Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club
QBLBC events information
COVID 19 AND LAWN BOWLING UPDATE On Dec. 20th 2020 the Health Authorities issued a directive banning indoor sports including lawn bowling Since then, a new directive on Jan 8th 2021 has been issued which addresses new protocols that would allow a limited version of indoor bowling with additional restrictions and limited to two players. The board has decided that this is not practical and wiRead More…
Remember, a little while ago, when we could go to a coffee shop and have a good chin-wag? Well, it’s been some time. “Real soon now” we may be able to do that again. And maybe do some lawn bowling. Anybody remember how? No news yet. Some of the members will shortly be told they can receive their poke. The rest of us will wait until the following month. Real soon now. (Maybe this summRead More…
Thanks to the Supervisors! The board decision to temporarily close the indoor green was based on several factors but the overriding concern was for the safety of our members. Although the new restrictions imposed by the health authorities do not apply to the island we think that it is prudent to maintain our original decision and discontinue indoor activities until we see a reversal of the Read More…
Indoor Bowling Suspension After much deliberation at Tuesday’s meeting your elected Board of Directors reached a unanimous decision to suspend the use of the Indoor Bowling facility until further notice starting Saturday 7th November 2020.As you can appreciate this was not an easy decision but one that had to be made.The COVID-19 situation is getting worse and new advice has been issued by tRead More…
Indoor Change The first week of indoor bowling went very well.More bowlers would be great but I am sure as timegoes on we will see a rise in numbers.Now that the members that bowled have got used to the set up we, Janice, Vicki and I, have worked out a far easier way to utilize the space in the Indoor building.As from this Monday, 2nd November, you will now enter through the Indoor Green dRead More…
E X T R A ! REMINDER … INDOOR BOWLING WILL DEFINITELY BE STARTING UP ON MONDAY 26TH OCTOBER. FIRST SESSION IS AT 10:00 AM Full details of the booking method and new guidelines are now here: qblbc.ca. You can book singly or as a pair.There will be singles, pairs or cutthroat available. No triples at this stage.A reminder that the sessions are Monday, Wednesday and Friday.10:0Read More…
INDOOR Bowling BOWLING WILL NOT BE STARTING ON MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER For technical reasons we had to postpone this opening date.We are, however, opening the Indoor facility on Monday 26th October.We have worked out several very important issues and therehave been slight changes made to the session format pleaseread carefully. Bowling will be for Qualicum Club members only.The Medical QRead More…
While the Special Committee On Indoor Bowling is reviewing the multitudinous options for restarting our Indoor bowling, we will pause the bookings process, briefly. We will be back online as soon as we can…
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The Outdoor Bowling season is officially at an end.Work is in progress to open up the Indoor Season and conform to the protocols for bowling indoors at Phase Two level. There will be more on this after next week’s board meeting.The green has now been aerated and sanded as usual at the beginning of October. Thinks were different this year due to Covid restrictions.There was a reduced crew whRead More…
On a lovely day, what else would you want to do but poke little holes in the Green? Then you scape away the plugs and the fill the holes with sand. The crew whose backs and shoulders will be in dire straits for a month – they fill the Sander with sand. Our Green will take two days to be cored and then it must rest. So must the volunteers! The decision on whether to bowl outside again,Read More…