Mat Chat April 11, 2017 Birthdays and Tea At the end of March, we celebrated those members whose birthdays are in March; Sandra Davis, Helene Felton, and Larry Millett: and those members whose birthdays are in July; Chris Barnes, Ray Guy, Wayne Jones, Joan Klooz, Jenny Lee, Martin Quick, Pat Rees, Jackie Taylor, and Brian Venn. Present for the photograph from left to right are: Larry Millett, Brian Venn, Joan Klooz, Jenny Lee, Chris Barnes, and Jackie Taylor Thank you to Mary McHoull and Eunice Bartolucci for getting the cookies and draw prizes and setting up for the tea and collecting the money. Thanks also to Erin at Sweets and Swirls for the great selection of cookies. Thank you as always to those who stayed to help with the clean up. Following the tea and cookies, President Paul McHoull presented the three prizes for the winners of the draw. Page 1
Draw for March Prizes Paul McHoull and Gillian Collinson Larry Millett and Paul McHoull Carol Rondeau and Paul McHoull Page 2
Last Day of Short Mat 2016-17 President Paul McHoull presents a certificate to Dan Maksenuk, Community Centre Coordinator, thanking him for all his help and support to the Short Mat Bowling Club during the year. Many thanks Dan! The Fight Club The Ladies Club Page 3
Scores for March Minimum of 9 games played, out of a total of 18 games Year End Totals & Potluck Here are the top 8 for 2016-2017. This is based on 94 possible games played and shows results for those who played a minimum of 47 games. Mary Watson and David Taylor had almost exactly the same score. Page 4
Year End & Potluck - Continued Rory MacCon - First Place Leona Stewart - Second Place Pat Rees - Third Place Mary McHoull - Fourth Place Doug Williams - Fifth Place Carol Rondeau - Sixth Place Diane Harry - Seventh Place Sandi Johnson - Most Improved Player Mary Watson, who finished in eighth place, did not attend. Page 5
Year End & Potluck - Continued Special mention to : David Taylor who just missed out by a tenth of a point to finish in the top eight. Paul Rogers who scored 72.7% over 33 games, Brenda Cooper with 64.8% over 27 games, and Cathy MacCon with 60.5% over 38 games. David Klooz, who played all 94 games and scored 50% with 47 out of 94 (I m not sure if this shows endurance, a boring life or stupidity, or just that I like short mat). Paul mentioned that maybe I should have stayed home every other day! I told him that with my luck, I d have started bowling on a losing day and continued losing every other day! As always, thanks to Paul McHoull for ALL the hard and time consuming work in Short Mat, including gathering and producing all the stats. Many thanks Paul! Potluck Following the final day of Short Mat bowling, appetizers and awards, we had a Potluck dinner in the Mori Room. Great food and beverages followed by our last birthday celebration. This month we celebrated those members whose birthday is in April: Stephen Cohen, Mary McHoull, and Carol Millett; and those members whose birthday is in August: David Cooper, Jim Stewart and George Watson. Those present for the rousing singing of perhaps the strangest rendition of Happy Birthday were Carol Millett, Jim Stewart and Mary McHoull. It s not often that a song starts with everyone on a different key, but it seemed that s what happened. While no glass shattered, at the end of the song there were about 150 dogs outside the Community Centre howling along. Good job folks! Page 6
Potluck As always, thank you to Mary McHoull, Joan Klooz, Barb Jones and Sandi Johnson for organizing the Potluck and Heather Pettit, Cathy MacCon, Jackie Taylor, Carol, Doug and Donna Williams for additional help and clean-up. Sorry if I missed anyone. Also, I apologize for the quality of the pictures of the awards. The auto focus was turned to off. Next time you all won t be so blurry. Page 7
Finally This final joke of the Mat Chat Newsletter is dedicated to those individuals who were lucky enough to have seen the early western TV series called The Cisco Kid, that aired between 1950 and 1955. The Kid was played by Duncan Renaldo and his trusted side-kick Pancho was played by Leo Carillo. I was lucky enough to watch the final episode of The Cisco Kid last night called The Bacon Tree. Although it has a very sad ending, I thought it was so good, I felt it would would be a nice way to end the year telling you a bit about the plot. The Cisco Kid and Pancho had just managed to shoot their way out of a gunfight in the middle of the desert where thieves had been hiding their stolen loot in a cave. Although they managed to kill 23 bandits, 6 remained and managed to capture Cisco and Pancho and tie them up and then escaped with their loot. Finally, after 4 days, Cisco and Pancho managed to free themselves and began wandering through the desert searching for food and water. As they wandered aimlessly they knew that if they didn t find food and water quickly they would surely die. They were about to just lie down and wait for death, when all of a sudden, The Cisco Kid says: "Hey Pancho, chou smell wha' I smell. Ees bacon, I theenk." "I theenk you right Ceesco, eet sure smell lack bacon", replies Pancho. With renewed hope, they struggle up the next sand dune, and there, in the distance, is a tree loaded with bacon. There's raw bacon, there's fried bacon, back bacon, double smoked bacon, every imaginable kind of cured pork. "Pancho, Pancho, we ees saved! Ees a bacon tree!" "Ceesco, maybe ees a meerage? We ees in the desert don't forget. "Pancho, since when deed you ever hear of a meerage that smell like bacon? Ees no meerage, ees a bacon tree!" With that, The Cisco Kid staggers towards the tree. He gets to within 5 yards, Pancho crawling close behind. Suddenly a machine gun operated by the 6 remaining bandits who had been in hiding behind one of the dunes opens up. The Cisco Kid is hit by over a hundred bullets and drops like a wet sock. Mortally wounded, he warns Pancho with his dying breath: "Pancho, go back man, you was right, ees not a bacon tree!" Ceesco, Ceesco, mi amigo, what ees it?" Cisco turns to Pancho and gasps, Ees...Ees... Ees... Ees... Ees Ees Ees... a ham bush. Oh, Pancho! Oh, Ceesco! Page 7