After a discussion with Teagan, the decision has been made to NOT have the junior curling this Easter weekend. On Saturday, April 7, the juniors will have their next and final session for this season. (I’ll have 50/50 tickets available on the 7th with the final draw being on April 14.)

On the April 13/14 weekend, we will be having our closing Memorial Funspiel with all games being 4-enders. The intention is let the curlers have their recreational matches as a great way to wind down this curling season during the times of playoffs for the Day and Night Leagues. (More details will be forthcoming after the executive have had an opportunity to share ideas for the Memorial Funspiel.)

All (adults and juniors) are welcome to curl in the Memorial Funspiel. It is our hope that we will also have curlers who are interested in the sport and would like to curl in these shorter games as food for thought for future matches.

Best wishes to all for a safe and spiritual Easter weekend.

Ray

Congratulations to Team Grady and Coach Mills for their third-place bronze win yesterday in the girls division at the Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation Junior High Curling Bonspiel.

Girls’ and boys’ teams from Truro Junior High, South Colchester Junior High, Central Colchester Junior High, Pictou Academy, West Pictou Consolidated and Chedabucto Education Centre met for their matches at the Chedabucto Curling Club in Boylston.

Team Grady played very well and truly deserve our praise for their skills and team effort. Shown left to right: Brooklyn Jordon (lead), Hanna Manthorne (second) Vanessa Dort (third), Victoria Grady (skip) and Alicia Mills (coach). My thanks to Maurice Landry and Phil O’Regan for assisting me today at the rink and to the parents who were able to be their as spectators — a good day for all.

My thanks also to the Municipality of the District of Guysborough and AA Munro Insurance for their financial assistance towards the Chedabucto Curling Club Junior Curling Program.

Ray

Our featured sponsors of the week for Mar. 26-30 are Keltic Motors, Make Your Own Wine and Beer, and A1 Gutter Systems Inc.

Our featured sponsors of the week for Mar. 26-30 are Keltic Motors, Make Your Own Wine and Beer, and A1 Gutter Systems Inc.

Our ExxonMobil and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Skins Cash Bonspiel finished up this past weekend. Another successful bonspiel with 8 teams competing this year with a team from the SACCC in Port Hawkesbury, Before I announce the winners I would like to thank the 2 major sponsors for this event, ExxonMobil and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. Without their support over the years an event like this could not happen. The donated money and prizes they provided made for a great event. Can’t thank them enough. Thanks to Lorraine and Blair Brymer who always get this together for us. Thank you’s go out to our bonspiel committee for getting us 8 teams. The 8th team was put together at the last minute on Thursday. Thank you to Ray Bates for putting all the spares together to play 3 games. Thanks to all who helped out with ice, the bar, the kitchen, the food donations, the music from Greg Favaro and Jason Wright on Friday night. And now to the games… After three round robin games the top four were decided late on Saturday. They were Team Long 1st in the ExxonMobil division, Team MacNamara 2nd in the ExxonMobil division, Team Brymer  1st in the MNEP division, and Team Sangster 2nd in the MNEP division. These teams crossed over and played each other on Sunday morning in the semi-finals. Team Sangster and Team MacNamara won their games and met in the A final with Team Long and Team Brymer playing off for the B final. In the end Team Sangster won the Skins A Final and won a total of $855. In the B final Team Long beat Team Brymer and won $430 and Team Brymer $115. We also drew for our 50/50 draw. The winner of that was Darlene Dort of Halifax. She took home $320.00. Next draw will be at our Closing bonspiel on April 14th. Here are some pics:

My congratulations and thank you to Darlene Dort, Halifax, for being the March 25 winner of the Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society’s (CAS) 50/50 draw.  Darlene bought her winning ticket — worth $320.00 — from either Jenna or Vanessa Dort, both junior curlers. Darlene’s ticket was drawn randomly by Junior curler Ryan Sangster.

My thank you also goes to AA Munro Insurance, Antigonish, for sponsoring the pizza incentives to the junior curlers for their efforts to sell 50/50 tickets on behalf of the Chedabucto Curling Club.

Thank you to all who bought the Chedabucto CC’s 50/50 tickets — and to those involved in their selling.

Our rink’s website: http://www.chedabuctocc.ca/50_50-draw-2017_18 has updates on our draws and the names of this season’s  50/50 winners.

If you wish to purchase or sell tickets: contact a club member, purchase them from a junior curler or come to the curling rink. All efforts to sell the Chedabucto CC’s 50/50 tickets are sincerely appreciated.

Best regards,
Ray

50/50 draw with Ryan Sangster and Ray Bates