A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
They don't do things by halves.
Tolaga Bay Bowling Club members were in celebration mode on Sunday afternoon.
Not only had the club's junior women got their hands on the Peck Shield, the junior men had grabbed hold of the Yelverton Shield to make it double glory.
In the women's competition, Tolaga Bay combined with Te Karaka so they could front a team.
Diane Murray (Te Karaka) took the singles spot and won both her games.
After a bye in the first round, she faced Gisborne's Ginny Sherriff.
Neither player was about to run away with the game, and Murray just got home 25-23.
In the last round, Murray was too good for Poverty Bay's Kathryn Flaugere, winning 24-12.
In the pairs, new bowler Holli Elkington partnered Erica Thompson of Te Karaka. This was the first time they had met but they played as if they had been together for a while.
Elkington was consistent at lead, and time after time set the heads up for her skip. Thompson complemented the work, and the pair had emphatic victories over Poverty Bay and Gisborne.
In the fours, skip Kay Goldsbury, Delores Woodcock, Jackie Horsfall and nine-year-old Shiraz Hughes, who came in as a late replacement, got off to a rocky start in going down to Gisborne's Margot Willock, Jennie Evans, Diane Oates and Libby Clay.
Tolaga Bay's second-round game against Poverty Bay's Kim Walters, Joan Gledhill, Anna Colvin and Trish Leach was also a tussle. No one seemed able to make any headway and it ended in a 13-all draw.
Goldsbury was encouraging at skip and directed her inexperienced team with confidence. Hughes sent down some good bowls and Horsfall was steady up front. Woodcock chipped in and Goldsbury pulled out some big shots when needed.
Final standings: Tolaga Bay 9 points with a differential of plus-20; Gisborne 6pts, plus-2; Poverty Bay 3pts, minus-22.
The Tolaga Bay men made it a double by overcoming Gisborne and Kahutia.
In the first round, Anton Tashkoff, John Burima (who came in as a replacement), 13-year-old Zhiar Hughes and Treva Rink outclassed the Kahutia four of Joe Wimutu, Allan Parker, Frank McLoughlin and Marty Ryan.
In their second game, it was the other way round as Gisborne's Harry Jackson, Ron Robertson, Steve Wood and Don Oates proved too strong.
The Tolaga Bay pair of George Tamihana and Peter Hughes had a tussle with Gisborne's Tim Sherriff and Peter Clay.
Neither team had an edge. Playing the last end, Gisborne were one-up on the board but three down on the head.
Sherriff elected to run the head with his second bowl and hit a short bowl through, spewing the white sideways to sit a foot from Clay's bowl.
Tamihana ran with his second to remove it but went under. Sherriff didn't add with his last and Tamihana ran again, this time removing the shot bowl for one, and a 14-all draw.
This was to prove vital in the standings at the end.
Tolaga Bay singles player Ben Elkington got off to a reasonable start against Andrew Ball, of Kahutia. He seemed to be cruising for most of the match until Ball began to find his line and weight to put the pressure on with a run to the end.
As the scores got closer, Elkington seemed to tense up, and Ball emerged a deserved winner.
However, in the last round, Elkington showed why he is a centre representative. He crushed Gisborne's Geoff Pinn 25-12. No matter what Pinn tried, Elkington found an answer to it.
With the Kahutia four demolishing Gisborne in the last round, the tournament came down to the pairs game between Kahutia and Tolaga.
By now, Kahutia were on 6pts, and Gisborne and Tolaga were on 5pts.
Kahutia pair Willy Murray and Ray Young got off to a flyer in the pairs. With five ends to go they were 12-6 up.
Tolaga, however, pulled back the deficit with two ends to play.
On the penultimate end, Hughes sat a couple of bowls within the perimeter of the white. Tamihana added another with his first.
Murray decided to run the head and sent his bowl wide. He ran again with his last, sending that one tight.
Tamihana added another to claim four shots going into the last end.
It was now a matter of playing the board, but juniors have proved time and again to be unpredictable.
With his team only one down on the head, the obvious shot for Hughes was to draw to the head as they had shots in the bag to play with. No, Hughes played a weighted shot, picking up the white and leaving it sitting on the edge of the ditch, with his toucher two feet away.
This sealed the game and the title for Tolaga.
Tolaga Bay finished on 7pts, with a differential of plus-16; Kahutia had 6pts, plus-0; and Gisborne had 5pts, minus-16.
On receiving the Peck Shield, women's team manager Janet Baty said she was surprised and humbled by their success.
Men's team manager Joanne Atkins was confident from the get-go.
It was great to see a good turnout of support for their team from Poverty Bay members, as well as other clubs' members, the junior selectors and other spectators.
Centre president Steve Goldsbury presented the shields.
Tolaga Bay also won both shields in the 2014-15 season, on that occasion combined with Wairoa.