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2008 Belmont Pop Warner Mid-South Region Scholars Named February 8, 2008 --
The Pop Warner Mid-South Region has recognized the following individuals from our Pee Wee and Junior Pee Wee cheerleading and football teams as Pop Warner Mid-South Region Scholars!
Aaron Camp
Joshua Friday
Hunter McCorkle
Andrew Ramsey
Thomas Lawing
Stephen Carriker
Barrett Courtwright
Aaron Mauldin
Matthew Frazier
Zachary McHugh
Alexander Patton
Adam Andrew
Austin Hansen
Jonathan Painter
Daniel Underwood
Hannah Broome
Anna Turner
Alaina Collins
Brooke Adkins
Ciera Webb
Lauren Cole
Julia Underwood
This is a prestigious honor. The philosophy of Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. is “Academics and athletics go hand-in–hand.” The goals of Pop Warner Football are to develop young men and women who learn not only the fundamentals of football, cheerleading, and dance, but also the importance of education, in an atmosphere conductive to develop sound minds, body, and character and having a good time along the way! These young men and women of our community have proven these goals can be met.
2008 Belmont Optimist Oratorical Contest
The 2008 Belmont Optimist Oratorical Contest was held March 31, 2008. The theme for this yeras competition was "Why Me?" "Why Not?" The participants for this year’s contest were:
Boys: Clarence Taylor, Ash Davis, William Green, Scott Tyson, Andrew Nguyen
Girls: Taylor Houser, Kiersten Chambers, Dana Nobles, Kaylan Cutherberson, Brooke Smith, Taylor Mahaffey, Caroline Boyce
This year’s 1st place winners will have an opportunity to advance to the regional and state levels.
Boys 1st place: Andrew Nguyen
2nd place: Ash Davis
3rd place: William Green
Girls 1st place: Caroline Boyce
2nd place: Taylor Mahaffey
3rd place: Taylor Houser
All the students did an outstanding job and should be commended for their efforts. CONGRATULATIONS to all the contestants!
Miss Belmont Princess Pageant
The Belmont Optimist Club held its first annual Miss Belmont Princess
Pageant on Saturday, April 26 at South Point High School.
The title winners pictured from left to right are:
Baby Miss Belmont 2008 - Abrianna Risner
Tiny Miss Belmont 2008 - Paige Ledford
Teen Miss Belmont 2008 - Heather Brown
Young Miss Belmont 2008 - Samantha Telsrow
Junior Miss Belmont 2008 - Alexandria Romano
Little Miss Belmont 2008 - Savannah Johnson
Belmont Optimist Police Officer of the Year
Congratulations Lt. Basil Marett, Belmont Optimist Police Officer of the Year.
Pictured are Chief James, Captain Franklin, Lt. Marett, and Kelvin Reagan
Optimist Field Update August 22, 2008 --
I want to announce a couple of important positions that have been created in order to help get our fields down on Boat Club Road ready for this upcoming baseball season and next year's football season.
As you know, we have a layout which includes at least one fenced LL baseball field, a football game field that has been crowned, measured and sprinkler system set, and a larger practice field that will include football practice area and most likely some baseball fields in the near future. These areas will be used for football practice and games beginning next year. We have a lot of balls in the air right now, and for the work that has been done thus far- please know that it is very much appreciated and the progress is inspiring. I am sure we will realize, in years to come, how important the work we are doing now is for the youth and community as a whole.
In order to further our plans, actions and ensure we achieve marked targets over the course of the next year to year and a half, we are announcing this:
General Maintenance Leader- Tony Chaney has accepted this position. This job will entail organizing work for: checking on and maintaining well, sprinkler system, press box, dugouts, batting cage and concession stand working order as well as organizing trash pick up for certain times of the year. Tony C. will work with the Construction leader during immediate time periods since most of the upkeep this position requires will be available once construction is complete and facilities are operational.
**If you ever want to volunteer your time and efforts, Tony is the person who will put our team effort in motion, organize work days and groups and make sure we are progressing.
Construction Leader- Terry Robinson has agreed to head this position up. Tony C. will help with the organization of work groups and we will tackle specific jobs to completion over the course of the next several months along side Terry. We plan on erecting the Belmont Optimist signs, Goal Posts, Pressbox, concession stand, batting cages as well as many other tasks to complete. He has already successfully lead a team to get the sprinkler system in.
The contact information for both Tony and Terry will be listed on Belmont Optimist's website, so please inquire about helping.
We know that during football season, time is hard to come by to get other things done. Soon we go from 5 practice days to 3. If you don't like to hang around and watch games, help with chains, concessions on Saturdays- you can always volunteer to help out on the field. It is bigger than anyone of us. Those fields represent more than "I" or "me". Our hard work will make sure that 1,000s of kids have something productive and fun to participate in. We all know there are far worse things they could be doing with their time.
For Tony and Terry: we understand the sacrifice and dedication it will take to lead these positions, and we truly appreciate what you are offering to our organization.
Please let me know, with an individual email, if you have any questions, issues, concerns or would like to have your name put down to be contacted to get our goals accomplished.
Regards,
Kirk Crawford
Optimist Members October 21, 2008 --
If any Belmont Optimist Club member is not receiving emails, please contact Rhonda Van Pelt to be added to the distribution list.
Rhonda's email is: rsvanpelt@bellsouth.net
Many thanks to everyone who came out to the fields today to paint, pick up rocks, and install the goal posts. Thanks to the workers that are not pictured. They are Scott Van Pelt,Nick Farmer, Craig Queen, Blake Queen, Hunter Marrett, Basil Marrett, Aaron Horne, Patrick Horne, Andy Johnson, and Kevin Bowman.
Thank You!!
Thanks to Wilkinson Scale Company of Charlotte for certification of our scales. We appreciate you and your support of our organization.
Belmont Optimist is linked to the Bi-Lo Boostersplus program. All you have to do is take your Bi-Lo bonus card to Bi-Lo with our Belmont Optimist scan number. Bi-Lo will charge you $1 to link your card, but will send it back to the Optimist with a .50 match. Bi-Lo will then donate 1% of the total purchases accumaulated by our organization up to $3000 annually. What a great partnership! Please tell your family and friends. Click on the link to print your scan number.
