2010 SEASON OPENERS - NEAR AND FARRRRRRRRRRRRR

Polish your bowls and hop on a flight because we are set to zoom off to the 2010 outdoor bowling season in Ontario.
" Leaving On A Jet Plane" isn't our usual mode of travel to tournaments on the provincial scene but two of our young bowlers are not usual.
They are world class people travelling half way around the globe to play in a World Championship event.
Kelly McKerihen from Toronto and Londoner Dylan Jacobs leave the country to-day for Warilla  Australia to start play in the WORLD JUNIOR CUP beginning on Thursday April 22nd.

Getting there isn't easy and it wasn't easy. They beat out that dandy brother sister bowling act, the Scott's, Alex and Fran, from Saskatoon in Saskatoon last August to claim their "Ticket To Ride".

I will be following their progress and you can too at the World Bowls site.

  www.worldbowlsltd.co.uk , Enter, Results, 2010 World Junior Cup Men S2, Results Summary

and Women, Results Summary.

You might also like to take a look at the facilities at www.warillabowls.com.au

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Niagara Falls doesn't seem nearly as far now as I head to the Ontario traditional opener on the 25th.

Always a joyous occasion to start with lots of greetings and hugs, catch up conversation and a bowl in the hand is better then one in the bag. However a frown may appear as you discover that object of admiration in your hand has abandoned all of its tricks over the winter. How soon they forget. 

The Niagara Falls Club is a great place to get the kinks out and add twice as many. Warm and fuzzy facilities with its bar and lounge and greens that always play near mid-season form. That's good but popularity and one green make it  difficult to break the entry logjam.

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Speaking of bowls spring training, check out the newest indoor facility , Major League Sportsplex , where you have an invitation to roll bowls and catch up to the Arizona and Florida snowbirds.

This preview is this coming Tuesday, April 20th starting at 11:00 A.M. Do contact Bowls Coordinator Mario Battista  ( battista@rogers.com ) if you can make it. If he hasn't already, Mario will send you information that will raise your eyebrows with interest. And remember it is 641 Danforth Road not Danforth Avenue.

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I mentioned I was going to keep tabs on Warilla this week and will do that as I drive up and down 401 checking on the status of the renovations of the service centres. I'm going to Scarborough on Tuesday , back home and to Burlington on Friday to try to switch a hockey grand boy to bowls, over to Woodstock on Saturday to applaud the OLBA Board for its hard work all winter and honeymoon at the Falls on Sunday.

See you around.

BB