VFW

Dear Force Parents,

Scheduling gym time for any team seems to be one of the hardest jobs you can have. The hardest part has always been to schedule dates and times as early as possible to give parents something to work out their logistics with everything else that happens in our lives. We apologize for not communicating our thought process with the team but we do try to look at everything before making decisions. This past week was one of those decisions, as of Thursday evening we still had not heard from VFW in regards to our Saturday 11/3 practice time. We had already secured a back-up plan just in case as us three coaches had different events that we were committed to for late Saturday afternoon. The practice time for Mariners on Saturday 11/3 had been negotiated with their Athletic Director in exchange for transporting the portable baskets from WPC to them by Monday 11/5.  My company Norco Delivery provided the large Bobtail truck and driver to handle this request on Friday night thus providing us free practice time on Saturday 11/3. For next Saturday 11/10 Coach Jon and I will be working all day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with Jason Wright at Mariners for a special clinic for 11 WPC teams. WPC has agreed to cover the gym cost for the day and Jason has agreed to train our team in exchange for the fees collected from the other 11 teams. Again, we will not have any fees for this Saturday practice.

So to summarize our fees for the month of November 2007;

11/3 - N/C, 11/4 - $80, 11/10 - N/C, 11/11 - $80, 11/17 - N/C, 11/18 - $80

The total for each family will be $24 to be paid to Jon or Wendy. We will not have any other practice expenses for Dec, Jan and Feb. as the practices on Saturday will be provided by VFW and we will have games on Sunday.

Starting in 2008 to help relieve some of the accounting pressure from Jon and Wendy all practice fees for gyms, etc. will be collected by myself. Jon and Wendy will still handle the tournament fees, etc.

Please call or e-mail Jon, Scotty or myself if you have any questions or concerns as it is imperative that we understand how each parent feels about our team and how we run it.

See you this afternoon,

Mark