2020 Southwest Championships 

MOVED to August 25-30

2020 World Championships

September 17 - October 4

The 2020 LVSSA Hall of Fame Committee is accepting nominations for this year's Class.   Go the Document Collector and review the Hall of Fame qualifications and complete the nomination form for your candidate.  If you have any questions, contact Louise Freiheit at slfreiheit@cox.net.    Deadline is 8/31/2020.  Thanks.

The schedule for June through August 2020 Board Meetings are:

When:      Thursday, June 11 at 11 am

                     Thursday, July 9 at 11 am

                     Thursday, August  13 at 11 am

 Where:   TBD

Agenda:  Will be posted to the  Document Collector and the Forms - Documents 2 section and a message will be sent out via e-mail to all members.

All Members are welcomed!

To Our LVSSA Family,

We await Gov. Sisolak to speak on Tuesday about the next Phase of re-opening Nevada.

Our hope is that sports fields will be included in Phase 2.

With that possibility, Jim and I had a nationwide online conference with 6 other major Softball organizations to come up with a list of recommendations to help assure local agencies that we are prepared to return to playing softball.

We also know that Las Vegas, Clark County and other governmental agencies will add their input.

SSUSA's latest newsletter summerized the agreed upon list and named all organizations that participated.  You can review that document below.

Your Board of Directors has continued to work toward the future of LVSSA. 

There is much uncertainty for our upcoming SWC in August with regards to how many teams may participate which in turn has a direct impact on how LVSSA tournament teams earn by field maintenace and check-in labor.  Check-in is being suspended on the traditional opening day of each session to maintain social distancing.  The amount of venues for field labor assignments may be decreased significally according to SSUSA because the expected number of team sign-ups could be greatly reduced.

The WMC is potentially in the same situation of reduced # of teams attending this fall.

Board member George Kuehnel had LVSSA entered in the Summerlin 4th of July Parade to proudly march with our banner.  The exposure was to let more than 40,000 attendees know about LVSSA and how to join in senior softball.  That activity is going to be virtual and we will not participate this year.

Monday is Memorial Day.  I remember all through my school years that it was originally Decoration Day. To honor the deceased, soldiers would decorate graves of their fallen comrades with flowers, flags and wreaths. Hence Decoration Day.  Although Memorial Day became its official title in the 1880s, the holiday wouldn't legally become Memorial Day until 1967.

Thank you to each and every person that served our country.  Fly the flag and honor the fallen.

Laurie Buchman, President

COVID-19 UPDATE

• Lorenzi Park Permits Canceled - Fields Closed Until Further Notice.   

2020 MEMBERSHIP 

• As of 5/15/2020 - 224 members (259 with honorary included) have registered for this year -  THANKS!     

2020 HALL OF FAME

• Accepting applications now.   See above for details.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR COMMITTEES

• Help the LVSSA by serving.   eMail Rod at rra1956@gmail.com.

2020 LVSSA FLAG DAY TOURNAMENT

• Tentatively set for June 9, 11 and 13.   Contact Rod or "Bear" at rra1956@gmail.com to help out!    

POSTED TO THE "DOCUMENT COLLECTOR" and "FORMS-"DOCUMENTS 2" SECTION and LINK ABOVE:

• FEBRUARY 2020 BOARD MEETING MINUTES
• MARCH 2020 BOARD MEETING MINUTES
• MAY 2020  BOARD MEETING AGENDA

NEXT BOARD MEETING

• Thursday, June 11 at 11:00 am with the location TBD.    Agenda will be posted to the Documents 2 and Document Collector pages.   Contact your field representatives if you have any comments.

Marcia Sobieray - foot injury - recovering at home - wishing her well!

Mike Falkowitz - long time Flag Day Coordinator - shoulder surgery - wishing Mike well and a speedy recovery!  

Jane Smith - hand surgery - wishing her well!

George LaCombe

Roger Keeley - recovering from knee replacement surgery.

"Smurf" Callahan -   now working on therapy 3 times a week on his back.   Hope to be back playing soon.

Get better Marcia, Mike, Jane, Roger, George  and Smurf!

Know of an LVSSA member that is on-the-mend?    Contact Rod Adams or Bob Beyer, our goodwill ambassadors, at rra1956@gmail.com or vegasbear619@gmail.com to send them a goodwill brief.

LVSSA MAY BIRTHDAYS

2              Kathy Smith

5              Pat Lawlis

6              Tania Allen

9              Russ Curtis

10           Eleanor Hawley

11           Duane Meth      

                 Michael Kaczer

                 Steve Iddings

12           Paul Callaghan

16           Barry Koltnow

17           Stan Rittenhouse

19           James H. Brown IV

22           Ray Ellis

27           Bob Fioritto

29           Doug Erlenbusch