WORK DAY....WORK DAY

WE NEED YOUR HELP. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27, STARTING AT 8:00 AM WE WILL BE WORKING ON THE RINK TO BRING IT UP TO SPEED FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON. WE HAVE MANY SMALLER TASKS ALONG WITH A FEW BIG ONES TO BE COMPLETED.

IF YOU HANDY OR IF YOU ARE NOT,COME ON OUT.

COACHES I CANNOT RELEASE THE RINK FOR PRACTICES TO START UNTIL ALL OF THESE ITEMS OF REPAIR ARE COMPLETED. SO, IF YOU ARE A COACH, AND YOU ARE CHOMPING AT THE BIT TO GET YOUR KIDS ROLLING, THEN COME ON OUT AND HELP OUT.

WE WILL HAVE A TASK LIST READY TO GO.

IF YOU HAVE SAWS, LEAF BLOWERS, POWER DRIVERS(CORDLESS), HAMMERS, NAIL GUNS, CEMENT TOOLS, BUCKETS,

DRY WALL SCREWS, THREE INCH WOOD SCREWS, POWER SAWS, CALKING GUNS, EXTENSION CORDS......THROW EM YOUR CAR OR TRUCK AND BRING EM WITH YOU.

SEE YA AT THE RINK

JIM

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MAY HAVE SHOWN UP AT THE RINK LAST SUNDAY TO OBTAIN EQUIPMENT AND WERE THERE  AND NO ONE WAS THERE TO HELP YOU THAT, I APOLOGIZE.

I MADE THE TIME CORRECTION ON THE WEB-SITE BUT WHEN MAKING A POST HERE THERE IS ALWAYS A TIME DELAY FROM HE TIME YOU SUBMIT IT TO WHEN IT SHOWS UP. AND.........SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T SHOW UP. MOST TIMES I WILL CHECK BACK A FEW HOURS AFTER SUBMISSION, BUT THIS TIME I FORGOT TO DO THAT.

IF BECAUSE OF MY ERROR, YOU ARE STILL IN NEED OF GEAR, JUST GIVE ME A CALL AND I WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT FOR YOU.

JIM HARMON

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COMING ....NEW THIS SEASON A "LEARN TO PLAY DIVISION" FOR THE THREE, FOUR AND FIVE YEAR OLDS. THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO TEACH THE BASIC SKILLS IN SKATING, ALONG WITH PROVIDING FUNDEMENTALS  IN THE GAME OF HOCKEY.

REGISTRATION FEES ARE FIFTY DOLLARS, WHICH INCLUDES LEAGUE AND USA HOCKEY INLINE MEMBERSHIPS, AND A JERSEY WITH YOUR CHILD'S NAME ON IT TO KEEP.

 THERE WILL BE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES THOUGHOUT THE WCIHL SEASON ALONG WITH SELECTED DATES FOR TWO GAMES TO BE HELD.

EQUIPMENT IS AVAILABLE TO LEASE THROUGH THE LEAGUE FOR THIS PROGRAM.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SIGNING UP YOUR CHILD, SEE ANY OF THE WCIHL BOARD MEMBERS FOR DETAILS.

SIGN-UPS WILL BE ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE FIRST WEEK OF THE COMING SPRING SEASON.

THE ASSEESSMENT FOR NEW PLAYERS FOR THIS COMING SPRING SEASON HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

THE USE OF THE RINK WILL NOT BE SAFE TO HAVE CHILDREN SKATING ON WITH THE MOISTURE THAT HAS FALLEN.

SIGN UPS WILL STILL TAKE PLACE. THEY WILL  BE HELD AGAIN THIS SATURDAY AT S and R TIRE.

FOR THOSE IN NEED OF EQUIPMENT .....THAT EQUIPMENT WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 21, FROM 2:00PM TO 4:00PM. YOU CAN SIMPLY COME TO THE RINK THAT DAY DURING THAT TIME SLOT, AND JOHN SCOTT WILL BE ISSUING EQUIPMENT TO YOU AT THAT TIME.

REMEMBER PLEASE, THAT THIS IS A "LEASE BACK EQUIPMENT PROGRAM" AND IN ORDER TO OBTAIN EQUIPMENT FROM THE LEAGUE TO USE, YOU MUST HAVE A CHECK IN  THE AMOUNT OF $100.00 MADE OUT TO THE LEAGUE FOR US TO HOLD UNTIL THAT EQUIPMENT IS ALL RETURNED TO US  AT THE END OF THE SEASAON....AT WHICH TIME YOU WILL GET YOUR CHECK RETUREN TO YOU, UNCASHED.

THANK YOU

JIM HARMON

REGISTRATION IS ONGOING..............                                                                                       WEDNESDAY 2-10-2010

ALTHOUGH THE FIRST DATE OF REGISTRATION HAS PAST, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE STILL INTERESTED IN PLAYING INLINE HOCKEY THIS SEASON CAN STILL FILL OUT YOUR FORMS AND MAKE PAYMENTS THIS WEEK.

S AND R TIRE IS THE PLACE TO GO DURING THIS WEEK UP THROUGH FRIDAY THE 12TH. YOU CAN SEE BUD AGNEW THERE DURING S AND R'S REGULAR BUSINESS HOURS.

ALSO THIS COMING SATURDAY THE 13TH THERE WILL BE FOLKS AT THE RINK TO TAKE YOUR REGISTRATION, FROM NOON UNTIL TWO.

AGAIN THE FEES ARE....FOR A RETURNING PLAYER THAT DID PLAY LAST FALL.....FIFTY FIVE DOLLARS

FOR THOSE THAT DID NOT PLAY IN THE FALL THE FEES ARE: FIFTY FIVE DOLLARS LEAGUE FEE PLUS THIRTY DOLLARS FOR THE USA HOCKEY INLINE MEMBERSHIP FEE.

IF YOU ARE A NEW PLAYER YOUNGER THAN FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE ....EQUIPMENT IS AVAILABLE TO LEASE

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THE EQUIPMENT IS GIVEN TO YOU TO USE DURING THIS SEASON WITH YOU PROVIDING A CHECK IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. THAT CHECK WILL NOT BE CASHED AS LONG AS THE EQUIPMENT IS RETURNED TO THE LEAGUE WHEN THE SEASON IS COMPLETE. AT THAT TIME UPON RETURNIG THE GEAR, YOUR CHECK WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU UNCASHED.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

WE ARE STARTING A NEW DIVISION THIS SEASON. IT WILL BE FOR 3 AND 4 YEAR OLDS. OUR LEAGUE IS IN NEED OF EQUIPMENT TO LEASE OUT TO THESE NEW PLAYERS.

IF YOU HAVE ANY UNUSED EQUIPMENT LYING AROUND YOUR HOUSE THAT WOULD FIT THESE YOUNGSTERS PLEASE CONTACT JOHN SCOTT OR MYSELF.

WE ARE IN NEED OF GLOVES, HELMETS, SHIN PADS, ELBOW PADS, SKATES, AND GIRDLES TOO.

IF YOU CARE TO MAKE A CASH DONATION TO THIS PROGRAM YOU CAN ALSO SEE JOHN SCOTT.

THIS PROGRAM IS BEING PUT IN PLACE AS A LEARN TO PLAY PROGRAM WITH THE INTENTION OF INTRODUCING OUR LEAGUE AND THE  SPORT OF HOCKEY TO A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF CHILDREN FROM WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.

YOUR HELP MAKING THIS HAPPEN WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

JIM HARMON

PRESIDENT: WARREN COUNTY INLINE HOCKEY LEAGUE

New Rink Project Update

Friday morning February 5 our league was allowed to make a presenation to the Warren County Fiscal Court, in regards to plans to construct a new rink, along with facility additions and improvements.

The Judge Executive and Magistrates were given information concerning our league's operations, and the status of our current rink's condition as well as being introduced to the plans and details of the new rink.

This hearing was the second of two such hearings that our league has attended during this funding request process. The first was to request funding for studies and estimates on the project, and in turn those funds were granted. The second hearing was to request to be allowed to entertain or advertise for bids to be submitted by those construction companies interested in taking on this building project. Our request to seek bids was approved, and now we will be working within this next week or so, putting together a bid package that will be posted, and advertised publically.

At such time that the bidding time limit is closed and a final bid chosen, we again will approach the court to request of them to accept and approve the bid, and to allow those funds needed for this project to be granted.

If the bid chosen is approved we then will be at that point where construction on the new rink will start.

Jim Harmon

As many of you may be aware of, and for those of you that are not, our rink sustained some serious damage due to being hit by a series of straight lines winds shortly after the conclusion of our Fall season.

The rink on the lake's end toppled inward and although put back into place by the work crew of Parks and Recreation, that work was done to simply insure that additional damage to the unharmed portion of our rink would not be realized. The rink is currently being held in place on that damaged end by a temporary "fix".

With the Spring season being just around the corner the Board had to take action this past week to insure that the required permenant repairs to our rink are completed on time for the season to begin as is scheduled.

Per requirments by the Parks and Recreation Department, we now have to have any and all construction projects contracted through a licensed and insured contractor. Gone are the days when a work crew can be garned from our membership to make these types of repairs to our rink that we are now facing and are required to be made.

Because of those requirements being in place, the Board of directors has contracted the contruction firm of, Scott, Murphy and Daniel to do the needed work.

This week Bud Agnew, Chris Kummer (director of Parks and Rec.) and myself met with a representative from Scott, Murphy and Daniel and did secure a cost estimate from him for the work that is needed to be done.

That estimate and project proposal was then brought forward during the monthly Board meeting held this past Wednesday and was presented to the board, and voted on. The vote to move forward on this project was passed with a vote of " all in favor of".

The project in detail includes the following:

The current rink from corner to corner on the Three Springs Lake end will be torn down. A footer of 100 running feet will then be poured on which the newly built portion of the rink will sit. The current rink inside surface of the repaired end of the rink will be cut in order to establish a straight line edge and the new footer concrete will be poured up to that newly established edge. This process should insure that we no longer will have to deal with the current problem that we have had of the surface breaking away and chipping, leaving those unsafe gaps where the playing surface and inner lower portion of the boards meet.

In addition the newly constucted portion of the rink will be put together using 2x8/2x10 pressure treated lumber versus the previous material of 2x4 standard grade construction lumber. The frame boards will be secured in their upright positioning by placing 4x4 support posts every running four feet and then sinking those support posts into the footer concrete. New fencing will also be added to the top surround.

This project is costly in terms of funding. But we as a Board are attempting to insure that the project is done correctly and are looking long term with the thought in mind that investing now in this manner will keep us from facing future damage to the rink that would be similar to that which we have had to deal with so many times in the past.

The current rink is to remain in use even after the new rink is constructed and we want to insure that we have two safe and productive rinks on which to play.

*********************On the note of the " New Rink Project"****************************

We are looking to present our final proposal to the fiscal court mid-February. The steering committee for this project met early in the month of December past and now the project simply requires final approval of funds in order for it to commence.

These are exciting times for our league with the proposed new rink project and the improvements that are being made to the existing rink being realized. The future of "our league" is bright and with these projects moving forward as projected, inline hockey will remain a viable form of recreation for kids and adults alike for many years to come in Warren County Kentucky.

Jim Harmon 

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