If you thought you needed to have grey hair and white clothes to attend the New Westminster Lawn Bowling Club, you’d be wrong.
The club is inviting community members to attend its annual open house on Saturday, May 19 from 12 to 3:30 p.m. at its greens in Moody Park. Now in its 101st year, the club welcomes visitors of all ages.
“It is open to anybody who wants to come out and play or just try it, just to see if they like it, or just come out and watch or have questions,” said club president Darren Hutchinson. “We’d love to have people come out and try it out. People drive by there all the time and think it’s just for old people who wear white. We are probably so far away from that now.”
The club rents a building in Moody Park from the City of New Westminster, but oversees maintenance of the greens. It delayed this year’s opening by a couple of weeks, after the greens sustained damage during a hot spell last summer.
“We’ve got some spots that are slowly coming back,” Hutchinson said of the burned grass. “I don’t think it will be fully healed until next year. We are going to have to be careful about where we bowl on the greens this year. We will try and keep the play away from the bad areas so they can continue to heal.”
For more information about the New Westminster Lawn Bowling Club, go to newwestlawnbowls.com.
