Thanks to those who sent comments on the Monday jitney/ Monday night issue.  Having considered all views the EC has decided that the daytime Monday jitneys should continue. In addition we are going to arrange some different events for Monday nights. Donna and Reg Longman have offered to organize events on July 15, August 12, and September 9. I don't  think we will be able to arrange something for every Monday night but we will do our best to fill some more Mondays. I will update you with more about this as and when events are scheduled.


We also considered trying different formats for in club tournaments. Normally these are 3 games of 10 ends starting at 9.30am but we want to see whether variations on this will lead to increased participation.


The Canada Day tournament will stay as advertised. It will be a 9.30 start and 3 games of 10 ends. We'd like some more entries for this so please consider signing up for it.


The Windmill tournament on Saturday July 13th will now start at 10.00 am and will be 3 games of 8 ends.


The cut throat (4321) will not change nor will the Anniversary tournament on Saturday August 3rd.


The Rona Cashway tournament on Thursday August 8th will be 2 games of 12 ends and will start at 10.00 am.

What a day we had yesterday for the Open Mens Pairs. With the Highland Games being held in Victoria Park it was essential to get to the club early to ensure a parking spot. Little did I expect that pipers would be starting to tune up as early as 7.30 and that the skirl of the pipes would continue unabated all day. It wasn’t too bad when playing but the spectators at the club found it a little too much.

Anyway we still had a good day under beautiful sunny skies. The tournament was sponsored by James Gordon Insurance and older members will know that  Jim Gordon is  a past President of the Cobourg Lawn Bowling Club. This was the 22nd year that he has sponsored this event.

Twenty teams competed for the trophy which was an excellent turn out and, as with the previous open tournament, a Peterborough team would come out on top. On this occasion it was Norm Smith and Bob Matthews who prevailed with 3 wins and 45 points. Norm was so complimentary about the state of the greens that he dragged Ralph and me into the trophy photo!

Unfortunately none of the Cobourg teams was able to get amongst the main prizes but Dave Shirley and Dave Carleton did win the one game high prize with 32 points.

Bill MacNab and Ron Covert almost got in the prize money. They tied for fifth place with 37 points but lost out because they had more points against them than Peter Robb from Whitby. Ron was leading and in this photo it looks like Ron is doing what he says you should not do and that’s telling his skip what to do!