Bocce ball is here!
It was a beautiful, cool evening on Thursday, June 12, 2025 for the ribbon cutting at the Grand Opening of the new bocce ball courts in Almonte. It is with great pleasure that the Almonte Lawn Bowling Club (ALBC) is now able to offer the popular game of bocce ball to our community. Many of those attending were delighted to give the game a try to see how fun and easy it would be to master. “Wow, good shot!”, “I can actually do this!” and “Nice courts!” were heard among the positive comments.
Kevin Jones, President of ALBC welcomed special guests Calvin Murphy representing the Municipality of Mississippi Mills, Tom Levi of Levi’s Hardware and Bob Lesser representing the Civitan Club. Each of these guests offered their congratulations and warm wishes with this new endeavour. ALBC had successfully applied for a special grant from the Province of Ontario to help fund this project. The Civitan Club of Almonte also donated to it and the Junior Civitans have already given the game a try, complete with competitive spirits and lots of laughs! Special thanks was extended to the Municipality and to Tom Levi for their generous contributions of labour and materials, as well as to Cavanagh Construction and Countryside Contracting for their generous contributions as well. Kevin Jones remarked that it was an example of a great collaborative effort on the part of all.
If you are interested in trying out bocce ball, the ALBC invites you to come any evening from Monday to Friday around 6:45pm to get set up and check it out. On those same evenings you could try lawn bowling. You are offered three free evenings before making a decision about joining the Club. Bocce ball is a steal at $50 for the season (ending mid October) and new members to lawn bowling would pay $150 for the season, but this includes bocce ball as well – a real deal!
For more information you can visit their website at www.almonte-lawn-bowling-club.com
Why wait? Give it a try today!!
ALBC Executive
