Stockton To Speak Oct. 17 At Bulldog Club Luncheon
Utah Jazz All-Star guard and Gonzaga University graduate John Stockton will be the featured speaker at the Oct. 17 monthly luncheon of the Bulldog Club at noon at the Crescent Court Ballroom, 707 W Main.
Stockton and his Jazz teammates will be in town for that night’s NBA exhibition game against the Seattle Sonics at 7:30 in the Spokane Arena.
Cost of the luncheon, which is open to the public, is $15. A pre-paid RSVP must be received by 5 p.m. Thursday at the Bulldog Club office in Martin Centre. Info: 328-4220, ext. 4204. No tickets will be sold at the door.
“We want to stress … the importance of an RSVP for this event,” Bulldog Club director John Preston said. “The caterer requires an accurate count of the number of lunches to be served and has set Thursday as the deadline.”
Tickets for the Jazz-Sonics game are still available through the Arena box office or by calling G&B Select-A-Seat, (800) 325-SEAT.
Basketball
They have the coaches, now they just need the players for a Shadle Park High School alumni boys basketball tournament Dec. 30 at the school.
Shadle assistant Tim Gaebe, and an event coordinator with head coach Darcy Weisner, said former Highlanders coaches Paul Henley, Dave Robertson, Jim Groves and Jim Meredith have committed to each coach a team in a round-robin event.
“We will compile four teams as evenly as possible,” Weisner and Gaebe said in a letter to former players.
Each team will play three games, then the group will get together for a social gathering at 5-Mile Heights Pizza. Cost to play is $20, which includes a T-shirt for the games then keep.
Interested former Highlanders should contact Weisner or Gaebe at the school, 353-4531, or Gaebe at home, 838-8274.
College scene
Katherine Munzig of Spokane (St. George’s) is a middle back and senior co-captain on the Bates College volleyball team in Lewiston, Maine. The NCAA Division III Bobcats have started the season 10-6.
The Epsilon Omega Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Eastern Washington University will stage a fund-raiser for the local Wishing Star Foundation when its members run the game ball for the EWU-Idaho football game Saturday to Moscow.
Runners will leave Cheney at noon Friday, follow the Cheney-Spangle Road to Rosalia, then State Route 195 to Moscow, arriving about midnight. Game time is 3:05 p.m.
Businesses or individuals wishing to make a pledge or donation should contact RJ Keetch, Beta Theta Pi fraternity vice president, at (509) 235-6296.
Miscellany
The Spokane County Parks Department will run a drop-in basketball program for persons 16 and older Monday nights from 7-9 through Nov. 6 at Northwood Junior High. Nightly fee is $2. It starts this Monday.
A County Parks-sponsored drop-in volleyball program is already under way at two sites - Mondays through Nov. 13 at Northwood and Tuesdays through Nov. 14 at North Pines Junior High. Both run from 7-9 with a $2 nightly fee. You also must be 16 or older.
Info: 456-4730.
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