Dear CTC Members,
I wanted to start by thanking those of you who have extended your offers of a warm welcome to CRAFT (Community Recreation Association For Towns) into the Cambridge Tennis Club environment. My General Manager, Ed Channing, and I are excited about the upcoming season. There are a number of important items we would like to touch upon as the season approaches:
Renewal Forms 
Please be sure to send in your renewal forms! Before you know it, the courts will be ready and we want to make sure everyone is squared away. If you have any questions or need assistance, please send an email to membershipCTC@gmail.com.
Corona Virus
We are keenly aware of this situation and are watching it very closely. To begin with, we have suspended all clubhouse rentals until June at the earliest. We are also going to ask members to please enter through the side gate and go directly to your court if you do not need anything from the clubhouse. As it currently stands, our plan is to have the clubhouse open for use of the restrooms. For ball purchases or other similar needs we ask that transactions occur through the porch window. We ask that you spend as little time in the clubhouse as is necessary. Sanitizer will be available at the entrance which we encourage everyone to use.
Website
CRAFT has built a state-of-the-art website for CTC that the club can be proud of: www.cambridgetennis.org. You will notice that the website address is different, but it will reflect the club's non-profit status with the .org ending. This site contains information from the previous website as well as additional information that will be updated as we move forward. The site comes with new contact information that you may find useful:
Other email addresses and contact information will be added to the website as they become available.
If you would like to rent the clubhouse, the form can now be accessed from this page: http://www.cambridgetennis.org/clubhouse-rental/ The form is optimized so that you no longer need to mail it in, but you can now fill it out and submit it directly from the website!
Court Status
The current plan is for court contractors to begin work on prepping the courts around the beginning to mid April. I understand that the courts were not ready for play until mid/late May of last year. This season we are aiming to have them ready by sometime later in April. We will be emailing everyone as soon as they are good to go!
New Court Booking Platform
This year we will be introducing members to a premium tennis software called Club Automation. If you belong to some of the year round facilities in the area, then you may already be familiar with the program. Club Automation handles many of the tasks that more rudimentary platforms are unable to manage. It is a software that will grow with the changing needs of the club so that you will not need to move to yet another piece of software in the future.
As with all technologies there may be some initial learning involved, but we will be glad to walk you through it!
Looking for a Programmer
One of CRAFT's strengths is in providing professional tennis instruction for both children and adults. In order for the organization to offer players and their children the most organized and structured instruction, we are going to be hiring a tennis programmer. The purpose of a programmer is to coordinate all instructional lessons at the club. The position entails setting up evaluations, putting classes together and confirming the lessons. We would prefer to hire someone who is currently a member of CTC. This individual must be organized, detailed and personable. It does require basic computer skills, but the position is done remotely out of your own home or wherever you can access a computer. If you are interested or know of someone who you think would be interested, please contact us at manager@cambridgetennis.org.
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We are looking forward to getting the season underway and we hope to have the courts ready sooner than they were last year. We will keep you informed via email as well as through the website. The Facebook page will also be getting updated soon.
Stay tuned, as more is on the way!
Marcus Lewis
