Adopt a Family

First State BMX has adopted a family for the holiday season.  There is a tree located in registration with tags.  These tags list the person whom you are purchasing a gift for and what they would like to have.  We are asking that anyone wanting to help purchase the gift and return it unwrapped to registration no later than our last race Dec. 12, 2009.  If anyone is interested in helping out and giving a needing family a great Christmas please see us at registration or email us for more details.  Thank you all very much for your help making this successful.

11/10 updates

I spent a few hours tonight working on the website and completed the following: 

• I added pictures from the national this year
• Fixed a few minor bugs
• Added ~30 links to the links section (will be ongoing as I need to check them all to see if they are still active please let me know if you find any broken links)
• Added a new map to the info section (if you search First State BMX in Google Maps it now shows where the track is!!!!)
• Added the new Holiday Inn in Dover to the info section under lodging
• Added a new section…Race Results (this will be in "beta" for a while to see if I can keep up)

If you find any errors please let me know either by leaving a comment or sending me an email @ Kyle@FirstStateBMX.com

Also be sure to check the preceding post for important information.

11/9 News

• Don't forget this Saturday.... Nov. 14, 2009 we are giving back to the community. In place of the $10 racing fee we are requesting that you bring in $10 of non-perishable food to donate to the local food bank in Milford. All proceeds from racing fees for this night WILL Be DONATED to purchase food for the local food bank. The person who donates the most will get a $25 gift card to Applebees courtesy of Garey Morris
• Laurel Christmas Parade, December 4 @ 5:30p.m.  If you would like to participate please decorate your bikes.  The theme is "Christmas for Kids"  Lineup is at the corner of Oak Ln Dr and Evergreen Dr

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• The banquet for this year will be Feb. 20th from 5:00 until 9:00 at the Farmington Fire Hall.  Please sign up at registration.  Riders, please make nominations for awards that will be given out at registration.  

Effective November 2007 the following rules will be enforced:

1. You must wear your helmet on your head at all times while on the track.
2. NO stopping on the track.
3. You must start at the starting hill and may exit at the end of turn 2, enter at the end of turn 2 and ride to the finish.

You will receive one warning then you will be asked to leave.  After 3 warnings you will be suspended from the track.

As always if you have and comments or suggestions regarding the site please let me know @ kyle@FirstStateBMX.com.

Also do not forget you can always make comments on the news updates.

Work Days 11/5 & 7

We will be having work days on Thursday before practice starting at 4:30pm, and Saturday Nov 7th at 10am.  Anyone that can make it out to help would be greatly appreciated.

Halloween Parade

The parade is Wednesday October 28th. We are meeting at Seabury Ave. in Milford at 6pm. look for Cindy Gawthrop.

Work Day 10/10

There will be a track work day this Saturday starting at 10am and will go until everything is finished.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Welcome to firststatebmx.com v5.0

I have been working on a new layout for the website off and on for a few weeks. I have had requests in the past to make it more simple and easier to read. I have also had complaints that it is to hard to find information. Taking this into consideration and my knack for making things efficient I came up with the design you see now...simple, straight forward, and extremely easy to use. The users are imediately presented with the new home page which has one thing and one thing only in the content area, the current news. I am able to make updates to this section at any time, from any computer connected to the web or from my cell phone. This will allow news to be posted much faster. Also people will be able to post comments to the posted news. New to the website is the new section for rider of the month which you may see me put up "dummy" formats over the next few months to decide how it will be layed out. Also new is the social link on the side navigation bar. Clicking on this link will take you to the First State BMX fan page on Facebook. In the past we have had many problems with the various forums we have tried so the social aspect of the website has now moved to Facebook. This means there is next to no need for moderation as it is handled by Facebook which will benefit all users.

Do not forget, riders, if you would like pictures posted in the photo section simply send me an e-mail and I will explain what you need to do to get your own section in the photos.

If anyone has any questions or comments regarding the website or anything BMX send me an e-mail @ kyle@firststatebmx.com.

Sorry this post was so long winded but I wanted to explain the reason for the format change. In the future, posts will be very brief and sometimes no more than a few words.

Hope everyone likes the new design...either way leave a comment and let me know what you think.