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

Proud winning their first game against Sydney North West (Zone 10) which resulted in the side getting a Draw. Un-fortunately the Zone 3 Men were out-played in their next 2 encounters going down to Newcastle( Zone 2) 72 to 43, and down to Illawarra (Zone 10) 74 to 44. Although Zone 3 did not perform as well as we had hoped, Scott Franklin did impress NSW Selectors and Scott has been chosen in the NSW Senior Squad to represent NSW and take on the rest of Australia at the Australian Senior Sides competition later this year. Congratula-tions Scott.

2 Members of the Lightning Ridge Dis-trict Bowling Club were chosen to repre-sent Zone 3 at the Interzone Senior Sides Competition held at Figtree Bowling Club in Wollongong recently. The week long competition pitted sides from all 16 of the NSW Zones. The NSW Inter-Zone Sides Championship – Seniors is the pinnacle event for an individuals 60 years and over representing their Zone Sides. Players have qualified for this competition through selection at Zone level. The tour-nament matches Zone Sides in pools of four for Sectional Play before the top team progresses from each section to play in the Semi Finals, with the winners mov-ing into the final. It is Representative Bowls in NSW at its elite. Players repre-sent their Zone in a side of 12 players at this event. The competition plays off in three teams . Our Club was represented in Zone 3 by Scott Franklin and Dave Samu-elsson,. Although results didn't go Zone 3’s way Scott and Dave did our Club

Meet & Greet your Staff

Lightning Ridge Represents Zone 3

Many of you will have seen Customer Service Representative, Tracy Coglan, Tracy is a familiar face around Club, as the Host and Caller of our regular Bingo Games, and also assisting in Food Service at the Restaurant from time to time. In her youth Tracy, was considered the Class Clown, a habit she says, that she still has to grow out of, always quick with a laugh , or joke.

A woman with a Zest for Life. Tracy first moved to the Ridge in 2016 from Nambucca Heads with a background in Hospitality Tracy joined the Club that year in a similar role in the Bars and the Bistro. Tracy is a Mother of 4 Grown up Children and a Grandmother of 3.5 grandkids.( Bundy NAN) Keen charity worker, often seen fundrais-ing for various charities. Social life for Tracy includes Pool playing, occasional Lawn Bowls, mining, and drinking often. Tracy Coglan

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Lightning Ridge District Bowls Club continues to collect District Champions, on the 5th and 6th of May last month, Lightning Ridge again hosted District Champion-ships, this time it was the Champi-on Pairs, and what a thrilling en-counter it was.

2018 Barwon District State Pairs Champions was once again an all Lightning Ridge affair, recent Members Jared Hunt and Ricco Lane had a tough time up against Dave Webb and Leo Hooper and at the conclusion of the 21st End were drawn, an extra end played saw our eventual winners Jared and Ricco crowned as District Champs. In the Senior Pairs, again an all Lightning Ridge encounter Winners Dave Samuelson and Tony Lamb triumphed over Victor

Murray and District President Bill Kennedy. In the Presidents Re-serves Pairs it was a Richards family affair with Brent Richards teaming up with his grandfather Gordon Richards to take out the Event. All winners continue on to Zone Playoffs in July at Quirindi.

On the weekend of the 12th and 13th of May (Mothers Day Weekend), Lightning Ridge host-ed the Barwon District Triples, a 2 bowl triples event that allows no room for errors. In a tight tussle that was the final, the two teams which battled for the title were Ray Brown, Adam and Da-vid Webb against Ricco Lane, Dave Samuelsson, and Jared Hunt. The Team which emerged victorious and the Champion Triples Team from Lightning Ridge was Ray Brown, Adam and David Webb. This team will trav-el to Tamworth City to play the Zone Finals on the 23rd and the 24th of this Month. Best of Luck Boys.

Meanwhile at the Namoi District Women’s Bowling Association District Championships, being held at Moree on the weekend of the 19th and 20th May, The Star couple from Lightning Ridge, Heidi Monch and Darren Rich-ards won the District Mixed Pairs Championship. Big congrats to Heidi and Darren.

Lightning Ridge continues to collect Championships

The men from our Grade 2 Pennant team have done it again, not content with winning their Section of Pennants, they can now add Zone 3 Pennant Champions to list of impressive wins. On Saturday the 26th of May those of us who braved the early morning start and the 3 hour ride to Narrabri were privileged to witness an impressive display of match play when Lightning Ridge took on Armidale City in the Zone 3 Pennant Final. After a see-sawing match which saw 2 of the Lightning Ridge teams suffer from narrow losses and 1 team with an impressive win, Lightning Ridge had defeated Armi-dale City 60 to 56. The Boys from the Bush now take on the might of their Big Smoke counterparts in Sydney at the State Pennant Championships in August. Congratulations fellas and continue your winning ways at State. Our Team : Scott Franklin, David Webb, Gary Koopman, Tony Kelly, Phil A Morris, Jay Morris, Tony Lamb, Phil W Morris, Darren Richards, Rod Dixon, Graham Morris, Dave Samuelsson and Ray Dixon

Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club Newsletter

June 2018 Volume 1 Issue 4

“The Ridge Roll Up”

Inside this issue:

New Club Rewards Program

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Another Champion Crowned

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Junior Bowls Acade-my off to flying start

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What’s On 5

Winter Triples Open 6

Mothers Day Bowls 7

Lightning Ridge gains State Representative

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District Presidents Reserves Champions,

Gordon Richards & Brent Richards

District State Pairs Champions

Jared Hunt & Ricco Lane

District Triples Champions

David Webb, Ray Brown & Adam Webb

District Mixed Pairs Champions

Darren Richards & Heidi Monch

Lightning Ridge in NSW State Pennant Playoff

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LRBC to Host Zone Finals

Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club will host the Zone 3 Men’s Fours Playoffs and Finals later this month. On the 30th June Champion teams from all over North West NSW will arrive at Lightning Ridge for the Zone 3 Men's Fours Finals, this event is a pit stop along the way to the State Championship with winner of this event representing all of NW NSW in the NSW State Inter-Zone Championships at Wagga Wagga in September. Lightning Ridge will be represented by a strong fours team that has the potential to go all the way. The Team Skipped by Club Di-rector Phil W Morris, includes Alan Tighe Snr, Alan Tighe Jnr and Michael Mitchell. I am sure that the rest of the Club will join me in wishing them the Best of Luck, and remember to come down and cheer them on to victory.

This year June marks the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Black Opal Classic Triples Event, and to celebrate the club is raffling a new set of Speckled Aero Bowls of your choice and the new CV Ultra-glide trolley Bowls bag. Valued at $ 750.00 Tickets are only $ 2 each and are available from the Women’s Bowls Club, our Bowls Co-Ordinator, Andrew Dog-gett, or at Reception. The Raffle will be drawn at the Presentation Dinner of the Women’s Black Opal Classic Triples on Sunday 24th of June at 7pm. There are limited number of tick-ets available so get in fast.

Win a set of Aero Bowls

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New Club Rewards System

From L to R

Mick Mitchell, Alan Tighe Snr, Alan Tighe Jnr and Phil W Morris.

Members may have noticed new technology being installed around the club, with this new technology comes a new Club Rewards Programme. Now every time a member makes a purchase at any outlet within the Club, that member receives 1 point for every Dollar spent, this is now added to your members card and can be redeemed at any of the club’s outlets. The Paper vouchers can still be used to purchase Raffle Tickets, Market Day Tickets and Pay for Green Fees, and are still being accepted by selected retail-ers throughout the town. However, now if you receive a voucher, you can take that voucher to recep-tion, and have that value placed on your members card, and so continue to make purchases within the Club, the advantage of this new system is that you only deduct that purchase price from the voucher not the whole amount as in the past. Additionally, you now have the option of putting cash on your members card to make your purchases at the club totally cashless, simply use the members card as you would for making an eftpos transaction. As you will see members and Guests now have a pay wave system eftpos transaction facility available at each and every one of the clubs outlets. The Daily members draws now have the prizes automatically allocated to their cards. Promotions such as the current Audio Visual System on display in the Foyer, use the card to automatically produce an entry ticket after every $10 accumulat-ed spend at the Bar, Coffee Shop, Restaurant and Bottle shop, simply place your automatically generated entry ticket in the Barrel in the foyer. The Loyalty Program for the Gaming Machines (Pokies), remains unchanged you can still amass points which you can redeem for vouchers. This new system may take a small amount adjustment from the way things were done in the past, but long term this will benefit all members more so than the previous system.

Attention Members Club Membership Renewals

Due June 30

On Sunday the 13th of May the Club hosted the Annual Mothers Day Triples Bowls event. Although attendance was down on previous years, all who participated seemed to enjoy the afternoon. Every entrant received a Gift with the Winners and Runners Up receiving Prizes as well as mystery prizes being handed out at the end of the day.

Pictured Right, Mothers Day Winners: Peter Collison Sally Williams and Danny Kapatos

Mothers Day Bowls

Tuesday Night Poker The Texas Hold’em Poker com-petition on Tuesday evening still continues to attract quality players competing for substan-tial Prizemoney. Throughout May 92 players graced the poker tables, enjoying the so-cial camaraderie and fun filled atmosphere that the club pro-vides, although there was some serious competition for the Prize pools as we distributed over $4800 in prizes last month.. As well as what was

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Pool Competition Friday Night Pool Competi-tion still continues to attract good numbers despite the nights getting a bit cooler. Last month in excess of $1200 has been won by a variety of players. It is interesting to note that the prizemoney has been fairly well distributed between a large number of players. Previous weeks win-ners and runners-up getting knocked out in first rounds, and players that were knocked out in the previous weeks tournament getting up and winning the following weeks round. So come down and get a piece of the action.

Pool Competition Friday Nights from 7.00pm Registration from 6.00pm

Harlequin Opal Poker Tournament

On Saturday the 19th of May Lightning Ridge hosted the Harle-quin Opal Poker Tournament. Starting at 12 midday a field of 49 players competed in a Texas Hold em Poker tournament and Prize Pool of $6040.00 After 6.5 hours of play we were left with only 3 Players. Danny Kapatis of Light-ning Ridge, Michelle Jones of Walgett and Ron Bur also of Lightning Ridge. After 45 minutes of winning and losing pots the 3 players decided to split the prizemoney of $4350 so each player received $1450 not a bad days earnings. The Club

intends to host another Poker tour-nament in the near future so stay tuned.

Sally Williams Laurel Voelks

won at the Harlequin Opal Poker Tournament

L to R

Danny Kapartos, Michelle Jones and Ron Dur

Entries to the July Winter Triples Bowls Tournament are now be-ing accepted.

The Winter Triples Bowls Tour-nament 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 although highly competitive, also promises to an enjoyable and fun weekend for all.

July Winter Triples Entries Now Open

Women's Black Opal Triples This year marks the 25th Anniver-sary of the Women's Black Opal Triples, being held on June 23 and 24th, and for this Silver Anniver-sary there have been a couple of minor changes. The most signifi-cant change is that this year Prizemoney has increased to $7000 and Bowls Australia ranking points apply to the ladies competing ,in what is now one of the richest la-dies tournaments in NSW. This year the Gala Dinner will be held on Saturday Night with Partners in attendance. A new Pop Up store shall be operating in the Club that weekend, Lawn Bowls 2 U will here with a plethora of both Ladies and Men's Bowls Apparel as well as Bowls, Bowls accessories, & Shoes. So if you are in need of new equipment, clothing or just brows-ing check out the store and grab a bargain. This years field filled quite quickly, and we have many return-

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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

Men's Triples: 16th & 17th June Men's Minor Singles: 29th July & 1st September Mixed Pairs: 22nd July Mixed Fours: 2nd September

OPEN EVENTS

Women's Black Opal Triples: 23rd & 24th June

July Winter Triples: 14th & 15th July

BPL Cup: 28tht July

Surf City Pairs: 26th August

September Carnival of Bowls: Pairs: 6th & 7th September. Fours: (Prelude) 8th & 9th September

CLUB AWARDS DINNER

Saturday 10th November

2018 Bowls Events

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Men’s Club Triples Championship Entries Open

The Lightning Ridge Bowling Club Men’s Triples Championship will be contested here at the Club on the weekend of the 16th and 17th of June. Nominations for this event are now open. This event is Club Selected please place names on entry

ing teams as well as a couple of new ones. The ladies competing some of whom will have travelled over1200 Km to compete, from as far as Balla-rat and Gosford some of these ladies are higher echelon bowlers including 3 teams from our own Lightning Ridge Women’s Club, so to see some of the best female bowlers in this state and some from interstate, competing for $7000 in Prizes, come down to the Club on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of June and pick a side and cheer them on.

Visiting Social Groups

On Tuesday 22nd of May Lightning Ridge Bowling Club hosted a social group from Seachange Lifestyle Resort of Arundel on Qld’s Gold Coast. Over 30 guests indulged themselves of the Club’s hospitality, and small select group played Bowls that morning. All commented on how much they enjoyed their visit to Ridge and how welcoming the town and Club was to the group. The crew from Seachange Lifestyle Resort, visited many of the local attractions and were thoroughly entertained by all that they got to see. Over the coming months the Club will host many such travelling groups I hope we can make all feel as en-thused as this group was.

Indoor Carpet Bowls Tournament

The Annual Lightning Ridge Money Indoor Carpet Bowls Tournament will be run on the June Long Weekend. 72 Players from NSW, Vic and Qld will be competing for over $2000 in Prizemoney.

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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 Cup Entries Open

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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

Champion of Club Champions

On Saturday 19th May, here at Light-ning Ridge the Barwon District Bowl-ing Association held the Champion of Club Champion Singles Playoff, it is with great pleasure that we can an-nounce that our own Scott Franklin CEO of the Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club was victorious and as District Champion will now go on to compete in the Zone Playoffs in August at Guyra.

Scott's skills will be on display again on Saturday 2nd of June when he teams up with Club Director Ray Brown for the Barwon District Champion of Club Champion Pairs. We wish both gentle-men the very best and hope that we can continue the run of wins for the Club.

Barwon District Champion of Club Champions

Scott Franklin

Lightning Ridge

Lightning Ridge Champion of Club Champion Pairs Representatives

Scott Franklin & Ray Brown

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Juniors take to the Greens

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Over the past month the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club has hosted some the Lightning Ridge Central School primary students, for mornings of Lawn Bowls. In excess of 50 students each week have received instruction in the fundamentals of Lawn Bowls, from your Bowls Co-ordinator Andrew Doggett. The students have had a great time learning the game and enjoying the basics of bowls in a modified format. The school is impressed with how well the students have responded to the program and hope to continue this well into the future. It is foreseen that at the end of the school year the Club will host these stu-dents in a day of competition and fun. As the students progress in the sport, they will be-come the foundation of the Lightning Ridge Junior Bowling Academy, which offers after school instruction and training, developing their skills to a competitive level, in a fun, friendly and safe environment. Many of these students already show promise in the sport and have expressed a desire to join the Academy, if they have not already done so. High School students have not been left out, they have also enjoyed tuition in the game on Friday afternoons as part of their

Physical Education, Health and Personal Development curriculum. Some students may develop into aspiring bowlers, repre-senting our club and who knows there may be future champions amongst them that rep-resent their state or dare I say it their coun-try. Lawn Bowls is social and enjoyable, and involves having fun with other people on a regular basis, as well as keeping fit. Lawn Bowls facilitates long lasting friendships and is a low impact sport with therapeutic, physi-cal and mental health benefits. The game offers a friendly environment for a commu-nity of varying physical ability and the chance to compete in an integrated participa-tion platform. The Lightning Ridge Junior Bowling Acade-my offers a 3 Tier age specific program that encourages and educates in a fun and friend-ly format. Tier 1 for ages of 5 to 9 years

Tier 2 for ages of 10 to 13 years Tier 3 for ages of 14 to 17 years Lawn Bowls does not discriminate, all sexes play on equal terms, it is not a game based on strength, but skill, the greater the skills of an individual the more competitive and en-joyable the game becomes. Anyone can learn the skills, it only takes time to Master.

Lawn Bowls has variety of games activi-ties and formats available to all ages and all skill levels. All activities are designed to be fun as well as providing skills to assist the developing player. Eventually the Junior Bowls Academy students will compete against other clubs, and academies throughout the region even the State. There are specific competitions throughout the State and Australia de-signed exclusively for Junior Bowlers it is the intention of the Academy to send students to these competitions and eventu-ally host some major events just for the Juniors.

For more information on the Junior Bowl-ing Academy contact Andrew Doggett at the Club. Applications and Information Flyers are available at Club Reception. The Junior Bowling Academy is actively seeking sponsorship to cover costs of Competition Shirts interested parties should also contact the Club.

Junior Bowling Academy Shirts

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Free Entertainment in June

What's on in June

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