Red Dominates!!!
Well another closing spiel has wrapped up, the Leary’s Independent Grocer Red vs. Blue Spiel has come to an end with a victory for the Red team! Using the Skins format again this year, the Friday night draw ended with the Red Team ahead by only a small margin but after a rather paralyzing start to Saturday for the Blue Team it was just too much to make the comeback they needed! The Red Team overtook the Blue team winning by a landslide! The Red team walked away with $240,000 and that left the Blue team with $151,000.
Throughout the weekend there were ways to earn bonus points. Friday night trivia was had and the Barb Duncan-Biagé team won, winning an extra $2000 for their Red Team. Saturday morning a game of Left Right Centre was played with again the Red Team finishing strong and picking up another $1000 points! Back by popular demand there was a Baby Food Tasting Contest and volunteers from each color sampled baby food! The Blue Team pulled out the win in this challenge and made $3000 and the Red finished with $2000. The keen eye of a few of the Blue Team members earned them an extra $4000 point! They cleaned up our Club by capturing the wanted and bringing them in for their just rewards. After lunch was a Draw to the Button 50/50 with the winner David Younker taking home $45.00 and bragging rights. The Reverse draw for a membership was held again this year and Daniel Girard was the big winner, second and third place were Bob Fowler and Stephanie O’Keefe who each received a round of golf at Crowbush. Independent Grocer gift cards were given out to our best-dressed winners Peter Murdoch from the Blue Team and Barb Duncan=Biagé of the Red Team.
There was no shortage of food on the weekend Friday night curlers were treated to mussels from MR Seafood and some finger foods. Saturday some of our own club members provided muffins, sweet loaves and biscuits for breakfast and lunch was barbecued style burgers, dogs and sausages.After the last of the stones were thrown for the year the members went upstairs to the Lions Hall for a lovely roast beef supper prepared by Alan Carmichael! After the meal Club President Alan Mason took the floor and thanked organizers, members, club staff, board members, and all our many volunteers! Saying that this had been a great season, and invited everyone to attend the AGM and Golf Tournament. The awards ceremony started then with Independent Grocer gift cards being passed out to first runner up Blue Team with the highest amount of skins being won by the Peter Murdoch Team. Then on to the Spiel champs, taking the first place for Team Red was the Danny Kneabone team they were given pick of the table, then all other teams were called up in order of skins they had won to choose from the prise table. When the last of the prizes were handed out members then went downstairs to hit the dance floor with entertainment from Tim MacPherson of Vintage.
Darlene and I would like to extend a special thank you to Ray Biage for doing up the Teams & Draws for this event I know Draw Master is not an easy Job! Thanks Ray! As always there are many thanks to pass along and in fear of forgetting someone we would like to just thank all those who helped out even if you didn’t think what you did was a big job it was to us as organizers. All the little things really add up to something Big! So a big Thank you to all our Volunteers!!! Lastly to our first time sponsor Leary’s Independent Grocer it’s great to have your support thanks so much!!!
We hope everyone enjoys their summer off and we look forward to doing it all over again next year!
- Organizers Lisa MacEachern & Darlene Howlett