Four members of the Meaford Lawn Bowling Club participated in provincial championships this summer, and although they all represented Meaford well, one was successful in winning a medal.
Jill Calvert-Goetz is off to the Canadian Lawn Bowling Championships again. She and her District 8 team placed second in the Provincial Open Fours held June 13 and 14 in Pickering, Ontario. They lost only one game and it was to the team skipped by Elizabeth Cormack, the eventual winner of the gold medal. As a second-place team, they had no thoughts of going to the nationals, but Ontario has been allowed a second entry, and Jill’s team has accepted the invitation to compete.
The team consists of Calvert-Goetz as Skip, with Vice Sandy Weatherall from Chesley, Second Pat Kaufman from Hanover, and Lead Katrina Carter (the current Ontario Singles gold medalist) from Hanover. They are off to British Columbia and specifically the North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club, which is hosting the Canadian Championships August 17-20. This will be the first Canadian Lawn Bowling championship to be contested entirely on artificial greens.
Calvert-Goetz is representing the community of Meaford nationally for the second year in a row, and because the Ontario lawn bowling governing body does not entirely fund the participants’ expenses, last year businesses in the communities as well as local organizations stepped up to help out the team with donations. Everyone who supported them had their name on the team’s t-shirts that they wore when they were not competing.
Club members will be asking around town for donations but don’t wait to be asked, you can e-transfer or you can contact them and they will pick up anything that you can contribute – contact meafordlawnbowling@gmail.com.
