League News
2025 Newsletter
Your Champs!
Here are our Champions for the 2025 season, and thank you all for a great season.
We Have Our League Champs!
Congratulations to the JILTs our new Island Bocce League Champions. Even with one more game to be played, they have out distanced the rest of us to have captured the Championship as of last Wednesday night. They played consistently all season. We will post a photo of them with the Guido, our championship trophy, after the last game and party next Wednesday.
And congratulations to the rest of us. We all deserve a pat on the back and a cool drink for surviving and playing during a truly steamy summer. Thank you all for finding replacements to play with as full a compliment as you could. We all played a record number of tie breakers, something that the final standings won’t reflect, but it demonstrates the level of play all of us have attained.
So as commissioner I want to thank you all for a wonderful season and I hope to see you all next year.
A Letter to the Rec Committe
Lou Danielczyk has composed a letter to the Grand Isle Rec Committe outlining our plans for the future of bocce at the Donaldson Rec Park. His letter is as follows:
I’m writing this letter to bring to your attention the goals and aspirations of the Island Bocce Club(islandbocceclub.com). The island bocce club has been in existence for 19 years; before we relocated to Donaldson Park, we called ourselves “The Bocce Garden.” We are a diverse community, equally divided between senior men and women with a quarter of our members being younger. Some of our members are physically handicapped and have mobility challenges. We made our court handicapped accessible to accommodate their needs. People play bocce because it is easy to learn but challenging to master. It is a great social experience and an opportunity to be outdoors with friends and family.
Some of our goals are short term and some are aspirational:
• We would like to have the field brush hogged and mowed behind the shed to the tree line. The purpose for this is to reduce the number of mosquitoes and to discourage Poisonous Parsnips from growing.
• Eventually we would like the area behind the shed to be leveled off with “fill” and stone.
• Once this is completed, we would like the Recreation Community to help us finance and build an additional new court. Even though we built the existing court seven years ago we find ourselves aging and we will need some help.
In conclusion, we would like to thank the Rec. Committee for their consideration in this matter and a sincere thank you for all the wonderful work your committee has done for the town of Grand Isle.
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