Owen Sound Roselawn Bowling Club
1555 5th Ave W N4K 5B4 Owen Sound, ON, Canada

Thanks John Fearnal, aka Good Noise, for this fantastic photo of our greens!

OLBA Town Hall on Return to Play

https://tinyurl.com/yc6dojrr

Remember to tune into tonight at 7:00 p.m. for our annual meeting via Zoom. Check your email for an Invitation from Jon Farmer.

Bowls Canada releases Return to Play Framework: https://www.bowlscanada.com///news_release/2020-05-15.html Bowls Canada Boulingrin publie le cadre de retour au jeu: https://www.bowlscanada.com///news_release/2020-05-15.html

The latest in lawn bowing shoes that enables players to maintain a 2 metre social distancing

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Patience Everyone. Both Bowls Canada and the OLBA are working on Return to Play protocols and the Roadmap to Return to Play but we need input from our insurance... provider and other sources. Keep in mind that some places like Toronto cannot open before July 2 since the city will not issue permits to the clubs before that date. There will be regional differences all across Ontario. Wait until you hear from us before going to your greens. https://nationalpost.com//covid-19-ontario-to-announce-reo

The next show will be LIVE on Saturday, May 9th @11:00 AM EDT on YOUTUBE. We will be discussing the changes in isolation rules for Australia, what we'd be doin...g now, Coach's Corner on how we learn, #GLOAT updates and a non-Canadian special guest interview! Voting for round #2 in the #GLOAT tournament is closing this Thursday -- see the links below to vote for your favourite players! Check out the full bracket here: https://challonge.com/GLOAT Steve Glasson (AUS) vs Norma Shaw (ENG): https://tinyurl.com/y77r36om Karen Murphy (AUS) vs Margaret Johnston (IRL): https://tinyurl.com/y8pm9ce6 Peter Belliss (NZL) vs Kelsey Cottrell (AUS): https://tinyurl.com/ybq25qn3 Alex Marshall (SCO) vs Joe Edwards (NZL): https://tinyurl.com/y78j9pry Paul Foster (SCO) vs David Gourlay (SCO): https://tinyurl.com/yatyx2z4 Richard Corsie (SCO) vs Kelvin Kerkow (AUS): https://tinyurl.com/y7ns9gtg Darren Burnett (SCO) vs Tony Allcock (ENG): https://tinyurl.com/y9opwjd6 David Bryant (ENG) vs Ryan Bester (CAN): https://tinyurl.com/y8fony4l

Here's a umpire's quiz from Bowls New Zealand. Test your knowledge of the rules of our sport!

Greens management during Covid-19 shutdown

OLBA Covid 19 Statement https://drive.google.com//1jqMTPFHz_PRfxkF3Wpy9xFIJG/view

Emailed to our members yesterday: I had a lovely newsletter prepared regarding the upcoming season and our 100th anniversary celebration. However the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting us much more than we anticipated even 2 weeks ago when we held our last board meeting and set up a Covid-19 response team. I’m now not sure what our season will look like. Yesterday, Scotland announced that all lawn bowling events were cancelled for the season. The OLBA annual meeting on April 17 h...as been cancelled. It’s still 2 months until the season normally begins, and we aren’t making any decision yet, but it is possible that we will need to cancel events here as well, perhaps the season. Stay tuned, we’ll be following the advice of Public Health. Meanwhile, we’ll take a look at the budget to see how we can best balance things out. We will still have expenses that need to be paid, such as taxes, insurance, etc., while our revenue from group visits, tournaments, and maybe memberships may be limited or non-existent. And please reach out to other members and stay in touch. If you need an email or phone number just contact me by phone or email. So here are some things to do with your free time if you need a bowls fix! 1. Visit the OLBA website olba.ca and explore, especially the Give it a Try Section, e.g. https://www.olba.ca/how-the-game-is-played.html 2. Same with Bowls Canada bowlscanada.com 3. Watch youtube (youtube.com) videos of bowls matches, just type lawn bowls in the search box at the top. 4. Read the Rules of the Sport of Bowls available online here: http://www.burlingtonlbc.org/crystalmark3.pdf Keep smiling and keep healthy and look for an update in a month or so. Linda

COVID-19 Email for Statement Release now available Bowls Canada is closely monitoring all available information related to the continued spread of the Novel Cor...onavirus COVID-19 (coronavirus), including the relevant positons from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Canada’s chief public health officer and the World Health Organization (WHO). The health and safety of our athletes, coaches, officials, employees, volunteers, fans, partners and everyone associated with Bowls Canada is our priority. Please take a moment to read the Bowls Canada statement on COVID-19 which is available online: https://bowlscanada.com/en/news/news_release/2020-03-11.html See more

An interview with Ryan Bester, Hanover native, and now one of the world's best bowlers.

You gotta read this post from a young bowls enthusiast!

Take a look at this shot! https://mobile.twitter.com/tima/status/1220076887516614659

Happy New Year! 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of our club, so we're posting a bit of our history. Originally the club was called Owen Sound North and a plan for greens was already well underway by Jan. 1, 1920:... Tues. Aug. 26, 1919 p. 3 Owen Sound Sun Times O.S. North Mr. R. J. Layton, with the assistance of friends is preparing a beautiful bowling green on the north side of his store and residence, 4th Ave W + 19th St. NW corner. Ed Roseborough, RJ's much younger brother-in-law--only 26 at the time, was the other man behind the venture. He and his wife Maud lived on the street behind RJ (Robert John) and wife Nettie (Ed's older sister--who was 25 years older). Excuse the quality of the photos. The originals are hanging in our clubhouse and these snapshots do not do them justice.