TSA & BOWERS' CORNER E-NEWS Subscribers - June 13 & 26, 2005
To: Bowers' Corner & TSA Websites' Visitors & e-news subscriber(s):
JIM MANDERS (Prior Publisher of Laggin4s Weekly E-magazine)
(Click Here to View Jim Mander's Pacific NW HOF Induction Booklet - Provided By Sharon Nugent)
(Click Here to View Photo Album Slide Show of Jim Mander's NW HOF Induction & Memorial)
Many Thanks to the Balloon Inn Players for the beautiful Memorial Event flowers!
UPDATE (Sunday, June 26, 2005 2:32 AM (emailed letter from Sharon Griffin for Jim Manders to all of the shuffleboard community):
Greetings to all of Jim's friends, readers and shuffleboard family:
As some of you may know, Jim Manders passed away early Monday morning, June 13, 2005. He had been battling cancer since the fall of 2004, and I can tell you personally, that he fought the good fight. He left us peacefully, in his favorite chair, at home in his sleep and I am thankful that I could be with him. He was greatly loved and will be greatly missed.
I want to take just a moment or two to tell you how much all of you, and Lagging4s meant to Jim, not only as his health declined, but since the first edition hit the streets in May of 2004. As those of you who know Jim already know, Jim loved shuffleboard. It was not just a game, it was a passion. He loved the fellowship of shuffleboard and his shuffleboard family, locally, nationally and internationally. He loved to play the game, watch the game, read about the game and write about the game. Even in these last weeks, Jim spent countless hours working on the magazine and making plans for future editions. Lagging4s was inspired by his passion for shuffleboard and his wish to create a cohesive, supportive shuffleboard community which he believed was the way to make shuffleboard a sport that competed with pool, poker, bowling, golf and other sports for sponsorship, publicity and popularity. His steadily increasing readership and advertisers prove that he has made a ripple towards that goal. Ripples spread.
It is my hope that Jim's passion and wishes for shuffleboard and his shuffleboard family have inspired continued momentum towards his goals, and that the ripples will continue to spread and their effects widen. Your support of Lagging4s and shuffleboard are appreciated more than you know. Thank you.
Lagging4s was a very personal production to Jim. Although we appreciate the offers to continue the magazine, I believe Jim would want it to remain his own, and so, the final edition of Lagging4s was the June 8, 2005 issue.
Jim was inducted into the Pacific Northwest Hall of Fame on June 25, 2005, at the Whistling Oyster in Quilcene, OR. The event was a wonderful celebration of Jim's life. My deepest thanks to his local shuffleboard family who put so much heart and effort into the day. More information about the event, and about Jim's life and his passing is available at eshuffleboard.com and at http://www.shuffleboardcorner.com.
I hope that I've done this properly and haven't omitted anyone, if I have, please share. As I said, this was a very personal project to Jim and this is the first time I've touched this list.
Thank you. Play like you love the game.
Lagging4s has been put to bed.
Sharon Griffin,
sharon@griffin-reynoldslaw.com
for Jim Manders, publisher Lagging 4s
The weekly ezine of table shuffleboard
Phone: 360-670-6299
PO Box 934 Sequim, Wash., 98382
PERSONAL MESSAGES: (received from Sharon Nugent 6-13-05)
Jim Manders passed away quietly in his sleep this morning about 4 a.m. (6-13-05) after months of battling cancer. The family said Jim requested no funeral services. However, the already planned Pacific NW Hall of Fame Ceremony will now be both a Memorial and HOF ceremony, as he would have wanted it. Therefore, his already planned/scheduled "It Ain't A Tournament" ceremony is still going to take place on June 25th @ 1:00 p.m. at the Whistling Oyster in Quilcene, Washington along with a memorial for Jim (as Jim did not want his HOF induction to be concurrent with a tournament because his health would not allow him to have played in a full tournament). Please try and make it because the players & shuffleboard were important to Jim.
Hope to see you there. To view details of the upcoming memorial and Pacific NW HOF ceremony, click here or view below. Thanks, Sharon Nugent
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jim Manders' family and friends!
Lynda French, Webmaster lynda@tableshuffleboard.org (512) 250-0327 fax: (512) 597-0509
http://www.shuffleboardcorner.com & http://www.tableshuffleboard.org
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/209700PS: If you wish to send a card, you may send to his family via his girlfriend (Sharon Griffin) who will pass on cards and messages to family & friends:
Sharon Griffin; PO BOX 686, Corvallis, OR 97339 Email: sharon@griffin-reynoldslaw.com
Below
is copy of the Jim Manders Memorial Flyer Sent
to
the Shuffleboard Community before the
event:
Table Shuffleboard Association (TSA) Website: http://www.tableshuffleboard.org
Bowers' Corner Website: http://www.shuffleboardcorner.com
Bowers' Corner & TSA Websites Joint BBS: http://tsaorg.proboards31.com
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