From Your Editors

From Your Editors

Welcome

Here we go with March Quarter Edition No 92! The other day Denis Croker asked if we had planned anything special for our 100th Edition! This means eight more! Who knows whether we will get there as we are already having difficulty with finding something like the "Question mark" on the key board and trying to find where we have put somthing! Our computer is also slowing down as we now have more than 10000 images saved in case we need something from the past.

"Ask not what your Club can do for you – ask what you can do for your Club"

Remember we still need Volunteers. A number of key positions are vacant and as a result members like Trevor Orton are doing two jobs! So please offer to help.

We still need feedback and comments on what we publish. We know that there is some repetition as we forget what we have published over the last 16 years. Are we still getting the balance right between reports, articles, stories and cartoons? Please call us on 9309 3108 or email us at nevodell@bigpond.net.au if you have any comments or suggestions. We are running out of ideas and often worry that we are not publishing what members want in our news magazine!

Some more "Did you hear and Did you know?"

Did you know the guy who invented the door knocker got a no-bell prize? Thanks to Mike Berecry for this useful bit of information!

Did you hear the Tony Sabatino thought he recognised Ken Giles as one of the naked bowlers in our December Quarter edition? Pat Dichiera wanted to know what attributes stood out that helped him to identify Ken!

Did you hear during a particularly slow game, when everyone else was already in the club house, Ken Giles told Peter Robson that he had just placed an Uber Eats order for breakfast to be delivered for the players?

Did you know that Chris Lander’s father, Ken, was a champion and versatile sportsman in New Zealand? Born in Wellington in 1930, Ken was first introduced to gymnastics at the age of three but his natural ability quickly saw him also involved in athletics, cricket, rugby union, basketball, golf, indoor bowls, soccer, badminton and softball. But it was in softball and soccer that he really made his mark representing Wellington at Colts and Senior level, and on one occasion the North Island, in softball and right through the grades in soccer until he peaked by representing New Zealand in 1956. Proving lawn bowling runs deep in the Lander family, Ken then took up the sport at the age of 38 and as well as representing Wellington many times, won a stack of club titles. It is obvious that Chris has inherited his father's talents and has followed in his footsteps!

Did you know that Jim Woodward not so long ago spent ten frantic minutes looking for his car in the Warwick Grove Shopping Centre, and getting assistance from other concerned shoppers to locate it? The search continued UNTIL he realised he had driven Robyn’s vehicle to the shops that day. We are all getting older!

Did you know that in November Russell Fishwick, Joe Mola, Peter Blake and Brad Marshall chalked up an eight on the second end of their match on their way to a 13-shot (and pot-winning) victory against Dalkeith-Nedlands?