Monthly Bulletin Jan. 2008 - Men's Bowling Club

Port City Men's Bowling Club

Many thanks to Rob Jennings, Secretary of the MBC, for the January Bulletin.

Special Events –January / February

- Pennant trials 2nd Feb
- 2008 Club Championships continue
- District Championships continue

Club Championships:

Major Fours winners were J Rossiter ,K Bramble, K Hall and skip F Smith .
Runners-up C Stone , B Counsell ,J Cranna ,skip G Ball.

Club Championships 2008 :

The first round of the Club Major Pairs was to be played on 27/01/08 but has been postponed to a date to be set.
Club Minor Pairs nominations are now open and will close 2/02/08 .

District Games:

John O’Neill and Tony Owens are playing the final of the District Senior Pairs against another Port City side Bob Council and John Rossiter at Lake Cathie 26/01/08 .
Robert Jennings and Bruce Chapman were defeated 23/17 in the final of the District Pres. Reserve Pairs at Panthers BC last Sunday.

New Members:

We welcome the following new bowling members as approved in Dec / Jan.
Ben Barry , David Howlett , Michael O’Brien , Eric Scott , George Stark , Robert Zavone .
Juniors : Jake Ferguson , Zachary Hall , Harry Loane .

Please make yourself known to these new members and offer assistance in activities regarding our bowling club.

Notes from the Men’s Committee:

Friday PM Bowls:
Ken Elvey came up with a jackpot idea for our Friday bowls , and this will be implemented as soon as possible .

The Hastings Mid-week Challenge will start again on 5/02/08 (Tuesday)

Club Ltd chairman Bob Langham has confirmed that synthetic carpet will be laid on 3 & 4 greens before next December and will have lights .

Pennants will start on 1/03/08…
Port City still does not have confirmation on the number of sides/grades that the District will allow us to have….This has gone on for 6 weeks now without a firm answer and now has gone to the Royal for approval . Indications at this stage are that we will be told what we can have and our submissions to the district to date could be overruled .

Umpire’s News :

The old 21 metre jack length is back in ….and also winner of the previous end retains the mat ..

The “ For Sale “ sheet is working well , so if you have unwanted bowls equipment or clothes etc write your ad on a coaster and put it in the secretaries pidgeon hole to be printed .