Belfast Indoor Bowls Club

Welcome to this edition of your club newsletter let me begin by informing members if they do not know already of the recent death of ronnie harper ronnie was an honorary member of bibc and he was a great supporter of our game in his day sadly there is noone writing about our sport in the way that ronnie did coffee morning our yearly coffeetea morning went extremely well raising over £1200 for macmillan cancer many thanks are due to nan mcbride and her willing team of lady volunteers thanks are of course also due to alberta for supplying the tea and coffee talking of alberta think ahead and book a date for your xmas dinner think of your short mats night out data protection policy members please note to comply with the new gdpr requirements we need you to give us your consent for us to hold your data if you have not yet ticked the appropriate box in your applicationrenewal form please call in the office and do so cancelled games you may remember that last year we lost over £5000 in lost matches now we do not want to repeat that again this year consequently our competitions secretary chris eadie made out a sheet which was sent out with the summer packs asking do you really need to cancel that game any games cancelled prior to 31st december will have two months to be played rather than one all games cancelled after christmas will still only have one month for the match to be played so please make the effort to postpone games and not cancel them completely to date we have had 63 games cancelled in september and october 18 have been played but 3 walkovers have been given at a cost of £108 to the club subscriptions the cut off date for paying subscriptions october 16th has passed and im sorry to say that a good number of members waited until the last minute to pay that means they had over a months free bowling i have to warn members that we are thinking of changing the cutoff date to much earlier for next year outdoor bowlers are aware that they cannot play a league game until they have paid their subs so why not the same rule for indoors as at the end of october we have 100 new members but overall are 66 members down on last year remember our offer introduce a new full member and you will receive a £30 voucher for the shop coaching our monday nights are going very well with approx 30 beginners attending weekly they have informed me that they came to us because of friends letting them know what a great establishment we have here so thanks for spreading the word and please help in making new members feel welcome in the stadium thought it is said that the positive thinker sees the invisible feels the intangible and achieves the impossible general news not for the first time i have been asked to remind all bowlers not to hurl the rubber mats at the wall in frustration admittedly this tends to be a male habit mats cost money and another thing slow play it was reported that only 8 ends were played recently in a friday pairs league game lets try and reduce the conferences that sometimes take forever especially when the next shot is fairly obvious rubbish please all you sweet eaters will you deposit your wrappers in the nearby bins and not in the ditch or left on the tables potters our assistant manager john has taken on the task of organising a bibc tour to potters next january there will be 35 in the party and john tells me he is planning a similar trip next year dates for your diary sat 3rd sat 10th nov short mat inter zone championships fri 7th dec christmas dinners start fri 21st dec christmas dinners finish sat 15th dec enjoy your christmas dinner with live music from tommy the singing dj inter stadium results men belfast1 91 v 66 belfast 2 belfast1 84 v 47 co antrim belfast1 87 v 54 ballybrakes ballybrakes 88 v 715 belfast 2 ballybrakes 71 v 67 belfast 1 ladies belfast 63 v 51 ballybrakes editor ken armstrong