LWCC President's Comments

The annual General Meeting of the Linden Woods Community Centre was held on March 28, 2010.  The purpose of the meeting was to receive and accept various reports, to fill vacancies on the board and to transact such other business as might properly had come before the meeting.  Unfortunately attendance at the meeting was poor and the business  was limited to receiving of reports only.

 

In an attempt to make as many people as possible aware of what is happening at the community center, following is an abstract from various programming reports.

 

Mini Soccer, Youth Soccer, Basketball and Hockey remain popular with the young and had high participation rate. Mini soccer had the most participants with 397 children ages 4 to 8 years playing mini soccer.  Indoors and outdoors youth soccer combined attracted players in similar numbers Registration for basketball was 154 and 146 players for spring and fall season respectively. Due to lack of on site facilities, these programs were run off site. and in some cases outside of our own community.  

 

The volunteer board members with assistance from many others administer, manage and organize these programs.

 

Other programs aimed at youth and children included Tennis, Karate, Kickboxing, TaeKwonDo and Mad Science Camp.  A new program called Musikgarten for preschoolers was started during the year.  

 

Adult Programming included Aerobics, Aerobics Boot Camp, Yoga, Dance, Karate and Kickboxing. Two new programs, Pilate and Kung Fu were introduced during the year. 

 

These programs are run at the community center and are conducted by individual leaders in conjunction with the community centre.  

 

Bridge Club and Dining Out group for seniors were active as in the past. Hockey practices and pleasure skating became possible again after closure of rinks the previous year due to water pipe break.  Despite an unusually wet summer and some drainage issues, the Spray Park was busy.

 

Despite lack of facilities, it is fair to say that the community center was busy.  Thank you to the community in general and to the board members and other volunteers in particular who made this all happen.

 

As always if you would like to volunteer or have any comments or suggestions about programs or any other matter related to the community centre, please contact me at 489-1780.

 

Nazir Ahmad

LWCC President