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All the news and more in the annual newsletter! 2024 is the 50th Anniversary.

Here's a handy calendar with the entire season of events and activities at BICC.

Taz and Jim play croquet at BICC. David Druiett on the radio.

BICC attends the USCA Nationals in Palm Beach FL in 1983.

BICC walked away with several Croquet Canada awards announced at the CC AGM last Tuesday.

2022 Open Golf and Croquet Canada Open AC Tournaments a huge success.

2022 First Round Block Play

2022 Club Tournaments

Two Open tournaments to be provided by BICC in June 2022

2022 WCF Golf Championship Sussex England

2021 Derek Robinson Award

Croquet Books

Invitation Pres Reception 2021

Description of turf committee and facilities committee activities

Adriaan Schreuder personal profile.

Founders Cup 2021

Croquet Under the lIghts

Start up Thursday

Club reopening May 22

Presidents party cancelled

Member Profile of Jim Boone 40 years

Spring newsletter 2021

2021 season start

Learning Association Croquet
Beginner topics to Experienced Topics

Thank you to volunteers.

How do our courts grow?

2nd Round of Block Play for 2020.

Update on status of pavillion.

Founders Cup Tournament

Announcement Pat Waters

Club memories of Pat Cantrick

Croquet canada - what they do for croquet in Canada.
First issue of The Mallet

Request to Premier to open croquet courts on same basis as golf

HPPH website

Emergency closure of sports fields, beaches etc.

Health & Safety

Covid-19 Plans to June 14th

Hello Everyone - with growing concerns around COVID-19 (coronavirus)the Board has decided to cancel the upcoming Croquet Chats on March 26th and April 2nd. The Board
considers the health and well-being of our members to our top priority and will be proactive in promoting mitigation measures such as not holding events where people would be in close quarters to each other. The Board is committed to updating members on rescheduling the Croquet Chats and the status of other events in the near future. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or feedback on the Board's approach to this unusual situation.

2020 Tournament List

Upcoming chats at the Lake House

2020 Reception Invitation

Jan 23 Croquet Chat

Happy Holidays

December Get Together

This news item is to identify the opportunities to volunteer in the Club

Joe Beechie Sep 7, 2019

winners of 2019 tournaments

Schedule for Joe Beechie doubles snake tournament.

Finals to be played on Sunday September 1st

Another successful BICC Open International Tournament was held June 6-9.

Lessons

2019 First Round Block Play

Congratulations to Terry Lazaravitch and Gary Lloyd-Rees on winning the very first 2019 Doubles AC Event!

Tournaments coming for 2019 season

Soups On is an annual Family Day Weekend competition between local restaurants and community groups to raise funds for the Bayfield Town Hall. There are four awards - a Judges Choice and a Peoples Choice for both the restaurants and the community groups.

The Spring Newsletter issued by Tournament Chair Rob McCrea.

The annual, 1 day Joe Beechie partners golf tournament was held on Saturday September 8 2018. The format was an A Group and B group. Partners for the day. Players played 4 - 50 min games throughout the day. The weather was sunny and a little cold. At the end of play for the day, everyone enjoyed social time and laughs.
Winners of the A Group: Leigh Selk and Peter Jeffers
Winners of the B Group: Andrew Widdis and Karen Dalton
See you next year!

Competitors aand results of the 2018 BICC Open

BICC members love to play when travelling! Recently BICC members Pat & Gayle Waters, Leigh & Jerry Selk, Bill & Jane Rowat, Toni Kemp, Richard Wright, Dave & Jane MacLaren stayed at the beautiful Belaroma Croquet Club in Portugal.
Leigh Selk reports: The club has about 50 plus members. The members are mostly Brits, one Portuguese, a few Brazilians and Scandinavians.They play exclusively golf Croquet. There are two courts with a third going in at present.

A tournament was set up for us. Great fun. All day doubles golf Croquet. Team Canada included ten BICC players and some Brits and we played the visiting Germans with others nationalities to make our opponent team. Jerry and I made it to the finals, losing by one point to the hot shot visiting German pair. They truly shot like Egyptians. Other days we had the courts to ourselves and played Association."

The tournament was reported in the local Portugese newspaper - see the story h

Word Croquet Federation 2017 World Croquet Series in Southwick, England July 17 - 22

Congratulations to Bill Carradine, the 2017 winner of the Derek Robinson Award.
The purpose of the Award is to recognize the Croquet Canada member who, during a particular year, contributed most to the growth and development of croquet in Canada.

Heath and Safety Committee COVID-19 protocol

Update on permanent shelter.

COVID-19 impacts to BICC

Draws

2021 Croquet Canada Golf & Association Annual Tournaments

2020 Block Play

Psychology of croquet sport.