ANNOUNCEMENTS
*** Our Fall 2008-2009 Season will be at our new location...
Rinaldi's Riverdale Bowl and our start time is 5:00p.m. on
Sunday, September 7th, 2008...why not join us!!!
Hope to see you and your friends joining us for our 3rd Fall Season. Don't miss
out...SIGN UP NOW ON OUR "CONTACT US" PAGE by emailing your contact
info so that we may get in touch with you...
(note: by signing up to join you are agreeing to bowl every Sunday that you possibly
can for the entire 32 week commitment from September to around the first of
May...you can also sign up to bowl as a substitute...this does not obligate you to
every Sunday...a sub can bowl when a team member is absent...a sub joining must
pay the $19 Sanction Fee and does not pay the weekly fee whenever they sub for an
absent bowler)
*** Organizational Mtg...tentatively scheduled for Sunday, Aug 31
time to be determined...this is where you will have input and gain info on the league...keep
posted to this web site for updated info on this very informative meeting about the league
*** CONGRATULATIONS to our league Founder CC Ford on two
very special events in her life...1st, she drove to Hollywood
California with her partner Joyce and they legally married on
July 17th! and 2nd, Team DC Sports First Annual Champion's
Awards Reception will honor CC Ford with the MVP Award for
her work throughout the past year with our league!!! What an
honor on both accounts...congratulations CC...way to go!!!
(go to www.teamdc.org for tickets and more info on the awards) also click > /Documents/Team DC Awards 08.pdf
*** LGBT Community Newsletter (August) keeps you informed with everything
happening in our community...posted here monthly (Thanks go to Courtney & Charlotte who gather all this info and put this newsletter together for our community) click here> /Documents/Community Life Newsletter August 2008.doc
(note: it's a 12 pg newsletter so give it a few minutes to download for reading)
*** Capital Pride Weekend was spectacular...we were represented in the parade
on Saturday with several members that marched with the CARA group and
again at the CARA table during Sundays events downtown...
*** AWARDS BOWLING BANQUET was a huge success...many awards, trophies, certificates and
worthy recognitions were given. View the achievements and fun we had on our photo web site...
www.photoshow.com/members/ccford
*** 
League of Women Bowlers Rocked the Richmond GRITS Tournament the weekend of May 30th!!!
Bringing home the honors of All Events 2nd Pl was "Say Say" and she also got awarded for 1st Pl in the Singles Competition and her Partner Toni Kelly and her took honors for 1st Pl in the Doubles
Competition...Pooh and Julia took 3rd in Doubles and Nadine took 3rd in Singles...CC and Vanessa took pride in being awarded also
...even though it was for Low Score Doubles...lol...it was all good because their team took honors for having the Best Team Name "Entyceeingly Good"!!! Thanks to Meg Powell (Tournament Director) and her great group of ladies for sponsoring such a fun tournament...we'll be back next year for GRITS...check out the photo show at www.photoshow.com/members/ccford
*** 
CC also participated in the International Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO) in Atlanta, Ga at their Annual Memorial Day Weekend Tournament ...as a bowler and as the Chairperson of the Ladies Social for the 2010 Bid for DC ...DC lost out on the bid to host this awesome tournament in 2010 to the
Columbus, Ohio group but we racked up in the winnings with one of our male CARA League members winning the top awards in just about every category...congratulations to all our CARA Bowlers who represented DC quite well...also on our photo show web site...check it out...it was fabulous!!!
*** CARA Tournament Results (March 2008)
Our members participated in one of their first ever tournaments: the CARA Intra-League Tournament
...we were represented by Julia-Bobbi-Colleen-Sharon and Neicey
They won 8 games and lost 2 to place 2nd Overall and 3rd in the Finals!!! Woohoo!!! Way to go ladies...
OUTSTANDING SCORES
IN THE CARA 8-PIN NO TAP TOURNAMENT
Proud to announce we won the tournament with our
1st Place Winner Nadine Rawles
Her winning scores were:
262/279/267 = 781 scratch series (Shift1) <1st Place 
($125.00 award ck)
239/183/228 games = 650 series (shift 2) <6th Place Nadine>
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Others placed well also... out of the 33 total participants...
Dee Chiedo 253/198/226 = 677 <8th Place
CC Ford 215/257/222 = 694 <13th Place
Marsha McBride 159/233/158 = 550 <14th Place and 168/132/111 = 411 <28th Place
Mercia Arnold 187/153/97 = 437 <22nd Place and 133/148/140 = 421 <23rd Place
Zina Gudgen 157/218/117 = 492 <25th Place
Roshelle Rossmays 135/94/135 = 364 <29th Place and 156/135/83 = 374 <30th Place
**Atlantic City Trip ...was a huge success...with a bus full of league
members and friends, a ball was had by one and all who went. Great job Dee!!!
*** We had 8 participants in the CARA 9-Pin No Tap Tournament held at our house in the
AMF Laurel Lanes this past Saturday (March 8th)...we rocked the house with our
representation! CC took 1st Place with an impressive series of three games over
200...Sharon came in 3rd and Sabrina came in 4th...way to go LOWB!
_______________________________________________________________________________ *** Congratulations to all recipients of their USBC Awards:
_________________________________________________________________ *** OUR 2007-2008 NEW MEMBERS!!! Mercia Arnold...Ebony Banks...Dayisha Johnson...Desiree Evans...Sue
Elliott...Kesha Gilchrist...Zina Gudger...Rhonda Hughes...Marleah Isom...Diana James...
Nita Jones...Toni Kelly...Vanessa Lee...Marsha McBride...Val Myers...
Carolyn Noel...Cathy Quitto...NaDine Rawls...Monica Stepp...Rochelle Rossmays
Sub Dee Brown and we're looking forward to other new members to join this week!
THAT'S 21 NEW WOMEN JOINING OUR LEAGUE last SEASON...WOOWEE!!!!
***TWO NEW MEMBERS JOINED JAN 6TH 2008...
RENEE WILLIS 
AND DENISE MCEACHERN (NOT PICTURED)!!! *** Click on this link to view our 2007-2008 /Documents/Teams 2007-2008.doc
*** 2nd Season Opening Day was "yeah!" all that...as Gwen picks up her strike... view our 2nd season at www.photoshow.net/ccford or at
http://www.photoshow.com/members/ccford
2007-2008 Secretary CC and Vice President Pooh are even enjoying the business end of it all as one of our newest members Tammy looks on...
*** see the commentary page and photo gallery for more pics
*** see the statistics page for a recap of the games and the league standing sheet
LEAGUE OFFICERS 2008-2009 
President Denise Chiedo
Vice President Colleen Crawley
Secretary Julia Johnson
Treasurer Neicey Robertson
Sgt-At-Arms Milly Grayson
and
Tyree Ellison ______________________________________________________________________________
*** League Officers click on the link below to review "Duties of Officers" /Documents/League Officers Duties.pdf *** League Rules...click on this link: /Documents/LOWB Rules 2007-2008.doc *** Share with team members the Pro Shop info on our Bowling Web Site page and
on our Supporters Page for getting equipment, balls and shoes
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