Woodstock Badminton Club

The board of directors acclaimed at the AGM on July 27th were as follows: Terry Dunnigan as President, Dana Ward as Vice President and Maintenance Director, Wendy Clements as Treasurer, Don Karges as Secretary, Carol Bossenberry as Membership Director, Ross Struthers as House Director, Bill Thompson as Tournament Director and Mike Hutt as Director At-Large.

Welcome to Bill and Mike to the board. Thanks to Neil Krushel who has departed now from the board.

The AGM will be held on Tuesday July 28 ^t.h.

The meeting commences at 7 PM.   The meeting will be held in the court area of the club to allow for social distancing. We are recommending that attendees wear a mask to this event. Please bring your court shoes in order to protect our courts.

Commencing on Sunday July 26th the club will return to the regular summer schedule with doubles play allowed.  This means reservations are no longer required.

The recent announcement by the Provincial government to move our area to “Phase 3” has relaxed a number of restrictions that allows us to return to normal scheduling.

COVID-19 has not disappeared so we still need to practice social distancing and continue with sanitation processes to keep ourselves safe.

WBC in consultation with Badminton Ontario has decided that the following restrictions will remain in place at the club.

• Members only – no guests or non members may play.
• Change room and showers will remain closed
• The main floor washroom should only be used in an emergency.  Surfaces touched must be sanitized after use.

Members and parents must respect social distancing in the lounge

The court schedule has been updated. The changes s are based on how the club facility  has been used over the past few weeks and feedback that we have received from members.  Of course government and health direction,   guide all of our decisions.

The changes that we are implementing are based on the following:

• Many members remain cautious about returning to inside sport play.   Therefore very few “open play” reservations have taken place.  When they did, there was often only one person reserving for one of the 8 time slots.  In response, we have reduced the number of open play time slots.  We are hoping that with fewer open play options,  the likelihood of multiple members reserving to play might improve.
• We have increased court reservations to 2 hours.
• Badminton players are utilizing the courts much more than Pickleball players.  We assume that this is due to two factors.  The first is that many of our members are using the public out door Pickleball facility and secondly that Pickleball singles play is not for everyone. 

The new schedule is posted below and on the WBC web site.

In response to member requests, we are implementing one other change.

Many court reservation time slots are not booked.  Badminton players have asked if they can utilize Pickleball time slots when there are no reservations for that time slot.   In the spirit of utilizing the club as much as possible, we will permit a badminton player to book a Pickleball time slot.  However, if a Pickleball player shows up for that time slot (last minute reservation) , badminton play must stop in favour of Pickleball.  Of course the reverse is true for Pickleball players wanting to reserve a badminton court time slots.  Therefore it is important that you reserve ahead.