Cooper Landing Community Club

Dear Cooper Landing Community Members,

It is so wonderful to see our summer season is up and running strong for our local businesses and residents! With that in mind, there are now mostly weddings, reunions and meetings being held at our Community Hall until the Fall. Your CLCC Board is busy wrapping up the paperwork to be submitted for the KPB Revenue Sharing program and acquiring equipment for the OWL Meeting system that we are able to purchase through being awarded a Kenai Peninsula Community Grant.

We also would like to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to all who made the 2023 Softball Tournament a fun filled successful event. We are very grateful to those who made it possible And for those organizations who helped out with concessions during the tournament, you each earned close to $700 for your hard work and participation. Well Done!

Thank you to Kenai Princess Lodge (Alison Neeld, Tracy Smith and Angel Bond) for supplying the most delicious burgers, hot dogs, buns, and sponsoring a rib night to feed our spectators and players. Thank you to Wildmans (Cheryle James) for supplying a cooler, onions, many supplies, and helping us with chips,pretzels, ice cream and sodas.

Thank you Alaska Wildland Adventures (David Story) for making our burgers complete with lettuce and tomatoes. We also would like to thank Two Brothers Roadhouse for their donation of pulled pork sandwiches, always a hit with everyone!

Thank you to our concession workers supplied by the Cooper Landing Chamber, Cooper Landing Senior Citizens Corporation, Inc., the Youth Group Committee, Cooper Landing Emergency Services, Cooper Landing Trails Committee and the Cooper Landing Library. People would have starved if you hadn’t been there to help serve!

Thank you to all those who donated to our Silent Auction. This is one of our major fund raisers for the Community Club and we were overwhelmed with everyone’s generosity as well as those who donated by bidding on items.

Thank you to Dan Michels, who year after year, supplies his passion for the game in coordinating teams, umps, scorekeepers and maintenance on and around the field. Thank you Jim Carlson, Dave Westerman, Dave & Martha Story, and the others who helped prep the field before our games. (A shout out to Dave Westerman as well who repaired and cleaned the pavilion roof after a wayward visitor accidentally tagged it with their motorhome!) Thank you to John James, Olive James, Ryan Altman and Nick Vanderhof for manning the board and Ann Hanson, Theresa Norris, and Glen Parker for keeping score. Thank you to John Thomas & Ed Holsten for announcing. We also appreciate John Thomas and Rachel Altman for singing the national anthem at the start of each game.

Thank you to John and Julie Almarode, who after everyone was gone, kept the field and parking lot clean, as well as hauled our trash out for us. Thank you to our teams and the players for supplying umps and providing all of us an escape for 10 days. Hats off to Mountain Madness for second place, and Two Brothers Road House, Alaska River Adventures, Alaska Wildland Adventures, Kenai Princess Lodge, Alaska Rivers Company, the Bean Creakers for all your energy, enthusiasm and sore muscles! We also thoroughly enjoyed the first ever kids game, featuring our Cooper Landing youth beating the Bean Creekers! Thank you Shayla Swain, Paige Booze and Dan Michels for making that happen.

Lastly, Congratulations to Candy Fitzpatrick for winning the Split the Pot and to MooseAlanche for being the 2023 Cooper Landing Softball Tournament Champions! Well played!

The Cooper Landing Community Club Board

-Yvette, Melissa, Ruth, Lorraine and Ed