Milestone and landmark for Bellambi Bowls
October 25, 2007
Section: Sport
BELLAMBI Bowling Club marked its recent 50th anniversary with a week of celebrations and bowls.
The week began with a challenge against Woonona for the Ben Anderson Memorial Trophy, which was won by Woonona.
On the Saturday forty players from Bellambi’s sister club, Ingleburn, visited the club for a day of bowls.
The next day Illawarra District president Ernie Rowe and Royal NSW Bowling Association president John Archer visited the club and made a presentation marking the club’s milestone.
The celebration week was one of the last stops on the club’s march to hosting the 2007-08 South Pacific Bowls Carnival, the biggest tournament in the Illawarra.
Fellow Illawarra clubs selected Bellambi as the headquarters for the tournament, which will be held from Thursday, December 27 to Saturday, January 5, 2008.
This year will be the first time Bellambi has been the headquarters for the tournament – all matches from the quarter-finals stages onward will be held at the club.
“We’re very capable of running the South Pacific Bowls Carnival and it will be a great thing for our club,” Bellambi Bowling Club chairman Jim Henry said.
“Our green will be full each day – it will be a lot of work but we are looking forward to it.”
Among the club’s still-living life members are Isabella Fenton, Joyce Chapman, Judy Ramsey, Marilyn Grogan and Olga Ramsey and William Slow, Jack Buttel, Joe Roberts and William Tressider.
Tressider and Peter Meehan are the two surviving members from the club’s foundation in 1957.