Sky High Celebration
Ace photographer Chuck Benson recently took this wonderful photo of our effervescent friend and lawn bowling pro, Mavis Gooding. She had just jumped out of a plane and was sailing along on the thermals with her parachute and her instructor. All this on the occasion of her 80th birthday. All we can say is “Congratulations, Mavis, on a jump well done, and a very Happy Birthday to you.”
Carol Bucyk
URGENT: Club email issues!
As many of you know we are continuing to have issues with members not receiving email sent from the club. This was the major reason why we upgraded our web site, and it has continued to get worse, and is likely to continue degrading in the future thanks, mainly, to the prevalence of spammers. While we would STRONGLY encourage all members to use the web site as their source of club information there are times when we would like to reach out via email.
You can help!
We want ALL MEMBERS to do the following:
- Make sure we have your correct email address.
- Check your spam folder for club messages and, if found, mark them as NOT SPAM.
- Add any parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com email address you want to receive message from to your email address book, such as mmm@parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com
- Whitelist @parksvillelawnbowlingclub.com. Whitelisting is a process of saying “I WANT to receive mail from these people”. Follow the instructions on the web site help page which can be accessed here: Site Help
None of these steps are going to guarantee delivery; email has always been unreliable and it’s just getting worse.
If you know of someone who is NOT getting emails, be sure you tell them about this post.
If you have questions or need help, contact the web team.
Rare Nine Ender Scored in Mixed Triples Tournament
On Saturday afternoon, we witnessed a really rare event, a nine- ender being scored in a tournament. What it actually means is that one team was able to get all nine bowls counted in one end, and the other team got blanked. The team that pulled off the unusual feat on Saturday, July 13th was that of Graham Fowler, Maggie Webb and Linda Burgess. Well done! Carol Bucyk
Olav Skjelbred
Olav Skjelbred – Our Gentle Giant…..
A very Gentle Soul who we had the privilege to have as a member of our Club has passed away. Olav Skjelbred has been battling cancer for several years but passed a few days ago. Olav was such a quiet man, always happy and smiling. He came to Canada as a young man after being a ski instructor in Norway. When arriving he worked in the forests of BC as a lumber Jack. He did have some stories to tell about his life and it was a hard one. He became a club member and was a very helpful to many. He spent lots of time on the green and was always smiling no matter how his game was, good or bad. Olav was a coach here which came easy to him as he had been an instructor. He would help you out if you were having a problem. During the winter months you would see him at Short Mat either to play one game or two depending on the day. Then some days come as a spectator. In the summer of course he was on the green enjoying the game he loved. He worked on the our garden planting flower and weeding for few years. If you were at the club for maintenance on Monday mornings he would be there to help Gord Campbell serve up coffee and goodies to keep you all going. During Covid it was Olav’s 90th birthday and the club did a drive by celebration for him. Then Sandi did a cupcake birthday for him two years ago. He was both surprised and very happy. He loved our Lawn Bowling club and enjoyed talking to all the members. He will be sorely missed by many of us. We send our condolences to his daughters and their families from our family, his extended family.
Parksville Women Shine in Qualicum
There was a little sun, a little rain and a whole lot of success for the Parksville women’s teams playing in Qualicum Beach this past weekend. The Sylvia Gibb Tournament, sponsored by Katherine Wilk of Royal LePage drew a number of women’s teams from around the district, with the Parksville women claiming four of the top six spots.
Number one went to the winning team of Diane Cruickshank and Ann Holland, while number two went to the Qualicum Beach mother-daughter team of Luci and Suzanne Ewen. In third place was our own Luise Norman and Sue Tompkins. Kathleen Sherry and Karen Ungar of Nanaimo took fourth. Sandi Mitchell and Karen Perrin earned a fifth place finish while Roberta Stets and Jeanette Ferguson rounded out the winning side with a sixth place finish.
On behalf of the Parksville Lawn Bowling Club, we’d like to thank the good folks at Qualicum including the kitchen crew, the groundskeepers, bartenders who kept us hydrated , Garry Campbell for the music, photos, bar and those really cool looking tights. We’d also like to extend a thank you to the Ewen family who took on this tournament to run it, and to Katherine Wilk of Royal Lepage for her sponsorship.
Carol Bucyk
Bowlympics a Big Hit at Parksville Club
This year’s Bowlympics was played under sunny skies and light winds with a great response of both experienced and novice players turning out for the event. The combination of regular and unique skill challenges in lawn bowling made for a lot of laughs and light-hearted banter. A special guest appearance in the person of Detritus (a.k.a. Geoff Holland), helped to complete the afternoon’s event.
The Gold Medal went to the team of Trevor Motley, Kathleen Motley and novice Nadine Kilkenny. They scored a whopping 18 points for their medal win.
Silver Medal winners with 16 points was the team of Peter Scott, Miriam Gunn, Brian Larkin and Jeff McEachern, another novice.
Mary Card, Diana Olenick and novice, Roger Taylor, earned the Bronze Medal with 13 points.
The club would like to thank RBC Wealth Management , Louise Alix and Sandy Taylor for their involvement with the event which has been a part of the club’s schedule since 2002. Also, congratulations to all the novices who came out for this event. We hoped you had fun and we’ll see you in even more of our club’s events. A special thanks to Chuck Benson for the great pics. Always reliable and always great shots!!
Carol Bucyk
President’s Message – Presidents Cup
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
On Thursday May 16th our Club hosted the Presidents Cup for the 6 Vancouver Island North and Powell River District Clubs.
The comments we received from a large part of the participants were so great that I felt the need to pass these accolades along to our Volunteers who spend many hours to make our PLBC one of the best in BC.
We had excellent comments on our bowling green, the pleasing surrounding gardens, the inviting entrance to our club and the friendliness of our all members that were at yesterday’s event.
The club house was decorated wonderfully for all the participants to enjoy.
Also comments were complimentary on our new scoreboards
I felt is was necessary to send this message out to the membership to let all the volunteers know and share the extremely good comments we received. Without all the hard work from all the many volunteers we would not be receiving such wonderful comments.
Just to summarize it makes me very proud as your President to be part of this amazing club.
From
Your President Trevor Motley and PLBC board members
In Memoriam
Memorial Plaques
Two memorial plaques have been installed on our club benches.
If you are interested in getting one installed please contact Miriam Gunn (Fundraiser).
For these photographs and others from this year, please click here: Photos 2024 – Parksville Lawn Bowling Club