Sponsor a Banner To Support The Pool Or Swim Team!

Some of you have asked if businesses and families could sponsor the area community pool or swim team and the answer is YES!

Below are two examples with  more to be placed in the near future!

The community thanks our current sponsors for their generous support and if you would like to join the growing list of supporters a sponsor banner form is available at the link below.

Banner Sponsor Form

Freestyle Clip

Freestyle
Originally uploaded by NECS

Freestyle Clip From The BETA Triangular Meet, Oct. 6, 2009. Cassie is swimming hard in this close race.

Backstroke Clip / BETA Triangular Meet

Backstroke
Originally uploaded by NECS

Galina is taking it home in this Backstroke Clip from the BETA Triangular Meet on Oct. 6, 2009. Dad gets a little overexcited on this one.

Operation Round Up gives more than $24,000 to community programs

Please view the link below and our area community pool thanks the Lake Country Power’s Operation Round Up® Trust Board for its contribution to the effort.

Operation Round Up gives more than $24,000 to community programs

Thank you,

Mary and Jewell Herring
Northeast County Swim Boosters

Northeast Country Swim Boosters Website

Rainbow Says...

Support Our Fighting BETA's!

 

Way to go girls!

Make A Donation!

For anyone who would like to make a donation to support the Babbitt-Embarrass BETA pool an account has been established at the Babbitt Steelworkers Credit Union to handle pool fundraising activities.

Any checks that are written should be made out to:

“Northeast Country Swim Boosters”.

The direct mailing address of the credit union is below:

Babbitt Steelworkers Credit Union
24 Commerce Rd.
Babbitt, Mn. 55706
(218) 827-3121

The monies from this account will be forwarded to the school district earmarked for the Babbitt-Embarrass swimming pool and BETA girls swim team dependent on the needs of each and the school.

The community and school thanks you for your support!

School Board #2142 Pool Decision Update

Good News! On April 27, 2009 at the regular meeting in Orr, Minnesota the school board recommendation was to fund a portion of the yearly costs of pool operation for the three schools in Babbitt, Cook and Tower for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year. This will keep our pool in Babbitt open while allowing additional fundraising within our area by our sports team and community members for additional activities and the benefit of the surrounding area and its members.

The school board is also looking into an alternate pool heating system such as the Mesabi-East school district has to provide for a lower cost of operation when heating water with the boiler is not cost effective during the non-heating season. This will allow our pool to generate more revenue during other parts of the year.

Based upon information received at the meeting it appears that the operational pool levy failed in committee in the Minnesota legislature.

The end result is that we have a pool in the immediate future and we all need to continue supporting it and helping to maintain its health for all in the community and area to use.

For all community and area members who have pledged money previously or would like to make a donation an account has been established at the Babbitt Steelworkers Credit Union to handle pool fundraising activities. Any checks that are written should be made out to “Northeast Country Swim Boosters”.

The direct mailing address of the credit union is below:

Babbitt Steelworkers Credit Union
24 Commerce Rd. Babbitt, Mn. 55706
(218) 827-3121

The monies from this account will be forwarded to the school district earmarked for the Babbitt-Embarrass swimming pool and BETA girls swim team dependent on the needs of each and the school.

We have many enjoyable fundraisers being planned for the community. We hope that you plan to attend and enjoy them as well. Current updates and fundraisers will be posted on the Northeast Country Swim Boosters website: http://necswimboosters.blogspot.com/ , the Babbitt, Minnesota blogspot: http://babbittcs.blogspot.com/ , and in the local newspapers.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the many people in this area who have donated and will continue to donate their time, resources and influence to help maintain this valuable asset for our community and area.


Thank you all,


Northeast Country Swim Boosters
Mary and Jewell Herring and committee members
E-Mail Contact: babbittcs@frontiernet.net
Phone Contact: 218-827-3257

Andrea Zupancich Cooks A Recipe To Save The Babbitt-Embarrass Pool.

See the following link from the Mesabi Daily News.

http://www.virginiamn.com/articles/2009/03/28/news/doc49ceec1cbdbdf026360130.txt


Andrea's cook books can be purchased at Babbitt Drug, or her real estate office - 15 Commerce Rd. in the Babbitt shopping center if you would like to help the pool and do some fine cooking as well.

Here is the website link for z'Up North Realty:
http://www.zupnorth.com/

Informational Note / Clarification

Northeast Country Swim Boosters was initially formed as a means of assisting the Saint Louis County School Board (#2142) help fund its pool(s).

As time has passed, the two other schools affected, Cook and Tower, have formed fundraising groups for their own pools and are school specific. As such, Northeast Country Swim Boosters is currently working with and fundraising for the Babbitt-Embarrass school to help defray the costs of operating and maintaining our school pool. We presently are not fundraising in the communities of Cook and Tower and are fundraising for the Babbitt-Embarrass school pool. We wish them the best in their efforts.We hope this clears up any confusion.

Also, as a reminder the next school board meeting is March 23, 2009. Please attend to show your support for our school pools.

UW-Stevens Point Swimming Program

Here is the link to Al Boelk's swimming program.

He is a leader developed from swimming in the area.

http://athletics.uwsp.edu/coaches.aspx?rc=3&path=mswim

Pool / BETA Boosters Pledge Support Form

On January 26, 2009 a group of supporters for the St. Louis County school pools and girls competitive swim team (BETA) attended the St. Louis County District 2142 school board meeting. Under consideration at this meeting was discussion of discontinuing the use of the school swimming pools in Babbitt-Embarrass, Tower, and Cook which would directly impact the communities and the future of the BETA swim team at the start of the 2009 - 2010 school year.

The Board is seeking legislative help which if passed would take effect in the 2010/2011 academic school year. As a stop gap measure the Board is suggesting we look for a means to help reduce the cost to the district of operating these pools and BETA swim team for the upcoming season and return on March 23, 2009 with funding ideas. Suggestions such as obtaining pledges and sponsorship from local and regional businesses, community members and planned fund raisers such as beef jerky sales, towel sales, car washes, Peter Mitchell and Walleye Whamma booths, feeds, raffles and other miscellaneous sales are being discussed.

Yearly expenditures for the three pools as calculated by the school district are close to 150,000 dollars and expenditures for the Babbitt-Embarrass pool alone were calculated by the school district at approximately 36,000 dollars.

Funding from this account for the school district would be contingent upon the board support of our pool and continued support of the BETA swim team for the upcoming school year (2009 – 2010). BETA and our fundraising group has members from Babbitt-Embarrass, Tower-Soudan and the Ely area.

Would you be able to donate or canvas for the Babbitt-Embarrass pool and BETA swim team? Thank you in advance for your willingness to help save our pool and team.

Should the board decide to continue its support of our community pools and swim team a donation account will be set up at the Babbitt Steelworkers’ Credit Union in Babbitt, Mn.

We are asking for your help and financial support for our pools and BETA swim team. Without our School District #2142 pools and swim team, we as communities will lose a great asset that will adversely affect our students and families.


Please return the following form to:

Mary Muellerleile Herring

Northeast Country Swim Boosters – Pledge Coordinator
37 Fir Circle
Babbitt, Mn. 55706

Or: Contact Mary by e-mail :

mailto:babbittcs@frontiernet.net


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Northeast Country Swim Boosters
Pledge Support Form


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Contact Phone Number:

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Northeast Country Swim Boosters

We are working on finding ways to assist our school district with the funding of our school and community swimming pools and our girls swimming team which combines the towns of Babbitt, Embarrass, Tower, Soudan and Ely (BETA). If you like to swim, plan activities, have ideas, fundraise or just would like to join the group please contact us. Everyone is welcome. The pools and our girls swimming team are a vital part of the core infrastructure to our rural communities.

http://necswimboosters.blogspot.com/

Resolution Supporting Swimming Pools

Resolution Supporting Operation and Maintenance of
Swimming Pools at Babbitt, Tower and Cook, Minnesota
in St. Louis County School District #2142

WHEREAS: The pools at these schools have been in operation and used for many years by students and citizens of the communities for PhyEd, swimming lessons, water safety training, exercise, and therapeutic use; and

WHEREAS: The Babbitt school has had a competitive high school girls’ swim team for over 20 years; and

WHEREAS: The Ely school board (ISD 696) drained and closed its swimming pool in the Spring of 2007, eliminating its girls swim team; and

WHEREAS: ISD 696 and ISD 2142 formed a cooperative agreement for a swim team for girls from Babbitt, Tower and Ely; and

WHEREAS: Over 20 girls from Babbitt, Tower, and Ely have been a part of the Babbitt Ely Tower Aquatic (BETA) swim team since its formation in August 2007; and,

WHEREAS: The BETAs have had two successful years as a combined team and have won the Section 7A Academic Award both years; and

WHEREAS: Swimming builds confidence and is a lifelong activity; extracurricular activities challenge students and have a positive influence on their lives; and,

WHEREAS: ISD 2142 is considering closing the swimming pools at Babbitt, Tower and Cook because of budget concerns; and

WHEREAS: With declining enrollment, we cannot afford to close off one more opportunity that would encourage people to move to our area; and

WHEREAS: If ISD 2142 closes its pools, there will be no local opportunities for children and adults to learn to how to swim or to learn water safety; and

WHEREAS: There are many lakes and rivers in the Babbitt, Tower, Cook and Ely areas and it is important that people know how to swim and know water safety.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That we the parents and members of the BETA girls swim team support the bill by Senator Tom Bakk and Representative David Dill to allow ISD 2142 to levy for pool related expenses.

Motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was made on February 2, 2009, by Rose Spehar, seconded by Karin Peterson and declared carried on the following vote:

YES: Billie Rouse, Mike Rouse, Galina Herring, Mary Muellerleile, Jewell Herring, Andy Levar, Krislyn Mattei, Karin Peterson, Bob Maidl, Kris Kidd, Dick Niss

NO: None.