Greetings again,

I’m hoping that you can help us promote these Leesburg tournaments that will be run by the Leesburg Shuffleboard Club (LSC) for the city as they have done for the last 40 years.

I’m sending this information out about what could be the last 3 shuffleboard tournaments to be held at the historic public Leesburg Shuffleboard courts.  All 3 of these tournaments will be men’s doubles and ladies’ doubles. There is currently $1,600 in prize money that has been donated for these tournaments (with still more coming in), how much to each tournament will be decided by the LSC board. There will be food available for each of these tournaments.

October 3^rd and 4^th is the Northern District (ND01). This is dedicated to Dave Dean who was a LSC member for 12 years. There will be a memorial table set up to honor Dave. Dave passed away June 2025 at the age of 89.

October 20th and 21st is the Florida Shuffleboard Pro Tournament P02a.

October 30th and 31^st is the Northern District (ND05). This tournament is the Bob Brandt memorial that has been ongoing for several years.

Lakefront TV has this already in rotation.

Brief summary of what has happened in Leesburg concerning LSC:

As for the complaint that has been filed with the court by the LSC attorney.  It was served to the city one week ago and they have 20 days to reply to the complaint. 

The city commissioners have made comments recently that LSC has picked this fight with the city. I would like to point out the facts:

In June LSC members requested that the city resurface the badly deteriorating court surfaces (they did get 3 bids in 2024 for this work).

In July the commissioners voted to start the process to donate the property to Forward Paths.

On August 25^th they passed that vote to donate the property over to Forward Paths.

With that vote they are putting LSC out of business, so we had no choice but to fight to try and stay alive.

LSC has 83 members currently. We’re getting the list together showing how many veterans are members. This could have been a win – win situation but instead the city has put 2 non-profit entities against each other by allowing one to refuse vacant land and request the operating shuffleboard property instead.

We are hopeful that the court system will see this in our favor, but we are preparing with great sadness to vacate the property by the 11/7/25 deadline that the city has imposed.

Sincerely,

Rick Tallman

LSC member and Northern District Keeper of Records

Leesburg is planning on having all three of our scheduled October tournaments.  We are scheduled to be closed by the city on November 7^th.  We have a lawyer and have sued the city and we are fighting to keep our courts.

  Our first tournament will be a tournament in honor of Dave Dean who passed away on 6/27/25.  We will have a short program about Dave before the tournament and many people have contributed to sponsor this tournament held on Oct 2^nd.  Some of our former members are coming out of “retirement” to play in Dave’s honor and we hope many Northern district players will join us in this celebration of Dave.

  We will also have a special tournament on October 30^th which is the Bob Brandt Memorial Tournament.  This was started several years ago and the winners have their names added to the plaque.  Many are also helping to sponsor this special tournament.

Carol Helfer