Hi Jacyees,

Just wanted to send a shout out to everyone about the recent softball
tournament.

As many of you know, after last years rain soaked Venetian Fest, the club
made a strong push to diversify our fundraising.

What a year it has been!

Ice Fishing Derby in February.
Big Ticket Bingo in April
And now the Elkhorn Softball Tournament.

All events garnered great attention, large amounts of team work, and lots of
success.

All of this has been built upon the long history of Venetian Festival.

(More to come on Venetian Fest! Fatts, Blossom, JW and all the Jaycees
really knocked this year out of the park!)

We have began creating a history.....scratch that a legacy of additional
events that will continue to solidify and grow our club!

I hope to look back 10 years from now as a rooster and enjoy how all these
events have matured from their INFANCY in 2008.

Recently the Lake Geneva Jaycees saw to the success of returning a long
standing Elkhorn Jaycee Softball Tourney!

The list of contributors is long...but stay a tuned as each of these
individuals deserve special recognition!

First off the Winners:

12 teams registered and played Saturday and Sunday till the best of the best
came out on top!

Venom-1st Place
Mad Dash-2nd Place
Jimmy Z's-3rd Pace

The coveted Beer Drinking Trophy:   Breber Music!

A big congrats to Matt of Shockers for winning the home run derby with 7 out
of 10 pitches being crushed over the fence!

Now for the Jaycees, their families, vendors, and special contributors!

Jayson DeLange and Jeremy Kinsey!   Wow, what a job well done!

Congratulations on taking an event with a long and successful history, and
bringing it back!

First things first....how, who, what when, where......

Insurance
Permits
Vendors
Man Power
Umpires
Concessions
Fencing
National Guard
Beat the Heat
Advertising, Shopper, LG Regional, Fliers, etc
Recruiting Teams
ANSWERing Broaden's pain the ass and never ending list of questions!

You guys were all over the details.   Great job on a first year event!  

I look forward to seeing this event grow and develop into the multi team
monster you want!

Chuck Magowan........Thanks for all your help....sheeeerishly!
How can this guy be in so many places at once, offer all the help he does,
and still catch a buzz!
He deserves credit for transporting the bar, helping build the bar, the
fence puller/pounder, and all the help he gave Jeremy in that hot Venetian
trailer!!!  

Jer had the pleasure of working with Chuck at his first Venetian last year.

Jer said,   "this guy does not know when to stop helping!!!"

Stelzer for the creating man power list, filling it up w Jaycees and jumping
in to help on a variety of detail heavy projects.

Black Dan for all that early morning banker stuff!!!   And the money
counting!   Yes Black Dan can count!

Mark Erickson for pouring beer!

Turtle for his umpping and not taking anyone's shit.   He was awesome.....!

Joe Pacholczak for his umpping and additional help!

Pedro for the umpping!!!

Craig Evans for compiling the bracket boards and making a monster judgment
call on the spot!

Groove Factor (The Band) for a solid show!

Luke Spiegelhoff for showing up to drink beer and change the bathroom
garbage!

DeLange and Kinsey's wives for their help and support on AND OFF the field!

Special note of help to the Jayson and Amy DeLange family for raising
children who are well mannered and willing to lend a hand!
They did a great job of keeping the grounds clean and looking professional!

CJW for getting the booze trailer down there!

The Cub Scouts for great food and refreshments.

Of course, Jason Eck for his great suggestion about making every 15th
pitcher FREE!!!   We sold a lot of extra pitchers because of that!   LOL!

Tom G for bringing down his Beat the Heat car!

The National Guard for bringing doing the Militaries version of Pimp my
RIDE!!!  
They even made it work on short notice after the National Guard pulled
several vehicles!

All our sponsors, especially Pick n' Save and Next Door Pub!

Chad Bittner for his bartenders license and keg tapping expertise.

Jason Christensen for helping with the band and getting several of our
friends down there to drink in a moments notice!

Gentlemen, GREAT job by all who worked the weekend and planned in advance
for the success of this event!

You all have much to proud of!  

As we continue to grow our chapter, we will grow our giving, and in growing
our giving we increase the impact we have on our communities!

Thanks for bring this event to our chapter!

Cheers,

President Broaden

PS   Above is a list of compliments as described by the Co-Chairs, members,
and participants!