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Ultimate Happenings: Issue 147 - Aug 21, 2000

OCUA Web site: http://www.ocua.ca

"I came, I saw, I did a little shopping"

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CONTENTS:

- OCUA Board Of Directors Election
- Just A Quick Update On Preliminary Voter Turnout
- OCUA End Of Summer Party - Sept 09
- Cisco Ultimate Corporate Challenge
- Ottawa Curse
- Ottawa Disc Golf Website
- U.P.A. Fall Masters Series
- Tourney - Distoberfest, Ann Arbor, Mi
- Lost
- Calendar Of Events

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OCUA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION:

It's Election Time Again !

The elections were held last weekend and will also be held
next weekend.

Each team captain will receive an election package and ONE
ballot at the beginning of the day. Over the course of your
play-off day, discuss with your team members as to whom you'd
like to vote for.

PLEASE TRY TO MAKE THIS A TEAM DECISION, not merely leaving
it up to the captain to decide

There will be a ballot box at the play-off site for you to
drop off your ballot. Alternatively, you may give it to the
tournament director.

As in previous years, each team will vote for FOUR candidates
among our 7 nominees.

Cory Bowditch
Nick Roberts
Steve Seabrook
Gavin Thompson
Jack Webb
Valerie Xavier
Nalan Yuksel

PLEASE VOTE as last year's turn out was less than 60%.

If you have any questions, please e-mail the electoral officer
(Stephan Suys) at s_suys@hotmail.com

Thanks,
Stephan Suys

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Bios for the candidates are now available on the OCUA website.
http://www.ocua.ca/admin/elect2000/allbio.html

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JUST A QUICK UPDATE ON PRELIMINARY VOTER TURNOUT:

Thankfully, even though the elections were not as well publicize
as I would have liked (because I was away...), the early results
are positive (ie. better than last year )

[Big Thanks to Jeff and Jawzy Rathburn and Diana Nunes for
their help this week-end ]

Ballots received :

Sat (Monday League)  : 39 of 84 (last year 32 of 80 )
Sun (Women's League) : 11 of 20 (last year 11 of 21 )

Given that I plan to aggressively pursue teams who did not
submit a ballot to E-vote, I hope to get a better turn-out
than last year.

( Last year we had 72 ballots and 78 E-votes )

I also hope to better advertise the election this week for
teams playing this up-coming week-end.

The E-vote procedure will be as follows:

I will E-mail each team captain who has not submitted a ballot,
and will ask them to canvass their team for a "collective"
decision. [I will ask to be CC'ed on their team e-mail so as
to know that each player had a vote rather than leaving the
captain decide.]

Deadline for all E-votes will be MONDAY Aug 28th at 8:00pm.
(this allows Sunday play-off teams to vote on Monday)

Results will hopefully be posted shortly thereafter.

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PROXIES

There had been some discussion about the use of Proxies for
this election. I had originally made a proposal to the Board
about using Proxies but I quickly dismissed this idea as the
election process was already well under way and there were
some concerns as to how the proxies would be used.

I therefore decided that proxies would not be used in this
election, but that the matter would be discussed later.

[NB. For teams who had hoped to use proxies (because
they would not be available during play-offs), I will
do everything possible to get their votes via E-mail]

If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know.

Cheers,
Stephan

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OCUA END OF SUMMER PARTY - SEPT 09:

Did you go to Fergus? If so, do you remember the band that
played on Friday night? Well they are coming to Ottawa to
play for our Summer League Party.

I think the party is at Barrymore's.

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CISCO ULTIMATE CORPORATE CHALLENGE:

Saturday, September 9th, 2000
Sod Farm, Manotick
$250/team (tax receipt provided)

There will be competitive and recreation divisions so please
specify which division you would prefer. There will food,
water and most importantly a beer garden for everyone to enjoy.

Please send comment/questions to the Tourney Director Steve
Seabrook at:
sseabrook@sympatico.ca
260-8442

$250/team (tax receipt provided)
Please make checks out to the "Canadian Cancer Society".

Send checks to:
Corporate Tourney
c/o Ottawa Carleton Ultimate Association
Box 120
410 Bank St.
Ottawa, ON
K2P 1Y8

On the back of the check please write the following information:
Team Name:
Company:
Captain/contact:
Email:
Telephone #:
Competitive or Recreational Division:

Thanks
Steve
e: sseabrook@sympatico.ca

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OTTAWA CURSE:

This is again an open invitation to anybody interested in
playing competitive Ultimate next year. We will be holding
scrimmages every Thursday for the remainder of the summer
(and perhaps into the fall). Beginning this week August 24th,
we will be out at Lynda Lane (6:30pm). We are looking for all
types of experience, from beginners to seasoned vets. If this
is your first year, please do not underestimate yourself.
Basically, we want to know who you are and hopefully we can
pull more and more folks out so that we're all rarin' to go
for next spring. Please bring a black, a light and perhaps a
red shirt. Pass the word. If you have any questions, you can
contact me by email (eric.budgell@ec.gc.ca) or by phone
613-747-2789.

Cheers
Eric Budgell (OttawaCurse)
e: Eric.Budgell@EC.GC.CA

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OTTAWA DISC GOLF WEBSITE:

The spiffy new ottawa disc golf club website is up at:
www.geocities.com/ottawadiscgolf/

New design, logo, layout, upcoming events, name-that-hole, etc.

We've also got some stuff up in the maison du velo, in the
park (Jacques Cartier Park North for the uninitiated). There's
a poster to peruse, discs (circa 1984) to borrow, and a
scorecard (& few other bits of paper) to scatter around.

CD exchange (Rob Wormald) is also selling discs - the latest
line is the first to feature the Ottawa Disc Golf Club logo.

Thanks to Don Lane for the new site, Jon Spratley for the old
site, Wah Phung Lu for his artwork (Hybrid Productions),
charter members (especially those yet to play the course) and
to everyone who's had a good time playing disc golf in this
town.

Peter McKinnon

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U.P.A. FALL MASTERS SERIES:

To all Canadian Ultimate players who are 33 years old or older.
BIG Wood Masters team is looking for some good players (ringers)
to add to it's list.

We can carry 5 players from outside the Central Region in the
states. Our Regional Competition is in Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Blaine) September 30 to October 1. The Central Region may
have 2 teams going to Nationals in Sarasota, Florida. We have
a real good chance of going and would like to have a strong
team in Nationals. So if you play Open, Coed or Masters and
would like to hang with us or need more information get in
touch with me Greg Williams at 612-366-7057 or to the e-mail
address below with all your contact info. and playing history
etc...

I have played in Nationals in Sarasota the fields, the
tournament and the beach parties are awesome.

Later,
Greg
e: willi133@tc.umn.edu

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TOURNEY - DISTOBERFEST, ANN ARBOR, MI:

Hosted by Viscous Coupling of Ann Arbor, MI.
Oct. 7&8,2000.
Format is 4-3.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~blksqrl/Disctoberfest.html

Ottawa has been invited to join in the fun and send some
co-ed teams down to Michigan to bring back all the prizes.

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LOST:

Emergency Pager

A small black pager, part of a local disaster response network
was lost at UPI on Thursday Aug 10. It is critical that this
pager be found as soon as possible.

If found please contact Michel at mich2314@yahoo.com or 761-1363

Thanks
Michel

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I lost my gold necklace with a tiny diamond embedded in a
floating heart-shaped pendant, on Monday, August 21, 2000, at
the Sod Farm. I think it fell out of my car which was parked
pretty much at the south west corner of the parking lot, right
where the mud starts.

If anyone finds it I can be contacted at kimberly.brereton@sap.com
or work (613) 364-2506.

Thanks
Kim

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

2000/08/26-27 : OCUA playoffs (divisions to be announced)
2000/09/09    : Pole-Hole-Ka Mixed-Doubles Disc Golf Tournament (Ottawa, ON)
2000/09/09    : OCUA end of summer party
2000/09/23-24 : Fr'equinox (Co-ed, Ottawa ON)
2000/09/30    : Ottawa 'Plaid Jacket' Open Disc Golf Tourney
2000/09/??    : UP Inc General Meeting
2000/10/14-15 : Hold Back The Snow - Juniors (Winnipeg, MB)
2001/06/30    : Pre-Canada Day Camp Out Party (Ottawa, ON)
2001/??/??    : Layout For Life (Ottawa, ON)
2001/??/??    : Women's Hat Tourney (Ottawa)
2001/??/??-?? : Montreal Jazz Tournament (Montreal, QC)
2001/??/??-?? : No Borders (Ottawa, ON)
2001/??/??-?? : Parlee Beach (Shediac, NB)
2001/??/??-?? : Unknown Legends (Hamilton, ON)
2001/??/??-?? : OCUA playoffs (divisions to be announced)

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