Notices - 3 Mar 09

Hospice
A reminder that our yearly hospice tournament and fundraiser is to be held this coming Saturday. More team entries could still be accepted – please sign in your team if you haven’t already done so. We would appreciate any donations of groceries and canned goods for the raffles. Other donated items for the raffles or auction will also be very much appreciated. Your help will ensure that this very worthwhile cause can again benefit from the generosity of Northern members. Please leave donated items and goods at the club or contact Laurie Izod.

Mates in Bowls
We were hoping to run the Mates in Bowls programme towards the end of this season but time has caught up with us so it has been decided to kick off the next season with a six week programme beginning on the first Monday of November and going through to Mon December 7. MIB is a programme designed for non bowlers who enter teams of three and play in an organised tournament over the six evenings.
A lot of the advertising and pre planning is completed with the assistance of Bowls New Zealand. As a club we are committed to providing personnel to help on these evenings with such things as coaching and assisting the non bowlers, setting up the greens, mats, boards etc, running the barbecue and helping in the bar. We will be asking for your help at the beginning of next season.
A presentation by Dennis Toon from Bowls New Zealand is to be held at our club on Thursday March 12 at 5.30pm. This will explain the way in which MIB is organised, and how our club can ensure that it is run successfully. We would like as many of you as possible to attend, as the future of bowls will lie with the new people that we can encourage into the game. See you there

InterClub and Intercentre
Congratulations to all Northern members who represented us at the Zone finals at Gisborne this past weekend. Three of the four Interclub teams ( Womens 1st division and Men and Women’s second Division) were successful in winning their zone final and go forward to the NZ finals which are to be held at Northern and Palmerston North beginning on April 2.
The Manawatu Open Men and Women’s Intercenter teams and the Mens Development team were also successful and will go on to the NZ finals which begin on April 4 also here in Palmerston North.

Remember – Hospice is Northern’s premier fundraising event and we hope to have the same support and success that we have enjoyed in the past. See you there

Doug