THE Millicent Bowls Club held their annual bowls day raising funds to assist the Royal Flying Doctors Service earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The RFDS is a critical service with Millicent locals having already utilised the RFDS option 26 times this year.<\/p>\n
The competition this year was well attended with 74 players taking part in the game including night bowlers and Millicent\u2019s regular bowlers.<\/p>\n
The format consisted of one game of 12 ends due to the very cold conditions.<\/p>\n
The total amount raised for the day was $2105 with Millicent Flying Doctor Group president Angus MacDonald accepting the funds from Millicent Bowls Club vice president Peter Hyland.<\/p>\n
One of the systems that is used to raise money is the wrong bias tin where a bowler, if they roll their bowl to the jack on the wrong bias.<\/p>\n
The player is expected to put a gold coin in the tin and ring the Wrong Bias Bell in the club room. T<\/p>\n
his fund raiser this year has raised a total of $900.<\/p>\n
The winning team for the day was Pat Sullivan, Keith Fletcher, Bill Chapman and Des King with a score of 30+28.<\/p>\n
Runners up were Chris Earl, Scott Lonergan, Terry Lonergan and Bob Reilly with a score of 29+16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE Millicent Bowls Club held their annual bowls day raising funds to assist the Royal Flying Doctors Service earlier this month. The RFDS is a critical service with Millicent locals having already utilised the RFDS option 26 times this year. The competition this year was well attended with 74 players taking part in the game […]<\/p>\n