AUGUST, 2010 NEWS

“SCMFA families – Welcome to the 2010 Minor Football Season”  and our new website.

Any further registration inquiries should be made to the Atom Registrar Chris Clow or the PeeWee Registrar Dawn Lemke.  Thank you for your interest in Minor Football. 

2010 league schedule has been published for the first games of the regular season.  Please check on www.cdmfa.com for updates  

 

The Grey Cup is coming to Edmonton in November 2010 and as part of the CDMFA our Atom players have been invited to participate in a 6:6 Flag Football mini-tournament on the outdoor field in Huddletown.  It is a very exciting opportunity with potential for local and/or national news coverage.  Interested players MUST be available Wednesday November 24 – Sunday November 28th.  Times to be determined (however they will be between 4:30 pm – 8 pm during the week).  If your Atom age player is interested in participating please send Tracy Aiello an email.   Names will be accepted until October 15, 2010.  A draw will take place and twelve (12) atom boys will be invited to participate in this mini-flag football tournament.  Additional information will be shared as it becomes available.

The SCMFA AGM will be held on Wednesday October 20, 2010 at 7 pm (room to be confirmed).  Please review this link to the SCMFA position descriptions and consider sitting on the SCMFA Executive for the 2011 year.  The new Executive will attend one hand-over meeting in November 2010 and then attend monthly meetings beginning in January 2011.  There is no SCMFA meeting in December 2010.  We are privileged to have some wonderful people who have committed to another year on the Executive and others who regrettably must leave us with their players moving up to the Bantam level.  All positions are considered open (as we are an elected committee) and if you are interested we encourage you to come out.  Teams are expected to send 7 representatives / team to the meeting.  Please feel free to contact any of the sitting Executive for further information about job duties or expectations. 

SCMFA has passed a bylaw that requires a Certified Trainer (Sports Medicine Council of Alberta trained in Athletic First Aid and Taping and Strapping) to be on field for all games along with an SCMFA first aid kit and ice.  A certified First Aider and an SCMFA first aid kit and ice must be on field for all team practices. If your team does not have a Certified Trainer available please contact Bev Schakel to discuss the availability of trainers who can help out (for a fee).

The concession schedule will be out as soon as the CDMFA league schedule is available.  Please note that a team may have very short notice.  Cheri Egyed (Concession Director) does her best in trying to get this information out as soon as possible. We appreciate the time and effort put in to volunteering to run concession and each team will receive an honorarium for their participation”.  If you have any suggestions for concession please direct them to Cheri.

Many thanks to Matt Snaterse, Geoff Bekavac, Jordyn Halbersma, Dave D’haesse, Rob Bulmer, Gerald Chung, Jordan Olexan, Dwayne Aasberg, Rob Bishop and Sharon Airey  who have agreed to be referees at the Atom level.  It is the responsibility of each Atom team to supply one line referee for each of their Atom games in order for the game to be played. CDMFA will provide a head referee for Atom games.  Referees must take the course on their own time. SCMFA reimburses for the cost of the course and uniform.  A referee is provided with an honorarium each game to help cover their travel cost and time and this dollar value is set by CDMFA.  Teams must pay this fee to their referee on game day.      Please remember to thank your referee for representing you on the field.  More information on becoming a referee is available on the Edmonton Officials website www.efoa.ca.

 

SCMFA is looking for (preferably) the donation of an old “site construction office trailer” or similar.  We have a goal of moving out of our existing Equipment Room at the Shell Arena by December 2011 and hope to renovate and be in new location by that time.   If you know of a company for us to approach or have a trailer to donate please contact Tracy at your earliest convenience.  We must be able to supply heat to it and it has to be a minimum of 800 sq. feet.  Many thanks to our families for using your resources to help us out with this project….

 

We would like to extend our thanks to our webmaster Gerald Chung for his work creating us an exciting new website.  We believe that this website reflects our Association and the ever changing technology available to us.   If you have any suggestions or thoughts on how to add to or improve our pages please email Tracy Aiello.