Team Cast My Line starring l-r Jennifer, Chelsea, Ashley, Sonia and Willy.
This story was published July 10, 2014. We’re re-posting it here as a look ahead to the Lawn Summer Nights event tonight (Thursday, July 9, 2015) at the Leaside Lawn Bowling Club on Hanna Rd. The wild dress-up party is a fund-raiser for Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Good news on the weather front as conditions are forecast to clear as the day goes on.
Pumped music ranging from the 50s to right now washed over an elegant young crowd of supporters as they ate, drank and played bowls to celebrate this Lawn Summer Nights event. Lawn Summer Nights was conceived four years ago according to organizer Rachel Balchin. She is with KPMG, a prime sponsor and benefactor of the Lawn Summer. It was Rachel herself who lost a cousin, Eva Markvoort, to this disease. The heartbreak inspired Rachel and others to create a fundraising event which now extends to nine cities in Canada. Teams with madcap names like Lawn Order, The Royal Canadian Mounted Bolwice and Guacabowles, now compete, after a fashion, in Toronto, Ottawa, London, Halifax, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Teams are urged to dress the part and much of the costuming on show tonight was sensational. The four women of Cast My Line (above) were there with their whale mascot, Willy. Elegantly dressed young bowlers chowed down on sandwiches and various delicatessen dishes from the Zane Caplansky Food Truck Thundering Thelma. Photo: Cast My Line starring l-r Jennifer, Chelsea, Ashley, Sonia and Willy.
