Bowls have requested that members do NOT use the car park on Wednesday 27th July after 11:30am as they have the honour of hosting the Surrey County Womens Bowls Association Presidents Day and are expecting 20 to 25 cars.

The cars will have arrived by 1:30pm so any spaces after this time can be used,

The President is an Ember bowler, Linda Pillman.

Thanks in anticipation

Ken

Ember Bowls Chair

Ember Bowls Charity Day – 2.00/2.30pm Saturday 2 July – Fun Games on the Green Followed by a BBQ

Please support our Charity Day on Saturday 2 July. It will be a 2pm for 2.30pm start with games on the green followed by a BBQ at 5pm.

The charity is ‘Sense’ the national disability charity that supports everyone who is deafblind or who has complex disabilities.

BBQ tickets must be purchased in advance at £10 per person. Jenny/Malcolm Baird, Wendy Beaney and Mary/Tony Baker have tickets.

Fun games on the green will start around 2.30pm with a ‘Spider’ followed by different games on the six rinks. It will be a £1 entry per try per game. There will be a prize for the winner of each game. Three woods to be used for each game.

The games are:

Rink 1 – “Target bowls”: target pinned to green with score for each bowl at the end of 3 woods that is in the target.

Rink 2 – “Hit the Jack”: 3 jacks set out on the rink and one point for each jack hit.

Rink 3- “Nearest the ditch”: send woods towards the ditch and the nearest wood to the ditch wins.

Rink 4 – “Skittles” – 6 skittles set out and the aim is to knock them down with as few woods as possible/maximum skittles knocked down.

Rink 5 – “Hit the Teddy” : a Teddy will be on the rink and 1 point for each time you hit it.

Rink 6 – “Target bowls”: a different target pinned to green with score for each bowl at the end of 3 woods that is in the target.

After the games finish at around 4.45pm prizes will be presented and the raffle will be drawn. There will then be a bbq at about 5pm for which you will need to purchase tickets in advance.

The raffle tickets cost £5 per strip. It is best to buy tickets in advance (especially if you cannot attend on the day!) and put your name on the remaining strip in the book. We welcome your donations of prizes for the raffle and we also hope to have some additional prizes from outside the club!

Please be advised that the Bowling Green will be closed for the routine monthly spraying of Compost Tea on Wednesday morning  22^nd June 2022 until approx. 1pm.  This spraying must be carried over 3 consecutive days (ie. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings).

Apologies but necessary for the maintenance of our green.

Jenny Baird was presented with Surrey County Womens Bowling Association’s Loyal service award on Monday 6^th June, with lots of members new and old present.

This was awarded to Jenny for her outstanding contribution to Ember Bowling Club over the past 30 Years, for being Captain 3 times and County delegate for several years, which means she has also been on the bowls committee whilst holding these positions.

She has been involved with recruitment and retaining the membership by running coaching and marking sessions with the assistance of other members. She has won many County and regional accolades over this period, including being a member of the John’s Team who has won this National competition on various occasions.

Congratulations Jenny! Well deserved!