There is still a great deal to do as we prepare for the Tsothohrha Tree Festival.

BUT the single most helpful thing each MML player can do Today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday is to VERBALLY invite every person you see to join us.

Admission is FREE. Grilled Cheese is $1. Elf costumes can be purchased for the 6:00pm PARADE.
DEXTER BRASS is playing Holiday Music (including their special guests.)
Santa will have candy. There are 5 skits @ 6PM. There's is a Silent Auction. Awards will be given to 3 Trees and Best Costume.

BUT
Best of ALL.
20+ Trees will be Raffled Off near 6:30PM. Complete with all their decorations.

SUNDAY 12/7 4-7PM Palmyra Community Center

This event can Terrifically help our program meet it's annual expenses. Please Do You Part. Invite Everyone you know.

MidMaine Lacrosse Athletes- PLEASE remember to bring your December Holiday Calendar Raffles (the gold/yellow ones you sold for $5 each) to the Tree Festival. The first drawing, for $100 cash will take place @ 6:00pm 12/7 at the Festival. Please bring the 5 tickets, EACH player was asked to sell, to the tree festival along with your food donations and the time you are giving to help support our program. See https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD andhttps://www.volunteersignup.org/BH98C.

https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD

We still need volunteers to donate.....

Deserts, Water, White Bread, Potatoes, Tomato Soup, Chill, Sour Cream, Cocoa, Whip Cream and Margarine 

to the 

Concession Sale at the Tree Festival. 
Our opportunity to pave progress in funding spring play.
Please leave your contribution to YOUR child's program near noon on SUNDAY 12/7
Please sign up @ https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD. 

Organizers benefit from knowing in advance the supply of food.

Make your costume.

Decorate a T Shirt.

Maybe Win the Costume Contest. 5-6pm.

Join the Elf Parade 6pm.

Vote on "Best Tree" 4-6pm

Win a Tree after 6:30pm?!?

Dexter Brass 4-6pm. 

Skits & Awards 6:30-7pm

Concessions Silent Auction

4-7pm

Free Admission

Sunday 12/7

Palmyra Community Center.

 

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP TO DONATE & HELP?   

PLEASE!!

https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD 

and

https://www.volunteersignup.org/BH98C

Worry

Dear Members of MidMaine Lacrosse,

Sunday, December 7th, at the Tsothohrha Tree Festival, we have the potential to earn funding to support referee and tournament costs for the entire spring season.

US Lacrosse, Maine Lacrosse Coaches Association, MSAD#53 and RSU#19 have demonstrated their support of our efforts and organization. Area businesses have given monies to launch the festival.

I am worried as, with 100+ members of lacrosse, less than ten have signed up to donate food and help at the festival. I think we are privileged to have this organization and opportunity. Everyone is busy. High school players are more than equipped to contribute brain and brawn to the day. But there are jobs for middle school athletes as well.

Your family might not need the financial aid afforded by participating in fund raising efforts but a great majority of our team members require subsidized play. Your child needs a team and therefore we need your help.

Can you make time today and review the sign ups? 

My Thanksgiving will be much more enjoyable if I am not panicked about the Tree Festival. 

We are hoping for 1-200 guests. Ten individuals cannot make that happen alone. And I will be a wreck if I do not have a plan in place. There is no winging 1-200 guests.

Thanks to those that have already signed up. It was a Board of Director's  and parent decision to host the Festival. We can do it differently or not at all next year but we are committed in 2014.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Gretchen

Food

https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD

Work

https://www.volunteersignup.org/BH98C

Please sign up!

https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD

Thank You

Sign Up for Tree Festival 12/7

https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD

Tsothohrha Tree Festival 12/7 4-7pm @PCC signup sheet

Tree Festival-MidMaine Lacrosse will host a Tree Festival @ Palmyra Community Center Sunday 12/7 4pm-7pm. 20 area businesses are sponsoring trees. These trees were generously discounted by Dalhou Farms for this Festival in 2013. (We had to cancel because of an ice storm so this year there is a rain date of 12/14 also.)

Trees will be decorated by the sponsoring businesses or by area community & school groups. Decorated trees will be judged for prizes. Visitors can purchase raffle tickets as, at the close of the event, trees and decorations will be raffled for people to bring home. There will be live music, skits, an elf parade and concessions. We are requesting, as this should prove our largest fund raising event of the year, for EACH lacrosse family, NEW & OLD MML members, contribute to the concession sale.

Then, please come hungry yourself!

DATE: 12/7/2014 (Sun 4:00PM - 7:00PM)

LOCATION: Palmyra Community Center

Please bring food near noon.

https://www.volunteersignup.org/EDTPD

Dear MML Athletes,

Have you glanced about? Have you noticed the adults that make these adventures possible? And we share some grand adventures....
Please say thank you out loud and repeat it.

As President, I love that MML celebrates the origins of the native game of lacrosse. Words like Tegenhondi, Wuttahminneash, Tsothohrha and Thunder come directly from native origins of the game of lacrosse. 
I love, that our children are a part of the fastest growing game in the state of Maine, the USA and the World.
I love, that OUR hard work and determination have been recognized and rewarded by the multiple grants we have received. We have a mandate to continue our hard work, investment, learning, growth and giving.
I am excited to see our girls program, in its infancy, secure a strong foundation.
Today, I would like to thank, Coach Rowell and Coach Boreham. Thank you Chef Baker, Registrar Boreham, Treasurer PaterNoster,
Secretary Gould, MC Simpson, Equipment Simpson, Sous Chef Matt, Benefactor Bowman, Field Team Wilson and Photographers Wilcox and Monteyro. There are 15 others I should thank for the week past....If I forgot to mention someone today...I admit I am beat tired. (That dang tooth....)
My favorite photos reflect the drive and determination of our more seasoned athletes as well as the enthusiasm and the wonder reflected in the expressions of the younger players.
We posted more than 1000 photos in two volumes this evening. Tag yourselves. Share the good news.

And please invite EVERYONE you meet EVERYWHERE you go to join us for the Tsothohrha Tree Festival 12/7 4-7pm.

Did I mention, in addition to Thanking so many adults?.....

Thank you MidMaine Lacrosse athletes. You are such a hard working, coach-able, civic minded, determined, talented and capable group of young athletes. You set an example you can be proud of. I am sure proud of you.

Thanks for a great 2nd annual Sticks & Stones,

Gretchen

Tsothohrha Tree Festival Tree Sponsors and Decorators are signing up......our list of participants is growing! 

Is your club or team decorating a tree? 

Contact 

A committee member and see how you can help your team or Contact 

MidMaine Lacrosse 

Contact 

president@midmainelacrosse.com

Players & Parents-

Have you set December 7th aside to work-all day? 

We need your help. 

This should be a major source of fund raising revenue for 2015. Please check you email, FB and www.midmainelacrosse.com 

Often and for updates.

How can you, for example a soccer team, win at a lacrosse fund raising event?

Your club or team can win the tree decorating contest.

Your club or group share 50% of the votes their tree gathers. Each vote is a dollar.

You can win a tree and it's decorations in a raffle. Each tree is raffled near 6:30pm.

Do you have your costume chosen? There's also a costume contest.

So many chances to win! 

Win trees, costume contest, raffles, decorating awards or

Silent Auction Items.....

4-7pm Sunday 12/7 Palmyra Community Center. 

Voting closes at 6pm. 

Awards thereafter.....

A current partial list of tree decorators....RSU #19 Music Boosters, GS Troop 1300, MML High School, MCI Boys Soccer, Nokomis Girls Soccer, Pittsfield Basketball, Black Bears Field Hockey, Nokomis Field Hockey, MML Elementary School Lacrosse, Balance Yoga, Nokomis Boys Soccer, MML 7/8 Lacrosse, MML 5/6 Lacrosse, Katahdin Trail Saddlery, RSU #19 Show Chorus, Ecoabs, People's United Bank, MCI Football.....

There is still time to sign your club or group up.

A list of Tree Sponsors is growing....for $50...Area businesses are donating trees which the above mentioned groups will decorate. Can your organization or business sponsor a tree? Contact Gretchen 341-1545.

Come enjoy DEXTER BRASS, win a tree, an award, a costume contest, a silent auctions bid. Awards and Skits 6:00pm.

MidMaineLacrosse Members please spread the word and share this post. 

Tell everyone you know to visit us Sunday, December 7th 4-7pm at PCC. 

Thanks to all community members participating to ensure the continued growth of lacrosse in our community.

Special Thanks to the Rolling Thunder Express

Girls & Boys Middle School and High School

Sunday 11/16 11-2 PCC

Contests, Stone Soup, Lacrosse Play

tree ad

The MidMaine Lacrosse 

Parent/Board of Director's Meeting

 scheduled for Thursday 11/6 

has been moved to 

Thursday 6pm 11/20.

Girls Poster

Girls

In September of 2014, MidMaine Lacrosse was awarded a fourth amazing grant. This grant is worth approximately $20,000 in equipment and training to develop a MidMaine Lacrosse Girls Lacrosse program. We want teams at the middle school and high school level. This Thursday, November 6th, from 5-6pm for $20 @ Palmyra Community begins our Learn2Lax Girls program. Please encourage friends to come play and learn. We will meet for three weeks in November and again in January.The regular season runs March to early June. The grant will supply equipment. Please, current players and parents, encourage girls to come try the game. The following links (you may need to copy and paste) provide good information about the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmZwINWhF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iENrOtyiVjc And here's a link to an interesting article. http://www.lacrosseplayground.com/what-boys-can-learn-from-girls%E2%80%99-lacrosse/#.VFU6wn3aD68.facebook Thanks for sharing the news and helping to get girls from MSAD #53 and RSU #19 involved. Gretchen president@midmainelacrosse.com www.midmainelacrosse.com

There's so many local opportunities to play and learn to play lacrosse.

Girls and Boys.

Girls.....MML Fall Lacrosse includes a special program for GIRLS to 'Learn2Lax' 5-6pm Thursday Nov. 6,13 and 20 (more during the winter.) Come try this exciting game. We will share sticks and teach skills. We just were awarded a $12,000 equipment and training grant to make a girls team happen. Come Thursday and start! $20 includes fall and winter . Grades 5-12. Learn and be ready for Spring Lacrosse. It's a great game. We need 15 girls (middle school and high school.) Invite your friends and come together. Colby Lacrosse Coach Karen MacCrate Henning is teaching one evening in January. We expect to hear from other ranking experts. Bowdoin College Coach Elizabeth Grote ran a clinic for us last May. Bring your friends and join the fastest growing game in the State, USA and world.

Boys....Come practice Stick Skills on the above listed evenings from 6-7 and play TrashCan lacrosse 7-8pm. Girls may stay (or not) and participate in Stick Skills and TrashCan Lacrosse play.We are in the second year of our $20,000 equipment and training grant award. Grades 5-12. Coach Gould will conduct our Skills and Drills. Coaches Wilson and Boreham will conduct our TrashCan play. High school athletes get prepared for the cooperative MCI/Nokomis school team. Learn the Game. Sharpen your skills. Prepare for Varsity status in 2017.

Boys & Girls Get psyched for our 2nd annual Sticks & Stones  Event..... Native Olympic Contests, Stone Soup, Lacrosse Play and Prizes. Sunday, November 16 11am-2pm. (Grade 5-12 ) $10 donation recommended. We hope Coach Rowell is able to run the Olympics. Chef Baker is brewing the soup. The game(s) will be generously refereed by Kyle Whillete. Register by November 14th for be entered in prize drawing. Register @ TrashCan Lacrosse or by calling Gretchen 341-1545.

And save the date for our Tree Festival, December 7th 4-7pm (weather make up 12/14.) We will judge, award and raffle decorated trees. Enjoy food concessions and entertainment. Dexter Brass and some surprise entertainers will share holiday music and dance. We need everyone's help to make this event a success. Our major annual fundraiser. MCI Boys Soccer, Nokomis Show Chorus, RSU #19 Football, Nokomis Boys & Girls Soccer, Pittsfield Basketball, Nokomis Music, GS Troop 1300, Balance Yoga, MidMaine Lacrosse elementary 2-4, Middle School and High school and others are competing for "Best Tree" (and other categories) and Most sold raffle tickets. You can win and go home with your Holiday Tree! Sign your group up to decorate a tree! Dekk Monteyro will lead our concession sales. Young lacrosse players and friends join our elf parade! Parents please complete SignUp Genious Food Donations.

These events all take place @ Palmyra Community Center

But there's more.....

Save your pennies or ask Santa...

A collegiate level lacrosse coach, Jim Dock, UMF, will offer a February Training Camp on some Sunday's in February and March to middle school (3-4pm) and high school (4-5/5:30pm) players. This costs &75. (Similar programs elsewhere cost >$140) This program is an amazing opportunity. Comparable program are offered only in Scarborough and Warren (long drives....). Sign up by December 31st. Then this will be opened to other area clubs. Stay tuned for registration information. Grow our game and prepare for spring play.

Two very important matters for ALL current and prospective players...
1. Sign up at www.midmainelacrosse email sign up
2. Like Midmaine Lacrosse on FB and Check get Notification.

Check us out at www.midmainelacrosse.com

 There is so much going on. 
If you get confused...look to the calendar.
Underneath SignUp Genius on this page;
http://www.midmainelacrosse.com/html/master_calendar.html

1. Fall TrashCan, Learn2Lax and Skills & Drills 11/6

2. Sticks and Stones 11/16

3. Tsothohrha Tree Festival 12/7 

a. SignUp Genius-food 

b. Entertainment Committees and FB Pages

c. Tree Decorators

d. Much More.....

4. Winter TrashCan, Learn to Lax and Skills & Drills 

5. UMF@MML Training Camp February and March

so excited! great news!

Jim Dock, Head Coach UMF, has agreed to conduct a MML training camp for middle school and high school lacrosse players during February and March.

Stay tuned for further details.

Dock brings 15 years of coaching to UMF including on the national, collegiate, and high school levels. 

He coached Team Liberty at the U.S. Lacrosse Champion All-American Showcase held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida at the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World in 2013. 

He was a presenter at the 2013 U.S. Lacrosse National Convention. In 2007 and 2011, he was the National U-19 Team Scrimmage Coach.  

Dock served as the Boy's Varsity Lacrosse Program Director and Head Coach at Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine from 2012-2014. At Gould, he was responsible for recruiting and developing new players, director of team social media accounts, and game management. 

Dock was honored as the U.S. Lacrosse Chapter Man of the Year Award- Maine Chapter in June 2014. 

He has served as the chapter's Men's Game High School Area Chairman since 2012. He also held the position of President and Vice president. 

We are a lucky lot.

Food Tsothohrha Tree Festival

We need your help.....

Please make and bring a hot foodstuff to sell at the Tsothohrha Tree Festival. Dec 7th.

Click below to RSVP and describe your dish.

Please help make this is our largest fund raising effort & success for 2014-15.

The festival opens at 4. Please bring food near 3:30.

Please bring dish in a disposable dish.

http://midmainelacrosse.com/html/master_calendar.html

(Genius Sign UP may not work from your phone)

The Zombie Run registration form is now posted on the Forms and Documents page.  Click here and RUN!!!

Available for print @ www.midmainelacrosse.com soon.

Teachers on the Run 5K

REGISTRATION FORM

Please mail to: Kelly McCullough - HCS

62 Elm St., Hartland, ME 04943

NAME:_________________________________________AGE:_____________

ADDRESS:______________________________________________________

PHONE #:__________________________   E-MAIL:______________________


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Participant Waiver for Race Registration

I know that running a road race is potentially hazardous activity, which could cause injury or death. I will not enter and participate unless I am medically able and properly trained, and by my signature, I certify that I am medically able to perform this event, and am in good health, and I am properly trained. I agree to abide by any decision of a race official relative to any aspect of my participation in this event, including the right of any official to deny or suspend my participation for any reason whatsoever. I assume all risks associated with running in this event, including but no limited to: falls, contact with other participants, the effects of the weather, including high heat and/or humidity, traffic and the conditions of the road, all such risks being known and appreciated by me.   Having read this waiver ad knowing these facts and in consideration of your accepting my entry, I, for myself and anyone entitled to act on my behalf, waive and release the Teachers on the Run 5K Race Series, the town of Hartland, and all sponsors, their representatives and successors from all claims or liabilities of any kind arising out of my participation in this event, even though that liability may arise out of negligence or carelessness on the part of the persons named in this waiver.   I also grant permission to all of the foregoing to use my photographs, motion pictures, recordings or any other record of this event for any legitimate purpose.

Signature:_______________________________________________________________Date:_______

Parent’s Signature if under 18 years:

_________________________________________________________

Teacher's on the Run, in partnership with MidMaine Lacrosse, invite you.....

Teachers on the Run

5K Race Series presents:

"Zombie Run"

Friday, October 24, 2014

Place: On the ATV trail behind the Pine Grove Cemetary on Rt. 152   

Cost: donations accepted - proceeds will be shared with Mid Maine Lacross

Registration 4:30-5:00pm

Race Start: 5:00 for walkers, 5:10 for runners, 5:13 for zombies

"Run for your life!   The Zombies are chasing you!!"

At this month's race, participants will be given a flag to attach to their belt.   They will be given a 3 minute head start to run from the Zombies (a.k.a. The Teachers on the Run)!   The Zombies will chase after the runners and try to pull the flag off from the belt.   If you lose your flag, you will turn into a Zombie too!   Who will make it to the finish line still alive as a human.....???

We are also teaming up this month with the Mid Maine Lacross Team to add some extra zombies along our trail!   Keep your eyes open - you never know when one might pop out to get you!!

Please note our change in race location, day and time!!   We're hoping it will really set the "creepy mood" - making it more fun for everyone!   Parking will be along the road beside the cemetary.   Although we will have signs up indicating our event, please use caution when making your way to the race registration from your vehicle.   The registration will be at the head of the ATV trail beside the cemetary.   Our route will be 2 miles total (1 mile out and 1 mile back) on the ATV trail.   Since it will be getting dark as racers finish, please feel free to BYOF (bring your own flashlight)!

Prizes will be given to the first place finisher for each of the following categories: 

*First place human male, female and student

*First place zombie male, female and student

All participants will be entered into a raffle to be drawn at the conclusion of the race.

Find us on Facebook - Teachers on the Run

Follow us on Twitter - @teachersrun

The Agenda for the 10/9 6pm Parent/BOD Meeting @ PCC

I.        Attendance

II.     Robert Rules

III.   GYHA By-Laws

IV.     Secretary Minutes Last Meeting

V.       Treasurer

VI.     Current Items

A. Contract

B. Fall Ball

C. Trash Can

D. Sticks and Stones

E. Tsothohrha Tree Festival

F. Winter Coach

G. Spring Recreation

H. Tegenhondi Tournament

Parent and Board of Directors Meeting        MidMaine Lacrosse        Thursday October 9th       6:00-7:00pm           @ Palmyra Community Center

I will post our agenda (soon). If you see that I have forgotten a concern please inform me. If you cannot attend but have comments to share please do so. I realize we are all too busy. As long as I know you want to be involved please do not worry if you cannot make a meeting. We would prefer to have your help at an event. Please share thoughts via email or FB messages. We count on your suggestions and feedback. Stay tuned for Thursday's agenda. Thank you,  Gretchen

Amazing Parent and Board Member support to start the 2014-15

Lacrosse League Planning last evening.

 ! 

Thank You to so many. It is tough to get out in the evening. 

It was my 3rd parent meeting of the week so I know. 

Thank you all very much. 

We covered a great deal of ground.

 I think we can accomplish additional work- often at a committee level. 

Thanks for expressing support, ideas, questions and concerns. 

Off and Running.....Here we GO!

 5 Hours Remain Until the 

BIG Meeting

6:00 PM @ PCC

The Big Lacrosse Parent Meeting

6 PM Palmyra Community Center

All About the Future of Local Lacrosse

If you can only make 1 meeting all year

Please Make Sure it is this meeting.......

The MOST Important Parent/Board Meeting of 2014/15 is 

TOMORROW, Thursday, 9/18 6:00 pm 

@ Palmyra Community Center. 

If you can only make one meeting....Make This Meeting. 

PLEASE & THANK YOU

The MOST Important Parent/Board Meeting of 

2014/15 is this 

Thursday, 9/18 6:00 pm @ Palmyra Community Center.

If you can only make one meeting....

Make This Meeting.

PLEASE & THANK YOU