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Snag booster club dinner tickets now (or else)

Posted in Booster Club, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on November 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

One of the gift baskets available at this Saturday’s Booster Club dinner and auction. (Photos courtesy Jess Lucero)

Two days to go, with 16 tickets left on the open market.

After that you’ll have to hang out behind the gym and deal with the ticket scalpers.

The return of the Coupeville High School Booster Club’s annual dinner and auction is set for this Saturday, Nov. 11, with doors opening at 4:30 PM.

The event happens at the Whidbey Island Nordic Lodge (63 Jacobs Road) and will be catered by Serendipity Catering and Events.

Dinner begins at 6:00, with a dessert auction set for 6:30, and a live auction hosted by Dale Sherman kicking off at 7:00.

A silent auction and raffles run throughout the evening.

Tickets are $55, or $400 for a table of eight, and can be obtained from Booster Club board members, who can be found at the end of this article.

Auction items continue to pour in, with some recent additions including “beachside drinks and pu pu platter,” hosted by Gordon McMillan and Nancy Conard, a painting party (with wine) for up to 10, and a dinner for six (with wine pairings) cooked in your home by a professional chef.

Those items join already announced ones such as a one-week stay at a Maui condo, a sunset cruise, and a four-day, three-night stay at a townhome in Park City, Utah — home of the Sundance Film Festival.

Wolf cross country cares about your tender tootsies.

There will also be a variety of themed baskets available in the silent auction, including Italian dinner and wine and cheese assortments, as well as Sherman beef, running and Patagonia gear, and local artwork.

All proceeds help the Coupeville Booster Club, which provides major funding for school athletics.

The organization annually awards eight $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors, while also providing a yearly stipend to high school and middle school sports programs.

The club provides roses for Senior Night festivities, varsity letters for Wolf athletes, meal money and goodie bags for road trips, and numerous team improvement items.

These have ranged from literature and DVDs to tarps, weight room equipment, batting cages, upgrades to school athletic fields and facilities, and t-shirts for cancer awareness nights.

The Wall of Fame in the CHS gym, which documents accomplishments from 100+ years of Coupeville athletics?

It wouldn’t exist without the support of the boosters, who provided the biggest financial contribution to its development, and continue to handle updates.

Your bucks help the booster club thrive, and the club helps athletics thrive. The circle of life in Wolf Nation.

 

To buy tickets, call Jess Lucero at (636) 675-1632 or reach out to any of these Booster Club board members:

 

Michelle Armstrong
Garrett Arnold
Dina Guay
Leann Leavitt
Mariah Madsen
Bob Martin
Gordon McMillan
Jon Roberts
Ron Wright

Ashley’s Design can outfit your entire crew.

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Eat, drink, bid, support the Booster Club

Posted in Booster Club, tagged , , , , , on October 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“Ooh, you better run, Skippy! Buy a booster club ticket or get kicked in the shin! Your choice!!” (Jackie Saia photo)

The biggest night in Coupeville athletics is back on the calendar.

The booster club’s annual dinner and auction, which got dinged a bit by the pandemic, is back in full force and going down Saturday, Nov. 11.

Doors open at 4:30 PM at the Whidbey Island Nordic Lodge, which is located at 63 Jacobs Road.

Dinner, provided by Serendipity Catering and Events, begins at 6:00, with a dessert auction set for 6:30.

This year is NOT a crab feed but features a “yummy menu!” according to Booster Club bigwig Jess Lucero.

“If someone wants a vegetarian dish, they should request it at the time they purchase their ticket from a board member,” she added.

A silent auction and raffles will run through the evening, with a live auction at 7:00 emceed by The Velvet Voice of the Prairie himself, Dale Sherman.

Among the items up for grabs include a one-week stay at a Maui condo, a sunset cruise, and a four-day, three-night stay at a townhome in Park City, Utah — home of the Sundance Film Festival.

There will also be a variety of themed baskets, including Italian dinner and wine and cheese assortments, as well as Sherman beef, running and Patagonia gear, and local artwork.

Cost for the night is $55 per person, or $400 for a table of eight.

All proceeds go to help the Coupeville Booster Club, which provides major funding for school athletics.

The organization annually awards eight $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors, while also providing a yearly stipend to high school and middle school sports programs.

The club provides roses for Senior Night festivities, varsity letters for Wolf athletes, meal money and goodie bags for road trips, and numerous team improvement items.

These have ranged from literature and DVDs to tarps, weight room equipment, batting cages, upgrades to school athletic fields and facilities, and t-shirts for cancer awareness nights.

The Wall of Fame in the CHS gym, which documents accomplishments from 100+ years of Coupeville athletics?

It wouldn’t exist without the support of the boosters, who provided the biggest financial contribution to its development, and continue to handle updates.

Your bucks help the booster club thrive, and the club helps athletics thrive. The circle of life in Wolf Nation.

 

To buy tickets, call Jess Lucero at (636) 675-1632 or reach out to any of these Booster Club board members:

 

Michelle Armstrong
Garrett Arnold
Dina Guay
Leann Leavitt
Mariah Madsen
Bob Martin
Gordon McMillan
Jon Roberts
Ron Wright

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One of us, one of us!

Posted in Booster Club, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“Join our club!” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Wanna be a member? Wanna be a member???”

That’s the question at the heart of Bimbo’s Initiation, one of the weirdest cartoons of the 1930’s — and that’s saying a lot — a surreal descent into madness which I, and my nephews, adore.

Well, I adore it, and they endure it. Almost the same thing.

Back here in the real world — where counterfeit Micky Mouse’s aren’t padlocking manhole covers and cultists with candles on their head aren’t dancing while swords with mouths chase people — “Wanna be a member” has a better connotation.

This time out, it’s the Coupeville Booster Club asking the question, and the answer is an easy “yes.”

Or it should be, if you want to help Wolf Nation continue to prosper.

So, first, jump on the chance to sign up for the booster club, by scooting over to:

https://www.memberplanet.com/s/coupevilleboosterclub/membership-2021-2022

 

Then, go watch Bimbo’s Initiation, and thank me (or throw something at me) later:

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Booster Club vital to Wolf success

Posted in Booster Club, tagged , , , , on June 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Backed by the Coupeville Booster Club, Wolf athletes are soaring. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“We need to keep this great organization healthy and vibrant.”

The Coupeville Booster Club has been at the forefront of Wolf athletics in recent years, providing financial support to high school and middle school coaches and athletes.

Particularly with budget cuts looming in the school district, the need for a group which can supplement what Coupeville schools provides for sports is huge.

The booster club, led by a group of parents and grandparents, many of whom are close to finishing their runs with the organization, has given the Wolves true bang for their buck.

The CBC annually awards eight $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors, while also providing a yearly stipend of $1,900 per CHS team and $800 per CMS program.

The club has helped provide roses for Senior Night festivities, varsity letters for Wolf athletes, meal money and goodie bags for road trips, and numerous team improvement items.

These have ranged from literature and DVD’s to tarps, weight room equipment, batting cages, upgrades to school athletic fields and facilities, and t-shirts for cancer awareness nights.

The Wall of Fame in the CHS gym, which documents accomplishments from 100+ years of Coupeville athletics?

It wouldn’t exist without the support of the boosters, who provided the biggest financial contribution to its development, and continue to handle updates.

This spring alone, Wolf baseball, girls’ tennis, and track and field earned new plaques, for success in league, bi-district, tri-district, and state championships competition.

When school is back in session this September, current, former, and future CHS athletes will be able to look up and see Alex Murdy’s state title in the long jump commemorated, as well as a whole stack of new team titles.

That wall honors the past, drives current athletes to strive for their own success, and inspires future generations.

And it wouldn’t exist without the booster club.

Which is why it’s so important to keep the organization chugging along in high gear.

The club set its board for the 2023-2024 school year Thursday, with Gordon McMillan (President), Bob Martin (Vice President), Jon Roberts (Treasurer), and Mariah Madsen (Secretary) winning election.

All four are among the hardest-working volunteers in Wolf Nation and should be hailed for their commitment.

But, looking ahead, all four have announced the coming school year will be their last as leaders of the booster club.

Which is why new people have to step up.

A well-run booster club is too important to the continued success of Wolf athletics.

If others, particularly those whose children will be active athletes for years to come, make a commitment now, the future could be assured.

What does that commitment entail? That’s up to you.

The club would love to find people interested in being future board members, ones looking to follow McMillan, Martin, and Co. the way that group has followed those before them, like Wendi Hilborn, Fawn Gustafson, and Pam Pease.

Express an interest now, and you can shadow current leaders, learning how the sausage is made before you step into the role.

But maybe you don’t have the time or desire to be an inner circle member. Not a problem.

Volunteers of every size, shape, and calendar availability are needed.

Help with one project or all of them.

Be on the frontlines or behind the scenes as the club pulls together its annual auction dinner, which is returning from a pandemic hiatus.

Or be part of the booster club contingent at Mussel Fest, help with the appreciation dinner for Wolf athletes, sell swag at CHS games, or be the go-to person for those Senior Night roses.

You can do a little or a lot, be part of the public face of the organization, or be the invisible but deeply appreciated behind the scenes crew.

Every person, whether in for an hour or in for 24-7-365, helps the booster club soar.

And, when the boosters soar, the athletes soar. A real circle of life type of thing, fueled by all of us.

“I trust that we all recognize that the booster club is a vital part of the school community,” Gordon McMillan said. “To the athletic department, the athletes, and the school district in general.

“It would be a shame to have the CBC shrink, much less go away.”

 

To get involved, contact the booster club today at coupevillebc@gmail.com.

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Be the boost Wolf Nation needs

Posted in Booster Club, tagged , , , , , on June 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Help Coupeville’s Booster Club plant the flag in support of Wolf athletics. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Want to support Wolf athletics in the future?

Then it’s time to get in on the ground floor today.

The Coupeville Booster Club is holding its “year-end” meeting this coming Thursday, June 15, an event which will include electing board officers for the 2023-2024 school year.

Things go down starting at 6:00 PM in the health room inside the entrance to the Coupeville High School gym, and all are welcome.

The club is particularly interested in bringing in parents of high school and middle school athletes, helping build a solid bench of backers.

That way, as one group invariably exits as their offspring depart CHS playing fields, the next will already be in place and rarin’ to go. And on and on.

Thursday’s meeting is ideal for both those already entrenched in the booster club world, and first-timers alike.

President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary are all in play, with board officers serving for a term of one year, and not more than three years.

If you’d like to throw your name into the race, contact the booster club at coupevillebc@gmail.com before the meeting.

All current members in good standing have voting privileges for the election of officers.

In addition to elections, the year-end meeting will help the booster club prep for next school year, setting goals, forming committees, and pre-planning for functions.

The booster club has been invaluable in recent years, providing financial support in areas where the school athletic budget doesn’t.

From purchasing new equipment, to supplying athletic letters, to making sure athletes have snacks on road trips, to maintaining the Wall of Fame in the gym, the club is the motor which drives Wolf Nation.

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