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Congratulations to:
Metros' 2007 Missouri State Champions:
Michael Sit
Nathaniel Schuyler
Scott Schuyler
Fran Whalen
and to Elizabeth Whalen, Mikael Whalen, Jeff Barbour & Chris Owen for skating your best
at the meet!!!!
And a big thanks to Russ Owen for helping run the meet!
Metros' 2007 Missouri State Champions:
Michael Sit
Nathaniel Schuyler
Scott Schuyler
Fran Whalen
and to Elizabeth Whalen, Mikael Whalen, Jeff Barbour & Chris Owen for skating your best
at the meet!!!!
And a big thanks to Russ Owen for helping run the meet!
| GO MATT GO!!! Plummer represents US!Matt Plummer continues his rise in long track speed skating. Matt represented the United States at the 2007 World Junior Long Track Championships in Innsbruck Austria. Matt placed 10th in the 500m race with a time of 37.43. He skated in the 1500m and 3000m, where he finished 24th & 47th. In the 3200m teampursuit race, the US team finished 8th with a time of 4:14.92. Go to the links page for the ISU website to see the complete results of Matt's championship effort. In January, Matt won three events at 2007 US Junior Long Track Championships. Actually, he didn't just win, he dominated. He won 3 of the 4 distances: 500M 1st 37.8 winning by .5 seconds 1000M 1st 2:01.42 winning by .35s 3000M 3rd 4:22.49 behind by .3s 5000M 1st 7:34.03 winning by 9.5s See the news page for more on Matt Plummer & Patrick Meek. |
| 2007 Live on the Levee - A Thanks From Russ Owen! |
It's over!!! But just wait until next year!!!!
First, let me thank each of you for your unselfish help in making the two days/evenings at LOL another fun and
worthwhile fund raiser. The two young men that we coordinate with, Eddie Pohrer and David Hanon, continue to
praise and thank us for the great job we do. Granted, they may tell all their vendors the same thing but I'm
taking it on face value that they are sincere when they tell me that the Metro booth is by far the best to work with
and do an outstanding job of setting up, selling and managing the operation over the two days of LOL. They
value our enthusiasm, organization and cooperation. It simply makes their job that much easier.
Now for the results. Bottom line, we did $17,738 total sales for the two days. Our projected cut will be
something just less than $3,500 with the deduction for open cases at the end and inventory adjustments.
Friday was a slow night and a sparse crowd. It rained twice, the band was marginal and there was a Cardinal
ball game. We only sold $7,582 in product. The Arch steps were never close to half full.
Saturday was better but not by much. It was an urban band playing and there was a large crowd but sales were
only moderate. We had total sales of $10,156. The LOL crew raised prices this year from $5 to $6 per beer.
Not sure how much that affected things.
On the tip front we did OK relative to the sales. The tip containers seemed to help with laminated pictures of
skaters but those who were persistant in asking for tips really made a difference. On Friday, we did very decent
with tips totaling $370.70. Monica Schuyler gets credit for the single largest "tip." Saturday's tips only
amounted to $106.40. That audience, even though much larger in numbers, simply wasn't as responsive or as
generous.
I want to thank the people who came down on Friday and Saturday to help set-up and a special thanks to
everyone for sticking around to help with night closeouts and the tear-down on Saturday. With everyone's help,
we were able to close things up quickly and get out of there at a reasonable time.
I want to give special thanks to Jay Reutter and his lovely wife, Beth, and of course to Katherine. In the spirit of
the St. Louis skating community and not to slight anyone for the great job you did because you know how hard
you worked and how much I appreciate your unselfish help but I just want to highlight Jay's contribution.
Katherine was flying into Lambert from Vancouver (training camp) for a week of rest and relaxation with friends
and family back home in Champaign before her season kicks off (like it really ever stops). Now, Jay and Beth
could have just as easily driven all the way from Champaign, pick up Katherine and headed back home. But no,
Jay had Beth drop him off at LOL and he helped the entire night at the booth. He was a big help stocking and
tracking inventory along with Tony and Dave. He stayed to the end helping clean up and return inventory. It
was a treat for us to have Katherine stick around to just chat and get caught up. I'm glad that Erin could spend a
little time with Katherine at the close. Katherine, we look forward to cheering you on in the coming years but
especially at Vancouver in 2010.
I have an umbrella that was left Friday night. It has Barnes-Jewish Hospital on it.
So, once again, my sincerest thanks to a great crew. If you have suggestions for next year, please let me know.
Thank you,
Russ
Great News!!! Live on the Levee organize have contacted us about participating in the 2007 events. We filed
our application in February and now we know our dates: July 27 & July 28.
Like last year, we have requested not to participate in the Fair St. Louis (July 3 & 4). Live on the Levee takes
place every Friday and Saturday, beginning that weekend, July 6 & &7, and ending on August 3 & 4.
The bands during our fund raiser are: Steel Pulse (July 27) and Musiq Soulchild (July 28). The Arch grounds
open at 6 p.m. & close at 10:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed from a couple hours before the grounds open (to
open the booth) to a few hours after the grounds close (to do final inventory accounting). If you can help, please
contact Russ Owen or reply to the club's email address: metrosspeedskating@sbcglobal.net. For an email link go
to the CONTACT page
As soon as the organizers have contacted us with more information, look for it to be posted here. For more
information on the Fair and Live on the Levee, go to www.celebratestlouis.org.
This is Metros' only fund raiser and everyone's participation is sincerely appreciated. Remember, this is the fund
raising event for abatement of your annual activity fee. Those who don't help are subject to the $150 activity fee
upon registration for the upcoming season.
First, let me thank each of you for your unselfish help in making the two days/evenings at LOL another fun and
worthwhile fund raiser. The two young men that we coordinate with, Eddie Pohrer and David Hanon, continue to
praise and thank us for the great job we do. Granted, they may tell all their vendors the same thing but I'm
taking it on face value that they are sincere when they tell me that the Metro booth is by far the best to work with
and do an outstanding job of setting up, selling and managing the operation over the two days of LOL. They
value our enthusiasm, organization and cooperation. It simply makes their job that much easier.
Now for the results. Bottom line, we did $17,738 total sales for the two days. Our projected cut will be
something just less than $3,500 with the deduction for open cases at the end and inventory adjustments.
Friday was a slow night and a sparse crowd. It rained twice, the band was marginal and there was a Cardinal
ball game. We only sold $7,582 in product. The Arch steps were never close to half full.
Saturday was better but not by much. It was an urban band playing and there was a large crowd but sales were
only moderate. We had total sales of $10,156. The LOL crew raised prices this year from $5 to $6 per beer.
Not sure how much that affected things.
On the tip front we did OK relative to the sales. The tip containers seemed to help with laminated pictures of
skaters but those who were persistant in asking for tips really made a difference. On Friday, we did very decent
with tips totaling $370.70. Monica Schuyler gets credit for the single largest "tip." Saturday's tips only
amounted to $106.40. That audience, even though much larger in numbers, simply wasn't as responsive or as
generous.
I want to thank the people who came down on Friday and Saturday to help set-up and a special thanks to
everyone for sticking around to help with night closeouts and the tear-down on Saturday. With everyone's help,
we were able to close things up quickly and get out of there at a reasonable time.
I want to give special thanks to Jay Reutter and his lovely wife, Beth, and of course to Katherine. In the spirit of
the St. Louis skating community and not to slight anyone for the great job you did because you know how hard
you worked and how much I appreciate your unselfish help but I just want to highlight Jay's contribution.
Katherine was flying into Lambert from Vancouver (training camp) for a week of rest and relaxation with friends
and family back home in Champaign before her season kicks off (like it really ever stops). Now, Jay and Beth
could have just as easily driven all the way from Champaign, pick up Katherine and headed back home. But no,
Jay had Beth drop him off at LOL and he helped the entire night at the booth. He was a big help stocking and
tracking inventory along with Tony and Dave. He stayed to the end helping clean up and return inventory. It
was a treat for us to have Katherine stick around to just chat and get caught up. I'm glad that Erin could spend a
little time with Katherine at the close. Katherine, we look forward to cheering you on in the coming years but
especially at Vancouver in 2010.
I have an umbrella that was left Friday night. It has Barnes-Jewish Hospital on it.
So, once again, my sincerest thanks to a great crew. If you have suggestions for next year, please let me know.
Thank you,
Russ
Great News!!! Live on the Levee organize have contacted us about participating in the 2007 events. We filed
our application in February and now we know our dates: July 27 & July 28.
Like last year, we have requested not to participate in the Fair St. Louis (July 3 & 4). Live on the Levee takes
place every Friday and Saturday, beginning that weekend, July 6 & &7, and ending on August 3 & 4.
The bands during our fund raiser are: Steel Pulse (July 27) and Musiq Soulchild (July 28). The Arch grounds
open at 6 p.m. & close at 10:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed from a couple hours before the grounds open (to
open the booth) to a few hours after the grounds close (to do final inventory accounting). If you can help, please
contact Russ Owen or reply to the club's email address: metrosspeedskating@sbcglobal.net. For an email link go
to the CONTACT page
As soon as the organizers have contacted us with more information, look for it to be posted here. For more
information on the Fair and Live on the Levee, go to www.celebratestlouis.org.
This is Metros' only fund raiser and everyone's participation is sincerely appreciated. Remember, this is the fund
raising event for abatement of your annual activity fee. Those who don't help are subject to the $150 activity fee
upon registration for the upcoming season.
| 2006 Live on the Levee News |
HERE'S A NOTE FROM RUSS OWEN TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS:
LIVE on the Levee was a huge success for the Metro Speed Skating Club and I want to thank you once again for your time and
energy to this worthy cause. It was a success because the St. Louis Skating community united and came together for the benefit of
our skaters.
So how big was this "huge" success?
On Friday, we did gross sales of $17, 927.76 with $102.67 in tips. The tip thing was new to us but by Saturday's event, we upped the
ante and people responded to your "suggestions" and us simply saying THANK YOU on behalf of our skaters. Tripp was really into it.
We thought things were crazy on Friday night. Actually, they were, but Saturday saw the rush for the brew. Both evenings started
slowly but Friday's crowd started buying about 6:30PM and kept up a steady build to the 8PM concert. Things started easing up just
before the end of the concert and during the fireworks display.
Saturday was really slow for a much longer time but just before the main concert started, people came in droves. By the end of the
evening, we had total sales of, (are you ready for this????), $22,354.05 with tips of $401.06.
That is a two day sales total of $40,281.81.
Total tips equaled $503.73. The Metro Club will receive 20% of total sales, less spoilage, etc. and the tips go 100% to the Club. So
bottom line is that the club will receive close to $8,000 from sales plus the tips. That amount is about 40% of our budget for ice time
for a season. It helps us keep annual fees reasonable and provide the necessary ice time for a quality program to develop some of
the top skaters in the nation.
I can't thank you enough for your hard work. The people who we contracted with stated unequivocally, that we were the hardest and
best working group that they had helping at the fair. We knew that but it is nice to hear it and be recognized. Some of the people
who helped out do not have e-mail and I will contact them personally to share the results of the event and thank them for their
contribution.
I am putting together an after-action-report and lessons learned to improve things for next year. I would welcome your suggestions
and ideas on what we can do to improve the logistics and operations. Please send them to me and I'll consolidate the list and keep
for next year.
Thank you once again. See you on the ice.
Russ, we couldn't say it better than that. To Russ and every one else, thanks from Metros.
LIVE on the Levee was a huge success for the Metro Speed Skating Club and I want to thank you once again for your time and
energy to this worthy cause. It was a success because the St. Louis Skating community united and came together for the benefit of
our skaters.
So how big was this "huge" success?
On Friday, we did gross sales of $17, 927.76 with $102.67 in tips. The tip thing was new to us but by Saturday's event, we upped the
ante and people responded to your "suggestions" and us simply saying THANK YOU on behalf of our skaters. Tripp was really into it.
We thought things were crazy on Friday night. Actually, they were, but Saturday saw the rush for the brew. Both evenings started
slowly but Friday's crowd started buying about 6:30PM and kept up a steady build to the 8PM concert. Things started easing up just
before the end of the concert and during the fireworks display.
Saturday was really slow for a much longer time but just before the main concert started, people came in droves. By the end of the
evening, we had total sales of, (are you ready for this????), $22,354.05 with tips of $401.06.
That is a two day sales total of $40,281.81.
Total tips equaled $503.73. The Metro Club will receive 20% of total sales, less spoilage, etc. and the tips go 100% to the Club. So
bottom line is that the club will receive close to $8,000 from sales plus the tips. That amount is about 40% of our budget for ice time
for a season. It helps us keep annual fees reasonable and provide the necessary ice time for a quality program to develop some of
the top skaters in the nation.
I can't thank you enough for your hard work. The people who we contracted with stated unequivocally, that we were the hardest and
best working group that they had helping at the fair. We knew that but it is nice to hear it and be recognized. Some of the people
who helped out do not have e-mail and I will contact them personally to share the results of the event and thank them for their
contribution.
I am putting together an after-action-report and lessons learned to improve things for next year. I would welcome your suggestions
and ideas on what we can do to improve the logistics and operations. Please send them to me and I'll consolidate the list and keep
for next year.
Thank you once again. See you on the ice.
Russ, we couldn't say it better than that. To Russ and every one else, thanks from Metros.