September 24, 2006 Thank you one and all for a great season! The canned food drive pulled in $2,200.00 in supplies for the Domestic Assault Shelter, our largest single donation on record. Your genersity is GREATLY appreciated. Our next goal is to buy the shelter appliances with our proceeds from SplatmanBOO Haunted Forest. They are desparately in need of a new refridgerator and washer/dryer set. We have one final 110%er to acknowledge for the season, Gene, for helping re-vamp the registration booth. In addition, congratulations to Tony Reigle, for his first "Go for the Gold" pin, and Nathan Hohnke, who achieved his 5th consecutive year of "Goin' for the Gold", warranting a five year appreciation trophy. Thank you to Ryan who returned the Bob Long Intimidator to the club, allowing us to re-sell the gun to buy more for the club! Congratulations one and all for a record-breaking season. See you all Opening Day, April 1st 2007! BIG GAME X - September 17, 2006 Any person that was lucky enough to come out today saw our largest BIG GAME numbers in the 12 years of Splatmandu. We broke numerous records, first being we have over 100 players per team! (115 per side to be exact) This made 230 players on the field this Sunday! We were graced with an amazing support and referee staff this year, with 19+ on the field keeping everyone safe. 41 new waivers put our grand total through BIG GAME to 738 club members for the year. 2006 MAFIA WARS Award winners: Winning Team: Grey - Mag Mafia Ray "The Ox" Oswalt - Captain Steve " Cash" Noble - Co-Captain Sportsmanship Award: Bruce Lego Funniest Moment - Hornello's Delivery Jason Horning Shot of the Year - Todd's Organized Crime Todd Tippett Golden Crutch: Nate Hohnke Ted's Reds Spotlight Award (new for 2006): Korey Blasius - Honor During Adversity MVP: Tony Reigle
For more 110%ers were added to the list as well. Special thanks go out to Galesburg Meat Company for the great pig roast, Mike from Weenie Kings (best hotdogs on earth), Brian for running that Blue line like a pro this year, and Carol, Rex's dad for the YARDS AND YARDS of gravel that allowed our road to support our huge numbers. As always, our raffles produced great results for the club. Sticker Nick raffled numerous items, including the Bob Long Intimidator, played with by Bob Long himself, numerous 2005 Splatmandu DVDs, BIG GAME X t-shirt, Paint, and a gun kit. Our raffle provided the club with $950.00. put into a Home Depot card, to be used to buy supplies for the fields (the first time this has happened in 12 years). The SplatmanBOO! donation jar as well as proceeds from the Weenie Kings for SplatmanBOO! helped us add to our dwindling SplatmanBOO! fund. Now we can purchase those necessary supplies to make the public scream, with all proceeds going to the Domestic Assault Shelter. And finally, from the staff and Key Members of Splatmandu, we would like to thank each and every one of you for an amazing Scenario. Thank you for Playing With Honor, and Keeping it Pure. This place would not be the mecca that it is without the support of club members like you. September 3, 2006 Wonderful weather graced us yet again this Sunday! Our 110%er list continues to grow, adding 2 more. Thanks go out to Abby and Krezo for all their contributions to the Club this year. Our lowest Scenario numbers of the year STILL put us with over 100 players on the field this weekend. We have added 17 new club members, bringing our total so far to 681 for the year! August 6, 2006 A heart-felt thanks go out to all of you for yet another Scenario of Playing With Honor. This weekend boasted over 130 players on the field, and no problems were reported yet again! In addition, SPLATMANDU HAS BROKEN OUR ALL-TIME WAIVER RECORD WITH A TOTAL OF 642 SO FAR FOR 2006! Our all-time high was in 2004 with 618 for April through October! The lucky club member 619 for this year was Max. Sorry, no special prize or anything, but we thank you! Three more club members made the coveted 110%er list this week. We'd like to honor Ken, James and Glenn for all the hard work on the fields as well as personal time dedicated to helping this place run smoothly. We couldn't do what we do without help from generous people like you. Also, Bruce Lego was made an honorary officer by the "Kingpin" Hornello himself of the Sycamore Mafia! Well deserved honor Bruce! Congratulations from all of the Key Members at Splatmandu! You definately deserve it! July 2, 2006 Even with the less-than-perfect weather, we had about 138 players on the field this Scenario! Thank you again for the great showing of Sportsmanship. Also, 4 more club members were 110%ed for their efforts: Cindy, Olivia, Ben and Zack. Thank you all! June 4, 2006 Many thanks go out to one and all for yet ANOTHER great Scenario Sunday! We had 173 players on the field today, and each and every one of you played with honor, and 49 of you were new to the field today! We thank you. Also, we have 6 new 110%ers we'd like to honor. Thanks go out to John Shay, Sticker Nick, Drake, Scott, Danny and Adam for all you guys bring to the field. Also, Ted's Reds have inducted their final two members.... Steve Krezo and John Crnkovich. Congratulations one and all! May 13, 2006 Special Congratulations go out to Tony Reigle, our newest Key Member! April 9, 2006 Thanks to everyone for yet another great weekend! Belated special thanks go out to Troy Snyder our newest 110%er for the materials brought last season that helped us make SplatmanBOO! possible! April 2, 2006 Thank you to each and every one of you who made Opening Day of 2006 a smashing success! We had our largest opening day in the 12 years of Splatmandu, with an ASTOUNDING 201 waivers signed. This year we also recognized 3 new Key Members, Shannon Ruedger, Sheilla Stiles, and Jennifer Cooley. In addition, we have 37 pre-season 110%ers this year: T & K , Nate and Jen, Karl and Shannon, Rod and Sheilla, Joe, Johnny, Ray, Alex, Tony, Jason and Michelle Horning, Eric E., Bill, Justin, Todd and Jason Tippett, Josh and Stephanie, Crippin, Chris, Josh, Bruce, Bob, Korey, Jon and Amy Baker, Chad, Ward, Tex, Scott, Wild Bill, "Bobcat" Rex, and Eric Fritz. March 18 and 19, 2006 The weather turned out to be great. The Neutral Zone is 90% completed, a huge dump-run was made, the Chrono got a face-lift, any items left over from the BOO! in the City are now put away, and a new building went up in the City (sad to see the bricks go, but the building looks great!) The Forest continued to be groomed as well (great work Shannon!). Thanks to Jason T. Matt, Kenny, Courtney, and Korey for all the back-breaking labor this weekend!
March 11, 2006 With Ted and Kathy gone this past weekend, we really had to step up our work load, and everyone came through giving that 110%. The Painted Forest has no stray sticks (find one, we dare you!) The supply pile got condensed, and a stick fence was completed around two-thirds of the front yard, adding at least 7 to 10 more parking spaces! Thanks to Stephanie for coming this weekend to help out!
March 4, 2006 Great work on the fields this weekend! We got Splat City playable, the Nest re-fortified, the tree off the Alamo, plus more stick-dragging in the Forest! Thank you to Bob, Troy, Diane, Rod, Sticker Nick and Nate!
February 25, 2006 Special thanks to Josh, Scott and Bruce for all your help in the Painted Forest and Hornet's Nest this weekend. 30 GROUNDHOGS FOR 2006!
February 12, 2006 Two more groundhogs (now we're at 27) joined the pre-season work crew on this snowy Sunday afternoon. Thank you Tommy and Briar for all your help in the back pasture. February 11, 2006 Three more goundhogs (that makes 25 ) joined the usual suspects Saturday afternoon clearing Neal's Preserve from much of the overgrown briars and branches/treetops which made that portion of the property virtually unusable. The pine trees have never looked better. We're heading out there again tomorrow to put one more day into the effort. Thanks Eric, Johnny and Chris for helping us clean up that area. **************************************** February 5, 2006 Thank you Todd, Josh and Stephanie for your work in the Painted Forest on Super Bowl Sunday. After one weekend, our 2006 Groundhogs now total 22!
Also, a special thanks to Sheilla Stiles for running The Store in the Neutral Zone again this upcoming season. **************************************** February 4, 2006 Thank you to each of the 19 Groundhogs for coming out today (in icky weather) to work on the fields, getting them ready forthe 2006 Paintball season. The first of the 2006 Groundhogs are:T & K, Nate & Jen, Karl & Shannon, Rod & Sheilla, Joe, Ray, Alex, Tony, Jason, Eric, Bill, Justin, Tom, Corryn and Rendall. Work preparing the fields continues until opening day... but to be a groundhog, you have to sweat in February. Last year we had 38 by the end of the month... we are half way there on day one.
****************************************** We are very happy to announce that Karl Ruedger will again provide CO2 and Rod Stiles will again provide nitro/compresssed air and paintballs for the Splatmandu Club Members. The provisions will be made available in the Neutral Zone during the 2006 Paintball season. Thank you, Karl and Rod!
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