Photos

PHOTOS

2024 July 25 Grandparents' Day

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this event happen! I took 118 photos, whittled it down to my favorite 27. For the website, these are low-resolution photos. If you're interested in a photo, let me know the number (bottom left corner) and I'll send you a high-resolution version.

Here they are:

2024 Women's Triples

A beautiful day for a tournament.

2024 Independence Day Tournament

Because of the heat, we started early and kept it to 10 ends. We had 24 bowlers making 8 teams on 4 rinks. The day began warm with a gentle breeze - perfect bowling weather. But it wasn't quite your usual game.

Scoring was done at 3 spots:
1. Where the Jack was - scoring like usual
2. Closest to the red golf ball - add 1 points
3. Closest to the blue golf ball - subtract 2

2024 April Fools' Day Tournament

A beautiful day for a tournament! To make things a little more interesting, bowlers swapped positions after each 4 ends, so even novices skipped and even experienced bowlers got to set the jack and rake.

First place was taken by Steve Pickell, Marilyn Garland and Bruce Rolland.

Second place was taken by Jim Golway, Gerry Macintosh and Topher Gayle.

The peanut gallery, with Michelle Macintosh, George Hasa and Tony Lachowicz, was small but mighty.

Monday, March 18, St Patrick's Day

At long last! A beautiful day and a great turnout.

Winners were:
First place: Denise (skip), Marilyn, and Janet
Second place: Irene (skip), James, and Wilma
Third place: Bob D (skip), Kevin, and Bruce
Fourth place: Gerry (skip), John, and Pam

2023 December 8 Holiday Party and Awards Gala

2023 November 21 Thanksgiving Tournament

2023 October 4 Women's Triples

2023 September 26 Novice Singles

2023 September 12 Open Singles

2023 September 4 Labor Day Tournament

2023 August 22 Women's Singles

2023 August 8 Men's Singles

2023 August 7 Women's Pairs

2023 July 25 Open Triples Tournament

2023 July 4 Independence Day

2023 June 20 Men's Triples

2023 June 13 Vet/Novice Tournament

2023 June 2 and 3, Council on Aging Wine Country Games

Several of these photos were taken by the photographer from the Council on Aging. I've asked for her name but don't yet have it. You'll find more of her photos on their website:

https://coaagefriendly.editorx.io/2023-wine-country-ga/sets

2023 May 29 Memorial Day Tournament

2023 May 16, Open Pairs

2023 April 13 Men's Pairs

2023 April 1 April Fools' Day

The sky was dark and worrisome, but the day was beautiful. We had an amazing turn-out: 24 players! The devious plot to make the game foolish was to change positions after 4 ends. So, on end 5 skips became leads, and leads and seconds moved up. And again, on end 6, we changed positions. This was fun for those who hadn't skipped before and a challenge for those perpetual skips who were no longer sure how to set the jack or rake the bowls.

2023 March 17 St. Patrick's Day

We had 18 bowlers, 6 teams, 4 games. Jim Krause's team took first place, Richard Goodwin's took second, and Denise Lenahan's took third.

2023 February 20 Presidents' Day

A GREAT turn-out for our first game of 2023! We had 25 bowlers, 8 teams, 4 games. And beautiful weather (and it snowed just a couple of days later).

2022 December 2 Holiday Awards and Gala

We still aren't back up to our pre-Covid attendance figures, but we had a good turn-out and a wonderful party. The evening began with music and mingling while the gifts were wrapped. Then a good selection of pasta and salads. Tables were decorated by our social committee and one lucky member received a free year's membership. After dinner, Jim Krause and Steve Pickell gave out the tournament awards. Then Jerry announced the volunteer of the year. Looked like almost everyone stayed to clean up after. What a wonderful group!

And now, thank you's. I KNOW I've missed people. Just let me know and I'll get this right.

Our social committee is stupendous, wonderful and fantastic. Thanks to Pam Dempsey, Linda Pickell, and Marilyn McKeever for doing so much to make this happen. Thanks to Jeana Garcia for the slide show with the best of the best photos from 2022. Thanks to Pam, Linda, Marilyn, Jeana and Mary Blake for making the gift tree happen. Thanks to the sea of volunteer gift wrappers who took our gifts and made them look beautiful. Wrappers included: Diane and Kirk Vandagriff, Linda Goodwin, Liliane Rains, Marilyn and Jerry Garland, Diane Ethier, Steve Wallace, Janet Johnson, and John Jay. AND virtual hugs and kisses to all of you bowlers who bought gifts.

Thanks to Bonnie Johnston and Marilyn McKeever for greeting us as we came in the door and to Greg Goodwin for serenading us as we settled in. Thanks to Steve Pickell for overseeing trophy distribution. Thanks to Jim Krause for emceeing (and sneaking into almost every picture and taking a good number of awards).

Here are the photos:

2022 November 22 Thanksgiving

We had a beautiful day for our tournament. 18 bowlers, 3 rinks, 3 winning teams. Steve P and Pam D mixed things up quite a bit by having us throw 2 jacks. We didn't center them. We then scored each jack as though it was on it's own. That means that a bowl that was close to both jacks could be counted twice. In one case, the jacks were close enough that the 4 bowls closest to one were also closest to the other, giving the team 8 points. And the opposite could also happen, where one team had 3 bowls on one jack and the other had 3 bowls on the other jack, so they canceled each other out (OK, yes, you had to be there to understand). What was interesting to me was having so many non-centered jacks. It was greet training for fine-tuning your bowling. And, of course, a bit frustrating, too.

But I was bowling I didn't do a great job of taking photos so here's what I got:

2022 October 28 Halloween

Thanks to Diane and Linda P for the photos!

2022 September 27 Novice Singles

2022 End-of-Summer BBQ

Thanks to Pam Marsh for these BRILLIANT photos!

2022 August 23 Women's Singles

2022 July 26 Open Triples Tournament

Teams were:
Kevin, Marilyn and Rob vs. Denise, Janet and Mary
Steve, Jodi and Steve vs. Jerry, Bonnie and JB
Jim, Mark and Liliane vs. Francis, Ande and Linda

2022 July 12 Women's Triples Tournament

2022 Independence Day Tournament

Steve P and Pam crafted a very interesting tournament. We played 3 4-end games and changed rink and position between each game.

We had 24 players making 8 3-person teams. The winners were the 4 teams who earned the most points in the 3 games.

Mark, Marilyn G, and John took first with 16 points
Steve P, Steve W, and Diane and Jerry G, Linda P, and Gerry M tied for 2nd with 14 points
Richard, James and Jim B won 3rd with 13 points

2022 Vet/novice Tournament

From our substitute reporter Jodi: Jim K and Richard are this year's Vet/Novice champs. Final score was lopsided, but the first half of the game was very close. Half dozen plus in the viewing gallery for the match. (Photo by Jodi.)