Updates email address
Updates Email Address
The Club will no longer be using the MMM email. Please send any future requests for email distribution or updates to the website to updates@parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com
Thank you.
Food and Fun Night
Come join in the Fun and Food Night on Thursday, Aug. 22. Dinner @ 5:00 pm.
Dinner will be 2 pcs. fried chicken with potato salad. Dessert, tea and coffee is served after the 10 end game of ” 4,3,2,1″.
The cost is $10.00. Register ONLINE where you can choose to eat & bowl, OR bowl and not have the dinner, OR you can have the meal and not bowl. Please sign up and join in the merriment.
Ken Bucyk
F & F coordinator
Mark Your Calendars & Get Ready for Some Fun
Ever thought about proving your lawn bowling skills? Here’s your chance to have some fun in the process, too. It’s the last chance to sign up for the Men’s and Women’s Club Singles Championship. Registration closes on August 5th, and the singles play is set for August 13, 14, & 15th.
Also on the horizon is the Jack and Jill Mixed Pairs Event coming up on August 28th and 29th. Registration starts online on August 7th. A few simple rules for this event: No spouses together, no two skips on a team and you can’t have played with the same Jack or Jill before. This tournament is a lot of fun, so ladies get out there and ask away. There are men just waiting for your call or email.
Finally, The Cowichan Parksville Challenge will be held on Tuesday, September 10th with the Cowichan Club hosting. Here’s your chance to experience lawn bowling at the Cowichan club and experience their great hospitality. If interested, there is a sign up sheet in the sun room.
Carol Bucyk
Novice/Intermediate Tournament This Weekend
The Novice/Intermediate Tournament is coming up this weekend (August 3 & 4), and ALL members of the Parksville Lawn Bowling Club are welcome to come out and watch. Things get underway on Saturday starting at 9 A.M. with the first matches. Games will continue at 11 A.M., 1 P.M and 3 P.M. On Sunday, there will be a match at 10 A.M., and at 1 P.M. there will be playoffs between Men’s A & B group. Any other playoffs will occur after 1 P.M. Trophy presentation after the games will occur at around 1:15.
This is a great opportunity to see what the future of lawn bowling looks like for our club. Please come out and support them and show your Parksville spirit.
Carol Bucyk
Port Alberni Offers Unique Bowls Experience This August
Port Alberni is running a very special experience for lawn bowlers August 17th and they’d like you to be a part of the action. This is a one day tournament in a Bowls 3Five format. It will be mixed triples using two bowls each. There will be four 10 end games, with the games consisting of two 5-end sets. Each game should take about one hour to play. If you want to try a different type of tournament, this just might be for you. If interested, please contact derekjburke@gmailcom. Start time is planned for 9 A.M., just in case it’s hot.
Carol Bucyk
Grounds
Grounds
Hi All,
We are a volunteer organization and many people commit a significant
amount of time so that all members can enjoy the game and clubhouse
gardens and facilities.
Some of our new members have signed up as volunteers and I thank you.
We typically reserve Monday mornings (~7.30 start) for greens
maintenance, mow and maintain the grass surrounds and perform routine
pruning of the flower beds and bushes. Just show up and someone will
direct you. We also offer free coffee and treats to the volunteers.
I thought I’d share what we did today and some projects that need
additional help.
Monday morning crew: greens were mowed and rolled this morning. Rose and
clubhouse garden pruned and trimmed. Green surround and guest area grass
cut and edged.
Key Project to be done:
Garden/Rockery areas surrounding the green need weeding and plants and
bushes pruned.
Trees and bushes along Stanford Avenue need cutting back.
Car Park garden needs bushes pruned. (Ask Sandi or Lynne for details)
Mesh Fence needs painting green.
Virginia creeper needs to be cut back.
Cement plant pots in “Rock Garden” need painting and some new life.
Let me know by email if you have a burning desire to take on one of
these projects. I’ll review replies and allocate teams.
Thanks for your attention.
Andrew Adamson
Grounds Director
Fortis Fun Day
Fortis Fun Day!
A big shout out to all the coaches and members who went out of their way to make this a successful event. Everyone had fun and Fortis would like to return for similar events in the future.
Andrew Adamson
President’s Message
President’s Message
We have had a very successful, busy bowling season so far. The many volunteers have been working very hard to make our club look fantastic and one of the best on the island.
Kudos to our coaches and volunteers who have hosted grade 10 & 11 students, spent a morning coaching Fortis team as a pay back for their work on the club benches and have spent many hours coaching our novices and anyone who is in need of help on the green. Tournaments held at our club so far this year have been very successful, thanks once again to the many volunteers who work hard to make this happen!
Your board members have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make everything run smoothly for your enjoyment. You may not see them but believe me they are there and dedicated to making the club one of the best!
Trevor Motley
Coaching
COACHING
The last scheduled coaching day on the calendar is July 26. This does not mean that we are abandoning you to your own devices. Coaching for anyone is always available. You can contact the coaches through the website under player development. If you want help from a specific coach, note that in your request. It is not an inconvenience. We enjoy coaching and helping whenever and wherever we can. Novices can also contact their mentor. Failing all the above, my phone number and email is in the Member Directory. Didn’t get a directory? We’ll fix that, too.
At some point, everyone struggles with something, especially as our bodies stop doing what they have always done before and it gets frustrating. Coaching can help find solutions to these issues.
Sandi Mitchell, Player Development
URGENT: Club email issues!
As many of you know we are continuing to have issues with members not receiving email sent from the club. This was the major reason why we upgraded our web site, and it has continued to get worse, and is likely to continue degrading in the future thanks, mainly, to the prevalence of spammers. While we would STRONGLY encourage all members to use the web site as their source of club information there are times when we would like to reach out via email.
You can help!
We want ALL MEMBERS to do the following:
- Make sure we have your correct email address.
- Check your spam folder for club messages and, if found, mark them as NOT SPAM.
- Add any parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com email address you want to receive message from to your email address book, such as mmm@parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com
- Whitelist @parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com. Whitelisting is a process of saying “I WANT to receive mail from these people”. Follow the instructions on the web site help page which can be accessed here: Site Help
None of these steps are going to guarantee delivery; email has always been unreliable and it’s just getting worse.
If you know of someone who is NOT getting emails, be sure you tell them about this post.
If you have questions or need help, contact the web team.