Cornwall Curling Club

The Cornwall Curling Club’s annual “Try Curling” free, no obligation adult curling lessons are wrapping up tonight from 6:30-8:30 pm. Details at CornwallCurling.com/trycurling. 

If you haven’t been out yet (or have, and want to learn more!) tonight is your last chance to give the Olympic sport of curling a try.. We have both beginner and continuing (and stick) classes each night, so we can accommodate you, whether you are just beginning, or have some experience.

Club President,(and one of the instructors) Paul Neima briefs the curlers before they head out on the ice at Wednesday night’s Try Curling sessions

New members registration for both junior and adult members is happening at the same time, and our draws are filling up fast! Drop in this evening to tour our fine facilities, and check out our reasonably-priced membership options. We still have lots of availability for Sunday single-entry at 7pm, and, at last count, have room for another team on both Tuesday and Wednesday nights. We have 15 teams registered for Tuesday competitive, and 17 (will be one bye team each night, or two if we get 18) on Wednesday semi-competitive Ladder League. Single-entry weekday evening draws are almost full. There are only one or two teams registered for The Dominion league on Thursday at 8, so there may be changes there..

Don’t forget that Monday to Friday daytime curling, from 10 am to noon, is already underway. Besides membership options, drop-ins are welcome, at $10 a draw or $80 for a pack of 10 draw tickets. Teams are made up as players arrive each day, so you can show up any weekday and give it a try! Also don’t forget to contact the Club to pre-register for Sunday member practice times – 1-3:30 pm.

(Oct. 15) The Cornwall Curling Club is ready to rock for another season! Weekday daytime curling, from 10 to noon. is scheduled to start this morning (drops-ins are welcome, at $10 a draw or 10 draws for $80), and our evening Try Curling adult learn to curl sessions, and new members registration kicks off tonight, and runs from 6:30 – 8:30 Tuesday through Thursday. Those who want to give curling a try are invited to come any or all nights.

For more info, visit CornwallCurling.com/trycurling

Looking for a fun way to exercise in a sociable atmosphere? Try Curling at our open houses Oct. 15-17 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

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Curling is a sport that anyone, at almost any age, can play, and includes options for those with varying degrees of mobility impairment. It’s not expensive, in comparison with other sports that require much more equipment, officials, and high registration fees. Cornwall has team (any combination of male and/or female curlers) and individual entry (mixed male and female) draws, and daytime 2-person “stick” curling too.  The sport is great exercise, increasing flexibility, and providing cardio, with over 2 miles walked in a typical curling game, and lots of sweeping exercise, too!

Joining a curling club is also a great social activity – allowing you to get together regularly with your friends and coworkers, and make new friends and business contacts. After each game, the two teams involved sit down at the table together, and share a drink or two, with the first “sociable” round, by custom,  purchased by the winning team. Weekend bonspiels provide a fun atmosphere for the recreational curler, with great music, off-ice activities, and food thrown in, all for a very reasonable cost (check out our website’s Photo  section to see pictures from some of our legendary funspiels!). There are also cashspiels and provincial championships for those who want to take their game up a notch (who knows, you could even be in the Olympics some day!)

If you’d like more info on why curling rocks, check out these great videos from the Canadian Curling Association.

Give curling a try – you won’t regret it!

Two Person Stick Curling is relatively new sport which provides challenge and excitement for people of all ages on an equal and competitive basis, and in a social atmosphere. Stick Curling is also appropriate for people with physical disabilities such as knee, back, heart, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, ankle, or foot problems.  The rocks are delivered with a curling stick from a standing or sitting position (i.e. wheelchairs) enabling everyone to participate competitively.

As well as the two person sport, stick curlers are also welcome to curl with “hack delivery” curlers in all other (four person per team) draws at Cornwall. The Club is also fully wheelchair accessible right down to the ice level, and, although we currently do not have any members who play from wheelchairs, they are welcome, and we had wheelchair participants in the Canadian Championships.

Note that stick curlers are welcome in the Dominion and the Masters (age 60 or over) championships, but not in other provincial champioships that lead to a Canadian Curling Association national final, such as the Brier, the Seniors, or the Scotties.

2 person stick curling draw go at 12:30 pm on Monday,Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons. After the Wednesday afternoon Daytime Competitive league starts, the Wednesday morning draw will include sheets for both regular and stick curling. Additionally, the stick curlers are looking into curling on Friday afternoons rather than Thursdays.

The Cornwall Curling Club knows a thing or two about the sport of 2 person Stick Curling – we hosted the Canadian Championships back in April, with our host club teams beating teams from other provinces to capture both divisions, along with the consolation final, with Roddie MacLean and Paul Field winning the open division (and combination of men and women), Ruth Stavert and Eileen Blanchard taking the women’s, and Vern Chowan and Grant Leard capturing the consolation section.

In Stick Curling there are two curlers per team, who deliver their rocks with delivery sticks, with each team member delivering from opposite ends of the ice sheet. Sweeping is allowed only from the hog line to the back of the house at the playing end. Two curlers, one from each team, alternately deliver 6 stones each per end, while their teammate skips that end. The roles are then reversed, and the partners deliver the stones back. No stone may be removed from play until the fourth stone of each end. Games are six ends and take about an hour to play. For more information on Stick Curling, including complete rules of play, visit www.stickcurling.ca.

Our ice rental rates have been revised for 2013-2014 to take into account the HST. In order to help reduce the impact of the additional tax, the Club will be taking a 5.5% decrease in our revenue on rentals this year over last. The total rate after tax to the renter will increase slightly (2.6%), as we now have to charge HST at 14%, instead of GST at 5. Here are this season’s rates

One-sheet rental for two hours: $63 +HST = $71.82

Four sheets for two hours: $153+HST = $174.42

Four sheets for four hours: $248 +HST = $282.72

Four sheets for eight hours: $437+HST =  $498.18

Call us at 566-4427 to book, or for different sheet quantities, catering or additional hall options.

Our state-of-the-art ice plant, and Jet Ice water treatment system has been started for the season and the base coats of curling ice are currently being installed, with everything on schedule for daytime curling to start the morning of Oct. 15. Don’t forget that our annual free “Try Curling” adult “learn to curl” sessions, open house, and new members registration runs Oct. 15, 16, and 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, with evening curling getting underway on the 20th. Returning membership registration goes Oct. 9th, from 6:30-8:30 pm. Team-entry and single-entry member curling runs Sunday through Thursday evenings, along with a Commercial League on Monday evening.

Work has been completed on changes to the ice temperature alarm system, after some problems were encountered last season, and head icemaker Lance Lowther is confident that the technology will do its job this season! Our ice plant

File photo: Ice Plant

The Dominion Curling Club Championship is an annual event for men’s and women’s curling teams who have won their respective local club championships. Winning teams from the Club event will be “The Dominion Club Champions” and play down to produce a provincial/territory champion from all 10 provinces and 3 territories, plus a separate entry for Northern Ontario, who will then compete at the national level.

The 2014 Club playdowns for the Dominion Curling Club Championship will take place Feb. 7-9, with the provincials March 27-31 at the Silver Fox in Summerside, and the nationals November 24-29, 2014 at the Mayflower Curling Club in Halifax.

In order for your team to qualify for the Club playdowns, the Board of Directors had decided that you must play together in a regular league (e.g  the Tuesday evening Competitive League, the daytime competitive league, the Wednesday evening Ladder League), or in a new Thursday evening “The Dominion” draw, for a minimum of six weeks.

Here are the 2014 national eligibility criteria:

The Dominion Curling Club Championship Eligibility Requirements 2014

We trust that all participants will respect the intent of this championship which is for curling clubs to engage their members to participate in a club championship to declare a club champion to represent the curling club. The event is formulated for true club championship teams, not elite, past or present. The objective is to support the development of curling across Canada. We keep this objective in mind as we set our eligibility requirements and on-ice rules, including the CCA Rules of Curling for General Play. The Dominion reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to exclude any team that violates this spirit and intent as it pertains to the rules below.

1. The curling club, represented by the team, must be affiliated with its Provincial/Territorial curling association and all dues must be paid in full. The players of any club champion team must be members in good standing of the affiliated curling club. Any player can be a member of more than one affiliated curling club, but shall declare one “home club” for this competition.

2. Each club will declare a men’s team and women’s team of 4 players that have played together regularly in a sanctioned club league.  Alternatively, club members who curl regularly may participate in a designated The Dominion Curling Club Championship competition within their club. Players who play exclusively in a major/super league without playing in another sanctioned club league are ineligible to compete.

3. Each team will be allowed only 1 player who has played in a Juniors’, Men’s (Brier), Women’s (Scotties) or Seniors’ provincial/territory event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons, or participated in a Grand Slam event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons.* (2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14)

*Exception – Provinces/Territories with an open provincial/territory event will be permitted 1 player who has placed top 25% in a Juniors’, Men’s (Brier), Women’s (Scotties) or Seniors’ provincial/territory event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons, or participated in a Grand Slam event in the current or previous 4 curling seasons.

4. All games will be 8 ends with ties being decided by a full extra end.

5. Once a four person team has been declared a club champion, a maximum of 1 replacement/substitute player from the club can play lead. It is at the discretion of each curling club to determine their replacement/substitute rules throughout their process to declare their club champions.

6. Each team will be allowed a maximum of 2 players under the age of 20, as of December 31^st of the year prior to the championship (minimum age of 15 as of December 31^st). Provincial/Territorial curling associations may adopt a more restrictive age criteria if they choose.

7. The Dominion has the sole authority to grant exceptions to these rules in extraordinary circumstances. Before exercising this discretion, The Dominion will consult with the relevant Provincial/Territorial curling association, and will notify the Provincial/Territorial association in writing of any decisions regarding exceptions that are granted.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Are stick curlers eligible? Yes, stick curlers are eligible
• Are wheelchair curlers eligible? Yes, wheelchair curlers are eligible
• Can The Dominion Curling Club Provincial/Territorial Champions from previous years repeat their titles? Yes, repeat champions are eligible
• Which charity does The Dominion Curling Club Championship support? The official charity partner is Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) . Each year the SCI chapter in the Province/Territory that is host the national event benefits from the funds raised during the week of the event

We are happy to report that the ceiling in the Curling Club has now been lowered, and soundproofing has been added. We were there this evening, and barely noticed the Zumba class upstairs (would not have been the case previously!). It also appeared to us that the sound in the room is better – the lower acoustic tiles seem to be absorbing some of the sound reflections. As well, the ceiling lights are now switchable in two banks, so we can have every second lighting unit on if we don’t want full brightness.

Also, the swimming pool adjacent to the Club is currently in the process of being lengthened. To accommodate this, our fire exit door in the back of the ice house is being moved from the sheet 4 side to the sheet 1 side.

We are pleased to announce that Brenda MacMillan will once again be coordinating our junior curling program, with programs for Little Rocks, beginning at age 7, through to Juniors (under 21).

Cornwall has a very successful Junior program, with both provincial Under 21 championship teams from last year curling out of our Club, along with the U16 women’s champ, the U13 boys champ, and members of both Junior Mixed divisional winning teams.

The beginning curling program is divided into two sessions, before and after the Christmas break, and you can sign up for one or both. The program includes beginner instruction on Sundays, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. Those with more experience, in the Novice category, will go Sunday along with Thursday after school, with after-school team curling opportunities on weekdays. Junior curling starts on Thursday Oct. 24, and wraps up just before March Break. Contact the Club for more info on our junior programs.

Registration nights are the same as adult curling nights, Oct. 9, and Oct. 15-17, all beginning at 6:30 pm. There is also Junior league play at the Club on Oct. 19 and 26, from 8-noon (see separate message on this).

Junior rates are as follows:

Little Rockers – $45 for one session, $80 for both sessions
Novice (8-12) and Juniors (13-20) – $120
Junior Membership + one evening draw – $220

HST and a $15 Canadian Curling Association/Curl PEI fee will be added to these membership rates.

Are you looking for some more game time?  Why not try the PEI Junior Fall League?

Open to U21 Teams
– Men, Women, or Mixed – One Division –
(efforts will be made to have similar ages competing)

2 x 7-End Games each Saturday

Curling Dates:
Saturday, October 19, 2013 Cornwall 8 Teams
Saturday, October 26, 2013 Cornwall 8 Teams
Saturday, November 2, 2013 Montague 8 Teams
Saturday, November 9, 2013 Cornwall 8 Teams
Saturday, November 16, 2013 Charlottetown 10 Teams
Saturday, November 23, 2013 Cornwall 8 Teams
Saturday, November 30, 2013 Silver Fox 12 Teams
Saturday, December 7, 2013 Silver Fox 12 Teams

Daily Schedule
8:00am – 9:50am – Game #1
9:50am – 10:10am – Break
10:10am – 12noon – Game #2

Register early – limited # of teams accepted per date
PEI Teams register early…Open spots will be open to off-Island teams starting October 1

REGISTRATION FEE:
$40 per team per day and spot will be confirmed once payment is received

REGISTER & PAY ONLINE:
peicurling.com

MAIL REGISTRATION FEE TO:
Curl PEI
P.O. Box 302
Charlottetown PE C1A 7K7
(Cheque payable to Curl PEI)

CANCELLATION POLICY: Refunds will only be granted under special circumstances.

The Cornwall Curling Club is pleased to again be hosting the Maritime Masters Curling Championships, from March 14-17 (The 17th is an “overflow” day and may not be needed, depending on number of entries and schedule). The top age 60 and over winner and runner-up teams from the provincial Masters championships of the three Maritime Provinces are eligible to compete in this annual championship, which rotates between the three provinces. There is a men’s and a women’s championship. All games are eight ends.

Live results will be available.

The 2013 event was held at the Capital Winter Club.in Fredericton, NB.
The Womens  winner was the New Brunswick runner-up team from the host club, with skip Isabel Yeaman, third Helen MacDonald, second Joan Whitehead and lead Toni O’Brien.

The runner-up team was from this year’s hosts, the Cornwall Curling Club, skipped by Carol Sweetapple, with Danielle Girard at 3rd, second Carlene Peters and lead Bernie Field. They were the PEI Masters women’s runners-up.

Photo: Carol Sweetapple rink in action at last year’s provincials here at Cornwall

The men’s winner  was also the New Brunswick runner-up rink, also from the host Capital Winter Club, skipped by Dave Sullivan. The PEI Masters champions, the Mel Bernard rink from the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside were the men’s runners-up. Other members of the team were third Ted MacFadyen (substituting for Blair Jay), second Lou Nowlan, and lead Earle Proude.

Photo: 2013 Maritime Masters runners-up, the Mel Bernard rink, in action at the Cornwall Curling Club

The Cornwall Curling Club previously hosted the event in 2005.

Click for info on the history of the Maritime Masters.

The Cornwall Curling Club is busy getting ready for an exciting 2013/2014 season, with registration for returning members (including juniors) set for October 9th at the Club starting at 6:30, ice availability Oct. 14, and our free curling school/open house/new members registration Oct. 15-17 starting at 6:30. Daytime curling starts Oct. 15, with evening league play getting underway on Oct. 20.

Also planned for this season is an 8 pm Thursday night league to prepare for The Dominion Curling Club championship, and a series of Friday evenings (October 25, November 29, January 3 are currently planned) where you can to invite your friends/family members to join you on the ice, and try curling in a social atmosphere (drop in fee will apply for non-members).

We offer very reasonable rates, and a 10% discount off your membership when you recruit a new curler. Our rates and other details for the upcoming season, including information on our Junior program, will be finalized when our Board of Directors meet on Tuesday evening. Stay tuned for more details on the upcoming season over the next few days!

So you can reserve the dates on your calendar, here are our major bonspiel dates for the upcoming season:

Kenmac Energy Opening Spiel: November 1 & 2, 2013

Ladies Spiel: November 15 & 16, 2013

PEI Brewing Co. Spiel: January 17 & 18, 2014

Club The Dominion Curling Club Championship playdowns: February 7, 8 & 9, 2014

Countryview Closing Spiel: April 4 & 5, 2014

Drop-In Curling: October 25, November 29, January 3 (further dates determined by attendance)

We are hosting the Credit Unions of PEI Provincial Seniors Curling Championships from Feb. 20-24, the KFC Provincial Under 13 Curling Championships March 6-10, and the Maritime Masters Curling Championships from March 14-17.

Curl Atlantic‘s Whitecap Junior Curling Camp moves to the APM Centre in Cornwall PEI this year, from August 18-23. All 96 spots in the camp are filled, and campers will be staying at a University of Prince Edward Island residence. There are three categories of participants – Intermediate (age 12-14), Advanced (age 15-17), and High Performance (age 16-18 with 6+ years of competitive experience).

The APM Centre will be hosting the 2013 through 2015 camps, with an option for 2016 as well.

Previous attendees of the camp include Brett Gallant, 2009 Canadian Junior Champion and Whitecap Instructor, who says that the training he received at the camp helped him advance to the championship level: “No question – the training I received from the Whitecap Curling Camp propelled me to a Canadian Championship. I think every aspiring champion needs to experience this camp.”

The camp will also give the curlers much-needed experience curling on arena ice. Curlers in Atlantic Canada generally play in curling clubs only, and may be at a disadvantage when participating in larger events, including Canadian championships, usually held in arenas, so this camp will give them a chance to play in this type of venue.

A level I ice technicians course is being held in advance of the event, from August 14-18.

For more information, contact Helen Radford, Curl Atlantic at (902) 497-6655 or curlatlantic2001@gmail.com.

The weather couldn’t have been better for this year’s Club golf tournament at beautiful Countryview Golf Club with sunny skies, light winds, and temperatures in the mid-20’s. Approximately 60 golfers hit the links at 10 am in our first-ever “shotgun” start (although it sounded more like a horn to me!).

Here’s the Bill Hope rink foursome finishing play on the 9th hole. A “best ball” format was used for the other holes, but this one had special rules – only a 9 iron could be used until the green, with players alternating shots.

Meanwhile, on the clubhouse deck, Valerie Acorn was cooking up delicious burgers and hot dogs on the ‘cue, and Karen Currie from Countryview was cutting up the dessert.

After the meal, organizers Bob Fowler and Rick Doiron filled the table with great prizes, courtesy of the many event sponsors, including Countryview, KFC, Prebilt Steel, Traction Heavy Duty Parts, and Eastern Auto Supply, and started to hand out the prizes.

They didn’t have to go too far to hand out the first prize, as the men’s Longest Drive honours went to “Boston” Rick!

Gord Peters won the men’s Closest to the Pin honours:

Lisa Arsenault won the women’s Longest Drive, while no woman managed to hit the green and capture the Closest to the Pin prize, so a draw was made, and Sue Doiron (who actually put her shot in the water) was awarded the prize.

Photo: Sue Doiron

Remember the 9 iron 9th hole that we talked about earlier? Well, Rick’s team somehow managed to par it, and got a special prize:

Photo (L-R): Helen Smith, Tracy MacDonald, Sue Doiron, Rick Doiron

Only one prize remained, for the winning team. This year’s winners, with a score of 35, were the foursome of Carl Currie, Valerie Acorn, Carlene Peters, and Ankur Deshpande.

Photo: Ankur Deshpande, Valerie Acorn, Carl Currie, organizer Bob Fowler. Missing from photo: Carlene Peters

Following the awards to the winners, the rest of the prizes were drawn for, with very few people going home empty handed! Bob, who has been organizing the event for many years, thanked everybody for attending, and extended an invitation to anyone who would like to run it next year. He thanked the Curries and Countryview for again hosting the event, thanked the sponsors, and everyone who helped out, and hoped to see everyone back on the ice at the curling club in mid-October. Incoming curling club president Paul Neima thanked Bob and the organizers for another great event! Have a great summer everyone!

Sympathies are extended to long-time Club member Shirley Lank and former club member Ernie Diamond, on the passing of their brother, Russell Diamond.  Funeral announcement: http://www.belvederefh.com/obituaries/80179

Sympathies are extended to former Club president Norman Boswall and his wife, former Club member Anne, on the passing of Norman’s father, George. Norman and Anne now spend time in both Frenchfort and Ottawa, where Anne is working, and both are curling.

Funeral announcement: www.belvederefh.com/obituaries/80054

Congratulations to Cornwall junior members Katie Fullerton, Chloe McCloskey, and Alex Sutherland for winning all three of the $500 Joyce Myers Trust Fund scholarships awarded to PEI from Curl Atlantic this year!

Photo (4th from left) – Alex Sutherland

Photo – 2nd from left: Chloe McCloskey, 4th from left: Katie Fullerton

Here is the official announcement:

The trustees of the Joyce Myers Trust Fund, established under Curl Atlantic from profits from the 2003 Brier and the 2005 Roar of the Rings curling events in Atlantic Canada, has announced the 2013 recipients of its Student/Athlete Scholarships and Curling Club Capital Works and Curl Atlantic Member Association Program Initiatives grants.

The 2013 Scholarship recipients are:

Prince Edward Island ($500 each): Katie Fullerton, Chloe McCloskey, Alex Sutherland
Nova Scotia ($500 each): Katarina Hakansson, Alex Rafuse, Alex Trites
Newfoundland and Labrador ($500 each): Zackary Parsons, Colin Thomas, Stephen Trickett
New Brunswick ($500 each): Josh Barry, Jessica Daigle, Katelyn Kelly

The 2013 Capital Grant recipients will each receive $1500. The successful curling clubs are:
Woodstock Golf and Curling Club, NB
Maple Leaf Curling Club, PEI
Halifax Curling Club, NS
Gateway Curling Club, NL

The 2013 Program Initiative grant will be used to license the “Rocks and Rings” elementary school program throughout Atlantic Canada. “This joint initiative between Curl Atlantic and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) appears to fit well with the intent of junior curling development of the Joyce Myers Trust Fund and with Curl Atlantic”, said Roy Hodder, Chair of Curl Atlantic. “The Rocks and Rings program is a great way to introduce and bring curling to the school setting. The program has received much attention during the televising of the CCA’s championship events, and is hugely popular across the country and in great demand.”

Here are the draft minutes and attachments from last month’s Annual General Meeting, for approval at the 2014 AGM next May. Please let us know if you see anything incorrect or omitted.

Cornwall 2013 AGM Minutes Draft (PDF)

The ADL/Sport PEI Awards for curling were presented last night at the Silver Fox Curling & Yacht Club in Summerside following Curl PEI’s Annual General Meeting. The winners of the senior (adult) men’s and women’s Athlete of the Year awards were Provincial, Maritime, and Canadian Women’s Stick Curling champion Ruth Stavert from the Cornwall Curling Club. and Rod MacDonald, who competed in the Senior Men’s, Men’s, and Mixed events. MacDonald’s Senior team also won Team of the Year honours.

Photo (L-R) Claude LeBlanc, ADL Corporate Sales Manager, and Ruth Stavert

Ruth Stavert

Ruth Stavert is a Cornwall Curling Club stick curler, who, with her teammate Eileen Blanchard, won the 10 team women’s division at the Canadian 2-Person Stick Curling Championships at their home club in April. With teammate Gloria Clarke, she won the Provincial Women’s Stick Championship for the fourth time, the only winners in its four year history, and went on to the Maritime championships in Montague, winning it, too. With Blanchard, she won gold at the Vogue Optical Provincial 55+ Games women’s division, giving Stavert a complete sweep of Provincial, Maritime, and National women’s stick curling championship events.

In the summer months, Stavert participates in a number of sports that bear some similarity to stick curling, taking home bronze medals in the provincial 55+ Summer Games bocce and lawn bowling events last summer, and, with Clarke, winning a gold in the “washer toss” event.

Rod MacDonald

Rod MacDonald skipped two provincial championship teams and one runner-up this season, going undefeated to win the Credit Unions of PEI Senior Men’s title, winning the provincial Mixed championship, and coming second in the Tankard provincial men’s. And, for the first time, he got to compete in a national championship in his home town, finishing fourth after losing out in a tiebreaker at the Canadian Mixed at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. MacDonald and his Mixed team, which includes his wife, Karen, his sister Kathy O’Rourke, and her husband Mark, are looking forward to competing in the Canadian Mixed,  November 14-23 at the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa.

To-date, MacDonald has won three provincial Mixed titles, two Senior Men’s, and seven Tankards, winning his first three playing on a team skipped by his brother Peter in 1978,  1981, and 1996, and then skipping his own team to wins in 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010.

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.

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