The club hosted a very successful 1-5 Octagonal on the weekend. 160 players and officials from Northland, North Harbour, Auckland (the winners), Counties Manukau, Thames Valley, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Hawkes Bay, had the club buzzing.
Our amazing Glenda Rountree put together a great team of volunteers and the feedback from the regions was unanimous in its praise for the way the club organised the event.
The club and Glenda would like to extend a huge thank you to:
Tony Stanaway for his great welcome speech.
Leon/Gordon and Sue Jenkins for fixing and reupholstering dining chairs.
Allan Telford for mowing/organising greens.
Phil Chisholm for cleaning up green surrounds. For collection/ returning mats to Milford Bowling Club (as we were short). For marking greens along with Leon, Allan Telford, Tony Stanaway and David Payne. Putting all equipment away for both days.
John and Jan Gledhill for setting up the chairs and tables and kitchen. For organising drinking water for each green as we had a water problem. Jan and John for collecting the mountain of rubbish.
Tony and Jane James for tidying up the garden at entrance by carpet green.
Hanaan/Jo/Rosemary/Baza/Joy Watkinson for their great work in the kitchen – and organising team lunches.
Colleen for organising helpers for the bar and Russell and Alan Daniels for bar duty both days.
Russell for setting up practice on the Friday for visiting teams, photography and the welcome signs for tables.
Gerd for organising her team of markers –
Kerin Roberts. Hanaan Shahwan. Lorna Donald. Flora MacDonald. Judi Farkash. Phil Chisholm. Leon Wech. Louise Ball. Steve McGregor. Larry Cain. Michael Jelley. Tony Stanaway. Enid Di Cesare. Graeme McGregor. Colin Rogan. John Lindsay. Marie Cooper. Margaret O’Carroll. Bruce Aley. Geraldine Wight. Michael Thomas.
Apologies if we missed anyone and thank you.