Results are in from our annual MacLeod Lorway Ladies Valentines FUNspiel this past weekend. For the 1st time in a while we had ten teams competing for the coveted Ladies trophy and dinner with MP Rodger Cuzner at Des Barres Manor later on on the summer. In a close finish for 1st place was Team M. E. Connolly by 2pts over Team B. Hadley. Third place and only 6pts back was Team Morrow. In 4th place was Team Nahrebecky. Also competing this weekend was a team of Junior girls (age 13-14). I want to thank them for taking part. I am sure it was a good experience for them. I know Ray mentioned last night all that the volunteers it took to make this weekend happen but I will go through the list again. Thank you’s go out to Ray Bates who coordinated the sponsor input of prizes and pick-ups, 50_50 tickets, clean up of club, etc among other things, to Holly Nahrebecky for organizing the bar duties with the help of Paul Connolly, Mike Nicholson, Brian Farrell, George Nahrebecky; to George Luddington with the help of Phil O’Regan, Wilfred Myette, Maurice Landry for taking care of the ice prep; to the kitchen help of Phil and Chris West and anyone else that pitched in, to Phil for getting the teams together and schedule, and to all who donated food for the Friday night and Saturday morning and afternoon. Without all of this help we could make it happen thanks again to all.

Thanks also go out to our  sponsors who helped out with prizes… Our biggest supporter of course is MacLeod Lorway who have been a major sponsor of this event for the past few years. Thank you to Margerat Hadley and Jen MacLeod. Other sponsors I believe are the office of MLA Lloyd Hines, Cutting Loose Hair Design & Esthetics (Peter Lombardo), Martin Marietta (Mike Shea), Days Gone By (Katie Pellerin), Mary Kay Cosmetics (M.E. Connolly) Robin’s Donuts (Fraser Cook), Ross ScreenPrint (Simon Hillyard), Haliburton PharmaChoice/Guysborough Pharmacy (Terry Haliburton), and Royal Bank of Canada, Guysborough (Kim Pellerine).

Finally we had our 50/50 draw on Saturday night. With the help of Gavin Dort the winner of the prize of $217 was Robert Bates of Bible Hill. Next draw will be on Feb 25th at our Memorial bonspiel.

Here is the schedule and Team lists for our annual MacLeod Lorway Ladies Valentine FUNspiel. Action starts Friday night at 5:45pm.

Schedule for Ladies FUNspiel

Our featured sponsors of the week for Feb 6-10 plus for our Ladies FUN spiel are Haliburton Pharmachoice, MacLeod Lorway, Martin Marietta, and Cutting Loose Hair Design & Esthetics.

Our featured sponsors of the week for Feb 6-10 are Haliburton Pharmachoice, MacLeod Lorway, Martin Marietta, and Cutting Loose Hair Design & Esthetics.

On behalf of all at Chedabucto CC my thank you goes to Scott Hart for constructing and donating the overhang/roof cover for our newly installed heat pump. Scott gave heat pump’s exterior apparatus some protection from the weather (rain/snow/ice) by building it an overhang protection.

The Club’s interior sign advertisements are vital sources of revenue for our curling rink. On behalf of Chedabucto CC, Vice President Phil is in the process of acquiring two new sign advertisement renters and their signs will be located on a score board and to cover the 7UP signs — the 7UP signs were there rent free.

Brian MacDonald has installed vinyl strips above and below the 7UP stickers so we can insert the two new renters’ advertisements there when their signs are constructed and the rentals finalized. Brian M. also has fixed the door knob onto ice 2 so now it works when rotated both ways and not appear to be locked if its turn goes in the opposite direction.

We all “occasionally” glance at the score boards and tend to look at them once or twice during games.  Those two prominent and very visual locations will be generating $200.00 each per year for our rink. (If you know of others who would like to rent sign locations — please let our sign advertisement signs’ person-in-charge, Phil — or me know so one of us can make contact.)

On behalf of all at Chedabucto CC, thank you Brian and Phil for your ongoing acts of volunteerism that help to enable the curling rink to be a successful organization and a place of recreational activities with lots of laughter. 🙂

Thanks Scott, Brian, and Phil

Ray

On Jan. 25th 3 teams from the Highlander club came to our club to compete in the 1st half of the trophy series. Highlander is the defending champs. Seven games were played that day with the final results being Chedabucto CC with 79 pts and the Highlander CC with 67pts. The series resumes on Feb. 15th at the Highlander club. Six teams from our club will go over and play 2 games each. Here are some photos from the Jan. 25th day.