After bringing a $6000 lead into Saturday skins play at the Cornwall Curling Club closing spiel, sponsored by Leary’s Independent Grocer in Cornwall, the Red team caught the Blues still sleeping in the morning draw, taking ALL the Skins ($36,000 of “funny” money), and going on to win the event by a final score of $240,000 to $151,000. Blue did a little better off the ice, winning the baby food eating contest, but that didn’t put much of a dent in the difference.

We received some unfortunate news in the early afternoon – the evening band would be unable to make it due to a family illness. However, the problem was quickly fixed thanks to Kelly Watts, who got on the phone and convinced Tim MacPherson of Vintage to fill in on very short notice, and, judging by the big turnout and the packed dance floor, he did a great job! 

During the day we had a great lunch of hamburgers, sausages and hotdogs cooked by volunteers on the barbecue, as well as lemon and banana cake, muffins and biscuits in the morning. Following the last curling draw, we were invited upstairs for an incredible roast beef dinner with all the fixings, and dessert, all catered by Allan Carmichael.

The dinner was followed by the prize presentation, with winners including: Trivia – Barb Duncan-Biagé team. Barb also won the female best costume award, while Peter Murdoch won the male. The reverse draw for a free membership was won by Danielle Girard, with the secondary prizes of Crowbush green fees going to Stephanie O’Keefe and Bob Fowler. The Draw to the Button contest was won by Dave Younker.

Draw to Button winner Dave Younker, with organizer Lisa MacEachern

Best costume winners Barb and Peter

It was time for the team prizes. The top Blue team, skipped by Peter Murdoch, were given gift certificates from the title sponsors.

The red teams were then given the pick of the prize table from the teams with the highest earnings to the lowest. The Danny Kneabone team were the biggest winners, and had first pick.

Team Kneabone

Here are the rest of the teams in descending order of winnings.

Team Chris Creighton (Chris is missing from the photo)

Team Garth Cudmore

Team Tom Dunn (missing from photo: Rick Neumeyer)

Team Mark MacDonald

Team Rob Gallant

Team Angus Kennedy (Angus is missing from the photo, and Dave Younker is replacing Hans Wicki who was listed on the roster)

Team Barb Duncan-Biagé (missing from photo: Gerald Dykerman)

Team Kimball Blanchard (Wayne Goodwin is missing from the photo)

The meal and presentations concluded with an address by Club President Allan Mason, who thanked the curlers, organizers, including Board members Lisa MacEachern and Darlene Howlett, the caterers, club staff, Board and volunteers. He highlighted the success of the Thursday evening “Learn to Curl” program, from which five members were entered in the bonspiel, and appear to be on their way to becoming regular members next season. Lisa also took the stage, and thanked everyone who helped make the event a big success. The curlers then headed downstairs to dance the night away to the great music.

Alan

Canada’s best age 60+ curlers are in Guelph Ontario for the Hy-Grade Steel Roofing Canadian Masters Curling Championships. PEI is represented by the Bill Hope men’s rink from Cornwall and Charlottetown, and the Sandy Hope women’s team from Cornwall, who both recently won their respective Maritime Masters titles.

(L-R): Bill Hope, Craig Mackie, David Murphy, Bill Doherty

(L-R): Sandy Hope, Shelley Ebbett, Debbie Rhodenhizer, Arleen Harris

Practices and the opening ceremonies go today, with round robin play starting Monday and wrapping up Saturday. Semi-finals go Saturday at 2 pm, with the gold and bronze medal games Sunday April 9 at 10 am (women’s) and 2 pm (men’s).

Well-known curler Al Hackner is among the contenders, representing Northern Ontario, and will be trying to become the first skip to win the men’s, senior’s and master’s titles.

Live scoring: http://ontcurl.com/scoreboard/#!/competitions/2338

Event Website: http://www.2017masterscurling.ca/

Note: Uppercase denotes Men’s games, Lowercase denotes Women’s games

We guarantee that the snow will be gone by Saturday June 17, which is the date for our 17th annual 9 hole best ball tourney at beautiful Countryview Golf Club, route 19 in Fairview. $40 entry fee includes golf, lunch and a chance to win great prizes (almost nobody goes home empty-handed). The “best ball” scramble format makes it great for golfers of all experience levels (or lack thereof!). We try to match the teams as evenly as possible. 

The signup sheet is now up at the curling club. Get your name on it as soon as possible!

Happy Birthday to longtime curler, stick curler, and curling sponsor Willie Nicholson, who turns 89 today. It must be the lobster!

The final draw of the Wednesday evening Ladder League concluded last night. Two rinks, skipped by Joe Callaghan and Rachel MacLean, finished with 4-2 records in the B pool. Callaghan beat MacLean in their game on February 15 (they were supposed to play again last week, but it was cancelled), and, by the “head to head” results, wins the final B pool round, and some Wendy’s gift certificates.

Going into the final evening of the “A” pool, three rinks, skipped by Angus Kennedy, Lauren Ferguson, and Kelly Watts, all had 4-2 records. The Kennedy rink were eliminated from contention as they were unable to field a team for the final draw, leaving two contenders for the MR Seafood gift certificates. The Ferguson rink won their very close game against the Greg Groves rink, but would need a Watts loss in order for them to take first place, as they lost to Watts in their round robin encounter. Watts was up one coming home with hammer and lying one in the four foot against the Greg Robertson rink. Robertson, with his last stone, made a fantastic draw around a guard to the four foot. which would tie the game if his rock ended up as shot. The two rocks were very close, and after looking at the stones several times, Watts concluded that she had shot rock, and threw her last one away. After a couple of measures, it was concluded that Watts did indeed have shot rock, and took the A pool prize for the final round.

Thanks to all the league curlers and to our sponsors (listed below) for all four rounds this season. See you in the fall!

Here are the winners of each pool for each round this season:

Round One, sponsored by Lowther’s Snow Removal

A Pool 

Joe Callaghan, Alan Mason, Jeff Hannam, Shannon Fenelon

B Pool

Angus Kennedy, Jean Sinclair, Wade Deaken, Ken Monaghan

Round Two

Griffin’s Auto Service A Pool

Greg Groves, Don Weeks, Cynthia Livingston, Marjorie Matthews

Cornwall Auto and Tire B Pool

Kelly Watts, Cathy Handren, Paula Ling, Krista Affleck

Round Three

Wally’s Pharmasave A Pool

Greg Groves, Don Weeks, Cynthia Livingston, Marjorie Matthews

Red Island Baked Potato B Pool 

Lauren Ferguson, Emma Coffin, Sierra Clyke,  Emily Sanderson,

Round Four

MR Seafood A Pool

Kelly Watts, Cathy Handren, Paula Ling, Krista Affleck

Wendy’s B Pool

Joe Callaghan, Alan Mason, Jeff Hannam, Shannon Fenelon

Here are the Closing Spiel Schedule and revised Rosters.

This is the final week for league curling. Our Wednesday night Ladder League, for the first time this season, was cancelled last week. This is a reminder that, as per our policy, we will be skipping that week, and going to the one scheduled for this week, which is as follows:

Week Seven March 29
6:30 pm (B pool)
Ice 1: Gord Peters vs Rachel MacLean
Ice 2: Joe Callaghan vs Dave Younker
Ice 3: Ray Biagé vs Rob Gallant

8:30 pm (A pool)
Ice 1: Angus Kennedy vs Donald DeWolfe
Ice 2: Kelly Watts vs Greg Robertson
Ice 3: Greg Groves vs Lauren Ferguson

This is official notice that the Cornwall Curling Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place the evening of Friday, May 26, 2017 at the curling club.

This is also official notice that the Board of Directors will also be forwarding a motion to be voted on at the AGM to amend the bylaws to change the term of directors from two years back to three. Therefore, the following Motion to amend the Club Bylaws will be on the agenda for the 2017 AGM:

Preamble:

As per the current bylaws the affairs of the Cornwall Curling Club are conducted by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of 12 club members.

In October 2014, at a special general meeting, a members vote was passed on a motion to amend the term of board members from three to two years effective for board members starting at the spring 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM).  The motion also allowed for the serving of two consecutive two year terms subject to election at the AGM.

The main arguments presented in favor of the motion were:

• The motion would allow more members to be involved as board members
• Members would be more willing to serve as board members because of the reduced term

The main arguments presented against the motion were:       

• Two-year terms would require more recruiting as six board members (1/2 of the board) opposed to four board members (1/3 of the board) on average would be retired each year.
• Board member contributions and decision effectiveness would suffer from the lack of experience resulting from the shorter term. The two consecutive term rule was implemented for this reason although it does conflict with the 2^nd argument in favor of the motion.

After discussions at several board meetings the current board (2016/2017) decided at the March 19, 2017 board meeting to put forward a motion at the 2017 AGM to revert to the previous bylaws of board members serving three-year terms applicable to Board members starting their term at the 2017 AGM.

The arguments in favor of the motion are:

• Recruiting 6 new members versus 4 new members has proven difficult despite the reduced term from three to two years.
• The trade off between diversity and inclusiveness from the two year term and effectiveness and continuity from the three year term favours the three year term.

The arguments against the motion are:

• The Board has no arguments against the motion

 The Motion:

To amend the current term of board members from two to three years.

If the motion is passed by 2/3 of the Adult Members at the 2017 AGM the following bylaws will be amended as indicated:

Current bylaws:

2.1.6    Each Director shall be elected for a term of two (2) years ending at the second annual meeting after the Directors election. [Rev. Oct2014]

2.1.8    No Director shall be eligible for election to more than two consecutive terms. [Rev. Oct2014]

2.1.11  Any Director may be removed before the expiration of the Director’s two-year term by an affirmative majority vote of the Directors present at any regular meeting of the Board or at a special meeting duly convened for that purpose.  Another person may be elected by simple majority vote to hold office for the unexpired portion of the two-year term of the Director so removed. [Rev. Oct 2014]

Amended to:

2.1.6    Each Director shall be elected for a term of three (3) years ending at the third annual meeting after the Directors election. [Rev. Oct2017]

2.1.8    No director shall be eligible for election to consecutive terms.[Rev. Oct2017]

2.1.11  Any Director may be removed before the expiration of the Director’s term by an affirmative majority vote of the Directors present at any regular meeting of the Board or at a special meeting duly convened for that purpose.  Another person may be elected by simple majority vote to hold office for the unexpired portion of the term of the Director so removed. [Rev. Oct 2017]

All current members are welcome to discuss this with current Board members in advance of the AGM if you have questions or require further clarification.

• The Board of Directors of the Cornwall Curling Club

Here are some photos from Saturday’s final day of the Wendy’s U16 Development League for the 2016-2017 season. Thanks to Marci White for the pics!

Click on an image to enlarge. Use arrows or swipe left/right to go ahead and back.

The Wendy’s U16 Junior Development League wrapped up this Saturday, March 18 2017, here at the Cornwall Curling Club.

Congratulations to all participants, coaches, parents/guardians and staff for making the 2^nd season another success. 

Congratulations to the top five teams who received gift certificates from Wendy’s Restaurant, and thanks to Wendy’s for the sponsorship.

The battle for first came down to a final game between the Lauren Ferguson and Mitchell Schut rinks.  The defending champion Schut rink needed a win and 5 of the 6 ends to pass the Ferguson rink, and had 4 ends won heading into the final end.  Lauren Ferguson was forced into a shot to the button with her final stone facing three Schut counters, which she made to win the end and claim first overall.

The Bailey O’Grady rink was firing on all cylinders in their final game to win six ends and capture 3^rd place overall.

Ferguson rink (missing from photo: Emma Coffin)

1^s Place – Lauren Ferguson, Emma Coffin, Sierra Clyke, Emily Sanderson (105 points)

Schut rink. Missing from photo: Michael MacEwen

2^nd Place – Mitchell Schut, Colin MacKenzie, Michael MacEwen, Liam Kelly (102 points)

O’Grady team

3^rd Place – Bailey O’Grady, Gillian Barbrick, Katelyn Burgoyne, Megan Perry (88 points)

4^th Place (Tie)   

Rachel MacLean rink

 – Rachel MacLean, Jordan Dunphy-Condon, Olivia Barbour, Avery Nicholson (87 points)

Katie Shaw rink

   – Katie Shaw, Izzy Tatlock, Grace Bulger, Lexie Murray  (87 points)

The league experienced good parity as can be seen by the above scores.  The 6^th and 7^th placed teams tied with 84 points and all teams experienced at least one win.

On behalf of the Board and Staff of the Cornwall Curling club have a wonderful summer and we hope to see you all again next year.

Good Curling!

Brent Irving

Teams competing in the Wendy’s Under 16 Saturday morning Junior Development League at the Cornwall Curling Club have had a great season, with a number of podium finishes against their peers  in the Under 13 and Under 16 championships and the Future Tankard/Scotties, and against older teams at the U18 as well, including:

Under 18 runners-up: Rachel MacLean and Mitchell Schut teams.
Under 16 winners: Mitchell Schut and Katie Shaw rinks
Under 16 runners-up: Alexis Burris and Chase MacMillan teams
Under 13 Winners: Clara Jack rink
Under 13 Runners-up: Cruz Pineau team

Future Tankard/Scotties: Cruz Pineau team went undefeated at 3-0, while Chase MacMillan, Rachel MacLean, Lauren Ferguson, and Alexis Burris rinks all finished tied for second, with 2-1 win-loss records.

League participants also won a number of awards, including:

U18 Sportsmanship award: Lexie Murray, from the Shaw rink .
U16 Coaching award: Carl Nicholson, coach of the MacLean rink
U16 Sportsmanship awards: Brayden Snow, from the Pineau rink, and Beth Walsh, from the Clara Jack team. 
U13 Sportsmanship Award: Ella Lenentine (spare in the Wendy’s Jr. Development league).

The Development League wraps up this Saturday, March 18, with the final draw, and the awards for the top teams. Here is the schedule for the last week:

The Clara Jack rink from the Cornwall Curling Club were trailing the undefeated Cruz Pineau team from the host Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Community Complex 5-2 after 4 ends of the six-end KFC Provincial Under 13 Open (any combination of boys/girls) Curling Championship this afternoon in Summerside, but scored a deuce in end five and stole another two points in the sixth end to win by a 6-5 score. Both teams won their semi-final games by 6-3 scores, with the Pineau rink defeating Grace Bulger from Charlottetown and Cornwall, and the Jack foursome beating Shyanne Gallant and her Silver Fox team. The Jack and Pineau teams have competed in a number of events this season, including the Future Scotties/Tankard, where Pineau went 3-0, the Under 16 championships, and the Saturday morning U16 developmental league in Cornwall.

Other members of the winning Jack team are third Beth Walsh, second Aurora Ulvstal, and lead Darrah MacLeod, with coaches Aleya Quilty and Hanny MacLeod. The runner-up Pineau rink includes third Brock Rochford, second Noah Gallant, and lead Brayden Snow, with coach Shelley MacFadyen.

Winning team photo (L-R): Aleya Quilty (coach), Clara Jack, Beth Walsh, Aurora Ulvstal, Darrah MacLeod.

Runner-up photo (L-R): Shelley MacFadyen (coach), Brayden Snow, Cruz Pineau, Noah Gallant. Missing from photo: Brock Rochford

The Sportsmanship award, as voted on by all the players, and the Coaching award, as voted on by the coaches were presented at the closing ceremonies, with Ella Lenentine, third on the Grace Bulger team from Charlottetown and Cornwall winning the Sportsmanship award, and John Martin, co-coach of the Ella Gavin rink from O’Leary’s Maple Leaf Curling Club winning the Coaching award.

Nine teams took part in the championship.