Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:42:30 -0400
From: Mia Munn
Subject: School board mtg Monday Nov 8 – 6:30pm Northwood Media Center

Items of note:
Request for Varsity Lacrosse at Northwood

http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2010-2011/boemtg_11_08_10/Agenda

Item- Varsity Lacrosse Program at Northwood High.pdf

Audit Report

http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2010-2011/boemtg_11_08_10/Agenda

Item-2009-2010 Audit Report.pdf

2011-2012 Heads Up Budget Document for Board of Commissioners

http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2010-2011/boemtg_11_08_10/Agenda%20Item-Heads%20Up%20Document%20for%20BOC.pdf

Discussion of School Improvement Plans (link is to the directory – click
on the individual school to open that plan)

http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2010-2011/boemtg_11_01_10/SIPs/

Policy 4310 Integrity and Civility

http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/board/meetings/2010-2011/boemtg_11_08_10/Policy

4310 Integrity %26 Civility Revisions-2.pdf

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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:05:26 -0500
From: Douglas Castleman
Subject: Youth Lacrosse

The 2010 youth lacrosse season is getting ready to begin! Join the North Chatham Cardinals as they compete in the Rivals lacrosse league. Two practices a week and games on Saturdays. This is for boys and girls grades 1 – 8. Registration is through www.fusionlacrosse.com. We will be offering a free clinic on Saturday Feb. 13th from 10:00am to 11:30am. Check out the
North Chatham website www.nccardinals.com for more information. Any questions can be directed to northeastlax@yahoo.com or douglas.castleman@gmail.com.

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:51:07 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Trying to start up a new sports program

Meg -

As sports parents, I think you and I can appreciate someone who is trying to start up a new sports program. Don’t know much about all the people involved yet, but I would have the tendency to give them a break. If I were to start something new, as an individual parent, I would probably start with my local school and expand from there rather that trying to go county-wide right away. I hope that it is a school sport that we could play on a county-wide basis.

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:07:32 -0400
From: Sally Bond
Subject: Lacrosse – Fall Instructional League

Northeast Chatham Youth Lacrosse
2008  Sunday Fall Instructional League
Chatham County, NC

Boys Grades – K-8
Sundays September 7th – Sunday October 19th
Cost – $80.00 (Family Discounts Available)

Held at The Preserve at Jordon Lake Soccer Field
To register, go to: http://www.Northeastlax.comwww.Northeastlax.com and select Player Application
For more details, call us at 919-943-5416 or email us at mailto: Northeastlax-at-yahoo.com

Also watch for:
Winter 2008 Instructional Camp
Spring 2009 Competitive League

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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:49:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Lane
Subject: A few Lacrosse loving parents want to organize an activity for their kids

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:27:49 +0000
From: Meg Miller
Subject: Last comment on lacrosse, promise

Maybe it should just be about starting Lacrosse in Chatham and not  “endowing” any particular schools.
If all the kids come out and interest is there, parents and volunteers and  school staff will follow…be it at a new school or at Horton or Silk  Hope.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:27:49 +0000
From: Meg Miller
Subject: Last comment on lacrosse, promise

Sally,

I understand what you are saying but the site says “endow the new ne schools with lacrosse”.
That doesn’t say inclusive to me.  I don’t read where it says it’s open to everyone.
I would certainly have the opinion, just from it’s name that it’s for those in and of that area and who plan to attend the new ne schools.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:08:58 -0400
From: Maclyn
Subject: Women’s Lacrosse

My niece is a Southern girl, raised in Raleigh, and plays Lacrosse for Broughton High School.  She is by no means a star on the team, but she absolutely loves it.  I mean LOVES it.  She had never played growing up, but really took to it.

There are quite a few schools in Wake County that offer this sport for young women.  And even more offer it for young men in Wake and Durham counties.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:54:28 +0000
From: Meg Miller
Subject: I think it’s great to start a Lacrosse league

Again, I know the game.  I know it’s history. I think it’s a great sport, when it is inclusive.

I think it’s great to start a Lacrosse league.  It’s how soccer got started in Chatham.
But to only include the TWO NEW NORTHEAST schools in it’s efforts is wrong. Period.

If it’s a “location” thing, then aren’t Northwood and Horton considered part of the Northeast anymore?

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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:03:28 EDT
From: B Prentice
Subject: Re: Lacrosse

I got a chuckle out of the reference to lacrosse as being an sport that is “exclusive” and for “white, upper class boys.” Obviously from someone without a  clue about the sport.

I grew up in Syracuse, NY, a city bordered by the Onondaga Indian reservation. Lacrosse is actually the “french-ification” of a stickball game called dehuntshigwa’es in  Onondaga. More can be learned at Wikipedia, if you are interested in learning  the history of lacrosse.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:31:38 +0000
From: Meg Miller
Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #3176

And we’ve always said the new high school in the NE would be, (thanks to the location the former BOE/Superintendent chose) 90% white.  So I guess Howards post shows how this program would fit perfectly there.  One of the best players I’ve ever see was African Amercian, played for UVA (I think), his name was Christmas. No one could catch him.   So, if you keep Lacrosse at the predominantly white schools (it flourishes in the private, prep school community) I guess you can keep it being the “white boys football”.

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