Welcome back to a new year of badminton with the Limestone Badminton Club!
Badminton starts on Monday, 16 September at 7pm at Loyalist Collegiate & Vocational Institution (LCVI), 153 Van Order Drive, Kingston.

Please park in the parking lot on the South side of the school. Enter through Entrance "D" doors in the parking lot.
We hope that everyone had a good summer and that you are ready to get back onto the courts. Please read the information below carefully and thoroughly.

On the first night, please check in with our registration desk.

If you are a guest, please make sure that you have paid your fees and signed the guest waiver if needed - you may not play until you have these completed.

Currently around 70+ people have signed up to be members (and we have a long waiting list of over 25). This means the first few weeks are likely to be very busy so please be patient with everyone, especially when getting on and off the courts. We ask that everyone limits the duration of warm-ups so that everyone gets plenty of game time.

We have some guests who are trying the club in the first week as well. For returning members - please watch out for the new players, help them settle in, and make sure to include them in groups of four. For those of you who are new members or guests, please understand it takes a bit of time for players to find their levels and get used to how things work.

Primarily, the club plays with plastic shuttles. If all four players agree to play with feather shuttles instead, this is welcomed! RSL feather shuttles can be purchased at the club for $30. This is for members only to use at the club (not in bulk) and not a discounted rate to take home for non-member friends and/or family. We offer this as a service to our members for Club night play. (Payment via e-transfer to limestonebc@gmail.com).

A few other very important points to note:
1. We are not permitted to play/set up the courts before 7 pm, please DO NOT arrive early.
2. Please do help in setting up the courts - it is far quicker when we have help!
3. Clean, non-marking shoes are required to play.
4. Players must wait for rallies to finish before proceeding across the back of courts.
Whilst we recognize everyone is keen to get on court, please understand that passing a court when a rally is in play can be extremely dangerous. We will have to consider expelling players who do this.
5. When the courts are full, the line-up for the next court begins at the bottom/lower left bleacher seats.
6.The first group waiting in line must take the first available court. You do not have the choice of any open court.
7.Youth aged 18 years and under are required to wear eye protection at all times whilst playing on court.
8.Please review which doors are used to access which courts as per the pdf attached. If you are not sure, please ask!
9.There are change rooms available - Women’s on the left, Men’s on the right of the gym. Please wait for play to have stopped to safely access the change rooms.
10. Aggressive, disrespectful or intimidating behaviour will not be tolerated. Consequences are potential loss of membership.
11. When at the club please restrict your movement to the gym, balcony and bathroom areas. The custodians would appreciate it if we were not in the other areas of the school.
12. In Wintertime, wet and dirty footwear should be left at the bottom of the bleachers on the right-hand side (opposite to where the player line up is).
13. Cancellations - when the school is closed - there will be NO badminton that night. If the school buses are cancelled or there is an inclement weather day, there will be NO badminton. Please note - the Executive are unpaid volunteers who also generally work full time - we will try and notify people as soon as possible that badminton is cancelled but this is not always possible.
Please make sure that you follow the School board or Triboard Bus twitter accounts to stay up to date with school closures!
Cancellations are also posted on the club's web site as soon as they are available.

Any concerns about situations that occur during badminton play should be made known to the Executive immediately.

We hope everyone has an enjoyable season!
See you on the courts,

Jeff, Terry, Georgina and Kate

limestonebadmintonclub.com

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