Hello all,

Our President, Ernie French, has a new email address. From now on you can contact him at:

bigern1010@shaw.ca

Please update your records.

Cheers,

Gary Paukert

Dear League,

I’m very sorry to report that Cory Veldhoen, a long-time member of our league, has passed away. Through my work in archiving the history of the CSMS League, I’ve seen Cory’s name all over the documentation, including multiple years on the Board of Directors. He was clearly a huge influence in building and maintaining what we have.

I have received the following from Cory’s daughter Laurie Irwin:

Cory passed away March 3, 2020 at the age of 92 years and 11 months. He will deeply missed by his daughter Laurie (Lyndon) Irwin, and son Donald (Sheila) Veldhoen, his four grandchildren, and his nine great grandchildren.

Cory was one of the original signers of the CSMS constitution in 1993. He pitched for many of the teams in the A and AA divisions during his 30 years of participation in the league.

Cory was also known as the guy who rode his bike everywhere, a practice he continued well into his 90’s.

A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday April 5, 2020 at 1:30 at the Triwood Community Centre, (west door), 2244 Chicoutimi Dr. N.W. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cancer Society would be gratefully accepted.

The family wishes to thank all the wonderful staff at Agape Hospice for the exceptional care during his brief stay there.

Regards,

Gary Paukert
Director, Communications

From John Schmidt, CSMS Registrar:

Provided in a link below is a list of the players who have registered as of 1:00 pm March 8. If your name is not on the list, you are not registered.

To download the list in .pdf format, go to this link:

https://www.teampages.com/organizations/3209/documents/527155

I’ve also included some other information about your registration. Please let me know if any of it is incorrect at registrar@grandslamslopitch.com.

Column 1: Regular player – blank
Replacement – R
Alumni – A
Other – O
Column 2: Your Zone
Column 3: New Player – N
Played before – P
Column 4: F – I need proof of AB 55 membership
– applies to Zone 2 or new players only
– you need to fill out an AB55 form
3: – payment missing the AB55 fee
- OK if you know you’re an AB55 member
Column 5: No payment received yet
- cheques picked up on March 6

Because of a bug in Team Pages, registration will not be available on March 16.

Remember, there is ONLY ONE WEEK left to save $25.

John Schmidt

Hello all,

Brian Brown invites you to come out to the Trifecta Indoor Training facility (104 – 3916 – 56th Avenue SE) on April 11th between 3:00 and 5:00pm to try out the 2020 lineup of USSSA and Senior bats. See the attached poster.

Gary Paukert
Director
CSMS League Communications

Due to some technical issues with TeamPages and PayPal, you have not been able to register and pay online for the last week or so.

Registrar John Schmidt has beaten the system into submission, and all is now well. This is a good opportunity to remind you to go online and register if you haven’t already, for the 2020 season

The cut-off to register as a Regular member is April 8, 2020 at 10:00 PM. The cut-off to register as Replacement, Alumni and Other members is July 19, 2020 at 10:00 PM.

Gary Paukert
Communications
….on behalf of John Schmidt