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Drouin Bowling Club, 2 Princes Way, Drouin (2025)

23/09/2025

Just a reminder to all members, new members and all who are interested, the Drouin Bowls club run coaching and practise sessions on Thursday mornings from 9.30 to 11.00am, these sessions are ideal for novice bowlers, you will be given an introduction to Bowls in a relaxed and supportive environment. The Instructors are very experienced and will be very helpful.
Bowls will be supplied, please wear flat souled shoes, come along and join in the fun.
Enjoy a cuppa after the session and get to know the members, hope to see a few new faces.

18/09/2025

Congratulations to Russell Dawson who has just been awarded Life Membership. A well deserved honour, Russell has been a great asset to the Drouin Bowls club, and has worked very hard to better our club. He is respected and loved by all, always doing his best to please and help members.
Russell was a good all round cricketer in his younger days. He especially enjoyed his spin bowling. He loved his fishing, rabbit shooting and of course his football. His team of Geelong will be with him until he dies. Russell spent a period of time in the army and served his country in the Vietnam war.
After retiring as General Manager at Shaw Industries through ill health he and Irene moved to Drouin. Russell has enjoyed his time of 30 years living in Drouin, where he played golf and joined the local bowls club in 2002.
He played in the pennant teams for a number of years, unfortunetely he had trouble with his right foot, and could not play for a while, he eventually got himself an arm and he is happily back again enjoying his bowls.
Russell worked on the bar for 20 years, firstly helping Ian Rhodes, then Russell took over the bar and became Bar manager. He was on the selection committee and in 2016 he became a Board member. He took on the job of Vice -Chairman, then Chairman of the board. He began to apply for grants and was successful with a grant of $6,400 to replace the indoor bowls mats. He then applied for another large grant for $248.000, for our number one Green.
The Latrobe Valley Authority finally authorised the grant after 10 months of meetings, with a good result.
Russell worked in conjunction with Andre De Waele to secure many other grants to refurbish inside and outside the clubrooms. These included the bar, painting both inside and outside the club rooms, new carpet, blinds, new fridges and freezers, lighting upgrades, air conditioners, upgrade of men's toilets, pantry, new outdoor shelters. None of these refurbishments would have been completed without the help of the hard working members of the club. Russell also was part of the team of the RSL Drouin/Warragul clubs who represented country Victoria at Moama and Deniliquin bowls clubs.
Russell is currently looking after sponsorship and any new projects that will help our club.
Thank You Russell for everything you have done to help our club and all us members, and wish you all the best for the future.

18/09/2025

These ladies (Denise Hamilton, Margaret Rhodes, Glenda Jarred and Irene Dawson) were representing our club to support the Corinella bowls club for their first annual PINK BOWL, Suppport the McGrath Foundation. The day started off with Champagne and nibbles for breakfast, then lunch and afternoon tea. It was a real fun day with all the frivolity of Corinella, there were heaps of prizes through out the day,and different activites to join in, also they had a guest entertainer after lunch singing all the old favourites. The raffles contained over $1200 worth of prizes
Apparently the mayor also attended and the Sentinel times will be doing a story.
Congratulations to Corinella bowls club for raising an amazing amount of money. ...$4,000.00

05/09/2025

The Drouin Bowls club are saying good bye to a loved and valued member from years ago. Lorraine Kinrade was a past chairperson, a member of the Ladies Committee and a Selector for pennant for a numbered of years. I am sure many members remember her well, a funny happy lady that cared for people and helped everyone.
Lorraine Florence Annie Kinrade OAM born on the 8th March1936 and passed away on 22nd / 8/2025.
She was a kind and generous person who loved her family and friends and was involved in many clubs in the Drouin and Warragul areas. she was recognised for Australia Day Honours.
Medal of Order of Australia (OAM) An inspiration to her family and all Australians.
CWA member for over 67 years and a life member, (40 years)
PHF (Rotary service) & Citzenship award) which she also won.
State Conferences (100 people) which she managed.
A Probas member.
She enjoyed many sports as a younger person, interested in Hockey, Table Tennis and Lawn Bowls and Golf, where she was lucky to have had a ( hole in one ) Golf was her favourite. She represented her school at the age of 14 playing Hockey.
She worked at Smith's shoe shop in the office, which she rode her Motor bike to work.
Lorraine married John Kinrade in 1958 in Drouin, helped out at the local church (catering committee) for 65years, she would listen to her favourite footy team (Collingwood) on the radio, loved her crosswords and she enjoyed dressing up as Zig and Zag, Mr Bean and a drunken person at the local Ficifolia Festival in Drouin.
Lorraine also enjoyed cooking and loved teaching her grand daughters to cook, she made marmalade, jams, chutney and made the best scones, also the many sweets she made for her family and the CWA and Rotary. Thank You Lorraine you will always be remembered for the love and laughter you gave to us.❤️❤️RIP

23/08/2025

Congratulations and a Happy 80th Birthday to Les Firth for tomorrow 24th August, who has been a member of the Drouin bowls Club since 2016. He is a valued person loved and respected by all the members.
Les has done so many different jobs for our club, helping with the coaching of members, he is also a umpire, worked in the kitchen, as well as cutting the lawns and for quite a few years a secretary of the Combined Match & Tournament Committee. Les and Mary also ran the Twilight bowls for anybody who was interested in learning to bowl and having fun, it has become a very popular event.
Les bowled in a few Pennant Premiership Grand Finals for Drouin.
He is always willing to help anyway he can. He took a personal interest in helping the other bowlers who were having difficulty.
Les enjoyed playing football at Benella where he also was an umpire in his younger years, Mary his wife also said he enjoyed playing Squash at Frankston, which he was very good at.
Les started bowling at Shepparton Bowls club where he won his first Club Single Championship.
He then moved to Toora Beach Bowls club and continued to bowl very well. Les won another 7 Club Single Championships, which is amazing. A wonderful achievement, something to be very proud of and to remember.
Les then arrived at the Drouin Bowls Club and won another 3 Club Single Championships, a wonderful career he has enjoyed as a bowler.
Les has bowled in many events, such as Club pairs, triples, fours etc. He enjoys bowling during the Pennant season, Grandfinals and many tournaments which he has had to travelled far..
He also is on the committee which ran the combined Warragul & Drouin RSL bowls teams.
Two teams headed off to bowl as a representive of Victorian country sides. One team headed off to Moama and the other team went to Deniliquin for 3 days, which was a successful venture.
I forgot to say that he also won the Ian Rhodes trophy for best club member a couple of years ago.
Well done Les.

17/07/2025

Drouin Bowls Club enjoyed a night out at one of our new sponser's restaurant called 'Smokin Joes.' Great to see so many of our members attend as we have quite a few members away. The food was excellent with good friendly service as well. Great athmosphere,
Thank You to our Sponsers for their support throught out the year.
Congratulations to one of our members also who celebrated her birthday.
Happy Birhday to Yvonne Smith who volunteers her time behind the bar' on social day Wednesday and sometimes during our happy hour which is on Friday evenings. Also on special events that we all enjoy.
Hope everyone enjoyed themselves.

08/07/2025

Drouin bowls club are saying good bye to one of their club members, Jim Herbert Purvis who passed away peacefully on June 26 at the age of 92. Our condolences go to his wife Ellen and all the family. Jim was with the Drouin Bowls club for quite a few years, he was loved and respected, a good person who cared for everybody, he loved his social bowls, and enjoyed his pennant.
Jim was a member of Division 6 Saturday Pennant team 23/24 Grand Final who bowled against Long Warry. He bowled at the age of 90 and it was a very hot day, which didn't help, but the team went ahead and won, what a victory for the club, Jim had a fall and was hurt, but he continued bowling, the next day they had to come back to Moe and bowl the next morning. (due to the heat). A well earned victory to the bowlers and the club. A very happy man was Jimmy.
Jim was a very hard working family man, who loved his family, his grandchildren and great grandchildren, he got along with everyone and had a great connection with the younger people, helping his neighbours. He was a farmer for 55 years, as well as working on the railway, he loved his fishing and often took his grandchildren out on his boat.
He also went to live in Bairnsdale for about 4 years, where he started bowling, he then decided to come back to farming, he bowled at the Neerim South bowls club, he then joined the Long Warry bowls club and as we all know he ended up at our Drouin bowls club. He was always a gentleman and we all loved him, he loved his pennant and enjoyed his Wednesday social bowls. He liked to have a beer (frothy) with his mates which gave him a lot of joy, a very friendly character who made many friends and enjoying the company of others. RIP Jim Purvis.

11/06/2025

Last night we once again visited our local Chinese Resturant called the Hong Kong Inn for our annual dinner. William Wong and his wonderful staff have been Sponsers for the Drouin Bowls Club for many years.
They looked after us with friendship and kindness. The food was once again delicious and service was excellent.
Thank You for your continous support through out the year.
Thank you to all the members that attended.
Quite a few members have headed off to a warmer climate for the winter. Hope they all have a great holiday and come home safe for season 2025-2026.

07/05/2025

Drouin Bowls Club hosted the Mixed Medley Sixes on Sunday 4th of May.The club had visitors from all around the Gippsland area and was a successful day.
Congratulations to the Winners: Drouin Team
Dennis Throup's, Peter Throup, Col Jeffrey, Julie Jackson, Denis Hamilton and Lyn Jeffrey.
Runners Up were team from Garlfield, Debbie Parker, Annette O' Shea, Brad Fowler, Jasmine O' Shea and Andrew Parker.
Third place went to another Drouin team, Brian Thorpe, Phil Jarred, Andy Kidd, Elaine Thorpe, Glenda Jarred and Louise McDonald.
Well done Glenda on winning the Raffle.
We hope everyone that entered the tournament enjoyed the day and hope to see you all next season.

18/04/2025

Drouin Bowls Club would like to wish all the members and visitors a wonderful Easter. Tonight we enjoyed our Good Friday Fish & Chip night, a Easter celebration which was successful once again with 130 guests, good to see the residents of Drouin attend.
Thank you to our organiser Lorraine Fox (foxy) who did a wonderful job, thank you to Irene who greeted all the guests and told us jokes again, she also organised all the Easter hampers, which is a huge job, in it self, there would of been about 15 to 20 hampers, and she put them together and wrapped each one. Thank you Irene.
Thank you to Margie also helping with the sweets and Margaret Owens for assisting Irene with the raffles, not forgetting the girls selling the tickets, Helen and Gwen.
A big thank you to all the members who helped in the kitchen both morning and evening, not a easy job. The food was excellent once again.
Our new bar manager Bruce and barman Gary.
We hope you all enjoyed your meal and had a great night.
Happy Easter to you all.

08/04/2025

Congratulations to our RSL team from Drouin/Warragul who bowled away at Deniliquin. Thank You to Andre De Waele, President Wayne Myers and Les Firth who organised the tournament. It was well organised, everyone had a great time. It was a Special event and thanks to all that helped.
Congratulations to all the bowlers, winning 2 very close games on the first day, and losing the last by only 1 shot, great effort, well done to all.
The mascot kept an eye on what was going on. Her name is Tuppy. A huge Thank you to Wayne the President and his helpers who organised the weekend away, l am sure they all enjoyed themselves. A lovely way of meeting people and having a great time.

07/04/2025

We all enjoyed our Presentation night last Wednesday evening 2nd April, another successful night, a big thank you to our organiser Margaret Rhodes and Ian Haughton, Lorraine Fox. Thank you to all that helped through out the night, the Tournament Committee and all the members that brought a salad or a sweet, Bruce Andrews Yvonne & Lloyd Smith working behind the bar. Richard Joyner taking the Video of all the members showing off their skills and taking photos, throught out the year, a few extra laughs, thank you, and great work Richard. Congratulations to all our Winners and members that entered the club events.
Winner of the Ian Rhodes Trophy for 2025 is Irene Dawson, a well deserved recipient, Irene has been at the club close to 20 years and in that time has been a volunteer on many occasions, doing anything and everything to help the club.

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