Chuck Basford's blog

We are into the last week before the League begins.  So far we have 7 teams signed up on Monday and 1 on Tuesday and 2 on Wednesday.  We just put up two 4x8' vynal signs on Sigellkow Road at 51 and Marsh Rd.  Since thw signs went up on Friday we have had 2 inquiries and 1 team sign up so they have paid for themselves.  With all the traffic that runs by them daily I have high expectations that we will be getting many more before the week is out.

I should write more often, but it's been cold.  We should have more teams signed up by now, but it's been cold.  We should have more members joining the FLBA, but it's been cold.  Yes it has been cold and that's as good an excuse as any but to be honest we've done most everything  we can think of to get the word out but not much results so far.  Maybe the fact that it did snow yesterday really is having an impact on getting the Bocce Fever fired up.

Year one is finally over and I though we would never get thru it.  Getting the courts built was an awesome job and one that frankly I never thought would happen.  It seemed sometimes that we argued more than we agreed.  We argued about the courts, we argued about the membership, we argued about the leagues, but when all was said and done we got the job done.  We finished the courts and they turned out pretty nice too.  We had our first 8 week league in the late summer - early fall, had a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony, held a couple of Tourneys and gave Bocce instruction to about 420 middle school