The San Geronimo Valley Community Center
Lagunitas Bobcats with Coach James Tolbert
funding strategies lent excitement. The Chavez Family 49-hour Basketball Free Throw Shooting Marathon, and a hunger fast by Dave Burns of Woodacre inspired even more contributions. Finally the big day came, the grand opening of the Com- munity Gym and Loft on August 29, 2009. Hooray! Jubilation reigned! The event was kicked off by Valley Games, chaired by Mike Davidson and Jasper Thelin. Over 400 happy people participated, and the event raised $10,000 from tickets, T-shirt sales (still have mine) and food (thanks, Good Earth!). Village teams—the Lagunitas Lightnings, Forest Knolls Trolls, San Geronimo Leapin’ Salmon and the Woodacre Wild Turkeys— duked it out with the Non-Native Invaders from over the hill, and lots of laughs were had. At the triumphant moment, the gym doors were thrown open and hundreds of cheering kids and adults stormed the amazing space, chanting their team songs at full volume! We are the Turkeys, the mighty, mighty Turkeys! Still, there was more work to be done, and money to be raised. In the fall of 2009 a new campaign by the tenacious leaders focused on installing the special gym floor and outfitting the gym with equipment and bleachers. Today, work still needs to be done—a storage facility for equip- ment is essential and will be built in 2017. Old leaders and new continue efforts to support the Loft programs, and an annual Golf Tournament led by Jay and Liora Soladay is the mainstay event for raising funds for operations and maintenance. The job of caring for the Gym and Loft goes on, and will, we hope, forever. Well done, Valley! In the summer of 2007 site work for the Gym commenced. The official groundbreaking took place on September 15, 2007.
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50 th Anniversary
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