Wednesday, July 4, 2012
The annual gala, held in September, will be in an outdoor park rather than at the Madison Hotel.
The Chatham Athletic Foundation (CAF) will host their annual fundraising gala a little closer to home this year. Paul Ivans, the president of CAF, and Jen Marshall of CAF went before the Chatham Borough Council in April to request permission to hold their annual gala at Reasoner Park in downtown Chatham on Sept. 22. The council formally approved CAF's request on Monday, June 25. "We still want to continue our presence in the community and have our event every September, but given the economy and the impact on friends and neighbors, we didn’t want to do a full gala," Ivans told Chatham Patch. "But we still wanted to do a formal event." Ivans told the council the event would be "a less formal, less expensive, less big, less fancy" version of…
Monday, October 3, 2011
In case you missed the event, hear what CAF President Ivans had to say about the long-awaited Shunpike Field Opening.
The following is the full text of Paul Ivans' speech at the opening of Shunpike Field on Oct. 1, 2011. Ivans is the president of the Chatham Athletic Foundation: Wow, look around you today, at the fantastic athletic fields and this beautiful courtyard we’re all standing in…as friends, neighbors, coaches and elected officials, you should all be extremely proud to be part of such an amazing community that has accomplished such tremendous things to help the young athletes in Chatham. As a Chatham resident for almost 20 years, a father of 2 young athletes in town, and a coach of hundreds of young athletes in Chatham over the years, I am tremendously proud and humbled by the efforts of our community in pulling together to help our local …
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
With a martini bar and over 60 prizes, the 2011 Fall Gala on Friday is sure to be a hit.
Chatham Athletic Foundation (CAF) hosts their Fall Gala fundraising event on Friday at 7 p.m. until midnight at the Madison Hotel in Morris Township. “The gala parties are always a huge success,” said Paul Ivans, president of the CAF. “It includes dinner, dancing, raffles, games of chance and the auctioning of over 60 prizes.” The CAF is a nonprofit organization that raises money to improve the Chatham sports programs and athletic facilities in conjunction with the local governments. Dinner, dancing and the live auction will take place in the Madison Hotel’s main ballroom, while the hotel’s adjacent glass conservatory will be transformed into a “Prohibition Room” complete with scotch sampling, Nat Sherman cigars, live jazz quartet, martini…
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Monday, June 20, 2011
The grand opening was postponed to the fall, but athletes can now use the turf fields.
The new turf fields at Shunpike Field opened for play on Saturday, and parents remarked on the noted improvements. “I grew up in Chatham and played on these fields as a kid,” said Martin Williams, a Chatham Township resident and father of four who moved back to the area in the last couple of years. Williams was at the field to watch his son, Kevin, play baseball with his recreational team. “So far, it looks really beautiful, and I expect when they get the other two fields in it will be really nice as well,” he said. The multi-million dollar project was contracted out in spring 2010 and was originally expected to be finished in time for the spring 2011 sports season. “It didn’t happen as quickly as we all had hoped,” said Paul Ivans, …
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