Saline Rowing Family,

Practice Update:
Practice for the week of November 2 will be Monday - Thursday. This will be the last week of fall practice until after Thanksgiving when we move to the erg room in the Liberty School.

Fall Team Banquet:
The team will be having a fall banquet on Wednesday, November 18 from 7-8:30 in the Saline High School Commons. This will be a time to reflect back on the fall season and celebrate our successes. The team will provide refreshments. If you have a male rower, we ask that you bring a small appetizer to pass. If you have a female rower, we ask that you bring a small dessert to pass.

Rowing Club Board Elections:
I have only received a few nominations for the upcoming board elections. The board positions are:

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Equipment Manager
Fundraising Chair
Member-at-Large
Alumni Chair

You are welcome and encouraged to nominate yourself no later than Friday November 6. Please send your nominations to Chris Frick at (christopherdfrick@gmail.com). Beginning Monday, November 9, we will open up voting to the club and the new board will be announced at the Fall Team Banquet.

Spring Break Trip:
Once again, the trip is planned for the week of April 4-8. If you did not sign up but are interested, please send an email to Chris Frick and pay your deposit on the team PaySchools link below no later than November 10:

https://www.payschools.com/cat.asp?id=C740BA23A6504DACBD07791491B63467

Saline Rowing Text Messaging:
Saline Rowing has a text distribution service! Currently, there are about 20 people registered. It’s optional but can be handy for quick messages.

It works similar to our email distribution. You text to the club’s number (more on that in a moment) and everyone on the distribution list receives the text. For information on how to join the text distribution service go to:

http://salinerowing.org/2015/10/11/the-great-sms-experiment-begins/

Once on the list, you can text to the following number

1-734-887-6769

The first word of the text message (body, not subject) must be All. The service strips the All from your message. If you don’t start your message with All, it will only go to the list’s administrator (Mike Ward).

An Alumni Needs Our Help:
Katie Stimac, a Saline Rowing Alumni and past Alumni Board Member was recently diagnosed with leukemia. This Friday, November 6, there will be a Marrow Donor Registry Drive at the Saline Middle School (see below for additional details). Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Alumni Needs Our Help

Have a great week and GO HORNETS!

Chris Frick