NEWS
The Board has approved a proposal to hold an inter-club fundraising event on 9 August. This mixed triples competition will replace the Dingman Pairs. All proceeds (entry fees and donations) will go to BC Children's Hospital. Publicity material will be sent to all V&D clubs early in the year. We trust that a good number will support this exciting new event.
Success on the Green
A record number of our members qualified for last year's Vancouver and District Prize-winners Day at New Westminster. They included five first-year players, and half the group had been playing for three years or less. We look forward to even more success this year.​
Bowls on YouTube
Lawn bowls may struggle to get airtime on TV, but there is a great range of material to watch on YouTube. Videos from Australia are especially common, and one very good series to watch is The Bowls Show. It's noisy, it's colourful, it's everything people don't associate with bowls - and there are some brilliant games to watch. Following the World Indoor Bowls championships in January there is a heap of good bowls to watch (and copy!) on YouTube. There are more hints on watching such videos in the newsletters mentioned below.
VIEWS
Our friend and Richmond member On Kow Lee issues a periodical newsletter about events in the world of bowls. She kindly makes this available to Granville Park members. On Kow Lee's enthusiasm is totally infectious, and her wisdom in seeing the wider aspects of the game (psychology and teamwork) is very obvious. All these newsletters have links to several YouTube videos. The latest edition (January 2026) is devoted to the World Bowls Indoor Championships.
GPLBC Vice-President Trevor Field has been compiling a bowls blog over the years, aimed primarily at new or intermediate bowlers, with comments and advice on how the game is played.
Happy reading!
COMING UP...
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​2026 Season
The club's Opening Day is scheduled for Sunday 26 April at 1 pm. Members and prospective new bowlers will receive details of the event during April. There is just a chance that because of bad weather at that time or earlier we may postpone the event until the following weekend (3 May), but for now we are aiming for that last weekend in April.​
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