Parties: Stingers and All Team

MN Special Hockey - Calendar has two new entries.

Seth Radspinner's family is hosting a Stingers Pizza party on March 2nd after the game. Please see the handout for more information and phone to RSVP. There's a $5 donation per family.

On Sun March 16th there's an All Teams MN Special Hockey end-of-season skate and party. See the flyer for more details.

Directions for both events can be found by following the calendar details links.

Reference added to web site: Getting ready for practice

I've added a new link to our website reference page:

MN Special Hockey - References and Links: "Equipment Guide and Getting Ready: Equipment assembly and more"

Tips on getting geared-up for play.

Coon Rapids MN Special Hockey Video

Coon Rapids Community TV (Channel 15) has a video on our program. It requires Windows Media Player to view the video using this link:
mms://media.ci.coon-rapids.mn.us/cr/TOTT02-01-08.wmv.

OS X users can view these videos by downloading the free Flip4Mac software (Microsoft distributes this and I've used it.)

Introduction to the Minnesota Special Hockey organizational site (for coaches and board members)

This news announcement is only important if you're a coach, board member, or a volunteer who needs to update our calendar or share documents.

Otherwise, you can ignore it.

Our www.mnspecialhockey.org web site is provided to us by Google. It's free now, and once we get our non-profit tax number we get even more free Google services. It's a bit like having our own "IT department" - for free.

Even now Google provides some services, like shared documents and spreadsheets that we can use if we need them. They also give us some pretty good calendar services.

For now it's only the calendar we're going to be using. It will allow us to create public events everyone can see, and private events for "authorized users" only.

I've created user accounts for board members and coaches and we can add other volunteers as needed. These users can edit the calendar that's displayed on our public calendar page.

Here are some reference notes for these users:

• I sent out user names and passwords January 29th. If you need help with those email me at jfaughnan@spamcop.net.
• Everyone has an email account.The new accounts are set to forward to members' regular email address. You can test this by mailing a message to your MN Special Hockey account and seeing if you get it back. If you don't get it back let me know. If you want to use these as real email accounts you can just change the settings (see below).
• There's a start page where you can find links to the calendar, change your password, access your email (optional) and try other features: http://start.mnspecialhockey.org. There's also a link to this page on the main page of our public site. You can use this as your home page if you like!
• If you change your password don't forget it, I can reset your password but I can't find out what you change it to!

Stingers; hold march 16 for eoy party

Coach Rick is planning for an EOY party on March 16th, so mark that day off. Probably @ 5pm.