Club Newsletter

V a l e n t i n e B o w l i n g C l u b C o - O p

May 2019

President Ted’s Report

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On behalf of management and the

board of directors I would like to

thank all for their efforts in what I

believe was a very successful Anzac

Day Commemorative Service.

Our MC Trevor Mander did a

wonderful job as did the WINDS

Band, the 211th Adamstown Army

Cadets and the Rathmines Wangi

Singers.

A big thank you to all those

volunteers who assisted on the day,

without their help we would not be

able to host such events. Also

thank you to the Fishing Club

Members who ran the two up on

the day. From their efforts $183.65

was donated to Legacy.

Various photos are included of

some of those in attendance on the

day.

Cheers, Ted.

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ANZAC Day photos

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Women's Bowls News

The Final of the VWBC Major Sin-

gles Championship will be played

on the 16th May, 2019. Sharon Gil-

more will play Susan Armstrong, in

what will be a very competitive

game.

CONGRATULATIONS to Valentine

Grade 2 Green, Gae Macrae (s) Col-

leen Hodge, Paulette Bignell, Jenny

Baldwin, Vicki Fletcher (s) Lorraine

Davies, Jenny Brauer, (Denise Miller

could not continue due to family)

and Rose Sharkey, who were run-

ner-up in the LMDWBA 2019 Pen-

nants.

Grade 3 Section 2 Red, Sue

Semple’s team Sue, Glenda Mor-

gan, Irene Shirlow and Ruth

Campey, won every game and

achieved an eight pin on the last

game against Kahibah. Great bowl-

ing.

Our Club is very proud of our la-

dies who played Pennants this

year. All teams celebrated at the

Club after the final games, and the

Club song raised the roof.

Merle Armstrong ran Galas again

this year for players unable to

commit to a full pennant season,

and this was enjoyed by players.

Players received 1 point for play-

ing, and 1 point for a winning

team. Winner Margaret Bates 12

points, Equal second Shirley Palmer

10 points, Elizabeth Howells 10

points, Margaret Cooper 10 points,

Equal 5th Coralie Ward 9 points,

Diann Neilson 9 points, 7th Vicki

Elbourne 8 points, Equal 8th Lyn

Harland 7 points, Carol Thomas 7

points. This was a mighty effort

Merle, you always give 100%, thank

you.

The Social Club Sunday mixed Gala

will be held on the 19th May at

12pm. These games are a great

way to catch up, and make friends,

place your names down in the

folder, and enjoy a fun Sunday af-

ternoon.

Twilight Thursday mixed Galas

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Bowls Umpire Report

Further to the new rules in regards

to the use of Bowlers Arms, the

following applies:

The Bowls Australia Artificial Devic-

es Policy states that:

“Only approved arms (with a BA

logo as part of the National Mer-

chandising Program) can be used

in Australia. Modifications are not

permitted (with the exception to

the rubber grip on the bottom of

the arm which may need to be re-

placed as it wears out). Bowls Aus-

tralia has advised that if the BA

logo on your Arm has worn off or

been removed for some reason,

you can obtain a replacement one

direct from Bowls Australia. This

can be done online or by mail and

should include a photograph of

your bowler’s arm so that they can

confirm that it is an approved

one”.

The lady Umpires held a workshop

after a gala this week to go

through all of the equipment avail-

able from the Umpire’s Kit. The

ladies were enthusiastic in their

use of the equipment.

The 2019 Women’s Pennants sea-

son is now complete. The men’s

2019 Pennants season is also com-

ing to an end and we have really

enjoyed Umpiring the men’s

The Club had a great trading result

in March 2019 and the YTD profit is

now $232K.

We have opened another term de-

posit of $150k whilst we wait for

the quotes on the proposed altera-

tions.

Colin Taylor

Finance Director’s Report

Familiar Faces

John Neaves was born in Lismore

in 1942 to his parents Jack and

Joyce. His first school was East Lis-

more, then Dunoon, then Dryabba

Creek and then Hogarth Range

which was the largest he attended

with 14 pupils. He did not attend

high school as he finished school

when he was 12½ to help out as

share farmers on a dairy. In those

days, milking was done by hand

and with 120 dairy cows, needed

all hands on teats to help. John

joined the railway in 1956 and

transferred to Newcastle in 1963 as

a shunter hooking up steam en-

gine 3801 which was the Newcas-

tle Flyer going to Sydney and back.

John met his wife Elizabeth in 1963

and they married in 1966. As a

result of that union they are the

proud parents of three children,

grandparents of 12 and great

grandparents of one, all of which

live in the Valentine area.

John left the railway in 1966 and

went into the food industry repre-

senting Marrickville Holdings and

stayed there until 1981 where he

then joined Ingham Chickens as

Northern NSW Sales Manager

looking after territory from the

Harbour Bridge to the Queensland

border and managing the sales

office at the Cardiff Chicken facto-

ry. He retired from there in 1995

after having open heart surgery.

John joined Valentine Bowling

Club in 1979 with his main inter-

ests being the Fishing Club and the

Snooker Club. He was a board

member for a number of years in

the mid 80’s and he stepped down

as Vice President in 1987 to com-

plete renovations to his home in St

Johns Drive - Sheppards Creek op-

posite the greenkeepers shed. He

lived there for about 30 years and

was a regular seen paddling across

the creek and joining his many

friends at VBC.

John returned as a board member

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Roll Up Times on our Greens

Grass Synthetic

Monday Closed 12 Noon

Tuesday 1 pm 1 pm after Ladies

Wednesday 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

Thursday 1 pm 1 pm after Ladies

Friday 1 pm 1 pm

Saturday 10 am 10 - 11 am Skills

Sunday 10 am 10 am

East West in the mornings and North South in afternoons.

Our library cupboard which is located in the

Poker Machine Room has lots of books for our

members to enjoy, so please continue to make

use of this great facility.

in 1987 and stepped into the pres-

ident’s role in 1989. In 2000 he

was part of the team that under-

took the task of building exten-

sions which included adding the

second floor. John had 4 years as

the NDBA delegate and 8 years as

an umpire. He stepped down as

president in 2002 to travel around

Australia, however he was still a

director until 2007. In that year he

was made a life member of our

club.

John’s bowls achievements include

winning the minor singles in 1999

and he was part of the team that

won the triples in that year. He

was also part of the team that won

the grade three pennant. He was

also a skip in grade 1 for several

seasons so a very capable bowler.

In his snooker days he was very

capable representing Newcastle

Familiar Faces continued...

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Entertainment for May is Jessica Cain on the 26th

May

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Excellent condition

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Valentine Lions Club News

The 30th Valentine Lions Club

sponsored Anzac Day Service was

held in magnificent Autumn

weather with an estimated

attendance of at least 1200 people.

Allambee Park was full of local

families and also from people who

had travelled distance to

participate in this community

service.

The service was opened by Lions

Club President John Duke who

welcomed all and spoke about the

30 year history of this community

event that started with a very small

group of mainly Lions Club

members, to the large number of

people in attendance today that

truly signifies the importance of

the Anzac Day remembrance

tradition and also the growth and

support of residents in the local

community area.

The MC for the service was again

very ably conducted by Daniel

Wilson, Deputy Principal of the

Valentine Public School.

The event programme commenced

with a short march into Allambee

Park lead by WW2, Korea, Vietnam

returned veterans and service

reservists with Army and Air Force

serving personnel and family

member representatives also

leading the march. The Lake

Macquarie Winds Band provided

the marching music with local

school children, scouts and Air

Force Cadets also being well

represented in the march.

The catafalque party was again

provided by the 8th Combat

Support Battalion who also

provided an excellent static display

of Army vehicles for all to inspect

and ask questions of the army

representatives.

The service Commemorative Youth

Address was presented by Shaye

Kleyjan from Warners Bay High

School and a Poem was spoken by

Joel Harvey a cadet representing

the Belmont Air league. The

Remembrance Hymn was sung by

a Local School Children’s Choir, led

by Caitlyn Carr.

During the solemn wreath laying

ceremony, Piper Dennis Browning,

again played beautiful bagpipe

music that was appreciated by the

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crowd in attendance.

The speaking of The Ode was

then joined in by all followed by

the playing of The Last Post and

one minute’s silence. The Rouse

was then played as the flag was

slowly raised on the flagpole. A

special thank you to the Lake

Macquarie Winds band member

for this presentation.

The New Zealand National

Anthem was again beautifully

sung by Richard Eriwata from

Newcastle Maori Club. Richard

asked all to join in the singing

that was conducted in both Maori

and English versions.

The service concluded with all

joining to sing the Australian

National Anthem.

(Continued from page 11)

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Valentine Lions Club News

Snooker Club News

Round 1 of the Snooker Competi-

tion is now completed. We would

like Round 2 to be completed by

the end of May, so would those

people playing please organise

your games as soon as possible.

The Snooker Club is going ahead

with the night at Newcastle Trots

on Saturday 8th June, 2019, which

is the long weekend. The function

is now fully booked out, so if any-

one who has booked and finds

that they can’t attend, would they

please let the committee know in

case someone else would like to

go. The Snooker Club will provide

transport to and from the Trots

and the Newcastle Trotting Club is

providing free entry for us.

Please help to support our Snook-

er Club by coming down to our

weekly meat raffle on Wednes-

days. Tickets are sold from 6.00

p.m. and drawn promptly at 7.00

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Lakers Low-Down

Hi there fellow Lakers, well what a

past month we have had with the

final stages of the pennant season

& the biggest highlight the comple-

tion of the men’s blue ribbon Major

Singles Championship. Here is our 1

grade member Joel Roche’s

(PANDA) review of the final.

PANDAS REVIEW

MAJOR SINGLES FINAL

Well where do we start what a great

game we witnessed this on Sunday

5/5/19 in windy wet conditions.

Both players started slowly search-

ing for weight and line and neither

having great success but Gov

adapting to it earlier. Gov quickly

jumping out to a 7-1 advantage

Hutcho finally finding some touch

and brought the score into 13-9

from there on in Gov showing his

dominance moving out to 19-9 and

heaping plenty of pressure on

Hutcho, forcing Gov to draw on his

arsenal of shots. Hutcho missing

plenty of free kick shots could have

been much closer to Gov having

trailed the jack away from himself

for 1 instead of 3 and quite a few

others although it may not have

changed the result but that may

have boosted confidence in Hutcho

to possibly making a charge. Gov

then leading 23-12 never looked

back conceding only 1 more shot

on his way to a total of 9 major sin-

gles wins!!!

Don't discount the effort put in by

Hutcho as Gov being one of the

classiest singles players around, i

predict him to not be sitting in 2

grade much longer if his form keeps

improving and results following

keep an eye on this up and comer

and of course our talisman David

Govan go and add another district

title to your resume and bring it

home for the Lakers!!!

Congratulations to both players on

a fantastic effort! Gov

Valentine has reached the playoff in

the midweek 1 Grade & 5 Grade

and will contest the playoffs on the

22nd May with the 1 Grade at Wa-

terboard & the 5 Grade at Raymond

Terrace, great job men very proud

of you all, lets give it our best shot

and bring home a flag for Valen-

tine!!!

Saturday pennants are looking

The Fishing Club had its outing for

April on the weekend of 12,13 &

14. What fantastic weather was

turned on and this got plenty of

members fishing. 19 senior mem-

bers, including 3 ladies, along with

3 junior members fished, making it

one of our better weekend partici-

pation rates.

John Donkin and Paul Birt fished

Newcastle Harbour to chase their

favoured Luderick. They caught

plenty and John once again looks

to be the one to beat for the larg-

est fish in this category. He caught

an absolute monster Luderick at

1.4+ kgs. Jason Wood and Shae

Hartigan decided a nightime fish

for Mulloway in the Lake was the

way to go and were rewarded with

a great catch of snapper along

with Shae getting her first Mullo-

way at 80+cms. Getting that first

Mulloway is the hardest but once

bitten by that bug it's hard not to

try and keep fishing for them. Mark

and Trent Nuemann had a great

session fishing the shallow water

for bream on soft plastics. Both

caught some quality fish. David Birt

and his two boys Matt and Nathan,

along with Emma Wallace, were

again chasing the elusive Mulloway

in Newcastle Harbour. With the

bag limit of only 1 fish each there

were plenty of tag and releases

completed for the weekend. David

and Matt having a particularly busy

day on the Friday afternoon get-

ting 8 mulloway and some big tai-

lor. Danny Ratcliffe took his grand-

son Jayden fishing on his cruiser

and it looks as if Danny has taught

Jayden too well with Jayden well

and truly outfishing him. Among

other fish Jayden caught a great

2.5+ kg Flathead and was decided-

ly pleased with himself. Neil Cooley

got a mixed bag of whiting, bream

and flathead in the lake. Dave

McMorrow fished the beach and

also caught some whiting and

bream. Jake Blackburn and Tristen

Willis fished the lake with Tristen

out fishing Jake for a mixed bag.

Great to see young Stella Torrence

giving the Sub-Junior boys a run

for their money as she also caught

a mixed bag. Stella is very keen on

her fishing and getting better each

year. Mitch Birt tried his luck off-

shore and got a few dolphin fish.

Apparently there are heaps of

these out wide and there are even

Fishing Club News

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Sub-Junior winner Jayden Ratcliffe

37 pts.

The next dedicated weekend out-

ing will be 17, 18 & 19 May. It has

been put forward a further week so

as not to clash with Mother's Day.

The fishing year runs from 1/10 to

30/9 with memberships now due.

We are always chasing new mem-

bers and any interested people can

contact either Darren Riles ph

0439241061, Neil Cooley ph

0421168349 or David Birt ph

0427228438 if they need infor-

mation on how to sign up and go

about participating.

The Fishing Club also has a closed

facebook page. To see what's hap-

pening in the Club and what catch-

Fishing Club News continued ...

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Monday : Euchre Club meets every Monday night at 6:30 pm. $2 entry fee. Come along and join in. New members welcome.

Tuesday :Ladies Gala 9:30 am

Trivia on Tuesday evenings, starting at 6:30 pm. Come and join the fun.

Wednesday : Men’s Galas Mufti 9:30 am start and 1:00 pm start.

Happy Hour 4:00 pm til 5:30 pm.

Texas Holdem Poker. Registration is at 6:00 pm and the games start at 7:00 pm.

Snooker Club Raffle sales from 6:00 pm drawn at 7:00 pm

Membership draw is between 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm

Courtesy Bus runs 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Thursday:Ladies Gala 9:30 am Texas Holdem Poker. Registration is at 6:00 pm and the games start at 7:00 pm.

5:00 pm Twilight Bowls - mixed, mufti, during daylight saving.

Valentine Lions Club raffle tickets go on sale from 5:30 pm. Drawn at 7:00 pm.

Courtesy Bus runs 4:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Friday:Men’s Gala. Mufti. 9:00 am

Texas Holdem Poker. Registration is at 6:00 pm and the games start at 7:00 pm.

Raffle tickets for our Social Golf and Fishing Clubs on alternate Fridays go on sale from 6:00 pm.

Membership draw is between 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm

Courtesy Bus runs 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Saturday : Men’s Gala 1:00 pm start. Mufti

Texas Holdem Poker. Registration is at 6:00 pm and the games start at 7:00 pm

Courtesy Bus runs 3:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Sunday : Meat raffle starts from 5:00 pm drawn at 6:00 pm

Membership draw is after the raffle

Courtesy Bus runs 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm

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Our Courtesy Bus phone number is 0423 456 225

Club Phone No. : 4946 7232

Club website :

valentinebc.com.au

Ladies Club Website:

www.valentine.bowls.com.au

Weekly Activities At Valentine Bowling Club