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Training	Play Reminder
Reserved Play Change	New Website

Always check the website calendar for the most updated play information. See also our SAPC Facebook site for any last minute notices. 

Training

4.0 Level Test Preparation

For those members who would like to be rated at the 4.0 level soon, the club is having two mentor sessions, October 29 and November 12th to help you prepare for test. Each session limited to 12 players and will focus on the skills from IPTPA ratings requirements. The second session is a repeat of the first session so that 24 members can be mentored. Dave Barton and Ken Dentzien will share their respective experiences. (Thank you Dave and Ken). 

Please keep in mind when registering for one of these nights, that you should only attend if you are planning on testing for 4.0 in December. A date has yet to be decided but it will take place in December! If interested in this training, send an email to: training@pickleballstalbert.ca stating which of the two evenings you would prefer.

Play Reminder

Now that indoor play is in full operation please remember that for all venues you bring indoor shoes for play. You can not come in wearing outdoor runners and then go on to the courts to play. We want to keep our church floors and school floors in excellent shape. Thank you.

Reserved Play Change

As some of you may have noticed, we are continuing to offer reserved play two times per week: on Monday at Red Willow and on Thursday at North Pointe. These have been successfully filled in the last few sessions, and plans are to continue these as long as they remain popular (i.e., full). To get in on the Reserved Play action, see the web page "Reserved Play" under the Membership > Members menu, once you log into your club's website.

We have cancelled the Tuesday Reserved Play session as of Oct 18. It was not very well attended. This 9 am session at Red Willow has now been changed to a Men's 3.0+ drop-in session and so reverts back to the cost of one sticker to play.

Thanks to Carol P for continuing to coordinate our use of Sign Up Genius and our Reserved Play reservations.

By the way, if you need to cancel a reservation, please follow the proper procedure as described on our web-site. Adding a note in your reservation that says "I can't make it" doesn't cut the mustard because it doesn't actually release the spot for another player to use.

New Website

Your club is hard at work developing a new web-site using a new membership management platform. The current plan is to launch the new site in December or early January, before the next annual membership renewal cycle. The newer technology allows us to automate more club functions in future to serve you better. We also know it will avoid some of the problems we've had in the past. Stay tuned for more news as we begin rolling out the new system. And thanks to Tamas, our Membership and Volunteers Directory, for leading this exciting club project, and thanks to his web team too.

Until the next time, "Keep your paddle up!"