Drouin Bowling Club

02/12/2024

Our Ladies and Mens Single finals were held Sunday 1st December. The weather was kind to us, sunshine through out the day with wind gusting at times. Our lady bowlers Jan Aubrey and Mary Firth had quite a tussle. Jan started off with a great lead bowling very well. Later on in the game Mary made a come back and did very well and only lost by a few shots.
Congratulations to Jan and commiserations to Mary.
Our male bowlers were Wayne Walsh and Vince Marcarealla with Wayne starting of with a good lead as well and enjoying a great game. He bowled very well . Vince got it together and also made a come back. Great bowling by both guys. Congratulations to Wayne and commiserations to Vince. Final scores were 25/19

26/11/2024

Has anyone spotted a bald man that fell off his electric bike on the crossing near the Post Office in Drouin. Any information would be helpful, this poor guy smashed his mirror but his deepest lost was his diginity, and he is worried that he will get seven years bad luck.🪞 🪞 🪞 🚴‍♂️ 🚴‍♀️ 🚴😂🤣😂

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23/11/2024

Ladies and Mens Singles Grand Final games have been put forward until next Sunday the 1st December due to the weather.
Please be down at the club at 9.00 am for a 9.30 start.
All players are to be in Drouin uniform.
Hope to see members at club to support the final competitors.
Mary Firth V Jan Aubrey. Vince Mancarella V Wayne Walsh.

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14/11/2024

Just letting everyone that has been interested in hiring the Drouin Bowls Club for Work Break- Ups and Christmas Celebrations, unfortunetely we have been all booked out for this year.
Thank you all for the on going interest in our club and we wish you all a Happy Christmas and a Safe New Year for 2025

05/11/2024

What a wonderful day we had as we celebrated Melbourne Cup day once again. A beautiful sunny day with a good crowd. Music playing as we bowled, plenty of prises were won. A couple of Novelty games were held in good spirits. Good friendships and laughs among the bowlers. We had a few visitors as well, who enjoyed the day. Thank you to all the organisers ( the tournament committee) and anyone that helped on the day, and a big thankyou to Andy and helper Maureen for doing all the sweepes for the day.
A few extra photos have been put in that I missed.⭐️⭐️

24/10/2024

Twilight Bowls 2024 is back for another season. Times are 6.00pm to 8.00pm welcome back bowlers and new bowlers.
Thank you to our organiser's Irene Dawson, Bev Walsh. Brian and Elaine Thorpe cooking on the bbq, heating pies and sausage rolls etc. Terry looking after the bar. Also Thorpy emptying bins. Welcome to everyone enjoy the music while bowling and have fun.

05/10/2024

McDonald's Drouin are proudly supporting the Local Community and will be Drouin Bowls Club Major Sponser.
Photos taken by Richard Joyner.

04/10/2024

Congratulations to our New Life Member Lorraine Fox. Nickname (Foxy). She has been a member of the DBC for many years and started bowling in 2004. Foxy has been a very valuable member and has been loved by all. She is also a Life Member of the Drouin Badminton Club. She loves the Drouin Football club and has been a member also for many years, still goes down to the club and supports the young footballers.
She has had quite a few positions in the club. Her first appointment was Ladies Committee as the Treasurer, as well as being part of the Board, and then Match and Tournament Selector for many years.
Lorraine helped Betty Nottage prepare and cook meals every two weeks on a Wednesday night for the Drouin Lions Club.
She then became the lady in charge of the kitchen and catered for Men's and Women's Invitation days, Tournaments and Funerals, Twilight bowls, as well she is still continuing to run the Fish and Chip nights on a Friday night, once every month.
Drouin Bowls Club appreciate all your hard work and your continued help throught out the club. Thank You.
Going back a few years, Lorraine's family were in the Bakery Business, her grandfather and grandmother had a business in Trafalgar in 1958 and later their parents opened a bakery in Drouin, so both Lorraine and her sister Helen worked in the bakery helping their parents. Lorraine is well known for her lovely sponges.
Helen and Lorraine are very close and are always together at the club, they enjoyed trips to Tasmania and South Australia when they were a lot younger, nowadays they often have lunches and enjoy socialising with their bowling friends.

30/09/2024

Just welcoming all our DBC members back after our winter break and also our new members who have just joined our club, looking forward to our new season 2024-2025
The beginning of our Pennant season will be off and running on Saturday 12th of October and Midweek, Tuesday 15th October.
Friday night was our night for the footy tippings winner to be announced , organised by Peter McGarth, who did a great job throughtout the season sorting out all the cards etc. Thank you to Margie Rhodes and the ladies who organised the supper.
The winner was Frank Duffy, second was Andre De Waele and third was Peter McGrath.
We also had a bit of a fun night with Andy Kidd entertaining us with his interpration of the great Elvis Presley, it was fun and everyone joined in and had fun. Thanks Andy.
Just a reminder we have our first Fish and Chip night this Friday 4th of October would love to see everyone there.

22/05/2024

Last night Drouin Bowls club once again enjoyed a night out at our local Chinese Resturant called Honk Kong Inn.
William Wong looked after us again with his friendship and kindness as always, we all know that he has been a very good Sponser for many years, and it has become an annual event to have dinner at his club. Thank you William once again for your support. We all enjoyed our night, the food and service was excellent.
Thank you to all the members who attended, with all the laughter you could hear, we all had a great time.
As it is coming towards the end of the 2023-2024 Bowling season quite a few of our members head off to a warmer climate up north for the winter, hope you all have a great holiday and be safe and hope to see all our members when you come home.

07/05/2024

Sunday the 5th of May, we had our Mixed Medley Sixe's, Congratulations to all the organisers of the club, another great effort, so much work gone into these special days. As you can see we had many of our members and visitors from quite a few different clubs around Victoria. It was a social day, the sun was shining and a very enjoyable day, good to see old friends just catching up and having a lot of fun.
Our winners for the day were The Drouin team of Les Firth, Graeme Aubrey and Ron Westrup, Mary Firth, Jan Aubrey and Julie Jackson.
The Runners up were also a Drouin team with lan Haughton, Vince Marcarelle and Andre De Waele, (Wilma Rees,) absent. Helen Kerkvliet & Maree McKiernan.
Thank you Richard Joyner for the photos.

04/05/2024

Congratulations and a Happy 90th Birthday to Barrie (Bazz) Price, who has been a member of the Drouin Bowls Club for a number of years, he enjoys his bowls and having a drink with his mates.
With the help of his wife Gwen she has quite a few stories to tell us. Barrie Jamison Price was born on the 5/5/1934, and as a junior he had won awards in Boxing Life-Saving, Swimming and also enjoyed the Piano. Barrie started his teacher training at Bendigo Teachers College. After relief school stints, he became Head Teacher at Tesbury, just outside Camperdown, then a promation to Storehaven near Geelong, followed by another promation to Highton, although he was a very respected teacher and enjoyed his work, Barrie's only goal was to be a Farmer, so in 1965 the family moved to Nilma North. Another daughter was born in Warragul. A drought and the loss of their eldest daughter Karen surely tested the family. Gwen said looking back at the hard times made their famiy a lot stronger.
Bazz started his bowling career with Warragul on the 7/11/1992, he then joined Neerim Sth with success at both of the clubs, he then decided to join Drouin Bowls Club, to be with his wife (she thinks) haha!. Before taking up bowls he also enjoyed Football, Soccer, Golf and Tennis as well as Indoor Cricket. He also had the honour of becoming a Life-member of the Light Harness Club in Warragul as well as the Greyhound Club where he was the Gate-money man for over 25 years, he shuns being in the limelight and although these few lines don't cover half of his life he has lived.
His motto is: "l did it my way"and doing it the best that l can with the little l've got.
Barrie and Gwen had a wonderful day with family and friends to celebrate Bazz 90th, they would like to thank everyone for their best wishes, the many phone calls and especially their family. Gwen said Barrie was over joyed and had a great day. Thank you.

30/04/2024

Yesterday we enjoyed the Drouin & Warragul RSL Grandfinal, which was held at Longwarry Bowls Club, between Graeme Aubrey and Vince Marcarelle. Vince was off to a good start and held a lead for quite a few ends, then Graeme got a few shots and started catching up, but Vince once again regained his position and won over all.
Congratulations to Vince and commiserations to Graeme, a good game to watch, Thank You to Longwarry club for allowing the guys to play undercover at their club. Photos to be added.

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30/04/2024

Drouin Bowls Club would like to congratulate Samantha Atkinson and Ray Pearson on winning the World indoor Championship for 2024 in the Mixed Pairs, and Samantha proudly representing Australia in her first appearance on the international stage in Guernsey. You both did all of us proud in how you handled yourselves and you both bowled extremely well.
Samantha bowled at our club as a junior and has played in many various compititions, Club Avents and continued on to Pennant, Victorian Open, represented our State of Victoria and also playing for Australia. A lot of hard work which has paid off.
Well Done Sammy.

21/04/2024

Cont...
Presentation night.
The lan Rhodes Memorial Trophy has been awarded to the most Valuable member for season 2023-24.
Congratulations to Ian Haughton.
He has worked for many years, doing different jobs, such as Secretary of the board, also has taken over the position of Chairperson of The Tournament and Match Committee He has been a hard working person and is always on call and ready to help in all areas of the Club duties. Ian is known for his funny sense of humor and his ability to have a chat on the microphone.
Well done Ian you totally deserve this award.

The most improved persons for this season are Peter McGrath and Dini Hone. Well done and wish them both well for the future.
All the training session's have been valuable to our new members as well as to the ones that have been with the club for a few years.
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19/04/2024

We had our Presentation night last Wednesday and it was a great night, with many of our members attending, it was a real fun night. A big Thank You to Ian Haughton who had the big task in organising the night, he put in a lot of hard work.
Starting off the night with Russell Dawson opening with thank you's and inviting all our members.
Would also like to thank Lorraine Fox, organising the kitchen with her helpers, and all the members that bought either a salad or a sweet, which we had plenty of. I all most forgot to thank Bruce Andrews and Ron Westrup for their work attending the bar. And a Thank you for all the boys Brian, Wayne and Phil for organising the recycling of beer cans and bottles, which we have made quite a bit of money, which enable all the members that attended Presentation night with a free drink. I am sorry l forgot to mention our bar people and all that helped the collection of (Beer cans and bottles etc).
Ian had organised a fun game which every member was involved in, a great idea, it went off well, with chocolates as prises,. Also would like to thank Richard Joiner for taking a video of everyone of our members on the Green showing off their skills, throught out the year, which was very entertaining, he also added notes along the way, which had everyone laughing their heads off, great work Richard. The Presentations followed with the members of the Tournament & Match committee giving out the Prizes and certificates. A huge Congratulations to all our winners and all the members that enter the club events. Our Pennant team Division 6. Not forgetting our two wonderful guys Merv and Jim a (both in their 90's) great effort from both of you.
We also celebrated with our Division 6 who won the Pennant Grand Final for 2023-24.

13/04/2024

Congratulations to our Club Mixed Pairs, Grand Final winners Les and Mary Firth. Commiserations to the runners up Bruce and Mary Andrews. A very enjoyable game, with some good bowling and quite entertaining at times. Well done to the bowlers.
Thank you to everyone's support.

06/04/2024

Today we had our Digger's Days Tournament, it was not a sunny day but it turned out to be a very successful day all round, both Greens were full with 28 teams, a great effort.
There was a lot of hard work in organising the day, It was run by both Drouin and Warragul RSL clubs, a combine effort, members from both clubs worked all day to make sure it went off well. The President Wayne Walsh enjoyed his first attempt at running the big day, Congratulations Wayne and wife Bev and all your helpers, you all did a great job. All the members and visitors enjoyed a lovely lunch, and sweets which were the traditional Trifle. Lots of raffles to win as well. Congratulations to all the winners for the day. First place were the team of Korumburra. Second team was the Neeirm Team and the Third team was from Drouin.
A very special day for everyone.