July Newsletter

Clubhouse Connection
Page 5
Novice Pairs Championship
If you are a lead and doing the centering
of the jack, make certain that
your signals are showing your skip
the direction of movement and the
decreasing distance.
If you are a skip, signal your calls
clearly and encourage your teammates
to help them to bring out
the best in their games.
Leaside is hosting the Ontario Men and Women Novice Pairs
Championships on September 9 and 10.
64 bowlers from across Ontario will compete for the championship.
This is a great opportunity for us to showcase our great club
as well as contribute to our sport.
The event will offer many volunteer opportunities, including
scorers (a person on each rink to mark the score on the
scoreboard), greens equipment helpers, greeters and
kitchen help.
We will serve breakfast snacks, lunch and afternoon snacks
to the bowlers, officials and volunteers each day.
Mark the date on your calendar and please set aside some
time to help us out.
You will also get to watch some really great bowling.
Watch your email, the bulletin boards and future newsletters
for more information.
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Special New Volunteer Position at the Novice Pairs
This season, OLBA inaugurated timely reporting of scores at
championships. Results of rounds of a championship show on
olba.ca soon after the completion of each round. If you have a
smartphone, you can be the person who makes this happen
and who helps the 400 or so OLBA members who will check
the website throughout that weekend to see those results.
If you are a vice or lead, be alert for
out-of-play bowls. Go up and off of
the green, stand behind the white
marker and clearly communicate
your signal to the skip.
If you are a vice, bring a towel and a
measuring tape onto the green and
rather than discussing the measurement,
do the measurement.
Here are the particulars:
Be at the club on Saturday, September 9 and/or Sunday,
September 10.
Take a photo of the Official Draw Sheet once it is available
after a round is complete.
Send that photo by email or by text to the person who is
putting the scores onto the website.
That should only take a minute or two.
Be a super-volunteer. Do this task along with another volunteer
job at the Novice Pairs.
A bit more:
There are three rounds on Saturday.
There are three rounds on Sunday.
Make a commitment to be there for as many rounds as
you can. If you can not cover all six rounds, perhaps another
volunteer can cover the ones that you can’t.
Contact Jerry Michaels (communications@leasidebowls.ca)
to get more information and to volunteer and to obtain
the address for sending the photos.
Not many LLBC members use smartphones so we are asking
those who do to try their best to help with this volunteer task.