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1 Agate St PO Box 462 Lightning Ridge NSW 2834

Phone: 02 6829 0408 Email: bowls@ lrbc.com.au www.lrbc.com.au Bowls Co-Ordinator / Editor Andrew Doggett

Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club

Meet & Greet your Staff

Monthly Bottleshop Special

Readers of our newsletter will no doubt recognise Gary from the Championship Bowls Stories, Gary is one of the top bowlers for the Club and a very canny employee of our Club, as he has lost 3 Championship Finals to our CEO Scott Franklin, his year. Gary has been employed here at the Club for just over 12 months, and came to us with a wealth of Knowledge and experi-ence. So why here at the Ridge, Gary says that it’s the people here, they don’t judge they take you on face value.. Gary has travelled and lived extensively throughout Australia, and New Zealand. Has 4 awe-some kids, who are eagerly awaiting a visit to the Ridge. Gary lives here at the Ridge after finding a new passion in his life, His Partner. Gary hobbies include Lawn Bowls (obviously), Fishing, and DIY, he is a self proclaimed Jack of all Trades and Master of None, yet can be found when not working on a Sunday Arvo, comforta-bly ensconced on the Couch, with either a cold beer or a nice Cab Sav.

Gary Koopman

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Bottle Shop Trading Hours

11am til 7pm Saturday — Wednesday

11am til 8pm Thursday & Friday

NEW Lindemans 1 Ltr Bin Range 7 Varieties only $7.99 per Bottle

Or 6 for $42

On Saturday the 23rd of June 90 women converged on the Lightning Ridge District Bowl-ing Club from all over NSW parts of Qld, even South Aus-tralia and Victoria, to compete in the 25th Women’s Black Opal Triples Tournament. This bowls event is the 2nd richest Club run Women’s bowls event in NSW, with over $7000 in prizes up for grabs. The ladies contested 6 games of bowls over 2 days. This fun, yet gru-eling event was eventually won by a team from Urunga, on the NSW Central Coast, the Team of H Hoffman, L Tarrant and J Bathgate were the only team in the field to record 6 wins. The

ladies received $2400 in prizemoney and bragging rights for the next 12 months.

Teams from Dubbo City and Nyngan took the other top spots

But it wasn’t all bowls, the 25th anniversary dinner was held on the Saturday night, and the ladies partied well into the night entertained by that consummate entertainer Dick Jeffries. The ladies enjoyed a great Buffet meal, with the highlight being the cutting of the anniversary cake, which was cut by Women’s Presi-dent Meg Morris and Patron-ess Betty LeCudennec.

We look forward to welcom-ing all the ladies back again next year.

25th Womens Black Opal Triples Success

Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club Newsletter

July 2018 Volume 1 Issue 5

“The Ridge Roll Up”

Inside this issue:

Ridge team to go to State Championships

2

Golf Club News 3

Naidoc Celebrations 4

What’s on in July 5

Winter Triples 6

Bowls for Sale 7

Meet your Staff 8

2018 Womens Black Opal Triples Champions

Front Row L to R

Lynne Tarrant, Helen Hoffman and Jo Bathgate (Urunga B/C) Rear Row

Meg Morris Ladies President, Lawrence Walford LRBC President, & Tournament Director Andrew Doggett

2018 Womens Black Opal Triples Runner Up

Beryl Hobson, Valda Hooper, Patricia Webb (Dubbo City/Coonamble)

2018 Womens Black Opal Triples 3rd Place

Heather Beetson, Lyn Hawley, Dianna Stephens (Nyngan B/C) 25th Anniversary Cake


Lightning Ridge Team make State Championship

On Saturday the 23rd of June, 3 local lads journeyed to Tamworth to compete in the Zone 3 Bowling Associa-tion’s Triples Championship. Competing against the best triples teams from 4 other districts, the Lightning Ridge team of Adam Webb Ray Brown and Dave Webb took on all comers and won, in their first game were very con-vincing winners 31 to 11, putting all other teams on no-tice that they meant business. In the final they showed skill and daring to take the lead and extend finally win-ning, to . So now Adam, David and Ray our own Zone 3 Champions go into serious training. With the State Championships in Ettalong on the NSW Central Coast in September. The men from the Ridge will take on the best from 15 other zones, with the best of the best eventually being crowned State Triples Champions. So to David, Ray and Adam a big congratulations, on winning the Zone Championship and on taking Lightning Ridge all the way to the State Titles.

In Addition to our Zone 3 Triples Champions, on Saturday the 30th June our Men’s Fours side compet-ed in the Zone 3 Playoffs. After crushing their opponents Gwydir District in the Semi Final 27 to 17 Our team of Mick Mitchell, Alan Tighe Snr, Alan Tighe Jnr and Phil W Morris, had a tougher time in the final. The Lightning Ridge boys, representing Barwon District went up against the team representing North West District, A Doring, S Berger, J Knight, and T Barett, 4 bowlers from Wee Waa. In an extremely tight tussle which saw the lead change several times, at the final end the boys from Lightning Ridge required a full count of eight to force an extra end, unfortunately this was not to be, finally being defeated 24 to 17. A big congrats to our boys for the way they played and on making a final in such a tough com-petition.

Zone 3 Triples Champions

With one team already through to State Championships, and another going Oh So Close, we thought we would recap on the players vying for honours in the Zone Championships and fighting to get through to State Championships. On the weekend of the 14th and 15th July the Zone Singles Championship will take place at West Tamworth Bowling Club. Our own CEO Scott Franklin will compete in the Over 60 Sin-gles Competition, Alan Tighe Jnr, will compete in the Open Singles while our Bowls Co-ordinator, Andrew Doggett will compete in the Presidents Reserve Singles Championship.

In the Zone 3 Pairs Championships held at Quirindi Bowling Club on the 21st & 22nd of July, Lightning Ridge will be repre-sented in the Over 60’s Pairs by Dave Samuelsson & Tony Lamb. In the Open Pairs by Jarred Hunt & Ricco Lane and in the Presidents Reserves by Gordon Richards and grandson Brent Richardson.

On the 8th of July local couple Darren Richards and Heidi Monch will contest the Zone Championship of the Mixed Pairs at Uralla, While our Ladies Triples Side of Anne Barclay, Lyn Carney and Stacey Reynolds will compete in the Zone Triples also at Uralla on Thursday 12th July.

We wish all Teams and Singles Players the very best for the upcoming championships.

Our 4’s Oh So Close

Local Champions to take on rest of Zone to get to State

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Dave Samuelsson Jared Hunt Gordon Richards

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Tony Lamb Ricco Lane Brent Richards

Scott Franklin Alan Tighe Jnr Andrew Doggett

Anne Barclay, Lyn Carney, Stacey Reynolds

Darren Richards & Heidi Monch

Tuesday Night Poker

The Texas Hold’em Poker com-petition on Tuesday evening still continues to attract quality players competing for substan-tial Prizemoney.

Each Tuesday approximately 21 players compete for weekly prizemoney of around $1200.

Texas Hold em is probably the easiest poker game to learn, and the most fun.

So come on down and join us from 6pm each Tuesday, you going to have a great time.

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Volume 1 Issue 5 July 2018

Pool Competition

The Friday night Pool Compe-tition still attracts good num-bers despite the nights getting cooler. The Pool Comp fol-lows the Laws of World Pool, and not some of the variations used in Pubs and Clubs around Australia. With this small change games are fast and furious and all will end up having a fantastic time. So register for chance to Wins

Cash

Pool Competition Friday Nights from 7.00pm Registration from 6.00pm

Bowls For Sale

TAYLOR REDLINE SR

SIZE: 0

Colour: Black and Blue Rings: White

Emblem : Anchor Date Stamp: 26

Purchased: 28/07/2017

Warranty: 15 Years

Priced at: $400

Contact : Andrew Doggett Ph: 6829 0408

Very Good Condition, excellent line

Suitable for Ladies or Juniors

Entries to the July Winter Triples Bowls Tournament are now being accepted.

The Winter Triples Bowls Tournament carries a prize purse of $4000 and consists of 6 games of 13 ends and is run over 2 days, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th of July starting at 9 am each day. This Event also carries Bowls Australia Ranking Points. The event is open to Male, female and mixed teams and alt-hough highly competitive, also promises to an enjoyable and fun weekend for all.

July Winter Triples Entries Now Open

Men’s Minor Singles Nominations now Open

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2018 Men’s Mi-nor Singles Championship, which will be held on the Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of July. The matches will be 31 Shots Up.

To be eligible to enter players must have not won any Major or Minor Club Singles Title in the past. At this or any other Club.


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2018 Bowls Events

OPEN EVENTS

JULY WINTER TRIPLES: Sat 14th & Sun 15 July

BPL CUP: Saturday 28th July

SURF CITY PAIRS: Saturday 26th August

SEPTEMBER CARNIVAL OF BOWLS: Pairs: Thursday 6th & Friday 7th September Prelude Fours: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th September

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

MENS MINOR SINGLES: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th July

MIXED PAIRS: Sunday 22nd July

MIXED FOURS: Sunday 2nd September

CLUB AWARDS DINNER

Saturday 10th November

Raffle Winner And the Winner is……

Congratulations to Sue Pillar from Wee Waa the winner of the Set of Aero Bowls and Bag. Sue was also a competitor in the 25th Womens Black Opal Triples.

Congratulations Sue

Club gets New Umpire It is with pleasure that we announce that our Bowls Co-ordinator Andrew Doggett has completed his accreditation as a National Umpire. This will relieve some of the burden from the only other accredited Umpire our own Noel Burke who has given his time so freely to assist the Club and District during Tournaments for many years, Thankyou Noel, congrats Andrew

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streamed. Prizes are worth in excess of $4,000 per team (on average).

Teams can enter by completing an entry form via the appropriate state/territory Registration Portal (http://www.bowls.com.au/Events/BPL-Cup) Entries for each event are limited to 16 and entries will close on the preceding Wednesday midnight (for Fri/Sat/Sun events) and preceding Thursday midnight (for Tue/Wed events). The Lightning Ridge District Bowl-ing Club will be hosting the BPL Cup in our region on Saturday 28th July so get a team together and en-ter. Remember you can only enter online so don’t leave it until the last minute. Regional Finals will be sectional play so you will be guar-anteed multiple games. For more information please contact your Bowls Co-ordinator Andrew Dog-gett

BPL Entries Closing Soon

Play the fast-paced BPL format as seen on television ...and win an expenses-

paid trip to the BPL Cup National Finals, played at Queensland's Club Pine Rivers. The BPL Cup National Finals will be played alongside BPL08. Finalists will get to play on the TV rink and meet the stars of the BPL. Over the past five years, Bowls Australia has successfully staged six Bowls Premier League (BPL) events. In 2014, Bowls Austral-ia also launched a new national partici-pation initiative, Jack Attack, which is played at over 190 venues. The BPL Cup marries the two products together to strengthen the correlation between the bowls that viewers see on television and the format of bowls of-fered at Clubs. The BPL Cup provides an opportunity for Club based teams to progress through various rounds to National Finals, to be played in parallel with the BPL08 competition (at Club Pine Riv-ers, Queensland) in mid-November 2018. The format is two-bowl triples and will follow the similar rules as the BPL and Jack Attack competi-tions. Matches consist of two sets of five ends with a one-end tie breaker (if required). Teams can register up to four players but only three players can play at any one time (substitutes during matches are allowed). All players in each team are to be affiliated with the same Club. Teams can enter in more than one event (and with different play-ers from the same Cub). The entry fee is $60 per team (of up to 4 players), collected at the time of entry. PRIZES FOR STATE/TERRITORY WINNERS

For three team members... - Return airfares to Brisbane

- Hire cars provided for transfers

- Four nights' accommodation

- Reserved seats and hospitality for BPL Cup players to watch televised BPL matches

- Free supporter gear for an adopted BPL team

- For the BPL Semi-Finals and Finals, the matches will be played on the TV rink used for the BPL TV matches. These matches will also be live

Golf Club News

The Lightning Ridge Golf Club would like to extend a huge “THANK YOU” to the Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club Ltd. for its ongoing support.it is very much appreciated. The Club has been struggling over the past number of years, However we are slowly rebuilding the membership and facilities. We have been very busy cleaning and tidying up the Clubhouse and Course and working through an extensive “To-Do List”.

We had an excellent turnout for our “Meet the Members” BBQ on the 26th of May, and our next FUN DAY & BBQ is planned for Saturday 25th Au-gust from midday, we hope to see you there.

2018 / 2019 Memberships are now due

Full Golf Membership . $50 per year Available at the Bowling Club Foyer or at the Golf Course.

Casual Golf (Non Members) only $5

If Clubhouse is closed please use HONESTY BOX provided.

10 Hole Chook Run every Wednesday & Friday from 8.30am Sundays 1pm

Only $6.50

GREAT WEEKLY PRIZES Including CASH, & $20 Meat Vouchers Thanks to TAYLORS BUTCHERY

Clubhouse Open Saturday and Sunday 12pm—4pm

Venue Hire: Contact Club Secretary Varley. Adam Sweeney: President LRGC

Varley Bower: Secretary Ph 0422 623 003

LETS GET SWINGING


NAIDOC WEEK 2018

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Aus-tralians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is-lander community.

NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Ob-servance Committee’. This committee was once responsible for organising na-tional activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself.

NAIDOC Week 2018 will celebrate the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander women have made – and continue to make - to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation. As pillars of our society, Aborigi-nal and Torres Strait Islander women have played – and continue to play - active and significant roles at the community, local, state and national levels.

The Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club will be hosting a Flag Raising Ceremony on Sunday 8th July from 10am this will be followed by entertainment and morning tea.

NAIDOC Week celebrations con-tinue on Wednesday 11th July at Spider Brown Oval All Day

Lightning Ridge Local Aboriginal Land Council

The Lightning Ridge Local Abo-riginal Land Council, was estab-lished in the Late 1980’s. The Lightning Ridge Local Aboriginal Land Council, work for their members and the wider Aboriginal community living in the local area. They assist in matters relating to the areas of housing, legal, em-ployment and other day-to-day matters involving Aboriginal peo-ple. LALCs were established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 as the elected representatives for Aboriginal people in NSW. This role extends beyond represen-tation of the interests of Land Council members, to all Aborigi-nal people living in NSW. The network is not, as is widely believed, funded by the taxpayers of NSW. Local Aboriginal Land Councils have been fully self supporting since 1998. Locals are actively encouraged to use the support ser-vice offered by the Lightning

Lightning Ridge Local Aboriginal Land Council PO Box 903

Lightning Ridge NSW 2834

Ph: (02) 6829 0105 Mob: 0413 013 421

Email: [email protected]

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Free Entertainment in July

What's on in July

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