Photo: Gordie Hermann

It was great to see one of our Club founders, Gordie Hermann, around the club today, looking great after major heart surgery (to repair five blockages!) in June.  Gordie tells me that he even played a couple of ends during the daytime curlers Christmas event.

Way back in 1979,  Gordie  was the Cornwall Village councillor in charge of special community projects, and helped bring forward the decision to build a curling rink. In the spring of 1980 the residents of the village of Cornwall gave their support for participation in the program. A committee and then a charter Board of Directors were subsequently formed, with Gordie, and others, including Rupert Sweetapple, Ernie Stavert, Roy Coffin, and Al MacCormac who are still active at the Club, along with a number of others, who have either passed on or are no longer involved. Since then, the village has become a town, and our clubhouse and the entire Cornwall Civic Centre were totally rebuilt last year.