On behalf of the Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society (CAS) my congratulations and thank you goes to Jennifer Brow, Porters Lake, for being the February 8 winner of CAS’s 50/50 draw. Jennifer bought her winning ticket — worth $164.00 — from a club member. Jennifer’s ticket was randomly drawn by Kiera Newell, (see attached photo) a member of our Junior Curling Program.
My thanks also goes to AA Munro Insurance, Antigonish, for sponsoring the pizza incentives to the junior program curlers for their efforts to sell 50/50 tickets on behalf of the Chedabucto Curling Club.
Our next 50/50 draw will be Sunday, February 23, at the Skins Bonspiel’s awards’ conclusion. Thank you to all who bought our 50/50 tickets — and to those involved in their selling. Tickets can be acquired by contacting Club members or picked up at the Club’s Boylston location.
Here are the results from the MacLeod Lorway Ladies Valentines FUNspiel 2020. This year, despite only having 6 teams competing, it was a very competitive bonspiel. The club had to deal with bad weather Friday night and a power outage the next day but all games were played. The top 4 teams were all 2-1. Finishing 1st with 98pts was the Junior Girls team, Team Grady. They even had their coach, Alicia Mills, in playing one game. In 2nd place was Team Jamieson tied with Team Dobson at 87pts. The 1st tiebreaker was games played vs each other with Team Jamieson beating Team Dobson. I must apologize to both teams since at the ceremony I had Team Dobson as the 2nd place team based on the ‘draw to the button’ which is our 2nd tiebreak rule. So in 3rd place was Team Dobson. One point behind both teams was Team MacDonald in 4th place. 5th place went to Team Connolly and 6th place to Team Hadley.
During the weekend we had three other prizes up for grabs. One was for ‘Closest to the pin’ won by Valda George, 2″ from the pin. We had a prize for ‘Hogged Line’ where a rock does not make it across the hog line. Winner of that was newcomer Julie Fox. Finally we had a prize for ‘Best Dressed Team’ where all curlers and spectators voted on the winner. Team Dobson ended up winning it by 3 votes over Team Grady. We also held our 3rd 50/50 prize draw with Junior Keira Newell drawing the winning ticket from the bucket held by Prez Ray Bates. The winner was Jennifer Brow with a total of $164.00.
I would like to thank MacLeod Lorway Insurance, who was our major sponsor of this annual event. Always a pleasure to have them on board. Other sponsors who helped out at the prize table were MP Mike Kelloway, who will be taking the winning team out for dinner at the DesBarres manor at some point during the summer, MLA Lloyd Hines who donated $$ for a prize, Guysborough PharmaChoice (Alison Myers), RBC (Lois MacDonald), Cutting Loose Hair Design & Esthetics (Peter Lombardo), Mary K Cosmetics (Mary E.A. Connolly), and Cove Quilting (Alison Billard). Big thanks also go out to all who helped out, in the bar (Maurice/Phil), kitchen (Gary, George L., George M., Phil, Maurice), on ice prep (George L., Ryan, Phil, Paul, George N.), and who donated food to the event (Maurice, George L., Bruce, Gary, Holly, Donna). It is always a pleasure doing this event. Up next is the Skins Cash Spiel on Feb 21-23. Here are some photos by Phil.
1st Place Team with Jenna Dort, Hanna Manthorne, Vanessa Dort, Victoria Grady and coach Alicia Mills.
2nd Place was Team Jamieson with Junior Brooklyn Jordan, Evelyne Jamieson, Betty Bates, and Ruth Gunn.
3rd Place was Team Dobson with Valda George, Maureen Landry, Paula Dobson, and Patricia Lynn Currie.
4th Place was Team MacDonald with Lois MacDonald, Alison Billard, Holly Nahrebecky, and Mary K. Connolly.
5th place was Team Connolly with Julie Fox, Mary E. A. Connolly, Nancy O’Regan, and Marion Brow
6th Place was Team Hadley with Kay Chisholm and Margaret Hadley. Missing from photo was Sharmaine Shea and Marg Halloran.
50/50 Draw with Ray Bates and Junior Keira Newell. Winner was Jennifer Brow with a total of $164.00
Our new ice scraper has arrived. It was unloaded tonight by George, Maurice and Phil. As of now it is in the warm area being charged. We hope to have it on the ice and ready for this weekend’s bonspiel.
If you do not want to receive the Chedabucto Curling Club’s 50/50
winnings, what I have been doing is suggesting the ticket buyers put a
non-profit’s name on the tickets. Thus far we have tickets for this
Saturday’s draw designated to GOALS and the school’s breakfast program.
A three-ticket book is only the tiny sum of $5.00 and its winnings would
definitely assist the non-profit of your choice should you prefer to not
receive the winning amount. The non-profit benefits from your support
due to the 50% of purchases as does the Chedabucto Curling Club.
If you want to send me the money for this Saturday’s draw or for our
next four draws, I will include you with the other prepaid books and
enter the books as per your directions on your behalf. Tickets are
available via me, other members or at the Chedabucto CC.
Thank you,
Ray, PO Box 44, Guysborough, NS B0H 1N0.
