I had a wonderful day on Friday with a surprise lunch at the hotel. Thank you so much Ethel for organising everything and thank you to those who were able to come. Very unexpectedly those ladies presented me with a new bowls bag so it seems I will have to continue to play bowls. A family dinner at the hotel on Saturday night was most enjoyable with Don and my two kids, daughter in law and two grand daughters. The biggest surprise of the lot was when the golf committee presented me with a pink  azalea. Thank you to all those people and to those who sent cards or called me. The only down side of the weekend was the fact that my adopted old dog Coco was not very well. Enough about me.

Cake bake

The Red Cross Big Cake Bake unfortunately chose the wrong weekend with the Arabin Cup at the Golf club and preparations for the poetry competition probably engaging the time of many people. We did have a good yarn to some of the poets. There was much more to sell than I had expected but fewer customers than we had hoped for, nevertheless most of the cakes were sold and the Red Cross members were pleased with $400.

Kathy Mitchell won the raffle of two Red Cross centenary roses, with the last ticket sold, and it was drawn by Nicole in the post office.

Unfortunately I did not get to any of the poetry sessions. Robyn Sykes will provide some details.

Golf

Sunday was a glorious day for the ladies annual tournament but that was not enough incentive for many players from other clubs to attend. 

Thank you to the south west President and Secretary, Julie and Marcia for attending and to the other ladies who were there. Again Betty Stanton from Young travelled alone and I think it is the first time she has not taken home a trophy. The A-grade scratch winner was Marcia Phillips from Cootamundra, while Kate Crisp from Boorowa won the handicap.

The B-grade scratch winner was Helen Curtis after a countback from Ethel Lee and Ethel then claimed the handicap trophy. Nearest the pins went to Monica Good from Boorowa and Helen Curtis. Janet Bamford from Yass won the veteran's event.

Men's Saturday golf was won by Dave Bedford and Chris Glover was Sunday's man of the game.

Coming up next week is Val Brooker's trophy for the ladies and Kevin Spencer's for the men. Max Graham will provide Sunday's trophy for the men's nine holes round and hopefully, those ladies who are fit enough will go to the Boorowa ladies' tournament.

Bowls

Our ladies team at the Boorowa Bowls Friendship Day last week won their game against a very friendly team from Grenfell but were unable to get near any of the trophies. We are going to try again at Coota this week so I can use my new bag.

School news

Star winners were Kaitlyn Daly, Nazareth Segaukaz, Jake Fleet and Olivia McColl.

Until next time.