Business of Curling Symposium

We are happy to announce that two of our Board members will be attending the Business of Curling Symposium in Sudbury, sponsored in part by the CCA, the NOCA, and Curl Ontario. From May 9-11, Laurentian University in Sudbury will be the location of this event. The goal of this symposium is to bring together representataives from each curling facility in Northern Ontario for a weekend jammed with information and networking opportunities certain to help the development of the sport of curling in the North! We'll be eager to hear how it goes. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules, Dave Mitchell and Glen Austin, to attend the 3 day event.

CALCUTTA WINNINGS FROM MEN'S SPIEL

(Sorry to be late in posting this information)

The A event calcutta was split between Al Viel (Al Belec) and Al Harnden (Gary Graham) $300 each.
The B event calcutta went to Gary Graham (F. Lemieux) $400.
The C event went to John Hammond (R. Forest) $300.
The D event went to Gerry Edwards (D. McMillan) $200.

Information provided by Dave Mitchell, convenor of men's spiel.

OUR GUYS DO WELL IN COPPER CLIFF

The team skipped by Lloyd Bigras (of Sudbury Curlers), vice, Steph Lemieux, 2nd Glen Austin and lead, Mike Landry participated in the Copper Cliff Men's Spiel in mid-April and won the main event. They beat Dion Dumontel (of Sudbury Curlers) in the final game. (He used to curl for Tim Phillips) Teams such as Jackabo (from Sudbury)(they won the 2nd event) and other strong teams including Tim Phillips (they came in runner up in the third) with his new team competed in this event as well. There were a total of 48 teams. There was a men's and a women's division in this spiel. Congratulations to our boys!!!

WINNER OF GPS RAFFLE

The ticket was drawn after the final game of the bonspiel with the winner being Diane Forest (Elliot Lake), Nicholas' mom, Andre's spouse - two of our curlers!
Congratulations, Diane! The curling club would like to thank everyone who sold tickets throughout the season.

BONSPIEL WINNERS

Finalists were piped in by our very own Mary Mackenzie this afternoon for the 4:30pm game.

A Event: Team Al Belec and Team Gary Graham from Sault Ste. Marie. Both winners! After one of the team members took ill on the ice, it was mutually decided by the teams that they would "split" the win! CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU!

B Event:
1st prize:
François Lemieux team
2nd prize:
Gator Fortin team

C Event:
1st prize:
Nicholas Forest team
2nd prize:
John Hammond

D Event:
1st prize:
Dan McMillan team
2nd prize:
Terry Fryer

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE WINNERS. Thank you to Dave Mitchell for convening another fine bonspiel at BRCC. A special thanks to all the folks who travelled from out of town (Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Ottawa, Thessalon, Elliot Lake, New Jersey, Kalamazoo, Toronto).

50/50 WINNERS

Wow! The only word that describes the tremendous work done by Nancy West going around the club on the week-end selling 50/50 tickets. On Friday night, the take-home pot was $386.00 won by Nicholas Forest (of our club but from Elliot Lake) and on Saturday night, the jackpot was $734.00 won by Paul Rivard (Michel's brother) from ? . Thanks so much for those efforts, Nancy! That is a lot of work! No wonder you lost your voice!

WOMAN AND MAN-HOURS THIS WEEK-END

For those of you who like stats: this week-end, starting Thursday night through to Sunday, there have been over 200 woman/manhours clocked. Now, that includes bartenders, breakfast and dinner volunteers. Over & above that, we had folks selling 50/50 tickets which was many more hours. We had the ICE CREW - who put in 5 manhours each morning before the day of curling started (which represents 20 manhours), as well as a total of 21 manhours cleaning & pebbling between games. Then we were also paying our employee, Scott. If it had not been for our volunteers who really came forth (some non-curling spouses helped too!) - we would not have pulled this off so successfully. Thanks, to everyone who came out this week-end and really pitched in. It was all beneficial to our club! Can you imagine hiring people to do all that "we" did. What a team effort! Then there's the convenor of the men's spiel, Dave Mitchell. Here's a toast to you, Dave! We have lots of members in our club who go way above the call of duty and the Club really appreciates those people - especially those who worked the "late shifts"! And Ron Forest for the beautiful Friday evening lunch he organized & his home-made beans, and all the groceries he organized, purchased, picked up, delivered, etc. It's people like Ron who make these things happen so smoothly!

We will be posting a full report of the winners after Sunday's final games. Stay tuned folks... FINALS AT 4:30 PM.

WOMEN'S CLOSING BANQUET

Some 40 women attended our closing dinner on Tuesday, Mar. 25 with a great dinner served by Judy Simms & crew with a spectacular flambé dessert! Paulette Bruno treated us to some line dancing lessons after dinner at which many of the women participated. Thanks, Paulette!

The winners of this season were as follows: first place: Anita Moran's team of Denise Hutchings, Brenda McCoy, Paula Summers. In second place: Maymar Gemmell's team of Patty Lawrence, Lucie-Anne Trudeau, Debbie Mayer. Prizes were awarded to the winners as well as some door prizes were given out.

Thanks to part of the funds from the 50/50, we were able to afford this great party at a mere amount of $15 per ticket.

We owe a special thanks to Beth Laderoute, Debbie Rivard and Diana Baskerville for coming forward to organize this.
It was a very successful event

WHO WON MIXED EVENT OF MAR. 24?

Well, it was a TIE! Most of the teams showed up to play MONDAY VERSUS WEDNESDAY on Monday last. Everyone had a great time, by the looks of things. Thanks FRED CLEARY for organizing the mixed league, especially with the few "hiccups" and "trials". You did a good job. It was a fun party with lots of prizes. (This is the "reward" from the 50/50 fund raising throughout the year)

A. GEMMELL BOUND FOR MASTERS NATIONALS

The Masters competition is starting this coming week-end in Nanaimo, B.C. where Al Gemmell and his team are heading. You can follow their progress at:
http://www.nanaimocurlingclub.ca/
We wish Al and the boys Good Luck in the competition.