Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Track and Field Practice cancelled today, Tuesday April 29, 2008

Due to poor weather and track conditions, today's practice is canceled. Our next practice is Thursday May 1st at 6:00 to 7:30 PM.

Dave

Friday, April 25, 2008

2008 Spring Sports Competition at UVM

The 2008 Spring Sports Competition will be held April 26th and 27th at the UVM Pactrick Gym and Field House. Saturday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM will be the Unified Basketball Team competition and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 2:45 PM will be the Basketball Skills competition and Traditional Basketball Team competition.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Mothers Day Plant and Flower sale fund raiser

Andrea Robertson is organizing the Mothers Day Plant and Flower Sale fund raiser. Karen and I will be handing out fundraising forms at the beginning of each of the summer sports practices. This is a simple and fun way to raise funds for our Chittenden program. If everyone can take a few orders for themselves, family, friends and neighbors, we can easily raise several hundred dollars.

Orders with payments must be to Andrea by April 27. Flower and plant should be picked up at Andrea's house on Saturday May 10th in time to deliver for Mothers Day May 11th.

Contact
Andrea Robertson 999-3801 trainmanar@verizon.net

2008 Track and Field Update

Track and Field begins on Tuesday April 29th and will be held every Tuesday and Thursday through May 29th, 6:00 PM till 7:30 PM at the Hunt Middle School track in Burlington.

Hunt Middle School is just off of North Ave in Burlington on Goss Ct. If you are coming from down town heading north on North Ave, turn right onto Goss Ct which is the second right after Ethan Allen shopping center. If you are heading south on North Ave from Colchester, turn left onto Goss Ct. There is a Shell gas station on the corner of Goss Ct and North Ave. The Hunt Middle School driveway entrance is the first left on Goss Ct.

Contacts

Coach:
Greg Broe 802-524-2747 gregorybroe@comcast.net
Assistant coaches:
Dave Clements dclements@aol.com
Martti Matheson martti@nhiweb.com

Coordinators:
Karen Bogdan 865-3840 kraze1@comcast.net
David Bogdan 865-3840 dbogdan@ieee.org

Friday, April 11, 2008

ANNUAL POT LUCK & AWARDS NIGHT CELEBRATION

The pot luck and awards night, held Wednesday April 2nd, was wonderful time to celebrate the success of our athletes and the Chittenden program. Thank you to everyone who brought food, stories, pictures and smiles to share!

Ian Kutt, brother of Jeffrey Kutt, presented the Jeff Kutt Award to Scott Johnston recognizing Scott as an athlete who emanates Jeff's spirit of giving, helping and sharing happiness. Congratulations Scott!

Karen Bogdan, Maggie Trayah, Tammy Willey, Greg Broe and I then presented our athletes with Certificates of Achievement in recognition of their participation in the Special Olympics Vermont Chittenden program.

Judy Laird then presented an amazing variety of door prizes to all athletes.

I want to give special thanks to Claire Shockey for organizing the evening, to Helen Tarte for assisting Claire with the evening preparation and clean up and to Judy Laird for pulling together the door prizes. The evening was a big success through their efforts! THANKS!

I hope everyone went home with a warm glow inside!

Dave

Thursday, April 3, 2008

2008 Softball practice

Softball practice begins Saturday April 19th, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM. All practices will be held at the Pearl Street Park in Essex.

Directions to the field:

Coming from Winooski: go towards 5 corners, pass Susie Wilson Road, at the following light on Pearl Street take a left. Go straight into the parking lot.

Coming from Five corners: go straight on Pearl Street, past Big Lots, Essex Fair Grounds on the right, right before the next traffic light (about 100 ft) there is a right hand turn. The parking lot will be on your right hand side.

Contacts:
Coach:

Laura Martin 802-734-1281 Laura.Martin@systemsandsoftware.net

Coordinators:
Karen Bogdan 865-3840 kraze1@comcast.net
David Bogdan 865-3840 dbogdan@ieee.org

2008 Bocce Practice

Weather permitting, Bocce practice will begin Wednesday April 16th, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM at UVM.
Contacts

Coach:

John Koerner
425-2429

Coordinators:
Karen Bogdan 865-3840 kraze1@comcast.net
David Bogdan 865-3840 dbogdan@ieee.org