Last Friday night’s Quiz Night was a great night out for all who came. Sue and Phil Boyle were unable to host the quiz as usual because Sue’s mother suffered a stroke last weekend and was in the JR. Sue and Phil have been spending much of their time there but were kind enough to compile the questions which Jo presented immaculately, like she’d been doing it forever.
Of course, Jo was ably assisted by Barry together with their daughter Carolyn who kept tabs on the scores and leaderboard.
The winning team for the 2nd (or is it the 3rd?) time, lead by Chris, and of course featuring quiz queen Catherine Jones donated their prizes to the team that came second and are pictured below with Terri in the foreground.
Phil and Ian were behind the bar all evening with help from Peter who was also busy successfully seeking new sponsors. Chris and Ray Lewin chased around selling numbers on the raffle board. Chris, young Jacob, Barbara and Ray set the room up and between them Bob and Jean Miller cleaned tables, stacked chairs and vacuumed afterwards. Phil provided the PA system. Apologies if anyone who helped has been missed out!
A good mix of members and friends paid ‘entrance fees’ which less the cost of winners’ prizes raised £270. The raffle less cost of prizes raised a further £70 and the bar was pretty busy all night.
Around £50 of raffle winnings was kindly donated to Sue and Phil's chosen charity, the Stroke Association, and the Bowls Club donated a further £100 from the night’s takings in recognition of Sue and Phil’s work in putting the Quiz together for us.
A roaring success.
In other news, Jo has secured Oracle Ear Care as a sponsor of our Christmas Social on the 15th December and over the weekend the last available 300 club number was taken, so we now have 300 numbers with names against them ready for the bumper Christmas Draw!
