Friends and family gathered at Rotary Park on Saturday for the fifth annual Sugar Bowl Lawn Bowling Tournament in honour of a young woman who was murdered in her home in 2008.
Amber Webb-Bowerman, 30, was murdered in her basement apartment in the community of Dalhousie just over five years ago.
Joshua Lall murdered Webb-Bowerman and his family in May of 2008 and then took his own life.
Webb-Bowerman was a journalist and was employed by the campus paper at SAIT Polytechnic at the time of her death.
A foundation was established in her name in 2009 and the lawn bowling tournament has become its major fundraiser.
The Sugar Bowl Lawn Bowling Tournament is held each year at the Rotary Park Lawn Bowls Club.
Kathe Lemon is the president of the AWBMF and says Amber loved lawn bowling and puns and that’s how they came up with the name.
“Well we thought it was just a fun pun on bowling and you know it was something that was just a little bit silly. We try, as well as raising money, we try and have a good space to remember Amber and make sure that we’re able to remember her life and everything that she loved about life and everything that she loved doing,” said Lemon.
The foundation puts the money into scholarships and awards for students in journalism and the arts.
This year, they have also taken on a new program and have partnered up with WordsWorth Creative Writing Residency to bring a writing summer camp to kids.
The Sugar Bowl Lawn Bowling Tournament raises between $8000 and $10,000 each year.
For more information, visit the Amber Webb-Bowerman Memorial Foundation website.
