Earn back your Fundraising Fee.
Joe LeBlanc will be at the rink with a supply of Loblaws gift cards for purchase. Each purchase will be recorded and at the end of the season 3% of the total value of your purchases will be refunded up to a maximum of $100 per family. Joe can also place orders for gift cards for other merchants.
Keep this in mind when planning your Christmas shopping.
Ice Cancellations
There are no speed skating sessions this coming Saturday, October 29th. Masters are invited to make up their missed ice session on Tuesday, October 25. Youth 1 is invited to make up their missed session on Thursday, October 27.
Other schedule changes are listed on the schedule page.
Twenty skaters from the club competed at the Belleville meet on October 16th – a fantastic turnout with more than 40 personal bests being set. Here are the race results (pdf).
Special congratulations to Megan Quenneville and Nathan Heuvel for joining the 60 second club. Great work!
Updates to the 60 second club and the latest PB’s can be found in the “Skaters’ Corner” tab on the Personal Bests page.
The Kingston ability meet is coming up. It is a one day meet hosted by the Kingston Striders, and it is a fantastic “first meet” if you haven’t been to a meet before.
The meet is Saturday November 12th, but you need to get your entry form filled in and submitted to Heather Chartrand by Tuesday November 1st. It’s a popular meet and they don’t accept late entries.
Here is a link to the entry form and meet details. Note that each skater is required to bring their own helmet cover.
The Meets page has some ideas about what to expect if it is your first meet, as well as links to other meets coming up for the year.
The PBs page has been updated with what I think are accurate lists for the 60 second club and the 50 second club based on the most recent PBs file.
This past weekend saw the first Ontario regional Silver competition in Ottawa. Congratulations to our club skaters who competed:
Here is the protocol.
I have done some work to migrate the web site into this new format which has these advantages:
Let me know if you have any comments, or if you are looking for something from the old site and can’t find it.
Please note the following Saturday cancellations due to events being held at the Memorial Center:
Here is the provincial ranking list as of September 26th 2011: 2011 Ranking 2012 – September 26 (pdf)
Several skaters are missing required times needed for ranking…not an error, they just didn’t skate that distance last season.
The most recent version is linked from the Meets page in the Ontario Cup Racing Series section.
Here is the latest one page meet calendar: One Page Racing Calendar – Sept 26 2011 (pdf).
It has regional ability meets as well as Ontario Cup Racing Series meets.
The most up to date version can be found linked from the Meets Page