The day started with everyone enjoying fresh baked scones made by Kay Alexander . Kay provided delicious homemade goodies throughout the day, thank you. Before the start of the tournament Harnam Grewal spoke about the background of the Legacy Programme (see separate post). Thank you … [Read more...]
Legacy Triples Tournament History
August 11, 2024 by
LEGACY TRIPLES TOURNAMENT I have been asked by Linda, a National Triples Champion, to say a few words to kick-off this tournament. Membership fees alone do not cover all the expenditures involved in running a club such as ours. Hence, the legacy programme. The Legacy programme was prompted, … [Read more...]
Bowls Canada Capping Project
August 9, 2024 by
This is a new initiative designed to honour the legacy of National Team Players both past and present. Oak Bay LBC are privileged to have a present member and some past members being recognized and honoured. Those being honoured are: Betty Walker . (WB). Present … [Read more...]
Internet and Telephone Scam Presentation
August 1, 2024 by
Constable Berle Zwaan of the Saanich Police Department and Constable Natalie Mishrigi of the Oak Bay Police Department gave an informative presentation to 40 club members on Wednesday July 31st. The presentation provided a host of information on internet and telephone scams, … [Read more...]
BBQ Season!
January 15, 2023 by
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
[ngg src="galleries" ids="234" display="basic_thumbnail"]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 … [Read more...]
Short Mat Tournament Nov 19/20
November 24, 2022 by
[su_heading size="24" margin="10" ]Short Mat Tournament Nov 19/20[/su_heading] 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 … [Read more...]