NEW HOME KIT ORDER

The new home kit will be the same style shirt as the away shirts, but with the main body blue and red sides. This decision was based on lengthy discussions and opinions taken from the membership, including the vote on the CPSA forum. Please get your orders to me for home and away kit as soon as you can so we can do an order for the start of the season. Remaining away kit from the last order still needs to be collected so do contact me if you are still looking for your away kit!

The cut off date for the order is next week, Wednesday 21st of September.

MIXED TOURNAMENT WEEKEND

Saturday night: DJ, Food, Dancing and Beverages too! (with on site accomodation in the form of your tent permitted). Other teams invited and coming too. It's £5 entrance to cover the food and music.

followed by:

Sunday: Wake up to the A&C 7 a side Annual Mixed Tournament. 12 mixed teams (Tarts, NPL and the likes), BBQ, purple juice, hockey, prizes and stuff like that. All in all a pretty good weekend.

Friends and family welcome. (Bring some kit if you fancy a run about on the Sunday).

NEW PRACTICE FACILITY

Thank you to everyone who attended last night's meeting. Many ideas were thrown into the melting pot, and at the end of the meeting we agreed the following two actions:

Firstly, a project team was formed, with Dave Nolder as chairman, to oversee the project; it will probably meet on a weekly basis and the other members of the team will be Matthew Stevenson, Andy Parsons, Tony Hewston and both Chris Yoxall snr and jnr.

Secondly, the first work party will take place this Saturday morning (17th Sep), from 10am to 12 noon. Our tasks will be to review and mark out the projected area for concreting, and to take down the existing facility. All help will be greatly appreciated. If there is a big turnout, we have many other tasks, beyond the practice facility, to crack on with.

PHOENIX COMPETE IN NATIONALS

Chalfont Park Phoenix travelled to "sunny" Keele University last weekend to take part in the C Grade National Softball Championships and in their first shot at the competition acquitted themselves very well.

Phoenix won 3 of the 4 games on Saturday to finish second in the group. Unfortunately, losing the first game of the day on Sunday took them into the plate competition. After winning the plate semi they proceeded to play Jammy Dodgers for the second time in the plate final.

This game was a full 7 inning game rather than the timed hour games we had been playing previously and it turned out to be the longest game in softball history! At least it felt that way, or maybe it was the after effects of playing the equivalent of half a season in one weekend! We lost the final 34-20 but were only 1 run behind going into the final inning, and finished 6th overall.

It was a great all round showing by Phoenix who performed brilliantly both with the bat and in the field all weekend, we were close in every game we played and now know that we are capable of beating any C grade team in the country, which for a team in only its second season is quite incredible.

Well done to all for coping with the adverse conditions so well and many thanks to those (Liz, HJ, and Simon) who travelled with us to support, coach and score.

Full match reports and photos will be on the website soon.

PARTY IN CHALFONT PARK

Thank you to everyone who helped with the planning of the event and the hours everyone put in on the day. A fantastic effort!

The event was free to the public but cost in the region of £6000. We sold programmes, raffle tickets, hosted stalls and ran the beer tent. From this we covered all our costs with the Williams Fund and ourselves making over £1000 each on the day. We will also be giving a small donation to the Chamber of Commerce village fund.

We held a de-brief meeting last Thursday with lots of comments and feedback. The major comment was to start the planning as early as possible. So with that, I am looking at whether an event will be feasible next year and whether we have enough support from members in the club. This year the event involved 37 members, member's husbands and even non-members husbands! . If you are interested in helping to plan an event next year please contact me to discuss.

Many thanks
Caroline 07887 675310
carolinechipperfield@hotmail.com

NEW CATERERS AT CHALFONT PARK

On Saturday, we welcomed our new caterers to Chalfont Park. Mark and Lesley, a husband & wife team who own the company MG Catering. From Tuesday 13th September they will also be staffing the bar.

Since Sandra Taylor resigned her contract here (after taking on the Rose & Crown in Hawridge, Chesham), the CPSA Board have invited companies to tender for the catering and bar contracts. Over the summer, catering companies have been shown around the facilities and submitted their tenders, finally MG Catering were selected to supply our catering and bar needs.

As in the past, CPSA will be taking all the profit from the bar and paying the bar staff on an hourly basis. Lesley and her team will be purchasing stock for the bar and maintaining the facilities on our behalf.

If you have any comments regarding the catering or bar please let me know.

CANNONS HEALTH CLUB

ONE MONTH'S FAMILY PASS - £10

Vouchers available for a one-month family pass worth £110 (2 adults and 2 children) at Cannons Health Club in Stoke Poges.

These vouchers are valid until 31/12/05 and limited to one per family.

* Swimming pool
* Gym
* Fitness Classes
* Café Bar
* Crèche

Cannons have given us the vouchers to sell to help raise funds for the sports club and of course, promote their health club.