2011 marks our 21st year of hosting the Osgoode Family Ball Tournament.
This year the tournament will be on Friday, August 5th and Saturday, August 6th.
City Site Rental & Other City Info: we have to start notifying the city earlier next year because we ran into quite a snag with trying to get our liquor license this year. All ended well, but we will now make a practice of notifying the city 60 days ahead of our event (even though we still know they only need 21 days’ notice!) Each year, we need to notify our contact at the ByLaw department, and they do the rest for us in notifying the Councillor’s office, the City Clerk, the health department, the police department, the fire department and the building department that we are having an outdoor event. We need to have running water and a handwash unit for the staff (which we do). We will be renting the inside washrooms again this year. Job Jar: City Liaison: (Tracey & Marty)
Charities:
Our major charity this year is the former Osgoode Home Support program – it’s now called the Rural Ottawa South Support Services (ROSSS). We are donating the majority of our proceeds to this great service this year. We donate in honour of many of our families who have required the Osgoode Home Support services over the years. .
Their mission is:
“… to build a rural centre of excellence that advocates and champions the rights of seniors, caregivers and persons with physical disabilities.“
Job Jar: ROSSS Liaison: (Cathy Quinn)
We will also be donating to at least two smaller charities this year: the Township of Osgoode Care Centre and the Osgoode Youth Association. The Care Centre will be manning our barbecue Saturday and O-YA will be staffing our kids’ corner on Friday and Saturday this year, each in exchange for a donation. Job jar: Care Centre liaison (Brenden Holmes); O-YA liaison (Marty).
Teams:
Confirmed teams: Blanchfield, Bracken, Brogan, Chambers, Churchill, Clingin, B. Dewan, W. Dewan, Downey, Holmes, Kelly, McEvoy, Moloughney, Quinn, Rowan, Thompson.
Entertainment:
Friday night will be karaoke with the Thompsons (bring your courage and your best singing voice!), and Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4 pm we will have The Two Paddys (Kelly and Maher!) and Saturday evening from 8 to close we will have Brandy n Port (yes, TWO bands again this year!).
Food:
We will be getting the food order from Osgoode Foodland again this year. Phil will liaise with Andy at the store. We will get the barbecue items, pop, water and other miscellaneous items including ICE.
We will have sandwiches for Friday night and over the weekend as well, thanks to the Rowans (Fri) and the Clingins (Sat). We will have the barbecue Saturday from 11 to 7. We are also going to have hot pulled pork sandwiches late Saturday night again this year courtesy of Tony D’Aviero.
Job jar: Foodland liaison (Phil); Sandwiches (Fri – Rowan; Sat – Clingins); Pulled Pork & Buns (Tony D’Aviero).
Other Food:
Chips: We will get from Costco or Walmart.
Coffee & Donuts: We have coffee Friday and Saturday nights, as well as on Saturday morning. Amanda Nixon is picking up a Tim Hortons coffee kit for Saturday morning, so finally those who play the 8 a.m. game will have something to look forward to! She will also get donuts as usual. Job jar: Coffee and Donuts (Amanda Nixon).
Bar:
We will be picking up our beer from the Beer Store in Manotick again this year. We are sticking with our tall boy cans this year as they cooled much faster than bottles. We will be focusing on recycling cans again this year (they are returnable). We will get our liquor from Raymond’s in Osgoode. Job Jar: Beer Store (Marty); Liquor Store (Tracey)
Paul has been in contact with our (new) local beer company rep, for prizes. Anyone else with prizes should contact Paul as well.
Kids’ Corner:
Ozzie’s Corner will be set up near the kids corner again this year, in addition to the regular colouring, face paint, balloons and candy. Job Jar: (Cathy Quinn)
Prizing:
Each team is to bring a prize valued at $25 for the team MVP draw. Each team will win one prize for their MVP. Job Jar: (prize coordination: Ellen).
Extra Revenue:
We will have the regular 50/50 draw as well as some raffle items. Mary will coordinate this for us again this year. We will seek out advertising from Daley Family Funeral Home and Riverside South Mini Storage again this year.
See the job jar page for the complete list of things that we need help with.
If you know someone who can donate anything at all, please get in contact with one of the committee members. If you are able to take care of any of the ‘job jar’ items, please be sure to get in touch with us as well. Much of the job jar was divvied up at the meeting, we appreciate that! Every little bit helps.
HOME RUN DERBY
We will have the Home Run Derby again this year on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. sharp, right before the final games.
Details forthcoming about rules and regs for the home run derby.