Cornwall Curling Club

Here is the draw for the Cornwall Curling Club golf tournament at Countryview Golf Club, Route 19 in Fairview, on June 22. If you would like to add your name, or if something has come up and you can no longer make it, please email Bob Fowler at rwfowler43@hotmail.com.

Tee-off  is at 10 am. Please be onsite by 9:30 to get signed up, find out the rules, and make your way to the appropriate tee box for the shotgun start. If you want to rent a power cart, you should call Countryview immediately to reserve,  as there is another tournament that day and there could be a shortage.There will be a longest drive plus a closest to the pin, for both men and women. Last year we had a rule that players could only use a 7 iron on the ninth hole. This year we are going to draw for which hole that will happen on and what iron will be used. All the holes from 1 to 9 and irons from 5 to 9 will be put in a hat and drawn out before we tee off to see which iron will be used and what hole it will be used on.

There will be a BBQ after with hot dogs and hamburgers and dessert (Bob is hoping for carrot cake!)

CORNWALL CURLING CLUB TEAM DRAW-JUNE 22

TEAM 1- HOLE 5A- RICK DOIRON, SUE DOIRON, HELEN SMITH, TRACY MACDONALD

TEAM 2 – HOLE 5B- TED VAN LUNEN, KAREN VAN LUNEN, RICK KIDD, PAM KIDD

TEAM 3- HOLE 6- CARL CURRIE, CARLENE PETERS,VALERIE ACORN, JEFF TAYLOR

TEAM 4- HOLE 7A – PAUL NEIMA, CAROL SWEETAPPLE, TRENT HAYES, BARB       DUNCAN-BIAGÉ

TEAM 5- HOLE7B- WADE CUDMORE, MARG STEWART, BERNIE FIELDS, NUCKER RICHARD

TEAM 6- HOLE 8- ALAN ACORN, SHARON KING, REBECCA ROLFE, LEONARD GOTELL

TEAM 7 – HOLE 4A- GORD PETERS, HÉLÈNE LAPALME, WINSTON TAYLOR, KRISTA AFFLECK

TEAM  8-HOLE 4B- BARRY CRASWELL, ANKUR DESHPANDE, JOHN BERRY, EILEEN BLANCHARD

TEAM 9- HOLE 9A- DAN HUGHES, LISA ARSENAULT, GEORGE YOUNKER, ELAINE HUGHES

TEAM 10- HOLE 9B- PAUL DURANT, PAT MCCARDLE, LESTER CALLBECK, CATHY HANDREN

TEAM 11 – HOLE 1A- PAUL FIELD, PAULA LING, TOM DUNN, DEREK GALLANT

TEAM 12- HOLE 1B- BOB FOWLER, KIM GLYDON, RAY BIAGÉ

TEAM 13- HOLE 2 – BILL HOPE, SANDY HOPE, ARLEEN HARRIS, VERN CHOWAN

TEAM 14- HOLE 3A- LEW BLACK, JEAN ANDERSON, KIMBALL BLANCHARD, DOT TAYLOR

TEAM 15- HOLE 3B- SHIRLEY BERRY, DEREK MACEWEN, SHELLEY EBBETT, DONALD WEEKS

The two finalists for Volunteer Administrator of the Year at the ADL/Sport PEI curling awards being held Wednesday May 29 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club, in conjunction with Curl PEI’s Annual General Meeting, are Roger Gavin from the Western Community Curling Club in Alberton, and the PEI Strathcona Cup Organizing Committee from the Cornwall Curling Club.

Photo: Gordon Lank of the Strathcona Cup organizing committee prepares to throw the ceremonial 1st rock at the Strathcona Cup Tour event in Cornwall, while fellow organizers Jim Farquharson on the left and Roddie MacLean on the right prepare to sweep, and organizer Myriam MacLean waits at the top of the stairs with the supplies needed to toast the piper

The Strathcona Cup Tour organizing committee consisted of three couples, all from the Cornwall Curling Club – Roddie and Myriam MacLean, Jim and Diane Farquharson, and Gordon and Shirley Lank. Roddie, Jim and Gordon are the only Island men to have been on previous Strathcona Cup tours to Scotland, and they were prepared to give the Scots a big welcome on the PEI leg of their tour of Canada, with both countries vying to take home the century-old Strathcona Cup, in curling’s oldest international tournament.

The committee began planning work a year prior to the event, which would see the 20 Scots on the Eastern part of the Tour take on Island curlers at Charlottetown, Montague, Cornwall and Crapaud. The committee was responsible for arranging the venues, meals, special guests etc., as well as signing up the players, obtaining sponsors, and fundraising.

Among the events organized were several lunches, and two banquets, one with a Robbie Burns theme, where Roddie MacLean eloquently presided over the “Address to a Haggis” ceremony (click for video). At Cornwall, the Lanks enlisted three generations of their family to help serve the meal, while Gordie personally cooked the tenderloin roast, with the beef produced at his own farm. The evening banquets were followed by entertainment, including a PEI Oyster Society “shucking-in” ceremony, comedy skits, and local musicians.

Scots and Islanders alike deemed the PEI portion of the 2013 Strathcona Cup Tour to be a tremendous success.

Photo: Roger Gavin, winning a coaching award at the provincial Under 16 championships this year

Roger Gavin volunteers in many capacities, both at the Western Community Curling Club and for PEI curling in general. He has served on the Board of Directors for the past 18-19 years, and on the Curl PEI board for the past decade.  He has been the backbone of the Junior program at his club for many years, in an administrative, instructional, and coaching capacity. He is a certified Level 2 coach, and is working on his Level 2 Umpires and his Level 3 certification. At the club, he contacts members at the first of each year to see if they are curling, and makes up draw boards and signup sheets for all curling activities. tournaments, and provincial championships held at the club throughout the season. He has his Level 1 Ice Technicians certification, and is involved with installation and maintenance of the club’s curling ice each season. He organizes, oversees, and bartends at the club’s popular Texas Hold’Em poker nights.

He looks after all aspects of the bar, doing the bar sheets, counting and weighing the product, and balancing the cash.

In addition to preparing and looking after all draws at the club has done draw sheets for Provincial Legion and other events, and this year made up the large draw needed for the 50 team Canadian Stick curling championships, having to redo it at the last minute when the number of teams changed.

For many years, Gavin has been involved with the majority of the club’s administrative operations, including leagues, special events, bar, maintenance, sponsorship and membership, banquets, and publicity.

He is also an avid curler, and curled in the Canadian Stick Curling Championship this year in Cornwall.

All-in-all, his work is instrumental in keeping the Western Community club operating, and continually improving its programs and serviices.

Peter Gallant and Pat Quilty are the finalists in this season’s “Coach of the Year” category at the ADL/Sport PEI curling awards, being held in conjunction with Curl PEI’s Annual General Meeting on May 29 at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in  Summerside.

Peter Gallant (right) with the Christopher Gallant rink at the 2013 Pepsi Juniors

Peter Gallant coached the Suzanne Birt rink to a first place finish at the 2013 PEI Scotties Tournament of Hearts women’s championship, going on to coach them at the nationals, were they finished just out of the playoffs, and also coached the Christopher Gallant team to a second place finish at the provincial Pepsi Juniors this season. With Peter’s help, the Birt rink qualified for the championship round in all the cashspiels, except one, that they entered this season, finishing as runners-up twice, while the Gallant team won the Fall Fling junior bonspiel in Summerside. Peter also served as the coach of the Brad Gushue rink of St. John’s NL, which includes his son Brett, at the Brier, where they finished fourth, and in other events.

The teams he coaches give him high praise, mentioning his positive energy and attitude, his motivational skills, and also saying that he makes himself available for day to day practices, and noting that he is very knowledgeable, technically and strategically, about the game.

Pat Quilty (left), with David O’Connor of sponsor O’Connor Glass, winning the Girl’s Division coaching award at the provincial Under 16 championships

Pat Quilty has coached Cornwall’s Rachel O’Connor rink for three years, helping them with their goal of representing PEI in the 2015 Canada Winter Games. Although they are in the Under 16 age group, he also encouraged them to participate in the Under 21 and Under 18 provincials, teaching them that they could be competitive in the older age categories, and helping them to achieve their goal of winning the Under 16 event, a goal which they achieved, going undefeated in the competition. He also coached the winning Under 16 Junior Mixed team, which included two members of the O’Connor rink, this season.

Quilty was awarded the Asham Coaching award, which is voted on by all the coaches in the event, in both the Under 18 and Under 16 provincials. The O’Connor rink was very encouraged by the results they attained this year with his assistance, and are looking forward to next season and the upcoming Canada Games trials.

The team noted that Quilty looks for the positive in each player, and is always willing to take the time needed during weekday practices and weekend competitions. When the team participated in the Whitecap curling camp in Halifax this past summer, he went too, signing on as an instructor to work with young curlers at the camp.

The finalists have been named for ADL/Sport PEI Junior Athletes of the year.

This year’s ADL/Sport PEI Junior Female Athlete of the Year finalists are Katie Fullerton and Aleya Quilty, both from the Cornwall Curling Club.

CCA/Michael Burns Photography/Mark O’Neill Photo: Katie Fullerton (right) receiving second team all-star award from Canadian Curling Association governor Cindy Maddock

17 year old Katie Fullerton threw lead stones and held the broom for the skip on the Veronica Smith rink, who won the provincial Pepsi Juniors Under 21 women’s championship. At the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors in Fort McMurray Alberta, the team’s first experience on arena ice, she took home second team all-star lead honours, coming within 1% of the 1^st team all-star lead’s shooting percentage. The team finished in 1^st place in the Fall Fling junior cashspiel at the Silver Fox, with a 6-1 record, and came fourth in the December spiel, also at the Fox. Fullerton showed great improvement this season, with her team practicing several days a week, and curling in the Tuesday night competitive league at Cornwall. Fullerton excels at school as well, and was awarded a 4 year, full-tuition scholarship to UPEI beginning in the fall of 2013

Photo credit – George Wycherley: Aleya Quilty at the CIS/CCA nationals

Aleya Quilty had a busy curling and coaching season, playing on both the Amanda MacLean team, the provincial runners-up at the Pepsi Juniors, and the Veronica Smith university team, who qualified for the CIS/CCA nationals with a B division win, and went on to a 5^th place finish in Kamloops, where she had the highest shooting percentage for Team PEI. The MacLean team also competed in the Fall Fling at the Silver Fox, finishing 5^th, as well as the Codiac Bonspiel in Moncton, the Maritime Junior Competitive League, and the JSI-OVCA Super Spiel in the Ottawa area, as well as practicing several hours a week, and competing in the Tuesday night competitive league at the Cornwall Curling Club.

On the coaching and instructing front, she coached boy’s teams in the Under 16 and Under 18 provincials and in weekend competitions, completed her Level 3 Coaching technical training and all six competition development and multi-sport modules,and instructed at two junior development and high performance camps. She will also be working as an instructor at the 2013 Whitecap Curling Camp at Cornwall’s APM Centre.

Quilty also excels in the sport of rowing, with three 2 hour dry land training workouts a week in preparation for competing for Team PEI in the 2013 Canada Summer Games.

An honours student throughout grade school, high school, and 1^st year university, Quilty was awarded in 2012-13 with a 2012 Joyce Myers Trust Fund Scholarship, a Community Service Bursary, and an Earl D. Foster Entrance Scholarship to UPEI.

The Junior Male Athlete of the Year finalsts are Brooks Roche from Montague, and Tyler Smith from Cornwall and Crapaud.

Brooks Roche from the Montague Curling Club poses with mascot “Slider” and  the Capital One Junior Draw to the Button trophy (Photo credit: Grand Slam of Curling)

Montague third Brooks Roche competed and finished in the top three at the provincials in three age categories this season, curling on the Cody Dixon rink, who finished third in the Pepsi Juniors Under 21, and the Tyler Smith team, who placed second in both the O’Connor Glass Under 18 and the Advantage Communications Junior Mixed under 16 division (where Roche played 2^nd stone) championships, and third in the O’Connor Glass Under 16.

Roche, who capped off his previous season by winning the Capital One Junior Draw to the Button at the Players’ Championship in Summerside in April 2012, won the Fairplay sportsmanship award in the Under 16 division at the Junior Mixed, and also at the Under 16 championships. He volunteers with the Montague Curling Club junior program and dedicated many evenings and weekends to curling. He keeps fit with cardio workouts, and both indoor soccer in the winter and outdoor soccer in summer. Being a Type 1 diabetic, he is devoted to both fitness and nutrition for his overall health, and was a top performer in fitness at the Canada Games. He is provincial spokesperson for the 2013 IWK Molly Appeal, provincial representative for the Kids for a Cure Lobby Day for Diabetes Research in Ottawa, and was chosen delegate for the 2013 Canadian Conference on Student Leadership in BC. Academically, he achieved 1^st place aggregate in Montague Junior High’s 2012 graduating class, and second in class standing at Montague High School in the fall semester.

PEICurling.com photo: Tyler Smith at the Pepsi Provincial Juniors

Former PEI Canada Games team skip Tyler Smith had another busy year, finishing in the top three in four provincial championships – coming first in the Pepsi Junior Under 21 competition, second in both the O’Connor Glass Under 18 and the Advantage Communications Junior Mixed championships U16 division, and third in the O’Connor Glass Under 16. At the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors in Fort McMurray, his team finished with a 3-6 record. The second place finish in the provincial U18’s garnered the Smith rink a berth in the Atlantic U18 championships in Stephenville NL, where they finished in third place. Smith managed to curl in all four Atlantic provinces during the season, competing in junior cashspiels in Sackville NB, where they came second, and at the Lakeshore curling club in Lower Sackville NS, where they finished in third place,  in addition to the provincial and Atlantic championships. He also practiced twice a week at the Cornwall Curling Club, and participated in competitive leagues both there and in Crapaud.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on May 29 at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside.

Sympathies are extended to  Club member Dick MacDonald and family, on the passing of his wife and former Club member, Marie. Marie was a member of the provincial masters curling championship team skipped by Carol Sweetapple in 2010 and again in 2011.

Visiting hours are Wednesday, funeral is Thursday.

Click for funeral announcement.

Photo (L-R): Marjorie Matthews, Danielle Girard, Marie MacDonald, Carol Sweetapple