Scott and Mike have been busy. The attached photo below was taken on Friday, August 11. (The work is being done and the bills are arriving.) The door to your left is the dehumidifier-room door that opens onto ice 1. The exposed mid point in the wall is the area where the change area will open into the lounge. The foundation’s protruding foreground is the mudroom’s entrance into the rink. The window and door on your right will be closed over with a donated window going into the location of the present entrance’s door. The small window visible to your right will be relocated to the mudroom entrance. We are getting there. It will definitely be right some good when it is completed.

Floor is complete…

As we anticipated and as happens with all renovation/construction jobs: unanticipated expenses do arise. We knew that the rink’s yard was a wet mess during all times of rain and winter slush. The reality is that a great deal of rain runs off the Reddy’s Hill road and onto the rink’s property.

The property’s elevation was examined and we saw that its slope was not working with us. So as to direct that runoff away from the rink and prevent a lot of it from running onto the property and up to the building, the decision was made to have the attached photo’s drainage weeping pipe installed and covered in stones along the length of the building and on the entire Reddys Hill side of the parking lot. That drainage pipe will carry runoff to the stream via the back of the ice shed and also out to the main roadway’s ditch thereby improving the yard’s condition. We are investigating the cost and means by which we might be able to put class A gravel onto the entire parking lot. Of course — all of this will put more expenses into the overall project therefore we must find the means to acquire that task’s necessary funding.

Stay tuned — challenges are ahead of us but we will succeed.

Ray

Here is a pic of our curling clubs updated $$ thermometer with Ray and Holly showcasing it in front of the club….

Newly updated thermometer for club with Holly and Ray…

Here are some pics from Monday July 31st of the foundation walls in… next up is the back-filling and then the walls can be started…

The Chedabucto Curling Club Community Activity Society (CAS) has begun its $210,000.00 expansion and upgrading renovations. C. Grady Concrete workers were at CAS’s Boylston site on Friday, July 21, preparing to install the footings for the expansion’s frost wall.

Since the Chedabucto Curling Club’s beginning in 1963, the volunteer-run society has provided recreational opportunities for many curlers and remains a viable location for curling opportunities and community activities. CAS has embarked on its expansion/renovation project to expand the facility with a new mudroom entrance, change area and wheelchair-accessible washrooms. CAS also plans to remove its existing washrooms, upgrade its electrical system, replace internal doors, modernize its kitchen and bar plus add insulation and siding to its ice-area’s exterior walls.

Updates on CAS’s expansion/renovation can be found at http://www.chedabuctocc.ca/renovation-update

Chicken cookers…

It takes many hands to make something work; today was a prime example of that reality. The Chedabucto curling rink held another successful chicken BBQ with the chicken being barbecued perfectly — again. The stick pick and ducky race were also successful due to the generous contributions and support of many.

A great deal of energy and contributions went into making today such an enjoyable success.  I was going to list all that was done but after typing a lengthy list, I realized the this email would be extremely long thus I made use of my delete button.

Please accept my brevity with a big THANK YOU  to all who made today’s BBQ, stick-pick and ducky race such a success: workers, music providers, food preparers/servers, prize donors/sellers, ticket sellers/buyers, cleaners, labourers, picker-uppers — and those who purchased chicken and/or sticks and/or attended.

On behalf of all CCC members, my gratitude goes also to Neil DeCoff, Danny and Theresa Rodgers for their enjoyable music and songs. Thank you to the MODG Public Works for providing a porto toilet and garbage barrels for today’s needs.

Due to Mother Nature (the tide) being uncooperative, the ducky race was held later that night at 8:00.

The first three winners were as follows:

Joe Jamieson — 1st place — $500.00

Margaret Halloran — 2nd place — $200.00

Casey (Brian) Farrell — 3rd place — $100.00

Thank you to all who purchased tickets and my equal thanks to those who did the selling.

Special appreciation to Basil Mattie for making the tickets, Kay Chisholm for the tickets’ distribution and recording and to Wayne and Mable Hyam for recording the tickets sold today at the rink.

My sincere gratitude and best wishes to all.
Ray