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 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...]

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...]

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...]

22 teams from the lower island participated in the Juan de Fuca ladies Monday morning league. This league consisted of 9 games over nine weeks and teams were randomly drawn to make up the schedule.    Everyone enjoyed the competition as well as getting to play teams from all the … [Read more...]

Over 65 bowlers, croquet players, volunteers and spectators attended the Burger Cup tournament. Bowlers played 3 six-end games while the croquet teams played 3 games. Once the players saw the Burger Cup “trophy” the games were on. The first-place teams in bowling and croquet would be presented with … [Read more...]

Juan de Fuca LBC hosted a one day Quaddie on Friday July 19th. I’d like to say that our Oak Bay team played a brilliant game and brought a host of teams to their knees. But alas that’s just one of our fantasies. We did have a good time and our high point happened when they drew the 50/50 number and … [Read more...]

On Tuesday, July 18th, instead of playing our usual Tuesday morning men’s league, the club members gathered to play the McEwan Cup, the club Men’s Pairs tournament. We welcomed several new or newer bowlers to the tournament….John Mayston-Taylor, Jack Showers and Michael Trickey. They all … [Read more...]

July 13 and 14th 2024 two very hot days and lots of Lawn bowling. This is an open tournament which a woman has to skip the entire triples tournament. A team can be formed with players from various clubs. Over the two days there were five 14 end games consisting with experienced and newer players … [Read more...]

Preamble On a June afternoon I was looking for results from the Australian Open and found a livestream  of the Women’s Fours Final. The game had just started and on one team were 3 Canadians who  all now live in Australia! I was now hooked to watch the whole game.  While I was … [Read more...]