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Property Update

5/26/2024

It’s been a busy time at our clubhouse over the past few weeks. We received a New Horizons for Seniors grant which allowed us to replace our aging greens lights with LED lights. Five of the eight sets of lights were replaced a couple of weeks ago with the last three delayed due to the state of the park area where we needed access being too wet. The last three sets were replaced this week which completes the project.

Al Bell has been busy patching and filling in the walls of the washrooms and is now busy painting them so that they will be great looking for our playing season.

At our spring members meeting the members voted to fund the cost of replacing the roof shingles due to the poor state of the roof. This was successfully completed this week and the roof now looks great. The roofing company also installed four roof vents and there is a noticeable difference in the temperature inside the clubhouse.
Terry Dyche

Club Triples Tournament

5/26/2024

OPENING IN-CLUB TOURNAMENT
On May 25th the club held its first In-Club Tournament of the 2024 season. Unfortunately, the weather was less than cooperative. Light rain started towards the end of the first game, but all rinks completed game #1 without getting too wet. After a brief shower, the weather started to clear up and the second game got underway. However, the rain returned towards the end of that game and the tournament was called after completion of the second game.
This year the tournament had two sponsors -- Spectacular Water Systems, who have sponsored this tournament in previous years and a new sponsor, Benjamin Moore. The club wishes to acknowledge and thank both sponsors.

Thirty-one members (10 teams) participated in the event. The top three teams all had two wins and their total scores were very close. The team of Al Bell, Donna Longman & Alan Loney, was ahead of the other two teams by only 2 points and was awarded the trophy. In second place was the team of Carl Ferguson, Laura Mounce & Eve Gorringe. Third place was taken by Brent Bayley, John Ledgerwood & Helen Kowalski. The second & third place teams were tied in both for and against points. It was the number of ends won that determined their placement. Bill Arthur, Ernie Sapinski & Dana Williams were the high one-game winners. Congratulations to all winners and thanks to everyone who braved the rain and completed both games.

Donna Ball
Drawmaster

Lauria Open Fours

5/23/2024

On Monday May 20 (Victoria Day) we hosted our first Open Tournament of the year. The Lauria Hyundai Open Fours.

The tournament was very well attended with 18 teams. The number of bowlers who played (72) is probably the most we will have on the greens for any event this year. They came from Cosburn Park (East York), Lindsay, Pickering, Oshawa, Campbellford, Heritage (Kitchener), Belleville, Niagara Falls, Burlington Cannington, Kingston, Port Credit and of course Cobourg.

It was a very tough field of teams. The 2 best teams from last years Ontario Fours Championships were here to tune up for this year’s championships.

2023 Gold Medalist: Eric Galipeau (team includes Cobourg’s Martin Foxall)
2023 Silver Medalist: Gary Pickering (team includes Cobourg’s Bill Mcollam)

The weather was perfect for bowling and there were many greatly contested games. After 2 games the top 4 teams (2 wins each) faced off for the top 2 prizes.

As expected Galipeau & Pickering were 2 of them.

- Galipeau took a handy 19-4 victory over Frank Hibbs (Cosburn Park) to win the tournament with 3 wins (47 pts). They won each of their games handily.
- Pickering was matched against Cobourg’s Terry Bradshaw team. Against the odds Bradshaw won a nail biter 9-8 to take 2nd place in the tournament with 3 wins (34 pts) and knocked the Pickering team right out of the money.

The final results:
Quite a showing for Cobourg teams as we also took home all the other prizes

1st Place: Galipeau, Foxhall, Galipeau, Llewelyn – 3 wins 47 pts
2nd Place: Bradshaw, Al Bell, Mary Salter, Laura Mounce – 3 wins 34 points
3rd Place: Bob Bates, Pat Bylok, Brian Rogers, Andy Perry – 2 wins 38 points
4th Place: Ben and Baylee van Steijn, Emmalee Smith, Bridgett Masterson – 2 wins 37 points (26 against)
5th place: Dave & Kathleen Shirley, Carol Dewey, Anne Tough – 2 wins 37 pts (31 against)
High last Game: Bill & Louisa Arthur, Sheri Perkins, Nan Hendren 16pts

This event wouldn’t be a success without the help of many volunteers.
Some were there long before the games started:

The greens crew for getting the greens in great condition.
The Kitchen crews who were there before anyone arrived and were cleaning up after everyone had left.
Ralph Hewitt for doing the Share the Wealth draw ($101 to the club)
Eve Gorringe for overseeing the bowling draw and prizes.
Members who car pooled so we had enough parking passes to go around
Others . too many to name who helped set up the greens, tables & chairs and put equipment away, look after parking passes, take pictures, etc

This was a great way to start the tournament season. Hope everyone who came enjoyed themselves.

Open Tournament Convenor
Bob Bates

2024 Opening Day

5/11/2024

Another season is underway. On a cool but dry day 50 or so members enjoyed a pot luck lunch. After that President Peter Stuart-Sheppard rolled the first bowl. Then we started with a spider which was won by Eve Gorringe.
Fourteen triples played the first jitney of the season which was won by Janet Taylor, Dana Williams and Julie Perry.
Second highest score was the team of Kathleen Shirley, Lynn Bryans and Emerson MacRae.
Third highest was Bob Bates, Louisa Arthur and Brian Rogers.
Lots of laughs and probably some aching limbs tonight.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the opening day festivities.

Baylee van Steijn selected for Four Nations Series

5/10/2024

May 10, 2024 - Bowls Canada News Release

Bowls Canada Boulingrin (BCB) is pleased to announce the players named to the Four Nations Test Series event to be held at Bowls Scotland’s National Training Centre in Ayr, Scotland. The event is scheduled from August 25, 2024, to August 30, 2024. The participating countries are Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the USA.
“This inaugural event is the result of the relationships developed by BCB over the past few years.” says Don Caswell, Performance Manager for Bowls Canada Boulingrin. “We are hoping that this test series will grow and will hopefully have a permanent place on our international calendar. Scotland stepped up to host the inaugural event and I know the players are excited to get there in August.”

To read the rest of the release and the full team click the link below:

bowlscanada.com/en/canadian-high-performance-athletes-to-represent-at-the-four-nations-series-this-summer/

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Baylee van Steijn selected for Four Nations Series

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