Barbecue Season Barbecue Season is fast approaching so we retired the three BBQ’s that were donated years ago. To increase the number of BBQ events we have each year two brand new units were purchased. The BBQ’s were delivered Friday afternoon and a work party to put them together went to … [Read more...]
Groundhog Day
January 13, 2023 by
Groundhog Day Our New Years Day Extravaganza was so successful that your Games Committee agreed to try a repeat called “Groundhog Day” on Saturday February 4th. Croquet and lawn bowlers are asked to arrive by 1:15 with the games starting at 1:30pm. The weather will determine how long we … [Read more...]
Polar Bear Bowling and Croquet
January 6, 2023 by
The Polar Bear Bowling and Croquet were a huge success! Quite the best ever, to my mind, since we started in 2015(?). Perhaps the News item and photos on our website for 2017 (first item) sum up the enjoyment that members had playing outside bowls on Jan. 1st., minus the snow this New Year, of … [Read more...]
Mustard Seed Update
December 19, 2022 by
Once again club members, with the coordination of Mary Magill, donated approximately 250 pounds of food, blankets and handmade children's clothing along with two donations totalling $150 to the Mustard Seed food bank. Mary, Dave Anderson along with Brent & Susi Merchant delivered the food on … [Read more...]
Christmas Dinner 2022
December 13, 2022 by
Christmas dinner was held on Sunday December 11. 2022 and it was agreat success! We had a full house and a great turkey dinner with all the fixings. We also raffled off a huge number of donated prizes to everyone's delight. The big winner of the 50-50 draw was Peter Woods who won over $200. Big … [Read more...]
Short Mat Tournament Nov 19/20
November 24, 2022 by
Action shots from our Short Mat Tournament The Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club ran a short mat tournament the weekend of November 19/20. We had 24 members playing triples is two pools of four teams. We were lucky enough to have new bowlers starting their short mat career. Thanks to … [Read more...]
Club Cleanup Day!
November 11, 2022 by
Today, Thursday November 10, a hardy group of members volunteered to clean-up the area around our Club as a result of our early winter. What kind of clean-up was done you might ask. Removing the lane markers on the East green, storing all the benches, cleaning the “ditches” of the greens, … [Read more...]
Christmas Dinner Dec 11, 2022
October 31, 2022 by
Our planned Xmas dinner is planned for Dec 11, 2022. See poster for the details. 2022 Xmas dinner poster … [Read more...]
War Amps Thank You
October 31, 2022 by
The War Amps organization has sent us a nice thank you letter for our recent contribution. Well done to all that contributed and helped during the fund raising! Champs Thank You Letter … [Read more...]
Sadler Tournament
July 29, 2022 by
The Sadler tournament is a three-evening triples tournament with 14-end games. There are two different flights per day, one at 4 o’clock and one at 6:30. Oak Bay team Brent Jansen (Skip), Donna Blackstock (Vice), and Karen Evans (Lead) played three very strong Gordon Head teams on their home … [Read more...]
