Congratulations to Kenny O’Leary, Queensport , for being the February 7 winner of the Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society’s (CAS) 50/50 draw.  Kenny bought his winning ticket — worth $250.00 — at the curling rink.  (Thank you to all who bought 50/50 tickets — and to those involved in their selling.)

If you wish to purchase or to sell tickets: contact a club member, come to the curling rink, or buy tickets at Cutting Loose Hair Design & Tanning, Guysborough Pharmacy, Cook’s Gas Bar & Robin’s, Hart’s Grocery Store,  Chedabucto Home Hardware, Guysborough Discount & Gifts, or at Days Gone By Bakery & Restaurant. CAS sincerely thanks the before-mentioned businesses for their continued support. (The businesses’ sold-tickets are collected on Saturdays.)

CAS draws its winning 50/50 ticket on Saturdays but — with the intention to have richer prizes — will occasionally be doing the selection after some weeks of selling. Our next 50/50 draw is tentatively planned for February 21st. You can refer to the curling rink’s website for updates on draws and the names of winners. http://www.chedabuctocc.ca/5050-draw

Best regards

Ray

And the winner is… Kenny O’Leary $250.

Our ExxonMobil/Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Skins Cash Bonspiel is now over and the results are in from both finals. In the ‘A’ final Team Dobson (Paula Dobson, Shauna Brymer, Iris Stanley, and Krista MacEachren) beat out Team Deagle (Nick Deagle, Mike Silver, Derek Druhan, and Jim Marlowe) for the big money. Their winnings totalled $605. Team Deagle went home with $100. In the ‘B’ final it was Team Mattie (Donalda Mattie, Kerstin Hanke, Paul Connolly, and Mary Connolly) beating out Team O’Leary (Kenny O’Leary, Kevin MacDonald, Joe Phalen, and Chris West). Team Mattie went home with $525 and Team O’Leary took home $180. We, as a club, wish to thank our major sponsors ExxonMobil and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline for their generous contribution of cash to the curling finals and also their help with door prizes. A big thank you to all who helped out getting this spiel up and running with food donations, ice prep, scheduling, phoning players, phoning food volunteers, cleaning, kitchen and bar help etc… For more pictures go to our Photo Gallery.

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The finals are set in the ExxonMobil and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Skins Cash spiel. In the ‘A’ division final it will be Team Dobson vs Team Druhan, In the ‘B’ division final it will be Team O’Leary vs Team Mattie. Both finals are at 10:30am and both finals are playing for $705 each. Come on out and watch some really good curling.

The next 50/50 draw will be this Saturday, Feb 7.  Our lottery license instructs us to draw on Saturdays therefore around suppertime tomorrow, while the Skins Bonspiel is being conducted, we will draw for the winner’s ticket. Since the Juniors submit their sold tickets on Wednesdays, if the adult curlers still have tickets and moneys to submit, the adults can bring theirs to the rink tonight, after 5:00 PM or all day tomorrow, before 6:00 PM. The Skins games are scheduled to begin tonight at 6:30 and be played all day Saturday with the money playoffs on Sunday for anyone who want so be a spectator. The Juniors are welcome to drop by to watch the games being played.

Ray

At yesterday’s Juniors the two young curlers (female and male) who were the closest to the button during ‘the shot to the button” at the conclusion of the afternoon’s session were Victoria Grady and Aidan Halloran. Each received a chocolate bar from the rink for their accuracy. Congratulation to both and to all the others for their attempts. Thank you to Jim Muise, Kay Chisholm and Phil O’Regan for being there yesterday to assist with the Juniors’ instructions. A reminder that there will NOT be a Junior session next Wednesday, February 11, due to an annual commitment for the use of our rink. The next Juniors session is planned for February 18th.

Ray

Juniors with their new hats from Martin Marietta…