History: Orillia Lawn Bowling Club

History: Orillia Lawn Bowling Club
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The Champlain Golden K Club wants to rejuvenate lawn bowling in Orillia. The Golden K Club was just recently started in Orillia. Membership fee for lawn bowling has been set at approximately $35 or less. They put out a survey asking people interested in lawn bowling, to sign up. This was to show there was an interest in Orillia, so that they could qualify for support from Orillia Parks and Recreation and other government grants. The surveys were placed in several sites around the city (NOTE Orillia was Village until 1875, then a Town until 1969, then a City). They also ask for donations of lawn bowling equipment. 1981 – July • Rogers property is favoured by Parks and Recreation after negotiations fell through on the Curling Club property. • Council gave full support to this project and agreed to lease part of the property to the club. • They would give $20,000 towards construction costs. • They had been looking at 11 sites but favoured the Rogers property. In a document from Oct. 15, 1980 the following sites were being considered o High Street Park o Victoria Park o McKinnell Square Park o Water Reservoir o Couchiching Pk. Jarvis St. o Leacock Home o North Street Park o Kitchener Park -­‐ West St. Side o Morningstar Park o Curling Co. Property 1983 – August Sod Turning Ceremony 1983 Status: The Senior Citizens Council meet at Twin Lakes Arena • Bob Moore is the guest speaker, to give a progress report on the project as follows • This was a project taken on by the newly formed Orillia Golden K Club and they had appointed 3 people from Golden K to work with the City on getting a site and funding, etc. • The Orillia Lawn Bowling Club, an Ontario Non-­‐Profit Corp’n became a reality • The Golden K (as many as 15 volunteers) had been working on the site for several weeks • Lawn bowling membership has been set at $35 • They would like people to sign up now, so they have the funds for on going work • The membership will be active in 1984 • To date the have 115 members with new members signing up daily • The site is behind the old curling club site (our present site on Commerce Road) 1984 – Greens Status from President Bob Moore • excavation of 122 feet square to a depth of 3.5 feet • drained to the ditch on Commerce Road • filled with 30 inches of drainage stone, 12 inches of selected washed sand • each layer was compacted with a large vibrating roller • 128 tandem truckloads of stone and sand (2500 tons) • machine leveled to within 1 inch • leveled with a transit to with in 1/8 inch • then they screeded the area with leveling boards • the green was seeded with Penncross Creeping Bent Grass 1984 Opening Ceremony Packet: Mayor Pat McIsaac and Club President Bob Moore did the honors for the official opening – they had 175 paid-­‐up 1984 -­‐ Club Newsletter July • They expect to be opening for bowling later in the month. • The general meeting will be on July 24th at the Legion. They will have a film about lawn bowling and people to talk about rules and equipment. They will be having rookie bowler instruction courses. • They are buying a number of sets of bowls for people that want to try the game. Once people are comfortable what size bowls they require and familiar with the game, they would want them to buy their own bowls. 1985 -­‐ Club Newsletter May • The grass wintered well and they expect to be bowling around the middle of May. • They got the lighting working the previous year so planned to include evening bowling. • Membership fees $40 1985 – Packet and Times Article