[SkateDC] Growing the Friday Night Skate

Sat Jun 5 13:09:22 PDT 2010

And when you let us know about your bright idea, the response (unless it's a
bad idea) will be "cool, make it happen." This works occasionally, most
recently when Kent made last year's t-shirt happen, Shawn produced a
user-friendly (if not yet realized) model for a new and greatly improved
website, and Tina took her public relations ideas and ran - or skated - with
them. The point being that everyone has a god-given right to put their time
and energy behind their suggestions. 

This goes equally and even more so with complaints. I'm certain that Carl
and George will join me here: if you have a complaint and can recommend a
solution that our fearless leader deems reasonable, it's all yours to
implement. If you have a complaint but don't have a constructive solution,
bring it to Carl's attention only if you think he isn't fully aware of the
situation, and be prepared for his response.

On that topic, Lothar the WAR President-for-life does have other obligations
and just may want to be relieved of his duties. ANY VOLUNTEERS???

As for keeping WAR on the straight and narrow, honestly George, what fun
would that be? Oh, you were talking about the books. I have no idea,
Wachovia has yet to share statements with me despite my sporadic, very
infrequent attempts to get hold of them. The checkbook balance was last
entered in early 2005. I assume that some large deposits were never
recorded, otherwise the '05 t-shirts would have driven us into bankruptcy.
As per a March 2007 statement that I found, we are not in the red. Consider
this the official decennial Treasurer's Report, y'all.

It's all about that skatey love.

-----Original Message-----
From: skatedc-bounces at ligemail.lig.net
[mailto:skatedc-bounces at ligemail.lig.net] On Behalf Of George Marinkovich
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 1:11 AM
To: skatedc at skatedc.org
Subject: [SkateDC] Growing the Friday Night Skate

One of the reasons we're seeing more people come out on the Friday Night
Skates is due to the efforts of Tina Dodge.  Plenty of people have good
ideas about encouraging new people to come out and skate.  I know that
because I can recall many conversations about that very topic over the
years.  But unless those ideas are pursued, they remain just that, ideas.

Not only does Tina have good ideas she implements them.  Case in point is
the favorable coverage we received today from the Washington Post.  That was
Tina's doing.  

Another case in point.  Our meetup group: 
http://www.meetup.com/Washington-Area-Roadskaters/ 
I can remember talking about doing something with meetup for over a year. 
Yada, yada, yada, but nothing ever really happened because I never actually
did anything with it. Tina came along and we now have a group there with 63
members.  Now we get new skaters for our Friday Night Skate from that
source.

So joining Michael I'd like to say kudos to Tina, our WAR publicity office
;-)

And speaking of bringing new people to the Friday Night Skate, I notice
we're getting some roller derby girls coming out.  Thanks to Bill and Deb
for reaching out to that untapped community.

While we're tossing kudos around it seems we've had another successful Skate
DC Weekend and that wouldn't be the case without Carl.  From the hotel
arrangements, to publicity, to the House of Brews, to any number of behind
the scenes things that keep the organization running, it just doesn't happen
without Carl.

Thanks also to our treasurer Susan for keeping us on the straight and
narrow.  We are still on the straight and narrow, aren't we Susan?

Thanks to Danny and Joe for helping ensure there is a next generation of
skaters with the Skate Clinic at Rock Creek Park.

And nearly last but most definitely not least, our wonderful skate leaders
without which the club simply ceases to exist:  Jeffrey, David, Kent, Carl,
Bill, and our newest skate leader, Jackeline.  Also kudos to Cliff for his
Slalom Lessons and Practice sessions on Saturday mornings. 

Finally thanks to all the skaters who come out to skate without whom it
would all be pointless.  Special thanks to those who came out to sweep and
assist with the skates during Skate DC Weekend, you all helped make sure our
guests had a great time.

And thanks to all the unsung heroes I forgot to thank because it's one AM
and I'm about ready to nod off.

It feels very nice to be part of something that's growing rather than
shrinking.

As fun as it is skating with 20 people on a beautiful Friday Night, it's
even more exciting to skate with 40.

There are a lot of good ideas floating around out there waiting for a
champion to turn them into reality.

If you have ideas about how we can continue to grow, want to become more
involved, have criticism of things we aren't doing particularly well, please
let us know.

Happy skating,
George

--- On Fri, 6/4/10, Michael ° <nahgarc at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Michael ° <nahgarc at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [SkateDC] Call Me a Cockeyed Optimist but...
To: skatedc at skatedc.org
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 5:36 PM

Hope to see everyone out there.  Now that all 8 out of my 8 wheels spin, I
might even see some of you over my shoulder tonight.

Nice coverage in The Post too.  Kudos to the WAR publicity office.

--- On Fri, 6/4/10, George Marinkovich <skatewash at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: George Marinkovich <skatewash at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [SkateDC] Call Me a Cockeyed Optimist but...
> To: skatedc at skatedc.org
> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 5:04 PM
> MyeongHee....
> 
> If it were short and simple, then no one would have
> believed I wrote it ;-)
> 
> Yes, the Friday Night Skate is ON.
> 
> --- On Fri, 6/4/10, MyeongHee Elgibali <pleskobali at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> From: MyeongHee Elgibali <pleskobali at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [SkateDC] Call Me a Cockeyed Optimist but...
> To: "George Marinkovich" <skatewash at yahoo.com>,
> skatedc at skatedc.org
> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 4:59 PM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> so that's is yes to skate...very long and complicated ;-)
> 
>  
> 
> see you tonight!
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