The first round of the Day League 2nd Half playoffs started today with Team G. Jamieson beating Team DeCoff. Team Worth beat Team Long. Team O’Regan beat Team O’Leary and finally in an extra end Team Luddington beat Team MacDonald. So on Thursday Mar. 30th Team G. Jamieson plays Team Worth, Team O’Regan plays Team Luddington both at 9:30am. At noon Team Long plays Team DeCoff and Team O’Leary plays Team MacDonald. This a a double knockout playoff setup. Good luck to all curlers.

Our Adult/Junior bonspiel was held today at the club with about 8 of our Juniors plus their coach Teagan and 7 parents that formed four teams. They played a 3 end game and then took a break for pictures and gifts were presetned to Ray Bates and coach Teagan Lombardo (Happy Birthday girl). After break they switched it up and played another 3 ends. Then it was time for pizza from Big G’s Pizza. The pizza was provided by AA Munroe, Cross Roads Electrical and Big G’s. Thanks go out to these three business’s for paying for the pizza’s. Also thanks to AA Munroe for supplying pizza certificates to our Juniors who were selling our 50/50 tickets. Today’s winners were Victoria Grady and Brooklyn Jordan. Thank you Gavin Dort for drawing out the winning tickets. So another good Junior season has come to an end. Thanks to everyone that helped with snacks, ice prep etc…. Look forward to next year. Here are some pictures from today.

A ‘Learn to Curl’ event will be held at the club on Saturday April 8th from 10am until 3pm. See poster and form below.

Poster for event

Form for event

Oops, I missed a member with my recognition of those members from the Chedabucto CC who assisted at last weekend’s Pinty’s Grand Slam — Elite 10. (Sorry for my oversight.)

Mary K. Connolly also volunteered her time to travel to Port Hawkesbury so as to time several of the Grand Slam curling matches. Thank you Mary for being a great representative of the Chedabucto Curling Club.

Ray

Mary Connolly timing her favourite player… Koe

Please reserve 7:00 PM on Monday, April 3, 2017, for one of the most important membership general meetings in the history of the Chedabucto Curling Club. (In my humble opinion.)

On March 10, 2010, (not a typo) the Club’s executive appointed an ad hoc committee to investigate whether or not we should move forward with a major renovation to the Club’s warm side of the glass. That investigative committee grew out of previous discussions amongst our Club’s members as to whether or not such a renovation was desired and/or doable.

Fast forward seven years, through several design considerations and the Club now has a proposed expansion/renovation design that, before it can move ahead, must have the approval of our general membership to permit it to proceed.  The most recent expansion/renovation design is now pinned to the club room’s wall by the ice 2 door below the rink’s heat unit. Thank you to all who have contributed their ideas to all the designs over the past years because those previous designs have evolved into the current design’s proposal.

On Monday, April 3, 2017, at 7:00 PM, the Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society’s (CAS) executive will be conducting a general meeting at our Reddys Hill location for all CAS members who are able to attend so as to enable the CAS membership to discuss and to approve, or not, that the CAS membership proceeds forward to seek the necessary funding for whatever expansion/renovation that is approved by the membership.

At the April 3 meeting the proposed expansion will be discussed as well as suggested upgrades being included within our discussion regarding our 53 +/_ year old facility.

I hope we will have an excellent turnout to our April 3 meeting.

Best regards,

Ray