THE
T-LINE
VICTORIA
CURLING CLUB NEWSLETTER Apr.
2008
PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
Another
curling season has come and gone as we look forward to spring and summer
activities. March is always a busy
month for the Victoria Curling Club with the end of the Ladies Daffodil Bonspiel
taking place and the Men’s Thunderbird Bonspiel in the middle of the month as
well as banquets for the various leagues. Both the Daffodil and Thunderbird
bonspiels were successful, thanks to Lorna Taylor and Dave Mueller and the large
support of volunteers organizing such events.
Well done to all of you.
I want to thank Bill Chester and his staff for a job well done.
A lot of work takes place behind the scene to ensure the success of these
bonspiels, from ensuring enough supplies for the bar to working with Janie in
the cafeteria for the banquets. We
sometimes take this extra effort for granted but I want to personally
acknowledge the fine work done by both the office staff, bar staff, ice staff
and food service staff in making the 2007 – 2008 curling season the success it
was.
Our gaming application for a capital project grant towards the purchase of a
new chiller was approved. We will be
receiving $19,904.00 (half the cost of a new chiller) as requested which will
allow us to proceed with the purchase of a new chiller in time for the upcoming
curling season in September 2008. The
General Manager will be determining the logistics of the purchase and
coordinating installation in time for next year’s curling season.
Our existing chiller is 18 years old and needed to be replaced in order
to ensure that we have do not have any problems with the ice for the upcoming
curling season.
George Bombezin and I attended a meeting with Saanich Council on April 1st
with
Keith Dagg
and his committee seeking support of Saanich Council for a grant towards
funding a Regional Curling Facility Feasibility Study.
To date, we have not been advised whether our grant application has been
approved or not.
There is much to do in preparation for the upcoming curling season and the role
of the Victoria Curling Club in the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
We will be reviewing what improvements can be made in the appearance of
our curling club in anticipation of the upcoming curling season.
In order to accommodate the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, curling
will be commencing a week earlier than normal in September.
The Board of Directors looks forward to seeing all of you at the Annual General
Meeting in early September 2008! Have
a great summer.
Bud
Harbidge - President
MANAGER’S MESSAGE
As
I change focus now from curling to our summer rentals program, I can see that
our club has remained club central as far as curling goes. The phone here rings
off the hook each week with questions like, what time do I play tonight, can I
register our team for the bonspiel, how can I get tickets to Bear Mountain, how
do I sign up for volunteering for the Scotties, is TSN covering the Men’s
Worlds this year, and best yet “Are my seats going to be close to the
bathrooms?” So it’s obvious that Anita does more than just collect dues!
Congratulations to all teams that progressed through to their Provincial
Championships this year. Well done! Our club President Bud has now been through
a full season at the helm. Has anybody seen Georges lately? Next season will be
starting a bit earlier than usual due to us hosting the Heart Stop Lounge and
the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. This will be the only extra event of the
2008/09 season so that regular curling will not be interrupted any further other
than our usual club bonspiels. To date we have 5 concerts in the books for the
summer, so give us a call or check out the website for listings. I would like to
thank all of our volunteers and staff for their hard work this year and I look
forward to next year’s events already. Finally, remember the Golf Tournament
May 4, AGM in early Sept. and LEAGUE RECRUITMENT ALL SUMMER LONG!
Bill
Chester
- General
Manager
Saturday
AM Curling League curls from 9 am to 11 am Saturday
mornings
The
Saturday
AM Curling League is an open, relatively unstructured mixed league for
men and women, playing any position, in any combination. Players range from
novice to experienced, with the objective of having fun on Saturday morning.
We are doing this by keeping the whole league as a casual place to curl
and enjoy the fellowship the game offers.
The AGM for the League was held on March 8th.
Elected 2008-09 Executive
President
Roger Davidson
477- 8515
Vice
president
Al Teasdale
479-3149
al.teasdale@shaw.ca
Treasurer
Marilyn Williams
384-0706
m.willi52@shaw.ca
Shorty
Bonspiel Chair
Susie Merchant
595-3776 szyq@telus.net
Shorty
Bonspiel Co-Chair
Tera Ziegler
727-0889 teraz@shaw.ca
Past
President
Brian Morin
479-0088
bwmorin@gmail.com
Final
Standing for the 2007-08 Season
Club
Champion & A Event Winners
B Event Winners
Randy
Anderson
Mike Neal
Sue
Cawley
Tony Smith
Karen
Lockheart
Roger Davidson
Doug
Bowell
Marilyn Neal
C
Event Winners
D Event Winners
Tom
Child
Eric Pettit
Marie
Hunt
Ron Grant
Shari
Termehr
Craig Sutherland
Ken
Downing
Ron Akehurst
Our
League plans to continue to provide
Curl
BC
clinics next year. As well, we are
scheduling two Skins games with $100 in each game up for grabs.
Come JOIN US NEXT YEAR we have plenty of spaces open in the 2008-09
season for both experienced and novice curlers.
Next
year we will be curling 18 dates and our season will wrap-up on January 31st.
This will allow all our curlers to be ready to Volunteer to support the 2009
Scotties.
For Information or registration Contact: Al
Teasdale @ al.teasdale@shaw.ca
or Phone 479-3149 or Roger
Davidson @ or Phone 477- 8515
TEACHER’S LEAGUE
The
Teachers League wind up playoff evening and banquet for 2008 was held on
March 7. It was the culmination of a very good year involving 14 teams and
a number of spares whose faces we are starting to appreciate as regulars. The
league winners for the curling season was the Colin Coughlin team with Joy
Coughlin, Carlene Thompson and Keith Malcolm. The playoff A division trophy went
to the Geoff Davis team with Sue McArthur, Tanner Davis and Sue Harrison.
Second place went to the MaryLynne Rimer team with Dennis Ramsey and John and
Sherrilyn Plantinga. Third place went to the Terry Weegar Team with Bonnie
Light, David Smith and Donna. The B division trophy went to the
Neil Campbell
rink with Aileen and Barry Conway and Keith Perley. Second place went to the
Arnold Vanklaveren rink with Bruce Bell, Janet Vanklaveren and
Kirby Rimer
.
Third Place
went to the Russ Cozens rink with
Heather Cozens
, Christie Pollard and David Reynolds.
The
evening was a wonderful time of great food, refreshments and prizes. A
special presentation was made to Doug Wright of the Cec Drummond Sportsmanship
trophy for all his years of hard work on the Executive and behind the scenes
dedication to our league.
A
few weeks prior to the end of the season a funspiel was held on a Saturday
afternoon and evening that involved almost one hundred curlers many of whom were
newcomers to the sport. The funspiel consisted of a number of ends of fun
curling where all rocks in the house counted. The evening then involved a
great banquet and a dance that went into the early hours. Our very own
David P. Smith and his band provided a great evening of music and our thanks go
out to him and the band for their lively contribution to the evening.
The
funspiel will in all likelyhood provide the league with some new members for the
2008-09 season. We are looking forward to a new look complete with our own name
tags being designed and ordered by Rick Higgens.
Next
year’s Executive was voted in at the wind up as follows:
President
-
Kirby Rimer
Treasurer
- Kathy Godby
Social
Director - Joy Coughlin
Drawmaster
- Geoff Davis
Spare
Captain -
Larry Travis
Trophies
and Prizes - Barb Campbell
Media
- John Plantinga
John
Plantinga
WED.
LADIES SELECT
Congratulations to the
Melissa Soligo
team of Val Turner, Bonnie Light and
Alice MacGillivray
who won the Round Robin and to the
Lorna Taylor
team of
Maxine Hanson
, Barb Naylor and Marlea McKinty who were runners up.
The
A Square
was captured by the
Jan Laidlaw
team of Lorraine Gardner, Marj Silver and Gertie Pick.
The
B Square
winners were
Carmel Marshall
, Lu Neilson, Jane Kelly and
Louise Reader
.
Our
2008-2009 curling season will be starting around mid September due the hosting
of the Scotties in 2009. Please
contact our Membership Chair, Eileen
Defoe at 470- 4115 to register as a team or as an individual.
Have a great summer, and please, do not forget the Sun Screen.
Maxine
Hanson
MEN’S LEAGUES
The Monday and Wednesday Men's League concluded the season on Wednesday, March
26th with our
"A" through "E" Event Championship Games, and wind up meal
and prizes. Congratulations to
"A" Event Winners our 2007-08 Men's Club Champions:
Mike
Wood
,
Steve Skillings
, Curtis Bentley, Paul Connelly and Sean Cromarty.
Look for them wearing their Men's Champions jackets this fall.
Congratulations to Jim York, Bill Frerichs, Rob Thornton and Tod Elbourne
the 2007-08 League Champions, winners of Round Robin play.
They will also be sporting new jackets this fall.
Congratulations also go out to our other winners:
"B" Event,
Kevin McDonald
team, "C" Event,
Dan Baker
team, "D" Event,
Rick Cohen
team and "E" Event,
Neil Dangerfield
team. This season the Consolation
Round was a Skins format, and turned out to be very interesting and enjoyable.
It took a few of us a game or two to catch on to Skins strategy.
Congratulations to our Skins winners, Monday Night the
Wayne Thompson
team and Wednesday Night the Andrew Giles team.
Once again special thanks to Al Wood for looking after the draw for both
nights all season, as well as the playoff draw and the Skins draw, which kept
all teams curling during the playoffs. Al
has kindly offered to look after the draw for next season.
Our wind up night was very successful with one of the larger turnouts in
a few years. Thanks to Janie and
crew for the great meal and looking after us all season.
I would also like to thank Andrew McMullen and Janessa Mikleus for
assisting me in selecting, carrying and displaying over 150 prizes, issuing meal
tickets, prize tickets and a great job selling 50-50 tickets.
Also thanks to Graham Wilson for helping with the 50-50.
Dave Mueller did a great job as MC for the evening, thanks Dave.
Thanks
to Anita for assisting all year and keeping me on track.
Thank you to Bill for all the support and great managing of our club.
I can't end without also thanking the ice crew for keeping the ice
conditions in good shape all year. I
know a lot of thanks going on, but really, we are so fortunate to have the best
curling club staff. One last
reminder please remember to register your
returning team with the office by August 31st to ensure your team has
secured a spot for next season, registration forms are located on the door to
the general office. After September
1st registration will be open on a first come basis.
We expect a waiting list for both Monday and Wednesday nights next
season, so don't be disappointed register early.
Thank you all for a great curling season, have a safe and enjoyable
summer.
Don
McMullen
- Men's League Rep.
WED.
COMMERCIAL
A
very successful season, with a full complement of 16 teams, concluded on March
26th with final games, AGM, prizes, & a delicious banquet attended by 64
individuals. The year's results were as follows:
OVERALL
ROUND ROBIN & LEAGUE TROPHY
Winners:
Ron Rauch,
Debby Bottomley
,
King Lee
, Sherry Carter
Runners-Up:
Issy Horowitz
,
Sue Ovans
, Don Weeden, Linda Weeden
"A"
GROUP
Winners:
Brian Morin
, Carole Rusnak, Denis Lieutard, Elma Wilde
Runners-Up:
Ron Rauch,
Debby Bottomley
,
King Lee
, Sherry Carter
"B"
GROUP
Winners:
Ron Mackenzie, Marilyn Mackenzie, Eric Ballinger, Henriette Ballinger
Runners-Up:
Evan Oakley, Marg Richmond, Rod
Richmond
,
Yvonne Oakley
Have
a great summer! I look forward to seeing you back next fall.
Issy Horowitz
SPORTS
TRADERS SELECT
Steve
Streifel won the Double Round Robin in this year’s version of the Select
League. Special thanks to Sports
Traders and Team Sponsors. Twelve
teams were competing for the top prize of $1200.00
Mike
Wood
HIGH
SCHOOL
The
team from Stelly’s High School won the Round Robin featuring 11 young teams.
Thanks to all coaches and the Evening Optimist of Victoria for sponsoring
this league. The Evening Optimist
provided catering, trophies and bursary applications.
Mostly, thanks to all teams for making the league a lot of fun.
Instructor
Mike
Wood
SENIOR
MEN
Well,
the 2007-2008 curling season has come to a close. The Club champions this year
were the team of Tom Melynk, Don Kennedy, Norm Preston and Jim Kinghorn.
Congratulations to team Melynk.
Runner up: Dave Jones, Les Copley,
Richard Fowler
and Bill Finlay
The winners of the final square were Team Melynk who went on to win the club
championship. Congratulations to Tom and his team.
Runner up: Ron Pajunen,
Dave Sinclair
,
Ray Howard
and
Mike
Oswell.
Next year,
Victoria
will be hosting the Scott Tournament of Hearts at the Save-on- Foods Memorial
Centre and curling at VCC will be interrupted for a two week period. In order to
get the same number of curling dates (42-44), it is being proposed to extend the
season by two weeks, probably starting the season earlier by one week in
September and extending it by one week into April. This has not been
confirmed. We will keep you informed.
The Senior Mens’ League Annual General
Meeting will be held on Tuesday April
8 at 10:00 followed by a luncheon.
REMINDER:
The
annual Golf Tournament will be held at Uplands Golf Club on Wednesday, May 28. 9
holes plus dinner $65.00. Dinner only $25.00
Tee
times between 2:00 and 3:30 pm. You will be called.
Call
Dave Jones to register 477-8009
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Senior Mens’ League, I wish you all
a very safe and relaxing summer.
Doug Grant
EVENING
LADIES
The
Ladies Evening League had another successful curling season.
Our numbers increased on Tuesday, but dropped somewhat on Thursday.
Let’s work on increasing our member numbers next year.
Several “new” teams were welcomed this past season and we do hope
they will return next year!! The
Daffodil Bonspiel “Vegas” theme was a great success with 30 teams
participating. Congratulations to
our own league curlers who won the “B”, “C”, and “D” Events—
Nancy Campbell
,
Pauline Nantes
, and
Cindy Marven
.
The
annual league windup was held Tuesday April 1st.
Thanks to Lori Gray and her Social Committee.
Round Robin Winners of the TUESDAY League a “three way tie” between
teams
Cindy Marven
,
Nancy Campbell
and
Marilynne Convey
and Round Robin winners THURSDAY --
Pauline Nantes
were acknowledged with a gift. Club
vests were awarded to the League winners. TUESDAY—
Cindy Marven
,
Kim Danderfer
,
Joyce Oslund
and
Jan Laidlaw
. THURSDAY—
Pauline Nantes
, Denise Sparrow,
Gillyan Haden
, and Lacey Sheardown. “A”
Square Winners—TUESDAY—
Cindy Marven
team THURSDAY—
Pauline Nantes
team “B” Square
Winners—TUESDAY—Sue Morriss team THURSDAY—
Jennifer Blagborne
team. Sportsmanship Award was
presented to the Kathy MacKenzie team by Molly Beddington.
Thanks to all our league sponsors for their continued support.
A special thanks to Lu Neilson for her long and continued support in
sponsoring the “A” Event on Thursday. This
will be Lu’s last year of
sponsorship. Elections were held:
Marilyn Sutton—President
Nancy Duncan
1st Vice President 2nd
Vice President
Eylin Gilbart
. Please REMEMBER
TO ATTEND THE AGM in
September.
Important issues pertaining to the 2008-09 curling season will be
addressed and all ladies are requested to attend if possible!!
A special thank you to the
Kathryn Frankfurter
rink for chairing the Daffodil Bonspiel
in
March 2009. We really appreciate the
support of volunteers as this keeps our Ladies
League and “curling club” going!! Hats
off to them!!
All curlers please register ASAP.
Registration for all returning teams must be submitted to the office by
September 2, 2008. Enjoy
your summer—see you in September. Thanks
so much to the great executive and committees who worked with me over the past
two years. I wish Marilyn and her
new executive great success.
Lorna Taylor
LADIES
DAFFODIL BONSPIEL
A successful “Vegas” Daffodil
Bonspiel was thoroughly enjoyed by the participating 30 teams.
Though down in numbers the “fun and fellowship” was noted.
Thanks so much to our event sponsors, particularly our 2 new sponsors who
came forward to support us this year—Christie’s
Carriage House Pub and Irwin Industries.
Special thanks to
Eileen DeFoe
for the excellent job she did in organizing our “Casino” night Friday
evening. Also a great thank you to
Nancy Duncan
for the fine job on the “raffle”. It
was a great success and enjoyed by all who participated.
Also thanks to Janie and her kitchen staff for the great banquet and to
Anita and Bill in the office, the bar staff and to the “ice” crew.
Also, many thanks to the executive who came forward to form bonspiel
Committees. Congratulations to the
Event winners:
“A” Event—Joanne Phillips
“B” Event—
Nancy Campbell
“C” Event—
Pauline Nantes
“D” Event—
Cindy Marven
Enjoy your summer!!
Lorna Taylor, Chairperson
SPORTSMAN
Saturday March 29th brought an
end to Sportsman League curling for the 2007/2008 season with the league wrap-up
banquet scheduled for Saturday April 5th. The league round
robin champ this year was the
Barry Hilton
rink. This year’s playoff format saw the
Greg Corbett
rink win the (A) event, Dennis Omelchenko the (B) event, and Terry Walker the
(C) event. The Sportsman League “Challenge” carried out between the
Victoria
and Esquimalt curling clubs saw
Esquimalt
take the cup for the second year in a row.
The Sportsman league said goodbye in 2008
to two of its long-time members Gordy Schoor and Ron Smith who were taken from
us much too young in life. While not active curlers with the league
presently, both members played important roles in the league in terms of
organizing the charitable work the league carried out and as part of the league
executive. The league wrap-up banquet takes place in April this year and thanks
go to league members
Mark Mackereth
and
Greg Corbett
for their efforts in putting a great meal together along with the best prize
table of any club league. This event caps off a very enjoyable and fun
year for the league membership as this curling season saw the league grow by two
teams along with an influx of several new players. For next season,
curling begins in September and we hope to add two more teams to our league to
bring membership to a full 16 teams with 8 active sheets. For more
information regarding the CFAX Sportsman League and curling for next season
please contact League President
Dan Holland
@ 744-4465, or the league recruitment group of Al Hood @ 474-7872,
and/or Jerry Froese @ 383-0788.
FRIDAY
NIGHT MIXED
Well the 2008 curling season has come to a close.
And not only did we have a great season, we had a lot of fun at the end
of year wrap-up. Thanks to Madeline
Aitchison,
Debby Bottomley
,
Todd Smith
,
Laura Hatt
, and
Pauline Critchley
for all the work they did this year to make it such a great year.
The curling was great, the food was great, and the prizes were great.
Basically, our league is great. Now
we have the entire summer to think about how we are going to outdo ourselves
next year! Congratulations to our
league winners!
“A EVENT”: Sponsored by Irwin Industries,
The Morneau Rink: Rob Morneau, Donna Chester, Bill Chester, Maureen
Morneau
“B
EVENT”: Sponsored by S & R Insulation,
The Bilodeau Rink: Ron Bilodeau, Pat Gereluk, Joe Gereluk,
Lorraine
Bilodeau, StuThomson
“C
EVENT”: Sponsored by Joseph Gereluk Barrister & Solicitor,
The Marshall Rink: Dave
Mueller,
Rhonda Marshall
,
Tod Marshall
, Caroline Mueller
Once again, thanks to everyone for making the Friday Night Curling League so
much fun. I look forward to seeing
you all back next year. Be sure to
fill in your registration forms available at the curling club office.
I’ll talk to you all again in August when we are getting ready for the
new season. Take care and have a
great summer.
Best Regards,
Darren
McKinty
SPORTS
TRADERS
March
16th was the season's final night of curling which ended with another
yummy banquet thanks to Janie Profitt & her crew. This
year's playoff champions were the Keith Kresse team, who enjoyed claiming
back their title from the Lois Richmond team who had stole
it from them last year. The Lois Richmond team had to settle as A event
runner ups, but enjoyed claiming back their title as round robin champions from none
other than the Keith Kresse team. The Gerry Auger team, being the
only Auger team to win a trophy, was thrilled to win the B event and the
Doug Schiedel team was excited to finish up as the B event runner ups.
Special thanks to Al and Karen Mellett for all of the hard work that went
into our windup party & for being willing to take it on again next year for
the 11th time in a row. They once again put together a great prize
table for the league & many great 50/50 prizes. Curling will
most likely be starting up again on September 28th. When the time
draws near, check out the Sports Trader's website for details: www.sportstraders.ca.
Hope to see you all back again next year.
Cathy O'Brien, Reporter
The
planning stage for the
Victoria
’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts is well underway and with just more than 300
days to go, this off-season will be filled with hearts and minds continuing to
prepare for the event that will overtake our city in February 2009.
I am so pleased with the efforts of all the Vice Chairs and their
respective Directors: their commitment and dedication towards the success of
this event is truly inspiring and I can’t possible thank them enough.
The
call for volunteers commenced on February 20th and the target of 500
is fast approaching. Any individuals who are keen to get involved are asked to
apply online at: www.seasonofchampions.ca
and follow the link to the
Victoria
’09 Bound for Glory website.
Full Event Passes are now on sale and they are a hot commodity. I was cutting
my lawn last weekend when I was interrupted by a very nice couple from
Hanover
,
Ontario
who were making their plans to escape the eastern deep freeze next year. I
invited them to participate in
Victoria
’s Annual Flower Count during our ‘09 event. When we hung up they were
heading out to snow blow – again, and I finished mowing the lawn.
Tickets are available at www.selectyourtickets.com
or by calling 220-7777. The folks from
Hanover
were planning on the Silver Section!
Team Jones of Manitoba, now Team
Canada
, is our one team to date and we will be hosting her World Championship Team in
the fall. Skip Jennifer Jones, third Cathy Overton-Clapham, second Jill Officer
and lead Dawn Askin will be in
Victoria
on a date yet to be determined to help promote the 2009 Scotties and provide
some on-ice instruction for some lucky junior curlers!
I want to conclude by thanking the Victoria Curling Club and its outstanding
membership. The HeartStop Lounge
will be THE place to be during the event. Filled with passionate Canadian
curling fans from coast to coast, the HeartStop Lounge will offer the
opportunity for fans to meet, renew old friendships, get close to the
competitors, and be thoroughly entertained by the professional acts that will be
staged throughout the week. Without
the Victoria Curling Club, the 2009 Scotties would be nowhere near the event we
can now plan for it to be!
Bound for Glory in
Victoria
,
Chris Atchison
,
Chair
2009
Scotties Tournament of Hearts
JUNIORS
The
fun is over for another season. We had a wonderful time of it though – with
our Halloween party, Christmas festivities, five area bonspiels and our Curling
in the Dark windup event. We also saw great successes this past season: Joel
Cave’s team of Junior Men won a berth to the Provincial Playdowns in Port
Alberni, the Josh Hozack Juvenile Men’s’ team earned a berth to the BC
Winter Games and brought home silver medals, two of our curlers, Ian Hardy and
Brandi Tinkler
, skipped teams in
Mike
Wood
’s High School League for first (Ian’s team from Stelly’s) and third
(Brandi’s team from Reynolds) place finishes. The Hozack team also earned one
of the four available spots to compete at the Bear Mountain Curling Classic in
the Junior Division.
Within
the program, we saw our athletes earning their Skill Awards badges: Reanne and
Alycia Streifel, Brooke Capron, Bailey Tinkler, Melissa Mackereth, Nolan Reid,
Emily Dagg and Alex Horvath all earned Red level badges and James Hollinger,
Brandi Tinkler
, Carley Sandwith, Nolan Reid and Alex Horvath earned Blue level badges.
Congratulations kids!!
High
fives to our fantastic volunteer coaches and thanks to the many who participated
in the coaching programs offered by
Curl
BC
, helping to make our Junior Program the best coached in the district! Ann
Thompson, Bonnie Davies, Cathryn O’Brien,
Ed Gerhardt
, Heather Sandwith, Linda Finlayson, Len Stewart, Myrna Beggs, Rich Thierbach,
Steve Beggs, and Steve Streifel – thank you so much. Thanks also to
Joel
Cave
, Tyler O’Brien and Corey Chester, who helped out on many occasions.
The curlers in our program benefit from the Island Farms UPC labels donated –
thanks to all who have taken the time to cut them out and drop them off at the
curling club.
The season has gone by so quickly, I can’t believe it’s over! Nothing to do
but start planning for a new beginning in September, and we are looking forward
to another great year.
Enjoy
a safe summer and see you in September.
Ellie
Gerhardt, Director
MEN’S
THUNDERBIRD SPIEL
The 56th annual Thunderbird Men's Bonspiel was
successfully contended by a rambunctious 58 teams this year.
Congratulations go out to the Jason Montgomery rink, who took home four iPods
for their A event troubles. Other event winners included the
Gregg Danderfer
, Glen Allen, Jason Fletcher,
Rick Cohen
, and
Mike
Wood
rinks. Huge "thanks!" go out to our volunteer committee who did
another bang-up job, the staff of the Victoria Curling Club for all of their
hard work, and to all of the sponsors (we couldn't do what we do without
you). Event/key sponsors included: Irvin Industries, Admirals Walk
Pet Clinic, McCall Bros. Funeral Directors, New York Fries, Sports Traders,
Sierra Systems, Olympic View Golf Club, and Joe Gereluk (please support them).
Welcome
to the 
