Northeast Region Blog

Hi Everybody,

This is my first post to the Northeast Blog. We are coming into a very exciting time for the Northeast. For the first time in 8 years, there will be an IGBO Midyear Tournament in Syracuse NY in November 2009. And with a little luck, the 30th Anniversary IGBO Annual Tournament will be in Washington,DC in May 2010. After having been all over the country to these various tournaments over the past 6 years, now it is our turn.

I am sure by now some of you are sick of me touting the "Northeast Region", but get used to it, it is my job, the job I was elected to do. I want to make sure that this region, every bowler, every league and every tournament, gets what is coming to them from IGBO. IGBO offers enormous benefits for everyone and I want to see those benefits taken advantage of. From 300/800 shirts for the bowlers,to end of year awards for every league, to Storm merchandise for the tournaments, to advertising on the web. These are some of the services IGBO provides to its members. I recently sent out an email about the upcoming Northeast Raffle to support Syracuse. With the support and generous donations by members in our region we have a gift basket that is really incredible. Currently valued at over $2500 (and still growing), this raffle is a way for all the leagues in the region to help support Syracuse. I had originally thought the drawing would be in New Haven, but have decided to postpone the drawing until Gotham in NY in April. This gives us more time to get the tickets out there to the different leagues in the Region. Everyone has the same chance to win, $5 a ticket or 3 for $10, I believe this is a very fair price when you look at all of the merchandise in the basket.

One more thing, please pass this information about the blog onto to all of your bowlers. This is everyones blog and I want to hear from you. If you have good news about your league or a bowler, tell me. If you dont like the way IGBO is doing something, tell me. If you do something in your league that you would like to share with the other leagues, tell me. It can all be posted here on the blog. Just tell all of your bowlers to go to this link, http://igbo.typepad.com/members, and they can have a say in IGBO.

I appreciate you taking the time to read this, I will be at the Sweetheart Tournament in February and at the Gotham Tournament in April. I will be having a meet and greet meeting at both and I look forward to seeing you there.

Rob Silliman

NE Regional Director

Comments

[Bob Lazzaro]

Hi Rob, the Syracuse committee is excited and our heads are swirling with fundraising ideas! We had our first community meeting last night to get some of the "non-bowling" organizations and businesses in town involved in helping us bring Midyear 09 to Syracuse, and their reaction was great. Mark and I are looking forward to Sweetheart and to start selling those raffle tickets!