setup – Osgoode Family Ball Tournament

DIFD Photos

A few of the Executive Committee members were lucky enough to be attend the DIFD/The Royal Customer-Led Event Appreciation evening recently. They honoured more than 125 local events that have donated money to DIFD/The Royal over the last 18 months.

It was nice to share the evening with everyone, and it was even better to hear that in total, there were more than 185,000 people made aware of mental illness through the combined attendance of the events, and that our $8000 donation was a part of their total donations of $1,075,000 in that time span. Pretty remarkable.

Oh yes, and we got to get our picture taken with Alfie. 🙂

Here are the photos they sent us from that evening:

Now how did this one get in there? LOL (okay I’m sorry I cropped the boys out of it … just be grateful I didn’t post the one I also cropped Kim out of) haha ~ Tracey

2012

This year (2012) we are hosting our 22nd annual Osgoode Family Ball Tournament.

This year the tournament will be on Friday, August 10th and Saturday, August 11th.

City Site Rental & Other City Info: we have notified the city about our site plan. Hopefully it will all go better this year!

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 D.I.F.D. (Do It For Daron) Program. We are donating the majority of our proceeds to this great program. We donate in honour of many of our families who have been touched by teen depression and even suicide, with the hope that we can become more aware and offer those in need help when they need it.

Their story:

“D.I.F.D. is a youth-driven initiative focused on raising awareness and inspiring conversations about youth mental health. Created by friends and family of Daron Richardson who lost her life to suicide at the young age of 14, D.I.F.D. is inspired by hope for a future where young people will reach out for help without fear or shame. D.I.F.D. supports programs and initiatives aimed at transforming youth mental health.“

Job Jar: DIFD Liaison: (Tracey D’Aviero)

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 the new and improved 4 piece 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.

2011 – our 21st year

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)

Teams:

Confirmed teams: Blanchfield, Bracken, Brogan, Chambers, Churchill, Clingin, B. Dewan, W. Dewan, Downey, Holmes, Kelly, McEvoy, Moloughney, Quinn, Rowan, Thompson.

Entertainment:

Food:

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.

Bar:

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:

See the job jar page for the complete list of things that we need help with.

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.

Bring on our 20th anniversary!

Schedule’s ready! Click here to download it: http://www.familyballtournament.com/2010Schedule.xls

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2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the Osgoode Family Ball Tournament.

This year the tournament will be on Friday, August 6th and Saturday, August 7th.

We had our first planning meeting on June 25 and here are the details thus far:

City Site Rental & Other City Info: will only be $395 this year plus liability insurance. Balance is due July 26. Each year, we need to notify 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. We will be renting the inside washrooms again this year. Job Jar: City Liaison: (Tracey & Marty)

Charities:

Our major charity this year is the Winchester District Memorial Hospital Foundation. We are donating the majority of our proceeds to the hospital foundation this year. Normally we donate in honour of a specific family, but for this year we know that the Winchester Hospital has touched the lives of many, if not all, of our team families, and we are donating in honour of all of us.

Their motto is:

“The Friendship of Those we Serve is the Foundation of our Success!”

Job Jar: WDMH Foundation Liaison: (Debbie and Kim Churchill)

Teams:

Confirmed teams: Blanchfield, Bracken, Brogan, Brophy, Chambers, Churchill, Clingin, B. Dewan, W. Dewan, Downey, Holmes, Kelly, McEvoy, Quinn, Rowan, Thompson. (Moloughney family is out for this year)

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 this year!). Looking forward to having everyone present for our 20th anniversary party!

Food:

We will be getting the food order from Osgoode Foodland again this year. Phil will be in touch 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 Brackens (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 – Bracken; Sat – Clingins); Pulled Pork & Buns (Tony D’Aviero).

Other Food:

Christine will try to get the chips and pop donated from the Humpty Dumpty rep and the Coca Cola rep in Metcalfe, as she did last year.

Coffee & Donuts: We have coffee Friday and Saturday nights, as well as on Saturday morning. Sharron Dewan 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! Tooti will be bringing us our annual fix of Timmys donuts Saturday morning as well. Job jar: Coffee (Sharron Dewan); Tim Hortons Donuts (Tooti).

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 the Manotick Liquor Store as well. Job Jar: Beer Store (Marty); Liquor Store (Tracey)

Paul has been in contact with Martin Ballard, our local beer company rep, for prizes. Anyone else with prizes should contact Paul as well. Brenda Brogan will help Paul acquire prizes from the beer rep.

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 $20-$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 may have a silent auction this year, as well as a new fundraising item that is to be announced once details are worked out. 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 last 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 7:15 p.m. sharp, right before the final games.

Details forthcoming about rules and regs for the home run derby.

ALUMNI GAME

We will also be hosting an alumni game for our 20th anniversary. It will take place Saturday afternoon.

Details forthcoming about the alumni game.

Year 19 – Are You Ready?

Year 19.

It hardly seems possible, but we are about to host The Family Ball Tournament for the 19th time.

The dates are Friday, August 7 and Saturday August 8th this year.

We had our first planning meeting on June 23 and here are the details thus far:

City Site Rental & Other City Info: will be $1214 this year including liability insurance. Balance is due July 26. Each year, we need to notify 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. We will be renting the inside washrooms again this year. Job Jar: City Liaison: (Tracey & Marty)

Charities:

Our major charity this year is the Elizabeth Bruyere Hospital Foundation. We are donating the majority of our proceeds to this wonderful organization this year, in memory of Eleanor Thompson.

Their mission statement:

Bruyère Foundation inspires the community to make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable in our society through philanthropy and the stewardship of funds, guided by the mission and values of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa and by the core values of justice, respect, compassion, community spirit and learning.

We are proud to be working with the Foundation this year for an organization that is so close to the hearts of two of our Executive Committee members, Vince and Mick Thompson, and their family. Job Jar: Bruyere Liaison: (Tracey)

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 Saturday this year, each in exchange for a donation. Job jar: Care Centre liaison (Sharron Dewan); 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. (Brophy family is out for this year … the Holmes family was one of the original families in the Family Ball Tournament … welcome back, almost a generation later!)

Entertainment:

Friday night will be karaoke with the Thompsons (bring your courage and your best singing voice!), and Saturday night we have The Two Paddys (Kelly and Maher!) coming out to sing the best Celtic tunes so we can dance the night away.

Food:

We will be getting the food order from Osgoode Foodland again this year. We will get the order to Andy as soon as possible. We will get the barbecue items, pop, water and other miscellaneous items.

We will have sandwiches for Friday night and over the weekend as well. We will have the barbecue Saturday from 11 to 7. We are also going to have hot pulled pork sandwiches late Saturday night, for those who fancy a snack after the band starts to play. We have previously had the barbecue meat donated, but we will need to purchase it this year (unless someone has a contact they can get donations from).

Job jar: Foodland liaison (Phil); Sandwiches (Fri – Bracken; Sat – open); Pulled Pork & Buns (Tony D’Aviero).

Other Food:

Christine will try to get the chips and pop donated from the Humpty Dumpty rep and the Coca Cola rep in Metcalfe, as she did last year.

Bar:

This year we are going back to buying our beer from the Beer Store in Manotick – Marty will work with Mike Brophy to get a contact there so when we pick up the beer it is cold. We are also switching to tall boy cans for faster cooling and better cost (we will be using the troughs and ice again this year for beer). We will be getting some recycle bins to place around the beer tent so that we can recover the returnable cans. We will get our liquor from the Manotick Liquor Store as well. Job Jar: Beer Store (Marty); Liquor Store (Tracey)

Paul has been in contact with Martin Ballard, our local beer company rep, for prizes. Anyone else with prizes should contact Paul as well.

Kids’ Corner:

Look for something special in the kids’ corner this year, in addition to the regular colouring, face paint, balloons and candy.

Prizing:

Each team is to bring a prize valued at $20-$25 for the team MVP draw. Each team will win one prize for their MVP. Job Jar: (prize coordination: Ellen).

Extra Revenue:

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. We will be assigning each job to a family soon enough (and many more little jobs along the way), so don’t be afraid to speak up if there is something you want to help with.

HOME RUN DERBY

We are having a new fundraising and fun idea this year coordinated by Christine Rowan.

We will host a Home Run Derby on Saturday night at 7:15 p.m. sharp, right before the final games.

There will be 20 spots available to enter – the entry fee is $10. There is one spot available for each team to enter someone in the derby, plus four extra spots. If a family does not want to enter someone, then their spot will be up for grabs. We will take sign ups until Saturday at 4 p.m. If there are more registrants than open spots, we will draw for the ‘non-family’ spots.

Each home run derby contestant will get 5 pitches from their own pitcher. The winner will be determined by number of home run hits, and if there is a tie, the winner will be the one who hit the farthest. The winner of the derby will get their name on a new trophy, and will get bragging rights for the year.

The fine print: We have allowed only a half hour for the home run derby, so it will have to begin promptly at 7:15 and anyone who is involved will need to be on time or they will forfeit their spot. Fee must be paid prior to 7 p.m. There will be no warmup pitches on the field, so be sure to practice with your pitcher before the derby.

Looking forward to an exciting new event!

Thanks … we’ll be in touch soon!

Tournament Planning

We have had our second meeting with the team reps:

Here are the details for this year’s tournament:

City Site Rental
Contract verified, diamonds booked, beer garden liability insurance purchased payment of $810 – payment made July 24th.
Ball Diamond Markings – Paul will get the bags and chalk again this year.
Chairs & Tables – Sean Blanchfield will bring his chairs and tables. People should bring lawnchairs in case we need extra seating.
Setup & Teardown – Friday setup families: the committee families.
Sunday teardown families: to be determined over the weekend.

Charity – Major
Make A Wish Foundation of Eastern Ontario
suggested by the Downey family.
They have approved liquor license and we have a link to their information on our website (below).

Charities – Minor
Osgoode Township Care Centre doing BBQ again – Phil is in contact – the barbecue will be run from noon till 7 p.m. We are looking into having another barbecue on site (or keeping theirs) to provide longer food service hours, as evening barbecue can be very busy & profitable.
Kids Corner by O-YA – Tracey is in contact with O-YA

Teams
Confirmed: Blanchfield, Bracken, Brogan, Brophy, Chambers, Churchill, Clingin/Seabrook, Dewan, Downey, Kelly, McEvoy, Moloughney, Quinn, Rowan, Thompson (15). Please note that this year, we have capped our registration at 15 teams in order to host a game between our charity – Make A Wish Foundation – and the Kelly team. The game will take place at 2:30 p.m. Saturday (see schedule posted above) after a brief ceremony and speech by Executive Director Mike Wlotzki.
Roster & Registration Fee Collection: please try to have your registration fees in by your first game – fees are $150 again this year.

Entertainment
Karaoke Friday night with Angie Thompson
Brandy n Port Saturday night
Marty will be getting the stage as usual.

Family Tree Info
Mary Quinn put together some amazing family tree info for us last year. We will continue to post this info this year.

Food
Sandwiches – Brackens are making sandwiches for Friday night. The Chambers and the Clingin/Seabrooks will be making sandwiches for Saturday night. Health department is cool with our setup so that’s good!
BBQ – same as always, we will buy our meat from Osgoode Foodland. The rest of the grocery items will be purchased from Foodland and Robinsons.
Chips etc. – Christine Rowan will get these from chip rep in Metcalfe. She is also looking at getting some Coca Cola products donated if possible. Yay!
Coffee & donuts – Tooti Flood will contact Tim Hortons for a donation of product. Tracey will take care of coffee in the morning.

Bar
Liquor license applied for by Marty Kelly.
Tracey will place order with Mike Raymond. We will go with Canadian, Coors Light, red & white wine, Rye, Rum, Vodka, and Bacardi coolers (whatever is popular – two choices).
Paul will approach Travis Vandentillaart, the Molson rep for cups and some prizing.
If you know anyone that can donate something please ask them – we would like to give prizes to all four finalists as usual.
Troughs – Marty & Paul are getting 2 or 3 – if anyone else has access, please let us know.
Beer Runs – we will schedule 2 beer runs on Saturday – we will need families with trucks to commit to these. Clingins and Rowans have each committed to one.
Ice – we always need ice – if anyone has a contact for ice that would be helpful. Phil will speak with Andy at the store. Chelsea will speak with Scott at the Red Dot. Tracey will get some cubes from Tony at Kelly’s Landing.

Liability Insurance
We are buying from the city again this year. We have purchased only Beer Garden Liability insurance this year, for a total cost of $160.

Kids Area
O-Ya will be manning this for us on Friday night for a few hours and Saturday all day.
Candy: Cathy will pick up 20 tubs of candy from Walmart.
Jelly Bean Draw: Clingins will do this again.
Advertising: Riverside South Mini Storage and Daley Family Funeral Home are generously donating funds this year again. We are not actively seeking advertisers but if anyone is interested we’ll always be happy to set it up!

Scheduling
Paul has done a great job of scheduling again this year! The schedule will show game times as well as umping & scorekeeping duties and bar duties.
Please note that if you are scheduled for umping/scorekeeping that you need THREE (3) family members – two for the field and one to score. If you are scheduled for bar duty, you need FOUR (4) family members (two for tickets, two for service), and all must be of legal age. Please be on time for scheduled shifts, as they work around game times – and the families that you are taking over for may have a game to get to.

Prizing
Prize Distribution:
Each family will bring team MVP prizes again, value $20-$25. Every team also takes home an MVP prize.

Extra Revenue
50/50 draw – Mary will handle this for us this year.
Other raffle items?? any ideas or contacts? see above.

Other Stuff
Media Notification – Tracey has done.
City Dept. notification – Tracey has done.
Handwash Unit – Marty will bring same unit as last year.
Washrooms – We will be renting the washrooms inside the building for a few hours on Saturday (4 till 9). Marty is setting this up. The fee is approximately $25/hr, which will work out to the same amount as the portapotties last year, but we will have access to all washrooms which is money better spent. We will have the outside washrooms as well.

We’re Starting Up Again!

Well it’s that time of year and we are starting to organize the Family Ball Tournament again.

Last year was another great tournament, with $5500 being donated to charity!

We are pleased to announce that this year’s charity will be the Make A Wish Foundation of Eastern Ontario.

About our Charity:

*from their website:
Make-A-Wish Eastern Ontario got started with a little girl’s wish for a trip to Walt Disney World® Resort in 1997. Maureen MacArthur organized a group of volunteers to form a board and the new chapter was officially incorporated and granted charitable status on 1 January 1999.

The Eastern Ontario chapter includes a staff of three and covers a territory that includes Belleville, Kingston, Brockville, Cornwall, Hawkesbury, Ottawa and everything in between. Our area includes the counties of Addington; Carleton; Dundas; Frontenac; Glengarry; Grenville; Hastings; Lanark; Leeds; Lennox; Prescott; Renfrew; Russell; Stormont.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation is celebrating 25 years of creating hope and happiness for children with life-threatening illnesses across Canada. They work with families of children ages three to seventeen, to help fulfill their special wishes at a most difficult time in their lives.

If you know a family who has wants to be a Wish family, or has been one, please let us know! Our funds will go directly to help that family!

Visit their website for more information.

Our Tournament Dates:
This year the tournament will be held on Friday, August 8th and Saturday, August 9th. Same place, Osgoode Community Centre. This will be our 18th tournament! We can hardly believe it.