2025 News - 3
TERRY AND VAL ATKINSON STAND DOWN
Terry and Val Atkinson have been stalwart leaders of North Mymms Bowls Club for some 12 years or so, Terry as Chairman and Val as Membership Secretary.
During their time in office they have been fully committed to improving the bowls Club to make it the success it is today. So to mark the occasion at the AGM on 5th December 2025, when Terry and Val decided to stand down from the Committee, the Members honoured them with a reflection of the work they had done and a piece of amusing verse, Terry's Lament, penned and delivered by Peter Stokes. Sadly, Val could not be with us to hear the many glowing comments.
In closing they were presented with a pair of engraved wine glasses as a thank you and memento plus a framed copy of the verse.
The pictures show Terry with the Secretary, Pam Bond, the Captain, Paul Thomson and (shaking hands) Peter Stokes.
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NORTH MYMMS AT POTTERS 2025
A group of 20 bowlers (mainly from North Mymms) had a five day Away Break at Potters, Hopton-on-Sea from 10th to 14th November 2025 with eight of the group entering the Bowls League competition.
Team 1 consisted of Pam Bond, Sue Burbidge, Joyce Clark and Ivan Coleman and Team 2 was Martin Barson (North Mymms) who was joined by Mary and Roy Banks and Dave Sankey (all from Hatfield Bowls Club). Both teams played 4 games in the league stage.
Team 1 won all four of their games which qualified them to play in the "last sixteen" while Team 2 won three of their four games but that was enough to get them through to the "last sixteen" as well.
Each team put up a good fight in their "last sixteen" matches but were defeated and eliminated as that was a knockout stage. Despite not progressing any further both teams had a great time and were well supported by the other North Mymms bowlers who chose to take part in the less competitive activities available at Potters rather than bowling.
Well done to Pam Bond for organising an excellent break.
Our photo below shows Sue Burbidge, Ivan Coleman, Pam Bond and Joyce Clark.
DENNIS LESTER RECEIVES SPOONS AWARDS
Alex Donovan, who organises our Spoon drives, decided that this year we should acknowledge one of the bowlers who have supported Spoons well during the season. He has done this by a points system whereby a bowler gets 1 point for attendance, 2 points for a rink win and 1 point for a draw (added up across the season from June onwards when we started it).
This year's worthy winner was Dennis Lester, so Alex Donovan presented him with the spoon at the last spoon drive of the season. Many congratulations go to Dennis.
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