Rushworth’s Ross Williams lets one fly towards the jack.
Photo by
Megan Fisher
This week saw the fourth running of our Annual Charity Day.
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Each year the Over 60’s bowlers get together and raise money for a local charity. This year we had 26 teams consisting of 104 bowlers descend upon the wonderful facilities of Tatura Bowls Club to raise money for GV Hospice.
It turned out to be a very successful day raising the most money we have raised since the inception of this great initiative.
These kind of days don’t just happen without the support of a great number of people.
Let’s start by thanking Tatura Bowls Club which allow us to use their facilities at no cost. In particular thank you to Jason who prepared two immaculate greens and also helped run the bar and raffle as well as organising for the morning tea to be available. A great effort. Also, thanks to all the bowlers who attended.
Particular thanks to RSL who are a very small group of bowlers but they stepped up when we needed an extra team.
A truly great effort. Also, at the last minute one of our teams had to withdraw, so four individual bowlers from different clubs joined the ranks to form a composite team. This was a great effort from Alan, Mike, Bruce and Bill. Your assistance was widely noted and greatly appreciated.
As for the day, apart from raising a record amount of money for GV Hospice we also had some great bowls played.
We had four teams who managed three wins. Two of these were from Lifestyle Village, who entered four teams on the day. Given that they don’t have a presence in our regular weekly competition this was a marvellous effort from them.
Thanks to Norm for organising that. The runners up however were the, last minute Composite Team which was a very pleasing result.
Congratulations to Bruce Smith from Murchison, Alan Beck from Mooroopna Golf, Mike Guiliani from Shepparton Golf and Bill Milner from Tatura. A super effort not just to form a team at late notice but also to bowl as well as they did.
The winners on the day were Murchison represented by Col Johnson, Tony Martin, Wayne Brown and Geoff Higgins. Well done to them and in fact all of the 104 bowlers present. It was truly a great day.
Next week we return to our regular program with a split round hosted by Colbinabbin and Dookie. Hopefully the weather will continue to be kind to us, as we approach the tail end of our season.
News photographer Megan Fisher swung by the greens to snap the players in action.
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