What is expected of Chippewa Figure Skating Club Families?
The Chippewa Figure Skating Club is run exclusively by volunteers. We rely on all Club families to help provide the services we offer to our skating members. The Club subsidizes coaching fees and other Club expenses as well as providing scholarships to skating families requesting financial help. Figure Skating Club families are asked to participate in the following:
The Chippewa Figure Skating Club provides Bingo to the public at the Eagles Club on Wednesday nights. Each family is required to work two Bingo nights and bring 2 pans of bars or baked goods to each Bingo night. Families bring food and work the same night. This is a very good fundraiser for the figure skating program. Sign up sheets are posted on the Figure Skating bulletin board or you can call Board member, Willy Johnson 715/271-3423. If you are scheduled to work Bingo and you are unable to work, it is your responsibility to find a substitute and call Willy to tell him the name of your substitute.
NOTE: Anyone working at Bingo cannot play Bingo or offer to watch cards for individuals playing Bingo. Also, if you are calling back numbers for a winning Bingo, please do not call back numbers for any family members or individuals that you know if this can be avoided. Any children
that accompany workers to Bingo may play only with a parent or legal guardian present.
v If your child is skating in the Spring Ice Show, each family must participate in the Spring Ice Show by volunteering for pre-show committees and working at one show performance. Our Spring Ice Show is scheduled for March 26&27, 2011. This is MANDATORY since a lot of work needs to be done for our ice show to be a success.
We realize everyone is busy but volunteering for Club activities and fundraisers helps keep our costs down and adds to your general knowledge and appreciation of figure skating.
You will receive periodically the Chippewa Figure Skating Club newsletter “The Cutting Edge” which includes information about meeting agendas, Chippewa Figure Skating Club events, parent information, and general skating news. During the off-season (May-September), these newsletters will be mailed. During the skating season
(October-April), each member’s family will have a mail file in the “club file cabinet” available in the ice arena concession area at every Chippewa Figure Skating Club practice.
PLEASE CHECK YOUR MAIL FOLDERS EVERY TIME YOU ARE AT THE RINK so you do not miss any important information! This is your responsibility and keeps our mailing costs to a minimum.
Work Assessment (Senior, Junior, and Skate With Us Level)
Work assessment charges are paid per family as part of your registration to the Chippewa Youth Hockey Association. This money can be earned back by the parents once they have completed 50 hours (for Senior and Junior Club) or 5 hours (SWU) of volunteer work such as painting, work on the ice, carpentry work, concession stand (other than figure skating nights), Ice Bowl, and summer events such as Country Fest and Rock Fests. The Hockey Association work requirement is separate from and in addition to the Chippewa Figure Skating Club Bingo work requirements.
Concession stand help is needed on volunteer basis whenever it is open during club practice. Concession work may also count as Chippewa Youth Hockey Association assessment at certain times. Contact CYHA President, Bob Normand, if you are interested in concession stand work counting towards you hockey assessment.
Fundraisers
The Hockey Association has mandatory and non-mandatory fundraisers throughout the season. As a member of the Hockey Association you are required to participate to keep the cost of the registration and rink upkeep down.
Rink Clean-Up (North and South Rinks)
It is mandatory for each group skating at the Chippewa Ice Arena to help keep the arena looking neat and clean. Everyone’s help is needed for this, so the Hockey Association has scheduled four weeks per year for all three skating programs; two weeks at the beginning of the season and two weeks at the end.
A notice will be posted on the Figure Skating Bulletin Board of the scheduled weeks for Club members to clean. Several families will clean each night during our given week. If you cannot make the night you are assigned, you are responsible for getting someone to switch with you or to clean in your place.
Cleaning duties are posted on the Hockey bulletin board that indicates what needs to be cleaned for each night of the week.
Cleaning supplies are located in the janitorial closet across the hall from locker rooms A and B.
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!