Thank you all for coming to the best Banquet we’ve ever had! If you missed it, we apologize—the date will be at the actual end of season next year as we had limited flexibility this year.
- Jiminy Peak Mountain resort underwrote the rental of the Stephentown Fire Hall—this venue was great!
-We thank the Greenwald family and especially Wayne for paying for the yummy pizza. I will order a bit more next year—learning curve here!
-Tom Crowell and Jake Cunningham of the Chatham Brewery: gosh, we owe a round of applause at least but THANK YOU guys for making everyone happy with your oh so generous donation of libation!
-The live music and DJ: KEEP this info as he is awesome and for hire! Plan to dance with us next year as we closed out after 8 and would have danced the night away!!!!!
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-If you see Kathy Slyer, must acknowledge this Banquet Queen who worked like any 10 men to produce the lovely setting, set up and take down of this best ever event—this includes the pre planning, ordering of give-aways, traveling to who knows where to pick up trophies and medals, Sam’s Club shopping and table borrowing that required driving the massive van. WOW!!!!
- Many others including the Hill’s, Analisa Allen, Sandra Applebee, the Roseberry’s, Simkowitz’s and the rest of our Parents Association, all who donated time and personal funds to make this a great success.
-The AUCTION: thank you all who donated—early totals are over $4,000!!! We are in progress of planning for the building of a Start Hut on Whirlaway in conjunction with the mountain and Williams College. This will join our purchase of 2 Video Cameras, multiple radios, TV’s mounted for video review in both race huts, and level 200 (and above) coach’s course reimbursement for higher level training of our coaches. These generous donations enable us to run the best racing program in Tri State—thank you all!

Colette Poirier, JP Race Parents Association President

This is going to be a not to be missed event!! Music and dancing, food and drink, silent auction, giveaways, trophies and medals and my favorite senior speeches!!! Erin Barry, Eli Greenwald and Kent Hanson to be featured!
I hope you caught these 3 giving their speeches- this was a highlight of the evening!  Good luck Erin, Kent and Eli!  We wish you every success in your futures!

Hi Gang,

Thanks again to all the parents who have volunteered, some again and again, to help out with the various races that we have run this year. We really could not have hosted the races without the help of everybody. Special thanks to Chad Lindberg, and Tedd Rinaldi who braved cold temperatures and a relentless and bitterly cold Jiminy Peak wind at the start of Whirlaway for the race this weekend, and to the gatekeepers who volunteered to stand on the side of the steep icy trail throughout the day. That’s real dedication. And a big thank you to Jeff and Liz Urdang, Rick and Barbara Lerner, and Colette Poirier for their relentless efforts in organizing the volunteer squad, Thank you all.

Looking forward to another exciting weekend. It will be nice to have everybody back at Jiminy on Saturday and Sunday, as we have been scattered all over the place the past few weeks.

The weekend kicks off early, on Friday, for many of us, as Jiminy will be hosting the Williams NCAA Carnival. Some of the top skiers in the country, from national powerhouses like UVM, Dartmouth, UNH, Middlebury and Williams College will be there. Some of the racers have national team and World Cup experience. It will be an amazing two days. Please sure to swing by to check it out. Thanks to the parents and athletes who volunteered to gate keep at this event.

With the carnival going on this weekend, and since its a holiday weekend, it will be a busy day and hill space will be at a premium. Tentative plans for training are as follows:

Interclub: SL training on Panorama both days. Meet at the Canteen area at 9:30 sharp both days.

J1-2′s; Train SL on Ace in the morning on Saturday, starting at 9:30, and in the afternoon, most likely free ski and watch the Williams Carnival racers with the coaches. This will be a really good opportunity to watch some really talented skiers and learn first hand what makes them so good. Sunday will be a GS training day, most likely on Exhibitiion.

J3-4-5′s: Free ski, drills and watch the carnival athletes in the morning on Saturday, followed by SL on Ace in the afternoon. The plan for Sunday is to get in some GS gate training, most likely on the upper portion of Ace, as the lower fencing has been moved to Whirlaway for the race.

Saturday night is the annual Awards Banquet, which has been moved to the Stephentown Firehall this year. Word has it that the banquet committee, headed up by Kathy Slyer has lined up a great night of food, music and festivities.

See you all soon.

Bruce