Bowling ladies open hearts
The annual Spar Ladies’ Bowls Tournament, hosted by the Sedgefield Bowling Club on Wednesday, August 25 was a huge success and well-supported by bowling clubs from across the Garden Route.
The good support this year of the popular event was due to a combination of brilliant spring weather, generous sponsorship by Spar in Sedgefield and a promise by the gentlemen bowlers of the local club to make the day special for their ladies. All of the normal duties as hosts were taken over by the men, who willingly served teas and lunches to their fair guests and gave good support as spectators in what turned out to be a keen inter-club contest with bowls of a high standard.
But the lady bowlers, while greatly enjoying their bowls and being pampered by the men, still had time to give thought to the bereaved families of Rheenendal, following the shocking school bus disaster that had taken so many young lives only a day before. At lunch break, time was taken to remember the grieving families and all partook willingly in a Commemorative Bowls Spider Competition, organised by Rosalie Etsebeth, (Sedgefield competitions secretary). So generously did the concerned ladies contribute to the hat that was passed around that almost R1 000 was raised, which the president of the Sedgefield Bowling Club, Barrie Hardie, without hesitation topped up to that round figure.
The fitting prize for this Commemorative Spider Competition was a delightful mosaic plaque depicting a Sedgefield tortoise, made by a young student of the local Masithandane project. Giving early warning of the way things were going in the main bowling competition, this prize was won by Caroline Michalopoulos, skipper of a Knysna Bowls Club team.
At the prize-giving event after the competition ended, the ladies paid tribute to the gentlemen of the Sedgefield Bowls Club for giving them such a splendid day on the rinks and in the club. Then in a touching, much applauded gesture, the winning captain, Caroline Michalopoulos of Knysna, handed back to President Hardie, her team’s prize of a generous Spar shopping voucher worth R1 000. This was as a further contribution to the Rheenendal Bus Tragedy Support Fund. Tips Ladies’ Inter-Club.
Competition results:
1st – Knysna Bowls Club team of Caroline Michalopoulos, Sandra Ross and Anne Edwards (floating trophy and Spar voucher).
2nd – Plettenberg Bay team of Avril Jackson, Julie Whitakker and Colleen Scott-Brown (Spar voucher).
3rd – Leisure Isle team of Maureen Collier, Els Daniel and Denise Voysey (Spar voucher).
Source: The Knysna-Plett Herald