by aimee | Sep 1, 2011 | Game Reports, Men's News
Please note this schedule is also available on our Men’s 3rd Division Schedule page. 2011 SR. MENS 3RD DIV. SCHEDULE Sept.11 @ Powell River Sept.18 Velox Sept.25 @Cowichan Oct.2 Nanaimo Oct.9 THANKSGIVING WEEKEND Oct.16 Oak Bay Oct.23 @Peninsula Oct.30 Port Alberni Nov.6 Powell River Nov.13 @Nanaimo Nov.20 MAKE UP WEEKEND Nov.27 @ Port Alberni Dec.4 SEMI FINALS Dec.11 FINALS...
by CVKickers | Dec 27, 2010 | Club Events
Report by Ian Kennedy. Over the past few weeks a determined band of club members have been working to finish the Fallen Alders clubhouse and, with the job nearly complete the rains came. On December 23 Leigh Burley arrived at the clubhouse with some counter tops for the kitchen to discover that some water trickling into the clubhouse. A bit later, when Colin Chappell arrived the water had begun to rise so he contacted Colby Craven of Fallen Alder. Leigh then called Kickers President Greg Merchant and a few others and they began hand-digging ditches to try and divert water away from the building. By now water was running in sheets off the training field, across the parking lot and down into the clubhouse doorway. As well, water was running down the back of the building and in through the back door. Leigh, Greg and a few others kept digging in the downpour until about 11 p.m. and they seemed to have diverted most of the water away from the building. On Christmas Eve morning Colby arrived with her dad John and a few Fallen Alders neighbours to find that water lay six to eight inches deep in the clubrooms and had reached the top of the new baseboards at the bottom of the freshly attached and painted gyprock. They immediately went to Central Builders to get as many pumps as they could from Colin Chappell, who manages Central Builders Rental Division. Armed with pumps they inserted them strategically and then dug a massive ditch using a small Kubota digger from Central Builders to take away most of the...
