holding their play-off rounds in two weeks!

- If you sat watching a game this year and thought you would enjoy coaching a ball team, please contact me via e-mail over the next couple of weeks so that I can put your name down on a list for next year’s potential coaches.

- For next year, we would like to get adult (over age 18) certified umpires who live in the area and have no children playing in the program. To become certified, a person is generally required to attend 5, 2-hour courses. These courses are offered in the months of January and February at TC3 and are free of charge. If this is something that may be of interest to you and you want to earn extra cash, or you know someone who may be interested, please contact us with your/their name and phone number. - The following are some useful Internet links for summer ball camp options. If the links don't work, copy and paste in the address line of your Internet browser and they should work fine.

www.athletics.cornell.edu/camps/baseball.html www.lemoynebaseballcamp.com/ www.cortland.edu/sportsschool/ www.ithaca.edu/sacl/summercamps/baseball/ www.midwestbaseballacademy.com/baseball/register/index.aspx www.baseballcamps.com

Thank you for your help in making this an enjoyable experience for our children to remember.

Keep swinging for the fences!!

Don Scutt Dryden Kiwanis