With the start of Healesville Bowls Pennant season this week, the club raised the new First Nation’s flag for the first time.
Club Chairman and proud first nation man Robert Ayres, along with Bowls President Adrian Beales, Bowls Vice President John Clark and long standing club member and proud First Nations man Russell Smith proudly raised the flag alongside the Australian and Club flags.
“We are a community based sporting organisation that takes great pride in its membership and the great diversity that it has, flying this flag on game days is just a small but very important part to recognise all members and their history,” they said.
Tuesday pennant
Tuesday saw the start of the 2022-23 Bowling Season with Healesville fielding two Pennant teams on a Tuesday in Division2 and Division 6 and on Saturday in Division 3 and Division 8.
A warm welcome to Judy Veerman and Colin Jarvis in their first year of playing Pennant Bowls.
On Tuesday Healesville 1 side played Croydon 2 at home and had a convincing win 70 -45
John Clark, Effie Laban, Barry Parker, Gerda Otto 23 – 12
Steve Graham, Rob Ayres, Hilda Gurney, Ted Upton 22 – 13
Wally Mays, Bob Brown, Robyn Turville, Steve Bulled 25 – 20
Healesville 2 played Chirnside at Chirnside on grass and had a narrow win 55 – 52
Mike Adams, Russell Smith, Rob Broadhurst, Judy Veermann 20 – 21
John Fitzpatrick, Anne Holland, Len Stewart, Leonie Fitzpatrick 23 – 12
Gerry Gomers, Damian Key, Glenda Graham, Colin Jarvis 12 – 19
Saturday pennant
Saturday Healesville 1 side played Boronia and got away with a Handy win 82 – 75
Mark Ward, Steve Bulled, Brad Chandler, John Simnett 20 -26
Adrian Beales, Rob Ayres, Bob Brown, James Beales 21 – 14
Steve Graham, John Clark, Robyn Turville, Mick Featherstone 27-13
Colin Lowe, Rita Featherstone, Effie Laban, John Howard 14 – 22
Healesville 2 side played away at Blackburn North on a very quick but very fair green but unfortunately went down 43 – 63
Rob Broardhurst, Dennis Rogers, Gerry Gomers, Glenda Graham 11 – 23
Mike Adams, Russell Smith, Ted Upton, Colin Jarvis 12 – 24
Barry Parker, Ian Milgate, Karl Tok, Leonie Fitzpatrick 22 – 18
– Ian Milgate
