Upcoming meetings in 2024

Hello,

We hope you all had a relaxing and rejuvenating Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year. The beginning of the year can be a little confusing as to the dates of club events due to stat holidays etc, so to clarify, here are the dates we have decided on. As always, these dates, workshop dates and field trip dates can be seen on the club calendar at https://vlms.ca/calendar/

January 2nd, 7pm: Board of directors’ meeting

January 8th, 7pm Annual General Meeting and first Members’ Meeting of the year.  Location: the lawn bowling club.  Note, this is not the first Monday of the month, which is New Year’s day.

January 30th, 7pm: Board of directors’ meeting

February 5th, 7pm: Members’ Meeting, Location: the lawn bowling club.

February 26th, 7pm: Board of directors’ meeting

March 4th, 7pm: Members’ Meeting, Location: the lawn bowling club.

March 15th-17th Rock and Gem show at the Da Vinci Center

March 25th, 7pm: Board of directors’ meeting

April 8th, 7pm: Members’ Meeting, Location: the lawn bowling club.Note, this is not the first Monday of the month as that is the Easter weekend,

Message from our President

I wanted to take this opportunity to pass along some thoughts about club activities and events this past year.  It’s been quite an eventful and successful one for the club.

We had a record setting attendance and revenue at the March show.

We held an awesome auction bringing in some big dollars.

A terrific bus trip to Chilliwack to attend the BCLS show.

A great strawberry social attended by many.

An excellent fall show that surpassed all expectations.

Programs that were interesting, captivating and educational..

Field trips that were so well attended that they would have filled a Greyhound bus (with people and rocks).

A huge backlog of lapidary courses was cleared.

I want to thank all of our members who organized and coordinated events and also those who so generously gave up their time and volunteered.

On this note, just like in Jose Feliciano’ song, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

Yvan Gagnon, President