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
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...]
Flora Martin Open Fours
July 3, 2022 by
July 2, 2022 A sunny 9 am Saturday start for 10 teams, four players per team, two bowls each at Burnside Lawn Bowling Club. There were three games throughout the day with 12 ends per game. Lead Donna (deadeye) Blackstock drew to the jack more often than not with precision … [Read more...]
Canada Day/CHAMP Tournament
June 26, 2022 by
The Canada Day Tournament is right around the corner and its focus is to raise funds to assist children through CHAMP - Child Amputee Program. As members you have raised more money than any other bowling club in Canada and that’s something to be proud of. Given the popularity of this tournament we … [Read more...]
